zinodaur (u/zinodaur)

zinodaur commented on GitHub is down again githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/MattIPv4

amonith · 4 days ago

By public services I mean only important things like healthcare, law enforcement, fire department. Definitely not stores and food delivery. You can wait an hour or even a couple of hours for that.

> Those companies have decided the extra complexity is worth the reliability.

Companies always want more money and yes it makes sense economically. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just saying that nobody needs this. I grew up in a world where this wasn't a thing and no, life wasn't worse at all.

zinodaur · 4 days ago

Eh, if I'm paying someone to host my git webui, and they are as shitty about it as github has been recently, I'd rather pay someone else to host it or go back to hosting it myself. It is not absolutely required, but it's a differentiating feature I'm happy to pay for

zinodaur commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm

spaceman_2020 · 12 days ago

Fail to see how you can do it with a database with existing financial rails - the costs are too high

zinodaur · 12 days ago

All the same financial rails apply to crypto - enforcement is just lagging a bit.

E.g., you could do what World of Warcraft does - Gold can be earned/exchanged in game, and can also interact with the real world in nebulous ways. Using the hyper advanced technologies of relational databases and ignoring financial legislation, they have enabled ultra-high-throughput microtransactions, with the added benefit of not spraying the public ledger on to the desk of every law enforcement agency on the planet.

zinodaur commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever

barbazoo · 13 days ago

Ranking might be deterministic but it’s never free from bias.

zinodaur · 13 days ago

i'm sure they can still scramble our brains pretty good by exploiting ranking, but if they aren't allowed to customize it per person (e.g., if the same searches have to return the same results for different people), I think it will be a lot less effective

zinodaur commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm

spaceman_2020 · 13 days ago

Literally described the use case - a medium of exchange between agentic entities at massive global scale

zinodaur · 13 days ago

Yeah, but doing it with non-anonymous crypto just seems worse in every way than doing it with a database?

zinodaur commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever

zinodaur · 13 days ago

We should ban dynamic feeds that aren't based on explicit user action. E.g., Youtube should only be able to show search results based on search term, not search context. The recommendations should only be videos from channels you have subscribed to.

The dangers of algorithmic content are so obvious, and the only way to stop companies from doing this stuff is to legislate against it

zinodaur commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde

ExoticPearTree · 13 days ago

I like it how everyone says that, but there is no european cloud operator able to offer what AWS/GCP/Azure offer. And if you are a start-up and you want to grow, the situation is even more dire.

And without a few hundreds of billions of EUR invested _today_ there will still be at least a decade until basic infrastructure will be somewhat on par with current day hyperscalers from the US.

And Office suite wise, it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering.

Today, if for political reasons some EU companies will switch to whatever Europe has to offer in terms of cloud computing, they will need to spend a significant amount of money to retool their day to day pipelines and invest into developing or replacing cloud services with alternatives from the new provider or self-host if there is no native offering.

There’s a chance that the current situation will start to resolve itself in 3 years and we go back to normal, however that might look.

zinodaur · 13 days ago

> There’s a chance that the current situation will start to resolve itself in 3 years and we go back to normal, however that might look.

I don't think it can - dependence on US digital infrastructure grew at a time where American stability was taken as ground truth.

How can an EU leader sit across the negotiating table from a country that can delete (if not read/alter) all of their data, and a willingness to exercise that access?

Even if Trumpism goes away, to know for a certainty that Americans won't do it again one election cycle seems like it will take a long time to establish.

zinodaur commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde

ody4242 · 13 days ago

You don't need hundreds of services. Give me virtual machines, reliable block storage, file storage and object storage, networking, dns, managed kubernetes, and it will cover the majority of workloads in Europe that run on Openshift or Openstack today.

zinodaur · 13 days ago

And a replicated postgres with backups

zinodaur commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm

spaceman_2020 · 14 days ago

Fees are negligible if you move to a L2 (even on L1s like Solana). Crypto is also permissionless and spending can be easily controled via smart contracts

zinodaur · 14 days ago

Permissionless doesn't mean much if it's not anonymous (central authority wants to stop you from doing x; sees you doing x with non-anonymous coin, punishes you).

I understand the appeal of anonymous currencies like Monero (hence why they are banned from exchanges), but beyond that I don't see much use for crypto

zinodaur commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm

spaceman_2020 · 14 days ago

This is legitimately the place where crypto makes sense to me. Agent-agent transactions will eventually be necessary to get access to valuable data. I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto

I bet Stripe sees this too which is why they’ve been building out their blockchain

zinodaur · 14 days ago

> I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto

Why does crypto help with microtransactions?

zinodaur commented on Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone github.com/kxzk/snapbench... · Posted by u/beigebrucewayne

101008 · 18 days ago

> the input token costs would destroy the unit economics pretty quickly.

They say this is going to happen to every task after the stop subsidizing token costs.

zinodaur · 18 days ago

Not for coding though - I'd buy 4 H200's and stick them in my basement if i had to