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If you’re the kind of person who sees “New Year” and immediately thinks “new projects, new nodes, new excuses to overbuild,” ServerHost is right there with you. bit.ly/3NmiSuC

Can you really be sued if you block someone on Twitter? Yes. If you're an elected official in the US government, that is. bit.ly/4iPOjZE

If you code or test or like to roll up your sleeves and pitch in to help on projects that are both cool and needed, even if you are a beginner, listen up! #borg #borgbase #borgmatic #google #googlesummerofcode #summerofcode #vorta bit.ly/44l3DI1

I think people fall into three categories when it comes to managing their DNS: - Most people manage their DNS via a web browser: logging into their registrar, provider, panel, or third-party DNS provider and using their GUI to change DNS records. bit.ly/49Z2ysX

I've been playing Sid Meier's Civilization since 1991 when I bought a boxed copy at the mall to play on what I recall was a 486-66 though I don't remember the exact PC.  It came on floppies and I think I bought it at Electronics Boutique but I forget. bit.ly/48zIevS

I've been a PulsedMedia customer for...3 years?  Maybe longer.  And I have no complaints!  I signed up because I wanted a "just works" seedbox.  I've tried various providers over the years but PM has been a steady presence in my stable. bit.ly/44baHqB

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. #cobol #debian #gcobol #gnucobol bit.ly/48vz3fJ

Signal Transmitter posted an offer on LowEndBox today...and it's limited to 50 servers, so jump on this if you're interested: - 2 Cores - 2GB RAM - 50 GB NVMe Storage - 35€ per year! #Frankfurt #germany #signaltransmitter #sthosting bit.ly/3MdzN1F

I've been working on making my LowEnd empire of cheap VPS systems more reliable and better-managed.  This has ranged from keeping better track of config info to automating with Ansible to using high availability. bit.ly/48lan9S

ServerHost has has been on a serious hot streak this year. #buffalo #dublin #losangeles #serverhost bit.ly/48Ewf1g

Earlier this month, the founder of AppSheet, Praveen Seshadri, posted a long piece on Medium about why he left Google. #google bit.ly/3KkAMg2

I've been playing around with various command line tools and will be sharing some of the fun ones I've found here on LowEndBox.  Today's tool: ansiweather. ansiweather -a false -l "Portland,US" -u imperial Weather in Portland => 45 °F - Wind => 5.99 bit.ly/3M3LkAE

It's 2023 and by some measures, 77% of all web sites are powered by PHP.  I'm not sure it's quite that high, though if you think about every Wordpress site, maybe... #cakephp #codeigniter #Laravel #PHP bit.ly/48iUErW

If you Google ten random MySQL/MariaDB tutorials that involve setting up a database, 9 out of 10 will go something like this: CREATE DATABASE somedb; CREATE USER 'someone'@'localhost' identified by 'secret'; GRANT ALL on somedb.* #mariadb #mysql bit.ly/4prNQix

We ran across an interesting class from MIT entitled "The Missing Semester of Your CS Eduction."  Here is how it's described: Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical bit.ly/3IyJfr3

I was waiting for one of those WIRED $5/year sales to come around to read their provocative article from earlier this year: "The Kremlin has Entered the Chat" (paywall). #facebook #messenger #russia #signal #telegram #whatsapp bit.ly/3X0Cx4U

youtube.com/watch?v=pA9Veg… Veteran readers have already mentally answered the question in the title with "it depends". #centos #debian #geekbench #lowendboxtv #phpbench #rhel #rocky #ubuntu bit.ly/3EJhxGT

It's no secret that the major browser makers will gently nudge you to use their product.  If you install Firefox or Chrome, it encourages you to set it as your default.  If you surf to a Google website in a non-Chrome browser, you might see a message bit.ly/4p5iuhu

Most of us store our data on hard drives, flash drives, external drives, and cloud drives.  Unfortunately, all these mediums have one key problem: storage is limited. bit.ly/47TQ5nA

Need some kit? #rhinotechnologygroup #supermicro bit.ly/49ujLdF