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The Sophus Helle version is very good, I don't know if this new one will be better or just different.

https://sophushelle.com/gilgamesh/?amp=1

Re:All I wanted was a custom domain email on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:02PM (#49958349)
Feels weird to ignore the largest players, e.g. Fastmail or Protonmail
Re:I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:25PM (#49770258)
Your maths is wrong...
Using more tokens is a significant problem if you pay per token?
Yes, the largest regions get new services launched in them first, and the widest range of hardware, encouraging more people to use them.
Yes, it's exactly the same price
As a Google user in a household of iPhones, my opinion is Gemini on android is radically better than Siri.
Re:S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:54AM (#45359092)
I think a more interesting article on S3 is "Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3"

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-op...

No, they're not removing ADB install capabilities
Re:Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:55PM (#44109699)
This blog post appears to be part of the scheduled launch marketing, it's now generally available

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-dsql-is-now-g...

You need a license from Microsoft to resell Windows licenses as an OEM.

US sanctions against Huawei mean that they can't sign a renewal.

Re:How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:01PM (#43625877)
It's now over 300 million subscribers, as you say they're doing OK.

https://ir.netflix.net/investor-news-and-events/financial-re...

Deleting it from the public site doesn't mean they're not keeping it for internal use...
If you request this, AWS requires:

"After your move away from AWS services, within the 60-day period, you must delete all remaining data and workloads from your AWS account, or you can close your AWS account."

So egress charges are still a significant problem.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Data_transfer_fees_when_mov...

Re:Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:17PM (#42188698)
It's realistically for the handful (dozens at most?) of very large Riak implementations where it would be enormously expensive to rewrite the application running on top of it.

For example, the UK NHS Spine messaging system which has been building on Riak for 10 years

https://riak.com/posts/press/nhs-launches-upgraded-it-backbo...

This is just car leasing as far as I can tell?

What's interesting about it?

Laughable, but accurate.

Google for example does exactly this.

It's pretty common, all the biggest clouds are USA or China owned.

In the UK government services go through information security classification to determine what level of security is needed, with the most confidential stuff still being self-hosted.

I assume most countries operate that way.

I see the images too. Perhaps people with ad blockers?
The car company can share the details based on the chassis VIN number rather than driver details.

Then the insurance company grabs the vehicle registration number when you ask for a quote and looks up the VIN on their side based on a security database to prevent resale of stolen cars or similar.

Anonymous data becomes identifiable data...

Re:Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:18AM (#39510415)
None of the low cost providers that I'm aware of support SMS or a phone number in general.
Re:Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:00AM (#39509859)
When I travel, I normally just buy an esim from Mobimatter, there's various equivalent services that do the same.

The cost for a 30 day / 25GB sim that works in dozens of countries is $22. I think at that rate, $1.95 per day doesn't feel particularly exceptional?

https://mobimatter.com/esim-united-states

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