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We (my wife Kay, our little dog Coco, and myself) have been living on board our 31 foot (9.4 meter) sailboat for two months now. We are currently still moored at Hout Bay Yacht Club (HBYC) in Hout Bay but … Continued

IPFS is pretty cool, not just the name: InterPlanetary FileSystem. I’ve been running it on my laptop and have my current “captain” profile pic on it: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdSed6ZEMGziKcBqxRzCznxNFqjcLSrot8E7qZWTyGs1H?filename=captain.jpeg

I’ve got a Lightning node running on Umbrel and am in the process of opening channels to other nodes. If you happen to have a node running and want to open an channel to me, here are my details: 0286ff2f5fe0280ed16a37d69e98817a623b5a3254e98e89099f4314bc99626ab5(at)d5htdhahd5d4nrkpeecgre6k63le4y3wkhywrdrf6mvboresgvql4ead.onion:9735 … Continued

I recently tried to figure out when I first heard of Bitcoin and when I bought my first BTC. Luckily I have been keeping this blog for quite a while and have this post from 2010 where I announced I … Continued

How hackers are getting access to 1000s of Telegram accounts

Daily Maverick: Fact-checking the Independent group’s reporting on the PIC report. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-12-fact-checking-the-independent-groups-reporting-on-the-pic-report/ Spoiler alert : the articles are very far from the truth!

https://www.capetownetc.com/cape-town/cape-town-to-plant-5-000-spekboom/

https://gizmodo.com/mother-of-all-breaches-exposes-773-million-emails-21-m-1831833456