Hey everyone, today I sadly woke up to a distressing email by my provider, telling me that “Waves Audio Ltd” (http://waves.com) sent them a takedown request about a guide posted to crack their app. This is complete bullshit of course, but the provider threatened to shut off my whole IP address. For now I’ve taken down the post, but I’ve also initiated measures to avoid this in the future.
As such, we’ve now moved this site to be hosted by njal.la which is privacy focused and has a ton of experience handling such issues. Let me know if you notice anything weird during the transition period.
However they are significantly more expensive! As such I’ve had to adjust our server costs for the next 6 months, and therefore our Ko-fi goal has been re-opened. Please consider donating to ensure this site can survive these particular gray waters we’re sailing.
I aim to ensure we are strictly legal, but these companies do not care about the law because they have enough money to bully people.
Remember, do not post direct links and use base64 encoding for any potentially spicy links you post!
Waves Audio, for when you want your audio to sound the same or worse, but you also want your computer to bluescreen randomly. Honestly taking anything they take down is a service to the community.
In secret locations in Sweden.
Do you offer C-Panel?
You get an ssh root account on your VPS and have to manage the rest yourself.
What VPS system do you use?
Our system is based on LXD with a CEPH backend for high availability redundant storage.
What can I use the server for?
Anything, as long as it’s not violating local laws or harms people.
What’s the limitations?
We follow netiquette (and common sense) and have blocked outgoing smtp. If you need to send email, we can suggest smtp services. We also don’t allow scanning networks. In general, don’t be an asshole.
Why is apt sometimes slow?
For performance/redundancy we use btrfs on top of ceph. This means fsync takes additional time. Use the eatmydata package if you’re going to install many packages.
Why Sweden?
Great internet, decent political climate for privacy and for historical reasons. If you want to know more, duckduckgo our background!
Traffic limits
Our machines are connected with 10Gbps to our backbone network. This means quite high peak network connections so be careful that you don’t use more data than included.
Dear DHL,
thanks for sending us an e-mail about your concerns about our domain name dhlsucks.com.
We usually prefer getting these legal threats in physical form but we are aware of the skillset your company lacks in order to get physical letters delivered to it’s destination
njal.la is a domain registrar, they do not and never have operated dhlsucks.com, they just provided the domain to someone and dhl contacted them to take the site down
wait so are we moving this instance to a new website or am I correct in understanding that the instance stays the same its just hosted on a new provider?
Is the donation to keep the lemmy instance running or? I want to support and just want to make sure where the money is going. Also I might be missing perks I’m not even aware of once I donate 😉
There is now a perk for donating, a custom emoji.
Just wondering @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com regarding custom emojis. have the lemmy team patched the vulnerability?
Hetzners risk averseness is so annoying. I tried to sign up and rent a dedi to replace my rack mount nas. Considering electric costs I was happy to pay a few hundred a month for substantial storage. Didn’t realize they didn’t accept privacy.com cards (I don’t even use them to cancel, it’s just so I can change banks and switch 1 billing link instead of 100). Account rejected and deleted and no response from support.
I miss the old malwarebytes. Used to actually be good, and the serial keys I found actually used to work :(
CommonSense 2023 works a lot better for me these days though, that and ublock origin.
I’m not sure why people use anything other than Windows Defender. It literally shares signature databases with most of the large AVs, it doesn’t have any anti-features or isn’t itself malware/adware/spyware like commercial AVs, it’s tightly integrated but also easy to turn on or off (ever tried to uninstall an AV?), and no commercial AV is going to catch anything Windows Defender won’t. It’s also free and has no need to make money as a product in itself, and so there’s no motivation for bad behavior.
The only features some commercial AVs have that Windows Defender doesn’t are things like DNS blocking or browser addons (which there are plenty of non-commercial/profit-motive-driven options for: uBlock origin, pi-hole/adguard home, etc).
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Donated. fuck those bastards. thank you db0
What a bunch of chodes!
Not like I needed another reason not to use their plugins but thank you for providing me one anyways 😂.
Waves Audio, for when you want your audio to sound the same or worse, but you also want your computer to bluescreen randomly. Honestly taking anything they take down is a service to the community.
@ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml Coordinated from the looks of it!
Nothing to do with .ml in this context makes you wonder how many others instance had pushback & which didn’t?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njalla?wprov=sfla1
https://njal.la/servers/
So far it’s a good start & Linux server.
njal.la my beloved <3
btw I suggest checking out their blog it is hillarious
Absolute chad
My uBlock Origin blocked a request of iyfbodn.com when I go to dhlsucks.com. Fishy?
njal.la is a domain registrar, they do not and never have operated dhlsucks.com, they just provided the domain to someone and dhl contacted them to take the site down
The website seems to have went down at some point. You can check waybackmachine instead.
TIL
Also today I migrated my domains to a new domain registrar
wait so are we moving this instance to a new website or am I correct in understanding that the instance stays the same its just hosted on a new provider?
the latter
nevermind, I is stupid and can’t read. thanks for all the hard work dbz0
so new lemmy instance? I’m confused. the njal.la domain is just a general website. is there a direct link to the new url?
Same instance. njal.la is our provider
tx ♥️
i think they just switch server provider so no new url required.
Is the donation to keep the lemmy instance running or? I want to support and just want to make sure where the money is going. Also I might be missing perks I’m not even aware of once I donate 😉
It’s to keep the lemmy instance running, yes
Hey, could you make another ko-fi account or something? Something innocuous like: help me pay for flowers for my mom!
I want to donate, but since this system uses real names / credit cards I just want another layer of deniability for all of us.
There is now a perk for donating, a custom emoji. Just wondering @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com regarding custom emojis. have the lemmy team patched the vulnerability?
(see: https://centennialstate.social/post/32352 )
Yes it’s patched
Good luck with the move!
What provider were you using before? Just to make sure I never use it.
Hetzner
Thanks for the reply.
What plan are you using on on njalla if I might ask?
Hetzners risk averseness is so annoying. I tried to sign up and rent a dedi to replace my rack mount nas. Considering electric costs I was happy to pay a few hundred a month for substantial storage. Didn’t realize they didn’t accept privacy.com cards (I don’t even use them to cancel, it’s just so I can change banks and switch 1 billing link instead of 100). Account rejected and deleted and no response from support.
just donated. keep fighting the good fight
go on, show us the threatening email
Good luck and keep fighting!
ah jeez, malwarebytes is really isn’t having it from dbzer0
-Blocked Website Details- Malicious Website: 1
-Website Data- Category: Trojan Domain: lemmy.dbzer0.com IP Address: 80.78.22.88 Port: 443
Tbh I don’t trust any so-called “antivirus” these days. It’s all a lie.
You can tell malwarebytes is broken because it doesn’t catch itself as malware.
I miss the old malwarebytes. Used to actually be good, and the serial keys I found actually used to work :( CommonSense 2023 works a lot better for me these days though, that and ublock origin.
I’m not sure why people use anything other than Windows Defender. It literally shares signature databases with most of the large AVs, it doesn’t have any anti-features or isn’t itself malware/adware/spyware like commercial AVs, it’s tightly integrated but also easy to turn on or off (ever tried to uninstall an AV?), and no commercial AV is going to catch anything Windows Defender won’t. It’s also free and has no need to make money as a product in itself, and so there’s no motivation for bad behavior.
The only features some commercial AVs have that Windows Defender doesn’t are things like DNS blocking or browser addons (which there are plenty of non-commercial/profit-motive-driven options for: uBlock origin, pi-hole/adguard home, etc).