madlodlombe

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   by madlodlombe 7y ago

   Yup, in Africa China built and bugged (allegedly - China and the AU denied) the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/30/china-african-...
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   by madlodlombe 7y ago

   Not so secretive, in recent history VASTech (based in Stellenbosch's Technopark) were known to be supplying Gadaffi's Libya with telephone surveillance tech. [0] Didn't know about the precursor tech being developed in Stellen
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   by madlodlombe 8y ago

   on linux opencv uses ffmpeg to videos iirc, i needed to install the gstreamer ffmpeg plugin (gst-libav on arch) and then it handled whatever format i threw at it (including mp4), although i used the python bindings if that makes any differe