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Saving Your Analog Data from Oblivion
If you have old VHS tapes or audio cassettes lying around, the hardware to play these analog formats is becoming more difficult to find. Here's how to convert those old analog treasures to digital format for future enjoyment.
Paint by Numbers
Design your own boot menu with Grub Customizer
Is the simple black and white GRUB menu causing confusion and obscuring important choices? Why not customize with GRUB themes and the Grub Customizer?
Close to Your Heart
Build your own pulsemeter
A pulsemeter built with a Raspberry Pi, a digital-to-analog converter, and an optical sensor monitors your heart rate just as well as many far more expensive medical devices.
Key Keeper
Data Security in the AWS Cloud
As a cloud market leader, Amazon Web Services has had to put a great deal of thought into data security. Encryption options and key management play an important role.
Tutorial – LÖVE animation
A LÖVE animation primer
LÖVE is an extension of the Lua language, designed to make developing games easy. In this tutorial, we'll explore this framework by creating some animated sprites.
The Consumer Guide to Preinstalled Linux
Linux Ready to Go
In recent years, preinstalled Linux has become widely available; the question now is where to buy.
Sync or Swim
Synchronize your data across multiple devices with Syncthing
If you need a cloudless solution for syncing data across multiple devices, Syncthing could be just the thing.
Number Game
Getting started with the R data analysis language
The R programming language is a universal tool for data analysis and machine learning.
Mini Miner
Mining the Monero cryptocurrency the CLI way
The Monero cryptocurrency lets you get in the game without spending thousands on hardware. We'll show you how.
Looking for Cracks
Enumerating resources with feroxbuster and ffuf
A cyberattack unfolds in stages. The enumeration phase is when the attacker looks for holes in the target system. Tools like feroxbuster and ffuf bring the power of automation to the search.
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Pine64 Halts Production of Linux Devices
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Linux Mint Shares a Possible Kernel Cleanup Solution
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CachyOS Gets an Update
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The Linux Kernel Dev Staging Area Now Rejects AI-Generated Patches
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Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share
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AI Helped Develop a Linux Exploit
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Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered
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Ubuntu 26.10 to Include Ubuntu Certified Hardware Check
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Substantial Update to IPFire Now Available
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