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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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Waves Audio Ltd

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

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 3 points 1 year ago

go on, show us the threatening email

[–] kholdstayr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, I don't do cryptocurrencies

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 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 2 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.

Unfathomably based

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

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

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

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

Donated. fuck those bastards. thank you db0

[–] stink_pickle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can tell malwarebytes is broken because it doesn't catch itself as malware.

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

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@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

Tbh I don't trust any so-called "antivirus" these days. It's all a lie.

[–] user@lemmy.one 0 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 2 points 1 year ago

Same instance. njal.la is our provider

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

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

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

Oof. Ai art is awful.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's to keep the lemmy instance running, yes