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Veilamp is an open source music player that also streams your music to friends You really have to see this cross-platform player to believe everyth... See gadgeteer.co.za/veilamp-is-an-open-… #music #opensource #privacy #technology

Veilamp music player showing Bon Jovi’s “(You Want to) Make a Memory,” Grammy nominees artwork, VU meters, equalizer, and playback controls.

The problem was that the last elections had assumed Trump was done, big mistake. Don't assume victory at all before the final whistle.

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England's museums have an incredible breadth and quality to them - certainly something that boosts tourism to the country.

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Would certainly go a long way to boosting tourism. Whenever I have visited England I have always enjoyed the variety and quality of the museums. I wish my own country would realise the value of heritage and museums to boosting tourism.

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Capetonians sounds like the English complaining about a tube train running 2 mins late. Complaints stream in about constant pipe maintenance, but fact is clean water runs out of taps 99.99% of the time.

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Still have my CZ75 and love it. Won many combat shooting competitions against the State issue Beretta back in the 1990s. So much so, that was motivation to carry it on duty in a unit I served in.

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Terrible that the weekend's mass killings were double those credited to the serial killings. But no, I've always looked behind me when out walking and am cautious when I pass anyone. That said, very different for women, who really can't walk alone nowadays.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 26/09/2026

First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years... See gadgeteer.co.za/first-for-south-afr… #capetown #southafrica #technology

Rescue team members use headlamps while navigating a rocky, wooded mountain trail at night.

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This would destroy politicians... they'd get no votes ;-)

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 26/09/2026

Microsoft going back to its roots and breaking spreadsheet compatibility “Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allow... See gadgeteer.co.za/microsoft-going-bac… #microsoft #openstandards #technology

Illustration of Microsoft Excel displaying unreadable characters, with errors in Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, and CSV import.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 25/09/2026

Eveil - I trust they will get waht's coming to them in prison, for 21 years

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 25/09/2026

Well yes, as we seem to still be on a 2000's strategy projection and the world has changed. Apart from EVs we don't have the competative cheap labour cost we had before either. The clock is ticking and we can't change in a month.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 25/09/2026

F-Droid’s Android open-source app store has been rebuilt from the ground up “Virtually every Android device comes with the Play Store preloaded, but t... See gadgeteer.co.za/f-droids-android-op… #android #fdroid #opensource #technology

Smartphone displaying the F-Droid app store on a green cutting mat, with various app icons visible.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 22/09/2026

OSS Document Scanner is an open source mobile app to scan documents to PDF This mobile app does largely what Adobe PDF Scan or similar apps do, but... See gadgeteer.co.za/oss-document-scanne… #documents #opensource #privacy #technology

Promotional graphic showing the OSS Document Scanner app on two smartphones, with scanned documents displayed against a turquoise background.

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 22/09/2026

As this is not a once-off, that general is a real criminal. Most especially, the rot has to be cleared out from the top. It disgraces the country, and betrays citizens' trust.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 20/09/2026

Grist is an open source self-hosted spreadsheet with a database hiding underneath “Grist is a relational spreadsheet-databas... See gadgeteer.co.za/grist-is-an-open-so… #opensource #privacy #selfhosting #spreadsheets #technology

Laptop displaying a spreadsheet on a wooden table, flanked by two large pine cones, with home decor in the background.

Just weird on so many levels. How it ends up in a river, and why he'd drown from that. Seems tragic and unecessary.

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OpenCode is an open source alternative to Claude Code OpenCode is an open source agent that helps you write and run code with any AI model, including free (for now althoug... See gadgeteer.co.za/opencode-is-an-open… #ai #opensource #programming #technology

Computer monitor displaying OpenCode interface, with Star Wars lunchbox, mechanical keyboard, and copper desk lamp on a desk.

National Treasury had good regulations in place requiring tender boxes to be opened in public with bidder names and values read out to everyone. Was a great measure of transparency. This was just no longer adhered to.

Of course the US wants Microsoft datacentres here — it is vendor lock-in and the US CLOUD Act forces Microsoft to hand data over the US.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 15/09/2026

Money that could have been spent on services in that same community...

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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts This is a very though-provoking that applies much wider than just AI. In fact, its origins go back to long before AI was eve... See gadgeteer.co.za/ai-efficiency-could… #ai #skills #technology

Illustration of a human hand and a robotic hand measuring with a caliper against a blueprint background.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 14/09/2026

Great idea. But raw food and ingredients being handled does mean proper hygiene, cleaning, prevention of contamination, etc. My wife has spent months setting up her facility to pass health regulations.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 14/09/2026

Luckily no-one killed, but the cause needs to be determined and serious action taken. I literally do not see anyone stopping at a stop street anymore. I see at least one car per trip even going through a red light. It is unbelievable.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 14/09/2026

Or we do a National Dialogue - lots of replanning and no action.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 12/09/2026

Immurok Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agents “It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via... See gadgeteer.co.za/immurok-fingerprint… #linux #security #technology

Finger about to press a small device next to buttons labeled Unlock Screen, Authorize sudo, Confirm System Prompts, Autofill TOTP, Approve AI Agents, and Sign SSH & Git.

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 09/09/2026

Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether “The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch... See gadgeteer.co.za/australians-could-s… #doomscrolling #socialmedia #technology

Smartphone screen displaying a folder labeled "Social networks" with popular social media app icons, against a background of green binary code.

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 08/09/2026

I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilities “If you've been in the Linux space for a while, you know jus... See gadgeteer.co.za/i-discovered-kdes-h… #kde #opensource #plasma #technology

Screenshot of the "Panel colorizer Settings" window showing various preset options for panel appearance and customization on a desktop PC.

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 06/09/2026

Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has som... See gadgeteer.co.za/kept-is-an-open-sou… #notes #opensource #selfhosting #technology

Person writing on colorful sticky notes on a wall, with text about Kept, an open-source private alternative to Google Keep.

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 03/09/2026

Ah, so the SA health data ends up with US data brokers — something our regulators will be on top of, and protecting us...

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Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 03/09/2026

Would love to see their screenshots and call centre logs...

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 02/09/2026

“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy “RPN isn’t exactly the way people calculate with pencil and paper, and it certainly wasn’t d... See gadgeteer.co.za/im-not-dead-yet-rev… #calculators #rpn #technology

Vintage Hewlett-Packard calculator with red LED display and black, blue, and beige buttons on a dark background.

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Problem is after Trump's AI generated videos of an attack over the weekend, we don't know what is real from the US right now...

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I'm assuming "demand" is one notch above "condemn" - shows how fragile world justice and the UN actually is. The veto nations all get away with murder. China actually sets the better example right now.

Thing I still wonder about though is, can every country actually sustain ever-growing populations? At what point are there no more resources? Should we not plan for shrinking populations?

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Yes given the cost of a decent phone now, you just don't throw them away every 2 years anymore. Mine is going to sweat out 5 or even 6 years now.

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Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux “Continuity. That is Apple's catch-all term for how iPhone, iPad, and Mac talk to each other. It covers a wide range of small c... See gadgeteer.co.za/tether-brings-the-a… #ios #opensource #technology

Diagram showing Tether software linking iPhone to Linux via WiFi for file transfer and Bluetooth LE for messages, contacts, and notifications sync.

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Could flipping Raise wrist to wake and Always On Display (AOD) improve battery life? This is an interesting option to try (I have a Pebble watch, so battery li... See gadgeteer.co.za/could-flipping-rais… #batterylife #technology

Close-up of a wristwatch with a black dial and rubber strap worn on a person's arm, with a blurred background.

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BRICS countries resolved to have own distros from late 2000s. South Africa actually had Impi Linux, but "lost" it. SA is probably only BRICS country now without its own Linux as it is invested in Microsoft's cloud.

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An army, more so than the police, should be highly disciplined, if not professional as well. Thuggery does not look at all good for anyone in the military.

Shows just how much corruption cost South Africans. Imagine if municipalities actually paid Eskom. Is it possible we could then actually pay 20% less electricity costs?

Danie @gadgeteer.co.za · 29/08/2026

Scientist learns in front of peers why we cannot trust AI Blindly “Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without... See gadgeteer.co.za/scientist-learns-in… #ai #technology

Man in suit speaking into a microphone at a conference with a blurred audience in the background.

Image Toolbox is an open source Android app for social media creators “For you, as a content creator, the tools that matter the most are batch... See gadgeteer.co.za/image-toolbox-is-an… #contentcreation #opensource #socialmedia #technology

Screenshot of an Image Toolbox app with options for Single Edit, Resize and Convert, Format Conversion, and Crop functions.

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HAMgpt Launches as a Personal AI Copilot Built Specifically for Amateur Radio “Unlike a general-purpose chatbot, HAMgpt is built around the real ope... See gadgeteer.co.za/hamgpt-launches-as-… #ai #amateurradio #hamradio #technology

A friendly robot with headphones promotes HAMGPT, an AI copilot for amateur radio, alongside radio gear, notebook, laptop, and coffee mug.

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Shows a lack of wanting to engage in meaningful debate... I'd like to hear why he thought that.

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So that's it, chastisement...

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Hopefully SA has been busy building new prisons as so many still waiting to be sentenced or caught. Does not look like the tide of corruption or violence has actually turned yet.