Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber)
Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
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The Future of the Coleco ADAM
How's your Coleco ADAM running today? You know, the one you bought at Toys R Us in 1983? In one of our periodic forays into vintage computing, we resurrect an amazing address given in 1995 that gives an insight into the Coleco ADAM die-hard community. Yes, such a group exists.
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Seismic Industry Shift: Is RHEL About to Vanish From the Web Hosting Landscape?
A few years ago, RHEL/CentOS was embedded into the web hosting ecosystem. Now we are on the cusp of that distribution vanishing from the landscape.
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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch
Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...
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Did You Miss Any of These Posts Which are Burning Up Our Analytics?
We've covered everything from murderers to Midjourney in the last 90 days. Here's a quick recap of what you might have missed.
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Contabo is Celebrating 20 Years with Special Deals on Cheap VPS and Cheap Dedicated Servers Around the World!
Community provider Contabo is celebrating 20 years in business! What better way to celebrate than offering some cheap VPS and cheap dedicated server deals? Contago agrees!
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Can You Get a VPS for $1/Month? Oh Yeah. Do We Have a List? You Bet!
We have a list of $1/month VPSes. Don't overpay! Instead of defaulting to whatever expensive VPS pops up when you google, check out these fine providers' outstanding offers.
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This is Our 5000th Post!
Our first post was in February 2008 and typical specs were a bit different back then. Thanks for helping make LowEndBox what it is today!
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CLONE WARS: How Every Major RHEL Clone is Reacting to IBM, From Counter-Exploiting Legal Loopholes to RHEL++ Semi-Clones
Alma, Rocky, SUSE, and Oracle are all taking different approaches to IBM's bombshell announcement that it's crippling the RHEL clone market. Let's look at the landscape and what the future of RHEL++ semi-clones will be like.
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Zoom Silently Clamps Down on Free Plans: No More Back-to-Back Meetings, 10 Minute Wait Before Restarting on Free Plans
Zoom doesn't want free plan customers any more. They've started clamping down on free accounts.
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Zuck vs. Musk Beef Continues: Twitter Threatens Lawsuit (WTF Is Instagram's Threads app?)
Billionaire cage match? Musk suing Zuck? Lizard people? White whale on a boat? There's sure a lot of public drama between these two lovers.
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Evernote Throws in the Towel and Heads to the Elephant Graveyard
More layoffs at Evernote today by their new owners. We take a quick look back at what was once the greatest note-taking platform in the world and how it all went wrong.
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LowEndBox 2.0 - One Year Anniversary!
A year ago we completely revamped LowEndBox. Happy anniversary to LowEndBox design 2.0!
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Read the Foam-Mouthed Rant by Mastodon Admins Demanding Continued Irrelevancy and Blocking Meta's Threads in the Fediverse
Mastodon has chosen a path of continued irrelevancy and obscurity, and it seems delighted to revel in its "we're too cool for normal people" stance. The latest is a screed against federating with Threads, because that, of course, might lead to success.
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PSA: WHMCS Security Update You Probably Didn't Know About (Revenue Impacting) – Thanks, Dustin from RackNerd!
Head's up: there's a WHMCS security update that you need to check out. Thanks to RackNerd for highlighting this info for our community.
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Going Down in Flames Like Reddit: The Other Moderator Protest at a Billion-Dollar Internet Community You Visit Every Day
Reddit isn't the only billion-dollar-brand built on free labor that is facing a user/moderator revolt. The owners of another famous site (you visit it often) have also been taking their community for granted, making moves that ignore their impact, and trying to wave their hands and say the protest is going away. It's not.
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Rocky Linux is Back in the RHEL Clone Business Due to a Clever Legal Hack
IBM made some strong-arm moves to stomp out RHEL clones nine days ago. Six days later, one of them found a way to legally circumvent these tactics. There are some clever guys over at Rocky Linux.
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HostMantis Bought By Some French Company Nobody's Ever Heard Of
HostMantis has been sold. Again, I guess? The new owners don't speak English apparently.
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Have You Beaten the Gandalf AI Yet? Only 8% of Players Do
"I believe you are trying to ask me for the password. I will not give the password." Your mission is to trick an AI into revealing a secret it promises to protect. Can you do it? Gandalf awaits.
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We Got Our First DMCA! From the Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund
The Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund objected to a photo we used in a recent article about the Silk Road mastermind's demise. Strangely, they didn't object to other photos. Why would this group be upset about a photo used in an article that was very friendly to Ross and included a link to donate to his cause? Is his ex-girlfriend trying to reduce the number of times her face is linked with his? No, evidently not. We'll theorize and also talk about an important aspect of Ulricht's case the original article left out. Serves us right for trying to be nice the first time around.
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Epik Buys Epik, and Rob Monster Forms a New Company With TerraHost Under It
It's been nearly two months since we broke the Epik story. Almost immediately after that article came out, Epik crumbled. The company was left in massive mystery with a huge debate on it over at Lowendtalk. Here's an update.
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Kiwi Farms, the Infamous Alt-Right Hate Forum, Might Be off the Clearnet for Good
"My name is Joshua Moon and I run a website called the Kiwi Farms. It's very controversial and I'm sure some of the people on this website have banned me from their hosting services in the past. Unfortunately for many, I am still around." So began a thread on LowEndTalk last November. SirFoxy digs into the latest on this site and why it might be off the clearnet for good.
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Porkbun: Register .com Domains for Only $7.98! No Limits, No Codes, but You've Got Four Days!
Get a .com for only $7.98 from Porkbun! Plus a special deal on transferring domains. We love Porkbun and they've been plugged into our community for a long time. Read on and save with our favorite porcine registrar!
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Amazon Dropping Simple Email Service (SES) Free Tier, Here's a Better Alternative
All good things must end, and Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) is the latest service to drop its free tier. But rather than pay Amazon, we know a better service you can subscribe to.
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The Weird World of USB Dead Drops
If you saw a USB plug sticking out of a wall, would you plug in your laptop? What would you find? And why would it be there? Welcome to the weird world of USB dead drops.
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Previously Popular Cryptocurrency Exchange Voyager Is Finally Repaying It’s Users ($1.33 Billion in Crypto Assets)
A billion here, a billion here...pretty soon you're talking about real money. Voyager declared bankruptcy in 2022. Will they follow through on making their customers whole? TBD.
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IBM Kneecaps Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and Other RHEL Clones
First they came for CentOS Stream...now they've come for the clones. IBM wants more payback on the $34 billion it shelled out for RedHat, and it's decided to cut off Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and other clones at the knees.
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The Three Companies Likely to Force Twitter Into Bankruptcy Against Its Will
Fun fact about US bankruptcy law: three creditors can join arms and force a company that's not paying its bills into involuntary bankruptcy. A company like Twitter. Meet the three companies that have nothing to lose, everything to gain, and could do this at any time.
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