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Category: Blog

EFF’s Privacy Badger Now Blocks Ever More Trackers With Their New Badger Swarm

2023-11-092023-11-09 Danie
Orange background with title in centre saying Privacy Badger SWARM. On both sides of the title are fierce looking badgers with their fists clenched.

In 2020, the EFF updated Privacy Badger to no longer learn from your browsing by default, as local learning may make you more identifiable to websites. In order to make this change, they expanded the […]

Blogprivacy, technology, trackers

Positive Carbon wants to make commercial kitchens sustainable, and claims a 50% reduction in waste

2023-11-092023-11-09 Danie
Dashboard graphs showing percentage surplus, potential savings in Euros, a trimmings percentage, and comparitive savings per day for bread, beef, cod and rice.

Positive Carbon uses both camera and LiDAR sensors. Perched on the ceiling above food bins, they autonomously track exactly what enters the bin. The sensors are connected to the customer’s purchasing software. As a result, […]

Blogfoodwaste, technology, waste

Fitbit is pulling out of South Africa

2023-11-082023-11-08 Danie
Square faced Fitbit Versa fitness device showing time of 12:58 with step count of 14,291, heart rate 79, calories 1,603 and date as Wed 28.

Fitness device manufacturer Fitbit is withdrawing from the South African market in line with parent Google’s decision not to sell consumer hardware products in the country. In a terse statement in response to questions from […]

BlogFitbit, southafrica, technology

Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio health, body comp and more

2023-11-082024-01-12 Danie
A weight scale with a glass top. A hand is hovering over it holding a 30cm long black cylinder shaped wand device.

Given all the ongoing issues that Google Fitbit Aria Scale users have been experiencing, I see many had moved to Withings scales. So, it was interesting to read this review as I’m considering a similar […]

Bloghealth, technology, Withings

Proton finally brings their VPN app for Linux up to par with the Windows version

2023-11-072023-11-07 Danie
Proton VPN logo on a white background

The Proton VPN GUI app for Linux has not been popular, with many complaints of bugs and missing features, but Proton promises the new version is much improved. Their official app for Linux now natively […]

Bloglinux, protonvpn, technology

We need more USB-C cables with bandwidth and USB versions on them

2023-11-062023-11-06 Danie
One end of a USB-C cable showing it has engraved upon it 3.0 5 Gb/s.

Elgato hasn’t just made an excellent teleprompter, it’s also made a great USB-C cable that ships with it. Professional audio engineer Matt “Spike” McWilliams spotted that Elgato’s latest USB-C cable has the bandwidth and USB […]

Blogtechnology, USBC

My web based OpenWebRx receiver has been upgraded to the Plus version with aircraft location data etc

2023-11-052023-11-05 Danie
Browser page showing title at top OpenWebRx with station name ZS1OSS Cape Town, South Africa. On the right side are buttons to toggle Status, Log, Receiver, Map, Files and Settings. The main screen is a waterfall display showing speckled blue and black colours. In the centre is a smaller window overlayed showing a map of Cape Town with an icon for a plane about 32 km North/ On the left side is a small box showing the plane's details with flight number, aircraft number, Squawk number, Distance, Altitude, speed and signal strength.

I featured my OpenWebRx receiver about a year or two back, which allows you to use any desktop or mobile browser, to be able to listen to various radio transmissions that are received at my […]

Blogcapetown, hamradio, planespotting, technology

Fnirsi FNB58 USB Fast Charge Tester Review

2023-11-042023-11-04 Danie
A rectangular USB device with a large display showing voltage, Amps, PBUS Watts, NRG stats, triggering and more technical information.

Recalling my recent post about USB sticks not delivering the stated storage sizes, this tester looks pretty interesting for testing USB fast chargers. There are supposedly similar issues around USB fast chargers that chronically overheat […]

Blogtechnology, testing, USBchargers

Bought some Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 NC Adaptive Noise Cancelling Earbuds

2023-11-032023-11-03 Danie
Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 NC packing box, with black earbuds case on top, containing two black earbuds.

I did say a few months ago I would absolutely not buy another pair of earbuds like the Apple EarPods (mine only lasted a month past the warranty date) or the Samsung Earbuds, as they […]

Blogearbuds, review, technology

Bitwarden begins adding passkey support to its password manager

2023-11-022023-11-02 Danie
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Although Bitwarden now supports storing and logging in using passkeys from its browser extensions, it’s not currently possible to store passkeys in the company’s mobile app. According to Bitwarden’s FAQ, this feature is “planned for […]

Blogbitwarden, passkeys, technology

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