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Category: Blog

GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse

2024-04-272024-04-27 Danie
Typical social network profile with a banner across the top (this one showing two purple flowers with green leaves behind), an icon of a face, and name GoToSocial with an address handle @gotosocial. To the left side is a pane with a heading About and some links to documentation, support us, Matrix space, etc. To the right side a pane shows pinned posts with two posts shown with status updates for the network.

This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers. However, there is no “main” instance you go to join. The intention really is that you […]

Blogactivitypub, GoToSocial, opensource, technology

Kobo’s new repairability push could heat up competition

2024-04-272024-04-27 Danie
A hand holding a Kobo ereader showing three books listed. The background is blurry green grass.

“The competition” is probably primarily Amazon Kindle (without a colour model, nor any repairability announced yet). Certainly, consumers score with repairability, and on the face of it, you’d think suppliers lose out. But actually, I […]

Blogebooks, Kobo, reading, technology

Android Tasker routine to warn if home WiFi is not functioning correctly

2024-04-272024-04-27 Danie
Tasker app screen showing Task Edit at top with name WiFi Test. Below that are 4 numbered actions starting at 1 with an action called Variable Set with the variable name %HA_PING to 0. Then action 2 is called Ping and says Host 192.168.1.212 number 2 (for run two ping tests) and further says If %HOME equals 1. Action 3 is called Notify with a title Check WiFi if %HA_PING equals 0 and %HOME equals 1. Action 4 is called Say and has the text "Check Home WiFi" and only if the condition %HOME equals 1 and %HA_PING equals 0.

Been experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today, and sometimes my wife says her phone is not […]

Blogandroid, automation, tasker, technology

‘Secret’ iPhone feature lets you easily sign online documents for free, with no scanning, printing, or app installing

2024-04-252024-04-25 Danie
Hand holding up an iPhone with a post-it note stuck on the front that has writing on saying "sign here" with an arrow pointing to the left

In the age of digital communication, needing to sign important documents online has become increasingly common, but it’s not necessarily the easiest process. For an iPhone you can just use the standard Photos app to […]

Blogios, signature, technology

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets, and Palm did them best

2024-04-252024-04-25 Danie
A grey coloured PDA device resting in a cradle on a desk. At the bottom of the PDA are four round buttons, with a small green button to the left, and in the centre bottom are two smaller rectangular buttons for scrolling up or down. Bottom right of the cradle is a single round button.

I remember my PalmPilot very well. I used its Graffiti handwriting recognition to take many memos and keep my life organised. I’m pretty sure before the PalmPilot I only had fixed ROM organisers which had […]

Blogpalmpilot, retrocomputing, technology

A Privacy Policy: We do not display advertising on the website or app but…

2024-04-192024-04-19 Danie
The following text is shown in the image: Specifically, we permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party services, to collect information about your use of the VERO Website over time so that they may play or display ads for our products and services on other websites or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, and similar technology, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the VERO Websites, AdID, and other similar information. If permitted by your device settings, they may also collect location data through GPS, Wi-Fi or other methods. We and our third-party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. We may also use services provided by third parties (such as social media platforms) to serve targeted ads to you and others on such platforms.

I can’t recall what this service was for as I don’t find any login saved for it, but I was reading the updated privacy policy they sent me in an e-mail (looks like it may […]

Blogprivacy, technology

South African app receives 46,693 potholes reports — 7,842 have been closed

2024-04-162024-04-16 Danie
A tar road with gravel on the edges stretching off into the distance. On each side is short grass and bushes. The tar road though has more potholes in it than road surface.

The app is not so much about potholes themselves, but more about how transparency is needed to measure success or failure to provide services to citizens. Too often, reports just disappear into a back-end system […]

Blogaccountability, government, southafrica, technology

Fujifilm X100 VI vs iPhone 15 Pro Max camera shootout: the most hyped against the most mainstream

2024-04-162024-04-16 Danie
Retro style compact camera facing the viewer, and next to is the rear side of an iPhone showing its 3 lenses

LOL the “most mainstream phone camera” in my country is certainly not an iPhone, but OK, you can substitute with any other flagship brand phone. In case you were wondering about the Fujifilm camera, it […]

BlogFujifilmX100VI, photography, technology

StreamController is a brand-new open-source app for enabling and managing the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux

2024-04-152024-04-15 Danie
A settings screen for StreamController showing Layout, Background, Lables, and Actions options on the left side, for the button selected on the right side. On the right are a matrix of 3 by 5 buttons which represent the StreamDeck buttons showing icons for various apps and actions.

Many of us were using Stream Deck UI, which was a fork from a previous such app which was no longer being maintained. The devs decided to restart the initiative using a different coding language […]

Bloglinux, opensource, StreamDeck, technology

Petivity Smart Litterbox Monitor System: Uses Existing Pet Litter Box

2024-04-122024-04-12 Danie
A flat white scale with a cat litter box on top. A cat is standing in the litter box. To the left is a smartphone superimposed on the picture, and superimposed over the cat is a weight graph line and the words "3 visits" with a weight shown of 7.6 lbs weight.

It takes about a week or so for it to learn your cats’ habits accurately. During that time, the app alerts you when an event is detected and, based on the weight recorded, you select […]

Blogcats, gadgets, technology

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