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Category: Blog

Always Pin An App Before Handing Your Android Phone to Someone

2024-08-272024-08-27 Danie
One person's hand, handing a phone to another person. On the phone's screen can be seen an app window with a large red plastic 3D pin stuck into the app.

When a stranger, acquaintance, or even a friend borrows your phone to make a call, you want to make sure that they don’t go opening other apps (accidentally or on purpose). Android lets you do […]

Blogprivacy, technology

The South African hacker who revolutionised cybersecurity around the world with his Canary honeypot tools

2024-08-262024-08-26 Danie
Man smiling at camera with dark hair and a beard. Behind him is a terminal screen covered in lots of different source code with many words highlighted in different colours. The words PASSWORD("******") is highlighted.

South African hacker Haroon Meer founded Thinkst Applied Research, which revolutionised network intrusion detection with its Canary honeypot tools. On 31 May 2015, they officially launched Canary, after working on it for about a year. […]

Blogopensource, security, southafrica, technology

This Raspberry Pi project uses AI to tell visually impaired people what’s around them

2024-08-262024-08-26 Danie
Pair of spectacles resting on a green cutting board. In the centre on top is mounted a small camera sensor with a 2cm square circuit board on the back of it. An earphone piece straddles each arm of the spectacles. In the background is a blurry view of a Raspberry Pi computer where the cables lead to.

The idea behind this “third eye” project involves the patient wearing glasses with a little camera on them. This camera feeds information to a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model […]

BlogAI, opensource, technology, vision

This Raspberry Pi project can identify stray cats in your garden, and safely scare off birds if need be

2024-08-252024-08-25 Danie
View through a window. On the window pane is taped a thin rectangular device with a brown data cable hanging down from it. In the background is a red wooden deck with a folding chair. Under the chair sits a black cat hovering near a food bowl, and looking up at the window.

I like this project not only for the recognition and photographing of stray cats (or maybe to identify neighbours’ cats straying into your yard), but the bird “scaring” part is nice and safe to use […]

Blogopensource, raspberrypi, technology

5 SSD specs you should really care about when buying one

2024-08-252024-08-25 Danie
IN the foreground is a single SSD drive labelled Samsung V-NAND SSDD 990EVO. In the background is part of its outer box packaging in a blue colour. In the foreground is the title of the post.

The world has, more or less, moved on from hard drives. Everyone knows that an SSD is much faster than an HDD, and an NVMe SSD is faster than a SATA SSD. When buying a […]

Bloghardware, SSD, technology

40 Chill Games to Unwind From Your Stressful Life With

2024-08-242024-08-24 Danie
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Video games are the ultimate form of escapism—they can absorb you into their world better than any other form of media. This means they can be a great way to relax and unwind, but not […]

Bloggaming, technology

Now Microsoft is bringing Start menu ads to Windows 10, too

2024-08-242024-08-24 Danie
A windows 11 style Start Menu open.

As Windows 11 slowly becomes inundated with ads, people on Windows 10 have been watching on in horror. Unfortunately, it seems that they, too, will begin seeing ads. Someone has spotted Start menu ads making […]

Blogmicrosoft, technology, windows

iOS 18 Notes App: All the New Features: Google Must do Better

2024-08-242024-08-24 Danie
Multicolour background featuring two Apple-style square icons: One on the left just shows an 18, and the one on the right is their symbol for the Notes app with a yellow bar at the top, and horizontal lines below that.

I only have an iPad left now from the Apple ecosystem, but after testing some of these features out, I must say that Google really needs to just try and catch up with their Notes […]

Blogios, notes, technology

Your ‘Max Heart Rate’ Is Probably Wrong

2024-08-232024-08-23 Danie
An Apple Watch showing the heart rate of 108 BPM and 85 BPM 9m agao. It also shows a scatter graph with a few dots in a colum.

If you’ve ever worried about your heart rate during exercise being too high or too low, you’ll want to read this. Your “heart rate zones” might be completely wrong. Not only are zones defined differently […]

Bloghealth, heartrate, technology

What is Wireguard, and What Makes It a Worthy VPN Protocol?

2024-08-232024-08-23 Danie
Blue and purple coloured design with radiating white rings. In the centre is a white padlock surrounded by other symbols for Wi-Fi, cloud, settings, etc.

Wireguard is less than half as old as OpenVPN’s 22 years, though it’s still proving to be fairly reliable. It’s also much leaner, at only 4,000 lines of code. That’s much easier to audit, incorporate, […]

Blogprivacy, technology, VPN

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