Recent content by Chris.Geerdts

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    Best thing the South African government has done in the last 20 years?

    appointed BMIT to develop funding model
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    SABC at 90: From profitable public broadcaster to making losses every year

    That's why we need better journalism. SABC channels are actually the most popular.
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    Pretoria-born Seymour Papert co-developed the Logo programming language

    I quoted Papert a lot in my own MSc on use of simulation in engineering education (back in 1987). I enjoyed reading his research and reference to Piaget. I had no idea he was South African.
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    SABC at 90: From profitable public broadcaster to making losses every year

    It has had an unqualified audit for several years and the industry itself, including competitors recognise it's important role.
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    SABC at 90: From profitable public broadcaster to making losses every year

    Actually this is completely untrue. It was clearly the fault of the Dept. of Communications and ICASA. The legislation and regulation is behind but the SABC is not 20 years behind.
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    SABC at 90: From profitable public broadcaster to making losses every year

    It's always disappointing to see Myles Illidge's re-hashed, uninformed clickbait articles. Jan's articles on the SABC are far better balanced. To call the SABC 'zero' is irresponsible
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    University of Cape Town joins a growing list of companies reducing their reliance on Eskom

    Agreed. UCT is not 'kissing Eskom goodbye', they will use Eskom Distribution and cut down on Eskom Generation
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    Checkers Sixty60 deliver rider safety concerns

    I've recently seen a practice with delivery (not 60/60 itself) where the driver marks the delivery as complete well before arriving at your house. I guess this is either so they can line up another delivery order or to save on data usage. It's happened 3x now and the first time the driver said...
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    Article Mistake corrections

    https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/610748-big-step-towards-end-of-tv-licences-in-south-africa.html Paragraphs 1, 3 and 5 : The company is BMI TechKnowledge or BMIT but not BMI Knowledge
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    Communications department appoints BMIT Knowledge Group to develop a new funding model for the SABC

    Some large private sector companies are worse payers than the government departments we work for
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    End-of-life of Windows 10 and transition to Windows 11 unlikely to be as disruptive to businesses as previous generational changes

    First windows forbade us to upgrade to W11 due to the trusted module issue, although we had perfectly good computers. Now they insist on an upgrade. I find that very disruptive for my machines running legacy stuff perfectly well.
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    South Africans should beware that calling screening apps like Truecaller could be violating Popia

    I warned people 7 years ago - got a bit flamed but I stick by the warning: https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/south-africans-receive-21-spam-calls-per-month.996558/page-5#post-22647804
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    Secret South African tech hubs

    Hermanus has a budding IT community as well. That would be my choice if I was 10n years younger
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    AI having a major impact on South Africa's ICT sector

    Here is an article on people losing jobs to AI : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt Less dramatic is to implement a hiring freeze or to use fewer contractors (as Duo Lingo says they did) as people become more productive with AI...
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    Article Mistake corrections

    https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/591176-questions-about-afrikaans-news-blackout.html Mybroadband quickly published the correction to this based on response from SABC so the original article needs to include a correction at the end. There were unfounded allegations in this article...
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