Kurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social The threat model isn’t some obscure future thing. The threat is that Apple is scanning your personal iCloud uploads without a search warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing and reporting back to government. That’s it. That’s the threat.

A cautionary tale for politicians who would mandate backdoors in encryption…

Hey Microsoft, why am I no longer allowed to make Teams calls without giving you permission to invade my LAN? I definitely don’t want this. #privacy #security

A musical, with time travel? What’s not to like? #backtothefuture

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A warning on buying studios. Studios don’t make games. People make games. You can buy studios. You can’t buy people. Your “value” walks out the door every evening, and only comes back if you treat them right.

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I’ve seen this happen with games that I’ve worked on too. It’s a strange combo of praise/insult - people love the game but seem to believe that the it would have been better if it had been released sooner, as if that the last part of dev is spent working hard to make it worse.

It’s always amusing when people misspell the name of their own product 🤣

What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again...😢

Support people, not governments. Governments are stupid.

If you think there have been a lot of game industry layoffs, you really ain't seen nothing yet. Companies always under-layoff in the first one or two waves, because they don't want things to be as bad as they are. But 2021 overhiring + unproductive remote work + the shift toward

I’m 99% sure that ChatGPT would make a better prime minister than Kier Starmer.

All holidays must come to an end, and Ryanair can always be relied upon to make that end as unpleasant as possible.

Keir Starmer’s first conference in seven words: Your taxes are going up. Also, sausages.

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Some old Rare devs ‘bonding’ at Brett Jones’ art exhibition. (Atkins Building, Hinckley until 15 Nov)

This coming weekend, 25 years ago TimeSplitters was released! I’ll be at ⁦EGX⁩ on Sat 25th October 2025 with Steve Ellis, Graeme Norgate & Karl Hilton. Come and meet us!