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When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

raindog308

Oct 03, 2022

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A mysterious private equity buyer has been stalking Akamai (Linode's owner) for months.

When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?

Review: React for Beginners by Wes Bos (Plus FREE Javascript and Markdown Courses You Can Take!)

raindog308

Sep 29, 2022

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I've recently been writing some web apps. I'm not a web pro, but have done software development non-professionally since before the personal computer existed. Back when I started emitting HTML in th...

Review: React for Beginners by Wes Bos (Plus FREE Javascript and Markdown Courses You Can Take!)

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

raindog308

Sep 06, 2022

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I have not, but maybe you have. If so, please comment and let us know what you think. I just stumbled across them while browsing tonight and when I saw free tier I knew I had to write it up for the...

Have You TrieId Northflank? Microservices Platform with a Free Tier!

Google Still Addicted to Third Party Cookies, May Need to Go to Rehab

raindog308

Jul 27, 2022

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Everyone is making too much money using third party cookies so they're not going away "yet". You may recall that back in January of 2020, Google announced that they were going to remove third party co...

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

raindog308

May 28, 2022

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Microsoft's Bing search engine launched in 2009 and has been a distant number two to mighty Google. One might say that Google is the Microsoft of search engines and Microsoft is the Apple...well, if...

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

Get a FREE MONTH of Cloud Storage from Privacy-Obsessed Internxt!

raindog308

May 24, 2022

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Today we have an interesting deal from Internxt to tell you about. For a long time, €8.99/mo or €9.99/mo for 2TB of cloud storage has a been a standard price point - OneDrive, Google, Dropbox, etc. N...

Get a FREE MONTH of Cloud Storage from Privacy-Obsessed Internxt!

Google Relents: Gmail Legacy Will Remain Free for Personal Accounts

raindog308

May 18, 2022

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By now, you've probably owned up to the fact that G Suite Legacy accounts are going away and you're going to have to pay $5/head/month because you want a custom domain. Maybe you've even converted ov...

Google Relents: Gmail Legacy Will Remain Free for Personal Accounts

USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Internet's First Deity

raindog308

Apr 29, 2022

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Would you like some more USENET lore? OK, let's talk about Menudo (note the capital letter) green card lawyers kooks and spambots war with Scientology Joel Furr T-shirts eternal September how Google...

USENET Part 2: Spambots, Scientology Wars, and the Internet's First Deity

You Need to Update Chrome ASAP

raindog308

Mar 26, 2022

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Word is out of a new vulnerability in Chrome, and it sounds serious. If your browser has an update, you should definitely restart to apply to reach version 99.0.4844.84. New updates are out for Wind...

Is the End of Third Party Cookies Finally Near?

raindog308

Mar 23, 2022

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Sometime in "late 2023", Google will finally phase out third party cookie for Chrome. Finally. Firefox has been blocking them since 2019, and Safari does as well. No one uses Edge, which leaves Chro...

Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

raindog308

Mar 08, 2022

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Major cloud services companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle may cut off Russia's access to cloud services in days to come. Already, Amazon has suspended new service signups. This is...

Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

Google GSuite Legacy Free Edition Class Action Lawsuit is Going All the Way...

raindog308

Feb 28, 2022

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...down the toilet. A legal firm named Chimicles, Schwartz, Kriner and Donaldson is taking a break from chasing ambulances to conduct a "class action investigation" to decide if it will commence a cla...

Google GSuite Legacy Free Edition Class Action Lawsuit is Going All the Way...

Will Germans Put You in Prison if You Don't Self-Host Your Own Fonts? Probably Not.

raindog308

Feb 12, 2022

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The growing tide of marijuana legalization seems to have an effect in the Munich legal system, as a group of jurists there who were clearly high out of their minds when they handed down a death senten...

Will Germans Put You in Prison if You Don't Self-Host Your Own Fonts? Probably Not.

Gmail Legacy Free G Suite : No Longer Free...or is it?

raindog308

Feb 01, 2022

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We reported earlier that Google is changing the terms of their "G Suite" legacy free edition to be...well, no longer free. But now there are reports that Google has changed its mind. On the other hand...

Gmail Legacy Free G Suite : No Longer Free...or is it?

GSuite Free Legacy: No Longer Free

raindog308

Jan 19, 2022

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If you had a grandfathered GSuite free legacy account, it's time to say goodbye. Google says: "If you have the G Suite legacy free edition, you need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription...

AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

raindog308

Sep 23, 2021

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According to market research group Omdia, AMD has surged to a historically high server market share of 16%. "In the server CPU market, AMD scored its best-ever quarter from a market share and sales pe...

AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

Microsoft Azure is the World's Largest Cloud

raindog308

Aug 16, 2021

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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...