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BigG

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father, husband, #squash player, heart attack survivor, still overweight, #rugby supporter, and (I think) general nice guy. I love #open-source software and all it stands for. I'm not sure where I stand on the political spectrum. don't like nazis and racists. believe in individual rights. decentralize over centralize. does that make me a liberterian?

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i must admit that I quite like Bruce Springsteen's new song "streets of Minneapolis" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

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So I am reading about the guy in the US who was arrested for wiping his phone before the cops could look at it. Anyone know of a lockscreen type app where if you put in a special code it will wipe all contents without further prompting ? So my normal pin will work, but a special one will wipe the phone ? Possible ?

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so I am going through domestic checking at ORTambo. Go though the luggage scan and then at the end of the scan, the guy wants to do a search of my hand luggage. I ask him what he is looking for... cant tell me. But says it is a Random Search. So I ask again. He says it is Random and they do it with every 10th bag. I tell him that if it is every tenth bag, it's not random. He looks confused. I say, if it is the 10th bad, then the 7th then the 15, then it might be random, but every tenth is NOT random, no matter what his supervisor tells him. Was going to explain PseudoRandom, but then realised.... it's just one of those days....

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Guys... getting old is not fun...

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Hahah... what a chop. Don't come back here buddy. Fokof somewhere else...

South African man who attended Neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament has visa cancelled - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/verify-neo-nazi-rally-participant-visa-revoked/106018130

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No Scotland.... how on earth ? . Massive comeback by the argies though. But Scotland should have taken that....

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I actually support this.

More than 100 organisations unite to demand ban on online gambling in South Africa
https://iol.co.za/mercury/2025-11-09-more-than-100-organisations-unite-to-demand-ban-on-online-gambling-in-south-africa/

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Who knew there was a giant strawberry in George....

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Off to the lovely town of George tomorrow (red eye flight) for a CIO conference. At Fancourt. Fancy place for a pleb like me....

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Mastodon is really turning into a new Twitter or Meta.

Banning anti genocide voices seems to be the new norm as Israel escalating it's extermination of Palestinians in Gaza and occupied west bank.

روزگار غریبی ست نازنین!
(It's a strange times my dear)
(Poem by Ahmad Shamlou about censorship during Shah dictatorship in Iran).

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@faab64 maybe true for your mastodon instance.... it's distributed, so move....

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@faab64 um. No. Read your post. You said mastodon is becoming X because of whatever... I said, that unlike X, you can move to a instance that has different rules. Because it is....wait for it... decentralized. That's all.

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Saw my cardiologist today. Seems I need to um... reduce my circumference.... oh well. So I went for a little walk.... that will show him...

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ok, I may need to get some short term PHP/Laravel skills. Anyone know anyone ?

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@hthiart becoming ?

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saw this at OR Tambo airport, South Africas main international airport a few days ago...... Why not just run then ?

picture of a display running windows in an airport saying the Windows must be activated....
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@pee haha....

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So... fellow 'ns. Any thoughts on the meeting ? Did our guys represent us well ? Were we ambushed ? What do you think the behind doors meeting is going to be like ? And lastly, think is now dead ? @Nonilex

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Are you kidding me ? Is it going to fix the potholes ? The raw sewerage running down the road ? The traffic lights that don't work ? Kak man. Thats where we need to get it sorted.

Joburg mayor eyes AI to boost service delivery | ITWeb
https://www.itweb.co.za/article/joburg-mayor-eyes-ai-to-boost-service-delivery/VgZeyvJl6oaMdjX9