Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced they are acquiring popular online design tool Figma for $20 billion (yes, you read that correctly) in order to bury it in the same mass grave alongside the bodies of Fireworks, Coldfusion, Flash, and others (I forgot they owned Magento). Of course, Adobe is saying this is a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma which will (get this) "usher in a new era of collaborative creativi...
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Like many readers, I've "beaten" a variety of computer games over the years, from 4X strategy games (Civilization VI, Master of Orion) to role-playing games (Fallout, Skyrim) to everything in between....
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Vultr is tripling down on India with a continued focus on international growth. The expansion marks Vultr’s 25th global point of presence, and their fourth in Asia, already having a datacenter in Mumbai and now adding two more locations!
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I have not, but maybe you have. If so, please comment and let us know what you think. I just stumbled across them while browsing tonight and when I saw free tier I knew I had to write it up for the...
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In a textbook example of good customer service and proper crisis management (even though this is no crisis), MXroute founder and former LowEndTalk administrator @jar disclosed the following: Github's...
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The LowEndNetwork today announced two new programs: LowEndReviews and LowEndPioneers. LowEndReviews will pay LowEndTalk community hard cash to review our Patron Providers and community advertisers. Th...
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Recently, my family acquired a gecko. A crested gecko, to be specific. Our little guy started life as a classroom pet. He came in a rather sad, small Walmart Pet Department-level terrarium. We set...
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CloudFlare (NASDAQ: NET) is under social assault from people upset about KiwiFarms' usage of the platform. For those who have lives, here's the brief on KiwiFarms from Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms...is an Am...
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We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big publi...
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Hello from New York City and Mexico! Here is another fun guest article contributed by Eddie Barksdale from Porkbun. Low End Box and @Not_Oles appreciate this personalized look inside the home offices...
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If you go back seven or eight years and asked me to recommend a LEB provider, I would have asked you some basics and then might very well have recommended RamNode. Back in the day, RamNode had a nice...
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One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than Microsoft. If you want to offer Windows as a provider, you need to...
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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...
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I was running some errands this morning and passed an Orthodox church. Out front was a colorful tri-color banner declaring that next weekend is the Romanian Folk & Food Festival here in Portland....
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Readers, do you use Trustpilot? Providers, do you live and die by it? For those unfamiliar, Trustpilot is a sort of "Yelp of everything". They offer an aggregation of reviews on nearly everything, add...
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Martin Shkreli has been released from prison. You may remember him as "pharma bro", who made a killing by exploiting an interesting aspect of the pharmaceutical market. He realized that there are sev...
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Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news. Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity. Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better. LastPass was h...
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Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...
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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...
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DigitalOcean revealed today that they're tired of Cloudways fronting their panel, so they're going to buy them for $350 million. Cloudways has a fantastic business model: they buy a VM for $6, put the...
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Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...
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There's a small scrappy start-up company that's emerging in the web space. They've been posting a different themed picture on their main service page every day, celebrating holidays, unofficial rememb...
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MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...
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Just want a free VPS? Yes, there are actually legitimate ways to get a free VPS. Interested in a bit of LowEndLore s we look back at a famous community landmark that has left the scene? Read on! At...
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Read 'em and weep, folks. That smooth 7% curve is what Verisign has planned for .com owners. As DomainNameAPI.com notes: Verisign, the registrar of the .COM domain extension, on 1 September 2021 inc...
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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...
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I was explaining UUIDs to a junior colleague today, who was hung up on the idea of probabilities, and it lead to an interesting viewpoint. A UUID is a Universal Unique IDentifier. They're used all ov...
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Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API. I used it last year t...
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