The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.

Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous

Agreed. If the CFC (controlled foreign corporation) rules still apply for founders in EU-member states, it will fail.

I’m hoping they can be creative and find a way to distribute revenues to member states in a way that works for everyone.

For employment taxes, one way could be to tax EU-inc employees as if self-employed in their personal tax domicile.

> Of all the challenges you face as a startup, the legal entity you choose is possibly the least consequential.

The amount of founders who choose to domicile their company in Estonia because the ticket rates and ease look attractive and who don't understand that this will still need to be administered in their local market as a CFC (controlled foreign corporation) would probably say differently.

> Just choose a jurisdiction where investors understand how the legals work (Delaware C-corp, UK Ltd is OK too) and there's a finite administrative burden and/or commoditized tooling in place to help you handle it.

That's exactly what EU-INC is trying to provide/solve afaict.

Totally agree. If I don’t understand the code as if I’d written it myself, then I haven’t reviewed it properly. And during that review I’m often trimming and moving things around to simplify and clarify as much as possible.

This helps both me and the next agent.

Using these tools has made me realise how much of the work we (or I) do is editing: simplifying the codebase to the clearest boundaries, focusing down the APIs of internal modules, actual testing (not just unit tests), managing emerging complexity with constant refactoring.

Currently, I think an LLM struggles with the subtlety and taste aspects of many of these tasks, but I’m not confident enough to say that this won’t change.

I think it will change, and it might be possible now with the right prompting, to some degree. But the average project won't be there for a while.

Fairly subjective, but personally I find all apps being within the browser quite constrictive. I'd much rather have my apps unencumbered by browser chrome and unintended keystrokes, persisting their window size/position and all kind of other affordances. Definitely not a fan of the 'browser as the OS' philosophy, as it feels a bit inception.

That said, I'm less and less bothered by an app that's Electron under the hood, but I think that's more to do with the quality bar for native apps slipping over the past few cycles (macOS) and forfeiting their advantage.

No.

In Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic style – pretty much a bible amongst typographers – he states:

We should “[u]se spaced en dashes – rather than close-set em dashes or spaced hyphens – to set off phrases.” Bringhurst then adds this devastating indictment:

The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.

I have no excuse: I read that book, and I thought I was quoting his advice from memory.

With a warrant from a judge people should be compelled to provide access to their encrypted files or be in contempt of court with all that entails. Anything else is overreach.

You cannot prove the absence of e.g. a Veracrypt hidden volume or similar, though. Even if you honestly give up your key, you could still be either

A) held in contempt of court, if the authorities do not find what they expect for some reason and accuse you of using such techniques or

B) if you specify that such behaviour by law enforcement is overreach, have a clean way out for criminals, codified in law, heavily damaging the impact you may expect of such a law.

What's the difference between that and an incriminating paper document that the police believe you have hidden somewhere in the vast woods?

Wonderful idea. All I need to is to create an encrypted file with pedo pictures or terrorist plans or just white noise, send a copy to all my enemies, and tip off the authorities.

And what happens when your enemies can't produce the decryption key?

In many countries it's prison time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law

Yea that's extra fun if someone else sent it then. Government puts them in jail for not having the encryption key for something someone else encrypted.

No, that's not all you need to do unless your only goal is to harass your enemies and cause inconvenience.

No one should be compelled to aid in their prosecution.

Scaleway has a broad range of services, but their price competitiveness/reserved instance discount is a bit lacking.

Their "development" instances used to be the shit years and years ago.

You could get one running on their own custom hardware for like 4€/month, enough for a bunch of small utilities.

Tried to get one some time ago, but they've sold all of the capacity and it's not available. Need to check if that has changed.

Hetzner's great, and I'm a customer, but we're missing lots of stuff there – and some of the stuff that is there isn't reliable.

For example:

* Object storage: lots of horror stories out there regarding flakey performance so hard to justify sticking mission critical stuff there.

* Private networking: Again, too many anecdotes about loss of service. Lots of people just using the public IP6 interfaces to avoid their private networking entirely. And private networks are IP4 only.

* Kubernetes CSI: I've had issues with this where a PV gets in some locked state and I can't remove from console.

I'd love to see more competition here.

This is my daily AWS story, so I would probably feel right at home on Hetzner it seems!

Our experience with Hetzner /Cloud/ is similarly shaky. But Hetzner dedicated servers all altogether a different story.

We (lithus.eu) deal with their custom solutions team regularly and often provision private networks in the 10-100G range. On top of that we deploy MinIO and OpenEBS/Mayastor, and the whole thing just hums along very nicely indeed.