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New comment by tiluha in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

tiluha — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:33:19 +0000

Makes no difference in the fundamental dislike i have for the concept

New comment by tiluha in "AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening"

tiluha — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:12:12 +0000

Mine do, at least when it's very dark

New comment by tiluha in "How much slower is random access, really?"

tiluha — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:18:26 +0000

Im pretty sure this is not the case on most providers, where "dedicated" VPSs demand a significant premium over the default "shared" VPSs

New comment by tiluha in "How much slower is random access, really?"

tiluha — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:03:39 +0000

This is something i have been thinking about lately. How well do these performance optimizations work in the cloud on a shared system?

New comment by tiluha in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

tiluha — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:55:01 +0000

You are not alone. It evoked a physical reaction in me

New comment by tiluha in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

tiluha — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:18:00 +0000

This does not match my experience in Germany. If somebody gives you their phone number it is just expected that you can reach them on WhatsApp and i have yet to meet anyone that doesn't use WhatsApp.

New comment by tiluha in "A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn"

tiluha — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:14:45 +0000

You need 25k€ to register a GmbH, but you can nowadays register a UG which only requires 1€ and can later be converted to a GmbH

New comment by tiluha in "James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died"

tiluha — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:14:02 +0000

One time they didn't get the needle in smoothly and it hurt a little bit, but it really wasn't too bad

New comment by tiluha in "James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died"

tiluha — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:33:24 +0000

In Germany you get to eat from a tasty assortment of food after donating. When going with friends it makes for a nice little event. Fair deal

New comment by tiluha in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

tiluha — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:32:43 +0000

This is true, but scale comes after production. Once you have the video encoded on a server with a stable connection the hard part is over. What netflix failed to do is spread the files to enough servers around the globe to handle the load. I'm surprised they were unable(?) to use their network of edge servers to handle the live stream. Just run the stream with a 10 second delay and in that time push the stream segments to the edge server

New comment by tiluha in "B2C billing is harder than B2B billing"

tiluha — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:49:39 +0000

Yes, depending on thresholds which vary by state. For some you have to figure out taxes from the first transaction, for others from the 100th and then there are some that consider revenue, like $100k. At least at a conceptual level, taxes in the US seem much more complex than the EU, where you have only one tax rate per country.

New comment by tiluha in "Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels"

tiluha — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:29:25 +0000

On hetzner it gets you at least 4 cores, 8GB RAM and 80GB local SSD. For $49 you can almost get a dedicated server with 8 cores and 64GB RAM. More than enough to handle that load Edit: this is for $8 but general point still stands

New comment by tiluha in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

tiluha — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:55:38 +0000

For this use case i would use the bunny volume tier which is $5/TB

New comment by tiluha in "How much memory bandwidth do large Amazon instances offer?"

tiluha — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:29:25 +0000

Testing some Hetzner Cloud instances

16-core ARM CAX41

root@ubuntu-32gb-fsn1-1:~# ./a.out

1 17.8

2 35.6

3 49.9

4 64.9

5 79.0

6 92.1

7 101.7

8 110.2

9 117.6

10 124.0

11 130.4

12 136.2

13 140.9

14 143.8

15 149.2

16 152.9

16 Core AMD shared CPX51

root@ubuntu-32gb-fsn1-1:~# ./a.out

1 18.9

2 37.5

3 54.3

4 65.4

5 77.2

6 92.8

7 100.8

8 92.1

9 95.1

10 105.7

11 93.4

12 100.9

13 89.9

14 97.0

15 99.1

16 107.8

16 core AMD dedicated CCX43

root@ubuntu-64gb-fsn1-1:~# ./a.out

1 36.3

2 71.6

3 56.8

4 50.8

5 63.4

6 57.2

7 53.4

8 50.9

9 55.2

10 61.3

11 64.4

12 65.3

13 66.5

14 68.8

15 69.2

16 64.4

Increasing the data volume for CCX43 to 48GB increases the bandwidth using 16 cores to 75.1. Memory bandwidth seems to scale pretty well with the number of cores on ARM. Interesting that the bandwidth for the shared AMD system is that much higher than the dedicated system

New comment by tiluha in "German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app"

tiluha — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:34:58 +0000

I'd probably not say anything. At most anonymously. I'm not taking the risk as i stand nothing to gain

New comment by tiluha in "Build your own BitTorrent"

tiluha — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:04:25 +0000

Finding peers is somewhat slow. When downloading via torrent it takes a while to really ramp up in speed. With a centralized repository you can start downloading basically right away. For many small files the latency is more important than the bandwidth, given that most repositories are not short on bandwitdth.

New comment by tiluha in "Exploring Linear A"

tiluha — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:04:40 +0000

The trained model would likely be able understand both Alienese and English equally well, but it never learned to translate even one word or context. It might have an internal representation for "eating food" in both languages, but since since no links exists between the languages the embeddings will not be close.

You could try it on earth with if you train a model on two separate languages, being careful that the traning data does not contain any mixed language. But even then, modern Human languages most likely have too much cross-contamination. Would be an interesting experiment nevertheless

New comment by tiluha in "A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS"

tiluha — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 02:05:12 +0000

Moving away from your established life, friends, family to a country where you will (at least initially) be foreign, where the lifestyle is different are burdens that should not be underestimated.

I'm sure everybody in the EU would like US level salaries, but most wouldn't move for the money alone

New comment by tiluha in "Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit"

tiluha — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:52:20 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by tiluha in "Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit"

tiluha — Mon, 29 May 2023 01:27:04 +0000

What is the library being used to display the map?