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Category: Blog

eQsat: a satellite feed designed to look like a television station, intended to get news into a country with a total Internet blackout

2023-09-252023-09-25 Danie
Loys of balck and white TVs stacked on top of each other, all showing snowy signal screens with noise on

Over the first 138 days of this year, digital rights group AccessNow estimates there were 80 internet shutdown incidents across 21 countries. Feldstein says that all free internet advocates can do is keep innovating. And, […]

Blogcensorship, InternetBlackout, technology

Bill, Steve, and Gary… Computer Pioneers: Ruthless Business triumphs over Innovation

2023-09-252023-09-25 Danie
Man sitting at a desk, typing on a retro computer keyboard with a small integrated display. On the left stands a larger rectangular cabinet with a floppy disc protruding from it.

I vividly remember the DOS wars when I was using an early IBM compatible. I also remember DR-DOS being noticeably better than MS-DOS (accessing high memory etc) but I had no idea about all these […]

Blogcomputerpioneers, garykildall, technology

The Best Obsidian Note Plugins, nor Not?

2023-09-252023-09-25 Danie
Obsidian's purple logo with title Obsidian, a symbol showing two plugs connecting, and sub-title Best Obsidian Plugins

I had not tried Omnisearch, but apart from that and Advanced Tables, the suggested ones are not really “my best ones”. But the linked article does again highlight one of Obsidian’s most powerful features – […]

Blogmarkdown, notes, productivity, technology

Element X for Android and iOS is a whole new approach to the Matrix messaging app

2023-09-242023-09-24 Danie
Element X intro screen saying Be in your Element, welcome to the fastest Element ever. Supercharged for speed and simplicity. Green background with an Element logo above the text.

A bit like Telegram has a Telegram X for highlighting new beta features (no neither have anything at all to do with the X network), so has Element now “ignited” their Element X messenger. It […]

Blogmatrix, messengers, opensource, privacy, technology

Obtainium installs and updates Android Apps directly from their releases pages, with notifications for updates

2023-09-242023-09-24 Danie
Phone screenshot with heading Apps and below that a list of apps in a vertical column such as Aegis, Aves, Birwarden, Element, etc. At the bottom is a toolbar with icons for Apps, Add App, Import/Export, and Settings.

This open-source and privacy-respecting app will install from a number of popular locations such as GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, SourceForge, Huawei AppGallery, APKPure, and many more. The Obtainium app is ideal if you already […]

BlogObtainium, opensource, privacy, technology

Latency Meter, made from an Arduino, for accurate gaming

2023-09-232023-09-23 Danie
Close view of the top left corner of a monitor, with a small Arduino board mounted on the top with a diode protruding down about 1cm below the board, and a white USB cable running from the left side of the board and around the left side of the monitor.

Unlike other measurement devices that use the time between a mouse button input and the monitor’s display of a bullet or shooting event, this one looks at mouse movement and the change in the scene […]

Bloggaming, opensource, technology

Live Animation of over 5000 Starlink Satellites as well as GPS satellites around Earth

2023-09-232023-09-23 Danie
Illustration of the Earth from spcae above Africa, with thousands of white dots each representing a Starlink satellite in orbit.

This is quite an interesting animation which really highlights very well how good the Starlink satellite coverage is. Even for continents like Africa there is pretty good coverage, and over the vast oceans as well. […]

Blogsatellitecomms, starlink, technology

Linux Installation Date: How to Discover Your System’s Age

2023-09-232023-09-23 Danie
Linux terminal showing the command 'stat /' being run and it returns information such as File / Size 4096 Blocks 8 IO Block 4096, followed by some different dates such as Access, Modify, Change, and the date called Birth which is 2020-12-22 02:14:44

Have you ever found yourself pondering the age of your Linux system? Perhaps you’ve inherited a computer or are curious about when you first set up your trusty Linux machine. In the linked article, they […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

11 Social Media Platforms You Probably Forgot Existed (And Why They Failed)

2023-09-222023-09-22 Danie
Phone screen, with a folder open showing icons for apps such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, etc. An index finger is hovering over the Facebook icon.

I was on many of these networks, but something I see fairly common across many of them, is they were acquired or shut down by other large social networks. I suppose if you are a […]

Blogsocialnetworks, technology

News aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature tries to tackle doomscrolling through negative news

2023-09-202023-09-20 Danie
Smartphone tilted to the left, showing a screen with title News From All Sides, with a list of news article headlines down the screen.

News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling […]

Blognews, positivenews, technology

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