Saturday Deep Lore: Announcing the LowEndTalk Forum!
Let's drop some deep LowEndTalk lore here on Saturday!
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Richard Stallman (rms) is Wrong When He Claims Every Cellphone has a Back Door
Richard Stallman of the GNU project is famous for his absolutist stand on software freedom. But he also takes a maximalist stance on privacy, resisting any attempt to gather his personal information, including his refusal to own a cellphone. He's very hypocritical on this point, but he's also strayed into wild-eyed conspiracy theories on his reasons for this position.
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Scaling a VPS Hosting Business Without Expanding Your Ops Team in 2026
Today's article was written by industry titan WebPros. They're the force behind cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS, SolusVM and other solutions that power the hosting industry. In this article, they're sharing both roadblocks to scaling and solutions to overcoming those obstacles. Learn how hosting providers scale VPS operations without increasing headcount using automation, structured workflows, and efficient infrastructure control.
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Is The Register About to Go Bust?
I came across an interesting post on a rather poorly-formatted blog known as TechRights.org about the precarious nature of The Register's finances. They look precarious.
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Why the "Remember When Google Removed Don't Be Evil?" Narrative is Wrong
Over the years, Google has slid into Big Tech Evil, and so to reflect their new sociopathic identity, they removed their Don't Be Evil motto. So now Google says it's OK for them to Do Evil. Right? Wrong.
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While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993
Sometimes I wake up at at 1am thinking about problems in my life. Sometimes I think about things I have to do the coming day. And then there are days when some almost-forgotten bit of code is just about to expire from my mental cache and decides it wants to take a stab at creating a new reference to itself in neural network.
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On a Roll! HostPapa Continues Its Acquisition Spree by Adding Hostwinds to Its Portfolio
Just a a couple weeks ago, we covered HostPapa's acquisition of Tailor Made Services. Now they've grown again, acquiring Hostwinds, a Seattle-based company that's been operating for 16 years. Hostwinds offers shared, VPS, and other services.
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Achtung! Critical cPanel Vulnerability: Take Action Now!
The world's most popular (and expensive) web hosting panel is apparently vulnerable to anyone who decides to connect to your port 2087.
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The Problems with Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs are a form of marketing where providers pay commissions to users who drive new subscribers to their site. In theory, it's a win-win for everyone. In practice, practice is not the same as theory.
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Vim Fracturing Along LLM Lines - Is This the Dawn of a New Age of LLM vs. Non-LLM Codebases?
Vim has long been the standard edition of the venerable vi editor, which turns 50 this year. Both Vim and its successor, NeoVim, explicitly allow LLM contributions. There are those, however, who don't like that.
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HostPapa Completes Acquisition of Tailor Made Servers
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.
Read MoreRPiServers Lives Again! Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas
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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Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)
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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Backblaze's "Betrayal": Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data
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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I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
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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Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos's Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
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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RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
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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The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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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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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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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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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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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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