SapphironZA
@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 6 days ago:
Its a pebble
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
theregister.com/…/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/
Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
Agree, he is not taking a principled stance. He is playing the “I am being oppressed because of my race” card, despite his extensive privilege.
One correction, it’s not the state that officially takes ownership, it’s politically connected private individuals who get the ownership. The public gets zero benefit.
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
I agree with you that he is being a racist asshole about it. He is emphasizing the race part of the legislation over the bribe part of it, because that is more politically useful to him.
It does not make the legislation less problematic. The ANC is begging the world to invest in the country, but not because that is what the country needs, but because it feeds the state mandated corruption.
Both parties are in the wrong here.
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
You never learned about the robber Barons of the 1880’s in school did you?
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
Only net neutrality and a ban on exclusivity agreements are required. Otherwise you get the US internet hellscape of local monopolies.
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BBBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements.
For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist and operator, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences.
It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.
BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.
So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.
So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.
I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.
- Comment on Poor guy 4 weeks ago:
We have an Island for people like him. It’s small, windswept, covered in bird and penguin poop. Civilization and freedom is close enough to see and swim for, but it is surrounded by great white sharks.
But we stopped sending people to Robben Island, instead of sending the right types of people there.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Come on, Call of Duty is not that old! /s
The problem is people keep buying new versions of the same games released around 2000.
- Comment on duality of human 1 month ago:
1 hrs and 0.1hrs played.
Best to ignore both.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
I would think that farmers were experienced and smart enough to know which crops would hybridize and which don’t. They would not need the clergy to tell them that.
We don’t see farmers today getting farming advice from the church. They get it from other farmers. I don’t see any reason for it to be different back then.
I do see however that the church wanted to sound important and wise. So they wrote things down, but without having a full understanding, so a lot of the advice they wrote down is too simplistic.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
Or some priest or political leader took revenge against a pig farmer who slept with his daughter.
And the mixed crops this was more likely to make sure farmers are not self sufficient.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
Agree 100%
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
Money has been the point of religion for a very long time.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
This is probably my favourite metal flashdrive of all time. I had a 1GB of the first generation and then later another usb3 one of 32GB
These days I carry one of these on my keychain. Image
Surprisingly fast given the size. Will do 300MB/s sequential read. About 90MB/s write
I use medicat/ventoy on it with windows 11 , debian and linux mint ISOs on it.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
One of these took me through university in 2002
I really miss the hardware read only switch.
Computer labs did not have front USB back in those days, so we had to choose between floppies or diving under the desks. I was in the diver club.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Or be broken up.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Yes, it’s in your brain.
- Comment on risky abbreviations 5 months ago:
Correction, he should absolutely call it that.
- Comment on Gender 5 months ago:
404, sense of humor not found?
- Comment on Gender 5 months ago:
Woven core rope memory for me
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 5 months ago:
Prosthetics that are no longer supported, should be fully open sourced.And the copyright should immediately expire.
Support your products, or let others do it.
