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cross-posted from: https://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!

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[–] reggie@lemmy.fmhy.ml 97 points 1 year ago (1 children)

njal.la my beloved <3

btw I suggest checking out their blog it is hillarious

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

TIL

Also today I migrated my domains to a new domain registrar

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 41 points 1 year ago

go on, show us the threatening email

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] MeowdyPardner@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

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.

Thanks for the reply.

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

[–] user@lemmy.one 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same instance. njal.la is our provider

[–] user@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago
[–] arcalius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

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

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago

Waves Audio Ltd

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

[–] ransom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

just donated. keep fighting the good fight

[–] kholdstayr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I don't do cryptocurrencies

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago
[–] Peruvia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] abieNathanTheyThem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://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. ...

https://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.

[–] deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of chodes!

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Donated. fuck those bastards. thank you db0

[–] pocolaton@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Oof. Ai art is awful.

[–] abieNathanTheyThem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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?

[–] HectorBarbossa99@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago