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A Non-Technical Introduction Video to Meshtastic Off-Grid Radio Communications

Determined maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbour’s music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

Trail Sense: Android Open-Source app for entirely offline use for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching

Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours

Bluesky vs. Mastodon: Which Twitter Alternative Should You Choose?

How to make Android use the DNS server of your choice: Not all DNS servers are created equally

You should buy dual monitors instead of an ultrawide for these 4 reasons

Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks

With Superlist, Wunderlist Makers Pick Up Where They Left Off

The Sad Reality: Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool

The Myth: Is the Fediverse Really That Complicated?

5 reasons to use AMD in your next gaming PC

Young Typewriter repairman is in high demand for this retro technology today

10 mistakes you should not make when building a new PC for the first time

Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three

3 concept PC parts that you may want in your next gaming PC

Ethernet for Hackers: The very Basics

The US government makes a $42 million bet on 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) cell networks

ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) and ENC (Environmental Noise Cancellation): How are they different?

I did not realise you get rechargeable coin cell batteries such as for the CR2032

Using a USB Serial Adapter (UART) to Help Debug Your Raspberry Pi

South African Rooibos featured in popular survival action role-playing game Enshrouded

Elon Musk Gutted Their App. Now They Want To Make One That’s Billionaire-Proof: Tapestry will be RSS

WiFi networks that span over 3km are on the way but we’ve long had 5km plus with line of sight WiFi

Your Phone Is Not Listening to You: The tech myth has pervaded all corners of society, but its origins show it was never true to begin with

Goodbye Eskom — R1 billion deal to bring fastest off-grid car chargers to South Africa

SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops: Stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations