Backing up photos and videos is something most people think about only after losing something they can’t get back. Local storage is still the most secure option, as long as the files are encrypted and access to the storage medium is under
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It is getting harder for Linux distributions to stay neutral on AI. Between enterprise-grade solutions like RHEL AI and the steady rise of local inference tools, the pressure to take a position has been building for a while. Canonical recently made theirs
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Only last week, we were talking about how LVFS, the firmware update service for Linux, had turned up the heat on vendors who didn’t contribute their fair share. To tackle that, the project has been going through a phased restrictions rollout that
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It has not been a week since we came across Copy Fail, the exploit that took advantage of an old logic flaw to escalate a local user to root, giving them all kinds of harmful access over a system they shouldn’t have.
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There are two kinds of Linux users. Those who live in the comfort of GUI and those who live in the adventurous world of terminal. I am neither of the two. I prefer the comfort of GUI and I jump into the
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Let me start with two not so positive news. Ubuntu suffered a cyber attack for almost a week. Don’t panick. It was a DDoS attack and makes a website unavailable by flooding the server with traffic. The ubuntu.com website, Snap store, Launchpad,
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It seems like Ubuntu cannot catch a break. Their entire web infrastructure was under continued DDoS attack for 5 days. Which seemed to be over now. But the misery is not. A few hours ago, there was a (now deleted) tweet from
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Before we dive into the topic at hand, you should know that Euro-Office is a new European productivity project by Nextcloud and IONOS, which was forked from ONLYOFFICE. It is a self-hosted, web-based office suite built for organizations and governments that want
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The Google Home Mini launched in 2017 as Google’s smallest, cheapest smart speaker. Millions were sold, handed out, and given away as promotional gifts. Many of them still work, but it being in the last phase of its lifecycle means that while
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Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government’s developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs. His post came at a
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