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Category: Blog

Adam Savage discussion – Why all measurements are a compromise of circumstances

2022-01-072022-01-07 Danie
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Whether you’re a machinist or a garage hacker with nothing more than a stick welder and an angle grinder at your disposal, or anywhere in between in any segment of being a maker, this video […]

Blog#engineering, #machinery, #measurements

Wordle Is the Moment of Zen We All Need Right Now – It’s free, fun, and feverishly addictive

2022-01-072022-01-22 Danie
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The gambit is simple. You have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. With each entry, Wordle lets you know if your characters are in the right place, if they’re in the wrong place, or […]

1 CommentBloggaming, puzzles, technology, wordle

Facebook cesspool: First fake phones, now prolific Takealot advert scams

2022-01-072022-01-07 Danie
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Seems Facebook is really being exploited to the hilt by scammers and fraudsters. Samsung told me they were fully aware of all the fake phones being sold on Facebook Marketplace but seems there was “nothing […]

Blogfakephones, scam, southafrica, takealot, technology

After 16 years, South Africa finally gets the green light for non-geographic number porting

2022-01-072022-01-07 Danie
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The legislation allows businesses to move their non-geographic telephone numbers (0800; 0860; 0861; 0862 and 087), much the same as consumers can port from one network operator to another. It also allows companies to use […]

Blogsouthafrica, technology, telephony

Pacman Commands Cheat Sheet for Arch Linux

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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One uniqueness or key identifier of different Linux distributions is in the package manager they use to update, install, configure, and uninstall various targeted software packages. In Arch Linux, the package manager is called Pacman. This tutorial […]

Bloglinux, technology

Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021 as voted by Human-Centered Change and Innovation

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers 2021

See https://bradenkelley.com/2022/01/top-40-innovation-bloggers-of-2021/ #innovation #change #blogging

Blog#blogging, change, innovation

Use a SSH Config File to Manage SSH Connections to Various Remote Servers (or Pi’s) instead of remembering IP addresses, ports, etc

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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Using SSH profiles can help you in cases where you regularly connect to various servers (especially if you’ve added custom SSH ports to the mix too). No need to remember the IP address and other […]

Bloglinux, security, ssh, technology, tips

Swiss Army bans all chat apps but locally-developed Threema – No e-mail or phone no to register, and immune from US CLOUD Act

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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The Swiss army has banned foreign instant-messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp and requires army members to use the locally-developed Threema messaging app instead. As Threema is a paid subscription communications service, the […]

BlogE2EE, security, switzerland, technology, threema

Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 promises better upload performance and improved efficiency – Great for on-premise NAS or mesh networking

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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First and foremost, Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 offers greater uplink capacity. It adds support for uplink multi-user MIMO, allowing multiple devices to upload content concurrently to an access point (AP). It supports transfer speeds […]

Blognetworking, technology, wifi

5 Essential Steps to Secure Your Linux Server From Hackers

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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These are really not overly complicated, but are well worth doing for any hardware server, or server you have hosted remotely somewhere on a VPS hosting. It’s nothing very fancy but should prevent most of […]

Bloghacking, linux, security, server, technology

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