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A Practical Guide To Grub Repair On Ubuntu (And Probably Linux Mint)

How To Enable Hardware Accelerated Video Decode In Google Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi And Opera Browsers On Debian, Ubuntu Or Linux Mint

Hushboard For Linux Mutes Your Microphone While Typing

Machine learning made easy with Python - Solve real-world machine learning problems with Naïve Bayes classifiers

10 of the Best Linux Debuggers for Software Engineers including one for Bash scripts

The Famous Linksys WRT54G Router Hackers Actually Loved - It Achieved Legendary Status Through A Sloppy Oversight With Linux Licensing

'Death of diesel looms' as car makers accelerate to electric future as world's biggest diesel engine factory in Tremery, eastern France, is switching to making electric motors

Iran blocks Signal messaging app after WhatsApp exodus... BUT many wonder why WhatsApp and Instagram are not blocked

Telegram 7.4 makes it easy to migrate your WhatsApp chat history for iOS users

A South African Class 15F Steam Locomotive rescued back to Glasgow from where it was originally built

How to Run a Shell Script in Linux With Some Essentials Explained for Beginners

Facebook, Microsoft and Google used open XMPP chat once, until they had enough users and then raised their walls

Twitter and Interoperability: A case for tearing down the walls and introducing interoperability between social networks

Renewable energy production beat fossil fuels in Europe

Researchers At Warwick University In The UK Claim Redox Flow Battery Breakthrough Will Cost $25 Per kWh Or Less

Turn your tablet or laptop into a second PC monitor with free and open source Deskreen

Quicksy can help you find your contacts on XMPP as XMPP does not require any personal data to register so there are no alerts of contacts joining

Africa may have no Mastodon instances (I could not believe this) but it does have a decentralised Lemmy (Reddit clone) instance to foster social dialogue across African nations

India is a massive market, and now it will search on its self-made search Engine called QMAMU

Web Annotation with Hypothesis allows you to highlight text or leave notes on any web page to enable a conversation over the world’s knowledge

With Websites and Pages disappearing more often it is more important than ever to install the Wayback Machine Web Browser Extension for Chrome and Firefox

Retro Tech: Pocket Computers from the 1980s

OpenBoard is a privacy respecting open source alternative keyboard to Google's Gboard and Microsoft's SwiftKey for Android

Google Duo and Messages might stop working on uncertified phones soon - Which is why 3rd party Signal, XMPP, Telegram is way better

A free listing of popular Telegram Channels, Groups, and Profiles for South Africans

6 reasons the decentralised Fediverse is better than regular centralised social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc

How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Beginners Guide)

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News but it's open source, it's federated with the Fediverse, and zero lock in

Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol, a peer-to-peer protocol meant for accessing decentralized or censored content

XMPP (and Movim) As An Alternate Social Network For Secure Messaging and Blogging

Smartwatches can help detect COVID-19 days before symptoms appear, and it's good more analysis is being done vs basic stats only

GloriusEggroll's Proton 6.0-GE-1 released for Linux Steam Gamers with Wine-Staging 6.0 included

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020... And it's very easy to use even if you're non-technical

BYD Zimbabwe Starts Delivering EVs To Customers... Oh dear South Africa

Here are 11 Ways You Can Change the Look and Feel of Your KDE-Powered Linux Desktop

Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee prepares 'do-over' for the Internet, but I'm still struggling to understand how it will actually work?

Top 10 Traditional Wet Shaving Podcasts You Can Follow in 2021

10 ways to advance your JavaScript journey in 2021 - It's consistently been more popular than Python, and it runs everywhere

How law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption: Openings provided by iOS and Android security are there for those with the right tools

South Africa's Department of Education plans to open online schools to reduce pressure on system

Planetary is a new open source iOS app for the privacy respecting secure scuttlebutt (SSB) peer-to-peer social network

WhatsApp does not seem to understand that our Metadata is part of our Privacy, not just the message Content