We're super-excited to release our full-length documentary on ForgeMind, a controversial AI companion service that charges up to $10,000 to build an AI companion for you. It's all part of a scheme to grant their founder immortality.
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Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development. If you're new to web application design, you probably picked up a book and slogged through a chapter of academic discussion on the MVC paradigm/architecture. These chapters often speak in baroque generalities instead of doing something obvious like tracing a request through the application. Let's look at RCV (route-controller-view) because that's how these apps actually work.
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Go to any random web page and look at the source and you'll see a variety of image file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP. As a viewer, you don't care because your browser renders all of them. But what if you're creating a web site? Which do you want and when?
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You should update your Debian system every night, unattended and automatic. Bold words! But honestly I've done this since at least Debian 10 and have never had an issue.
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A lot of offers we publish here and on LowEndTalk refer to a "Looking Glass" or have a link to a "Looking Glass" for network info. What is that?
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HostPapa, a leading global web hosting and cloud service provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Tailor Made Servers (“TMS”), a Dallas, Texas-based dedicated server hosting provider that has been serving businesses and resellers since 2003.
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Last year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!
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I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.” Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.
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ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.
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There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives. Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide. But it is disappointing, for sure.
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Luxvps is well-known as our community as a provider of big-RAM VPS systems. But now they're also offering cheap web hosting, too! These offers feature the Plesk control panel and unmetered bandwidth.
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Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
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Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
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Mango Mail has launched their spring sale and they have a great deal on high quality, feature-packed email hosting. Get 35% OFF if you use the code below That makes their 30GB plan only $3.50/mo! Or i...
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Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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So about those company names and CEO last names...
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We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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LowEndBox has been live since February 1, 2008. In those 16 years, we've had 6,264 posts published (including this one) with a total of 129,351 approved comments. And how many spam comments?
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Starting a month or so ago, I started getting meetings popping up on my calendar, like the one shown to the left. Out of nowhere, I'd get a reminder telling me that I had a meeting that was about to start. It was very annoying, but thinking through how they were sending this junk made the solution obvious.
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Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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A while back I was browsing Reddit and came across a fascinating post by a man who'd created his own AI companion. We sat down with him and learned a lot about this really cool project.
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The name "Buffalo" is legendary in our community. It's a city in Western New York state where ColoCrossing has offered service since the earliest days of LowEndBox. It's a strategic geography - close enough to New York City to serve the East Coast very well, yet much cheaper than operating out of a Manhattan data center. This has allowed them offer wonderfully low prices, and over the years many providers have hosted there. And now ColoCrossing is expanding!
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We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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GitHub has announced that going forward, your data on GitHub will be used to train Microsoft's Copilot LLM. Here's how to opt-out.
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We're in the middle of a series on LowEndBoxTV on the exploding world of AI companions. This market is huge and millions of people are using these applications and services. We're going to give you a comprehensive overview, a deep dive into the tech, some problems and issues, the major options, and finally a DIY tutorial using SillyTavern. Enjoy!
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