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  • Confirmed VPN wants to bring transparency to the VPN industry

    The VPN industry sucks. Dozens of companies promise you the impossible dream of perfect privacy. But it’s simply a big lie. A company called Confirmed VPN wants to change that by holding VPN companies accountable. WTF is a VPN? VPN companies let you establish an encrypted tunnel between your device...

  • The creator of 'Doom' is releasing nine new levels for free in 2019

    John Romero, one of the creators of Doom, announced a special surprise for fans on the 1993 game’s 25th anniversary: more Doom. Sort of, anyway. Romero doesn’t own the rights to Doom as a series, and rights-holder Bethesda Softworks already rebooted the series for a modern audience, with great success....

  • Weekend Reading: Sysadmin 101

    by Kyle Rankin This series covers sysadmin basics. The first article explains how to approach alerting and on-call rotations as a sysadmin. In the second article, I discuss how to automate yourself out of a job, and in the third, I explain why and how you should use tickets. The...