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Moving to Hetzner VPS: Shorter legal docs as a competitive advantage

Do you read the often lengthy legal agreements required by your Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting provider? I guess that many skip past these documents, but…

How-to monitor system bandwidth usage statistics with Darkstat on Fedora

Darkstat is a handy little program that will monitor and track your system’s bandwidth utilization and help you keep an eye on what is eating up…

Problems to expect with Apache mod_cache

The mod_cache module in the Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is a standard HTTP web cache that you can use to accelerate your website by caching dynamically…

Actually secure DNS over TLS in Unbound

You’ll find quite a few blog posts and tutorials on how to configure encrypted DNS over TLS forwarding in Unbound. I’ve yet to find a single…

Apple News, reading glasses, and MacBook

Getting the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions

macOS 10.14 “Mojave” beta ships with the Apple News app installed by default. However, you may not be able to see the app if your Mac…

The tiny NFC area on the Nokia 7 Plus

The Near-field communication (NFC) area on the Nokia 7 Plus (TA-1046) isn’t located at the center back of the phone where you’d find it on most…

GDPR in Practice: Flattr now deletes your browsing history within 3 months

Since the launch of Flattr 2.0, the micro-payment service has collected parts of your web browser history through its browser extension in order to facilitate effortless…

I’d welcome usage reporting in Fedora Linux

Ubuntu have begun tracking more non-personalized and anonymous usage data to enable better data-driven decisions for the future development of the popular Linux distribution. As a…

What is Lenovo WiFi Security and should you enable or ignore it?

Lenovo laptop customers with the Lenovo Vantage app for Windows 10 (preinstalled by default) are being prompted to enable a new feature called Lenovo WiFi Security.…

Reviewing options for backing up to Backblaze B2 with Window Backup

I’ve reviewed the different possible options for backing up your Windows 10 computer with Windows Backup (formerly known as File History) to the ultra-cheap backup storage…