Five years ago, in June 2018, Microsoft announced it was buying GitHub. At the time, there was a tremendous amount of screeching in the developer communities. Although the site was moving from proprietary product owned by a private company to a proprietary…
Read more about Looking Back on the GitHub Acquisition: Are You Still on GitHub?
News of another Meta scandal broke recently: they sometimes run through your ad budget at turbo speed at 2am. Need a better alternative?
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An example of why I'm not worried about AI taking over the world anytime soon.
Read more about Need a List of Websites Where You Can Pirate Movies? Just Ask ChatGPT
A new Verisign proposal would allow any government to seize control of your domain. What is this lunacy?
Read more about Verisign Will Let Kim Jong-Un Seize Your .NET Domain If He Wants To
Mullvad VPN, a Swedish VPN provider, was recently raided by authorities. They posted a detailed account of what happened.
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StackOverflow banned ChatGPT and the community applauded. They just enabled it and the community is booing.
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There's a fee to share offers on LowEndTalk but easy sales are FREE on LowEndBox. Read on to grow your business.
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LowEndTalk user htop setup a honeypot to trap ssh passwords. Watch skiddies in real time!
Read more about No, ‘airforce’ is Not a Good Password: Check Out This Honeypot
MSI recently suffered a cyber attack and has issued a warning about dodgy imposter firmware that might be in the wild.
Read more about Motherboard MSI Warns of Rogue Firmware
Have you been seeing amazing AI-generated imagines around the web? They probably come from Midjourney, an AI app. Let's take a look.
Read more about The Midjourney Experience
E3 2023 has been canceled, which really isn't a surprise. But the ESA's lame excuse is preposterous.
Read more about E3 is Dead and ESA Offers the Lamest Possible Reason
In this article we look at some broadband pricing around the world and uncover some surprising statistics of what things cost where, and explore…
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QuadraNet just announced they're acquiring the BlackMesh CMS and private cloud offerings that Contegix developed. Read on to get all the details on this…
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Jack Dempsey's Block (formerly Square) is committing fraud on a massive scale and it's trivial to get a fake cash card - even in…
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Oh, how fast technology and the Internet have evolved… it seems like it was just yesterday when 100Mbps servers were considered a luxury. I…
Read more about Community News: RackNerd Announces Launch of Unmetered 20Gbps and 40Gbps Dedicated Servers
What if there was a way you could directly help Ukrainians 1:1 from your living room at no cost and it only took one…
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Zuck wants everyone back in the office. But he also wants to sell you a headset premised on the fact that peopel don't have…
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14 years ago, Fedora had a cool idea: why send an entire RPM when the client only needs a delta from the RPM it…
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Have you tried a Scaleway Learning VM? They're wicked cheap...but apparently very hard to get bag. We go over the offer plus some other…
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India's major ISPs have blocked some prominent registrars. What does this mean? It means if you live in Indian, you need to change your…
Read more about Indian ISPs Block NameCheap, Dynadot, Tucows, Sarek, and Gransy
Last year we published a piece on Brad Travery's Guide to Web Development. In a nutshell, the Guide walks you through all the many…
Read more about Brad Traversy’s Guide to Web Development: Updated for 2023!
Yes, you can be sued if you block someone on Twitter...perhaps. We review two decided court cases and one that is now pending.
Read more about Can You Be Sued for Blocking Someone on Twitter? Perhaps
Would you like to contribute to a cool open source project and get paid for doing so? BorgBase is participating in Google's Summer of…
Read more about Get paid $3000+ by Google to Work on Borg-related Open Source Projects!
PulsedMedia has an a range of i5- and i7-based dedi systems starting as cheap as 29.99€/Month in Helsinki, Finland. Here's my personal experience with…
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Signal Transmitter has a spring special. You can get a cheap 2GB RAM VPS in Frankfurt for only 35€ per year!
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According to an insider's recent essay, Google suffers from "(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, and (4) mismanagement."
Read more about What’s Wrong with Google? According to an Insider, These Four Things
You read that right: a steep increase across the board for ex-Linode customers. Where are you moving to?
Read more about Two Weeks After Killing the Linode Brand, Akamai Jacks Up Prices 20% and Doubles IP Fees
It's 2023 and by some measures, 77% of all web sites are powered by PHP. I'm not sure it's quite that high, though if you…
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We ran across an interesting class from MIT entitled "The Missing Semester of Your CS Eduction." Here is how it's described: Classes teach you…
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Is Telegram safe for users looking for private, encrypted communications? Developments since 2018 raise a lot of questions.
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If you're using Microsoft Edge, you can't trust what it's showing you because Microsoft is injecting ads into competitor sites, suggesting that you can't…
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Are we talking about a special Google Drive promo, or a secret Apple iCloud account deal? Did Western Digital Black just get replaced with…
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Need some gear? Rhino Tech Group posted an offer featuring some deeply discounted Supermicro servers that they'll ship to you for FREE (terms, conditions,…
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It's the age of SaaS but here in the LowEnd community people are more DIY. Here are a couple links where people are talking…
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