No phone signal? LastBar will find the nearest place that has it.
“LastBar is a map of where mobile phones have signal and where they do not, made by the phones of the people who use it. When you are stuck with no bars, it gives you […]
Tag: southafrica
You can now tell telemarkers to get lost officially in South Africa
“South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch statement indicated – the commission has […]
First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue
I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain and planned to come down with the cable car. But many hours […]
Netflix accounts taken over in South Africa through session cookie hijacking
“These cookies allow users to stay logged in to websites or to save items in a shopping cart even after they exit a site. Through these cookies, cybercriminals have found an exploit that has allowed […]
Team South Africa wins at NASA space engineering competition
“The international finals for the world’s longest-running space engineering competition were held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 30 July to 2 August. Team ZA was the […]
Spam callers face penalties of up to R1,000,000 in South Africa
So a few amendments made, but what I really am happy to finally see, is the loophole closed around marketers opting in or not: “Any direct marketer who is not registered on the opt-out registry […]
EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died
This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. The app […]
MeshCore Radio for Social Networking and Disasters with zero Internet required
The Boland Amateur Radio Club (BARC) invited me to do this talk on 23 July 2026. HAMNET Emergency Communications provided the Zoom platform. The audience consisted of radio amateurs, citizens, and disaster management. MeshCore is […]
FokOffMense is South Africa’s spam block and POPIA toolkit
Block community-flagged spam on Android, send formal POPIA opt-outs, and monitor breaches — one SA account, no ads. iOS users can use the website, but there is no iOS app yet (probably also because iOS […]
Warning about guards scanning driving licences at estates and offices in South Africa
“Guards at the gates of estates, complexes, office parks, or gated communities should not make digital copies of your driving licence, as it could infringe on the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). This is […]