Hacker News: noxvilleza

New comment by noxvilleza in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

noxvilleza — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:16:09 +0000

In 2015 when I still lived in South Africa, you could do near-instant online transfers - but there is/was a cost involved (I think about $0.45 for transactions under $250). Online banking was super common then, I imagine it's become even more so in the last 10 years. I was quite shocked by how outdated the German banking system was, although it's definitely improved in many ways in the last decade.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

noxvilleza — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:32:48 +0000

Part of this is just the banking here in Germany being so bad. Fast ('instant') transfers are relatively new for many banks, online banking has always been quite poor/limited, and many of the cards they used to offer were Girocard (or Maestro) and didn't work with online retailers. Paypal has always been a great buffer to those problems.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

noxvilleza — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:16:07 +0000

.tg is already used by Togo, although .te is not taken.

New comment by noxvilleza in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

noxvilleza — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:08:28 +0000

At least those bots are easy to block though. I run a niche stats website for an esport and I have no idea why there's loads of residential trawlers/botnets with 10k+ IPs trying to get that data - most of what they scrape is directly available from Valve's APIs.

New comment by noxvilleza in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

noxvilleza — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:31:48 +0000

Most well-known/large agentic web tools I've seen are actually super honest about who they are -- even when they write out scripts they're very keen to identify themselves using user-agents. Most of the time those tools are fine - it's the ones that happen to have a random choice of the 5 most common Chrome/Firefox user-agents making sequential scrapes but cycling through IPs on African and South American residential IPs that are the problem!

New comment by noxvilleza in "Podman v6.0.0"

noxvilleza — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:18:16 +0000

Had similar issues with podman on a Steam Deck of mine that I use as a little home server - eventually got a configuration working fine but was a real pain.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

noxvilleza — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:47:02 +0000

Proved that everyone asking that question is playing a signalling game!

New comment by noxvilleza in "My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable"

noxvilleza — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:20:34 +0000

With Sunshine (I looked at it ages ago but totally forgot about it), do you have to be logged in order to accept clients? With Steam remote play streaming it won't let me stream unless I'm logged in - which is a problem given that I leave my PC (Windows 10). in my bedroom and I don't want to leave it unlocked.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

noxvilleza — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:03:08 +0000

What if there were multiple (2+) founders of a company, and some lived in Estonia? I think in one case they had a Croatian co-founder as well.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

noxvilleza — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:35:46 +0000

Have multiple friends who have done an Estonian OÜ despite being primarily German. No issues on this tax side.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Steam Machine launches today"

noxvilleza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:31:34 +0000

They show a 1080p/high benchmark of Stellaris on Gamers Nexus and it took 63.9s on Linux OpenGL and 67.4s on DX11 (https://youtu.be/66QzlDewigE?t=2021). I would guess the AMD R9 HX 370 in your GT37 will smash that.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Steam Machine launches today"

noxvilleza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:17:18 +0000

Are hardware IDs reliable at all - I've seen so many companies using HWIDs in their anti-cheats over the years and it has never worked; so I wonder if this would easily be worked around.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Steam Machine launches today"

noxvilleza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:09:24 +0000

Sometimes systems which reward luck are better than systems which purely reward money. If scalping exists, it often completely eliminates people who are too poor, even if they are true fans or interested parties (e.g. locals unable to attend sports games held in their cities, etc)

New comment by noxvilleza in "Steam Machine launches today"

noxvilleza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:03:31 +0000

What type of activity? Just purchasing? There's thousands of bot accounts made every day which are active in the sense of playing games, but don't buy very much.

New comment by noxvilleza in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

noxvilleza — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:56:39 +0000

It would be nice if ToS were more like open source licenses in which people commonly standardize or template them (or parts of them). That way there's large chunks which are reduced, and a few diffs for what's unusual. I think the problem with this is the fact that sections are not independent.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

noxvilleza — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:46:38 +0000

I think that's true provided they have replacement hardware - for harddrives/RAM that's almost always true, but a few years ago I had an EOL motherboard issue and was forced into moving to a different server that was a bit more expensive.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

noxvilleza — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:13:15 +0000

I run a few stats site for a video game, and the overall hosting right now is ~€220 on Hetzner for a AX51-NVMe + AX61-NVMe + some extra SSDs + HDDs --- so that's the same price as just a AX42-1 in the new pricing model which is insane. If one of the servers goes down I'd need to likely shut down one of the projects or massively change the architecture.

New comment by noxvilleza in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

noxvilleza — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:23:40 +0000

I got a Surface Pro 7 soon after it was released and it was really great for the price. A good size to work on, decent battery, and actually worked well as a 2-in-1 device. The keyboard was a bit flimsy but still good enough for on-the-go work. Ran Windows on it for a few years then installed Linux and made it be a manager for my media setup, still working fine today.

New comment by noxvilleza in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

noxvilleza — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:58:07 +0000

Are you thinking of the cobra effect (aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive) where people in India started breeding cobras to get the reward?

New comment by noxvilleza in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

noxvilleza — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:28:58 +0000

Isn't it _just_ the U7 that's longer? The U5 is the 2nd longest and that's 22km and just a ~45 min ride.