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We have updated all our sites running on Nixos-Scale to linux kernel 6.12.93 from 6.12.92. With the assistance of AI we should be able to keep our systems up-to-date better. I will go into more depth on our systems...
Open note →Hey There, I was scrolling through my Mastodon feed and Nextcloud posted an article about how governments and companies are increasingly seeking data...
Read →A website domain is the address of your website that people type into their web browsers to access it. Think of it as the digital equivalent of a street...
Read →What’s FOSS? FOSS is an acronym for Free & Open Source Software[1]. Most software that we are familiar with is not open source. What does it mean that...
Read →Why Use Linux? Last time, we looked at what Linux is and is not. Today, we’ll lay out part of why you should want to use Linux rather than Windows or...
Read → Hi Again, Today I thought we would roll things back a bit and take a look at what some of the core topics I’ve been covering really are. First things...
Read →Tired of knowing that Zoom, Hangouts, Meet, Skype, and most of the other video conferencing platforms get snooped on by the CCP, if not our own...
Read →If you ever wondered about self-hosting, this week will be a good introduction to the concept as well as to the fediverse, a portmanteau of Federated and...
Read →What you need to know about how Altha Tech uses WordPress to host and manage your sites A match made in heaven. Altha Tech has used WordPress to power...
Read →What is Nextcloud all about? Maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe this will be an introduction for you, but it is, in short, a powerful, private, open...
Read →What is NixOS, anyway? NixOS is more of a packaging system than a full-fledged Linux Distribution. What makes it interesting or worthwhile? It, like...
Read →Hey Folks, This week we are launching our first product. The Altha Phone. It is a de-googled phone experience. We have been working on this project, as...
Read →Hey There, TrueNAS is an operating system that provides some serious flexibility for the home and medium, and enterprise for that matter, business. It...
Read →Hey There, Wordpress security is a concern. I was just talking to a sysadmin the other day and he made an off-hand comment about their frontend concerning...
Read →When I am onboarding a customer I will start by asking the what they like or dislike about their website currently, then drive the conversation from their...
Read →It’s hard to explain, but Linux is a purer type of computing than with Windows. It’s much harder to understand and use, but once you understand it, you...
Read →You may not think that your data is important, because you aren't some big important person. You are wrong. Every person is important, and when people in...
Read →Containers allow you to break up your workload on your server into smaller parts than virtualization does. Containers are designed to run with the host...
Read →A livestream is built up of a few components. The inputs, the outputs, and the endpoints. Your inputs are your cameras, microphones, screen captures...
Read →We are currently rolling out our own custom server architecture. We use AMD Ryzen 9 processors and Kingston memory (We found NEMIX memory is a little...
Read →The parallel economy is building and we need to pay attention. There will be a black/grey market that exists, because there will have to be. When I lived...
Read →It all began in 2009 with the Bitcoin White Paper. Satoshi Nakamoto, whom we don't know who that is, wrote the Bitcoin Whitepaper as a proposition to the...
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