How SquareSpace Badly Overpaid for Google Domains
SquareSpace bought Google's domain business, but at a very high price. Are they really going to make a worthwhile profit on their $18-per-domain investment? Probably not.
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Leaked Memo: Reddit Announces Will No Longer Allow Private Subreddits...?
The change is logical given developments with the blackouts. Read the draft announcement.
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Subreddits Go on Strike
In a widespread act of protest, thousands of the most popular subreddits have gone private, blocking visitors and in some cases disallowing new threads. This is being done to protest Reddit's API policy, which is killing third party apps.
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Have We Finally Gotten to a Point Where All Browsers Are Fast Enough It Doesn’t Even Matter?
Do you use Chrome? Firefox? Safari? Brave? Opera? Whatever that Microsoft browser is? Does it matter anymore? Maybe. Maybe not.
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I Was the Third Person to Inquire About the Ted Kaczynski's PhD Dissertation, Plus Why the Author of the vi Editor Quoted His Writings and the Horrific Psychological Experiments That Created the Unabomber
The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, died today. I remember when my University department phoned the Graduate Library to find out what his dissertation was about and who'd read it. Did you know that he was the victim of a horrific series of psychological experiments at Harvard, might have been the Chicago Tylenol poisoners, or was quoted extensively by the guy who wrote the vi editor?
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What Happened to Virmach Anyways?
VirMach was semi-legendary in LowEnd circles for their ultra-cheap hosting deals, both during Black Friday and year round. But over the last year they've struggled. What's up?
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Augmented Reality vs. Holodecks: Why Apple's VisionPro and the Metaverse Represent Starkly Different Ideas About the Future of Computing
Apples VisionPro is coming soon, but is it really a transformative and magical device? The Metaverse has overwhelmed, but at least it's trying to move to the future, whereas the VisionPro seems like merely the next tech iteration.
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Netflix Is Doing a Great Job at Promoting Pirating With Their Recent Password-Sharing Crackdown
Netflix is (again) cracking down on password sharing. Does forcing people to adhere to your vision of how they're going to use your products ever really work? How do you feel about Netflix tightening their grip...er, I mean, clarifying their terms of service in order to deliver maximum value to their customers.
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"See It Anyway?": Instagram is the World's Most Efficient Child Pornography Network, According to Shocking New Report from Stanford University
A disturbing new report issued by Stanford University documents how Instagram is the world's premier network for connecting pedophiles with child pornography, through several mechanisms. The efficiency of the network's promotion algorithms allows it to serve up content to niche audiences - even illegal ones. And then there's the platform's way of handling material it knows to be CSAM: "These results may contain images of child sexual abuse - see results anyway?"
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BRB: IncogNET is Not Currently Accepting New Orders. Here is Why.
Why would a provider temporarily stop accepting new orders? Aren't businesses supposed to chase customers? The answer speaks volumes about IncogNET's commitment to its customers and principled transparency.
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Meet the New Company That Owns Nearly All Webhosts (EIG Is Dead)
EIG is dead, all hail...Newfold Digital? Same old schtick or bold new vision for the future? Vacuuming up web hosts and stripping them private equity-style or leveraging synergistic growth strategies for maximum customer engagement?
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Reddit Is About To Go Public, So They're Pushing Their Users Away (And Killing Third-Party Apps)
Reddit is preparing to go public. Again. This time they're hoping to raise only 44% of what they were looking for the previous time. To make sure the IPO is successful, they're making moves to...drive their users away?! The new API fees seem to guarantee a shrinking user base just when Reddit is going under the magnifying glass.
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The Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel
Many wonderful people have contributed to the Linux kernel. But one particular codebase has a dark past, and is scheduled to be removed in 2025.
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Spin Rewriter Review: Doesn't Work, and Now Obsolete
I have an idea: let's setup a way to automatically rewrite articles and post them on a Wordpress blog, and then we'll make millions off the ads! All we'll need to do is pick out some keywords and technology will do the rest. People are already doing this with ChatGPT and other AI tools. If you've heard a pitch for Spin Rewriter, you've heard a pitch for technology that never worked and is obsolete even if it did work.
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DirectAdmin Is Raising Prices, Is It Still Worth It Over cPanel?
Our community's favorite web hosting panel has long been DirectAdmin. Now the price is increasing and some are wondering if the value equation still works. What do you think?
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How to Precisely Calculate What Twitter is Actually Worth Now. Hint: It'll Surprise You
Twitter is a private company now so we really don't know what it's worth because Elon Musk does not have to disclose any financial figures. Right? Not so fast. One of his investors is obliged by law to report what its financial analysts say Twitter is worth and their math shows it's been a financial apocalypse.
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How This Man Is Revolutionizing the Email Industry by Solving Problems His Own Way (With a Hint of AI)
Nothing is as fundamental to the internet as email. From the days of dial-up (you've got mail!) to now, email remains at the center of communication. The business world, for example, would cease to ex...
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How Ross Ulbricht, the Pioneer of Darknet Markets, Ended Up With a Life Sentence (Silk Road’s Seizure)
What happens when you introduce decentralized internet like Tor and decentralized cryptocurrency to a society right around the same time? It opens up the gates to what I could only call a wild west le...
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Beware: The Scammy Affiliate Marketing Practices in the Hosting Industry
Imagine practically anytime you've ever desired a product but were unsure the best brand to buy from. What's the first thing you probably did? Open up Google and type in exactly what you're looking fo...
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Windows XP Activation Algorithm Cracked After 21 Years
Windows XP was Microsoft's first OS that required software activation. For most users, it was a nonevent because their OS came preloaded when they bought their new desktop or laptop. But hobbyists wh...
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Ten Things to Do With Your Own Smartphone Besides Throwing it Away
We all have them: phones that are past their prime. You transfer your apps, photos, and media to your new device and then you're left with old kit building a dust collection. What do you do with an old smartphone?
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Open Source. But Not Open Contributions.
Many open source projects are not open contribution. You can get the source code, but they're not interested in your pull request. Why?
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Three Reasons Why ChatGPT Won't Take Developer Jobs
Are you worried that generative AI (ChatGPT, etc.) is going to take away developer jobs? Or maybe replace them entirely? Is starting a developer career in 2023 like starting as a buggy whip apprentice in 1890? Here's three arguments against the worry, and a chance for you to agree or disagree.
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Limewave: Cheap VPS, Unmetered Bandwidth, and a 5ms Vancouver Ping
Get a 2GB RAM VPS running on Ryzen with unmetered bandwidth for $5.95/month in Seattle! Some nice ping stats and some nice FREE credits in this deal.
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Crypto Firms: Few Boards, Even Fewer Audits
The new age of financial transparency has dawned! Or has it? Boardrooms filled with insiders and lack of external auditors make the largest crypto companies on the planet a bit opaque.
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Montana Bans TikTok
Starting next year, TikTok is officially banned in the state of Montana. Really? Yes, really. But will the ban last?
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Metaverse Desperation: No Money Down Deals!
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Facebook's latest "No Money Down! 0% APR!" advertising pitches for its Metaverse headsets stink of desperation.
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Free Spectrum Allocations Poster!
You can get a FREE printed poster of worldwide spectrum allocations if you live in the US, or download the same as a PDF worldwide. Courtesy of Rohde and Schwarz. I've never heard of them either.
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