Sylvio Almada Cabral appointed as AFRINIC Board director

AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa. AFRINIC Board consists of nine members, six of whom are elected to represent sub-regions, two are from independent regions and one seat is occupied by the CEO.

Linux Mint partners with Mozilla and makes some changes to the Firefox package it ships with its distribution

I tried to keep the title of this post less ambiguous or misleading as the others that I found in the past two days.

Laravel, how to fetch records created within the month?

This post is about Laravel database queries and date format using Carbon, a PHP API extension for DateTime.

Attila Pinter and Maurizio Galli join the openSUSE Board

The openSUSE Board Election was announced on the project mailing list on the 1st of November 2021. The election concluded on the eve of new year 2022.

openSUSE Board Election 2021 happening right now

It's the time of the year when Ariez, Edwin and myself hold our regular meetings and chats to plan the openSUSE Board Election. This year we had a twist with insufficient nominations.

The decision to end Cloud Innovation Ltd's membership and reclaim number resources

AFRINIC resource member Cloud Innovation Ltd's membership was revoked in July 2021, which prompted the latter to start a serious legal battle against the organisation and leaving AFRINIC unable to access its bank accounts for some months.

My thoughts on the Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Bill

TL;DR — Downloading movies, music and pirated software becomes a crime under this Bill. Failing to moderate online content will also become a crime. Service providers can be compelled to provide access to data and forced not disclose anything. Want to know more then read on!

CERT-MU issues Security Alert against Netflix's Squid Game

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Mauritius (CERT-MU) which operates under the patronage of the National Computer Board issued a security alert against the Netflix series Squid Game on 14 October 2021.

AFRINIC regains access to its banks accounts

A legal battle has been going on for months between AFRINIC and one of its resource members, Cloud Innovation Ltd. The latter has initiated several cases against AFRINIC. In one of them it requested the Court to freeze AFRINIC's bank accounts.