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Category: Blog

Welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management services

2021-06-26 Danie

Quite a few interesting alternatives to Google Photos, Flickr, etc that you can host yourself. I’m using Piwigo, but that was only listed in the "honourable mentions" section at the end. Covered though are:– Nexctcloud […]

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McMaster University Research: No lab required – New technology can diagnose infections in minutes using a handheld device similar to a blood-glucose monitor

2021-06-26 Danie

Their proof-of-concept research, published today in the journal Nature Chemistry, specifically describes the test’s effectiveness in diagnosing urinary tract infections from real clinical samples. The researchers are adapting the test to detect other forms of […]

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Don’t let these ‘easy to get back on Instagram’ emails freak you out — your account hasn’t been hacked — Except I deleted my account back in 2020

2021-06-26 Danie

So the explanation can make sense except that in my case I fully deleted my account with Instagram many months back in 2020. Sop this really suggests to me that Facebook/Instagram did not actually finally […]

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Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco – it communicated with Chinese command-and-control (C2) IPs

2021-06-26 Danie

"It turns out, the C2 infrastructure belongs to a company classified under "Communist Chinese military" by the US Department of Defense". One just has to wonder how good Microsoft’s checks really are, and seeing this […]

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GNU Health – a free and open source digital health ecosystem with Hospital Management, Lab Analysis, Personal Health Records, Federation, and Social Medicine

2021-06-25 Danie

The GNU Health project provides the tools for individuals, health professionals, institutions and governments to proactively assess and improve the underlying determinants of health, from the socioeconomic agents to the molecular basis of disease. From […]

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Windows 11 will let you run Android apps directly on the desktop without the need to install an emulator

2021-06-24 Danie

During today’s Windows event, Microsoft has announced that Android apps are coming to Windows 11 and can be run just like any other application installed in the operating system. To demonstrate the feature, Microsoft launched […]

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TCL’s wearable display glasses (not VR or AR) will go on sale in July starting in Australia

2021-06-24 Danie

It may seem a bit pricey at $899 AUD but if it works we can expect that price to fall. I actually like the fact these are cabled via a USB-C port (those supporting remote […]

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You can actually enable a non-Chinese iPhone to accept dual SIMs but better to use eSIM if you can

2021-06-24 Danie

This is an interesting mod done by purchasing a dual-SIM module that is found in Chinese iPhones and inserting it into other iPhones where it actually works fine. But your first option would always be […]

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Video review of the new Brave browser search engine which will work with other browsers too

2021-06-24 Danie

Many of us who wanted to avoid data collection by Google and Microsoft have been using DuckDuckGo which does a good job of this, but it still does source some of it’s results from Bing […]

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13 Important Privacy and Security Settings in Ubuntu and other Linux distros

2021-06-24 Danie

Everybody should be concerned about their privacy and security in this day and age. It is a common misconception that if you are running Linux you do not need to concern yourselves with privacy and […]

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