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!

  • Gresham's LawEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    @[email protected] 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?

  • Gresham's LawEnglish
    4•2 years 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.

      • MeowdyPardner
        33•2 years 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      234•2 years ago

      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

      Absolute chad

    • redjardEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      TIL

      Also today I migrated my domains to a new domain registrar

  • @[email protected]English
    47•2 years ago

    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?

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    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?

  • @[email protected]English
    17•2 years ago

    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 😉

    • db0OPMEnglish
      40•2 years ago

      It’s to keep the lemmy instance running, yes

      • @[email protected]English
        -15•2 years ago

        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.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
    English
    47•2 years ago

    Waves Audio Ltd

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

    • @[email protected]English
      29•2 years ago

      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.