Danie van der Merwe

Ghostty – The Fast GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for Linux and macOS Ghostty is an open source and cross-platform terminal emulator created by Mitchell Hashimoto, the co-founder of HashiCorp. Hashimoto’s goal with Ghostty was clear: to build a terminal emulator that is fast, feature-rich, and provides a platform-n ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/ghostty-the-fast-gpu-accelerated-terminal-emulator-for-linux-and-macos/ #opensource #technology #terminalemulators

Europe’s Starlink competitor is a go 290 IRIS² satellites by 2030 to provide secure connectivity to governmental users as well as private companies and European citizens. IRIS² is an acronym for Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite. The bonuses ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/europes-starlink-competitor-is-go/ #satellites #technology

Seafile is an enterprise-ready free and open source alternative to DropBox or NextCloud for file syncing and sharing Seafile provides very fast file syncing. Tens of thousands of small files can be synced in a minute. It does what it does very well, without including an entire kitchen sync of extras. Seafile’s built-in collaborative document, SeaDoc, make it easy ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/seafile-is-an-enterprise-ready-free-and-open-source-alternative-to-dropbox-or-nextcloud-for-file-syncing-and-sharing/ #filesync #opensource #selfhosting #technology

The OTIO standard can allow importing of a video editor’s timeline into a different video editor This means a timeline that contains various media with multiple tracks and clips with cuts, can be exported, for example, from Kdenlive and imported into DaVinci Resolve. This is useful where often one editor can do things that another editor cannot ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/the-otio-standard-can-allow-importing-of-a-video-editors-timeline-into-a-different-video-editor/ #interoperability #openstandards #technology #video

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020, he left his job working on Google Assistant and a ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/this-website-shows-how-much-googles-ai-can-glean-from-your-photos/ #AI #GooglePhotos #privacy #technology

Google’s Gemini AI Chatbot Finally Has an iPhone App Billed as a way to converse with Google’s AI, it’s kind of like using speech-to-text, but without having to press a microphone icon before each question. Just say your questions out loud, and Gemini will respond to them in real time, incorporating c ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/googles-gemini-ai-chatbot-finally-has-an-iphone-app/ #AI #ios #technology

Time Changes Everything Including Our Favourite Social Media No-one ever thought MySpace, FriendFeed, Orkut, Google+, etc would ever be usurped, as they were amongst the biggest social networks around. But everything changes over time, and that includes all social networks as well as their users. Twitter, ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/time-changes-everything-including-our-favourite-social-media/ #decentralisation #socialnetworking #technology

IOPaint is an open source locally run Python app for AI-powered photo editing There are many cloud services that offer many of these features but they either require registration, or serve adverts, or require payment to do things like background removal, inpainting or outpainting tasks. This app runs locally for free acros ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/iopaint-is-an-open-source-locally-run-python-app-for-ai-powered-photo-editing/ #AI #opensource #photos #technology

A Phone? A Ham Radio? Relax! It’s Both! A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now, thanks to the kv4p HT, you don’t have to carry both. The open-source device connects to your Android smartphone and turns it into a radio transceiver. Y ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/a-phone-a-ham-radio-relax-its-both/ #amateurradio #hamradio #technology

Banana Pi and OpenWrt’s One/AP-24.XY Router Board Hits the Market The MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC is at the heart of the OpenWrt One, paired with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band WiFi 6 chipset. The device supports WiFi 6 with dual-band capabilities, offering 3×3 and 2×2 MIMO configurations for enhanced wirel ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/banana-pi-and-openwrts-one-ap-24-xy-router-board-hits-the-market/ #BananaPi #opensource #openwrt #router #technology

This Raspberry Pi project uses AI to tell visually impaired people what’s around them The idea behind this “third eye” project involves the patient wearing glasses with a little camera on them. This camera feeds information to a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+, which uses object recognition to work out w ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/this-raspberry-pi-project-uses-ai-to-tell-visually-impaired-people-whats-around-them/ #AI #opensource #technology #vision

Guess which is new Galaxy Watch 7... Yes I know one is cleaner than the other one, and I suppose that is also a clue. So far so good, will test exercise functions out on Mon. Am liking the extra info on AGEs Index, Energy Score, sleep apnoea monitoring, and better summary data (yes I suppose it is AI, but more informative than just plain data). #galaxywatch7

South Africans lose visa-free entry to Ireland LOL well, I was about 70% far with my planning to visit Ireland in October, mainly because it was visa-free for us. I may as well now reconsider going to Europe again if I really have to go through a painful visa process again... Just glad I had not booked our flights last week! See https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-07-09-south-africans-lose-visa-free-entry-to-ireland/ #southafrica #ireland

Jumblie #234 🟠🔴 I gave up after 64 guesses in 1h 40m 11s https://jumblie.com

Manjaro’s Plasma 6 update has gone globally live today This was a major update from Plasma 5.27 to Plasma 6.0, but also along with just about everything else, and was a 6.8 GB download for me. It all went off flawlessly apart from one applet I use for transparent folders, which seems to still only be ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/manjaros-plasma-6-update-has-gone-globally-live-today/ #linux #manjaro #technology

Happy #caturday

Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game This was a movie that I REALLY enjoyed. Sadly, though this is not a playable demo of any type, but more a video trailer…. The company has described Open as “the first genre-defining AAA metaverse gaming experience, interoperable with top-tier IP ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/ready-player-one-author-gives-first-look-at-his-metaverse-battle-royale-game/ #gaming #technology #VR

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight. It makes it harder to block Tor connections by ensuring that the tr ...continues See https://gadgeteer.co.za/tors-new-webtunnel-bridges-mimic-https-traffic-to-evade-censorship/ #censorship #technology #tor

INFURIATING reCAPTCHA!!!! Spent over 10 minutes on it now. OK I realised later it considers a scooter to be a motorcycle. But after getting to the end twice, I click submit only for it to say my answer wasn't correct. Of course my answer was right, I'm human! What an utter failure if a #reCAPTCHA can't even detect a human after 10 minutes for a site I have a login for. So looks like I can't do business with Communica today!

Had lunch at the Back Area Gardens restaurant in #CapeTown #SouthAfrica today - had their beef burger