17+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1641+ words) Paint.NET, a popular image editor for Windows, can now run on Linux in a very early experimental setup. Paint.NET has been a Windows application since 2004. For many years, running it on Linux through Wine was difficult because Paint....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1764+ words) n8n makes it surprisingly easy to build powerful automations. You can connect applications, work with APIs, transform data, trigger workflows on a schedule, respond to webhooks, and automate tasks that would otherwise require a surprising amount of manual work. Before using…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (435+ words) Linus Torvalds has officially closed the two-week merge window and announced the first release candidate (RC1) for the upcoming Linux Kernel 7.3 version to the public on Sunday, August 30, 2026. While the release is exceptionally large in terms of commit count and diff…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1461+ words) If you have used Linux for a while, you probably know cron jobs. You use it to run a script every night at 2 AM, or every 5 minutes. Most modern Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, RHEL) use systemd as the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1403+ words) A 15-year-old Linux application that still runs core business logic is not a problem to be solved. It is an asset nobody wants to touch because nobody fully understands everything it does anymore. The application itself is rarely the risk....

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (837+ words) A phone's advertising identifier is one of the most overlooked privacy settings on mobile devices. Android uses the Google Advertising ID, while Apple uses the Identifier for Advertisers. These identifiers allow apps and advertising networks to recognize your device across…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1758+ words) This guide shows a free, open-source path to bot protection and fake account protection for your websites. It uses two tools: CrowdSec and ALTCHA. Both are open source. Both run on your own server. Neither costs money at a basic…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (304+ words) Linus Torvalds released the seventh release candidate (RC7) for Linux Kernel 7.2 on Sunday, August 9, 2026. This release marks the final testing phase of the 7.2 cycle. If everything goes according to plan, we will see the stable release very soon. In the Kernel…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1317+ words) When your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product is engineered to meet a 99.99% Service Level Agreement (SLA), the infrastructure must be able to absorb failures automatically. A 99.99% SLA allows for only about 52 minutes of downtime per year. If a primary load balancer fails…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1589+ words) Your self-hosted environment probably did not become complex overnight. It may have started with a single PostgreSQL database. Then you added Nextcloud, Grafana, Home Assistant, MinIO, or a few other applications. Each one brought its own database, tables, and configuration....