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Horribadger said:
Anyone been following the archive.today guy having some kind of schizo meltie?


He revived his long-dead official tumblr blog to rant about... something about a "finne troll", and "neuroslop". I seriously have no idea what the fuck he's rambling about, or what it even has to do with his site.

And then apparently he started using his site do DDoS the "finne troll"'s site. https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...archivetoday_is_exploiting_its_users_to_ddos/
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Yes, some finnish faggot has been trying to shut down archive.today, so the admin did reasonable counterreactions.
 
I just want to say there has been a huge misinformation storm about the archive.today DDOS shit, it only happens when you have JS enabled AND are on the captcha page. Also you can just avoid that entirely if you don't use a VPN or use a mainstream, albeit Goanna-based browsers don't have this problem. You can also prevent this by just blocking the site as a whole via uBlock.
 
I'm late and only caught wind of this recently: pomf.lain.la is shutting down.
TL;DR
Owner of image hosting service feels Section 230's possible removal, US Government's handling of ICE operations, Hardware costs, and dealing with an ever increasing influx of pedos is too much for the owner to handle at once.
There's also a massive schizo rant over feds being pedos, working with Norwegian police and more politisperging.
A timeline for file deletion is provided the shutdown announcement
  • February 14th, 2026 - New Pomf uploads will be indefinitely paused. Security improvement efforts will pause. Abuse reports will still be honored. Donation pages and links will be terminated.
  • February 21st, 2026 February 23rd, 2026 - Storage1 (Files from September 15th, 2020 - April 30th, 2023) will be dismounted indefinitely. (Users who miss a storage dismount deadline and wish to have their file or files reactivated may email 7666@lain.la to request a reactivation, where the file in question will be migrated to Storage11 and made available up until the sunset of Storage11 itself. No authentication will be required for reactivation requests, I just need the URL.)
  • February 28th, 2026 - Storage2 (April 30th, 2023 - September 24th, 2023), Storage3 (September 24th, 2023 - March 25th, 2024), and Storage4 (March 25th, 2024 - July 15th, 2024) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 7th, 2026 - Storage5 (July 15th, 2024 - October 5th, 2024), Storage6 (October 5th, 2024 - December 6th, 2024), Storage7 (December 6th, 2024 - March 16th, 2025), and Storage8 (March 16th, 2025 - July 5th, 2025) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 14th, 2026 - Storage9 (July 5th, 2025 - October 17th, 2025), Storage10 (October 17th, 2025 - December 19th, 2025), and Storage11 (December 19th, 2025 - Present) will be dismounted indefinitely. Reactivation requests will no longer be honored. All remaining Pomf assets will be taken down and replaced with a notification of indefinite suspension of the Pomf service. All Pomf infrastructure, cron jobs, scan jobs, security systems, databases, etc. will be disabled. The NCMEC hash database integration will be suspended. Abuse reports for Pomf will no longer be honored.
 
rofllmaoxdwow said:
I'm late and only caught wind of this recently: pomf.lain.la is shutting down.
TL;DR
Owner of image hosting service feels Section 230's possible removal, US Government's handling of ICE operations, Hardware costs, and dealing with an ever increasing influx of pedos is too much for the owner to handle at once.
There's also a massive schizo rant over feds being pedos, working with Norwegian police and more politisperging.
A timeline for file deletion is provided the shutdown announcement
  • February 14th, 2026 - New Pomf uploads will be indefinitely paused. Security improvement efforts will pause. Abuse reports will still be honored. Donation pages and links will be terminated.
  • February 21st, 2026 February 23rd, 2026 - Storage1 (Files from September 15th, 2020 - April 30th, 2023) will be dismounted indefinitely. (Users who miss a storage dismount deadline and wish to have their file or files reactivated may email 7666@lain.la to request a reactivation, where the file in question will be migrated to Storage11 and made available up until the sunset of Storage11 itself. No authentication will be required for reactivation requests, I just need the URL.)
  • February 28th, 2026 - Storage2 (April 30th, 2023 - September 24th, 2023), Storage3 (September 24th, 2023 - March 25th, 2024), and Storage4 (March 25th, 2024 - July 15th, 2024) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 7th, 2026 - Storage5 (July 15th, 2024 - October 5th, 2024), Storage6 (October 5th, 2024 - December 6th, 2024), Storage7 (December 6th, 2024 - March 16th, 2025), and Storage8 (March 16th, 2025 - July 5th, 2025) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 14th, 2026 - Storage9 (July 5th, 2025 - October 17th, 2025), Storage10 (October 17th, 2025 - December 19th, 2025), and Storage11 (December 19th, 2025 - Present) will be dismounted indefinitely. Reactivation requests will no longer be honored. All remaining Pomf assets will be taken down and replaced with a notification of indefinite suspension of the Pomf service. All Pomf infrastructure, cron jobs, scan jobs, security systems, databases, etc. will be disabled. The NCMEC hash database integration will be suspended. Abuse reports for Pomf will no longer be honored.
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It would be best to post the announcement here as well as link to some archives.

Pomf is Shutting Down, For Now​

Submitted by 7666 on Sat, 01/31/2026 - 12:08
It is with great sadness that I must announce a temporary but indefinite shutdown of Pomf, both uploads and downloads, starting with new uploads on February 14th and ending with full shutdown on March 14th.

This is the last thing I ever wanted to do, but multiple major threats to the existence of Pomf are all coalescing rapidly at a time in which I do not have the personal bandwidth to fight all at once:

I simply cannot handle all of this in a manner that I find acceptable in a timeline that I find acceptable while the service remains online. These events have all struck or intensified at nearly the same time, and while I can focus my efforts on one or maybe two situations (and I have been), I just can't deal with them all in parallel. I have already spent tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds upon hundreds of hours working on my services, and now I must think about myself and my livelihood and all of my other projects and endeavors first, and I must keep in mind the people and animals that depend on me. I have a home datacenter to keep building. I have a company acquisition to finish. I have multiple complex financial situations I need to deal with. I have a farm to keep running. I have a job that I like that my performance has suffered somewhat at due to all of this. The risk of running afoul of the law (justified or not) continues to grow. And the state of Lain.la's infrastructure (outside of the network, that's doing great) is dire. This is the simple reality of the situation. Despite my best efforts, I have been unable to keep up with the demands of running Pomf in a satisfactory manner, and I do not see any other way forward than to put the service on hiatus until these issues can be mitigated.

======(You can probably skip this part as it's paranoid rambling)
Most importantly though, is the heightened potential for a corrupt justice system or a single braindead federal agent to see Pomf and get the wrong impression, and then proceeding to slander me and ruin my life over it, which is apparently now kosher to do. As you may be aware, Pomf gets attacked by pedophiles daily who upload vast archives of CSAM. I have worked tirelessly to actively intercept and destroy these archives way beyond what is required of me by law, and I have put in preventative measures to stop its upload like blocking Tor or specific HTTP referrers or doing informant/foreign LEO outreach or using the NCMEC hash database in-line to the upload.php script for Pomf. Of course, no security system is perfect and attackers evolve over time, so regrettably some material does make it through. Now, Pomf pushes about 600-800TB of traffic a month in general, but most of it is perfectly benign. Imagine cherry picking "CSAM" and "Massive bandwidth" from the above statements, getting a judge to sign a warrant, and the false and misleading headline "Owner of massive CSAM distribution ring arrested" suddenly seems plausible. Now imagine how hard it would be to repair that reputational damage over time even with all charges cleared. Imagine how much it would cost to even accomplish that. Nobody is coming to defend me. I'm not even newsworthy. It is honestly a miracle it hasn't happened yet, although in the back of my mind I do wonder if someone is already building that case. Even worse, everyone in the current US administration who wasn't forced out by layoffs or principles is jockeying for power and recognition from the toddler in charge, manufacturing outright lies in the perpetuation of a false meritocracy, and I would be a juicy target for someone's promotion. In reality, there was always a potential for this to happen, but I counted the occurrence of it happening as remote and therefore did not include federal or state agencies in my operational threat model, as the previous administration was largely inept, not actively malicious. These days, you'd be a fool not to at least wargame out how you would handle a potential federal or state intervention or character assassination and make preparations to counter it, even if you don't think you are vulnerable or special. You can read more in this post I made here (https://comp.lain.la/notice/B2YXE9NvZ3zNAvfNgm, you may need to click "Show Content") that discusses the current US political environment factors that pushed this portion of my risk analysis over the edge, and that was posted even before the most recent events occurred. If a federal agent reading this would like to make themselves known and assure me that this won't happen (yeah right), you can always reach out to me at my personal email. I'm sure you know it. It's a shame too, because I considered myself on the forefront of interdicting CSAM through novel measures like forcing uploaders into encrypted 7z files to evade my defenses, and then subsequently smashing those to bits through custom hashcat scripts and massive password lists that I collected from multiple sources. I even worked with the Norwegian police! I had so many great ideas to fight this plague, like starting to inject stealer log malware into successfully cracked 7z files so I could score a few pedophile arrests, or open sourcing PhotoDNA because Microsoft won't. It's not like criminals have any recourse, and it sure would be better than whatever the hell Zuckerberg is doing flooding the NCMEC tip line with 20 million largely unactionable reports a year (which is for some reason required by federal law even though it does NOTHING. Malicious compliance?). Too bad. I want nothing to do with the feds now (especially considering most of THEM are pedophiles), because as the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. Maybe in 2029!
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The timeline of Pomf's shutdown is designed to be clear and staged in a deliberate manner with plenty of time (21-45 days depending on file age) for users to migrate to another service such as Catbox or Quax and/or to retrieve their files prior to shutdown. It's the least I can do. The full breakdown is below:

  • February 14th, 2026 - New Pomf uploads will be indefinitely paused. Security improvement efforts will pause. Abuse reports will still be honored. Donation pages and links will be terminated.
  • February 21st, 2026 February 23rd, 2026 - Storage1 (Files from September 15th, 2020 - April 30th, 2023) will be dismounted indefinitely. (Users who miss a storage dismount deadline and wish to have their file or files reactivated may email 7666@lain.la to request a reactivation, where the file in question will be migrated to Storage11 and made available up until the sunset of Storage11 itself. No authentication will be required for reactivation requests, I just need the URL.)
  • February 28th, 2026 - Storage2 (April 30th, 2023 - September 24th, 2023), Storage3 (September 24th, 2023 - March 25th, 2024), and Storage4 (March 25th, 2024 - July 15th, 2024) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 7th, 2026 - Storage5 (July 15th, 2024 - October 5th, 2024), Storage6 (October 5th, 2024 - December 6th, 2024), Storage7 (December 6th, 2024 - March 16th, 2025), and Storage8 (March 16th, 2025 - July 5th, 2025) will be dismounted indefinitely.
  • March 14th, 2026 - Storage9 (July 5th, 2025 - October 17th, 2025), Storage10 (October 17th, 2025 - December 19th, 2025), and Storage11 (December 19th, 2025 - Present) will be dismounted indefinitely. Reactivation requests will no longer be honored. All remaining Pomf assets will be taken down and replaced with a notification of indefinite suspension of the Pomf service. All Pomf infrastructure, cron jobs, scan jobs, security systems, databases, etc. will be disabled. The NCMEC hash database integration will be suspended. Abuse reports for Pomf will no longer be honored.
I will gather my strength and resources in the meantime and try to find ways around these issues that allow me to run Pomf in a manner that does not risk bringing me personal harm. Work will begin to convert Pomf virtual disks into a Proxmox compatible format for a restart of Pomf in the future on my new infrastructure. At the completion of this conversion work (assuming the risk level remains unsatisfactorily mitigated), Pomf will be placed into cold storage. Any running copies of Pomf will be deleted, and two distinct encrypted archives will remain - one on-site and one off-site, to ensure the durability of the entire Pomf repository. No exact timeline can be provided for this work as it is intensive and variable, and demands incredible care and diligence to ensure no loss of user data. The cold storage archive will NOT be accessible to anyone for any reason, however, until Pomf is back online.

I do have a plan above and beyond the Proxmox migration:

  • My first task will be to achieve a stable financial situation to fund all of my endeavors, which I expect should be completed by Summer of this year, if everything works out. I have multiple CPAs working for me now on this.
  • Next, I will acquire an army of lawyers to finally incorporate Lain.la into an entity separate from myself (as it has been pretty much from the start, just unofficially, d/b/a Iwakura Systems), as a way to compartmentalize the damage should something occur, and also to prime said army of lawyers on the risks I face so they can determine an effective legal strategy should the worst come to pass. They will likely be on a permanent retainer from that point forward due to the high risk nature of Pomf.
  • I will work on completing all other outstanding infrastructure projects (storage, backups, redundancy, compute, orchestration, patching, etc.) to rebuild the core of Lain.la into something resilient and 100% open source, and I will strive to share my work with others, as I expect a lot of cool custom things to come out of the migration.
This is by far not a comprehensive list. A lot of foundational work will have to occur to ensure that when Pomf comes back up, it will never go down again, come hell or high water or malicious governments. But I promise you, it will come back. For now, I am setting a return date of September 15th, 2026, or six months after the shutdown, to have Pomf fully operational and all risk mitigation and upgrade goals met. This is not a commitment, however. It will take as long as it needs to, to ensure the primary goal of protecting myself is met. Work will start immediately after shutdown.

I must apologize again for this. I understand that these services are a dying breed and one of the last bastions of a simple and free internet, and I have been proud to be this one's sole steward for over half a decade, and I hope I can continue to do so into the far, far future once this is all resolved. If you want someone to blame, blame me 50% for being an unprepared pussy who is years behind on infrastructure updates and legal mitigations, and 50% the current US administration for weaponizing the American legal system and federal law enforcement against their own citizens to the point where no one is safe, and encouraging the erosion and undermining of rights that allow for freedom of speech and a free internet while protecting pedophiles in their ranks.

All other Lain.la services will remain operational during this time.

With hope for the future,
-7666
Lain.la
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Markass the Worst said:
Lmao what the fuck does ICE have to do with anything?
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Judging by the announcement itself, the person behind this (I'm not familiar with this service so I don't know anything about it) seems to have adopted a few schizophrenic leftist ideas in their head:
The weaponization of the US DOJ and subsequent character assassination against anyone who goes against their regime or is otherwise convenient to scapegoat. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...try-was-revoked-after-agent-scanned-her-face/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24gm3dz36po
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/civil...-armstrong-minnesota-church-protest-9.7057152
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribution-tracker/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybr...isk-of-ignoring-trumps-attack-on-chris-krebs/
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Most importantly though, is the heightened potential for a corrupt justice system or a single braindead federal agent to see Pomf and get the wrong impression, and then proceeding to slander me and ruin my life over it, which is apparently now kosher to do.
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Imagine cherry picking "CSAM" and "Massive bandwidth" from the above statements, getting a judge to sign a warrant, and the false and misleading headline "Owner of massive CSAM distribution ring arrested" suddenly seems plausible. Now imagine how hard it would be to repair that reputational damage over time even with all charges cleared. Imagine how much it would cost to even accomplish that. Nobody is coming to defend me. I'm not even newsworthy. It is honestly a miracle it hasn't happened yet, although in the back of my mind I do wonder if someone is already building that case.
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Even worse, everyone in the current US administration who wasn't forced out by layoffs or principles is jockeying for power and recognition from the toddler in charge, manufacturing outright lies in the perpetuation of a false meritocracy, and I would be a juicy target for someone's promotion.
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You can read more in this post I made here (https://comp.lain.la/notice/B2YXE9NvZ3zNAvfNgm, you may need to click "Show Content") that discusses the current US political environment factors that pushed this portion of my risk analysis over the edge, and that was posted even before the most recent events occurred.
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Too bad. I want nothing to do with the feds now (especially considering most of THEM are pedophiles), because as the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. Maybe in 2029!
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I don't know what the fuck is happening to this person or what situation they're in but it can't possibly be this bad.
 
Hellwalker said:
I don't know what the fuck is happening to this person or what situation they're in but it can't possibly be this bad.
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I've never heard of the feds taking down a site and arresting the owner just because someone else uploaded CSAM to it. Maybe if you're retarded and just let it stay on your server after it gets reported, sure. But the Kiwi Farms has been dealing with a CSAM spammer (UnrealSkybox / David Hoffman) and Josh isn't in jail.
 
Hellwalker said:
I don't know what the fuck is happening to this person or what situation they're in but it can't possibly be this bad.
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He's a retarded lolbertarian. He runs a hosting company (archive), called "nulled", with 2 trannies (now 1). He had a relationship with the tranny who left his company.
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The tranny who left his company, "Jade", now goes by "kathy", full troon name Katherine Cole (archive, old account 1 and 2). He's now assisting another hosting company (lol). He is sick in the brains and fucking barks like a dog. I hate these people.
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The hosting company this troon now works for has a pretty telling homepage:
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The remaining tranny, "Mori", is sick in the brains and has AGP (redundant), and runs void.lgbt, a tranny faggot Mastodon instance.
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Here is a video of his ugly ass mug. (broken archive, link)


Markass the Worst said:
I've never heard of the feds taking down a site and arresting the owner just because someone else uploaded CSAM to it. Maybe if you're retarded and just let it stay on your server after it gets reported, sure.
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The guy has been removing CSAM and terrorism links for a while now, and all email correspondences are documented on his site. I genuinely do not know why he decided to shut down the platform based on shit that might not even happen, and that is mostly speculation. Null's criteria of "no court order? fuck off" seems to be pretty solid and I can't understand why he couldn't have adopted a similar modus operandi, other than the truly schizophrenic or unlikely scenarios he came up with.

I do feel bad for the guy though. He's been trying hard to stop CP spammers who shit up his file hosting site.
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Anyways, here's a bunch of replacements for pomf.lain.la:
https://catbox.moe/ (no file expiration date, max 200mb)
https://qu.ax/ (no file expiration date option available, max 256mb)
https://fileditch.com/ (no file expiration date, does prune >1 year files on occasion, max 15gb)
 
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Hellwalker said:
the person behind this (I'm not familiar with this service so I don't know anything about it)
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I've only ever seen @clipartfan92 post pomf (the name of the image and video hosting website) links on KF. Outside of the Farms, I have only ever seen pomf links on doxbin and rdrama/wpd. It could make for archiving or researching obscure cows related to those communities harder in the future.

Hellwalker said:
A / A < Most text is missing for this archive
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Here is a megalodon archive with the whole page and works over tor unlike GhostArchive.
 
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Fresh Meat said:
I do feel bad for the guy though. He's been trying hard to stop CP spammers who shit up his file hosting site.
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That's as far as my sympathy extends, and even then it's not a unique problem. Basically every website where people can upload things gets attacked with CP. It's unfortunate but he shouldn't pretend like his suffering in particular is special.
 
What's the skinny on archiving full Twitter accounts these days?

It used to be piss-easy just a few years ago. Twint was so powerful. Gallery-dl for the media. But today..

I had some success scraping Nitter using Chromium and a bash script. But it would always fail eventually. Not to mention the efforts in place to purposely sabotage scrapers (incomplete results for one). Is it even possible these days without paying a fee?
 
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