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November 17, 2022
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The best Twitter alternatives

As Twitter continues to circle the drain, many people are already heading for the doors looking for a new online home. The good news is there are many other social networks. The bad news is none of them are complete … Continue reading →

November 16, 2022
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Stop using Twitter to log in to other websites

With all of Twitter’s ever-growing technical problems, I’d missed an elephant in the room-sized disaster. Fortunately, a friend reminded me that many people use Twitter’s log-in as their login for other websites. Eep! You need to stop doing that…Read More

November 14, 2022
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Rocky Linux Foundation launches

Once upon a time, 2002 to be exact, Gregory Kurtzer started a Linux distribution called CentOS, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It became really popular. Businesses that had Linux-savvy administrators used it to run their businesses.…Read More

November 11, 2022
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GitHub’s Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit

Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub’s revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time. GitHub now has an annual recurring…Read More