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Please tell me this is a satirical nod towards Honey & Co.

Here's the email I got from them:

Dear xxx,

This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.

There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.

The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.

We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.

The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.

The following existing products, listed under the customer number specified in the subject line, are affected by the price increase as follows.

Product previous price New price as of 1 April 2026 Server Auction € 43.56 € 44.87 all prices incl. 21% vat

We know that price changes are always a challenge for everyone. However, we believe that our products' prices and conditions still have a competitive price-to-performance ratio.

We have prepared a list of all new prices for you on Hetzner Docs at https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment. Starting on 1 April 2026, the new prices will also be on our website.

If you do not wish to continue your contract, you can cancel the products within the regular cancellation periods via your administration interface.

We hope that you will be able to understand and accept our decision, and that we are sorry that we have to change our prices.

If you have any questions, we will be happy to help. Please log onto your account and go to "Support" in the menu and create a support request.

Kind regards,

Hetzner Online

Yeah. I have a feeling that stopping it is, somehow, not desirable to a portion of the commentors.

Past me had a dick

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Did you prompt it in English, or on Chinese? This is just a next-token-predictor, and it will largely use its English training data for its English output prediction.

This is not surprising. Nor is it indicative of, well, anything.

And yet, today, Taiwan is a sovereign state and wants to keep it that way, which is the only thing that matters here. This is pretty straightforward.

The interfaces are a bit basic, sure, but everything seems to be 2 clicks away at most, and the design language is pretty clear... What's your issues exactly?

I sometimes wish for a bit more variety in the android TV interface (maybe a large "recently added" carousel that also shows short descriptions, or something), but I've never had anyone have any issues navigating and using the UI.

Boring, but functional.

Captain of the USS Voyager. Nice.

It's because people get mislead by the "agent", assuming there's something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just... Automated.

...weshalb die so was hier implemtieren werden, nicht wahr?

Oder wird's am Ende ein dreistelliger Pin.

Das Problem ist, dass die meisten Banking-Apps Google Services (und Integrity Check, und und und) "benötigen" und es einem daher unmöglich gemacht wird, Wero/Banking-Apps zu benutzen, ohne von Google gefangen zu bleiben.

What a clown. In what world do you require an LLM to check for duplicate pictures??

I mean, good on him for realizing that LLMs are dogshit. But still.

....na und?

Ich hoffe dir ist klar, dass das nicht bedeutet, dass KIs mit wachen Augen im Netz hängen, warten, dass ein gut bezahlter Auftrag rein kommt, drüber nachdenken, und dann mit Bedacht entscheiden.

Da passiert nix anderes, als wenn du jetzt ChatGPT aufmachst und rein schreibst:

"Du bist ein KI Agent, der für seine Arbeit mindestens 100€ nimmt. Wenn du einen Auftrag nehmen möchtest, antworte mit folgenden JSON Template und der Antwort auf die Frage im Auftrag.

Hier sind die Liste der aktuellen Aufträge: ... "

Und dann führst du diesen Prompt einfach alle paar Minuten aus.

Glaub dem Marketing-Hype nicht. Hier wird weder was Neues, noch was von Wert erschaffen.

Das hat absolut gar nichts mit "Selbstständigkeit" zu tun. LLMs zu prompten "Hier ist ein API key, da kannst du den benutzen, bis hier das budget Null ist" gibt dem LLM so viel Selbstständigkeit wie eine For loop mit einem If statement.

LLMs werden nie "KI" sein.

If all jobs were lost if rich people disappeared, then jobs aren't really necessary.

If jobs are necessary self-evidently, they do not require rich people to exist or get done.

Irgendwas irgendwas Paradox der Toleranz?

I mean... Depends on your threat model. Hetzner is a very reputable German hoster. The only way someone is going to try and read and puzzle together memory dumps is if you're under investigation for something seriously heinous.

Shutting the VPS down also solves this.

But really, this is a general problem with every "someone else's computer" solution.

E2EE still nice though, wish Immich had it.

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Fuck that guy

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The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

What's yours?

I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

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I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

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How'd you argue against a person who says rich people are needed to provide jobs to the poor?

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Alright, how do you all handle your photos? Self-hosted Immich, Hetzner Nextcloud, Ente or Zeitkapsl?

Try BentoPDF if you haven't / are unhappy with StirlingPDF

Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM?

What one book or piece of literature would adapt into a movie/TV series if given the funding and full creative control? Why?

`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? (Update: probably `continuwuity`.)

ich 🌶️🌶️🌶️ iel

How would I go about gaining access to a locked-down Linux device I own.

Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons?

Can someone rule-splain this

Can't use Crunchyroll via WireGuard