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Plex Blocks Hetzner in Move Against Piracy

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Sep 15, 2023
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Recently, if you host your own Plex server on a Hetzner IP address, there's a very good chance you received the following email: Important notice about the hosting service you may be using. We're contacting you to let you know about an upcoming action that is likely to affect your Plex Media Server setup. You're receiving this notice because the IP address associated with a Plex Media Server on your account appears to com...

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CyberBunker: The ‘Bulletproof’ Darknet Market Host That Operated out of Bunkers (Founder Sentenced to Prison)

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Sep 12, 2023
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CyberBunker was a "bulletproof" hosting operation run primarily by Xennt or Herman-Johan Xennt, and CB3ROB or Sven Kamphuis (specifically early on). It opened up in the late 1990s operating out of a r...

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Ten Less-Commonly-Known Youtube Channels to Listen to on a Long Road Trip

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Sep 10, 2023
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Heading out for a road trip?  Check out my list of 10 awesome YouTube channels to stream (or download) while you're on the road. All are audio-only-approved and will keep you company as the miles fly by.

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The Top 5 Mini PCs Worth Buying in Late 2023 ($159 for an Entire PC?)

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Sep 09, 2023
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What if I told you there's a cheaper Windows or Linux equivalent to a Mac Mini that's just a little bit bigger than a Raspberry Pi? ...and that with recent improvements in the CPU industry, the integr...

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The Curious Case of 4.1 Million Misappropriated AFRINIC IPv4 Addresses

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Sep 08, 2023
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AFRINIC is the regional internet registry (RIR) for Africa. The second employee ever hired at AFRINIC way back in 2004 was directly responsible for the biggest IPv4 heist in history: 4.1 million IPv4 addresses. This is the story.

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Rumors Circulate About DediPath’s Database Being Sold

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Sep 08, 2023
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Over here at LowEndBox, we've been covering the entire DediPath bankruptcy situation since it was only skepticism. Most recently, we covered DediPath's official closure at the end of August, and it al...

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Money, Money, Free Advertising, Free Money! Partner with Us and GROW!

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Sep 07, 2023
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Hey provider: free advertising can lead to free money! And that's what we're offering. Whether it's an interview, a free promo piece, publishing your content, or other options, let's use our juice to get you more sales!

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How to Sell Out to Microsoft and Make Easy Money – $450 and Counting for Me

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Sep 04, 2023
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I've sold out to Microsoft...at least for search. For over a decade, Microsoft has dropped a steady drip of Amazon gift cards to me. Here's how you can get on the gravy train.

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MicroSD Cards: Size, Manufacturer, Application Performance Class (A1 vs. A2): How to Choose

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Sep 04, 2023
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Size. Manufacturer. Application Performance Class. Decide those three things and you can get the perfect MicroSD card for whatever you need.

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EFF Releases Statement About HE Blocking Kiwi Farms: ‘ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is’

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Sep 01, 2023
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Censorship is bad. Kiwi Farms is also bad. The EFF sorts it out for us.

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Urgent: DediPath Is Closing Today (DediPool Confirmed)

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Aug 31, 2023
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Recently over on LowEndTalk, a user named @haolun posted a thread titled: "DediPath Closure Of Business". In which, he posted the following email he received from DediPath: Dear *name* We will are wri...

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The Top Ten OpenBSD Songs: “Goldflipper”, “Pond-erosa Puff”, and More!

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Aug 30, 2023
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For over 20 years, new versions of the OpenBSD operating system have been accompanied by new and free music.  These songs are surprisingly good and are a fun part of the project. These are our top ten favorites. What about you?

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Order Rejected by Fraud Checks? Five Ways to Avoid This Fate

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Aug 29, 2023
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Providers' automated fraud detection systems inevitably generate false positives. Here's five ways you can avoid being one of them.

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August is International “Providers Drop Unlimited Storage” Month. The Latest? Microsoft’s OneDrive

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Aug 29, 2023
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All those unlimited cloud storage plans you've been stuffing full of Linux ISOs are coming to an end. The latest? Microsoft.

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Hostragons Threatens LowEndLawsuit in Response to Allegedly Stealing $13,000 From Client

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Aug 27, 2023
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Customer claims Hostragons stole $13,000 from him. Community says file a chargeback. Company lawyer types threats into Google Translate. Enjoy.

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Put Down Your Chia, The Party’s Over: Dropbox Stops Offering Unlimited

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Aug 25, 2023
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The party's over, folks: no more free petabytes of Chia farms on Dropbox. Now you have to pay.

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Danish Cloud Hosting Provider, CloudNordic, Loses All Client Data After Ransomware Attack

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Aug 24, 2023
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On Friday 8/18/23, Danish cloud hosting provider, CloudNordic, was exposed to a ransomware attack. Here's what they had to say about being hacked: For customers in CloudNordic Unfortunately, during th...

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Our Coleco ADAM Post Was Broken But Now It’s Fixed

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Aug 22, 2023
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Last month we published a fun article titled "The Future of the Coleco ADAM". Unfortunately, it was a bit broken at publication time, but it's fixed now and is ready for you to enjoy.

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Five Reasons Why LowEndTalk is the Best Place to Sell Your Domain

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Aug 22, 2023
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Do you have a .com, .net, .org, .party, .rich, or other domain to sell? If so, you should check out the Domains category on LowEndTalk, where you can list your domain for sale. The experience is much better than you'll find elsewhere and we have five really compelling reasons why LowEndTalk is the best place to sell your domain.

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Electricity Is This Data Centers Biggest Enemy… (Power Problems at Nocix)

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Aug 13, 2023
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Nocix, 1530 Swift, Wholesale Internet, and formerly DataShack are all the same company. A Kansas City, Missouri (yes, strange) budget-dedicated server and colocation provider. If you review their term...

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The Free Audiobook Landscape: The Pros, the Volunteers, and the Bots (20,000 Books for You to Choose From!)

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Aug 11, 2023
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LibriVox has 15,000 free audiobooks and now Gutenberg has 5,000 AI-generated ones. Let's take a look at the current free audiobook scene.

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Kiwi Farms’ Joshua Moon Did Not Like Our Article Yesterday

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We've published several pieces about Kiwi Farms but yesterday's article provoked a fiery response (enclosed) from Joshua Moon. Read on, drama connoisseur...

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Polish ‘Bulletproof’ Host, Lolek Hosted, Seized by FBI (Kiwi Farms Host?)

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Aug 09, 2023
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Recently, the infamous site, Kiwi Farms, partially switched to using Polish data center, Sprint data center. It's unclear if Kiwi Farms was operating through a downstream customer, Lolek Hosted...but, what is clear is right around the time Sprint data center kicked Kiwi Farms off their network (according to Joshua Moon, founder of Kiwi Farms), Lolek Hosted was seized by the FBI.

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A VPN Isn’t the Right Solution for Anonymity – You Need To Be Using Tor, Here’s Why…

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Aug 08, 2023
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A VPN encrypts your traffic, but, at the cost of the VPN provider being in the middle of everything. That provider could still see everything. Sure, your ISP can now no longer see your traffic, but yo...

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6G is Coming And It Will Make You a Cyborg: The Industry’s Wild, Wild Predictions for Life With 6G

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Aug 08, 2023
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Is 6G just around the corner? Maybe not that quick, but according to some, when it arrives it's going to turn the world in to a Cyberpunk 2077 DLC.

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Was Crunchbits Serious About Their raindog308 Sale?!? We Hope So!

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Aug 05, 2023
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A LowEndTalk user said we need a raindog308-themed offer to celebrate raindog308 reaching the 20,000 "thanks" tier on LET. Crunchbits teased they were in...

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How Easy Is It To Acquire IPv4 Addresses Among Scarcity Concerns in 2023? Let’s Find Out…

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Aug 05, 2023
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IPv4 is an increasingly scarce resource. Where can you acquire IPv4 addresses in 2023? We have some leads. The landscape is certainly changing as competition over these scarce resources intensifies.

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Why Did DigitalOcean Stock Drop Like a Rock Today? (-25%)

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Aug 04, 2023
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If you'd invested $10,000 in DOCN stock in November 2021, your stake would only be worth $2,700 today. Ouch. As recently as July, DOCN was trading at almost its March 2021 IPO price but now it's cratered again.

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