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byyll··on Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup
After every such story I see, I subscribe one more person to Mullvad.
byyll··on Better Auth is joining Vercel
Sucks. Now I have to look for alternatives.
byyll··on The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
I don't think that's an alternative to US hyperscalers. Scaleway is the closest thing there is. Replacing a single service with 10 others is not really an alternative in my opinion.
byyll··on The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
ClouDNS is probably the most popular one.
byyll··on Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?
> They don’t want to actively police the internet

They do and they've done so in the past. They are just more okay with some illegal stuff than others.

byyll··on Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?
Because cloudflare is and always has been a bad actor. They protect all sorts of illegal stuff.
byyll··on Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January
They had a referendum for that?
byyll··on Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January
Did they agree? I've read at least one news article in the past 2 years talking about a referendum.
byyll··on Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
Isn't the whole point of Cloudflare's Workers to pay per function? If it is self-hosted, you must dedicate hardware in advance, even if it's rented in the cloud.
byyll··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
I get the point. But those are incomparable. Hyperscalers don't compete on price, they compete on scale and services offered. The compliance, the security, the support, the integrations, the backups.

Can you host your own object storage open source software, key vault OSS, VPN, queue service, container registry, logging, host your own Postgres/MySQL? Sure, but you will need to research what is best, what is supported, keep it maintained, make sure to update it and that those updates don't break anything, wake up in the middle of the night when it breaks, make sure it's secure. And you would still need to handle access control across those services. And you would still need a 3rd party service for DDoS protection, likely CDN too. And you would likely need some identity provider.

byyll··on Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
They have it on their website + the version 2 which has reflective protection + a backlight and is also in 24 inches.
byyll··on Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative
It still seems to require a browser to use. But sure, I guess it's easier to start with.
byyll··on Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative
How does that compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?
byyll··on YouTube to be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16
Setting aside the obvious privacy issues with de-anonymizing everyone, it's great to limit kids' access to media for adults.
byyll··on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
Lmao, an app.
byyll··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
https://msty.app (cross-platform) and https://chorus.sh (Mac only) do that though they are both a desktop app rather than a service. Arguably better than putting your API key somewhere online in my opinion.
byyll··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
Is Poe pay per use or a subscription? I don't want to sign up just to find out.
byyll··on Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions
Is it pay per use?
byyll··on NuxtLabs is joining Vercel
It's platform agnostic but Vercel is the only one that supports it? At least that's in the docs I linked.
byyll··on NuxtLabs is joining Vercel
> has that happened with Svelte?

Yes. There are features that have been deliberately kept on the platform level to force you to use the platform instead of implementing it on the framework level or guiding you through it with the docs.

https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/glossary#ISR

byyll··on A single line of code cost $8000
I'll let my employer know to update my salary or reduce my workload.
byyll··on National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers
Sounds like a necessary change to send a message. I find it normal that when you go somewhere, you adapt and learn the language. You shouldn't expect other to adapt to you.
byyll··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Then call it a new term. Don't change the definition of existing words. An open door isn't an invitation to change it, or to use it for free. It's just an open door and you can look inside.
byyll··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
I don't really mind whether it fits someone else's definition really.
byyll··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
I coined it today to mean something else. There is no reason to take someone's meaning of a word for gospel.
byyll··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Again with the pointless discussion about what the "widely regarded definition of open source" is. The source is there. That's it.
byyll··on A love letter to the CSV format
I was recently writing a parser for a weird CSV. It had multiple header column rows in it as well as other header rows indicating a folder.
byyll··on Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite
Isn't SQLite known for being bad for write-heavy use cases?
byyll··on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?
Great if that's the case. I am no fan of WhatsApp and I do think we should use and encourage more European tech but I don't think how important that is has changed recently.
byyll··on Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal
I was about to agree with your second point but after checking out the latest posts, it seems about 80% of the last 20 or 30 are about tech.
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