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Category: Blog

South African Rooibos featured in popular survival action role-playing game Enshrouded

2024-02-122024-02-12 Danie
Computer game screen showing a character facing a green bush. A tall cliff stands in the background, amd there is yellow grass surrounding everything.

Although difficult to come by in the game, the Rooibos shrub is found in the Nomad Highlands region and looks like it would in spring when it’s in full bloom, covered in tiny yellow flowers. […]

Bloggaming, rooibos, southafrica, technology

Elon Musk Gutted Their App. Now They Want To Make One That’s Billionaire-Proof: Tapestry will be RSS

2024-02-102024-02-10 Danie
Dead bird lying on someone's open palm

“Twitterrific was our flagship app, and by far earned the most of any of our pieces of software we’ve produced. Its loss is still being felt revenue-wise to this day. We’re hopeful that Tapestry will […]

BlogRSS, socialnetworks, Tapestry, technology, Twitterrific

WiFi networks that span over 3km are on the way but we’ve long had 5km plus with line of sight WiFi

2024-02-072024-02-07 Danie
A white plastic covered WiFi router with 4 vertical antennas at the back of it

Morse Micro’s test was carried out on a stretch of an empty beach, but the beachfront had many buildings which interfered with the signal. So, they say it was a good demonstration of what we […]

Blogtechnology, wifi

Your Phone Is Not Listening to You: The tech myth has pervaded all corners of society, but its origins show it was never true to begin with

2024-02-072024-02-07 Danie
Young woman lying on a bed covered by a sheet, and looking at her phone. The phone's screen is illuminating her face.

The myth has taken off so much in the last eight years because it feels like it could be true. You do get hyper-targeted ads on Facebook and Google, but it’s not because your phone […]

Blogmyths, privacy, technology

Goodbye Eskom — R1 billion deal to bring fastest off-grid car chargers to South Africa

2024-02-07 Danie
Two electric vehicles standing next to a charger unit. Part of a building wall can be seen with a sign saying "charge" on it.

Zero Carbon Charge has signed a R1-billion memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Magic Power and Greencore Energy Solutions to build integrated supercharging systems for the 120 charging stations it is currently rolling out in […]

Blogenvironment, EV, southafrica, technology

SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops: Stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations

2024-02-032024-02-03 Danie
A UNIX style desktop with old fashioned looking window decorations.

SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do. This year’s first new version of SparkyLinux has two development streams: a rolling-release version 8, based […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

Demystifying the USB Type-C connector: A talk from EMF 2022 by Tyler Ward

2024-01-312024-01-31 Danie
A presentation slide showing a USB-C port in the centre surrounded by all the othe rtypes of connectors that it ha sreplaced such as USB-A, dsiplayport, lightining port, charging port, audio socket, serial port.

The USB type-C connector has become the universal connector for modern devices. It is able to transmit USB, video, power, and more, often doing several of these at the same time. All, while maintaining backwards […]

Blogtechnology, USB-C

How to install an M.2 SSD in a PC: A SATA SSD drive is not your only option

2024-01-312024-01-31 Danie
Close view of a section of a motherboard with a rectangular flat board sitting on top of it, with the words Western Digital 500GB WD BLUE SN550 NVMe SSD

The best thing about installing an M.2 SSD is that it doesn’t demand a lot of space inside the PC case or requires any cables for connection. These SSD modules are small enough to be […]

Blogharddrives, SSD, technology

Open source CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age

2024-01-302024-01-30 Danie
Random source code

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. It scales horizontally; survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention; supports strongly-consistent […]

Blogdatabases, opensource, technology

There is a real need for encrypted e-mails but instead we have lots of encrypted PDF attachments

2024-01-292024-01-29 Danie
A letter explaining how to open an attached and encrypted e-mail document

More and more of my accounts are all arriving now with password encrypted PDFs. It’s good that an open standard is being used, but the passwords are really getting complicated as some use my ID […]

Blogemail, encryption, PDF, privacy, technology

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