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Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools: Redmond disputes report that ‘it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA’

Remember BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems)? Here’s How You Can Visit One Today Using A Telnet Connection

University of Waterloo has developed a drone-powered device that can use Wi-Fi networks to ‘see’ Wi-Fi devices through walls: No software patch possible

Keyoxide is a privacy-friendly open source tool to create and verify decentralized online identities using a cryptography-based approach to bidirectional linking

History of the Internet 1961 to 2022

One Utility Tool for Everything on MS Windows

Brave Browser Beta v1.47 now has vertical tabs

Winlink by RadioMail is now available in TestFlight beta for iOS

Checker Plus for GMail extension for Chromium browser allows me to close multiple GMail tabs which I kept open

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI apps, launches for Windows 10 and 11 users

Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses – Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers

Cross-Platform Open-Source Fluent Reader is my current best choice for an offline RSS news aggregator

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school due to cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules

Open source Five Filters Full Text RSS can be self-hosted in a Docker container to retrieve full text from RSS articles

Xiaomi launches 12T and 12T Pro in South Africa from R14k, with a DxOMark camera score of 129 (21st in world)

The US FCC says most broadband carriers have to slap on ‘nutrition labels’ within six months

Clickbait Remover for YouTube open-source extension – Replaces thumbnails and modifies titles of videos on YouTube

Automatisch is an open-source self-hosted Zapier alternative

1Password Will Support Passkeys Starting in Early 2023 – NOT as a Single-Ecosystem like Apple

How to sideload apps on any iPhone using AltStore

Here’s what it’s like to use Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite – You can also send your location via satellite in the Find My app

Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call

Zram is an alternative on Linux to swap partitions or swap files

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software? Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

Buster Open-Source Extension for Chromium, Firefox, Edge and Opera Browsers: Captcha Solver for Humans

Which Safety Razor Should I Buy?

The best open source alternatives to Google Calendar for Android

Subway Tooter – a high customisable open-source Mastodon app for Android (video)

Building a Sinclair ZX81 in 2022 with all new parts

Eufy has launched an Apple AirTag alternative with Find My integration, Android OS support, does more, costs less than Apple’s tracker

Best Graphical Package Managers for Arch Linux

Four simple steps to make Linux’s Bash prettier and more functional for non-expert users

The many branches of the Fediverse and why Mastodon is only one of many other connected social networks

Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot – Yes if an open-source license requires attribution, you need to do that

Volume Master is a Chromium-type browser extension to adjust the volume of individual tabs

Rain launching Nvidia GeForce Now — first cloud gaming platform in South Africa

Xiaomi concept clips a full-size Leica lens onto a smartphone with a screw-on mount and 10-bit RAW capture, but we won’t likely be able to buy it

An easy-to-make Pi-powered pocket password pal – using self-hosted Bitwarden