Craig Nicholson

@MyJRA @Parkhurst_JHB @iloveparkhurst @PotholeWarriors @PotholesInBlog @CityofJoburgZA guys three craters and holes in victory road over a year please fix victory road parkhrust thanx

Should South African medical aids be POPIA compliant or is it acceptable to provide access to online health services that are only GDPR compliant? What is the impact on data sovereignty, protection of patient rights and cross-border transfers? #privacy #legal #GDPR #POPIA

Why do mobile app providers like @medisafeapp so greedy? I’ve been a long time user of the Medisafe app. At first it was free to use and then they introduced premium features and added a subscription model. Great. The basic medication tracking and reminders functionality remained functional. However they have now introduced a monthly subscription model ONLY for non-US users. And here lies the issue. Offer something for free for MANY years and then try force all users to pay for a premium set of features they don’t want. No option to pay once off for basic features. As soon as you open the app you are presented with a subscription pay wall with no access to any of your data. And they claim to allow you to export your data, however the app feature doesn’t work. I don’t mind paying my dues but I won’t be extorted to access my own data.

@flexiclub your website is broken once again. Unable to search for holidays or logon to use expiring points. And you have conveniently closed early today.

@effectuator @GFS_Care It would appear that way. It would appear to be a stock reply from their bot.

@GFS_Care @CraigN The illusion of a response for observers?

If you ever order off Temu and they send it via GFS Express, you might as well just forget your order. My orders were packed in one parcel and arrived in JNB on the 17th Dec. It’s been status of out for delivery since the 20th. Nothing. I called them. Was told my parcel is sitting in Soweto and no plan could be shared when it would be delivered. This was Christmas gifts scheduled to arrived latest on the 22nd and 24th respectively. Nothing from GFS Express. Temu you need to drop them. They’re a scam. @shoptemu @temu_africa @GFS_Care @gfs_za

@GFS_Care Sorry what private messages? I’ve heard nothing from GFS Express directly. Additionally your agent in South Africa rudely put the phone down on me when I called and asked to speak to a manager.

@CraigN Communication was made via private messages.. Thank you for contacting us, have a nice day 🙏

I like EF Core but I don’t like breaking changes on version upgrades. It’s good for small scale databases. Dapper gives me more control of the query itself. If you know the backend you can craft some powerful queries. Also a lot easier to debug the query as you don’t need to capture a query at runtime. I can honestly say that I hate NHibernate.

What is your preference, EF Core or Dapper? (SQL is inline, but could be a stored proc)

Coming up in next weeks podcast episode, Khobe's health Sanctuary is talking about Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (HEDS) vt.tiktok.com/ZSUaWNpP8/ @rarediseasessa #heds #EDS

It’s time to cancel my Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. 1. No cloud gaming support for South Africa. 2. No rewards programme support for South Africa. 3. A 75% price hike from R199 to R349 per month to maintain status quo. 4. No annual subscription discount option anymore. As the first Microsoft Xbox MVP for Africa I feel that Microsoft and Xbox are willing to destroy Xbox gaming in South Africa after all the work we put in to build it. And not a peep from @XboxZA about it. So looks like there will be no Call of Duty Black Ops 7 for me this year as I’m not paying R3167 (R139x12 + R1499) - R4188 (R349x12) to play it for a year. @XboxP3

While this might be great for markets that have reward points, some markets do not. So thank you for not thinking about all of us. @Xbox @XboxZA @XboxGamePass

In terms of online stores I think @PetHeavenSA must be one of the worst run businesses in the country. I placed an order for cat food on the 9th. Express delivery scheduled for the 10th. Turns on 2 of the 3 items were not available in their warehouse so they decided not to delivery the in stock item until the 11th after I had to escalate the matter. The website still reported delivery occurring on the 10th. The remainder would be in the warehouse the 12th. So after no delivery by the 13th I ask and get told on the 16th it will be delivered on the 18th as the latest. So today it’s dispatched and they don’t use a priority or express delivery service, no they send it using Wumdrop and the driver forgets to do the delivery. It would be useful if they actually cared about their customers and took pride in their “express delivery” service. And this was all under the watchful eye of their customer service manager. #pathetic #petheaven #wumdrop

Kudos to the FNB online shop. Ordered something this morning from the iStore using e-Bucks and was pleasantly surprised that it delivered before my Takealot order from 2 days ago that was available for same day delivery but I missed the chance to order by 2 mins. FNB just needs to improve their store app experience.

@SheBeeGee For sure

Hello twirrah. Is this thing still on?

You might know her from YouTube as Physics Girl. Her story, while sad, is amazing. People need to try and understand that it can happen to anyone. @rarediseasessa #LongCovid

On behalf of the DA, I would like to formally extend our deepest condolences to the friends and family of a great South African, Douglas Gibson. As we carry on the fight he so long waged, for a better South Africa, we will strive to honour his memory.

The original @GearsofWar returns. Gears of War: Reloaded drops August 26 in @XboxGamePass With Xbox Play Anywhere, relive the fight across Xbox Consoles, Xbox PC, or stream it with Cloud Gaming in Game Pass—wherever you play, Delta Squad is back. See more: xbx.lv/4jXAtUu

@NickdeBruyne Easy fix. Order cheap replacement cushions from Temu. share.temu.com/DBu8Aij6tvA

This first happened to my Xbox Wireless headset and now to my wife’s, and it goes from being fine to falling apart really fast. This is a real shame because the headset is very decent in most ways.