We reached the 30,000 followers mark on Mastodon. This is an unexpected feat. We have 140,000 people on our Twitter profile but that’s because Twitter/X is a bigger platform. I am pleasantly surprised to see so many people on an alternative, decentralized
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Ollama is one of the easiest ways for running large language models (LLMs) locally on your own machine. It’s like Docker. You download publicly available models from Hugging Face using its command line interface. Connect Ollama with a graphical interface and you
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Keeping your laptop always plugged-in speeds up the deterioration of its battery life. But if you are using a docking station, you don’t have the option to unplug the power cord. Thankfully, you can employ a few tricks to limit battery charging
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If you are someone interested in self-hosting, home automation, or just want to tinker with your Raspberry Pi, you have various options to get started. But, if you are new, and want something easy to get you up to speed, CasaOS is
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Imagine a scenario, you downloaded a new binary called ls from the internet. The application could be malicious by intention. Binary files are difficult to trust and run over the system. It could lead to a system hijacking attack, sending your sensitive
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Skype is being discontinued by Microsoft on 5th May. Once a hallmark of the old internet, Skype was already dying a slow death. It just could not keep up with the competition from WhatsApp, Zoom etc despite Microsoft’s backing. While there are
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