LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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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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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions Part 2: How it Works (System Prompts, Character Cards, Context Windows, and More!)
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!
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LowEndBoxTV: AI Companions, Part 1: An Introduction to the Massive World of AI Companionship and Romance
We're starting a new 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!
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"An Extremely Interesting Early Morning": An AI Agent Wrote a Hit Piece Targeting a Developer After Its PR Was Rejected
The developer of a very widely used Python package rejected an AI-authored pull request. The AI agent responded by going into hostile mode and publishing a hit piece about the developer. Welcome to the future.
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How AI Intermediation Will Wreak Havoc. It Already Is. Here Are Some Examples.
Recently, Tailwinds - makers of the popular CSS framework - announced they were laying off 75% of their engineering staff. In absolute numbers, that's only three people, but for a company that had 8...
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The Year Ahead: Our Predictions for 2026
On the spectrum between speculation to prediction to guarantee, these are definitely towards the left end. The hosting industry has a special talent for making fools of us all (usually right after you prepay for three years). Here are five bets for what 2026 will look like.
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When It Comes to AI, Are You a Maximalist, a Skeptic, or a Gartner Analyst?
We're in an AI bubble, right? I can't go to my YouTube app without seeing someone selling that message. What about the tech itself?
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The AI Killing Spree Has Begun. The First Victims: Crucial and MinIO
As you all know, as soon as AI gets a single tick past human intelligence, it's going to take over the world and exterminate homo sapiens. At least, that's what a lot of people assume. Will that happen? Your guess is as good as Sam Altman's. Meanwhile, we have two confirmed victims of AI, both of which are household names in the IT community.
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The Search for a Good Web Hosting Joke: Why AI Humor is Like a Human Toddler's, and the One Savagely Funny Joke ChatGPT Told Me That Will Get It Sued
Have you heard any good web hosting jokes? I haven't. I tried to find some.
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Run Your Own AI LLM Model on a LowEnd VPS for Only $2.49 a Month! Part One: Ollama and the Model
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, and typically they run in massive datacenters operated by tech giants. But here on LowEndBox, we're all about democratizing computing. Is it possible to run your own AI on a cheap VPS? Yes! We'll show you how.
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Weigh the Soul of Incoming HTTP Requests with Anubis and Defeat AI Scrapers!
Anubis is software that "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests". That is a clever, poetic description for this software, which has an interesting pedigree and a noble mission.
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Just.Hosting Launches an AI Assistant: Let's Put It Through Its Paces to See Its Strengths and Weaknesses
Just.Hosting contacted us to feature the announcement of their new AI assistant. We run it through its paces to find its strengths and weaknesses.
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How to Get Laid Off By AI Even When a Robot Isn't Taking Your Job
Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the last 60 days. Is that because AI is taking people's jobs? Not exactly.
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Hollywood Unleashes on Midjourney Because...Some Reason I Guess? The Epic Lawsuit (Read the Juicy Lawsuit PDF)
Well, it had to happen eventually. AI services are being sued left and right by authors, artists, and musicians. And now Hollywood has entered the fray. Disney, 20th Century Studios, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney accusing it of rampant copyright infringement.
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Huckleberry Finn's Ray Gun: How Mocking AI Puts Dollars in an Advertiser's Pocket
Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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LowEndBoxTV: FREE AI-Powered Video Content for Your YouTube Channel!
Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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Ten Countries That Turned Their TLDs Into Gold (And Which Are Cheapest For You)
When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.
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How to Poison AI Scrapers With Colorless, Odorless Iocaine: The Current Arms Race Between Billionaires and Hosters
AI scrapers are "relentless and brutal". Just ask Wikipedia. There's an arms race between these well-funded pillagers and content providers, and some people are deploying poisoners to slow bots down and fill their models with garbage.
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What Can You Use a GPU-Enabled VPS For (And Why Rent One on LowEndBox)?
In today’s tech landscape, the average VPS just doesn’t cut it for everyone. Whether you're a machine learning enthusiast, video editor, indie game developer, or just someone with a demanding workload, you've probably hit a wall with standard CPU-based servers. That’s where GPU-enabled VPS instances come in.
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StackOverflow has Collapsed: Spicy AMA Coming Up
StackOverflow's flow of questions has plummeted since LLMs come along. Given the community's other problems, how much longer will it survive?
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Did You Miss LowEndBox's SuperBowl Ad?
Just kidding...we don't have the $8 million advertising budget it takes to buy a 30-second SuperBowl spot. But if we did...
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AI Pushes the Doomsday Clock a Second Closer to Midnight
The Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds from midnight. Isn't it kind of silly?
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Have You Missed Any of these LowEndBoxTV Videos?
Our video master, Piotr, has been lighting up the metrics on YouTube with some great videos on LowEndBoxTV. If you're not a subscriber, you're missing out! Did any of these slip past your stream unclicked?
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Artificial Intelligence Wants Lower Pricing on LowEndBox's Black Friday
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini are all talking about Black Friday. One of them has some specific prices in mind.
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AI Data Centers Claw for Power Like Starving Wolves
Our global tech lords are barreling full-tilt into a brave, brutal new frontier: Artificial Intelligence, the almighty GenAI. The beast had outgrown its cage, guzzling electricity like a glutton at an...
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How Will the 2024 Election Results Affect Tech?
Old faces are returning and new face are taking the reins of power. What does the new administration mean for technology?
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How Bitcoin Miners Are Becoming the Essential Power Source for AI Data Centers
In light of the cryptocurrency market’s volatility, Bitcoin miners are adapting their existing infrastructure to serve the data storage and computing needs of the AI sector.
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