Tanzania’s Privacy Law Has Moved From Paper to Registration and Enforcement
Tanzania's privacy regime is no longer a statute waiting for machinery. Its commission is operational, registration is live and enforcement has begun.
Error “Group(s) not found: ui (via –with)” installing PrivateGPT 0.4 on WSL
Note: the below assumes you already have followed any other guide, but you have gotten an error up to that point. The below will pick up directly where you left off in the your original guide. As of a few…
Automatic Subtitle creation and translation (to English) with OpenAI’s Whisper
I’ve been having the issue over the last decades that the available subtitles from the well known sites are quite often not suitable for the videos that I have saved locally. Often downloaded videos, especially from YouTube, don’t have sub-titles,…
Automate downloading of Youtube Channels with YT-DLP and PowerShell
Script Update 12-04-2025 due to Chrome cookie changes (Changed to Firefox) and YT-DLP changes. Watching or listening to Youtube playlists can be very frustrating with all the ads that are being thrown at you and this seems to have gotten…
Nigeria’s 2024 Cybercrime Amendment Is More Than a Cybersecurity Levy
Nigeria's 2024 cybercrime amendment is usually discussed as a levy story, but its deeper effects reach traffic retention, sectoral monitoring and enforcement architecture.
Africa Has a Digital Trade Protocol. The Compliance Challenge Is Continental.
The AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol sets a shared direction for data flows, privacy, cybersecurity, digital identity and electronic trade across Africa.
The Digital Services Act Is an Incident-Response Framework for Platforms
The Digital Services Act, applicable from 17 February 2024, regulates intermediary services within the EU, imposing varying obligations based on service type and size. It mandates effective notice, classification, and moderation workflows while ensuring transparency in automated decision-making. Large platforms are held to higher standards, requiring systemic risk assessments and accountability measures.
Malawi Has a Data Protection Law. Compliance Now Has a Regulator.
Malawi's 2024 Data Protection Act has moved privacy compliance onto a statutory footing and given the national regulator real investigative and corrective work.
Re-Encode h264/x264 to h265 without noticeable quality loss with PowerShell and FFmpeg
Over the years I’ve gathered a lot of videos from various sources. Some of these are uncompressed and take up various gigabytes of space, each! Even though storage is getting cheaper, I don’t really want to spend €200,- (each) for…
Puerto Rico Turned Government Cybersecurity Into a Legal Operating Model
Puerto Rico's Law 40-2024 creates a government CISO, an incident office and mandatory security controls across agencies, municipalities and suppliers.
The SEC’s Four-Business-Day Cyber Disclosure Clock Starts After Materiality
US public companies do not receive four days to investigate every cyber incident. They generally receive four business days after determining that an incident is material. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s cybersecurity disclosure rules changed the way public companies connect…
Install Private-GPT 0.2 on Windows Server 2019/2022
Total time is about 30min, depending on your hardware and internet connection. This will install PrivateGPT on a Windows 2019/2022 machine and run everything (including the LLMs) locally. After installation, no further Internet connection required for most operations.