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Category: Blog

LG has a 27-inch battery-powered touchscreen 1080p LCD ‘TV’ in a suitcase

2023-08-152023-08-15 Danie
Two people sitting in a grassy picnic area, one with feet on a coller box, looking at a TV that is standing in the rear door of a mini hatchback car.

The suitcase not only makes it highly portable, but also allows it to be orientated in landscape or portrait mode. From what I see on the Korean site, it says it is really Wi-Fi enabled […]

Blogentertainment, portable, technology

OpenFarm is a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge: Open-Source is not just Software

2023-08-152023-08-15 Danie
OpenFarm website page showing a search box, a survey button for seeing what type of gardener you are, and tiled photos with titles tomatoes, UF micro tom tomato, Thai Basil, Heirloom tomato, lettuce, and potato.

They provide a platform for expert and beginner farmers and gardeners to share their knowledge in the form of Growing Guides – structured, community generated, single-author documents that describe how to grow a Crop based […]

Blogfarming, gardening, opensource, technology

After two years of testing, Cape Town’s Golden Arrow Bus Service will go operational with 60 new electric buses per year

2023-08-152023-08-15 Danie
A whte commuter bus with words Golden Arrow and Electric on the side, with the background showing 8-story flats and in the far distance a hill peak.

Cape Town-based Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) is planning to introduce 60 electric buses to its fleet every year starting in 2024 until it has replaced its full fleet of 1,100 diesel-powered people haulers. After […]

Blogairpollution, capetown, environment, EV

India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings by BoAt and Noise, similar to Oura but likely cheaper

2023-08-142023-08-14 Danie
A silver smart ring showing LED sensors on inner side, and title above, LunaRing

Tech giants such as Apple, Samsung and Huawei have long focused on the wrist. It’s not the most comfortable option for everyone, and it can be challenging to maintain precise tracking through the wrist. Ensuring […]

Blogfitnesstracker, India, smartring, technology

You can build your own NAS home server and save $100s

2023-08-142023-08-14 Danie
Small mini-PC computer resting on top of a NAS drive enclosure box, with four vertical slots on the front side.

Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiralling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to back up your […]

1 CommentBlogNAS, selfhosted, technology

Omnivore is an excellent open-source read-it-later alternative to Pocket, that can be self-hosted as well

2023-08-142023-08-14 Danie
Omnivore

I use read-it-later services extensively to save any news I want to do blog posts about later, or something I want to look at in more detail when I have time (and three monitors). I […]

Blogopensource, privacy, productivity, readitlater, technology

Cult of the Dead Cow releases Veilid: A secure open-source Peer-to-Peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy

2023-08-132023-08-13 Danie
A stage with sign in background showing DEFCON, and a lady with green coloured hair standing behind a podium, with a bald-looking man standing beside here holding a microphone in his right hand.

DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid (pronounced vay-lid), an open-source project applications can use to connect up clients and transfer information in a peer-to-peer decentralized manner. The idea […]

Blogopensource, P2P, privacy, technology, Veilid

Both the TETRA radio and Microsoft Azure Cloud vulnerabilities are ‘Negligent Security Practices’ and ‘Security Through Obscurity’ is not secure

2023-08-132023-08-13 Danie
The cover screen for the Security Now podcast showing the title Revising Global Privacy Control - Voyager 2, MS Security, keyboard acoustic side-channel attacks, and a red button to open it to listen in Pocket Casts.

Listening to Steve Gibson’s feedback today on the Security Now podcast #934 made me realise that both companies knew about the vulnerabilities but were extremely lax about doing anything (probably both trusting in their security […]

Blogopenstandards, security, technology, vulnerabilities

No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows

2023-08-122023-08-12 Danie
Greenish background with a computer screen in centre, showing a Linux penguin on the screen, and the flag of India on a flagpole mounted on top of the screen

According to a recent report, the Defence Ministry of India has decided to replace Windows with an in-house developed Linux distro called ‘Maya’ on all computers that are connected to the Internet. While details are […]

BlogIndia, linux, opensource, technology

14 podcasts to teach kids about history, identity, and current events: Easy ways to add to the education they’re getting in the classroom

2023-08-112023-08-11 Danie
Illustration of back of a person's head, with headphones on, with a curly cable running off to the left side

As your child heads back to school, you may be looking for appropriate ways to bolster the education they’re getting in the classroom. But how do you determine what’s suitable for their grade level while […]

Blogeducation, podcasts, technology

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