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How to Update Debian Automatically: No Muss, No Fuss, Not At All Sus

Your Debian system is probably already doing security upgrades automatically. It's trivial to extend that to the entire system so your system is always up to date. We'll show you how.

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How to Update Debian Automatically: No Muss, No Fuss, Not At All Sus

How To Get ChatGPT To Write Your LowEndTalk Offer Thread

ChatGPT is everywhere and is a powerful tool for generating or enhancing your online content. Why not use it to spruce up your LowEndTalk offer post? In other news, I really want to buy a FoxyBoxes VPS.

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How To Get ChatGPT To Write Your LowEndTalk Offer Thread

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

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

How to Whitelist an IP in Cloudflare (WAF)

I have a confession: sometimes I write LowEndBox tutorials so I can find them when I google the question in the future. Case in point: whitelisting an IP in Cloudflare's WAF. Now I'll always be able to find my notes for this procedure.

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How to Whitelist an IP in Cloudflare (WAF)

The Curious Case of 4.1 Million Misappropriated AFRINIC IPv4 Addresses

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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The Curious Case of 4.1 Million Misappropriated AFRINIC IPv4 Addresses

PGP Encryption: What’s It Used For? How Do You Use It?

PGP emerged from the encryption wars of the 1990s. It's still one of the world's encryption and privacy management products. SirFoxy takes us for a deep dive into this important piece of software.

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PGP Encryption: What’s It Used For? How Do You Use It?

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

Censorship is bad. Kiwi Farms is also bad. The EFF sorts it out for us.

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

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

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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The Top Ten OpenBSD Songs:

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

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

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

On Friday 8/18/23, Danish cloud hosting provider, CloudNordic, was exposed to a ransomware attack. (What their website used to look like....

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

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

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

Welcome, Skhron: Cheap VPS Offers in Warsaw!

Welcome, Skhron! This is LowEndTalk member @tentor's company.  They're a small Ukrainian provider and today they're bringing us some offers based in Warsaw. They've got a bit to say, so let's dive in...

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Welcome, Skhron: Cheap VPS Offers in Warsaw!

Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You

Amazon has announced that it will not start charging for IPv4 addresses (but not for the free tier). Is this a bad thing? Not really.

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Amazon Starts Charging for IPv4 Addresses and Why It's a Good Thing for You

GreenValueHost: The Lowend VPS Host That Ended With the Founder Being Sentenced to Prison

GreenValueHost is far from new to here, and the LowEndTalk budget VPS community. They came onto the scene way back in 2013 -- you can even still see their offers around here if you dig for it. Threads...

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GreenValueHost: The Lowend VPS Host That Ended With the Founder Being Sentenced to Prison

Check Out This Network Benchmark Script!

The gold standard for benchmark scripts is YABS. We've got another tool to keep on your belt, which focuses more on the network piece. It's written by the developer who added network testing to YABS originally. Check it out!

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Check Out This Network Benchmark Script!

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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Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber)

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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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch

CWVPS: Windows Remote Desktop SSD/NVME VPS Offer - Unmetered Bandwidth! - $14.95/QUARTER!

CWVPS has another dynamite deal for you: get a 4GB KVM VPS with unmetered bandwidth for only $14.95/quarter! Includes 60GB of disk, and you can pick either SSD or for a small upcharge, NVMe.

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CWVPS: Windows Remote Desktop SSD/NVME VPS Offer - Unmetered Bandwidth! - $14.95/QUARTER!

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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Evernote Throws in the Towel and Heads to the Elephant Graveyard

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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PSA: WHMCS Security Update You Probably Didn't Know About (Revenue Impacting) – Thanks, Dustin from RackNerd!

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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Kiwi Farms, the Infamous Alt-Right Hate Forum, Might Be off the Clearnet for Good

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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The Weird World of USB Dead Drops

How to Precisely Calculate What Twitter is Actually Worth Now. Hint: It'll Surprise You

Twitter is a private company now so we really don't know what it's worth because Elon Musk does not have to disclose any financial figures. Right? Not so fast. One of his investors is obliged by law to report what its financial analysts say Twitter is worth and their math shows it's been a financial apocalypse.

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How to Precisely Calculate What Twitter is Actually Worth Now.  Hint: It'll Surprise You

Ten Things to Do With Your Own Smartphone Besides Throwing it Away

We all have them: phones that are past their prime. You transfer your apps, photos, and media to your new device and then you're left with old kit building a dust collection. What do you do with an old smartphone?

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Ten Things to Do With Your Own Smartphone Besides Throwing it Away

Free Spectrum Allocations Poster!

You can get a FREE printed poster of worldwide spectrum allocations if you live in the US, or download the same as a PDF worldwide. Courtesy of Rohde and Schwarz. I've never heard of them either.

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Free Spectrum Allocations Poster!

ServerHost KVM VPS Offers in 7 Locations – Quarterly Specials Starting at $6!

ServerHost has returned with their awesome $6/quarter offer for a 1GB VPS in Buffalo, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, or Los Angeles! Read on for full details and the coupon code you'll need.

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ServerHost KVM VPS Offers in 7 Locations – Quarterly Specials Starting at $6!

Need a List of Websites Where You Can Pirate Movies? Just Ask ChatGPT

An example of why I'm not worried about AI taking over the world anytime soon.

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Need a List of Websites Where You Can Pirate Movies?  Just Ask ChatGPT

LuxVPS Announcers New AMD Gen 2 Offering - Great Prices in Frankfurt, Germany!

LuxVPS announced a new line of AMD Ryzen 5900-based systems and they're offering great prices on these new systems in Frankfurt, Germany.

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LuxVPS Announcers New AMD Gen 2 Offering - Great Prices in Frankfurt, Germany!
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