Confession time: we want to grow our social media presence. Besides the economic reasons, it's also part of our core mission to educate people who are paying way too much for hosting services.
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We tweet. We post. We share. Why not check us out on social media?
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Twitter is now known as X. Actually, it's now known as "X, formerly known as Twitter" because "X" has zero brand and the Twitter brand is still iconic. A cautionary tale.
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Billionaire cage match? Musk suing Zuck? Lizard people? White whale on a boat? There's sure a lot of public drama between these two lovers.
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Fun fact about US bankruptcy law: three creditors can join arms and force a company that's not paying its bills into involuntary bankruptcy. A company like Twitter. Meet the three companies that have nothing to lose, everything to gain, and could do this at any time.
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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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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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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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Can't get enough LowEnd deals? You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram to feed your obsession.
Read MoreTwitter's cut-off of third-party apps speaks volumes about its disinterest in the community and its broken business model. Time to move on? Again? Still?
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Companies can bring foreign nationals over to work in the US on various programs, most prominently in this discussion, the H1-B visa. It's designed for situations where the US lacks engineers, scientists, or technical specialists in critical skills. But at its worst, the program is a form of modern-day indentured servitude.
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Twitter was preparing to upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream but now everyone's gone and they're looking at a June 2024 end of life. Twitter's relationship with FOSS is getting complicated fast.
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Document fingerprinting to identify leakers is a fascinating niche application. There are all kinds of sophisticated methods but the way Musk went about it is, well, rather lame. Read on to lead how to pros do it!
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What happens when a billionaire (well...crypto billionaire) acquires TinyNanoHost? He implements HARDCORE TinyNanoHost 2.0! Heads will roll!
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For years I've read comments online by people who don't trust cloud providers because the government will use them to spy on them or these cloud companies are building massive behavioral databases. The reality is that it's the bored junior sysadmin or the perverted graveyard shift content moderator who are going to rifle through your files. Case in point this week: Facebook.
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Why not join in on the hilarious joke that's making its rounds on Twitter? Thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the same joke.
Read MoreTwitter is censoring Mastodon links on its platform, labeling them as "malware". This is both petty and hypocritical. Does this mean that Twitter views Mastodon as a serious threat? What happened to free speech?
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Everyone who has anything to do with leading Twitter's security, privacy, and compliance departments has fled the company in mass resignations. Twitter is headed for a security cliff. How vulnerable are you?
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Does it really take 10x more people to run Twitter compared to Reddit?
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Okay, that last one is not really possible. Fortunately for the human race, a social network based on our sense of smell has not been developed (though humans have tried to invent smell-transmission...
Read MoreConfession time: we want to grow our social media presence. Besides the economic reasons, it's also part of our core mission to educate people who are paying way too much for hosting services. Someo...
Read MoreI kinda like going thrifting If I get it for the low we're business yeah Whoa, my God, what's the price on that, whoa! You can tell me that these things don't matter But I know that You like high pric...
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You can get LowEndBox and LowEndTalk on all the big platforms: Twitter: Follow us! Facebook: Like us! YouTube: Watch us! Where should we go next? Instagram? TikTok? Pinterest? LinkedIn? Or perhap...
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We live in a push world, and if you prefer to get deals, posts, and news delivered to you in an app, we can help with that. We're on major social media platforms and we're growing our content there. ...
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Quick analysis is that he overpaid, by approximately $44 billion.
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When I heard that Elon Musk is toying with the idea of buying Twitter, I wondered why he'd want it. I suppose he thinks on grander societal scales than I do, and perhaps he sees some strategic use fo...
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Are you getting enough LowEnd in your life? If you're already obsessively hitting refresh on LowEndBox.com but still want more, we have some things you might be interested in. First, if you're not re...
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You might have noticed that LowEndBox has been publishing some really awesome content recently -- news, interviews and hosting deals. We've also welcomed another content contributor to our ranks recen...
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