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The Automobile Association (AA) has said that traffic law departments which do not make every effort to mitigate the impact of rolling blackouts on traffic congestion are failing motorists in the towns and cities they […]
Few of us are lucky enough to work in a pure Linux environment. If you are, you can file this article under "Something for the future" because it doesn’t apply to you — for now. […]
An interesting rating and comparison done of Signal, Threema, WickrMe, Keybase, TwinMe, Conversations, Briar, and the newcomer BCM Messenger (iOS and Android) but which looks very promising and has a desktop version in the works. […]
As a sandboxed app format, Flatpak apps have to request individual permission to access different parts of your system or your configured hardware. e.g., permission to access the network, permission to show notifications, permission to […]
One of the most exciting things about YaCy, however, is the fact that it’s a local client. Each user owns and operates a node in a globally distributed search engine infrastructure, which means each user […]
The battery storage market in South Africa is expected to grow significantly going forward as companies and homes look to cushion themselves from ongoing electricity blackouts. Eskom, the stated-owned utility company, has been battling to […]
Key reasons:1. Data ownership – apart from being able to export your data (you should have the right to export your data) but can you use that exported data in any other place, and do […]
Apart from being a cross-platform, one of the biggest plus point for WireGuard is the ease of deployment. Configuring and deploying WireGuard is as easy as configuring and using SSH. Look at WireGuard set up […]
How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters have been doing, thanks to San Francisco […]
It was my first venture as a volunteer radio ham to work with Hamnet WC. Hamnet itself has done many such events over the years for many of the major public sporting events including cycling, […]
