Danie van der Merwe ✅ @danie10@mastodon.social

Topics I blog on:

#foss and #opensource - desktop is Manjaro KDE

#security #privacy

#technology and #gadgets - my passions

#greentech - tech which is making us greener

#education especially with FOSS

#motorcycling - I have a BMW R1200GS

#gaming - I do play WoT

#capetown and #southafrica - with a view of tech being used here

#LCHF #health

#traditionalwetshaving - wish I'd discovered it 40 yrs back

#android

#music - focus on the tech

#steamlocomotives

#hamradio - a new hobby

uMap let you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site http://u.osmfr.org/m/306036/

How to stream music from your phone in an older non-Bluetooth enabled car using a simple Bluetooth FM transmitter https://www.androidcentral.com/how-stream-music-your-phone-older-car

Survey of 1,705 people who live near wind turbines prefer them to solar and fossil plants - The preference for wind is strong even in US coal-producing states https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/people-who-live-near-wind-turbines-prefer-them-to-solar-and-fossil-plants/

As air pollution gets worse, a dystopian accessory is born - Will we all soon be wearing face masks like we wear sunglasses? https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/19/18262556/face-mask-air-filter-pollution-vogmask-airpop

Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps? Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger - There is no SINGLE messenger https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zma735/why-do-we-need-so-many-different-messaging-apps

Good to see that OMG! Ubuntu! @omgubuntu has joined Mastodon with a presence too now

#omgubuntu #ubuntu #FOSS #Linux

How farmers could help save South Africa from rolling blackouts https://techcentral.co.za/how-farmers-could-help-save-sa-from-rolling-blackouts/88358/

Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/apple-garageband-modern-music-784257/

Google Stadia uses a custom AMD chip to offer 10.7 teraflops of cloud gaming power https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18272809/google-stadia-specs-amd-teraflops-cloud-gaming

UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/18/gchq_enigma_emulator/

How to set up emergency location sharing on Android and iOS - Two minutes of simple setup, and your smartphone could save your life https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/18267500/how-to-set-up-emergency-location-sharing-android-ios

Google+ public posts are being preserved by the Internet Archive https://mashable.com/article/google-plus-internet-archive/

My Impressions of the TicWatch Pro after two weeks use https://photos.gadgeteer.co.za/index.php?/category/239

MeWe social network exceeds 4 million members as privacy violations hurt Facebook and Twitter https://www.androidpit.com/mewe-exceeds-4-million-members

WordPress now powers One-third of the web's websites! https://wordpress.org/news/2019/03/one-third-of-the-web/

Air Carbon Capture’s Scale Problem: 11 Astrodomes For A Ton Of CO2

Wow load shedding still past midnight and Stage 4 during the day. I can't remember last when we had load shedding after midnight. Thankful I put solar in... #Loadshedding #EskomLoadshedding

How to Unlink Dropbox Devices to Meet the New Limits for Free Users - Free users only get three devices now https://lifehacker.com/how-to-unlink-dropbox-devices-to-meet-the-new-limits-fo-1833322352

Has The World Been Duped by “Big Razor, Inc.”? Is Less More? The problem is widespread education in the art of wet shaving without billion dollar ad budgets https://sharpologist.com/2018/09/world-duped-big-razor-inc.html

If you think Facebook has no competition, just ask Telegram who experienced a spike in registrations during the recent Facebook outage https://mashable.com/article/telegram-3-million-users/#vOwnqhVxNgqz