Are 200,000 Human Cells in a Petri Dish Really Playing DOOM? Pump the Brakes
200,000 human brain cells playing DOOM. Is that mind-blowing? Well...
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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years
Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.
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New York Moves to Protect Professional Paychecks by Prohibiting LLM Advice on Medical, Legal, and Engineering Questions
New York Senate Bill S7263 is under consideration, and it seeks to prohibit LLMs from dispensing advice on a broad range of topics.
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The New Reality: Blame the Human Engineer, Not the AI
Amazon's AI broke Kiro. But they'd rather blame a human engineer, for rather obvious reasons.
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GoDaddy Doesn't Want You Anymore: Business Users Only Now!
"Our Services are not intended for private, personal or household use" say the new GoDaddy terms of service. Let's talk about why this happened, and what it means.
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Launch Your Personal AI Agent Today! 50% OFF Plans from Hostiger!
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about OpenClaw, an open-source, autonomous AI agent that goes beyond conversation. Hostiger is ready to hook you up with this amazing technology for just $4.99/month!
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That Was a Fun Read! Pondering Cosmological UUIDs
UUIDs are fine for Earth. But what if you need UUIDs that can span the stars?
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AI Fraudster Matt Shumer Wrote "Something Big is Happening" and He Should Be Ashamed
Matt Shumer has been exposed before as a liar and fraud. Yet people are still reading his essays. Why?
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Prompt It Again, Sam: The Three Reasons Microsoft Decided to Ditch OpenAI and Run Its Own Models.
Bad news for OpenAI: its former partner and funding source will instead shortly become a very well-funded competitor.
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"An Extremely Interesting Early Morning": An AI Agent Wrote a Hit Piece Targeting a Developer After Its PR Was Rejected
The developer of a very widely used Python package rejected an AI-authored pull request. The AI agent responded by going into hostile mode and publishing a hit piece about the developer. Welcome to the future.
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Are Tutorials Dead?
With the rise of AIs answering every technical question you've ever had, is there any point to people publishing tutorials any more? Surprisingly, yes.
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LowEndTalk Will Require a Face Scan or ID Verification for Full Access Next Month
I kid, I kid...but this does seem to be a new trend sweeping the interwebs. Last month it was Roblox, and this month it's Discord.
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Are You Running Automated Updates? Fail Back Easily With Proxmox Snapshots! But There's a Catch...
Every patch carries a risk. How can you quickly revert back if you have an issue. In Proxmox and other VM systems, you can use snapshots...thought there's a catch.
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Next Time You Think About Using rsync, Consider rclone Instead to Overcome rsync's Big Limitation
rsync is a fantastic tool. But it has one key weakness that rclone can help you overcome.
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Burned by the notepad++ Hack? Maybe Zed is Your New Editor. It's Free!
Chinese government-sponsored criminals hacked Notepad++. If you're looking for an alternative, you should check out Zed, which is free and quite pleasant to use.
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You Need Biometric Protection For Your Apps
If your iPhone is stolen and the thief has observed your passcode, your digital life could be turned upside down. However, you can protect yourself with recent mobile OS biometric options.
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Is Elon Musk Going to Spy on Starlink Users? What Can They Harvest?
Starlink changed its Terms of Service to allow it to train on customer data. What does that really mean?
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How AI Intermediation Will Wreak Havoc. It Already Is. Here Are Some Examples.
Recently, Tailwinds - makers of the popular CSS framework - announced they were laying off 75% of their engineering staff. In absolute numbers, that's only three people, but for a company that had 8...
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Are You Using All the Cloud Storage You're Paying For? rclone Can Help You Use 100% for Backups!
Are you really using all the cloud storage you're paying for? If you're an O365, iCloud, etc. subscriber, you can use some of that storage for your home and server backups via rclone.
Read MoreDo You Need PrepperDisk, the Off-The-Grid Raspberry Pi-Powered Reference Library?
Do you need 512GB of data to survive a disaster? Maybe not, but it's kind of a cool idea.
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Should You Run FreeBSD in 2026? Maybe, Maybe Not
Let's talk FreeBSD for a moment. Should you run it? There are some pros and cons.
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cPanel Forks CSF (ConfigServer Firewall) and Will Maintain the Product for Its Users
ConfigServer Firewall (CSF) is no more. cPanel has noticed this and decided to pick up maintenance. And probably not much more.
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2026: The Breakthrough Year for Rust
The Rust programming language is coming on strong in 2026, and one key development could see its adoption explode.
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So How Has Dropbox's Buyback Strategy Fared? A Followup to Our March 2025 Article
Dropbox offers a great product that "just works" and I've been a very happy customer since 2008. But how much longer can they survive? An update on our March 2025 article.
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What's Your Prediction for RAM Prices on December 31, 2026?
RAM prices are brutal now. There's a nice site which tracks RAM prices over time, and the chart is a hockey stick on steroids with a side habit of snorting coke.
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Design Your Personal To-Do System Using the Apple Reminders Toolkit (Or Any Other To-Do Management System)
Most to-do management systems are highly opinionated. The specifics of what you need to get done are what you put into it, but how you track those tasks and organize them is within the paradigm presented by the application. Other systems present you with a wide variety of tools and it's up to you to design how the system works. Reminders (and many others) are more toolkit-y. Here's some guidelines on how to use all the features.
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Want to Join the LowEndBoxTV Team? Let's Talk!
LowEndBoxTV is our YouTube channel and we're interested in putting out more great content in 2026. We're looking for talented individuals who can produce engaging videos for our community.
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When Considering a Provider, Be Alert to These Six Red Flags on Their Web Site
I review a lot of offers, and over the years I've learned that some things are just bad signs. My radar isn't 100% (as the community reminds me), but I do filter out a lot of sketchy providers that either aren't ready or aren't professional enough for our community. Here are some things I scrutinize.
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