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    Eskom cut its diesel usage by more than 422 million litres in 2025/26

    You mean the corrupt ones or Eskom? This is probably among the most expensive source of power for them, running at a loss. 2024/25: R344bn with R16bn profit 2025/26: R356bn with R18bn profit, ebidta down though (expected as debt was used to cover diesel). Not using them is a good thing, why...
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    Apple briefly dethrones Nvidia as world's most valuable company

    Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 was announced in China, open source model that's going to be released on July 27th. They're claiming it outperforms Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, coming close to Fable 5. Will see what the actual truth will be, but it definitely means open source models will jump in...
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    Details about Koeberg radioactive contamination events

    Sure, but that's a whataboutism argument, or red herring. Coal should be shut down as it's quite polluting and expensive vs alternatives. Nuclear should generally not be built anymore because it's the most expensive form of power, and part of the reason that a lot less people die, is because of...
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    Details about Koeberg radioactive contamination events

    You're conflating two different things/wrong. Coal ash is nowhere near the radioactivity of nuclear waste, what are the radionuclides, quantities, radiation doses, etc., it's not the same.
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    Openserve assures that its own ISP will be treated the same as third-party ISPs

    Telkom can now argue that they're no longer a monopoly as Vumatel etc. Exist. IMHO should just be blanket rules that you can't have the fiber operator also be an ISP once certain size (shouldn't only apply to Telkom).
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    Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei’s austerity measures hit hard

    Stabilized it at such a low level that it's worthless...
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    Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei’s austerity measures hit hard

    He's basically destroyed wages to do so. https://theconversation.com/javier-mileis-inflation-miracle-in-argentina-is-a-warning-to-the-world-not-a-blueprint-278840 He's not fixing anything, he's selling / sold off state assets to connected people, without actually fixing anything, they were...
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    First time: M4 or M5

    M5 also includes WiFi 7 and BT 6.0, and should have a faster SSD. Apple also usually gives 7 years of OS support, so you'd get another year. Would consider it worth the R2k.
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    South Africa’s richest woman slams new SARS travel rules

    No, it's more why do I need to submit this when I don't have anything to declare, and if I do, why max 24h in advance and why can't it be optional to speed up the system rather than at border control like every other country does for. I never take stuff into South Africa to sell / that requires...
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    Great news for chocolate and coffee lovers in South Africa

    Generally expensive chocolate, but if you're baking, callebaut is very good, and their price is the cocoa one plus a flat fee (for fair worker payment, plus sustainabily sourced). They directly adjusted their price with cocoa one, and came down in cost here. They supposedly opened up a place in...
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    Oldest working tech or appliance in your house that you refuse to replace?

    For the fridge one, modern fridges had a pretty good boost in efficiency in the late 2000s and then again mid 2010s about. So fridges that are over 20 years, do check the power bill and see if it's worth running. I have a fridge from the 80s at grandparents old place, right now unplugged as I...
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    South Africans could soon be paying less for mobile data

    That sounds quite expensive, guessing you're on one of the tourist roaming packages? Just buy a normal package usually in most countries, e.g. It's 10 EUR (R210) for 70GB of which 15GB is roaming, and 1000 minutes in Austria. There are others like lyca that do roaming packages if you're just...
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    ICASA's new number recycling regulations have been released

    Rather not as there are rules with how stuff is routed based on what the start section of a telephone number is. Again, 12 digits would be fine, all current would just get 00 at the end.
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    ICASA's new number recycling regulations have been released

    Regulations should change that you get longer telephone numbers, lots of the world already has this, so it's just contact forms that need to be fixed. Then you can recycle numbers after decades instead. It's a real issue that you get numbers from people who had stuff like debt collectors after...
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    Best place to buy a used Samsung S24?

    He wants a smaller phone, going S25FE is not a valid recommendation. The base pixels and the a series are also smaller form factor, just south Africa they're gray import and generally too expensive for what they're worth.
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