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is actually "specifically, by the hackers who run Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN, a London Trust Media company" which does not sound like a sustaining solution and absolutely not like the community of readers.

I was a Linux Journal subscriber during the mid-90's until around 2005.

It was a great magazine and one of the few ones with good technical content related to UNIX like OSes.

Lately there was little difference to the pile of Linux Something magazines that are still being printed, or blogs and technical journals scattered around the Web.

So it remains to be seen if the 2.0 changes will be enough to save it. We already lost DDJ and The C/C++ Users Journal.

Its a subscription magazine. So, Patreon will be useful for people who do not really want to read the magazine but donate the money anyway. Not sure how that would work.

On the note of Ubuntu, PIA also sponsors Linux Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) and even has a tool in the distro's repository to generate OpenVPN config files easily.

>"Out of a sea of "private, no logs" VPN services, ..."

Has this ever been verified in any way?

As long as you can ignore all of the tracking cookies set on their web page.

VPNs are minting it, mate. Ever since copyright maximalists successfully lobbied for widespread crackdowns across Europe, the market has boomed. Costs are very low and margins are almost up to you.

I’m actually happy that, for once, money is going back to the critical projects that need it so much.

I don't think they release any numbers, but they have to be one of the most popular VPN subscription services available.

I heard that the CEO was an early investor and holder in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

You wouldn't have seen Linux Journal on newsstands in recent years because it discontinued the print edition and went online-only way back in 2011: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-goes-100-d...

Funnily enough, the article announcing that was subtitled "Introducing Linux Journal 2.0"... so this new one should be 3.0 really. :-)

Linux Format is owned by Future plc, a publicly traded company with more than 200 magazines in their portfolio. Linux Pro is ultimately owned by Marquard Media Group AG, a large swiss media conglomerate. So a lot of those have parents with deeper pockets. Print distribution likely has high fixed costs that are not affordable to single magazine.

Linux Format actually had a mass walkout of their editing staff a year or two back, they started Linux Voice.

I wish it would be replaced with https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/ as qwebirc is quite dated :)

I've toyed with putting WebSocket-based live chat boxes on pages with various types of more traditional dynamic content (like an imgur clone) because I don't think we've exhausted all the interesting ways that people can interact in real time on the internet, but in practice there's always the problem that there are a very dense super active times and then tons of large super dead times, and it gives way to a group of people with shared interest that wants to turn into a live community but just can't and after a few days of checking in often for other people, they just get back on with their lives and abandon the thing.

Why does their web page heavily use services from Google, specifically for tracking users (e.g. google analytics)?

That doesn't come across as "privacy-protecting" at all to me.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/57316-nsa-classifies-linux-jou...