Danie van der Merwe ✅ @danie10@mastodon.social

Report: The Decentralized Web of Hate - How and Why Hate Groups Started Using Peer-2-Peer Technology - But P2P Can Be Used For Positive Social Impact Too

See https://rebelliousdata.com/p2p/#more-2630

#technology #P2P #SSB #socialnetworks #decentralised

System76’s Launch configurable mechanical keyboard is fully open source hardware and firmware for Linux, MacOS and Windows... At a price

See https://news.itsfoss.com/system76-launch-mechanical-keyboard/

#technology #opensource #hardware #keyboard #system76

Ring Video Doorbell may not be cheap nor open source but their after sales service is excellent - sending me free replacement mounting bracket for my 5 yr old #ringvideodoorbell because shipping option did not work to my country

#aftersalesservice

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do... it was 13 years ago today! #MyTwitterAnniversary

SA Firearms Amendment Bill of 2021: "Changes will assist in reducing the number of firearms in private hands and consequently reduce incidents of violent crimes" - seriously there is NO correlation here. It's illegal firerams that are used in incidents of #Crime

#SouthAfrica

Enterprises increasingly relying on open source software - Including 85% of large enterprise respondents who have moved databases and applications to cloud services

See https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/11/enterprises-open-source-software/

#technology #opensource #cloud #survey

And an excellent GUI version on #namp is #zenmap at https://nmap.org/zenmap/

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost

See https://standardebooks.org/

#technology #opensource #ebooks #reading #nodrm

South Africa Has One Of The Highest Ratios Of Public EV Chargers To EVs In The World... Because There Are So Very Few EVs!

SA ranks 5th in the world but for the wrong reasons...

See https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/12/south-africa-has-one-of-the-highest-ratios-of-public-ev-chargers-to-evs-in-the-world/

#environment #EV #southafrica

How To Use Nmap (Network Mapper) – A Comprehensive Guide: Basics To Advanced

See https://bytexd.com/how-to-use-nmap/

#technology #opensource #security #networkscanning #penetrationtesting

Neural implant lets paralysed person type by imagining writing (vs just cursor control) - A paralysed individual hit 90 characters per minute with 99% accuracy

See https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/neural-implant-lets-paralyzed-person-type-by-imagining-writing/

#technology #neuralimplant #paralysed #physicalimpairment #disability

South Africa’s largest solar power plant begins construction - 100MW with a 12-hour thermal storage system... and approximately 100 permanent direct jobs during the operating period

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/396651-south-africas-largest-solar-power-plant-begins-construction.html

#environment #southafrica #solar #renewableenergy

SonoBus is an open source cross-platform application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio eg band practice, between devices over the internet or a local network

See https://sonobus.net/

#technology #privacy #music #bandpractice #opensource #sonobus #P2P

Race Highlights from the 2021 Monaco E-Prix Round 7 - No screaming exhausts, just the swish of wind and some squeal from the tyres...

Watch at https://youtu.be/tVivUWvhUZQ

#eracing #environment #EV #monaco #eprix

Interesting review of a successful use of a Valve Index VR headset on Linux with Steam Games

See https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/05/vr-is-absolutely-insane-i-am-officially-a-convert-and-it-works-mostly-great-on-linux

#technology #VR #steamgames #ValveIndex #linux

The Chargie is now available for iOS too, to limit battery charging to 80% or whatever you want to set it too, to ensure longer life for your phone's glued-in non-replaceable battery

See https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/chargie-phone-charge-limiter/id1559014917

#technology #ios #batterycharging #chargecycles #chargie

If you’re still using texts for 2FA, it’s time to change to an app - Many banks are ditching the use of verification via texts

See https://www.vox.com/recode/22419794/authenticator-apps-and-you-authy-google-authenticator

#technology #security #2FA #authentication #Authy

The Top 5 Open-Source Microsoft 365 (Cloud Based) Alternatives for Linux

See https://www.tecmint.com/microsoft-365-alternatives/

#technology #opensource #alternativeto #collaboration

Facebook companies that can access WhatsApp users' metadata after this year's privacy changes include Facebook, Facebook Payments, Onavo, Facebook Technologies, and CrowdTangle

See https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/whatsapp-to-restrict-features-if-you-refuse-facebook-data-sharing/

#technology #privacy #metadata #Deletewhatsapp

The Best 7 Free and Open Source Optometry Software Solutions

See https://www.goodfirms.co/blog/best-free-open-source-optometry-software-solutions

#technology #health #vision #opensource #optometry