South Africa’s Cloud-First Policy Comes With a Data-Sovereignty Warning
South Africa's final National Data and Cloud Policy promotes cloud-first government, but its security, sovereignty and implementation choices deserve equal attention.
Rob Nidschelm
Tech tinkerer who spends too much time with home labs and Docker stacks. Into AI, Roman & Medieval history, and all things sci-fi. Avid traveller, reader and writer, with a passion for good food.
France’s SREN Law Regulates Cloud Lock-In
France’s SREN law treats cloud exit as a market rule: switching fees, portability, interoperability and contract transparency are no longer matters that customers can safely postpone until migration day. Law 2024-449 on securing and regulating the digital space was published…
eIDAS 2.0 Changes Europe’s Identity Architecture
The European Digital Identity Framework is not simply a government login application. It creates a cross-border trust architecture for wallets, credentials and the organisations that request them. Regulation (EU) 2024/1183—the updated eIDAS framework—applied from 20 May 2024. It requires Member…
EpicInstaller on Windows Server 2022/2025 and Windows 10/11 (error 2738)
Since Microsoft deprecated vbscript.dll in October 2023, several installations, including the Epic Installer, have encountered significant issues. Users attempting to install the Epic Installer are frequently met with the error message: “The error code is 2738”. This error is particularly…
Brazil’s LGPD Breach Rule Turns ‘Reasonable Time’ Into Three Business Days
Brazil’s data-protection authority has replaced an open-ended breach-notification standard with a defined three-business-day clock and a detailed test for deciding which incidents must be reported. Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, or LGPD, has always required controllers to communicate…
Britain’s Smart-Device Security Law Turns Basic Hygiene Into a Product Requirement
From 29 April 2024, consumer connectable products placed on the UK market became subject to three deceptively simple security requirements. The difficult part is proving that the whole supply chain meets them. The United Kingdom’s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure…
Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Starts With a Three-Hour Alert
Chile’s Cybersecurity Framework Law creates a national regulator, defines essential services and requires an early incident alert within three hours. That first message is designed for speed, not forensic certainty. Chile published Law No. 21.663, the Cybersecurity Framework Law, on…
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,…