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It better get used to the feeling", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/microsoft-is-losing-the-battle-to-protect-license-lucre-it-better-get-used-to-the-feeling/", "published_at": "2026-07-13T10:31:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-2cfa-7325-b644-1643cb10f359", "title": "AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/ai-barometer-the-best-ai-for-every-job-right-now-because-choosing-is-difficult/", "published_at": "2026-07-13T09:59:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-2cfa-7325-b644-1643cb50c123", "title": "HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Android", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/heliboard-is-a-privacy-conscious-and-customisable-open-source-keyboard-for-android/", "published_at": "2026-07-11T20:34:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad4b916b5", "title": "Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/tech-bros-puzzled-by-why-ai-hasnt-massively-disrupted-books-yet/", "published_at": "2026-07-11T12:36:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad4c7fea7", "title": "Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/android-is-open-source-but-your-phone-isnt-heres-why-google-locked-it-down/", "published_at": "2026-07-10T12:29:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad56eb379", "title": "Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/", "published_at": "2026-07-09T16:04:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad5dc6950", "title": "German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern heads down the open source sovereignty road", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/german-state-of-mecklenburg-vorpommern-heads-down-the-open-source-sovereignty-road/", "published_at": "2026-07-09T15:07:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad669bf78", "title": "Wallos — An Open-Source Personal Subscriptions Tracker Which Saved Quite A Bit Of Money For Me", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/wallos-an-open-source-personal-subscriptions-tracker-which-saved-quite-a-bit-of-money-for-me/", "published_at": "2026-07-05T20:15:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad736fde9", "title": "This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/this-linux-storage-feature-feels-like-cheating-once-you-understand-it/", "published_at": "2026-07-04T16:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad77e0437", "title": "Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’t", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/heres-what-end-to-end-encryption-protects-and-what-it-doesnt/", "published_at": "2026-07-04T15:49:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad831e131", "title": "David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/", "published_at": "2026-07-04T14:19:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad9146854", "title": "I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full picture", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/i-ran-the-same-ssd-health-check-on-linux-and-windows-only-linux-gave-me-the-full-picture/", "published_at": "2026-07-03T20:44:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-b75d-70de-86c4-fa2ad9c68f3f", "title": "Brave Browser just summarily disabled an extension I’m using", "url": "https://gadgeteer.co.za/brave-browser-just-summarily-disabled-an-extension-im-using/", "published_at": "2026-07-03T08:03:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-1aff-71f4-b554-c796cc8e518e", "title": "They’ve read the scroll thing! 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F-Droid’s Android open-source app store has been rebuilt from the ground uporiginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
OSS Document Scanner is an open source mobile app to scan documents to PDForiginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Grist is an open source self-hosted spreadsheet with a database hiding underneathoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
OpenCode is an open source alternative to Claude Codeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Expertsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Immurok Fingerprint Key Unlocks Linux, Approves SSH and AI Agentsoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogetheroriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilitiesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notesoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buyoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linuxoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Could flipping Raise wrist to wake and Always On Display (AOD) improve battery life?original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Scientist learns in front of peers why we cannot trust AI Blindlyoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
Image Toolbox is an open source Android app for social media creatorsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
HAMgpt Launches as a Personal AI Copilot Built Specifically for Amateur Radiooriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numberedoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Quest VR Headset Becomes Unlocked Hardwareoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
I tested out the new Elecrow ThinkNode M9 with MeshCore Decentralised Radio Networkoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlistsoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlieroriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Hereoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Toolsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
N64 classic GoldenEye 007 has been 100% decompiled, paving the way for mods and portsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Cheap USB-C chargers are actually fine—these 4 specs are all that matteroriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
nfSensei is an open source spiritual successor of pfSense, by the original creator, for Linuxoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
FairEmail is an open source privacy orientated email apporiginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
I Remember These Modular Electronics Kitsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
Homelabbers and Desktop Tweakers may want to move beyond just plain AI chatoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
SoloMD is a simpler markdown open-source app that opens your whole Obsidian vaultoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
Track Bird Visitors With A Raspberry Pi And A USB Micoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
I turned my security cameras into AI assistants with open-source LLM Visionoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Netflix accounts taken over in South Africa through session cookie hijackingoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
Google Search is likely Yahooed noworiginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
RSS-Bridge generates web feeds for websites that don’t have oneoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chatsoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Team South Africa wins at NASA space engineering competitionoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Spam callers face penalties of up to R1,000,000 in South Africaoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
LG Monitors Fill Windows PCs With Adware, and It’s Not Just Recent Displaysoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come Trueoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have diedoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2026
Africa’s most popular phones have a tracking problem and explains where data disappears tooriginal ↗
25 Jul 2026
MeshCore Radio for Social Networking and Disasters with zero Internet requiredoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
FokOffMense is South Africa’s spam block and POPIA toolkitoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Saysoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Euki Period-Tracking App Actually Keeps Your Data Privateoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Competeoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Healthoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingeroriginal ↗
17 Jul 2026
Making A Locked Down WHOOP Wearable Work Without A Subscriptionoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feelingoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficultoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Androidoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yetoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it downoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Medsoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern heads down the open source sovereignty roadoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
Wallos — An Open-Source Personal Subscriptions Tracker Which Saved Quite A Bit Of Money For Meoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2026
This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand itoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’toriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82original ↗
4 Jul 2026
I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full pictureoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
Brave Browser just summarily disabled an extension I’m usingoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
They’ve read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuviusoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
Voicebox is a local-first AI voice studio — a free and open-source alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFloworiginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
After a week with my new Pebble Time 2 watch I’m really happy with itoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
Every Physics Teacher (And Student) Should Try This Open Source Softwareoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
Strava killed its free API, so I built my own fitness platform with Endurain and FitPub insteadoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
Warning about guards scanning driving licences at estates and offices in South Africaoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
Firefox’s free VPN lifts data limit, offers 28 server locationsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
Google Earth’s flight simulator is now available in your browseroriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
How one GPL lawsuit accidentally created the homelab router that changed networking foreveroriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AIoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
Meta Quietly Added Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glassesoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
I tried using Google NotebookLM to generate an overview podcast of my YouTube channeloriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI — Where Is Her Voice Going?original ↗
30 May 2026
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracyoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
MeshCore SAR – The final hurdle has been reached for MeshCoreoriginal ↗
25 May 2026
Putting Aluminium Foil Under Your Wi-Fi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend Itoriginal ↗
24 May 2026
Streamlined my social media posting for GadgeteerZA againoriginal ↗
24 May 2026
The Virtual OS Museum opens its doorsoriginal ↗
24 May 2026
South African app AutoFinders helps people identify problem cars before they buy themoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
8 LEGO 3D printing projects to build this weekendoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
Switched my social media posting from paid Make to self-hosted n8n and Postizoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
MeshCore radio network in Cape Town for off-grid communicationsoriginal ↗
17 May 2026
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badlyoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
With KOReader My ancient Kobo eReader is now better than a new Kindleoriginal ↗
14 May 2026
South African universities developing their own ChatGPTs that better understand local languagesoriginal ↗
10 May 2026
I cut $800 in subscriptions by running free tools on hardware I already ownedoriginal ↗
7 May 2026
My First Meanderings With My Own Locally Hosted AI Toolsoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Google quietly fixed AirPods compatibility with Android, and the LibrePod app is all you needoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
Stop using Cloudflare’s default 1.1.1.1 DNS (changing one digit blocks malware at the router level)original ↗
26 Apr 2026
Stop Guessing if Your Servers are Up: Free VPS Monitoring Guideoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2026
Self-hosted Pinchflat will download YouTube videos or playlists into Jellyfinoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?original ↗
23 Apr 2026
Open-source KOReader is an alternative to the default Kindle interfaceoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
All my GadgeteerZA services statuses are back on Uptime Kumaoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Auditoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
Bitsocial is an Open Source P2P Network for Social Appsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
Instead of upgrading your motherboard you may be able to use your spare PCIe x1 slotoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
Immich Kiosk turns any screen into a photo displayoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
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