GadgeteerZA's Blog

India anoints little-known Zoom clone called Vconsol as its home-grown videoconf tool of choice - Great idea but I'd like to have seen open source Jitsi adopted if possible

WhatNow Service — a data feed by Red Cross and Red Crescent societies of global safety tips for over 20 different disaster types for devs to integrate with

Northwestern University Study: If EVs replaced 25% of the combustion engine cars currently on the road in the United States, the country would save about $17 billion annually by avoiding dama

With Oculus Soon Requiring Anti-Social Network Facebook Log-Ins, VR Pioneer Warns Consumers: "Use Anything Else"

Three Hyundai Kona EV drivers just surpassed 1,000 km (620 miles) on a single charge, each in a different Kona EV... at about 30 km/h

Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing people to only use the built-in camera - Is Android becoming an iPhone?

CryptPad: An Encrypted Open Source Google Docs (complete with online collaborative editing) Alternative for Privacy Cautious Users

Free Openserve fibre speed upgrades (alignments) for low end speeds in South Africa

Why Mastodon network is defying the “critical mass” - it doesn’t just gain value from the quantity of users, it also gains value from the quantity of connected services

SpaceX Starlink (Elon Musk's satellite broadband service) speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps and latency of 31ms to 94ms

Meet the first South African elected to lead Debian Linux - His CV includes developing a Linux OS for the South African government

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Struggling to connect a Kenwood TM-D710G to SARTrack or similar APRS software? My video may help

The fully open Linux-based PinePhone: Great replaceable battery and a bit more info on it but it could do with a bit more CPU and RAM