Recent content by Justanotherguybythesea

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    How FNB shook up highway travelling in SA

    The rest was in the days before, going back at least 3 decades. When SAPO worked, Eskom was not load shedding, and you got water out of the tap, and roads were not potholes with a layer of tar between them.
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    Sasolburg set to become new green hydrogen base

    the government is selling off SA talent and industry, so that this will be a short term blip of money, most going as kickbacks to comrades, and long term, like the Denel and OMC products, the money and designs will be other countries, each of them making a massive profit from those SA designs...
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    How FNB shook up highway travelling in SA

    I solved that for the odd occasions that I use a toll road, by getting a etag, and it lives in a nice aluminium box all the time it is not actually needed, so as to both improve battery life (they get interrogated by all the signs and by gantries along the road, to do traffic management and get...
  4. J

    Goodbye UberX

    It is becoming easy to spot Ubers now, no longer do you look for the vehicle with a NUZ or NUR registration, you look for the one with body panels looking like a packet of Willards crinkle cut chips. Even ones that are only a few weeks old, as evidenced by the registration being the latest...
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    Vast majority of schools struggling without power are in Eastern Cape

    Just have to wonder how many of those generators and solar installs were actually done at the schools, and if they are still there.
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    New lineup for Ster-Kinekor's R50 classics cinema announced

    I did enjoy Star Wars on release weekend, at the Ster Kinekor Ocean City, now sadly another boring convention center. Also saw Crocodile Dundee there as well, both of them, though the second one I was in row B, so could see the film grain, and every missed hair escaping from her bikini. Yes...
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    New rules and punishments for spam callers in South Africa

    You are special then, all I get is a good morning wave. But they have moved from next door to me,and i get on well with the agents. At least i am immune to the JW, they will not canvas the block, because an apostate lived here, so it is forever blacklisted. I only rarely get those calls, helps...
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    Potential alternatives to Starlink and Amazon Leo already available in South Africa

    Remember ICASA cannot regulate beyond the Karman line, as they then will land up with an even bigger problem, in that the USA along with pretty much the entire EU then landing them on a sanctions list, because of the Outer Space treaty, which was signed by SA, and breaking it will have...
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    New lineup for Ster-Kinekor's R50 classics cinema announced

    DLP projector, not one with film, though i do have one, though looking for 8mm one as well, as i do have a few reels of that.
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    Hefty fines for unregistered solar users

    I went for 3kVA, because that can be plugged in, and it is basically an appliance, being a big PC UPS. solar added on will mean I can unplug it, or reconfigure it so that solar is the primary source, with changeover to battery at night, and mains as last resort when battery is low. It will run...
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    New lineup for Ster-Kinekor's R50 classics cinema announced

    Just pull out the projector, clear a wall to get white space, and bring out the bigger amp, and i have it, for a whole lot less, and i can get up to pee or eat without needing to take out a loan to buy some stale popcorn and watered down soda.
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    Municipal debt owed to Eskom reaches R119 billion

    Just saw a disconnect notice today, owed amount is R1.2 million, but likely going to be difficult to collect from the landlord, as the landlord is the municipality. Going to be hard to prove as well, as the meter has also been stolen.
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    The SABC's free streaming service has surpassed 3 million registered users

    wonder just how many pay.......
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    Coinkite Coldcard cold wallets hacked and millions stolen in ongoing attack

    Standard problem of ant small device PRNG, in that often it is used to generate randomness shortly after power on, and with such a short interval that it is possible to simply get all the inputs, and step through each cycle of the PRNG to get all the possible outputs for the first few minutes...
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    South African ISPs rate Vumatel poorly according to the Internet Service Providers' Association

    The installation is also dodgy, they got a reputation in dirtbin for shoddy work, and for seemingly being able to find, with unerring accuracy, every single water line, sewer line, power cable and any other buried cable infrastructure. Also wherever they went nothing metal was safe, your brass...
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