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kakoni··on Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
Are you still doing Development on this?
kakoni··on Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
Google (or Tuike Finland as its known)

- paid 0e company tax in 2023/2024 (2025 hasn't been published yet)

- Doesn't generate any value added taxes as it only has one customer, Google Emea in Ireland

- Employs directly 120 persons

kakoni··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
Hello fellow MSXian! I got started with Spectravideo SV-728 (and all those fantastic Konami games that it had)
kakoni··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Sorry, messed up the terms here. You became producer. From the earlier faq that parent posted;

> The following provide some typical examples of who the producer of transport packaging is: - If Company A fills the cardboard boxes and sells them to an end user in another Member State, then Company A would typically be the producer in that other Member State.

kakoni··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
According to the PPWR rules, if you (as a webshop) package your shipment in non-branded box and send it from another EU country to another, then you are considered to be manufacturer(=you were the first to bring this into market) and EPR/PPWR rules apply. There is no exemption for this.
kakoni··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
100ke might be enough. Once the debt is in enforcement (ulosotto in Finnish), interest can keep accruing at roughly 10%. If your earnings are low, you can pay for years without reducing the principal at all.
kakoni··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Of course, but when getting bank loan(for the llc) to get started you have to give personal collateral.
kakoni··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
And then there is Temu (as a platform). They've done all the necessary EPR/PPWR agreements with various European countries/vendors. It handles all the fees and reporting for Chinese sellers.
kakoni··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Finland has been an EU net contributor since 2001. Now it has among the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is going through austerity, while Poland is visibly building and converging. I understand the logic of cohesion funds, but from Finland it increasingly feels like: we cut, Poland builds.
kakoni··on Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician
OpenAI o1 beats hundreds of physicians on clinical cases, including live ER patients
kakoni··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
So are you running Kimi on Verda?
kakoni··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Finnish public sector is also heavy Azure user. Their common ethos is that modern cloud services(=azure) are in many respects more secure than on-premises data centers. In addition, they are cost-effective and reliable.
kakoni··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
Finland did that + lot more. Tax system from Gentax, EHR from Epic and social benefits from Salesforce.
kakoni··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
Does somebody have the latest on how the Epic EHR is doing in Copenhagen/Zealand regions?
kakoni··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
There are no such thing as sovereign AWS/Google cloud in Europe. Marketing-wise maybe.
kakoni··on My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
Was going to ask the something. And also, so the omnipod app is not using android attestation but stores private key it got from omnipod server?
kakoni··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
Any k8s self-hosters here? How is that going?
kakoni··on Open models by OpenAI
Europe? US? In Finland doctors can send live patient encounters to azure openai for transcription and summarization.
kakoni··on French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Complete opposite of Finland where everything from schools meeting/document systems(office/teams) to healthcare data silos(azure datalakes) is on Microsoft
kakoni··on Rethinking PostgreSQL Storage
> standard-8 instance (comes with 8 vCPU, 32GB RAM and local NVMe SSD)

So were they using the GD instances? (With XXgd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server..) or something else?

kakoni··on Show HN: Free mammogram analysis tool combining deep learning and vision LLM
Hi! Nice project. Question,"labeled data + radiology report sets", was this something in public domain?
kakoni··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Great stuff!

> I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't work in Kenya as they are geo-locked

Are you familir with xdrip? (https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip) It works directly with various cgm sensors (dexcom etc.)

kakoni··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
Thanks for the clarification. So few question about this investment bank and their startup-loans (IB-Gründungsdarlehen).

1) Are those difficult to get? Do you need to put lots of collateral into use?(like putting your personal assets/home as guarantee?)

2) Are the interest rates really in the range of 2.99 to 6.12%? For new company?

3) Is it expected that you personally pay back the full amount if the company fails?

kakoni··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
So Founder's scholarship: 2,000 euros per month for a period of max. 18 months?

Wow, much better than I expected. How difficult is it to get this scholarship?

kakoni··on Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn
So KFW (state investment bank?) has a thing called StartGeld (startup loan). I've wondered about few practicalities 1) What sort of collateral does bank expect from you? 2) Can you really get 125ke or more like 10-20ke? 3) Interest rate is a single digit number? 4) Can you really get 10 year payback periods?

Reason why I'm asking is that in Finland(where I live) these startgeld terms seem like a dream come true for entrepreneur. To give you an example;

1) Tradiotional bank wants collateral for the loan. For a 5k€ loan, 5k€ in deposits are needed. 2) There a lots of Swedish/Norwegian "loan-houses" advertising their services for companies, with interest rates are somewhere between 23-30% per annum.

kakoni··on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
Looking at my latest rekordbox iOS it does apple,soundcloud,beatport and tidal. I guess only one missing (that desktop has) is beatsource?
kakoni··on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
See https://rekordbox.com/en/2025/03/apple-music-support/

There is a compatability chart with their various gear.

kakoni··on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
So if you looking to get started, get ddj-flx4 (or flx2) controller, plug it into your iphone, download rekordbox app and link Apple music into it.

Makes really nice bedroom/portable setup.

kakoni··on European Cloud Computing Platforms
I guess at this point you mean their recent object storage offering? https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/
kakoni··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
Is there somebody working with Azure devops? How do you find it?
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