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AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers can find stolen cars, bikes and bags. But what happens when you find the person who took them?

Airborne Lidar survey reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centres, and publicly available Lidar is transforming archaeology

Fosscord is a free and open source self-hostable and decentralised platform compatible with Discord... There should be such an alternative too for Meta / Facebook

Best DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Available for Linux Desktops - Newer Stargate just released did not make it onto the list

E-Mail is 50 years old this month, and it works pretty much the same, which is good, otherwise we'd all have to use one e-mail company

Get FOSS-happy, China tells its financial institutions - Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences

How to Use App Privacy Report in the iOS 15.2 Beta - It also shows what network domains are contacted by which apps

LosslessCut - The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio trimming and cutting for Linux, macOS and Windows

A Walk in Newlands Forest in Cape Town

Telegram launches advertising program for public channels, and looks like they're doing the right thing

Darling is like Wine for Windows on Linux, but runs macOS software

KDE Connect Arrives for iPhone, At last, And Here’s How to Try It

Cleanup.pictures - a free and open-source web application to remove any object, people, text or defects from your pictures

Hiking Project - A free crowd-sourced hiking guide with a social aspect, built by hikers like you for iOS and Android

Mafia: Definitive Edition - A 6-hour Long Cinematic Movie-Like Gameplay To Watch

How to easily download and install apps on Linux with AppImage Pool

The Fediverse is a collection of independently run federated servers used for web publishing and social networking, connected by open standards

Why is Shaving with a Safety Razor Better? There are a good 5 reasons!

Building a Raspberry Pi 4 In-Dash Car Computer with OpenAuto Pro (Video)

31 Best Linux Performance Monitoring Tools

Now More Electric Plug-In Car Sales Than Diesel Car Sales In Europe

Friendica - A Decentralized Federated Open-Source Social Network That You Can Self-Host

Owncast is a self-hosted, decentralised, alternative to Amazon Twitch for live video streaming and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software

Your favourite social media influencer might be fictional

Pingnoo – an open source cross-platform graphical traceroute/ping analyser with jitter and latency graphs for each hop

Valentine's Day Steam Trip in Cape Town

ZmBIZI’s $550 Z2 phone pays you for using your phone, and can act as a mobile POS machine with digital wallet, but be wary before committing

The OAK-D is an open-source, full-color depth sensing camera with embedded AI capabilities now a crowdfunding campaign for a newer, lighter version called the OAK-D Lite

Deepfence ThreatMapper: Open source platform for scanning runtime environments

3 ways to manage RPG character sheets with open source

Fourteen of the world's leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security and privacy risks

This solar-powered community radio station in the USA hasn’t used electricity in 6 years - Converting sunlight into music

FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications at home with only a few clicks

iOS 15: How to Set a Recovery Contact for Your Apple ID Account - Catch though is they will need an iOS device of their own running ‌iOS 15‌ or iPadOS 15 or later

New Interactive Tool Lets You Explore England's Hidden Archaeological Wonders From the Comfort of Home

These Apps Are a Way Better Choice Than Apple Podcasts - We need creative 3rd party app developers to flourish

'Hacker X'—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself

How to Use Python ‘SimpleHTTPServer’ to Create Webserver or Serve Files Instantly

Crypto trading is thriving in Africa’s biggest economy - It's just so easy for global entrepreneurs

The Tile Ultra takes on AirTags with UWB-powered AR tracking, coming early 2022 - Way better to compete through innovation than legal cases

The Rise and Demise of RSS - Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas

The Fediverse - It's about Protocols, not Platforms (Just pick any Social Network and Connect)