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Category: Blog

Stylus is a desktop browser extension that applies better looking styles to your favourite websites

2023-09-042023-09-04 Danie
Screenshot showing various tiles, each with a different theme style image and title

Stylus injects its own CSS into targeted pages and therefore makes you able to override the present design of a webpage. If you know CSS, you can write and create your own styles. Otherwise, you […]

Blogopensource, styles, technology, themes

How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ Tool

2023-09-032023-09-03 Danie
Red background with a black delete keycap

Now, you’re able to set up alerts for whenever your email, home address, and phone number appear on Google. At first, this update will only be available in the US and scan for results just […]

Blogprivacy, technology

Cape Town City libraries use technology to draw young patrons to the bookshelves: Read something, before you can use a tablet

2023-09-032023-09-03 Danie
Child holding a tablet, with a game being played on the screen. In the background is a red plastic table with various books on it.

Waiting times have increased due to the tablets’ overwhelming popularity, prompting the library staff to devise a creative solution. Those waiting their turn must read to a staff member before being allowed to use the […]

Blogcapetown, libraries, literacy, reading, technology

Not only can any RSS reader follow a Mastodon Profile’s posts, they can also follow any Hashtags on a Server

2023-09-022023-09-02 Danie
Image of a Mastodon post explaining how an RSS feed can be dermined form any hashtag on a Mastodon server. For example to subscribe to the hashtag dogs on the mstdn.social server you'd use the RSS feed mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

In stark contrast to X yet again (and now the final straw for me) breaking API interaction with a profile, Mastodon makes it way easier to follow posts without even visiting the network. Many knew […]

Blogmastodon, RSS, socialmedia, technology

Valorant, the free-to-play esports first-person tactical hero shooter game, now has servers live in Cape Town

2023-09-012023-09-01 Danie
Three gaming characters shooting at each other, with a backdrop of light red buildings with a wooden structure attached to the front of the centre building.

Valorant is a team-based first-person tactical hero shooter set in the near future. Players play as one of a set of Agents, characters based on several countries and cultures around the world. In the main […]

Bloggaming, southafrica, technology, Valorant

How to enable noise-suppression-for-voice for gaming and other apps on Linux

2023-08-312023-09-01 Danie
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noise-suppression-for-voice is a noise suppression plugin based on RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network (RNN). A RNN is a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes can create […]

Bloglinux, noisesuppression, opensource, technology

Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support and a 5-year warranty

2023-08-302023-08-30 Danie
Light blue rear of a smart phone with 3 camera lenses shown, and a front facing view with the word Fairphone on the screen

Fairphone is not trying to compete on bleeding edge specifications. It can be more likened to a mid-range phone, with long support, ethically sourced components, and easily repairable (screwed not glued) modules. For example, you […]

BlogFairphone, repairability, technology

Distill Web Monitor for price change alerts on any website

2023-08-282023-08-28 Danie
Title that says Distell get alerts for price chnages or sales, with an image of the Distill watchlist of items to monitor. One item is expanded to show the history of price chnages, with a large red arrow pointing to a big drop in the price a few weeks ago, with words in red saying Price Drop!

Distill Web Monitor can do many more things, but I’m using it for running in the background to check and alert me if any prices change on items I’m watching for price drops. I have […]

Blogbargains, pricealert, pricechange, technology

Which should we use in 2023: HEIC Photo Format vs JPEG and PNG and WEBP formats

2023-08-272023-08-27 Danie
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We all have long known the JPEG file format because it is quite old already, and just works everywhere. Back in the day it offered a reasonable compression, being a lossy compression, but it is […]

BlogHEIC, images, JPG, technology

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

2023-08-262023-08-26 Danie
Twitter channel profile screen of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament.

This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we’ve seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually […]

Bloggermany, mastodon, opensource, technology

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