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Author: Danie

HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Android

2026-07-112026-07-11 Danie
Screenshot of a Telegram channel message discussing AI uses, linking to an article on AI disruption and tagged with #ai #technology.

This is a very feature packed and functional keyboard. I’ve found its word suggestions as good as GBoard and other Big Tech keyboards. I managed to import an Afrikaans dictionary and HeliBoard handled multilingual typing […]

Blogandroid, opensource, privacy, technology

Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet

2026-07-112026-07-11 Danie
Man in yellow shirt shrugging with confused expression, standing in a library with bookshelves in the background.

“The reality, of course, is that attempts to integrate AI into education have been consistently disastrous. As it turns out, a technology that spits out a confident mixture of fact and fiction without challenging the […]

BlogAI, technology

Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down

2026-07-102026-07-10 Danie
Hand holding a smartphone displaying a home screen with music, calendar, battery widgets, and app icons against a large green leaf background.

“Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks to its open-source nature. Any phone maker can put Android on its phones with no […]

Blogandroid, opensource, technology

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

2026-07-092026-07-09 Danie
A person stands facing a giant digital tablet screen displaying a close-up of a blue human eye.

“Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that […]

Blogmeta, privacy, technology

German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern heads down the open source sovereignty road

2026-07-092026-07-09 Danie
A public event in front of a modern government building in Berlin promoting open source and digital sovereignty in German public administration.

“So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan is to roll it out to more than 50,000 public employees. It is also using […]

Blogdigitalsovereignty, germany, opensource, technology

Wallos — An Open-Source Personal Subscriptions Tracker Which Saved Quite A Bit Of Money For Me

2026-07-052026-07-05 Danie
Man surprised by subscription costs using Wallos app on phone, with text about open-source self-hosted subscription management.

Wallos is a free and open-source application that you can self-host and which will help you track what subscriptions you currently have, what they cost (with auto-conversion to your currency), when they renew, notify you […]

Blogopensource, selfhosting, subscriptions, technology

This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it

2026-07-042026-07-04 Danie
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“Copy-on-write (CoW) changes that bargain in a way that almost feels like cheating. Instead of rushing to overwrite old blocks, a CoW file system writes the changed data somewhere else and then updates its map. […]

Bloglinux, storage, technology

Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’t

2026-07-042026-07-04 Danie
Close-up of smartphone screen showing messaging app icons: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Viber, Discord, and Otter.ai.

“Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. E2EE is used as a catch-all term to describe secure messaging […]

Blogprivacy, technology

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

2026-07-042026-07-04 Danie
Psion Series 5mx handheld organizer open, showing keyboard and screen with system menu icons from 1999.

“South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the founder of the […]

Blogobituary, Psion, technology

I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full picture

2026-07-032026-07-03 Danie
Close-up of multiple NVMe SSDs installed on a computer motherboard inside a case on a wooden surface.

OK this was not “me” obviously, as I run Linux as my main OS. But interesting as I always thought CrystalDiskInfo was the best tool out there for SSD checking (or maybe that was the […]

BlogSSD, technology

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