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.
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: The Cult of ForgeMind AI: True Belief, Sarah’s Purple Octopus, and the Quest for Immortality
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.
Read More about Model-Viewer-Controller? No, Route-Viewer-Controller! Concepts in Web Apps
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?
Read More about Too Many Formats: JPG vs. PNG vs. GIF vs. HEIC vs. WEBP
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?
Read More about What Exactly is a Looking Glass and Why Should You Use One?
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!
Read More about RPiServers Lives Again! Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas
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.
Read More about Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)
ServerHost is sponsoring an amazing giveaway for our community! Win a Beelink EQR7 Mini PC and more! Now through May 15.
Read More about Win a Sweet Beelink EQR7 Mini PC in ServerHost’s Spring Giveaway, Now Through May 15! Get a 4GB VPS for Only $33/YEAR!
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.
Read More about Backblaze’s “Betrayal”: Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data
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.
Read More about Not Just Cheap VPS Offers: Luxvps Has Cheap Shared Web Hosting Deals in Germany!
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.
Read More about I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
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.
Read More about Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos’s Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
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...
Read More about Mango Mail’s Spring Sale Has Begun! Get 35% OFF With This Code: 30GB Plan is Only $3.50/Month!
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!
Read More about RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
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!
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 5: SillyTavern Tutorial! Setup, Config, How to Write a Character Card, and MORE!
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
Read More about The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
Read More about The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content
So about those company names and CEO last names...
Read More about LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
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!
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 4: Pitfalls and Problems
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?
Read More about Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We’ve Blocked Since 2016?
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.
Read More about Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here’s How I Fixed It.
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
Read More about Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
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.
Read More about EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Meet Zypher, a Homemade AI Companion Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen Before!
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!
Read More about NEWS: ColoCrossing Expands Buffalo Data Center to Support Growing Infrastructure Demands
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!
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 3: Options and Services (Nomi, Kindroid, SillyTavern, ChatGPT, Claude, and More!)
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.
Read More about ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot
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!
Read More about LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions Part 2: How it Works (System Prompts, Character Cards, Context Windows, and More!)
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