The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content
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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LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 4: Pitfalls and Problems
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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Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We’ve Blocked Since 2016?
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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Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here’s How I Fixed It.
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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Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Meet Zypher, a Homemade AI Companion Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen Before!
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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NEWS: ColoCrossing Expands Buffalo Data Center to Support Growing Infrastructure Demands
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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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 3: Options and Services (Nomi, Kindroid, SillyTavern, ChatGPT, Claude, and More!)
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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ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot
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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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions Part 2: How it Works (System Prompts, Character Cards, Context Windows, and More!)
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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9-0! SCOTUS Gives Immunity to ISPs Over Illegal Downloads
"Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights." So wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the US Supreme Court decision Cox Communications vs. Sony Music released today.
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I Actually Liked and Used Sora Intensively. But I Won’t Miss It.
As you've probably heard, OpenAI is shutting down Sora. Ironically, I just got done using it intensively for the last few weeks.
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pfSense: Yes, You Should Use Auto Config Backup and Here’s the Right Settings
For a lot of network devices, their entire configuration amounts to only a few megabytes' worth of data. But what a pain if you lose those megabytes! Fortunately, protecting your pfSense firewall is easy, secure, off-site, and FREE!
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Wow, That’s a Big Dedicated Server! 28 Cores and a /25 for Only $199/Month from QuickServers!
This is an offer for power users. And we do mean power! Check out this offer from QuickServers!
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We Love Storage VPS Offers! Get 1TB for Only €1.99/Month From DeluxHost!
You can never have enough storage. Whether it's backups, application storage, or your personal NextCloud, it's easy to chew up storage quickly. One of my favorite market niches is the storage VPS, where providers give you big disk and just enough CPU and RAM to power an endpoint. You wouldn't run a massive database on them, but as a destination for rclone or BorgBackup, they're fantastic. Community provider DeluxHost just shared some great storage VPS offers on LowEndTalk. For only €1.99/Month, you can get 1TB of space!2
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 1: An Introduction to the Massive World of AI Companionship and Romance
We're starting a new 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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SuperMicro Founder Indicted on Charges of Smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, one of the founders of server manufacturer SuperMicro, has been indicted on charges of smuggling billions of dollars' worth of high-end Nvidia GPUs to China.
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HostDime in Dispute With Its London Facility, All Services Down – Make Sure You Have Backups!
HostDime, a global datacenter provider with over 200 employees, has had its service in London terminated. Downstreams are feeling the pain.
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A VPS For Only $7/YEAR in Chicago! Wow! Check Out TNAHosting!
TNAHosting just rocked the community with a fantastic offer on LowEndTalk!
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Deep Lore on the LEB Provider Graveyard: Lessons From Every Major Deadpool of the Last Few Years
In the LowEnd community, a "deadpool" is not a wisecracking Marvel superhero. It's a provider who cratered, often taking our readers' money with it. Let's take a look at some prominent deadpools over the last few years to see what lessons we can learn.
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Adobe Firefly is the Worst $29.99 I Ever Spent
Adobe's new Firefly image and video generation tool is appallingly bad.
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F*** the RAM Shortage! Get a Big RAM VPS from AffordableBytes! 14 GB RAM VPS for Only €7.99 per month
AffordableBytes is saying "F** the RAM Shortage!" Does that mean Fight the RAM Shortage, or...
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Swap Is Back: High RAM Prices Are Bringing Back an Old Technology
Surging RAM prices may mean that we all need to refamiliarize ourselves with an old friend: swap.
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A Big WOW From Rabisu: Get a 1GB VPS for $9.90/YEAR in 6 Locations with UNMETERED Bandwidth!
You're going to love this offer. Get a 1GB VPS with unmetered bandwidth (including IPv4) in six locations - including North American, Europe, Asia and Australia - for only $9.90/YEAR!
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Dollar-a-Month VPS! Check Out These Servitro Offers in Germany!
Some people think you need to spend $5 or $10 a month to get a VPS. But as Servitro demonstrates, all you need is a dollar a month to get service!
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25% of Americans Have an “Intimate, Romantic” Relationship With an AI Chatbot
If you had to guess the percentage of American adults who say they have a "personal" relationship with an AI chatbot, what would be your guess? And what percentage of those would describe it as "romantic"?
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Is TrueNAS Killing Its Community Edition? Say It Ain’t So!
TrueNAS has eliminated the ability to reproduce their ISO. Is this the beginning of the end of the community edition?
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