OpenAI's Sam Altman said yesterday that AI is unlikely to lead to a "jobs apocalypse". Which means...
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The Rust Programming Language book is quite popular in the Rust community. But I wish it was written differently.
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XenForo appears to have leaked a license holder's personal information without a court order. Customers aren't happy about this.
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Over the last week, I've interacted with a couple traditional forums, and they were case lessons in how not to run a forum in 2026.
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Not infrequently, we get legal gibberish on our ticketing platform from providers who are upset that someone said something negative about them, either here or on LowEndTalk. It's always entertaining. I've written a form letter that all of your LowEndLawyers can use if you ever need to contact us.
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A long-standing playbook for private equity investments is to buy an established brand with a lot of public trust, load up on debt, strip-mine assets, eviscerate the company's R&D and quality control, and then pump out junk until the public catches on. At that point, the resulting corporate husk is pawned off to a troubled asset firm and PE moves on to the next victim. Recent news suggests this playbook may be in the early stages of being implemented at BitWarden.
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A reader dropped us a tip that InterServer has a special summer deal running, now through August. Get 50% off anything on InterServer's web site for the first month, off already low prices. For example, get a 2GB VPS for $3/month in New Jersey with 40GB of disk and 2TB of bandwidth. And then take 50% off for the first month!
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Let's drop some deep LowEndTalk lore here on Saturday!
Read More about Saturday Deep Lore: Announcing the LowEndTalk Forum!
Richard Stallman of the GNU project is famous for his absolutist stand on software freedom. But he also takes a maximalist stance on privacy, resisting any attempt to gather his personal information, including his refusal to own a cellphone. He's very hypocritical on this point, but he's also strayed into wild-eyed conspiracy theories on his reasons for this position.
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Today's article was written by industry titan WebPros. They're the force behind cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS, SolusVM and other solutions that power the hosting industry. In this article, they're sharing both roadblocks to scaling and solutions to overcoming those obstacles. Learn how hosting providers scale VPS operations without increasing headcount using automation, structured workflows, and efficient infrastructure control.
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I came across an interesting post on a rather poorly-formatted blog known as TechRights.org about the precarious nature of The Register's finances. They look precarious.
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Over the years, Google has slid into Big Tech Evil, and so to reflect their new sociopathic identity, they removed their Don't Be Evil motto. So now Google says it's OK for them to Do Evil. Right? Wrong.
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Sometimes I wake up at at 1am thinking about problems in my life. Sometimes I think about things I have to do the coming day. And then there are days when some almost-forgotten bit of code is just about to expire from my mental cache and decides it wants to take a stab at creating a new reference to itself in neural network.
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Just a a couple weeks ago, we covered HostPapa's acquisition of Tailor Made Services. Now they've grown again, acquiring Hostwinds, a Seattle-based company that's been operating for 16 years. Hostwinds offers shared, VPS, and other services.
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The world's most popular (and expensive) web hosting panel is apparently vulnerable to anyone who decides to connect to your port 2087.
Read More about Achtung! Critical cPanel Vulnerability: Take Action Now!
Affiliate programs are a form of marketing where providers pay commissions to users who drive new subscribers to their site. In theory, it's a win-win for everyone. In practice, practice is not the same as theory.
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Vim has long been the standard edition of the venerable vi editor, which turns 50 this year. Both Vim and its successor, NeoVim, explicitly allow LLM contributions. There are those, however, who don't like that.
Read More about Vim Fracturing Along LLM Lines – Is This the Dawn of a New Age of LLM vs. Non-LLM Codebases?
On May 13, 2026, Let’s Encrypt will migrate to its Generation Y certificate hierarchy, marking a significant change in its operations. This transition involves switching the default ACME profile to issues from new root certificates, impacting the classic profile that most hosting operators and their customers typically use. Additionally, on this date, a new opt-in 45-day certificate option will be introduced, and client authentication certificates will be completely removed by July 8, 2026. Hosting providers must ensure that their renewal automation can handle this transition effectively.
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HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tailor Made Servers (“TMS”), a Dallas, Texas-based dedicated server hosting provider that has been serving businesses and resellers since 2003.
Read More about HostPapa Completes Acquisition of Tailor Made ServersLast year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!
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I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.” Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.
Read More about Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)
There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives. Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide. But it is disappointing, for sure.
Read More about Backblaze’s “Betrayal”: Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data
Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
Read More about I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
Read More about Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos’s Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
Read More about The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
Read More about The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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