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> Would love to hear what you guys think :)

I think that this project is really great and I am curious to hear what you think about open-sourcing the project if that's possible.

I think that open-sourcing can help foster the .wiki style community even more and I am very much interested in contributing and it will be much more helpful for me to contribute if it could be open source!

There are some issues I think but clicking cheapest renewal has issues where it shows: abudhabi at 0.00 but in reality it has 82$/yr costs.

The same goes for .ac.ae domains as well iirc

The website is also incredibly slow and takes multiple seconds for responses for what it's worth.

Anyways a really good project and I wish you luck and hoping that it can be open-sourced hopefully :-D

Also edit: allow me to somehow de-select premium domains as I just want to find the domains which are actually available instead of viewing premium domains.

Wearing a Casio watch right now (gifted to me by my brother), I really love Casio ;)

One watch is enough for me and that's casio for me.

If AGI is created, then it will be used by someone else to create a cheaper AGI, making the finances of the person who borrowed trillions to create it in question.

An extremely hypothetical experiment but what if this is some sort of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and in our timeline, we have accepted it with AI.

Deepseek can do MAD on Anthropic and release open weights model (which means that they might not earn the most or basically burn millions/billions to then give us all essentially the same thing and we would all be on equal footing, oh they also released their inference engine right now.)

This might explain why the stock market got into an bubble and is fearing itself right now.

Mutually Assured Commoditization. (Credit where it's due I pasted my comment to Chatgpt and it gave me this term ironically and it seems to fit well to the comment that I am writing, I might write a blog about it someday.)

Adding on to it, even though they may be using AI as well. This could very well be a placebo and deniability factor but the fact remains that they have many many qualified employees and the chances of bugs passing through that are much less compared to other systems. Also it's that the systems are very severely pen-tested and have years of bugs removed out and the incentive of billions of dollars at stake that you mention that they have for the trust premium.

They will still make mistakes but they have the resources to make them less.

I doubt that such intense level of thorough testing can occur in a smaller company.

I still love small VPS providers and use them myself but it is worth knowing why enterprise is willing to pay a premium over those to these hyperscalers (it is a trust premium)

IMO, There is no "middle-ground" to the situation.

I wanted to write a blog post about it as I was thinking the same but I guess a comment will help me get my thoughts across just as much.

Either we are gonna see a convergence to hyperscalers as you mention, or we would go back to completely indie companies which compete on perf/price.

There could still be some value to "nicer to use" certainly but with AI, we are gonna see almost every product as being "good-enough" if I am able to convey my sentiment.

An anecdote is: Proton's an middle-ground company. I am seeing the Verge article which states that their CEO has gone a little crazy over the use of AI and the wording makes me lose trust within it. Proton's whole point is security and yet it's having this, It has some stocks in non profit and is a swiss company. It shouldn't have been this way and would've been one of my least anticipated companies but I guess they want growth at all costs and the growth has been slightly lesser than expected and now they are burning the good-will in many ways.

I have to wonder that even if proton might have good engineers, then within this pressure by their CEO/CTO. I cannot trust the engineering talent because of these issues because they are very much forced by their company to use AI.

Proton is also really expensive.

Now just today, also, with a company so big as binance getting hacked and losing 6.5 Billion$. My trust within security just because its a large company is less.

On the other hand, I know a guy called Vikas on lowendtalk who operates his own mail platform called mailbig. I know he vibe-coded the landing page and might've vibe-coded something but it is really cheap. I also know francisco whom I have talked to who runs namecrane. (I think mailbig uses namecrane in many ways)

Perhaps E-mail can be a sensitive matter because you have to place trust in the provider even more because the protocol is not really that much secure but suppose it's an matrix instance (where it is genuinely encrypted) then that shifts it even further. I do trust NameCrane and NameBig from what I can gather.

I'd much rather support them and their cheaper deals than some other middle-corp. Sure some security factor can come in but also, the difference feels comparatively less and the balance has been made

The market will slightly squeeze as Hyperscalers will introduce the solutions of the middle-ground and the new players will everyday enter into the field with more competitive pricing just as well.

So in short, Enterprise will move towards the hyperscalers. Generic Consumers will move towards the cheapest option. The moat of the middle ground where UI/UX was the differentiator is being turned down. There would be some mix and match and there will be cost-savings for Enterprise to move from hyperscalers but it would depend on a lot of factors.

Said it better than I could've have said myself.

Keeping an absolutely small amount of buffer in stablecoins and swapping it for monero for actual transactions is what I do or just keeping it in monero directly (and that is also because the act of moving the money out is harder and I just buy vps's/domains with it semi-anonymously)

You can just pay fiat to buy monero when you actually have use of it.

Aside from very few use-cases (like dictatorship cases for example) I just think that it doesn't make sense for people to invest life-saving investments for money within crypto perhaps.

I think that one can use crypto for its good sides (anonymous payments) without facing its downsides by buying crypto or just having an insanely small/small buffer and using it when needed rather than life-changing savings.

> Let me give you a hint: you're 18 or so iirc, someone in a dark phase of their life asks for help and the best you can do is respond with a couple of pages that are mostly about yourself, the most common word in these comments is 'I'.

My apologies. Wasn't my intention

> That's just an observation, do with it what you will.

What I will try to do is try to improve myself. Thanks for the help!

You have accomplished a great deal in your life when I am just starting. I hope I get your blessing nonetheless as I step in this brave new world.

Will try to be more mindful from here on out. Have a nice day.

To dear OP going through dark phase, I apologize for the petty arguments that I entered when the topic of discussion should be about you: all the best in your life and I wish nothing but the best for your future.

people have shared amazing advice here and I hope that you apply.

Try to act on anything small which is meaningful consistently with hopefully a community of friends that you can make.

I understand what you want and totally get that.

> Other than that I think that this book has a shadow side, and that that shadow side can manifest even if the book warns against it.

Slightly agree as I have tried to say within the comment that I can see how people reading the book can just go through it and even if the book warns against it, can take the shortcut. because taking shortcuts is so much easier than doing the actual work of giving sincere appreciation or other things.

> The fact that it is a best seller doesn't really hold much weight with me

Once again I agree.

> Note that I'm not in the USA and that financial success and 'hustle' have less value where I live

I am not from USA either though I do have to admit that financial success does have more value where I live. Hustle not so much as risk-taking is slightly not preferred.

In the end, where we have the disagreement on is that I have found the book to be helpful of me and to have not seen its shady side. I have seen the warmth of it and have good experiences with the book but I concede that everything can have two sides. Your experience within relation to the book has been with this shady side and I realize how you might feel about it and why the disagreement occurs. IMO nobody is right or wrong perhaps as much as two sides of the same coin but if there is one wrong, then it can be me, as I can be wrong and I usually am ;)

have a nice day.

I do get what you mean.

Maybe the book will not help the OP, maybe it can. I apologize if it will not be of help to OP and hope that the rest of my initial comment can make up for it. Maybe I shouldn't have recommended books after suggesting them to take action (any action) and then immediately suggested them to read books (which can procastinate taking actions)

The book to me, has changed my actions and I consider it one of the action books. The question of for better or for worse is subjective and I believe it has been good for me but I concede that it could perhaps be bad for someone else or moreso that perhaps it might not be extremely relevant to OP. I can only guess.

I realized it after writing the comment but I do sincerely hope that OP takes what he wants the best from all the comments and basically does action. My whole comment is about taking actions, any actions specifically suggesting that more knowledge might not be the thing that they should necessarily want at this point but rather taking actions!

(I think it could very well be that when I suggested the books, it was me suggesting all the books which helped me conclude to the things said in my comment) but once again, it's not knowledge that's the issue but rather taking actions.

Now coming to the point about OP:

But TLDR, I once again recommend the OP to take actions and follow the advice of action.

Dear OP, the only thing you need to do is now take actions. That is worth more helpful to you than any book at this moment. I recommend reading these books later if you wish or if you don't then that's completely fine as well. I just hope that you can take actions to help your own life. You have to step up and realize the effortlessness when viewing from the bird's eyes view of a lifetime. It feels effort now but it takes more effort over a lifetime to maintain that lifestyle and coping up with the stress that it can cause than taking the struggle of fixing it once. I assume You had your job and everything going close to perfect once, have some leap of faith of confidence within yourself that you can do it again, that you have the capabilities to do so and you are capable enough and have enough strength, or more so find the ability to find strength within yourself. The strength is already within you (you are capable enough), all you need to do is look inwards and realize it again.

A lot of words which mean nothing except saying that an internet stranger wants you to succeed and to re-find the strength within you that you think has been lost. Take small steps as they go a long way. Thank you very much.

I think it’s from “Alice from wonderland”

This place can have both openness zealots and apple zealots

These may not be the same people but sometimes they are

I have an apple device and I like its hardware at its price. My brother gifted it to me and my father had an accident with it once which caused it to fall on pure concrete. Other laptops would have been broken but for this it was a tis but a scratch moment

But I am an openness zealot by heart. I can mix and match

In this particular instance though. Shame on apple for not taking any steps and maybe actively fighting against it. I don’t understand why! I hope that they definitely do something about it