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SSH Uses TCP, Not UDP: What to Allow Through Your Firewall
If a firewall rule asks whether SSH should use TCP or UDP, choose TCP . Standard OpenSSH connects over TCP, usually on port 22.
- SSH uses TCP, not UDP
- OpenSSH servers default to TCP port 22
- Allow inbound TCP traffic on SSH port
Best Zapier Alternatives in 2026 (Cheaper and More Powerful)
TL;DR Make is the best overall pick among Zapier alternatives: 10,000 credits for $9/mo (annual) versus Zapier's 750 tasks at $19.99/mo.
- Make offers 10,000 credits for $9 a month, cheaper than Zapier's $19.99 for 750 tasks
- n8n is free for self-hosted use and most powerful for technical teams
- Pipedream is for developers building AI agents, IFTTT is cheap personal solution at $2.99
How I Built a Substack New-Post Monitor (and the Dedup Problem Nobody Warns You About)
TL;DR: Fetching a Substack publication's latest posts took an afternoon. Making the monitor not alert twice on the same post — across runs, crashes, and machine moves — was the actual project.
- Substack new-post monitor took an afternoon to set up
- Identified same post across runs proved major challenge
- Used stable post IDs as deduplication key
Japan to Help Hospitals Adopt Cloud-Based Medical Record Systems
Tokyo, Oct. 4 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese health ministry plans to support medical institutions that introduce cloud-based electronic medical record systems, which manage medical records and other…
- Japanese health ministry to certify cloud-based EMR systems
- Subsidies for early adoption of secure cloud systems starting 2027
- 72.6% of clinics and 73.5% of hospitals with 199 beds already use EMR
Unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D With 128MB L3 Cache Surfaces
Details of an unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D recently appeared on the internet, indicating that the red chipmaker may have initially planned on releasing two SKUs at the time.
Hacking attempts targeting court network spike this year
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Yonhap) -- About 240,000 hacking attempts targeting the court net...