🌐Weekly News Digest on West & Central Africa’s Mineral Industries [ October 27 – November 3 ]
The week was rich in ministerial rearrangements and efforts to rein in major mining companies.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🏦Afreximbank
- Afreximbank's New Chair Announced Support For Domestic Mineral Processing
🇦🇴Angola
- Angola Plans to Give Shell Exclusive Rights
🇨🇩DR Congo
- The DRC Arranged For $660M of Guarantees From UK Export Finance
🇬🇭Ghana
- Ghana to Decentralize Gold Licensing
- Ghana to Launch Comprehensive Review of Major Miners
🇱🇷 Liberia
- Liberia's President Replaced Mines Minister to Attract American Investments
🇲🇱Mali
- World Bank's Arbitration Court Refused to Fast-Track Barrick vs Mali
🇳🇦Namibia
- Namibian President Dismissed the Minister of Mines and Assumed the Post Herself
🇳🇪Niger
- Niger Forced China's Oil Giant to Hire More Locals
🇳🇬Nigeria
- Nigeria Tries Again to Revitalize Its Aliminium Smelter
- Nigeria Imposed Additinal 15% Tax on Fuel Imports
🇹🇿 Tanzania
- Post-election Unrest Disrupted Shipments Through Dar es Salaam Port
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Nextcloud now offers AI integration for your Nextcloud server. Apps aren't installed by default, except Smart Mail, Background Images & Sus Login.
AI comes with risk, so #Nextcloud rates their #AI apps at 4 levels, based on 3 conditions.
Conditions
1. Is it open source?
2. is the trained model free for self-hosting?
3. is the training data available and free to use?
Rating levels
🟢 = All condition met
🟡 = 2 conditions met
🟠 = 1 condition met
🔴 = 0 conditions met
The AI apps are listed
below w/their ratings.
👇
IMAGE GENERATION
🟡Online StableDiffusion
🟡Self-Hosted StableDiffusion
🔴Online DALL-E 2
TEXT GENERATION
🟡LocalAI
🔴ChatGPT
SPEECH-2-TEXT DICTATION
🟢OpenAI Whisper
🟡External Whisper
SPEECH-2-TEXT TRANSCRIPTION
🟢OpenAI Whisper
🟢LocalAI
SMART INBOX
🟢 Built-In
(can be disabled in low-left settings)
FACE/OBJECT RECOGNITION
🟢Recognize
BACKGROUND IMAGES/BLUR
🟢 Built-In
TRANSLATION
🟢Opus
🟢LibreTranslate
🔴DeepL
SUSPICIOUS LOGIN
🟢 Built-In
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You can log and track the phone locations of your family and friends in complete privacy, using your Nextcloud server.
To do this you need to install the Nextcloud PhoneTrack App on your Nextcloud server, and the Android PhoneTrack App on every DeGoogled phone you want to track.
The F-Droid version is old and buggy.
To get the newer Dev Android version, you:
1. Go to the PhoneTrack Dev GitLab page, scroll down and click the "APK Direct Download" link
2. At top "Pipeline" option, click the Download arrow and select "AssembleDevDebug:archive"
3. This downloads a zip file. Extract the zip and install the APK.
CONNECT ALL PHONES AND TRACK
4. On Nextcloud create a dedicated account for PhoneTracking.
5. Create a PhoneTrack "Session" in the Nextcloud PhoneTrack app.
6. Sign each phone into the Nextcloud PhoneTrack account, and on the phone, add a "PhoneTrack log job" to the Session on Nextcloud.
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