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by sparkling 2mo ago
Middleman company buying middleman company. Makes sense.
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by sparkling 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo ago
Yup, my bad, fixed.
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by sparkling 2mo 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 2mo ago
The free DeepSeek depended on full data sharing straight to China.
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by sparkling 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo ago
Focsec.com IP database for offline use (datacenters, VPNs, proxies, bots) runs around $1k/month for internal-only use.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Even if you had a 64GB machine: Are you willing to reserve 90% of your memory to run a LLM? With dirt cheap models like deepseek-v4-flash that will run "forever" on $10, the answer for me is clearly: no.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Jup. I wonder if they will be able to provision enough capacity to keep up with demand. Choices in the EU inference space [1] are still quite limited overall, so any added capacity helps. [1] https://eualternative.eu/categor
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Hetzner Experiments Platform: Inference API(experiments.hetzner.com)
17 points by sparkling 2mo ago|8 comments
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Looks like Hetzner is getting into the Inference game, starting with 4 open models. They also seem to offer a managed OpenClaw box.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
To me, jurisdiction matters more than physical location. I'd rather be with a EU-operated service that stores data on a non-EU server, than a non-EU operator with a German/french datacenter.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
There was a CCC talk with a similar approach, where researches bought expired government domains and typo / bit flip domains. For example: bund.de is managed by the German Federal Government and they purchased bund.ee, the Estonian TLD
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by sparkling 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_a
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by sparkling 2mo ago
What is left? The second-best architecture for any given technical problem is, in the majority of cases, still good enough.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Not a Lex Friedman fan, but I highly recommend the recent podcast he did with two leading engineers (and founder) from the ffmpeg project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepKKz-MzFM In a world full of endless AI slop, it i
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by sparkling 2mo ago
What does your usage look like?
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Can you elaborate on DeepSeek (deepseek-v4-flash, i assume?). What does your typical usage pattern look like and what is your weekly/monthly spend? I gave it a try for a few days (pi + openrouter + deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra) and
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by sparkling 2mo ago
I will refuse to read such messages or documents. At the very minimum, i want a human-written TLDR-style summary to ensure the sender has read their own slop.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
>Europe due to its lack of European competitors, has no current similar protectionist incentives [...] The genie is out of the bottle in the West already. I agree, but you are underestimating EU regulatory incompetence
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Amen. If i see a 5000 line README i am closing the tab.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
>bug reports sit on their "feedback forum" for months This, plus in my experience, the forum is the only way to get things resolved. Bug reports to the account managers / architects (Enterprise contract) is not forwarded t
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Blocking known bot identifiers via robots.txt does nothing by the way. Too many labs are running sneaky crawlers that do not respect robots.txt. You will need to take extreme measures: blocking basically all datacenter IP ranges, VPN IPs, a
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Even very basic browser fingerprinting will still identify you. The IP address is just one of many data points.
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Jup, if you are using any mainstream VPN provider (the ones shilled on every tech YouTube channel) or anything that results in a datacenter IP, it is trivial to discover and block. The detection tech has been around forever: https:/&#
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by sparkling 2mo ago
Add to that that half of these companies are registered in obscure offshore locations where it is practically impossible to even find out who are the ultimate owners.

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