RedHat Prepares to Give Bootloaders the Boot
Do we still need GRUB? RedHat says no and they're working on a project to replace GRUB by moving everything it does into the kernel itself.
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The Time eBay Mailed a Bloody Pig and Live Cockroaches to Someone Who Dared Criticize Them
Criticize eBay and you might find a dead pig in your mailbox. Or your house vandalized.
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The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers
What a bender! CrowdStrike pushed out a bad update and woke me up at 3am. I guess there were some other global impacts as well. I've been keeping an eye on the global meme tubes and have collected 20 of the best so far for you. If you're still hip deep in deleting C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys, take a break and enjoy some laughs.
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CloudLinux Changes Pricing Lineup and Their CEO Talks to Our Community
The community is displeased with CloudLinux's new pricing stance. Igor Seletskiy
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Install Windows Server on any VPS or Dedicated Server without KVM/iLO or IPMI!
Do you need to install Windows on your VPS? Usually you'd go to your provider's panel and install a template, or perhaps boot from an ISO. But what if neither of those are options? Can you somehow install Windows on a KVM VPS? Yes!
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Google Says AI Is a Lot More Important Than Saving the Planet
Google is going gangbusters for green...right? They were, until the next shiny thing came along.
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Nomi AI vs Kindroid AI: Will You Find Love on Either of These AI Companion Apps? Plus TEASE: How to DIY Your AI Companion
Let's take a look at Nomi and Kindroid, two of the leading AI companion (aka AI girlfriend) apps. They take radically different approaches and have made interesting technical choices. PLUS: see Jon Biloh looking buff!
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Check out this innovative offer from ServerHost.com: VPN As A Service! Pricing is excellent and if you want to get into the VPN business or
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Extract a Bullet Point Summary of Any YouTube Video at the Command Line in Seconds With This Incredible AI Command Line Tool!
Here's an awesome command-line one-liner that will watch a YouTube video for you and come back with a summary, key points, quotes, references, etc., all formatted in Markdown and done in about 60 seconds!
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Happy One Year Birthday, Threads! We're Sorry You Failed
Threads was supposed to be a Twitter killer. It wasn't.
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Need a Cheap, Cheap Nvidia GPU Rental? Here are the Cheapest GPU Rental Spots!
Need a cheap GPU? Well my friend, those don't exist. But if you want the cheapest possible GPU, we have some leads for you.
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"I Married My AI! We Met on Tinder AI! Pictures!!! ": We Need to Talk About the Exploding World of AI Girlfriends
People are romancing and marrying AI girlfriends and boyfriends. We're starting a series on this emerging - dare we say exploding - phenomenon.
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ColoCrossing Expands into Dublin, Ireland!
Leathnaíonn ColoCrossing isteach i mBaile Átha Cliath, Éire! OK, I don't actually speak Gaelic, but that's Google does and that is how you say ""ColoCrossing into Dublin, Ireland" in the Irish language. Let's dive in and learn more about their expansion!
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Want to Run a LLM Like Llama3 at Home for a Self-Hosted ChatGPT? A Mac Might Be Your Best, Cheapest Option
If you want to run AI, you need a bunch of high-end Nvidia GPUs, right? There's actually an alternative that is about half the price.
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Snapshots vs Backups Explained, And Why You Need Both in Your Life
It's a common misconception in the hosting industry that snapshots and backups are interchangeable terms. However, this is not the case: snapshots are NOT equal to backups! While both snapshots and backups serve to protect data, they differ in some key ways that are important to understand.
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A Fun Scenario for Your Virtual AI Girlfriends
Have a virtual AI girlfriend? Here's something fun to try. A teaser for our upcoming series on the explosion of AI companions.
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Is SolusVM V2 Suitable to Use in 2024? Latest Updates and Ongoing Improvements
Back in our initial review of SolusVM 2.0 in late 2022, we at RackNerd felt that SolusVM V2 was not capable of handling production environments. Since then, they have fixed those concerns and implemented many fixes to the platform. Read on to see whether SolusVM 2.0 is ready for prime time...
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Let's Try BSD, Part 7 of 7: Conclusions About FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here's a summary of my experiments with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 6 of 7: Jump Into the Unknown With Me As I Install DragonFlyBSD!
DragonFlyBSD was a bit frustrating for me.
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Bored of the MIT and GPL Licenses? Switch From That Lame Old Legalese to One of These 10 Awesome Licenses!
The GNU GPL, BSD license, MIT...those are so last century. Today we have many other cool licenses to use and you should definitely switch all your code to one of these.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 5 of 7: Setting Up Nginx + Wordpress on OpenBSD! Almost!
Now it's time to look at OpenBSD, the security-focused BSD. We have quite a time getting things going and learn a lot along the way.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 4 of 7: NetBSD, the BSD That Runs on Your Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Last time we looked at FreeBSD. Now we're onto NetBSD. It wasn't a pleasant experience.
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The Time a Hard Drive Manufacturer Shipped Actual Bricks Instead of Drives. Bricks as in Masonry, Folks.
Miniscribe, a hard drive maker who flourished in the 1980s, once ran into serious inventory problems. And since a masonry brick is about the same size and weight of a hard drive from that era...
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Let's Try BSD, Part 3 of 7: FreeBSD, the Power to Serve
We're continuing our journey through the BSD universe and today we're trying out FreeBSD. Does it have "The Power to Serve"?
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Let's Try BSD, Part 2 of 7: How I Setup for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here the Vultr VM I'm using for these BSD tryouts.
Read MoreLet's Try BSD, Part 1 of 7: Introduction (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD)
In this series, I'll be trying out each of the four major BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD), including install, configuration, and web serving. We're paying a visit to the weird cousins from the other continent, and we'll have some fun exploring the OTHER free operating systems.
Read MoreShirley: My Quest to Create a Truly Useful AI Personal Assistant (Self-Hosted ChatGPT + Long Term Memory + RAG)
I'm on a quest to create the perfect AI-powered personal assistant. We're closer than I thought, but still have a ways to go.
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Apple Intelligence is Free: You Are Not the Product, You're the Currency
OpenAI is thrilled to get a new trove of Apple data to train on. Except of course, they promise, cross their hearts and hope to die, stick a needle in their eye that this won't happen.
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