Dealing with Large Files on GitHub
Ever try to push a 30MB PNG to GitHub? Good luck. However, using a third-party git add-on, it's a piece of cake.
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How to Use the Missing Midjourney API (Plus the Hidden Command Language)
Midjourney is amazing technology but is a bit frustrating to work with because you're limited to interacting with a Discord bot. We have news of a technique to automate plus links to some amazing resources.
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How the LowEndTalk ChatGPT-Powered Auto-Tweeter Works
When one of LowEndTalk's community providers shares an offer on LET, we want to tell the world. One of the ways we do this is by posting a link to the thread on Twitter. We do this via a Python scri...
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How to Stop Services From Starting at Install on Debian
By default, installing a service on Debian means it's enabled (start at boot) and started immediately. If you don't care for this default behavior, we have a one-line command that will flip the behavior.
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Removing a Package on Debian with Extreme Prejudice
apt just slaps at the problem; dpkg solves it. An interesting experience trying to get MariaDB back to a clean slate.
Read MoreHow to Immediately Transfer a Domain Out of InternetBS.net with No Waiting Period
If you're trying to transfer a domain out of InternetBS, you might be facing a 5-7 day waiting period. But with this trick you can have the transfer done instantly.
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LowEndBoxTV: Bunny.net Stream Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas
Piotr was recently asked to help a friend with his web site. Splitting the video content off to a CDN was easy but he learned a lot about best practices for Bunny.net Stream. In this video he goes over everything he learned and how you can make the service as pain-free as possible.
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How to Change an OpenBSD Server's Hostname Thoroughly
I made this quick tutorial so you don't have to remember the steps and can just google for it.
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Command-Line DNS: Using the Porkbun API in Shell Scripts
Did you know you can control your Porkbun-hosted DNS from a shell script? Here's an example of using the Porkbun API with curl to create a DNS record, and links to more things you can do with their full-featured and oddly satisfying API.
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raindog308's Civilization VI Big Bucks Strategy Guide
A 30-year veteran of Sid Meier's Civilization series shares his current strategy for the game's latest iteration (Civilization VI). It's all about the Benjamins...er, gold coins, baby.
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Was I Serious? How to Install GnuCOBOL on Debian 11
Recently someone on LowEndTalk mentioned asmbb, which is forum software written in assembler. Full stop. Written in assembler. Forum software. Go look - it's actually pretty nice. I joked that I was...
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How to Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch: Two Years Later, It Still Works!
We did a six-part tutorial on setting up a highly available Wordpress site using two VPS systems, configuring MariaDB and replication, using DRBD and OCFS2 for filesystem replication, and tying it all off with round-robin DNS. It still works!
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Command Line Life: Weather at Your Fingertips
Who needs an app or a smart watch or even a thermometer when you've got command-line tools to give you full details about the weather in any major city of the world!
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Stop the Senseless Flushing!
After you create users and grant privileges in MySQL, the next step is to FLUSH PRIVILEGES, right? Wrong.
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Five Ways to Get a New Forum Off the Ground in 2023
How do you go from zero to a robust forum community in 2023? It isn't easy but we provide some tips for you to get that forum you've been thinking about up and running this year.
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Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!
In this tutorial, learn how to make your cron-driven shell scripts easier to manage by using a mother script. We'll show you how you'll never have to think about cleaning up temp files again!
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From Oracle Cloud to TOR to Telegram: Check Out LowEndTalk Tutorials!
Want to setup OpenLiteSpeed on Oracle Cloud arm instances? Need to transfer data between Telegram and your VPS? Want to configure your VPN to exit fast TOR nodes? Check out LowEndTalk's tutorials!
Read MoreHow Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?
About Gzip And Tar Everybody on Linux and BSD seems to use a program called gzip, frequently in conjunction with another program called tar. Tar, named from Tape ARchive, is a program which copies fil...
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How To Move Your Site To Oracle Cloud Free Tier With scp(1)
Recently I wanted to take advantage of Oracle's Free Tier to serve my Low End website for free. By moving to Oracle Free Tier, I now save the $5 per month which was paying for the VPS on which my site...
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How To Install Caddy Web Server On Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Back in March, LEB published Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?" The March article pointed out one of the main features of Oracle Cloud Free Tier: no credit card is requir...
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What You Need to Know About Buying A Hetzner Auction Server
It's like eBay for cheap dedicated servers!
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What Happens When Your Site's DNS Goes Down?
SPOILER ALERT: It isn't pretty. When DNS becomes unreachable your website will experience downtime. Read more to see what I learned after a recent 9 hour outage to one of my websites.
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LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances
And you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.
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Drop Dead Simple: One-Clause Handling of NGINX + Certbot + HTTP Basic Auth!
This is a quick tutorial on setting up NGINX with Certbot when you're using HTTP Basic Authentication. HBA is what you see if you set parameters like this in a location: auth_basic "some arbit...
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How to Install Odoo (Because Odoo Won't Tell You)
Odoo is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a freemium model. If you are running an organization, you could use Odoo to handle all your accounting, inventory, CRM, invoicing, etc. It's...
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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache
It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan. Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing. They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...
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Use Arc Forum Or Anarki To Make Your Own Hacker News!
Back in March @Not_Oles invited people from Low End Box to join a study group for MIT's Operating System Engineering course, which is available for free online. Just recently, a group of fifteen actua...
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Certbun, An Easier Alternative To Certbot, From Porkbun
Low End Box and @Not_Oles thank Porkbun and Eddie Barksdale for providing this guest post about Certbun, Porkbun's alternative to Certbot. "Why should I use Certbun rather than Certbot," you ask? @Not...
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