Guy Halse

@Leon_Schreib @Leon_Schreib practice on the ground contradicts this. In 2024, my 16 year old daughter, a South African citizen by birth, was turned away by @HomeAffairsSA in Wynberg and to apply for a green barcoded ID book in Belleville. Lost two days of school as a result.

This article has been updated after the Deputy Minister was misquoted in the original. Home Affairs will work flat-out this year to ensure that all South Africans are able to obtain Smart IDs as part of our vision to deliver 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 @ 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, including by expanding our existing cooperation with banks, introducing home deliveries, making Smart ID available to all citizens, and launching new online channels as part of our vision for digital transformation. But it is only after this has been achieved, that we will make an official announcement on the phasing out of the green ID book. In the meantime, if you are able to, please do get a Smart ID to protect yourself from the vulnerabilities of the green ID book.

@BusinessTechSA Waiting for @Leon_Schreib and @HomeAffairsSA to tell us when permanent residents will be able to replace their green ID books? Or my 16 year old (a SA citizen) who was forced to get apply for a green ID book last month...

Home Affairs warns people with green ID books businesstech.co.za/news/governmen…

@mybroadband Waiting for @Leon_Schreib and @HomeAffairsSA to tell us when permanent residents be able to replace their green ID books?

South Africans must say goodbye to the green ID book The Department of Home Affairs is on a quest to eradicate the green bar-coded ID. mybroadband.co.za/news/security/…

You think you want more Mbit/s, but what you really want is lower latency

@c4talyst You see this in protests all the time. It has been a hallmark of university protests for years. I didn't understand it either, until I realised what happens with a contempt charge.

I don't get it. This basically says "follow the law" ?

"A stage built for communist propaganda repurposed for science and free thinking" - powerful reflections of the past, present and future at #TNC23 @TNC

The @tenetnews office duckie has travelled a long way🇿🇦🇦🇱, and is eager for the opening session of @TNC_GEANT #TNC23

@GrahamBeneke @woodyatpch I'll see if I've got a backup of its webpage floating about :)

@woodyatpch @GuyHalse can you help with GINX? The online record is almost completely gone

Hey, PCH has been supporting a couple of historian-of-technology / archivist folks to build an indexed public archive of primary sources relating to the establishment of early IXPs. It’s all going into the Internet Archive, and a couple of other public archives, so anyone will be able to refer to it in the future. We’ve had quite a bit of help from folks who were participating at the time, but more sources and participation always makes for a better result, so I’m soliciting all of you who may have old emails or meeting transcripts or other documents, or know where there are public records or press clippings that pertain to early IXPs. The project is mostly starting with the 1992-1996 timeframe, but there are “early IXPs” in every region… for instance, IXPs started reaching the Caribbean mostly in 2011-2015. Eventually we’d like to see documentation of the establishment of every IXP, if interest in the project continues. So, if any of you are able to help, please contact me, and I’ll put you in touch. I really appreciate any help or information anyone can put toward this project.

It is official! @eduroam is now available in all @AirportsZA airports in South Africa. This means free Internet for staff and students of most universities and research institutions: bit.ly/3V4N6Sx #love2eduroam

Did @TwitterEng forget they had HTST public key pins in Chrome, Edge & Firefox? The certificate they're currently presenting me (crt.sh/?id=8984959622) produces pinning errors in all three, meaning I cannot log in. @TwitterSupport

TENET wishes to clarify that it is not related to "Tenet Technology" and is not involved in the provision of the @myNSFAS NSFAS bank account. Full statement at tenet.ac.za/news/202302-te…

"Hey students! With eduroam, you get free, secure Wi-Fi access at any participating institution with your home uni's login. No more guest accounts or separate logins! Stay connected as you explore new places & collaborate worldwide. #eduroam #campuslife" -- ChatGPT on @eduroam

@HomeAffairsSA One of the eHomeAffairs booking problems is because of a rookie code error in a javascript library. That it got past QA & CI means we should be very worried about @HomeAffairsSA's IT systems. It's not been noticed and hot-fixed in months. Has the web server been patched? 😳

#DHAServiceDelivery means branch bookings in eHomeAffairs not working for months; call centres not answering; "advice" that's just wrong; and having to take 3 children out of school and 2 adults from work to queue for hours because nothing works. @HomeAffairsSA #WarOnQueues #fail

Found @eduroam at an airport recently? For those who're travelling in #SouthAfrica this holiday season, you can #love2eduroam at @ortambo_int and @capetownint airports. We're running a limited pilot in conjunction with @Airports_ZA until 16 Jan.

@zhangbohengs There's @eduroam in more than a hundred countries around the world ;-)

THERES EDUROAM IN NYC??? i didn’t realise it was an international wifi wow

Good to see Duncan Greaves' (@tenetnews CEO) NREN maturity model getting a mention at @UbuntuNet #UC2022.

"NRENs are a national asset" from Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia of @RENATERnews at the closing plenary of @Ubuntunet #UC2022

Insightful keynote from Kostas Glinos: the current system of assessing academics and research based on papers published rewards the wrong behaviour; we need reform. #UC2022 @UbuntuNet

Day two of the @UbuntuNet #UC2022 conference in Botswana. Such lovely surroundings. Looking forward to some fruitful discussions.