LowEndTalk community member @jimaek (previous interview here) is giving away 20 of Globalping’s hardware probes, now through December 5, 2022.
If you’re not familiar with Globalping, it’s a project from the folks who brought you jsdelivr. You can read more about it in the LowEndTalk thread by @jimaek (also in our previous coverage, or on their GitHub page). There’s hardware involved, and here’s what their probes look like:
Check out the giveaway thread on LowEndTalk. Contest is open worldwide but closes on December 5, 2022 so read the thread and enter ASAP. Good luck!
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