And both feature large booms during the day. Kyiv, due to incessant Russian attacks; #capetown because of a terrible tradition known as the ‘noon gun,’ which has fired off a cannon at midday since 1806.
One of my kind guides in the city of #CapeTown was Dzvinka Kachur, one of more than 1,000 Ukrainians now living in #southafrica according to the #Ukrainian embassy. Another study had the number as high as 6,663 in 2019.
So the slow down now is the lady folding the ballots & stamping them. Long wait for her to slowly fold each one. Why is no one helping her? Multiple people standing around! #southafrica#voting#capetown
Well 2hrs and counting at my voting station! One of the 'machines' wasnt working... but its been moving quicker now that 'it came back up'. #capetown#southafrica
At devconf in #CapeTown today looking forward to talk about the wonderful things our kids and mentors do, and celebrating the WTC World Champions from here in Pinelands. #codeclub#coderdojo#space#robots#education
Quite enjoy my daily photo cull on whatever today's date is - ends up reminding me of good times past. Here I am on my first arvo in Cape Town, South Africa, on 30 April 2018.
And this set of power points was in my Cape Town hotel room. Was quite excited by the weird one on the far left, as I had an adapter for it which I'd never used up till then!
LilyGo T-Echo license-free radio arrived today. Love that it has a screen to see range and direction to nearby radios, as well as incoming text messages. Can't wait to go walk in the forest and test out whether I can connect to any other #Meshtastic radios across #CapeTown and surrounds.
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Quote from the Joy Map:
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“My trans Joy moment has been knowing that so many of my colleagues accept me and want to be better humans for the young people in our care, and the greater world in gender <3”
So I took my newly bought #meshtastic device to the nearby highest hill overlooking the whole city of Poznań and... nothing. No one else was on the network. That is disappointing to say the least.
I think I'll try now with a slightly larger antenna, and then I'll go to the city and try again.
Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours
Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town.
We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can buy these cheap (ish) devices and ge ...continues