What Open Source License Should You Use?
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What Open Source License Should You Use?

The world of open source licensing is tough, and it can make the difference between who can use your project as well as whether your code can be stolen. Some licenses embody the principles of Open Source, where people can use your code for whatever they see fit, even if their own code is not…

How to Use Quadspinner Gaea for Minecraft
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How to Use Quadspinner Gaea for Minecraft

Something that has been floating around the Minecraft community for a while, with little documentation is Quadspinner Gaea. While Gaea gets a lot of documentation for game development, there’s not a lot out there to help with Minecraft, which is something that I believe could be fixed. Gaea is a very complex engine, but I…

Beautiful Desktop Background from Info Toast
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Beautiful Desktop Background from Info Toast

We are starting a new series of tutorials, this time pertaining to minimalism and making your computer systems look pretty. We have created a beautiful desktop background that changes depending on the time, which is available here: https://infotoast.org/homepage/. Try refreshing and you can see that it shows a different image each time. Our background cycles…

How to Install OpenTerrainGenerator for Minecraft 1.19
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How to Install OpenTerrainGenerator for Minecraft 1.19

OpenTerrainGenerator is one of the oldest, and most customizable world generation mods of all time. Many know that it is a fork of TerrainControl, but most don’t know that it TC itself is a fork of PhoenixTerrainMod, which is a fork of BiomeTerrain Mod, all the way back in Minecraft Alpha. This tutorial will teach…

How to Stop Tracking Systemwide
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How to Stop Tracking Systemwide

The technology known as the “PiHole” has become quite ubiquitous over recent years. The PiHole allows you to create a DNS server that stops tracking entirely, across your entire network. However, what happens when you need to leave home. What happens when you go to work or go to a local coffee shop? Now, you’re…

How to Easily Live an Untrackable Life
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How to Easily Live an Untrackable Life

The year is 2022. The world’s most popular browser is Google Chrome. The world’s most popular Search Engine is Google. However, what if I told you, yes you, the viewer, that other options exist and they’re not hard to figure out either. In fact, living an untrackable life is extremely easy. Depending on your current…

Stop Telling Beginning Linux Users These Things
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Stop Telling Beginning Linux Users These Things

Linux is something that takes time to become accustomed to. Many advanced Linux users have strong opinions about certain things. There are certain things that we just should not be telling beginning Linux users. Most beginning Linux users don’t care about certain things, and they’re barely sold on ditching Windows. In this article, I will…

How to Speed up FreeBSD Ports with Synth
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How to Speed up FreeBSD Ports with Synth

So, you installed FreeBSD hoping to get a clean system with every package made specifically for it. You soon find out that the package manager doesn’t update regularly and you wind up getting security vulnerabilities unfixed for longer. You want to use ports and you probably tried portmaster but it is extremely slow and requires…

OpenTerrainGenerator: The Death of an 11-Year-Old Minecraft Mod
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OpenTerrainGenerator: The Death of an 11-Year-Old Minecraft Mod

One of the biggest cult classic Minecraft mods, OpenTerrainGenerator, an entire ecosystem enabling beautiful world generation in Minecraft, is currently on its deathbed. Odds are it won’t make it. The mod in question is one of the oldest and most complex Minecraft mods of all time, and I had a VIP seat to its demise….