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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…

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…

Looks like Hetzner is getting into the Inference game, starting with 4 open models. They also seem to offer a managed OpenClaw box.

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 d…

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 …

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_airlin…

What is left? The second-best architecture for any given technical problem is, in the majority of cases, still good enough.

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-Mz…

What does your usage look like?

Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...

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 (…

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.

>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 unde…

Amen. If i see a 5000 line README i am closing the tab.

>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 / architect…

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 measu…

Even very basic browser fingerprinting will still identify you. The IP address is just one of many data points.

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.…

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.

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 …

>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 perfect…

Thank you, this is the type of hands-on experience report i was looking for.

How has your experience been so far? Did you previously use Opus? Im curious how the overall "feel" of it is.