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ph4teon Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

As a CC power user, an OpenClaw, and ZeroClaw user, I am completely fine with this. My CC usage has suffered lately, and however cool and fun the Claws are, I use Claude Desktop probably more than OpenClaw and it works just fine, and has a lot of integrations. I would rather have Anthropic continue to support its own products working well, and have all of these things move to another service, or pay Anthropic for their use.

ph4teon A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

I don't know how big sufficiently large codebase is, but we have a 1mil loc Java application, that is ~10years old, and runs POS systems, and Claude Code has no issues with it. We have done full analyses with output details each module, and also used it to pinpoint specific issues when described. Vibe coding is not used here, just analysis.

ph4teon Hetzner Object Storage

https://wasabi.com/glossary/egress-charges

Wasabi doesn't have an egress hard limit and doesn't charge for egress. You get consistent pricing, and if you need to recover everything, it's not an issue at all, and you won't pay for it.

"The reasonable use egress policy indicates that if your monthly downloads (egress) are greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy, and we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service."

If you're using Wasabi for normal backup data storage, you shouldn't worry about egress. It is meant to prevent malicious users from uploading data and using up all the egress bandwidth, for example, a 500GB user egressing 5TB with public access or using Wasabi as a dump point to upload in one location and download in another region 1:1 ratio. As your storage goes up, your available consistent monthly egress goes up. It only becomes an issue if you abuse the account by uploading/downloading in a 1:1 ratio on a consistent basis.

What happens is you get an email from support asking if something changed in your use case. If so, they will help troubleshoot it(Think of a CDN scenario, where the CDN gets misconfigured). You also have an egress monitor for suspicious activity in case you aren't normally downloading all your data, and then you see a rise in egress https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/en/whats-new?highlight=egress#e....

ph4teon Hetzner Object Storage

This is highly dependent on the use case. Backblaze gives you 3x free egress, but after you hit that you pay for any additional egress. Wasabi has terms of use not to exceed 1x your storage, but is not in their model to pay egress. As a long-term storage user, you can restore a full system-wide backup without any concern of charges at Wasabi(typically, you're not restoring everything, just recent backups), as long as you are not consistently doing it. Backblaze will get you more egress for sharing data over the public internet, but if you need more, you will get charged.

ph4teon Master Hexagonal Architecture in Rust

I don't think this needs to be an all-or-nothing thing, and aside from a few items, it seems pretty standard. We start off with the Zero to Prod model, and when handlers become too large, move them over to "Repository" types. GET usually stays in the handler, vs POSTing a new request for an action that may include several DB calls, channels, async tasks etc.. goes into a "Service" type crate. Its usually little work though. As far as separating "entities" from requests/responses, that seems to be the norm in any language/framework. You don't want secrets to be responded when you create something, or all of your internal properties. When there starts to be too many config knobs, things are extracted to their respective places. I like that this lays out out a framework for it. It doesn't necessarily mean I would start there.

ph4teon Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?

There are new rules and regulations in 2024.

https://clerk.chat/blog/tcpa-compliance/

We had to switch off Twilio for our integration and move to another provider that came with its own set of issues.

ph4teon Wasabi, Why?

Welcome to the world of S3, Where everything is made up and nothing makes sense!

ph4teon Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin

SparkJava has been around since just about the time that Spark became Apache Spark. 10 years ago-ish.

ph4teon Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering

I worked for a service provider doing some cellular testing and we had a special clear box that did this. It was probably expensive at the time. I wonder how well those faraday bags or boxes for $20 work from amazon or ebay.

ph4teon Coral Dev Board Micro

Agreed, no advantage, I just run a larger k8s cluster instead of having docker systems laying around now.

ph4teon Coral Dev Board Micro

This thing works great. It's loaded in my local 5-node(2x3) k8s cluster, with a Coral TPU plugged into a single node. I have 6 4k cameras running, and it does object analysis on all of them with < 10% CPU on the node.

ph4teon Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data

S3 allows you to provide your own keys, or you can encrypt it before you upload the data.

ph4teon Ask HN: Do we love Wasabi Object Store?

There are a few things you need to keep in mind with Wasabi. Depending on your payment method, there is a 90-day or 30-day minimum storage duration policy. This means that if you upload an object, then 30 days later, delete the object. You will be billed as if the object is active(even though it is truly deleted) for another 60 days. You may use more than expected if you have high amounts of short-duration churn of your data. If you have long-duration storage needs, this is great.

The other thing is that while egress is free, there is a fair egress policy. This means you should not egress more than you store on Wasabi monthly.

For example, if you want to host web assets, Wasabi could be a good fit if you use a CDN to frontend all the egress. However, if you do not use a CDN, you will use up your egress ratio quickly. While there are no extra charges, you will get notifications from the support team to figure out the issue.

Other than that, if you are looking for object storage and neither of the above bothers you, Wasabi is a great high-performance object storage vendor with predictable pricing.

ph4teon Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds

This is one of my top books. I love reading about the spiders evolution. The third book in the series is a little lackluster though.

ph4teon Tech: iCloud+ 6 and 12 Terabyte Plans and Apple One Premier Issues

Wasabi has a pretty much static price, whereas B2 has you pay for storage and misc fees depending on how much api calls and bandwidth you use.

ph4teon Tech: iCloud+ 6 and 12 Terabyte Plans and Apple One Premier Issues

This is the way, Arq is dead simple, cheap, and so is Wasabi.

ph4teon HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on printers when ink runs low

I’ve only have two printers in the past 13 years, a Brother MFC-7840w, which worked perfectly and I only gave away because my family wanted a color printer. The upgrade was an HL-2170CDW. I have no complaints with either. I’ve even gone through my starter toners on the color laser and bought a knockoff set for 70$ which included two black toners with all the colors, and have been quite surprised at the quality. Both have had wireless support and print from phones without issues.

ph4teon In Digital Ocean, S3-like space keys can access all your buckets

I used to use DO Spaces and Backblaze, but then I found Wasabi and have switched everything over since. It pretty much has full S3 compatibility, and doesn’t use Minio or Ceph. Mostly just keep adding data, very rarely delete data.

ph4teon A currently maintained fork of SSHFS

They are all OK to use, and each provider has pros and cons, depending on the use case.

Hetzner is the cheapest; however, your data is stored in Germany or Finland. They have free bandwidth, but you are limited to 10 connections at a time.

Backblaze B2 has 4 regions across the globe, storage is $5/mo, there is no minimun retention time, but does have a cost for API Calls(transactions), and in addition charges for egress data(downloads), so your $5/TB is a variable factor, and if you use your data, you may not achieve $5/TB, the cost will grow depending on the use case(there are free levels of transactions and egress)

Wasabi is $7/TB and has 13 regions across the globe, with free egress and no api charges. It does have 90-day minimum storage charge, which means you are billed for every object for 90 days regardless of if you delete it before 90 days. In addition, the free egress has limits to prevent system abuse. There is a 30-day deleted storage charge available if you purchase in bulk with their RCS(reserved capacity) storage plan. It's good if you want to store a lot of data that does not need deletion.

I have accounts with all 3 of these for different use cases.

ph4teon Ask HN: Is there a low cost way to learn real K8s, after exhausting minikube?

You can buy a “lot of computers” on eBay for cheap, setup k3s on them. You don’t need a lot of horsepower to play with all of those things locally. Here is an example.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204446735467

ph4teon IntelliJ Rust

I stand corrected, looks like that has been resolved in the latest version of CLion, with the Rust plugin.

ph4teon IntelliJ Rust

I have been using this for a while and don't have to do much. It automatically reloads for me. My only gripe is that it won't allow me to right-click and automatically create a use statement for Derive macros. But I may be spoiled by switching back and forth between Kotlin and Rust.

ph4teon Ask HN: What is the most cost effective way to do backups?

rclone or restic with Wasabi is my goto backup solution. Restic for snapshots, rclone for random data dirs.

ph4teon Comparing K3s with vanilla Kubernetes

I've gone through this a few times recently and have it in my homelab and at the office. What works good for me using kube-vip to a VIP on the control plane, and then MetalLB to dish out private addresses in the respective networks, or even statically assigned addresses. I have been turning them all up with k3sup which works like a charm.

turn up the first node, install kube-vip, switch config to point to the vip, turn up all my other master nodes, then turn up my workers, install metallb, setup my subnet, install rancher, expose it with a LB, install longhorn. then start deploying things. here is an example of what i use to turn up the first one with k3sup. all of the servers are turned up and configured with ansible doing minimal updates, users, sudo access, etc..

k3sup install \ --ip=192.168.1.11 \ --user=k3s-user \ --sudo \ --tls-san=192.168.1.10 \ --cluster \ --k3s-channel=stable \ --k3s-version=v1.24.12+k3s1 \ --no-extras \ --k3s-extra-args "--flannel-iface=ens160 --node-ip=192.168.1.11" \ --merge \ --local-path $HOME/.kube/config \ --context=k3s-lab

ph4teon Comparing K3s with vanilla Kubernetes

Been using k3s(kube-vip + MetalLB) and Longhorn for both my personal projects and work projects for a while without any issues. It's a pleasure to use instead of the alternatives.

ph4teon HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges

I agree on the Brother printers, I’ve only had two Brothers in the past 13 years, and the only reason I upgraded was to go from Black and White Laser, to Color Laser, it was still going strong. The best part about it was you would buy a toner cartridge and when it would tell you it’s getting low, put some electrical tape over the clear hole in the side and it would continue to print for another 1.5k. On top of that I just press the reset button for the toner life and it resets it just like I put in a brand new one. Then I print till it starts getting light. This last round of color toners I bought an off brand from Amazon that came with all the colors plus two black for half the price of the name brand set. I typically don’t buy off brand, but figured I would give it a shot. Still going good since last year.

ph4teon Lowell HS Got Rid of Merit-Based Admissions. Then Students' Grades Tanked

This was a very interesting article to me as I am currently looking at high schools for my child. Growing up I went to the high school of the school district of my area, and was not aware there were such differences and opinions. Now living in a different state, a child going to private school and having to apply for different high schools I was unaware of how the admissions process can affect class scores. It does seem to make sense reading other comments with additional references that parent leadership and child determination to do well in school would help overall grades vs the lottery system where parents want children to go to a good school but the kids have no interest.

ph4teon Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

Not sure I like this article. I would have liked to see the Levoit LV-PUR131 which is rated for 1000sqft/hr, 500sqft in 33 mins at $190, instead of the little one which we know will have a really low CFM/CADR.

Blue Pure 211 rated 540sqft, GermGuardian rated 167sqft, Honeywell HPA160 rated 170sqft, Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier rated 290sqft. Levoit LV-H132 rated 68sqft,

Also the Levoit is called out for being $150, as their cheapest, however they are on Amazon or at the local box store for $90.

ph4teon Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

I learned this the hard way with one of these slide covers from CloudFlare I got at BlackHat Conference. Picked up the Mac with one hand and I heard the crack. Needlees to say I now have a vinyl type sticky cover I just move on and off when I need to use the camera. Apple replaced the screen for me for a small fee of course. https://www.ipromo.com/promo-products/20101/Custom-Webcam-Co...

ph4teon Fastmail – 20 Years Old

Have been using it for years, it works great!