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South Africans can trade in their old iPhones for new devices and this is how much you can get

You or the Kids Bored? Try Building Virtual Lego For Free

How to run Windows software on Linux easier with Bottles

My very first Python app! It manages Cloudflare WARP CLI settings on Linux

In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source licensing, a software vendor has lost a civil case for failing to comply with open source license requirements

The University of Costumed Heroes is an animated video telling the story of a group of heroes falling prey to the powers of proprietary software in education

WordPress blogs can integrate with the ActivityPub protocol to Fediverse social networks

Interesting KDE Facts and Trivia that You Should Know About

Chatwoot is an open source customer relationship platform for ticket management across various channels

Cryptgeon is a secure, open source sharing note / file service inspired by PrivNote

OpenCV Tutorial demonstrates how a Python program is built to measure the distance of a hand using a single webcam

Create your own animations with open source Synfig motion graphics tool for Windows, Linux and macOS

Cloudflare WARP has dramatically sped up my webpage loading on Linux

Ultimate Guide to Traditional Shaving Practice because about 2 billion razors, including cartridges, are disposed of every year in the US alone

vutuv is a free and fast open source career network alternative to Microsoft’s LinkedIn, but without spamming and post updates

An analysis of how good the Unreal Engine 5 demo of The Matrix Awakens playable demo really is, and what it means for cinematography and gaming

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches open source toolbox to fight disinformation

MeshLab – the open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular (and LiDAR) meshes for Windows, macOS and Linux

LimeSurvey – a free and open source self-hosted alternative to SurveyMonkey

PeerTube 4.0 (open source self-hosted decentralised alternative to YouTube) with channel customization, playlists search, custom instance homepage and more video filters is out!

LinkAce – a free and open source self-hosted web bookmark archive

My 2021 GoodReads Stats – 28 Books (or 8,421 Pages) Read

Good News! New Harvard University Study Finds Vehicle Emissions Decline Linked To Decreased Deaths, $270 Billion In Savings In USA

Signal significantly ups its end-to-end video group call limit to 40 people, making it pretty useful now

Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often in enterprises

Bottles Wine Prefix Manager Released With Stable Versioning Feature, New Console For Flatpak Users And A Bottles Runtime

The iPhone 14 Pro’s Upgraded 48-Megapixel Camera is Expected to Work with Pixel Binning, like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra uses

CanAirIO, a citizen science project that aims to gather air quality data from around the world by putting sensors into the hands of as many people as possible

Create looping beats using Hydrogen, an open source drum machine

Apple releases Android app to help find sneaky AirTags, but it is manual scan and can’t actually use AirTags

Beware if calling toll-free numbers in South Africa from Cell-C

The Matrix Awakens is an unmissable next-gen showcase of the incredible realness of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5

Top 10 Linux Distributions for KDE Plasma Compared