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smiletolerantly

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  • Yes, and...

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    More scary than that is that the technologies are starting to keep up or exceed their expectations.

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  • Your last point resonates with me deeply.

    It's also one of the main drivers for my frustration with / rage against the unfair economic system we live in. Working 10-20hrs/week should be the goal, so we can have most of our days to ourselves doing the things we love.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • LLMs will never be conscious.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Please tell me this is a satirical nod towards Honey & Co.

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • So do they

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • Here's the email I got from them:

    Dear xxx,

    This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.

    There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

    The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.

    The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.

    We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.

    The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.

    The following existing products, listed under the customer number specified in the subject line, are affected by the price increase as follows.

    Product previous price New price as of 1 April 2026 Server Auction € 43.56 € 44.87 all prices incl. 21% vat

    We know that price changes are always a challenge for everyone. However, we believe that our products' prices and conditions still have a competitive price-to-performance ratio.

    We have prepared a list of all new prices for you on Hetzner Docs at https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment. Starting on 1 April 2026, the new prices will also be on our website.

    If you do not wish to continue your contract, you can cancel the products within the regular cancellation periods via your administration interface.

    We hope that you will be able to understand and accept our decision, and that we are sorry that we have to change our prices.

    If you have any questions, we will be happy to help. Please log onto your account and go to "Support" in the menu and create a support request.

    Kind regards,

    Hetzner Online

  • Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%

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  • 1.31 for me!

  • Fuck that guy

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  • Past me had a dick

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  • China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country

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  • Did you prompt it in English, or on Chinese? This is just a next-token-predictor, and it will largely use its English training data for its English output prediction.

    This is not surprising. Nor is it indicative of, well, anything.

  • I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

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  • It's because people get mislead by the "agent", assuming there's something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just... Automated.

  • I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

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  • What a clown. In what world do you require an LLM to check for duplicate pictures??

    I mean, good on him for realizing that LLMs are dogshit. But still.

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  • If all jobs were lost if rich people disappeared, then jobs aren't really necessary.

    If jobs are necessary self-evidently, they do not require rich people to exist or get done.

  • Alright, how do you all handle your photos? Self-hosted Immich, Hetzner Nextcloud, Ente or Zeitkapsl?

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  • I mean... Depends on your threat model. Hetzner is a very reputable German hoster. The only way someone is going to try and read and puzzle together memory dumps is if you're under investigation for something seriously heinous.

    Shutting the VPS down also solves this.

    But really, this is a general problem with every "someone else's computer" solution.

    E2EE still nice though, wish Immich had it.

  • Alright, how do you all handle your photos? Self-hosted Immich, Hetzner Nextcloud, Ente or Zeitkapsl?

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  • LUKS isn't cumbersome, you should really enable it on nearly every Linux system.

    Anyways, what do you mean "allowed"?

    I have a Hetzner root server set up this way btw, have to ssh in to decrypt the zfs pool before boot.

    Do note though, this does not protect from an attacker with physical access reading memory.

  • What’s a dish you make when you want something delicious but absolutely zero effort?

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  • Recently, when we don't feel like cooking after work, we've been making mashed potatoes (the pre-packaged, powder kind, because it's WAY less work and surprisingly good), and then topping it with a big spoon of Laoganma, specifically the Crispy Chilly in Oil. Takes less than 5 minutes from geting the pot to sitting down to eat.

    If you're feeling extra fancy, fry an egg to put on top.

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • Hm... Maybe? Only one way to find out!

  • What are your favorite German girl names?

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  • (I know this is in reference to Sousou no Frieren, but just in case: that's not an actual German name, it's just a German verb. Never even seen it used as a name.)

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  • Ehm, yes, but in Germany you also put a Euro into the cart to release the chain, and need to return the cart to get it back.

    Not so sure this would work here without that...

  • How many containers are you all running?

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  • Eh... Not really. Qemu does a really good job with VM virtualizarion.

    I believe I could easily build containers instead of VMs from the nix config, but I actually do like having a full VM: since it's running a full OS instead of an app, all the usual nix tooling just works on it.

    Also: In my day job, I actually have to deal quite a bit with containers (and kubernetes), and I just... don't like it.