Our first takedown and our move to njal.la

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/788923

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!

abieNathanTheyThem, (edited )
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@ksynwa 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?

abieNathanTheyThem, (edited )
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njalla?wprov=sfla1

Njalla is an anonymous domain name registrar, hosting provider and VPN provider, established by The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde.

Peter Sunde started the company in 2017 as a middle man between domain registration and registrants in order to provide anonymity. …

njal.la/servers/

Where are your servers located?

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.

So far it’s a good start & Linux server.

HectorBarbossa99,

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?

HectorBarbossa99,

nevermind, I is stupid and can’t read. thanks for all the hard work dbz0

db0,
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the latter

aldalire,

Donated. fuck those bastards. thank you db0

deeznutz,

What a bunch of chodes!

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Waves Audio Ltd

Not like I needed another reason not to use their plugins but thank you for providing me one anyways 😂.

penmoid,

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.

kholdstayr,

Do you take Bitcoin?

db0,
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No, I don’t do cryptocurrencies

themoonisacheese,
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Unfathomably based

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Gigachad

Peruvia,
@Peruvia@lemmy.ml avatar

Any other way we can support or donate, ko-fi aside?

db0,
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I have another project which is supported via crowdfunding GPU compute for GenerativeAI. If you have a good GPU, you could join that.

pocolaton,

Oof. Ai art is awful.

Piecemakers3Dprints,
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You’re a shitty bot, NGL.

pocolaton,

Aye aye, Captain Snarlfingers.

stink_pickle,

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

133arc585, (edited )
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You can tell malwarebytes is broken because it doesn’t catch itself as malware.

toxictenement,
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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.

133arc585,
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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).

001100010010,
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Tbh I don’t trust any so-called “antivirus” these days. It’s all a lie.

Hiru,
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Good luck and keep fighting!

ransom,

just donated. keep fighting the good fight

redditReallySucks,
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What provider were you using before? Just to make sure I never use it.

db0,
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Hetzner

MeowdyPardner,
@MeowdyPardner@kbin.social avatar

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.

redditReallySucks,
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Thanks for the reply.

What plan are you using on on njalla if I might ask?

Blaze,

Good luck with the move!

madcaesar,

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 😉

db0,
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It’s to keep the lemmy instance running, yes

madcaesar,

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.

blake,

There is now a perk for donating, a custom emoji. Just wondering @db0 regarding custom emojis. have the lemmy team patched the vulnerability?

(see: centennialstate.social/post/32352 )

db0,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes it’s patched

user,

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?

db0,
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Same instance. njal.la is our provider

user,

tx ♥️

arcalius,

i think they just switch server provider so no new url required.

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