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Category: Blog

Yoh Vote is an app that helps South African youth discover their ideal political partner in a fun and ‘dating-like’ way

2023-10-192023-10-19 Danie
Title text saying It's time to use Yoh Vote (shows an X inside a square box) voting, for South African youth

In the last national election, over 30 percent of voters didn’t participate, indicating a concerning lack of engagement. Many young people, disheartened by the belief that their vote won’t matter, have opted out of the […]

Blogdemocracy, southafrica, technology

35+ Advance Examples of the Find Command in Linux

2023-10-182023-10-18 Danie
Text table showing: Tutorial Details Description Find Difficulty Level Moderate Root or Sudo Privileges No Host System and Architecture Ubuntu 22.10 (x64) OS Compatibility Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, etc. Prerequisites find Internet Required No

Don’t try memorising all of these, but rather quickly skim the headings in the linked article to give you an idea of what CAN be done with the Find command. You’ll realise, too, that using […]

Blogfind, linux, opensource, technology

Thorium Browser claims to be the fastest browser on Earth

2023-10-182023-10-18 Danie
Thorium logo looks like the Chrome logo but is in shades of blue

They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed […]

Blogbrowsers, opensource, technology

Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List that can Guide Opting out from Data Broker Databases

2023-10-182023-10-18 Danie
GitHub project title screen saying yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List and 8 contributors, one open issue, 3000 stars and 101 forks.

This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started on September 29, 2017 and was most recently updated in October 2023 to add PimEyes and to remove TruePeopleSearch and Cyber Background Checks, since those sites will […]

Blogdatabrokers, privacy, technology

6 Best Grammarly Alternatives to Check Grammar and Readability, although LanguageTool is not listed

2023-10-182023-10-18 Danie
Half of a keyboard showing on a desk, with a black covered journal next to. Title on cover of the journal says How-To Geek.

Grammarly is by and far the most popular grammar checker you can use. Not only does it look for grammatical errors, but it checks your spelling and aims to improve readability too. It can cut […]

Bloglanguagecheck, technology

VarAC digital chatting on Amateur Radio seems to be getting more popular than JS8Call

2023-10-152023-10-15 Danie
Vara-HF screenshot showing at the bottom a green coloured waterfall of the spectrum with some smudges where the signal is represented. Above it are half-moon gauges showing Audio Input as -13 dB, a CPU usage one showing 15%, an AFC guage without a needle, and at S/N gauge showing -3.3 dB. This is all detail showing the radio connection signal stats.

This is at least apparent for what I’m observing in my country on the Southern tip of Africa. The reason seems to be that VarAC provides most of the functions that JS8Call already provides, and […]

Blogamateurradio, digitalmodes, hamradio, technology, VarAC

Validrive Detects Fake USB Drives with Inflated Capacity: Many found on Amazon already

2023-10-132023-10-13 Danie
Validrive app's window showing title Validrive with copyright notices and what it is about and why it was created.

At first, this might seem like a minor annoyance: You purchase a 1 or 2 terabyte drive at a bargain price, and you receive a 64 GB drive instead. But that’s NOT what happens here! […]

BlogfakeUSB, technology, USB

Starlink launching cellphone “towers” in space: LTE connectivity and requiring no special apps or changes to hardware or firmware

2023-10-122023-10-12 Danie
Title of diagram says A Cellphone Tower in Space, and shows an ordinary unmodified phone connecting to a Starlink satellite, which in turn connects down to Starlink ground network, which connects to a Partner Operator Network, and out to their normal cellular network for talk, text and data service.

To enable connectivity with regular phones, Starlink will fit some of its satellites with advanced eNodeB modems that act like a cellphone tower in space. Starlink said this would allow for network integration similar to […]

Blogsouthafrica, starlink, technology

Firefox tests a built-in checker for fake reviews from Fakespot

2023-10-112023-10-11 Danie
An Amazon item listing. On the right side of it is a window pane with the heading Review Checker with a reliability score of B for the reviews, and an adjusted product rating of 4,5 stars. Below that it shows highlights from recent reviews.

Firefox’s Review Checker is now preparing to give users the tools to weed out unreliable reviews. Screenshots posted by MSPowerUser show how the tool is accessible via a price tag icon in the browser’s URL […]

Blogfakereviews, technology

Syncthing for secure private file syncing directly between your devices

2023-10-102023-10-10 Danie
Title stating Syncthing secure/private file syncing between devices. Next to the title is a screenshot of the Syncthing app, showing a folder name with various information such as the Folder ID, folder path, Global state with a file count and space used, a local state, rescan frequency of hourly, file versioning as simple and 30d cleanup, what devices the folder is shared with, and the latest change showing the filename most recently changed.

Whether you want to automatically sync your photos or audio recordings from your phone directly to your desktop PC, or to sync your notes between all your devices, free and open source Syncthing will help […]

Blogfilesync, opensource, Syncthing, technology

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