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Category: Blog

Hackaday Prize 2022: Drying clothes with Ultrasound – Could this be the future?

2022-09-052022-09-05 Danie
ultrasonic dryer

Clothes dryers are great, and a key part of modern life, but they do use a lot of energy. “Early testing found ultrasonic transducers could indeed blast droplets of moisture away from fabric, effectively drying […]

Blog#clothes, energy, environment, technology, ultrasonic

Saving home energy using open organisation principles – The business opportunities in reducing energy demand

2022-09-052022-09-05 Danie
house home colors live building

There are (at least) two ways to look at the move to more green power generation: the supply side and the demand side. The supply side emphasises a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy […]

Blog#demandmanagement, #homeenergy, energy, environment, technology

Google’s Project Nimbus, with Amazon and the Israeli Government, is the future of evil

2022-09-042022-09-04 Danie
ProjectNimbus

Google does a lot of stupid things. All giant corporations are the same in that regard. But it takes special effort to do something truly terrible. That’s where Google’s Project Nimbus comes in on the […]

Blog#projectnimbus, AI, amazon, google, technology

KDE’s Kaidan Messaging App Adding End-to-End Encrypted Audio/Video Calls Supporting Interoperability Among XMPP-using Applications

2022-09-042022-09-04 Danie
Kaidan

This is the great thing about having open standards supported applications, as they can intercommunicate securely using those standards with no lock-in to a single Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc. Let’s ignore the fact that Facebook […]

Blog#kaidan, opensource, openstandards, technology, XMPP

Thunderbird mail’s telemetry information is transparent and privacy-sensitive, but there is also Betterbird which is a soft fork of Thunderbird mail client

2022-09-042022-09-04 Danie
Betterbird

Thunderbird e-mail client does collect some basic information about installation numbers, versions in use, crashes, add-ons, etc that relate to technical data and which does not identify individual users. This defaults to ON, but can […]

Blog#betterbird, email, opensource, technology, thunderbird

What is Traditional Wet Shaving? How to Wet Shave?

2022-09-042022-09-04 Danie
What is wet shaving

There was a time when things were simple, days before multiple blades and aerosols. Unfortunately, one can say that the big corporations couldn’t help but get carried away with over-the-top marketing; now, even shaving is […]

Blogsafetyrazor, traditionalshaving, traditionalwetshaving, wetshaving

GFPGAN : Use This Free Tool to Restore Faces in Old Family Photos

2022-09-032022-09-03 Danie
photos

You can upload from a mobile device or desktop PC as the AI work is done server-side. I must say it does a very good but subtle improvement. According to the ByteXD post, in addition […]

Blog#fixes, #restoration, AI, photographs, technology

How To Easily Manage Docker Containers Using Portainer GUI In Linux

2022-09-032022-09-03 Danie
portainer

Portainer is a lightweight, cross-platform, and open source management UI for Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI environments. Portainer allows you to manage containers, images, networks and volumes via simple web-based dashboard and/or an extensive API. […]

Blogcontainers, docker, linux, portainer, technology

A warts and all review of the status of SteamOS 3.0 on Linux Desktop for higher end Windows Games

2022-09-032022-09-03 Danie
SteamOS

Craft Computing shows in this video how most Windows games are playing pretty well on Linux, by booting into SteamOS (not using the Steam Deck controller). There are still some workarounds needed for some games, […]

Bloggaming, linux, steamos, technology

Truthsayer is an open source Python app that uses facial recognition to see if you’re telling the truth

2022-09-022022-09-02 Danie
Truthsayer

His algorithm, which analyses video of a person and uses machine vision to pick up cues that might be associated with the stress of untruthfulness, is far from perfect. But as the first video below […]

Blog#lies, #truthsayer, opensource, python, technology

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