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Category: Blog

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid! Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations

2022-11-232022-11-23 Danie
Stock photo showing someone with a screwdriver repairing a computer circuit board

Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs from 12 commercial shops. The logs showed that technicians from six of the locations had accessed personal data and […]

Blog#repairs, #repairshops, privacy, technology

Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses – Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers

2022-11-232022-11-23 Danie
Screenshot of a GMail inbox folder

You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address […]

Blog#antispam, email, privacy, technology

Cross-Platform Open-Source Fluent Reader is my current best choice for an offline RSS news aggregator

2022-11-232022-11-23 Danie
Screenshot of Fluent Redaer RSS reader application showing RSS feeds

I’ve happily been using self-hosted web-based FreshRSS for a while now. I chose it mainly because it suited my needs, and when I travelled regularly, I could work from the same shared source of articles. […]

Blog#fluentreader, news, opensource, RSS, technology

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school due to cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules

2022-11-222022-11-22 Danie
French flag with IC circuit board transparently shown over it

In August, Philippe Latombe, a member of the French National Assembly, advised Pap Ndiaye, the minister of national education, that the free version of Microsoft Office 365, while appealing, amounts to a form of illegal […]

Blogcloud, datasovereignty, EU, privacy, technology

Open source Five Filters Full Text RSS can be self-hosted in a Docker container to retrieve full text from RSS articles

2022-11-212022-11-21 Danie
Screenshot of the Full Text RSS options page

Chris did a nice breakdown of how this can work in conjunction with a self-hosted Fresh RSS reader (same as I’m using). It solves that issue with some RSS feeds only showing a short snippet […]

Blog#fulltextrss, opensource, RSS, selfhosted, technology

Xiaomi launches 12T and 12T Pro in South Africa from R14k, with a DxOMark camera score of 129 (21st in world)

2022-11-212022-11-21 Danie
Photo of two Xiaomi phones

The Samsung Isocell HP1 sensor in the Pro model is capable of 2x in-sensor zoom, or up to 16-in-1 pixel binning for better performance in low-lit scenes. That has helped it achieve a score of […]

Blogsouthafrica, technology, xiaomi

The US FCC says most broadband carriers have to slap on ‘nutrition labels’ within six months

2022-11-192022-11-19 Danie
Screenshot showing a sample of what broadband stats could look - looks like a nutrition label found on food

Six years after we saw the FCC formally propose “nutrition labels” for your carrier’s potentially confusing array of plans, the agency says it’s finally happening. This week, it’s ordering US internet service providers to adopt […]

Blog#comparing, broadband, marketing, standards, technology

Clickbait Remover for YouTube open-source extension – Replaces thumbnails and modifies titles of videos on YouTube

2022-11-182022-11-18 Danie
Clickbait

This extension replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video, effectively removing any clickbait while still showing a high quality thumbnail so you can still get a good idea of what the video is about.It […]

Blog#clickbait, browser, opensource, technology, youtube

Automatisch is an open-source self-hosted Zapier alternative

2022-11-182022-11-18 Danie
automatisch

Zapier, and similarly Make, are products that allow end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. You can keep your data on your own servers with Automatisch. It’s a critical requirement […]

Blog#integrations, #zapier, opensource, selfhosted, technology

1Password Will Support Passkeys Starting in Early 2023 – NOT as a Single-Ecosystem like Apple

2022-11-172022-11-17 Danie
1password passkeys

I’ve cautioned before about just jumping in and starting to use passkeys by Apple, Google, etc as there is a good chance then that you will have to continue using their ecosystem to have access […]

Blog1password, passkeys, passwords, security, technology

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