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PaywallBuster··on Cloud Egress Costs
Bunny have the "Volume" package: starts at 5$/TB, could go down to 2$ depending on volume
PaywallBuster··on EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
And one of the biggest

We gonna find ourselves looking very much like Russias army

PaywallBuster··on Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police
> They are said to have purchased Bitcoins with the proceeds

Based on this, I'd assume the illegal proceeds are fiat currency based, hence they could sell the full bitcoin amount, return _all_ illegal profits, fines,etc and still have plenty left

Likewise, if they bought crypto/stocks/business but the valuation went down, they'd be liable to pay the "illegal proceeds" amount, not the value of the business which may have declined significantly in the meantime?

PaywallBuster··on Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police
plot twist:

hollywood can only claim damages on loss of revenue where, as usual, they'd start with 100% of "streams" == purchase * price == lost revenue, and then probably work down to a more reasonable assumption

if they simply put all the money they got from the website into crypto, and years later it's worth 2B, it does not belong to Hollywood or even the german governemnt

ofc between hollywood and tax department taking their cut there's still plenty left

PaywallBuster··on Men hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros to German federal police
for large transactions you'd do OTC sale (over-the-counter) where you handover the whole amount to a 3rd party

this 3rd party then offloads the sale on their own timeline

PaywallBuster··on 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
nothing wrong with protecting one's investments

its kind of the government's fault for having many ways it can be "corrupted" or that politics are inefficient and too slow to move (having a new bridge approved and built)

Canada managed to go through with it

PaywallBuster··on 25% of US/Canada trade depends on a single privately owned bridge
Looking at the wiki, looks like the government failed to start a bridge or tunnel for over 100 years

so is it wrong that an individual risked millions of his own money for a "public service" ?

> ... construction of a tunnel under the river ... Construction started in 1871 and continued until ventilating equipment failed the next year; work was soon abandoned

PaywallBuster··on Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
Netherlands you could have 3 month probation (I think??) or most companies may start employees on fixed-term employment contracts (6/8/12 months) before becoming permanent which is very common

(Netherlands had a rule where you could have 3 fixed term contracts, up to 24 months total, before becoming a permanent employee)

so they could've hired her on a 6 months contract and simply not renew it :)

PaywallBuster··on Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
farmed fish is probably not as vulnerable and there's many that can be created in inland ponds

so it simply could be a shift in consumption

PaywallBuster··on Sam Altman got $75M from the University of Michigan for a new VC fund
Top ones have nearly $50B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

PaywallBuster··on ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips
> ASML is expected to supply 10 units of the High-NA EUV equipment to the market next year, and Intel has reportedly secured six of them

ouch

PaywallBuster··on FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades
the pdf with a presentation requires a password
PaywallBuster··on US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia
the "spirit" of the law is to restrict access to china to advanced type of chips

so if the law is permissive enough it allows easily getting around it, they can just rewrite the laws or go after nvidia directly for breaking the "spirit" of the law

PaywallBuster··on Ford is killing the Explorer hybrid because cops are buying all of them
yeah the article is not 100% clear

but Ford have multiple models (or variations)

the police interceptor model is the most popular, the others not so much

so they will shut down the other (civilian) models and focus on the police one alone

PaywallBuster··on 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
that's why tesla is not the future

it's just an expensive toy for boomers

a small scooter would suit satisfy a lot of travel needs for lots of people and free the road space

bikes flow like water, cars flow like tetris, it would solve most traffic congestion

bikes (EV or ICE) require a lot less resources to produce and have a lot better mileage

PaywallBuster··on Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API
Before I used to have a subtitles website and mentioned I would downloads subs from his website (keeping any credits in filename or contents)

he wasn't very happy (because my website would compete with him and take ad revenue from him)

at the same time any "extension"/media player that downloads the subs can do it freely

so was it ever open or not?

just because my website had an easier to way to monetize unlike VLC extensions or wtv

PaywallBuster··on Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch
The filings: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1849635&owner=exclude

Specifically the quarterly one here mentioned: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/0001...

PaywallBuster··on Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY
PaywallBuster··on ASML DUV machines used to produce Huawei Mate 60 Pro chips
Isn't ASML booked months/years in advance just as much as TSCM?

Can they really order that much within months?

PaywallBuster··on Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US
VC funded startups start with AWS free credits build a bloated service and then are too big to move (vendor lock in) but they still have VC money to pay the bills
PaywallBuster··on Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
optic fiber may be one of the zero interest rates phenomena coupled with gov subsidies betting on the future

At the end of the day there was plenty of juice to squeeze from existing infra

PaywallBuster··on Fcron Is the Best Cron
there's an existing bug in systemd that causes timers to _never_ run

it's been open for 5 years

if you have a large enough cluster you'll have affected nodes for sure

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6036

PaywallBuster··on A peek into Argentina’s video game scene
I had the same in mind for my account
PaywallBuster··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
is this where aliexpress comes in hand?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004718007133.html

One of many products speaking both protocols for just 10/20$

PaywallBuster··on India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
Well, just read the article

India is a hot spot for cyber crime and scam call centers

Sure you can read articles about apprehensions every single day, but India is a big country, arresting 10 people every day makes no difference if there's (imagine) 100k people in the industry at any given time

PaywallBuster··on India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
> country's image

abstract terms with no implications

Compare that with solid $ figures: if there's 1B in cyber crime money flowing to India per year split by 100k workers

that's $10k/year each, double average salary in india

Same like Russia, there can be a lot of complaints about Russia, but everyone still buying oil from Russia

PaywallBuster··on India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots
Impunity

Cyber crime usually targets external countries and it brings money in to the local economy, so little incentive for the government to target it

Same as hackers in Russia having impunity as long as they're not targeting USSR countries

PaywallBuster··on The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)
Is there an update to this article?

Since the article was written: - AMD has gen4 available - Genoa - there's NVMe drives 15tb capacity each

PaywallBuster··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
insignificant for 90% of people

maybe if I had macbook laptop I would connect it from time to time, but otherwise everything works fine via Wi-Fi including full system backups

PaywallBuster··on Evolution of the Gitea Downloads Site
Nothing stop you from building the index yourself at deploy time
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