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tpetry··on Bunny Database
The reverse. Argo gives better peering than any paid plan. Its the reason for the product‘s existence. They can use more costly peering that they couldn‘t use with their free egress model.
tpetry··on Bunny Database
Can you share some anecdotes?
tpetry··on Bunny Database
You don‘t have to get the Pro plan to solve the Deutsche Telekom issues. You can also use their Argo product for $5/month - but only makes sense if your egress costs wouldn‘t exceed the pro plans pricing.
tpetry··on Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
The reason for that is that all nodes talk p2p to each other. There is no central communication server like with many other vpn solutions. So even if Tailscale would go down for days you won't have any downtime between your nodes.
tpetry··on Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
I believe they try to indirectly say they are using SerpApi or a similar product that scrapes Google search results to use them. And other big ones use it too so it must be ok...

That must be the reason why they limit the searches you can do in the starter plan. Every SerpApi call costs money.

tpetry··on Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
You know that this is a parody account?
tpetry··on Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries
In my experience you wait for the next two major PG release. When its actively maintained they support them fast. If not, you see by them that it is abandoned…
tpetry··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
That exactly what was the question about and they explained why it is invalid…
tpetry··on Building a Toast Component
Perfectly smooth on iOS for me.
tpetry··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Its not 100% nodejs compatible. I see enough non-green dots in their own official report https://bun.com/docs/runtime/nodejs-compat

And even in packages with full support you can find many github issues that bun behaves directly which leads to some bugs.

tpetry··on Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding
He is not clueless. He is just pushing a batshit crazy narrative because they are invested in tons of vibe coding startups.
tpetry··on People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
They are built on Linux fundamentals but are miles away from being a _Linux desktop_.
tpetry··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Its not one IP to block. Its thousands! And they're also scatter through different ip networks so no simple cidr block is possible. Oh, and just for the fun, when you block their datacenter ips they switch to hundreds of residential network ips.

Yes, they are really hard to block. In the end I switched to Cloudflare to just so they can handle this mess.

tpetry··on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
Thats true. And big part of the reason is the user‘s browser. They use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome and can‘t open a page and there are weird error messages? oh, thats probably a Google issue…
tpetry··on Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
They just use two servers and configure a loadbalancer within Cloudflare. Come on. Self-Hosting is no rocket science. You don‘t have to make it seem complicated. People have been doing this decades before AWS invented serverless.
tpetry··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
But its not clear whether the ad approach will work. It works for Google so great because the ads mimic real results very near so many people dont see them as an ad and click them.
tpetry··on Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
Linus told him some time ago to take a hile. Kent was blocked from one (or two?) previous merge windows long ago to behave like expected from someone contributing to Linux. He didnt change. It was drama since he was first added to the kernel. This was really not the first issue.
tpetry··on Introducing Stargate UK
Absolutely. Exactly like the Stargate datacenters being built in the US have no affiliation with the Stargate project because Oracle is not involved in them. Just another way trying to make that big announcement credible without anything being done for that 500B project.
tpetry··on Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
More like: We‘re announcing to work on a cure in cancer! Isn‘t that aweslme? No, we dont have anything yet. But we started working on it. ETA? When its done. We dont share roadmaps with outsiders.
tpetry··on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
The ruling has been changed again in 2024. You can delay the tax when moving to the EU until you really sell the company. Because the EU ruled that the German tax rule violated the free travel concept part of the EU contract.
tpetry··on Section 174 is reversed, mostly
But the damage has been done while the opponentparty was leading the country. Thats the important part. That was always the plan. And is again with the big beautiful bill when the big tax hikes will take effect with the next president…
tpetry··on World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
Its a joke. A few weeks ago JD Vance listed the reasons for birthrate decline. There wasn‘t any serious like one like the costs. But car seats…
tpetry··on A new generation of Tailscale access controls
I would love for Tailscale to work on a "paranoid mode". At the moment, you can be sure that Tailscale can't add machines to your network with Tailnet Lock where you have to authorize a new machine from a trusted node and not from the UI (which Tailscale could also do without me clicking it). That's great feature compared to their competitors which basically have a backdoor into your network.

But changing ACLs and many other changes can be done from the WebUI without needed authorization from a host. So I have to authorize the change in the UI - but Tailscale could really also do it without my consent. Would be great to have a mode that _ANY_ change to the Tailscale network must be authorized from a trusted node with a detailled changeset. So I could be sure that Tailscale can't tamper with my network.

Sure, I could run Headscale and completely work without the Tailscale servers. But I prefer to pay them the small monthly fee to not have to manage this central service of my fleet.

tpetry··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
He‘s reporting SGD dollars. So something around 700k-800k USD a year. Still impressive.
tpetry··on Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
For sure. The tariffs don‘t make a difference of finished products vs parts of a product.
tpetry··on ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)
But SSDs (to my knowledge) only implement checksum for the data transfer. Its a requirement of the protocol. So you can be sure that the Stuff in memory and checksum computed by the CPU arrives exactly like that in the SSD driver. In the past this was a common error source with hardware raid which was faulty.

But there is ABSOLUTELY NO checksum for the bits stored on a SSD. So bit rot at the cells of the SSDs are undetected.

tpetry··on Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching
They could by storing the results as files in R2 and letting cloudflare workers just return these.
tpetry··on We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch
An interview with an influencer instead of e.g. a real customer is really a strange decision.
tpetry··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
The problem is more that the companies want to keep their insane profit margin. They could produce in the US, pay workers more and sell for the same price.

But thats less revenue for the company. Less shareholder value. Less bonus for CEOs.

The problem is the hyper capitalism which we have for the past 50 years that every company needs more and more profits.

tpetry··on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
The EU is currently thinking about doing exactly that.
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