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It seems there’s a service for everything, but sometimes you simply learn more by doing it yourself. If you haven’t enjoyed the somewhat anachronistic pleasures of running your own server and hosting ...

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Unfortunately, in the view of many enterprise security professionals, the increased privacy promised by ECH could simultaneously reduce their ability to detect and respond to threats. Widespread ...

The hardest part of getting started on Mastodon is the first step. We show you how to sign up for Mastodon and pick the right server. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from ...

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A discarded vape pen becomes a 24 KB web server thanks to clever firmware and microcontroller tweaks by a Romanian engineer.