Twitter was preparing to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream but now everyone's gone and they're looking at a June 2024 end of life. Twitter's relationship with FOSS is getting complicated fast.
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Internet users are accustomed to thinking of the global network as a sort of separate, special space. In early days, people talked about "cyberspace" - a virtual world disconnected from our shared physical world. When you hear the Zuck talking about the "metaverse" it feels like he's describing an alternate dimension. However, all these grand virutal realms are impossible without actual physical metal and electricity. And that's when we get into data sovereignty.
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CloudFlare followed the tedious corporate playbook of drenching their price increase announcement with tons of inspiring adjectives. We provide a translation for you.
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LowEndTalk community member @jimaek is giving away 20 of Globalping's hardware probes, now through December 5, 2022. Contest is open worldwide but closes on December 5, 2022!
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FOSSBilling has announced its first post-fork release! Let's go over the history of the project and where they're at...and hear from you!
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We wrote about Benchy back in April 2022. It's a project by LoweEndTalk member @Liso. @Liso recently posted a thread announcing that color had been added and @DP shared a screenshot. Sure looks pretty! Keep your eye on this project.
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There's an important security vulnerability in WHMCS 8.5.x and 8.6.x. WHMCS won't tell you what it is, but will tell you that you need to patch ASAP. No earlier versions are affected.
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We had another fantastic year here at LowEndBox and LowEndTalk, and it would have been possible without our fantastic providers! Below are all those companies that brought rock bottom prices and cool...
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As of today, PHP 7.4 is end of life, which means the PHP 7 version is now officially retired. Some distributions will backport security patches, but really, it's time to move on.
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The biggest thread on the Internet is off to a roaring start with deals, deals, deals! We're talking 120 deals over the next 4 days! Check it out!
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Community provider RackNerd recently launched their Black Friday deals over on LowEndTalk! Their thread has garnered a lot of interest from the community, thanks to the excellent deals they are providing on Black Friday (KVM VPS starting from $10.28/Year, deals on shared/reseller hosting, and more!), introducing the Mystery Box for extra savings, as well as tons of giveaways for the LowEndTalk community.
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We're down to 8 hours before Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2022 Begins! Here's a look at all the awesome hosts who'll be sharing offers with you this season. There's loads of good deals on store, so ge...
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If you're in the market and looking for work, we'd like to point out that many of our community advertisers and providers are hiring! We've put together a quick list for you.
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Document fingerprinting to identify leakers is a fascinating niche application. There are all kinds of sophisticated methods but the way Musk went about it is, well, rather lame. Read on to lead how to pros do it!
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Today we have another awesome interview for you, this time with Henry Vaaderpass, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Warren.io, an Estonian startup that is bringing innovation to the cloud hosting space at an amazing pace. This position in the industry as an platform outfitter is really fascinating. It's a cool company, cool story, and cool interview, so read on and enjoy!
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Fred Brooks was a pioneer in the field of software engineering. If your boss is incompetent or your projects are falling behind, it's probably because you're violating one of his maxims. Brooks, a Turing Award winner, passed away this week at the age of 91.
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently released a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights". It's an interesting mix of the obvious and Z
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For years I've read comments online by people who don't trust cloud providers because the government will use them to spy on them or these cloud companies are building massive behavioral databases. The reality is that it's the bored junior sysadmin or the perverted graveyard shift content moderator who are going to rifle through your files. Case in point this week: Facebook.
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we came across this post shared by RackNerd recently, and thought it would be pretty cool to share, considering this is not something you see ver...
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TinySnap asked us to take a look at their new flagship product. It's a neat browser extension that allows you to do some interesting things with your screenshots, but it's still evolving. Check out our full review with many - wait for it - screenshots!
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Why not join in on the hilarious joke that's making its rounds on Twitter? Thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the same joke.
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Meta has laid off a team which is an "elite tactical squad" in the artificial intelligence and machine learning fields. Has the bidding war already begun for these dark wizards, who've worked for one of the most rapacious tech firms and are presumably ready to do more?
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"Globalping is a platform that allows anyone to run networking commands such as ping, traceroute, dig and mtr on probes distributed all around the world. Our goal is to provide a free and simple API for everyone out there to build interesting networking tools and services."
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The game is vile, repulsive, repellent, and XXX, but the Steam reviewers love it. The title alone is startling. It's part of a strange subgenre that raises all sorts of questions about our relationship with history...which is not to say the game publishers weigh such issues.
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Twitter is censoring Mastodon links on its platform, labeling them as "malware". This is both petty and hypocritical. Does this mean that Twitter views Mastodon as a serious threat? What happened to free speech?
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Everyone who has anything to do with leading Twitter's security, privacy, and compliance departments has fled the company in mass resignations. Twitter is headed for a security cliff. How vulnerable are you?
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VPS systems for a dollar a year. Storage VPSes for pennies per GB. Crazy-cheap shared hosting deals. It's coming in only two weeks!
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If you're seeing weird things in your logs, it's because the UK National Cyber Security Center has decided to scan all UK systems as part of their "Scanning the Internet for Fun and Profit" (their term). Click to learn how to opt-out.
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