Cape Townians (and others), how are you doing in this storm?
1mon 7d ago in southafrica@piefed.socialTree down across R44 heading North into Stellenbosch:
‘Dangerous and unlawful’: Malema sentenced to five years over Mdantsane firearm incident
2mon 2d ago in southafrica@piefed.social from www.dailymaverick.co.za
Permanently Deleted
2mon 23d ago in microblogmemesOh, it's in the title of the post, not the post itself. Took me a while to scroll all the way up.
The Viljoens — from ‘Real Housewives fame’ in SA to US ‘shoplifting’ bubbly
3mon 6d ago in southafrica@piefed.social from www.dailymaverick.co.za
Spliit – Open-source, self-hostable alternative to Splitwise
4mon 25d ago in selfhosted from sh.itjust.worksIt's an app that helps you split bills with other people. Quite helpful if you have a lift club or shared accommodation.
For example, if Person A, B and C all buy $10, $20 and $30 groceries for the house, it will calculate who owes how much and to whom. Throw in extra bits like Person A borrowing $5 from Person B and it starts getting complex.
Suspended IDT CEO, spokesperson offer Daily Maverick journalist R60K in cash to quash investigation
10mon 15d ago in southafrica@piefed.social from www.dailymaverick.co.za
Why is the IEC exploring e-voting — and will it be implemented in SA?
1y 3mon ago in southafrica from www.dailymaverick.co.zaYeah, last election was a disaster. We queued for 3.5 hours before voting. Left at 19:00 and the queue was even longer than when we started.
I sincerely hope this never gets off the ground. I think Tom Scott said it best.
Extreme poverty dropped from 44% of the global population in 1981 to just 9% in 2019.
1y 3mon ago in optimistsunite@reddthat.com from feddit.orgThey actually did adjust for inflation.
We study poverty in the now-conventional sense of living on less than $2.15 per day in 2017 PPP dollars (World Bank, 2023), using both consumption- and income-based measures as available.
1 These rates are based on the $2.15 2017 PPP poverty line (Chen and Ravallion, 2010; World Bank, 2023). See https://pip.worldbank.org/
https://vincentarmentano.com/research/hpf/howpovertyfell.pdf(Bottom of 2nd page)
GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser
1y 3mon ago in technology from github.comI can't see anything about this on DuckDuckGo. Do you have a link?
Trump’s Afrikaner refugees could be in for a long wait — if previous US policies apply
1y 3mon ago in southafrica from www.dailymaverick.co.za