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Category: Blog

Valentine’s Day Steam Trip in Cape Town

2021-10-16 Danie

Atlantic Rail organised various steam train trips out of Cape Town, including an annual Valentine’s Day trip down to Fish Hoek (or Simon’s Town), depending on availability of the line. I think Atlantic Rail has […]

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ZmBIZI’s $550 Z2 phone pays you for using your phone, and can act as a mobile POS machine with digital wallet, but be wary before committing

2021-10-16 Danie

We live so much of our lives on our smartphones these days that our mobile devices are just full of valuable data that we often unknowingly and freely give to all the major tech companies: […]

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The OAK-D is an open-source, full-color depth sensing camera with embedded AI capabilities now a crowdfunding campaign for a newer, lighter version called the OAK-D Lite

2021-10-16 Danie

The OAK-D Lite is a USB device intended to be plugged into a host (running any OS), and the team has put a lot of work into making it as easy as possible. With the […]

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Deepfence ThreatMapper: Open source platform for scanning runtime environments

2021-10-15 Danie

Deepfence announced open source availability of ThreatMapper, a signature offering that automatically scans, maps and ranks application vulnerabilities across serverless, Kubernetes, container and multi-cloud environments. ThreatMapper is an open source platform for scanning runtime environments […]

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3 ways to manage RPG character sheets with open source

2021-10-15 Danie

Tomorrow is Free RPG Day, a day when publishers across the tabletop role-playing game industry release games for players both new and experienced, and they’re all completely free. Although Free RPG Day was cancelled in […]

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Fourteen of the world’s leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security and privacy risks

2021-10-15 Danie

Client-side scanning (CSS, not to be confused with Cascading Style Sheets) involves analysing data on a mobile device or personal computer prior to the application of encryption for secure network transit or remote storage. CSS […]

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This solar-powered community radio station in the USA hasn’t used electricity in 6 years – Converting sunlight into music

2021-10-15 Danie

In Hot Springs, Arkansas, community radio station KUHS has been converting sunlight into music for the last six years. The station’s solar panels help reduce the utility bills and allow the radio team a degree […]

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FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications at home with only a few clicks

2021-10-14 Danie

Launched in 2010 by Prof. Eben Moglen, FreedomBox is a global project to empower regular people to reassert control over the infrastructure of the internet. FreedomBox empowers its users to avoid the data mining, censorship […]

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iOS 15: How to Set a Recovery Contact for Your Apple ID Account – Catch though is they will need an iOS device of their own running ‌iOS 15‌ or iPadOS 15 or later

2021-10-14 Danie

Losing your Apple ID password can make your digital life a misery, because it can leave you locked out of the account that you use to manage your Apple devices, unable to access your iCloud […]

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New Interactive Tool Lets You Explore England’s Hidden Archaeological Wonders From the Comfort of Home

2021-10-14 Danie

For the last few decades, Historic England and its affiliates have been studying aerial photographs—and, in recent years, imagery from Lidar, Google Earth, and other digital sources, too—in order to catalogue historical sites across England. […]

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