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by kuschku 4mo ago
If you just want limited liability, you'd go with a simple UG (takes a week and costs 600€, but if you do it right it takes 2-3h and costs 300€). If you additionally want to avoid being taxed when you sell stock, the entire company, or
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> In the UK I can started a Ltd with £1 of share capital, about £100 of fees, and filling out a form online. I will be shielded from personal liability if it goes tits up unless I've broken the law, knowingly traded insolvent, or ot
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by kuschku 4mo ago
It's also available in the Handelsregister, which is available for free.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
The minimum capital amount is 1€, that's the entire point of the UG, to encourage entrepreneurship. The intended path for the upgrade from UG to GmbH is that once the UG makes a profit, this should be used to save up the 25k€ and conve
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by kuschku 4mo ago
I built my current computer in 2020, went from part-time junior engineer to full-time senior engineer, and I couldn't afford to replace that computer at the same specs today. It's unbelievable. I couldn't afford to replace my
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Because it's not just one screw, at the moment RAM, flash and GPUs are experiencing massive price increases. And in both machines a similar percentage of their price is caused by these components.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Depends on if the Valve employee meant percentage increase (+50%) or dollar increase (+$200). That's set the steam machine at either $650 or $800, depending on which interpretation you're using.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> I have never seen an agent output an implementation called FooImpl that's tens of thousands of LOC in a single file, but I have seen plenty of human code like this. I've seen countless vibecoded implementations that look exac
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Huh? Ubiquity has dropped support? I can't believe that, even the older EdgeRouter series supported it.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> That strikes me as a point in favor of AtProto for decentralization Well everyone's data that was stored on the bluesky PDS is also gone, but at least for a few ten thousand dollars a month I can keep my own instance running? Self
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Twitter became a global phenomenon with the same UI and an even slower ruby on rails implementation behind it, despite the constant fail whale. > Plus, whenever I’ve gone to create an account I’ve been presented with a huge list of serve
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> On a Mastodon instance, there are also no steps you can take. Your account is banned on the instance — your entire identity goes down with it. You're constantly looking at it from the wrong perspective. I don't care about the
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by kuschku 4mo ago
I feel like you're missing the point of a decentralized protocol if at every step you suggest to use centralized services instead.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Imagine bluesky (the company) and mastodon.social both disappear tomorrow. My self-hosted mastodon server continues working, and can continue federating with e.g. chaos.social With bluesky it's different. If I am fully self-hosting the
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> Maybe we’re just ideologically misaligned here. I think every single little community hosting a copy of every single app is insane, and not where I’d like to end up Well, it's where we used to be — and it solves most of the issues
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Say bluesky is applying content moderation techniques I disagree with. What steps do I have to follow to get the majority of users to see my content? Another example. Let's define decentralisation in terms of bus factor: How many compa
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Not necessarily – there are some activitypub instances without hostname, directly on IP addresses, and there are even some running in private DNS roots.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> This is an interesting take because AtProto feels both more accessible AND more decentralized to me (at least with my current mental model). A good measure for decentralisation is: Can your community continue using the service if the r
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Wouldn't I have the same quadratic growth (if not worse) if each community were to self-host their app view and relay? > because you don’t want to teach each app to crawl PDS’s and subscribe to them Why not? If I want true decentral
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by kuschku 4mo ago
There are: - 221 with over 5 accounts - 74 with over 20 accounts - 19 with over 250 accounts - 8 with over 1000 accounts. And only a handful of those have open signups (13 with open signups have >50 users). Many of them are actually Acti
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by kuschku 4mo ago
I'm already running my own RSS reader, Matrix server, Mastodon instance, etc. How do I run my own appview? They surely have a git repo, docker images and helm chart, right? And if I can't self-host it, surely every local computer
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by kuschku 4mo ago
The difference between the two is that Bluesky has a central audience with decentralized content, while Mastodon has a federated audience with federated content. Blueksy holds all the power, while the users hold none, whereas with Mastodon
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by kuschku 4mo ago
That's not even close to the truth, there's a lot more manual work that still goes into news than you'd think. And even if it were true, how would that justify making the situation worse? We should be doing something to make
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Typically, you'd want to be able to fetch the full article with your RSS reader, which obviously doesn't work with client side rendering.
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by kuschku 4mo ago
I can't confirm that. Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer And o
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by kuschku 4mo ago
Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN. That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories. Another
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by kuschku 4mo ago
What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox
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by kuschku 4mo ago
> It wasn’t just a normal sham company, it was able to fool auditing firms (one of the big 4) and the executives got away with it and are in Russia hiding I was an early wirecard customer, just using their prepaid debit cards, but I canc
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by kuschku 4mo ago
DO gave students $100 credit. Then required me to upload my passport, which they rejected. Then required me to pay $5 via PayPal just to verify me. Two weeks later they removed all the credit they had provided, without any warning period. I
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by kuschku 4mo ago
In Germany, Credit Cards are a relatively new development and not that common (especially for business transactions). Instead you usually pay post-facto with direct debit. But that of course requires that you verify your customers ahead of

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