Ian Gilfillan

Before, you are wise, after, you are wise. In between, you are otherwise. @[email protected]

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

Latest African language Wikipedia update: https://t.co/7pjXOwylz1
(Image from Wikimedia Commons) #wikimania2025 #wikimania

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@caryndolley Do you have a source where I can get hold of an epub for reading on an e-reader besides Amazon's Kindle? Amazon attempts to lock one in to their proprietary format.

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

October 2024 African language Wikipedia update: https://t.co/jRkK5sDyly #wikipedia #wikimedia #wikiindaba2024 #africa #language (please post any replies on the blog or https://t.co/7agXixny8k -I'm not active here)

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@atkinsmike1 In 2019, Al Jama-ah won a seat with 31,468. This matches your ~60,000. What about independents? Zackie Achmat's site says "Zackie needs 86 000 votes to win a seat in Parliament". Even reducing to 60,000, he has to get this from a single regional ballot only, which is ludicrous.

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

An encounter with an Uber driver: https://t.co/eG1dRLfjCF #uber #capetown

[Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0]

Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

[MariaDB Foundation @mariadb_org]

Help us redesign the https://t.co/pvR2JBV4LK website, with 10-15 minutes of your time: https://t.co/bXYtU9sT7H

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@rehomingcarlos @CherylBlom @MultiCoalition I believe it's 2 members from outside the National Assembly, not two members from other political parties:
https://t.co/z9fijMJT6f

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@JemsFlow Thanks for the compliment. I wrote it in the pre-social media days, and have never been particularly active.

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

Happy to see more police than protesters at Dudula's appearance in Mouille Point. Interesting to see Dudula on their Twitter account also supportive of the UK fascist group Britain First, who claim the term "racism" was "invented by a communist mass murderer"

[Sam @samwightt]

So I think @zulip is the solution for all the problems I've got with free Slack for the community orgs I work with.

The problems with free Slack:
- Only 90 days message history
- The more channels you have, the worse it is.
- Thread discover is shit.

And Zulip solves all that.

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

Grr, linked to wrong post. This is the right one: https://t.co/qfgYKKofrD

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

South Africa shows a noticeable improvement in its results in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index https://t.co/ltwxrFJ2fq

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@RSAWEB @TheLukeHackney Yes, in Mouille Point (Octotel), it's sporadically up and down

[Gemma Ritchie @RichGemma]

Last week we launched our audit tracker. It has the audit opinions on every South African municipality since 2010: https://t.co/VRa9tMjRRW

Mamusa Local Municipality in North West got disclaimed audits (the worst opinion) for 11 years in a row. Fortunately, it's the only one.

[MariaDB Foundation @mariadb_org]

https://t.co/FpKZxAc2NJ: FOSDEM 2023: MariaDB Reflections https://t.co/SjePS07kpu

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

I found this entertaining presentation, Legacy Cities, on an instance of the extinct elephant site that Twitter does not permit to be named: https://t.co/XrjdowfJTa Perhaps @urbanjodi and other urbanists will enjoy

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@NewStreetsSA Cape Town used to have trams (my great grandfather was apparently involved in setting them up), but would be a tough ask to bring them back: https://t.co/MyAldsv2qW

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@gussilber If you're still there, what is your handle?

[Ian Gilfillan @pipeweed]

@gussilber Personally I find it far more satisfying. If Mastodon is heaven, Twitter is Hades. Give me some calm conversation rather than the constant shrieking of thousands of creatures from the underworld. https://t.co/GNVDKpEKoG is a decent guide, especially around Twitter differences.