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by sparkling 3d ago
No mention of Flock anywhere in the text
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by sparkling 4d ago
100%. Anything with the name "Norton" is burned for me. This goes back to uninstallable Software around Windows XP era.
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by sparkling 7d ago
$2800 in most of Europe yeah, insane.
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by sparkling 9d ago
Bunny is the MVP among these European alternatives. It's not just a CDN, it offers Cloudflare-style Edge scripting, Edge workers, databases (Sqlite compatible) etc.
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by sparkling 9d ago
It seems you know more than the police does. I suggest you provide your highly valuable information to the investigators.
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by sparkling 9d ago
Actually, the police is looking for known suspect (German) that is believed to be a "climate extremist".
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by sparkling 10d ago
The (refundable) escrow payment would indeed be a possible solution. I feel to some degree governments are also responsible for this, by not making consistent use of *.gov domains. Take for example sunbiz.org, the Florida business register.
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by sparkling 10d ago
Feels this another fake "research institute" website used for astroturfing and influencing LLM results. 7 submissions over the last month, all from green accounts with no other activity https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by sparkling 10d ago
Ah, the beautiful beige slop with unreadable contrasts.
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by sparkling 10d ago
Yeah lil bro, the times where you could charge $20 for some coding snippet ended about 20 years ago.
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by sparkling 10d ago
So X(.ai) can scrape the entire web, but nobody can scrape X. Makes sense.
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by sparkling 11d ago
Site (Wordpress) seems to have gotten the HN kiss of death
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by sparkling 12d ago
The 9€/mo price point seems weird, considering its "just" static hosting and i can get a decently sized VPS for that money (yes, also from a EU host).
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by sparkling 12d ago
>So you're supposed to block VPNs as well? What's next, Tor exit nodes? New VPN and Tor nodes as they pop up? Trivial to do nowadays: https://focsec.com/ >I really don't like where this is going. German
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by sparkling 12d ago
Several (European) alternatives are available: https://eualternative.eu/categories/public-dns/
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Xiaomi Auto Enters European Market in 2027(xiaomiauto.com)
1 points by sparkling 13d ago|0 comments
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by sparkling 14d ago
It seems "AEO" is the preferred term in the US, while Europe loves "GEO".
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Leaving Gmail? Get your own domain first(eualternative.eu)
2 points by sparkling 16d ago|0 comments
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by sparkling 28d ago
>InnovationHQ.com Their site is a totally blank HTML page, it seems?
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by sparkling 28d ago
Domains investors (or squatters, as one may call them) have been around since the beginning of domains.
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by sparkling 28d ago
Middleman company buying middleman company. Makes sense.
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by sparkling 28d ago
It's also a bump up in overall size. The OG F-91W wears very tiny on a larger wrist. F-91W (old): 38.2 × 35.2 × 8.5 mm F-B100W-1A (new): 41.9 × 38.1 × 8.8 mm
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by sparkling 29d ago
>machine0 provides on-demand cloud virtual machines accessible via a command-line interface and web dashboard. VMs run on DigitalOcean infrastructure. Well, given DigitalOceans already inflated prices, this certainly won't be cheap.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
Yup, my bad, fixed.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
Just canceled my WisprFlow subscription a few days ago to switch to a open source, free, local alternative. In my case handy.computer with the Cohere model.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
The free DeepSeek depended on full data sharing straight to China.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
>OpenRouter represent ~$100B in payment volume, whereas Stripe in total doing ~$2T. That is a much higher % than i expected.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
I call it "jargon slop". Half of my follow-up prompts nowadays when working with Opus were "TLDR please". I switch to GPT 5.6 Sol please and its a much more pleasant pair programming like experience.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
deepseek-v4-flash feels so fast and snappy, i'm loving it. Happy to trade speed for the the 5% degraded benchmarking performance.
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by sparkling 1mo ago
Focsec.com IP database for offline use (datacenters, VPNs, proxies, bots) runs around $1k/month for internal-only use.

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