skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can be local LLMs doing search, some SETI@Home style distributed work, or else.

I host my blog at Mataroa, and the stats show 2K hits for some pages on some days. I don't think my small blog and writings are that popular. Asking ChatGPT about these subjects with my name results in some hilarious hallucinations, pointing to poor training due to lack of data.

IOW, my blog is also being scraped and used to train LLMs. Not nice. I really share the sentiment with Drew. I never asked/consented for this.
That’s why I said the guidance is only really usable for nuclear weapons. I wasn’t saying the guidance is bad, I was saying it’s not accurate to a few meters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393504
You remember Lavabit?

We also have Mullvad.
The formatting actively prevented me from processing more than half the article's content but I agree with the premise as far as I was able to get it: if you're a EU-based company or individual it's a good idea to move away from US cloud services unless you're a subsidiary/employee of a US company.

The legal concern for EU businesses should be self-evident given that EU-US data sharing provisions have been struck down again and again with every replacement inheriting the exact same issues of the one before it. There simply is no way for US-based companies to comply with EU data protection laws while still complying with US laws granting law enforcement and federal agencies warrantless surveillance powers - they'd actively have to break US laws to comply with the EU laws.

That said, this is much more difficult for some things than others.

If you're building on AWS, there's simply no drop-in replacement. Yes, there are EU equivalents in the same category but it's very different from "simply" switching between AWS, GCP and Azure.

For package registries like NPM, moving away also means abandoning the standard ecosystem. For private packages this may be an option but for public packages at some point you will likely need to involve a US service. GitHub is kinda in the same boat - although alternatives to GitHub exist functionally, GitHub is also a platform for discoverability and ease of access. These platforms act somewhat as monopolies for these purposes simply through the network effect of so many people using them.

Even Microsoft 365 (or Google Workspace) can be somewhat difficult to avoid given that so many things simply integrate easily with it compared to whatever company-wide "productivity suite" alternative you might want to use. That's without even getting into the quality and compatibility of the tools themselves.

What seems far easier and often overlooked are the infinite number of dime-a-dozen SaaS providers: emails, monitoring, realtime, messaging, payments, etc etc. These provide an easy first step for most companies and by adopting these incrementally you can also more easily wean yourself off bulk service offerings like AWS. Of course this comes with the cost of a diverse stack: you can't simply hire an AWS certified devops guy and expect him to know how every single service works, on the contrary none of your folks might know how a given new service they need to add works.

Another consideration that's becoming increasingly relevant is the (un-?)intentional vendor lock-in imposed by AI assistants: the LLM your devs or management is using might be able to generate a SOA app built on AWS or Azure but it will likely be less helpful integrating with a EU-based specialized service provider with a fraction of the userbase. Not to mention the AI assistant itself probably runs on US-owned infrastructure and is likely provided by a US-based company.
execution over ideas
cloudflare seethes at firefox users that have strict tracking protections enabled. OTOH it's still much less violent than hCaptcha or google. Especially if you install their PoW pass extension.
MacOS developers have solved this problem pretty neatly:

https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mh27474/mac
The "easy" stuff was easy as the external face is a custom domain. This should be understood as a lesson for future choices.

Generic / not heavily propriety services which are pointed to by something you own (i.e. a domain name) can be migrated to new services. Web hosting, s3 hosting, email hosting etc.

Migrating from @gmail is not possible without scrapping an identity and starting over.
Hetzner is great value, but their networking has a few issues:

1) Networking is mostly limited to 1Gbps. Even private networking. You can request a 10Gbps NIC, but it has to be housed in the correct data center and adds a $48 monthly fee.

2) Private networking is IPv4 only so dual-stack private networking isn't possible. Also each public IPv6 address is /64. Would be nice to get a /56 to setup dual-stack IPv6.

3) Can't specify a subnet to assign a server to when using hcloud API/Terraform. You have to specify the required IP on the subnet explicitly.

4) As I understand it, the private network traffic isn't truly secure between tenants, so needs to be encrypted between nodes anyway.

Still, I'm betting they'll fix these issues as their offering grows.
I really like everything related to network-wide blocking of shitty online services that are enforced on us !

On top of blocking adds (which is great), I wish there were more / easier ways to do network-wide blocking of all sorts of aggressive infinite scrolling (in my case : youtube shorts and instagram reels).

I often like to go on instagram to see posts / stories from the people I follow and I don't want to be suggested stupid videos that are especially designed to catch my attention. I know it's probably revealing a lack of strength on my side, but yeah, I often fall for watching a few of them and loosing 15 minutes of my life.
Was with drew until the solution:

>Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop.

Anyone with any inkling of the current industry understands this is /Old-Man-Yells-At-Cloud. Why offer this as a solution even, I'm unsure.

Here's potential solutions:
1) Cloudflare.
2) Own DDoS protecting reverse proxy using captcha etc.
3) Poisoning scraping results (with syntax errors in code lol), so they ditch you as a good source of data.
When the Animals Went Electric
I don't know that "fast deterioration of battery health" is an actual widespread problem in EVs made in the last couple of years.

In fact, it might be the opposite:

"EV Batteries Last Way Longer Than Expected " https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-battery-life

https://www.wired.com/story/electric-cars-could-last-much-lo...
> Step 3 — pressing the “Enter” key — causes Windows to download and launch malicious code through “mshta.exe,” a Windows program designed to run Microsoft HTML application files.

So what ? It works as intended. /s
Not to mention that Proton relies exclusively on US-based companies for payment management (Strip, PayPal, ...).

Transitive dependencies are always a worse problem than direct dependencies, because they are out of your view and control.

But good thinking to get started with moving towards more autarky.
Welcome to 2025...
I work for a hosting and I know what this is like. And, while I completely respect that you don’t want to give out your resources for free, a properly programmed and/or cached website wouldn’t be brought down by crawlers, no matter how aggressive. Crawlers are hitting our clients sites all the same but you only hear problems from those who have piece of shit websites that take seconds to generate.
Reuters ran the story: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-broadcom-testing-c...
Scrolling logs scare common people. I don't know why.
This is a great list, thanks. Slowly going to be following suit.
If I had to guess why Apple supports adding certificates, it’s probably to allow Apple TVs to work as AirPlay boxes in corporate/educational environments while playing nice with the IT/device management stuff that entails.
For instance, when I was in college, getting something on the college WiFi either required allow-listing it’s MAC address or installing a certificate.
Big company wants to control the standard, so it publishes the standard.
Not much compared to Patreon but if you watch more than a couple YouTubers can you reasonably be expected to subscribe to every YouTuber’s Patreon?

I don’t doubt any given YouTube premium subscription provides a negligible amount of income to a creator but watching their videos ad-blocked provides nothing.

(I use ublock on Zen and do not make enough money to be a Patron of anyone unfortunately)
> Sourcehut

Is it there yet?

> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service may reflect that. As such, payment is currently optional for most features, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoing development of the site. For a summary of the guarantees and limitations that the alpha entails, see this reference.

– https://sourcehut.org/pricing
I’ve tried implementing this a few times on my Apple TV to no avail. I think YouTube has implemented cert pinning on their app now or something. Has anyone else been able to get this working recently?
The two whales:

- blown up by dynamite

- 393-years old, wandering the ocean since 1627
We're clearly in the non-Chrome, non-Windows/macOS minority that Big Tech can pretty much safely ignore.
You can run vault warden just fine.

Open source

Beats

Closed source

Beats

Managed service from Europe

Beats

Managed service from America
Strange, I get them so much.

It might be because I tweaked my user agent. I had to do this, because Microsoft is being obstinate and disabling a lot of M365 features if you're on Firefox on Linux. When I set my UA to Edge it suddenly works totally fine. I'm just a bit stuck with M365 due to my work, unfortunately.
Typescript is like C++ and Objective-C for C.

Technically, it provides an improved type system that offers the tooling to write safer code.

In practice, plenty of folks just rename the file extension and keep coding as they always did.
Ahhh and yes, I have this too. Not only the Firefox tracking protection but also uBlock origin with all the lists enabled (and some custom ones too).
> Because of low human rights advantage, their products are much cheaper.

Honestly, this is strongly misleading.

Chinese goods are not primarily cheap because they are subsidised by communists, or because of lax environmental regulations, or because of prisoner labor-- the primary reason (and its not even close) are low wage levels. Chinese manufacturing pays an average $25k/year ($15k without adjusting for purchasing parity!!) for a 49h week. No western industrialized country even wants to compete with that.

You are very correct that this is not gonna last forever though, because wages are rising in China, too, which will probably lead to a bunch of manufacturing moving to another low-wage country (maybe India, or even Africa in the future).
How do you think all these massive companies will successfully continue to operate in a country where the rule of law is no longer respected?

Like I understand how that might sound like hyperbole, but everything I'm reading seems to indicate the USA is on an express train to hackville.
I have a few traveler esims from Europe. I didn't need to show any ID and I paid cash.
They should be vetted by people that pay attention and read the content. If LLM garbage content is regularly getting around the filter, that’s a stone’s throw from dangerous content that could damage the community.
Yep, I just finished moving most of my stuff to a bunch of small (but stupidly powerful) machines in my and my parents house. They sync and work very well. It's a nice feeling, finally everything is hosted and backed up and in my own hands. Of coourse, this is not for business, although I would have no issues hosting small busness on here; it's more robust than most single vps solutions.
> Really worth the full read.

Absolutely agree, although it's around an hour's read.

Into the void I say: There's a typo on page 39 (of the PDF; the bottom of the page says 37) line 1. That item should be item 4 since it comes after another item 3.

(page 12 also has "at which the Rippling would be offering those solutions" which should probably be just "Rippling", I suspect it said "the Rippling platform" before being corrected to "Rippling" but forgetting to remove "the")
> It feels like there's a real opportunity here for European companies to step up and make a big play, but will they?

Or for the EC to stop their "rearm" BS, and actually do something useful for the people by helping such companies. This is the real battleground for European independence and freedom.
The topic we're discussing would seem to undermine your claim, as cloud is neither a monopoly nor an oligopoly despite having scale and network effects.
Not everybody's chief has a nickname "Zensursula" (German word for censorship ("Zensur") and her given name ("Ursula")).
Cradle – Collaborative Threat Intelligence Hub
In the early 70s it was common to use dynamite for all manner of stuff like this.

I'm not gonna say it would have been routine at a small county highway department but in some lines of work it absolutely would have been. It wasn't cheap but it was cheap enough that a typical rural land owner would rather just dynamite stumps or boulders rather than tackle them with any machine small enough that you'd have to dig out around it rather than rip it from the earth in one go.

You don't realize how much you miss it until you start out pricing the options for clearing rocky forest.
> > Wrapping up - Migrating away from US cloud services was easier than I expected.
> This is absolutely not the main takeaway and I find it difficult to see how he could write this

He explains why he writes this, but this is an incredibly silly complaint because you can’t know what his expectations were.

> The only meaningful switch he mentions is Proton, but as other comments have pointed out they have vendor lock-in problems.

Which the author had with Microsoft 365 as well. Considering reducing vendor lock in wasn’t a goal of what they were trying to do, it’s not clear why you’re even raising that point.

> The real takeaway from this is that it's currently impossible in any meaningful sense.

It’s not clear how you got to this conclusion in any way whatsoever. In fact, this is an entirely ridiculous assertion.

Essentially your entire comment is “the author didn’t aim to do what I wanted them to aim to do therefore the author is wrong”.
Actually it started with Miranda.
I really wonder how to best deal with this issue, almost seems like all web traffic needs to be behind CDNs which is horrible for the open web.
I'm aware of that. Please see my other comment that already addressed your concern. The point rather was that EU strategy won't even get us so far because it doesn't have or doesn't want to have a plan.
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I was thinking about it today, I could think of an equivalent for EC2, S3, Software defined networking, archival, load balancers etc. But, one thing I could not easily come up with a replacement for is IAM. What would be an equivalent to IAM that a smallish cloud provider could use without building it from scratch?

A system that provides roles, policies and granular permissions that can be attached to specific resources like the equivalent of S3 buckets, equivalent of EC3 VMs etc.
Now ask me how I know that your preferred solution to not stabbed in the chest while walking on the street is to just wear stab vests wherever you go.
> I had a friend that said he'd never get a mobile phone, and he did hold out...

Up until this point you had a good start to a very inspiring story. ;)
> [...] when I learned later down that you can add CAs to the certificate store of an Apple TV.

Same. I would not have guessed that that's possible but I guess I never tried to access a resource without a valid certificate chain on Apple TV.
A "design persona" is a stereotype that designers use to justify their decision to discriminate against some subset of users. It seems innocent at first, but it inevitably devolves into the developers crudely binning individual users who submit but reports of feature requests into those stereotypes and then, very often, disregarding their feedback without thoughtful consideration.

"Our Personas document says this software isn't for engineers who taught themselves to use Linux in highschool. This guy who submitted a request to add tabs to the interface looks like a nerd, we don't need to take his suggestion seriously even though he's suggesting a normal thing people who fit into other personas would also find useful."
Reducing reliance on others is primarily risk mitigation, which is increasingly perceived as necessary due to the rise of authoritarianism and wars, in western democracies at least. However, it is quite a sub-optimal solution, and in some cases very costly or close to impossible. It will almost always reduce economic growth, sometimes quite severely.

It would be in the best interests of any one country or group of countries to not have the threats which we think we must de-risk in the first place. Free trade was the primary way we thought we could do that, or at least Europeans thought that was the way. We were wrong all these years. I admit I was one of them. I thought at some point in the near future we would collectively move past this thing called warfare. How naive.
I did it twice. One a few days ago which was a blunder. Next I probably don't think I will here the same link for a few months.

Thank you and apologize for the inconvenience.
The internet is evolving to a state that if you don't have a n level deep stack, you're cooked.

Which is ugly in so many levels.
This, and the fact that a fair bit of this would 'come for free' due to tvOS being based on iOS which has supported custom CAs for ages.
Energetic cost of human disturbance on the southern sea otter
I had to take offline my personal gitea instance as it was regularly spammed, crashing Caddy in the process.
i dont think its that easy as others pointed out but yes I think it would help to have some strict startups around EU maybe that force companies to comply...but then again, from indie hackers/indei makers sides, europe hasnt been too incentivized/friendly for/to start ups either compared to other parts of the world...I think this is one of the major reasons.
Passwords are a pain in the ass, I just wished that having a cryptographic key installed in your device (and linked to it) to login to stuff or having an external crypto-device to login was easier and more common.

For local access, biometrical is fine, and a "super-secure" password for if something happens that can only be used once would be the way.
Fastmail[0] is what I use for my personal email. They support all the standards, but are also pushing things forward with standardising the JMAP protocol[1] which is much better suited to mobile clients than IMAP.

They only have email and calendaring though, no equivalent of Drive/Docs/Sheets.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com
[1] https://jmap.io
You have a French perspective, but EU is big and varied.

Here in Belgium we do have our own Government Cloud which, while hosted using Broadcom (VMWare) and IBM (RedHat Openshift) software is locally owned and controlled.

Now, this "cloud" is a misnomer. It is not as automated as AWS. I would rather call it a government hosting provider, but it's doing its job.
I stand corrected about the high-end state of the art; TBH I haven't been following the developments in a long while. But the device in question clearly looks low-end to me. I would love to see it benchmarked against a contemporary mid-range Thinkpad or Macbook running RISC-V in emulation.
Most devices allow you to add CAs, but almost all apps nowadays use certificate pinning which means the system certificate store is ignored. I find it extremely surprising that YouTube doesn’t do that.
Infomaniak is Swiss company and is a very nice alternative to 365. It covers emails, cloud storage and office editors (via OnlyOffice editors), and plenty more services.

For source code, BitBucket is provided by Atlassian, which while not European is Australian, so also from a trustworthy country.
It sucks too because with streaming they can track so many finite details; with "old school" TV it was mostly self-reporting (i.e. Neilsen Ratings). And so much of the TV-streaming budgeting took "Hollywood budgeting" to the extremes: if total_individual_views < (total_episodes * 2) && total_episodes_binged < total_episodes && average_time_spent_on_episode < (average_episode_time * 0.98) && release_date <= 1week then CANCEL_SHOW=true ... just shortsighted and sad :(
Startup Rippling sues competitor Deel, claiming a spy stole sales data
That’s not actually how professional finance works, at less not on the trading side (I’ve never done vc work).

Usually access and funds is _harder_ to find than alpha. So what’s more important is finding alpha (or whatever metric you are benchmarking against) that you can operationalize even if it’s worse on a risk adjusted basis than some other trade you can’t do.
yeah, there are a crap ton of lithium based devices made in china... my biggest suspect for that is the vape market.

its already a blackmarket industry.. i bet they dont care much about where how the batteries are made.
git blame is always expansive to compute; and precomputing (or caching) it for every revision of every file is going to consume a lot of storage.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is factually true:

Chat control: EU Ombudsman criticises revolving door between Europol and chat control tech lobbyist Thorn

> Breyer welcomes the outcome: “When a former Europol employee sells their internal knowledge and contacts for the purpose of lobbying personally known EU Commission staff, this is exactly what must be prevented. Since the revelation of ‘Chatcontrol-Gate,’ we know that the EU’s chat control proposal is ultimately a product of lobbying by an international surveillance-industrial complex. To ensure this never happens again, the surveillance lobbying swamp must be drained.”

Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-eu-ombudsman-c...

> And it is only pushed by a small number of politicians.

Including the chief Ursula von der Leyen and her commission.
Even if you try to look at the situation from a detached POV I think you can't help but be baffled at how much influence the US is giving up for no apparent reason. It always felt like a house of cards here in Europe - we rely on defense from the US, we store so much of our data there, and almost all of our stuff comes from China or its area of influence.

Now there's a guy at the top of the US who doesn't understand human interactions beyond anger, disgust and mindless loyalty. Or diplomacy beyond simple monetary transactions. He and his rich friend are getting rid of anything they don't understand (or that they don't understand to be of value to them right now), and apparently that's almost everything.

We're living in interesting times.

I wonder what game theorists are doing right now. All I know is that old joke about economists can't be true, about blindly assuming that everyone acts in their own best interest. People do factor in stupidity, right? But there must have been limits, and we're clearly far beyond those.
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