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Free Openserve fibre speed upgrades (alignments) for low end speeds in South Africa

2020-08-17 Danie

Openserve is increasing the speed of three of its fibre products – 10Mbps and 20Mbps (upload speeds), and the 40Mbps to 50Mbps – at no cost to consumers. See Free Openserve fibre speed upgrades #technology […]

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Why Mastodon network is defying the “critical mass” – it doesn’t just gain value from the quantity of users, it also gains value from the quantity of connected services

2020-08-17 Danie

Being based on the ActivityPub standard means that we can use Mastodon, PeerTube (a YouTube-like service), PixelFed (an Instagram-like service) and many others, and they can all interoperate. This gives the fediverse a scale advantage […]

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SpaceX Starlink (Elon Musk’s satellite broadband service) speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps and latency of 31ms to 94ms

2020-08-16 Danie

While 60Mbps isn’t a gigabit, it’s on par with some of the lower cable speed tiers and is much higher than speeds offered by many DSL services in the rural areas where SpaceX is likely […]

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Meet the first South African elected to lead Debian Linux – His CV includes developing a Linux OS for the South African government

2020-08-16 Danie

Earlier this year, the developers of Debian elected Jonathan Carter, a South African based in Cape Town, as the Debian Project Lead. Debian is a Linux distribution that is an important component in the free […]

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raspiBackup – Automatically schedule full backups for your running Raspberry PI

2020-08-16 Danie

I just set up my Raspberry Pi weather station to use automated raspiBackup as another SD card failed today and the last image backup I did manually was about 2 months ago (because who regularly […]

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Struggling to connect a Kenwood TM-D710G to SARTrack or similar APRS software? My video may help

2020-08-15 Danie

In this 5-minute video I explain how two different baud rates, two different COM ports, and using the APRS TNC instead of the package TNC can trip many up into not getting the connection to […]

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The fully open Linux-based PinePhone: Great replaceable battery and a bit more info on it but it could do with a bit more CPU and RAM

2020-08-13 Danie

It’s looking promising but the current iteration is certainly mainly still intended for enthusiasts as it needs to beef up the performance a bit and get broader support ready for mainstream apps which users are […]

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How Samsung’s beans broke the mold of wireless earbuds – Samsung’s lead designer shares how the Buds Live came to be

2020-08-13 Danie

Bang said it took Samsung two years to bring the Buds Live to market, a time frame that involved a lot of experimentation and trial and error. There were three areas of focus: originality in […]

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What it costs to drive across South Africa in an electric car – Tragically charge point costs are more than double outside metro areas

2020-08-13 Danie

A rather dismal picture actually as it’s the only time I’ve ever seen a study where it costs more to operate an electric car versus a diesel one! In theory if the rural charging points […]

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Air pollution is much worse than we thought – ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone, regardless of Global Warming

2020-08-13 Danie

Even as attention has shifted to climate change, the air pollution case has grown stronger and stronger, as the science on air pollution has advanced by leaps and bounds. Researchers are now much more able […]

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