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Today is World Kindness Day. As stated on Wikipedia, “World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us.” Now that word bind is particularly meaningful to use in a technical way - when a remote computer connects to another computer over a network, whether peer-to-peer or a server, one way to state what happens is “binding to their socket port”. [Read More]

Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) organized by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) took place in September 26-29, 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The first two days - the 26th and 27th of September - were invite only. The rest of the days - 28th and 29th of September - were meant for all the other participating attendees. [Read More]