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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"It's not the load that weighs you down, it's the way you carry it." #quotes #CSLewis

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Rosebank from above 😊

A birsdey view of the neighbourhood of Rosebank, Johannesburg

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Fell into the lavender haze, where the jacarandas do the dreaming for you. 🌸 #Johannesburg #Jacarandas

A white pelican stands on a grassy slope, with blooming purple jacaranda trees in the background.

A quiet street tunnels beneath a dense canopy of purple jacaranda blossoms, with a few vehicles passing through in soft early light.

A suburban Johannesburg street on a sunny day, arched by tall jacaranda trees in full purple bloom, fallen petals carpeting the road beside green lawns.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

My old ThinkPad T480 is back in daily use, running FreeBSD 15.1. :freebsd: Xfce, 5 GHz Wi-Fi, hardware video decoding in Firefox and Chromium (checked in the decoder, not just a capabilities page), a webcam that survived a 45-minute Zoom call, a Bluetooth speaker via virtual_oss, and SSH and […]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it." -- Douglas Adams #quotes #environment

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

🍂 As Europe and the north slips quietly into shades of amber, rust, and encroaching dark, our world softens into bloom. Down here at the edge of Africa, the canopy catches fire in violet. 💜 #Johannesburg in October.

An elevated, panoramic view across Johannesburg's leafy suburbs at dusk, dominated by the sprawling, vibrant violet canopy of massive jacaranda trees in full bloom rising above red-tiled house roofs. In the distant background, the suburban expanse stretches toward high-rise buildings on the horizon under a soft sunset sky with pastel pink and gold clouds.

Looking up a steep, quiet suburban hill entirely blanketed in fallen violet jacaranda blossoms, resembling a vibrant purple carpet covering the road. Massive jacaranda trees line both sides of the street, forming an overhead tunnel of blooms, with a single pedestrian walking up the center distance beneath a glowing streetlamp.

A quiet residential street framed by a dense canopy of blooming purple jacaranda trees, their branches meeting overhead to form a natural archway. Two runners jog down the shaded road in the foreground, leading towards a glowing, stone triumphal arch illuminated by warm golden morning light at the far end of the avenue.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

New on the blog: ArtCraft is rebuilding Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Word, Excel and more in Rust, with AI coding agents. I tried it. PhotoCraft actually handled my video thumbnails, apps start in 1-2 seconds, and there are native #FreeBSD builds. The more interesting part: GUI, CLI and […]

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Dakspyker @dakspyker.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#caturday, I met a very #friendly #feral #cat #Today

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Oh, wow, this is really cool! A line of handbags created by South African artisan women is going to feature at the Paris fashion week: www.goodthingsguy.com/shweshwe-hand… #SouthAfrica #fashion

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Dave Tabb @dtabb73.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration... Collectively, these cases show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of […]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

So we all know what love is, right? God (A being of pure love) created us in love, out of love, and for love. We are beings of love. We don't need to learn what love is. But along the way, while we were obtaining the knowledge of good vs evil and all that […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A cartoon Jesus standing in front of a group of people all holding Bibles. The people appear crestfallen, as Jesus is saying, "The difference between you and me is you use Scripture to determine what love means and I use love to determine what Scripture means." The cartoon is attributed to "nakedpastor".

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Oh my WORD! I've just seen an email talking about the approaching Festive Season. It's a shop with a special on Christmas Trees! :-O #Christmass

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Big G - Master of the Lob @george.social.thepalmers.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

For South Africans only : a colleague of mine has built this site to help you track and compare your municipal bills. Try it out at munibills.co.za. it quite cool.

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it, that is your punishment. But if you never know, then you can become anything new, anything at all and that is your reward.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way.” -- Murphy’s Law #quotes #irony

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

What an amazing campaign video about #Meta #SpyGlasses from @bitsoffreedom ❣️ Filmed in front of the Meta offices in #Amsterdam featuring real Meta employees. :)

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I don’t do politics” Translation: “I’m privileged enough to ignore injustice when it doesn’t impact me personally.”

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Dave Tabb @dtabb73.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Rare Ethiopian manuscript stolen by British forces triggers restitution row Ethiopian authorities “take the position that since the manuscript was clearly looted, as Inlibris openly acknowledged, it should first be withdrawn from the sale, and then negotiations can go ahead." […]

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Dakspyker @dakspyker.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Ltr: 200l, 100l, 50l #newtankday #aquarium #fish #fishtank

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Oh no, another terrible horrible no good day in Africa 🌍 #southafrica #johannesburg

A street view framed by a vintage black lamp post and leafy tree branches in the foreground, looking toward a paved crosswalk, pedestrians, and an expansive Tuscan-inspired palazzo-style building featuring classical arches and statues.

Close-up of a weathered tree trunk in the foreground framing a curved outdoor stone fountain with water jets, blooming purple foxgloves, balustrade stone staircases, and Italianate stone architecture under a bright blue sky.

High-angle view overlooking an Italianate courtyard complex, featuring a stone balustrade and black vintage lantern in the foreground, with tiered stone stairs, leafy trees, and a tall building with an arched bell-tower loggia under a clear sky.

Low-angle view looking up at a rustic, tall stone and brick medieval-style tower with a dark arched wooden door at the base, set alongside a Tuscan-style multi-story building with dark wooden shutters, bordered by neatly trimmed green hedges and a red brick paved pathway.

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quinta - Stefano Quintarelli @quinta.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Welcom to our #Canada #Canadian friends in the EU (albeit just as associate, for now) Few persons know that Canada and Europe share a land border here

Location of Hans Island, half Canadian, half Danish

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

We’re all unreliable narrators because memory isn’t a recording being played, it’s a rewrite of the file. Every time we recall the past, we’re editing the truth to fit the person we’ve since become. We're not just unreliable narrators, we’re also the only narrators to our stories. So then at […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Big congrats to Canada, the EU’s first ever associate member! A bold step for transatlantic cooperation and a new chapter for global partnerships 🤝🇨🇦🇪🇺 #eucananda

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Hmm, so somebody from a publishing company just emailed me about picking up my book. Their email contains impeccable editing and shows (on the surface) a deep understanding of the book, its niche, and what reviewers have said. As if they've done a lot of research and at least read the free […]

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Dakspyker @dakspyker.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Here is one for #thicktrunktuesday I guess. The old #baobab at #Mopani rest camp. #kremetart

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 05/09/2026

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career. On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another. Different servers, different […] [Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically."
In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

My cappuccino with complimentary swan art 🦢 from Platō this morning 🌅 ☕

A photo of a cappuccino with foam art showing two swans facing each other and a fern or plant in the centre.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 02/09/2026

One of today’s tasks: migrating an old Ubuntu server hosting around 15 WordPress sites to a FreeBSD server, with Caddy acting as a reverse proxy in its own jail, one jail per WordPress instance, and a shared database in yet another jail. Yesterday I configured Caddy to reverse proxy all the […]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

If you suffer from low or no vision due to a degenerative retinal disease, Retina South Africa is offering a free Zoom-based eight-week course on Living Well With Retinal Vision Loss: mailchi.mp/retinasa/e-workshop-seri… […]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

It's Follow Friday, and this week, I'd like to recommend @mywritingmatters, an initiative started by my friends @Zumbador and @Dorman It aims to be a hub for writers everywhere, connecting them with the services they need: editing, cover design, marketing, etc. It also contains articles and […]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

bhyve inside a jail sounds like a stunt. It isn’t. FreeBSD has supported it since 12.0, and it turns the hypervisor into one more manageable jail: delegated ZFS, VNET, vm-bhyve, devfs rules and all. Here is my complete production setup, including the security caveats […]

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו @hnygd.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A new pull request has been opened at github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/499 to include a #virtio driver in the #FreeBSD #DRM/#KMS graphics stack. That is great news for all those who are using FreeBSD as a desktop system as a VM because this will finally allow using e.g. #Wayland or […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

On 11 and 12 May this year large parts of the Western Cape, South Africa experienced heavy rainfall, swallowing vineyards, tearing through cellars, and rising two metres high, they left behind a landscape unrecognisable. The vineyards had its fertile topsoil […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A large wooden retail bin filled with rows of stacked white wine bottles, all heavily coated in dried mud with stained, peeling labels following the floods.

Aerial view of a large winery complex and silver fermentation tanks surrounded and partially submerged by deep brown floodwaters, with surrounding vineyard rows covered in silt and water.

The interior of a flood-damaged winery warehouse, showing collapsed, mud-stained cardboard wine boxes and scattered wine bottles strewn across a thick silt-covered floor.

A hand holding an individual bottle of rosé wine caked in dried river mud and silt, featuring a torn, water-damaged paper label and a red screw-cap.

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Dakspyker @dakspyker.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Date night. (Faunus ater) #date #snail #aquarium #devilsthorn

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Waterfox/117123110… Such a brilliant update!! The new Nova look is 🔥🔥 or well... in this case... 🌊🌊

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Joburg’s weather setting: [ ] Winter [ ] Spring [x] Straight to Summer Sunscreen out, windows open, zero complaints today 🌞

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

New research published today reveals four times more peat in Angolan Highlands than previously estimated Scientists from The Nature Conservancy and partners mapped the whole 380 382 sq km Angolan Highlands Water Tower in higher resolution for the first time […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Aerial top-down view of a rugged shoreline where dry, grassy ground meets deep teal-to-dark-blue open water.

High-angle panoramic view of a wide river curving through golden-brown wetlands and marsh reeds during sunset.

A person standing on a traditional wooden dugout canoe, steering with a long pole across calm water dotted with lily pads against a backdrop of tall reeds and a soft pastel sky.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

From 1 October, WhatsApp Business users will have to start paying to be able to respond to customers: techcentral.co.za/whatsapps-free-lu… Maybe this will convince some of the smaller/micro businesses to jump over to Signal or […]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

So we're all in agreement about sysadmins, right? X-D #infosec #memes

A matrix showing how various IT professionals see each other (Developers, Designers, Project Managers, QA, and Sysadmins) see each other. Everyone sees sysadmins as some variation of person giving the finger. Sysadmins see themselves as Neo from the Matrix, stopping a storm of bullets with their hand.

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Dave Tabb @dtabb73.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

EcoFlow created an animated, involuntary support LLM for its Android app. It cannot be removed from any screen of the app. I uninstalled the app. #DenyAI

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Dakspyker @dakspyker.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

#zebra #wildlife

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Watching the city settle into dusk yesterday through a frame of crimson coral tree blooms 🌸 #johannesburg #sandton

A view of the Sandton skyline framed by the dark branches and bright red flowers of a coral tree at twilight.

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