phiresky

At that price difference, lots of things that are viable to do in whatever harness the subscription allows are simply impractical via API, you'd be spending a whole developer's salary just for the benefit of using a different harness.

I tried for example Deepseek V4 Pro for a bit (via API pricing), but it's _more expensive_ than Sol via subscription, even though $1.7/Mtok is a lot less than 20$/Mtok.

If this was not the case, the encryption would be broken, and most everyone agrees that good encryption does exist.

The "quality of the probability calculations" as you put it is 100% in this case and any less would be a huge deal (as in - breaks all of the internet).

So, now you just take those same random bytes and use them as the seed for your LLM token choices. The output has the _cryptographically_ proven exact same quality as if you were using a true RNG (which you likely weren't using anyways).

You just need to know your LLM distribution and the encryption key, then with each new token you exponentially increase the chance of knowing whether it fits your encryption key. Without actually affecting the token choice in a perceivable manner.

> choosing different words that it otherwise would

It auto-detects many programs like docker, nginx and postgresql and automatically creates dashboards for them. It also has many dashboards about system internals I didn't even know were great to monitor, so it taught me a lot. For example, seeing a CPU pinned at 100% processing interrupts because of a network interface overload or having time frames with high IOwait during a SQL query clearly meaning there's some larger seq scans happening.

You also needed zero configuration, no login, etc.

Then they added multi-instance monitoring purely client side - the browser remembers other instance domains and links between them - pretty neat and completely uninvasive.

Then they introduced their cloud login, where you can monitor multiple instances remotely/together. They had a `--no-cloud` flag though if you did not want it. But by now they've removed that flag and they say patching out the cloud functionality is bypassing their license [1]. Some functionality is locked behind premium upgrades, and you get prevented from adding more than N metrics or M instances. It's still _possible_ to use netdata without going through their cloud but you have to go through a nag window every time you try to open the local UI. It's clear they don't want you to use it anymore, and I don't really feel comfortable about their default auto-updating local install any more either.

Now it's still impressive and useful, but it's much more an enterprise focusued tool than an "i have this server i want to monitor" tool.

Of course I understand they need to make money, but what used to be trivial to understand (hooks into everything in your system it can and opens a single port to display it) has become a whole huge integrated ecosystem and for me personally it's competing in the space where I'd probably rather spend the time to make a proper Prometheus/Grafana setup instead.