Recent content by Johand

  1. Johand

    Say goodbye to Home Affairs as you know it

    Does anybody know when banks will start offering passports as well as Smart IDs?
  2. Johand

    Minister demands equal treatment from TikTok in South Africa

    Why would you say that in the context of this article?
  3. Johand

    Do you have a will and testament?

    I would suggest against that -- rather get a professional with a negotiated fee, and if needed get a policy to cover some of this. The Master's office is a mess to navigate - especially at the moment ( As a person who is currently about to take the Master to court). And the intricacies of...
  4. Johand

    The Chinese car brand that will pay you R200,000 for its own car priced at R835,000 three years ago

    I little bit of early adopter tax but it will stabilize in time. I recon if you want to buy an EV now your either need to be a) enthusiast b) do enough km so that car will pay for itself in 3 to 5 years c) drive cars for a very long time (E. G. 8+ years). But same math as luxury cars. The good...
  5. Johand

    Microsoft has a warning about Claude, and Apple reportedly returning to making servers

    Of course they need to train Claude to believe in it is conscious. Because then you can threaten it. It is the most effective way of getting good results. Anybody that has worked with Claude knows you get better results with it if you threaten it. My standard prompt begins with "Get this right...
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    South African woman fired from high-paying job after forwarding work emails to her Gmail

    It is annoying but considering that a company can be fined millions under POPIA for information leaks then pure logic dictate you have to have an iron hand on these things. Organisations are between a rock and a hard place...
  7. Johand

    Problem with South Africa’s planned zero-alcohol driving limit

    I am also hankering after Shakira law...
  8. Johand

    Problem with South Africa’s planned zero-alcohol driving limit

    This will just backfire completely. A lot of people will see this as unreasonable and ignore it. And if you ignore that for one drink you might as well have two because you have broken the law already. Just. Enforce. The. Law. I think we need to reduce the number of laws in this country and...
  9. Johand

    Win R2,000 cash – South African Cloud Value Realisation Index 2026

    Done
  10. Johand

    Mobile contract prices are increasing faster than inflation in South Africa

    Nobody in their right mind should go to contract now. Using an MVNO and buying the handset (using credit if you need to) seems to be the better bet in pretty much all cases.
  11. Johand

    One bird strike away from disaster — Pilots say South Africa’s world-record flyby was dangerous

    Flyovers like that is the equivalent of reffing your 1998 VW Polo with a broken exhaust thinking you are cool.
  12. Johand

    Teraco data centres use less than 2 tablespoons of water per unit of electricity

    You don't use liters with bulk water... Only when buying Dasani. 40 000 kiloliters is not a lot of water for an industrial user. I lot of large houses use like 20kl/month or 240kl/year. They use less than 200 large households. If you look at rainfall - 700mm per year is 0.7kl/squate meter. So...
  13. Johand

    Where do you get your daily coffee?

    Eh? You know shoprite holdings is the holding company for Checkers etc? I really don't think they bought Vida for Shoprite the store. They bought it for Checkers to take on WCafe.
  14. Johand

    President Cyril Ramaphosa says Eskom must learn from Telkom

    Of course Telkom only got themselves into gear after the market was opened by the brave lawsuit of Altron. Maybe there needs to be such a massive deregulation of electricity. If private companies are given specific subsidies to hit specific targets to electrify poor households they will do a...
  15. Johand

    Amazon Leo falling further behind Starlink by the day

    All the other satelite operators manage to operate in South Africa. Some form of local ownership laws are not unique to South Africa. In fact I suspect it will be more difficult for a South African company to get a license for broadband satelite in the US than for a US company to get one here...
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