I’ve noticed an increase in Facebook quizes in my feed the past few weeks. They are typically shared by the extremely active facebook “friends” and even appear as “suggested for you” posts or “sponsored” posts in my timeline. The problem with these are that they almost always invite you to overshare information on social media….
Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University Apple recently launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant’s privacy credentials. But iOS 14.5 also introduced support for the new Apple AirTag, which risks doing the opposite. For the uninitiated, an AirTag is a small…
The Kariba Dam, a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that hopes renewable energy technologies will help to address their energy problems. About 42% of Zimbabwe’s households are connected to the electricity grid….
In the about page of this site I said that I will make bi-annual posts on this site. This hasn’t really happened. The site was hosted on shared hosting at very large provider and over time their service has progressively become worse, to the point that the hosting was not useable anymore. I also had some…
For about a month ads appeared in my Facebook timeline trying to sell alternative energy solutions. They pushed the Tesla Powerwall as a good solution because it is “pretty”. For a technical person “pretty” is very low on the list of reasons why you will buy something that will be bolted onto your garage wall….