@c4talyst

I work at @EskomSePush âš¡

 Cape Town, South Africa
danwells.co.za
Joined April 2009
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Using PHP allows you to support a hacker culture, and being hacked
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One compromised intermediate CA somewhere in the world and suddenly your Wednesday turns into hunting down ca-certificates across 14 Dockerfiles and questioning whether your serverless runtimes even know what trust is.
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tuckner
@tucknerOct 21
Just used LiteLLM to create my first PHP website. The AI even suggested getting a certificate from eMudhra for HTTPS to protect my login page. The future looks really bright 🥳
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Been there, done that
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⊹ damir@otomir23Oct 20
a trusted intermediate CA just "leaked" (the private key was 4)
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Did someone flip the idiot switch on Gemini 3.8 Flash today? It's been driving me mental!
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Thanks for the 6AM wake up, SAAF
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Whenever I hear "winners know when to stop", I think of the phrase "rehab is for quitters" Gambling is such a problem in South Africa, and the media is pushing all the adverts because they need the dirty money to survive. It's the bloody shame.
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Was pretty productive while at @pyconza 2026 using my shed Client: MBP M1 Pro 16gb entry level, iterm2, vscode, chrome, tailscale. Amazing battery life on this ~4.5 year old machine. Shed: herdr, port forwards, oh-my-pi, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 13900k 64gb 4090 🔥
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Power is off in 13 areas around Die Hoewes. Is yours off too? Check ESP: esp.info/incident/power-outa…

Power outage in 13 areas around Die Hoewes – 15 October 2026 | ESP

Started 15 Oct at 19:10. 13 areas reported off. Check live updates.

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1155 people reporting their power out The numbers always blow my mind 🤯
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Dean Wingrin@deanwingrinOct 15
Capetonians! There will be some loud noise in the sky above Cape Town and the West Coast for the next week, as two 2 Sqn Gripen jets of the SAAF take part in Exercise IBSAMAR IX, between the navies of South Africa, Brazil and India. Please watch your pets. 📷 Sebastian Horrell
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Back at #PyconZA 2026!
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Sponsoring this year - thanks @EskomSePush
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I'm running a production migration playbook with Gemini 3.8 Flash Ah good times
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Reverse engineering your Healthcare Insurance App so that you can find out why it's running in the background Playing in github.com/morluto/rea is sure going to be fun
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I only did this, after I contacted them directly informing them about a potential bug: their CS would not take the request without my policy and ID number. So here we are.
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Yes! Installed 👀 waiting very patiently for arch to install
Derek Ross
@derekmrossOct 11
Smartphones (pocket computers) will never be the same again. This is wild and I love it. My mind is racing at the possibilities.
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SA’s Presidential One Billion Trees Campaign update: • Planted so far: 7M trees (0.7% of target) • 5-year projection at current pace: 70M trees (7%) • Time needed at current rate: ~71 years • Scaling required: 16x acceleration (~18.4M trees/mo needed) 993M left to go. 🌳🇿🇦
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦
@CyrilRamaphosaOct 6
Since April this year, more than seven million trees have been planted across all provinces under the Presidential One Billion Trees Campaign. More than two million trees have been planted in the Western Cape alone, with more than one million trees in each of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.   🔗 bit.ly/4jArpbe
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