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When Journalism Loses Its Home: Homeless Media, Objectivity, and the Tug-of-War Between Free Speech and Power

Posted on 17th May 2026

There's a quiet crisis happening in media right now, and it's bigger than "fake news." But here's the thing — understanding it requires understanding something else first: us. The audience. Specifically, how the way people seek information has changed, not just technologically, but psychological...

So You Got a VPS — Now Stop Leaving the Front Door Open

Posted on 16th May 2026

So you finally spun up a VPS. Congratulations — you are now the proud owner of a tiny computer somewhere in a datacenter, humming quietly, completely exposed to the internet. Like Peter Parker getting bitten by a radioactive spider, great power has found you. The question is whether you'll do someth...

Audiophile: Cult, Hobby, or Actually Science? Yes.

Posted on 16th May 2026

At some point in every music lover's life, someone shows up — a friend, a forum post, a YouTube rabbit hole at 2AM — and says something like "you can't really hear music until you've heard it through a proper setup." And then they use words like soundstage, instrument separation, air, and i...

Gear Series #1 — xDuoo XD-05 Plus: The Silver Brick That Started It All

Posted on 11th May 2024

Every audiophile journey has a starting point. For some it's a gift. For others it's a forum post at 2AM that they deeply regret by the time the credit card statement arrives. Mine started with a silver aluminum brick that looked like it fell out of a laboratory — the xDuoo XD-05 Plus, one of the...

Insomnity Got a New Logo — And There's Actually a Lot Going On in That Little Rabbit

Insomnity Got a New Logo — And There's Actually a Lot Going On in That Little Rabbit

Posted on 2nd Apr 2024

Yes, we have a new logo. And no, it wasn't designed by an AI that hallucinated a rabbit for no reason. There's actual thought behind this — layers of it, like a philosophical onion that smells considerably better than a regular onion. Most logo reveals go something like: "We updated our visual ...