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by sparkling 3mo ago
To be fair: all hosting providers deal with A LOT of abuse happening on their systems. Malware being hosted, people abusing trial periods ands free plans etc. No sure if requiring a ID upfront is the perfect solution (if i recall, i never h
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by sparkling 3mo ago
>Airbus isn't ditching Microsoft any time soon because there's nowhere to go. Likewise Google productivity apps because the only place to go is Microsoft. [x] doubt There a perfectly suitable office and productivity suites, but
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by sparkling 3mo ago
Thank you, this is the type of hands-on experience report i was looking for.
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by sparkling 3mo ago
How has your experience been so far? Did you previously use Opus? Im curious how the overall "feel" of it is.
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by sparkling 3mo ago
What is your motivation? Privacy and/or data protection? I currently don't see a world where it makes sense to run a local model that will eats up 60% of my RAM, 20-30% of my disk space while providing worse quality output than a
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by sparkling 3mo ago
>Our testing confirmed that many less capable models—including Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.7—could identify the same vulnerabilities as Fable 5 did in the report. That is nice advertising for Kimi, huh?
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by sparkling 3mo ago
DNS4EU have also blocked archive.today in the past. I i remember correctly, they claimed it was part of some automated malware-protection system. So i would give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. In any case, plenty of other free E
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Harley Benton is "extremly popular"? I don't think so and the upper price ceiling for HB seems to be at ~400-500 USD right now. Decent hardware for anyone just starting out with their first instrument, sure, but i never hear
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by sparkling 4mo ago
502 Bad Gateway, the HN kiss of death Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260624025836/https://www.thoma...
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Both parties having a VAT ID is actually a requirement to be able to use reverse charge: https://vatdb.com/reverse-charge/
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by sparkling 4mo ago
The Hetzner price increase was brutal, but the reality is: Hetzner VPS prices are still a fraction of comparable AWS EC2 instances. >many European companies aren't as competitive as their US counterpart. I don't think any serio
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by sparkling 4mo ago
They have a $1 minimum spend across all services. You can effectively host unlimited static sites for $1.
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Dual-booting SteamOS for gaming and some regular Distro for daily work would be neat.
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Post once, read never
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Super shady. The german public broadcaster gave them a 5 minute feature on yesterdays evening news, that felt more like a paid ad than journalism. The report made it sound like it is some kind of semi-official EU-endorsed project, but its j
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by sparkling 4mo ago
Even if i had such a machine, im not sure i would be willing to sacrifice 80% of my RAM and 50% of my disk to run a semi-okay model locally.
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by sparkling 4mo ago
That may be true, but the Irish corporate entity (Stripe Payments International Holdings Ltd.) is ultimately owned by Stripe, Inc. in the U.S. If you are looking for payment processors that are ultimately owned and incorporated in the EU:
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by sparkling 4mo ago
>llms.txt is supported by 0 of the relevant ai providers True, but it serves a other purpose, especially when the website is offering developer-oriented services. It's a single link you can give your AI agent and ask to "read t
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by sparkling 5mo ago
Its unfortunate you didn't go for a EU-native stack right away. Bunny.net offers similar compute/serverless on the edge, close to Cloudflares offerings.
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by sparkling 5mo ago
My first impression was "oh no, not another generic, vibe-coded service clone". But this is actually really good stuff under hood, and it's clearly coming from someone who has a deep understanding of networking. Nice work, go
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by sparkling 5mo ago
As someone who has never owned a iPhone... what is the appeal of using iMessage? What can iMessage do that SMS/RCS can not do? Apart from the fancy iPhone-to-Mac handoff features i've seen folks use ;)
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by sparkling 5mo ago
Regardless of the ToS violation... isn't this trivial to detect? Even if they keep the message volume low, detecting a swarm of accounts that are sending duplicate/similar messages seems rather trivial? The entire business model
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by sparkling 5mo ago
After Sendgrid got acquired by Twilio and retired their free plan, i also went with Brevo and am quite happy with it. No deliverability issues on the major email operators (Google, MS365) at all, decent delivery speed.
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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month(eualternative.eu)
226 points by sparkling 5mo ago|84 comments
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EU Cloud Comparison Matrix(eualternative.eu)
32 points by sparkling 5mo ago|2 comments
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by sparkling 5mo ago
In a world full of endless AI slop, wouldn't original recordings become more valuable over time?
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by sparkling 6mo ago
Check out Scaleway (France). They have by far the broadest range of managed services with full permissions/IAM integration etc. - it is the closest EU match to AWS. Yes, if your entire existing setup depends on once specialized AWS ser
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by sparkling 6mo ago
The AWS Sovereign Cloud is still owned 100% by Amazon Inc. in the US. Not saying that rules it out for all use cases, but something that should be mentioned. "Sovereignty" is a somewhat vague term.
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Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure(eualternative.eu)
194 points by sparkling 6mo ago|62 comments
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The Case of Soham Parekh: Detect Employees Using a VPN(focsec.com)
2 points by sparkling 1y ago|0 comments

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