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Re: Episode 75 - Subscriptions rant, homelabing και local llm coding

vrypan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:42:31 -0000

Ωραίος! :-)

Re: Episode 60 - Εκλογές 2023, Έλληνες εξωτερικού, Chat bots, Zelda και σειρές

vrypan — Sun, 28 May 2023 06:13:18 -0000

Ted Lasso. Πραγματικά, βλέπετε άλλη σειρά από αυτή που βλέπω εγώ :-p Ο Ted είναι ο πιο αισιόδοξος χαρακτήρας που έχω δει. Όχι από βλακεία, δεν είναι αισιοδοξία Κοέλιο, αλλά από βαθιά ανθρωπιά και σοφία. Και όλη η σειρά είναι έτσι, εμένα αυτό μου βγάζει και νομίζω ότι για αυτό και είναι τόσο πετυχημένη. Ίσως να είμαστε σε άλλη φάση της ζωής μας και να το βλέπουμε διαφορετικά, εσείς είσαστε μικροί ακόμη :-) :-) :-)

Re: Episode 60 - Εκλογές 2023, Έλληνες εξωτερικού, Chat bots, Zelda και σειρές

vrypan — Sun, 28 May 2023 06:10:03 -0000

Σχετικά με εκλογές, μπλέκουμε διάφορα πράγματα μαζί όταν λέμε για "ψήφο από Έλληνες του εξωτερικού".

1. Ποιος έχει δικαίωμα ψήφου. Μεγάλο θέμα, αλλά κατά την γνώμη μου, όποιος έχει το δικαίωμα να ψηφίζει, πρέπει να μπορεί να ψηφίσει. Ανεξάρτητα με το αν ζει στο εξωτερικό, αν ταξιδεύει με τάνκερ, αν είναι στο νοσοκομείο ή στην φυλακή. Αν έχει δικαίωμα ψήφου, πρέπει το κράτος να τον διευκολύνει να το ασκήσει.

Δεν μας αρέσει που ψηφίζουν κάποιοι συμπολίτες μας; Γιατί είναι μακρυά, γιατί είναι χαζοί, γιατί είναι πλούσιοι, γιατί έχουν ή γιατί δεν έχουν παιδιά ή δεν ξέρω ''γώ για ποιο λόγο; Tough luck που λένε και στο χωριό μου. Όποιος είναι Έλληνας πολίτης, έχει δικαίωμα ψήφου.

2. Το να πληρώνεις φόρους σε μία χώρα δεν σου δίνει δικαίωμα ψήφου, και αντίστροφα το να μην πληρώνεις φόρους δεν σου το αφαιρεί. Και εσείς όταν πήγατε στο ΗΒ πληρώνατε φόρους εκεί, αλλά δεν είχατε δικαίωμα να ψηφίσετε. Από την άλλη, και ένας άπορος, άστεγος, που δεν έχει εισοδήματα και δεν πληρώνει φόρους, έχει δικαίωμα να ψηφίσει (και ίσως έχει και περισσότερους λόγους να το κάνει), εφόσον είναι Έλληνας πολίτης.

Re: Episode 5, μιλάμε με τον Παναγιώτη Βρυώνη. RAM, πολιτική, entrepreunership και social media.

vrypan — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:14:02 -0000

Δεν είναι στην φάση της ιδέας πάντως.

Αυτή την στιγμή, η ChannelVAS είναι σε 30+ operators και αν δεν κάνω λάθος δίνουμε κάπου 20εκ δάνεια την μέρα. :-)

Προφανώς και υπάρχει ρίσκο να μην σε πληρώσουν. Για αυτό και ένα μεγάλο μέρος της δουλειάς μας είναι big data που αναλύουμε την συμπεριφορά του χρήστη (κάθε πότε ανανεώνει, πόσο, κ.λ.) και δημιουργούμε ένα ατομικό risk profile για τον καθένα που αλλάζει δυναμικά.

Για αυτό και είπα ότι το να το κάνεις απλά, είναι σχετικά εύκολο, το να το κάνεις σε μεγάλη κλίμακα, αποτελεσματικά και σωστά, θέλει πάρα πολλή δουλειά, εξειδίκευση σε διάφορους τομείς και πόρους.

Re: Episode 5, μιλάμε με τον Παναγιώτη Βρυώνη. RAM, πολιτική, entrepreunership και social media.

vrypan — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 23:25:34 -0000

Αν εννοείς το αερομεταφερόμενο ΔΣ της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Ευρωπαϊκών Αναλήψεων... ναι. :-)

Re: Episode 4, πήραμε άδεια, τρέξιμο, Audible και οικογενιακές ιστορίες

vrypan — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:01:17 -0000

Ένα από τα καλύτερα audionooks που άκουσα ήταν το The Martian https://www.audible.com/pd/....

Όχι Spotify για podcasts ρε παιδιά... Υπάρχουν τόσοι podcast clients 100x καλύτεροι και κυρίως ανεξάρτητοι. Δεν λέω, καλό να υπάρχει, αλλά μην το διαφημίζουμε και σαν βασικό τρόπο να καταναλώνεις podcasts. :-)

Re: What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web

vrypan — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:53:48 -0000

OK, it's hard to preserve services, like yahoo pipes. But regarding content, how about a tld like .archive or .history where I can register my website (like blog.vrypan.net) and any updates to it will be recorded to blog.vrypan.net.archive?

CDNs like Cloudflare could provide a service like this automatically: my site is served by Cloudflare, so they are aware of all my content changes.

Re: What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web

vrypan — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:46:26 -0000

The quote was "I see this as more of a financial and organizational problem than a technical one" ;-)

Re: What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web

vrypan — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:40:46 -0000

Personal hosted blogs give you control, but they are also vulnerable to technology changes. Static blogs seem like the lowest common technology denominator, that could live the longest.

Re: What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web

vrypan — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:39:24 -0000

Personally, I've gone with static blog hosting. Lately, I'm also using github (details https://blog.vrypan.net/201... ) because GitHub has become a nice hosting platform, but also because of the ease my content can be replicated and preserved by others.

Re: What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web

vrypan — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:35:30 -0000

Related (not exactly about the thing you are talking, I know):

When it comes to private digital content, things are even worst. We started Longaccess.com two years ago as a way to preserve private digital content. (My initial investor pitch even included a quote from one of your older posts -which was located here http://threads2.scripting.c... but the link is dead now). We haven't moved as far as we'd want to, but we are still trying.

Relatively few people are interested in digital preservation, but there is an interesting amount of work done by people involved in http://personaldigitalarchi.... Mostly librarians (and this could be a new mission for libraries). I think they could use your expertise in the field.

Re: How to archive your Gmail.

vrypan — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 06:02:21 -0000

It's in mbox format, and *should* be readable by most mail clients out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: The Odyssey of getting my data into Amazon Glacier

vrypan — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:45:07 -0000

Matt, you should definitely check out our Deepfreeze service: It's built on top of S3/Glacier but it's designed to take away all the problems you mentioned about Glacier.

We are still in beta, so I wouldn't suggest moving all your data to our service now, even if you like it. But I would be very interested in your input as a potential customer. Request an invite at Deepfreeze and I'll make sure you get one ASAP.

Re: Deepfreeze.io offers cheap long-term cloud storage, but you’d better not be in a hurry

vrypan — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:17:46 -0000

Pricing is not our only feature (I'm the founder of the service): For example, integration with other services (currently only Dropbox, but more in the pipeline), is one of them.

Also, services from Google, Microsoft, etc, impose a "strategy tax", because that's not their primary business. For example, they will try and make some things more difficult than they should be, or force you to do things in a way that suits their overall strategy, not you.

However, since you mentioned pricing, keep in mind that the price for 200GB is also $120/year, because the next plan after 100GB is 1TB. that's 300% more than what you would pay at Deepfreeze.io for 200GB/year.

Re: I Was Hidden on This Guy’s Hard Drive for Over 6 Years

vrypan — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:05:38 -0000

Wow, I had a similar thought some years ago: http://www.vrypan.net/log/2... I think it would make a great feature over existing photo-sharing services, or even as a separate service.

Re: Mattshirley.com | An n=1 science project

vrypan — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:28:42 -0000

I activated your account Matt and you will receive a confirmation email in the next couple of hours. Looking forward to your feedback.

Re: Mattshirley.com | An n=1 science project

vrypan — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:51:19 -0000

Hi Matt. We've built https://www.deepfreeze.io, a service on top of Amazon S3/Glacier with a very competitive pricing model. You may want to have a look. (Disclaimer: I'm the founder of deepfreeze.io.)

Re: Archive decryption in python

vrypan — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:54:30 -0000

Hi Milokp,

Use the code from this https://github.com/longacce... and you can use your key in hex format, as it is presented on the certificate.

Let me know if it worked.

Re: Connecting to the Internet – Finding My 15-Year-Old Website I Built at 16

vrypan — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:12:41 -0000

Great post! You didn't mention freshmeat.net :-)

Re: using longaccess-cli, step by step

vrypan — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:32:24 -0000

Panagioti, we are looking into it and will have an update ASAP.

Re: Designing a cloud storage service: pen or pencil?

vrypan — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:05:31 -0000

Of course we "have not explained at length": we haven't even explained at all.

Re: Designing a cloud storage service: pen or pencil?

vrypan — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:56:36 -0000

BTW, you can't delete physical files if you give them to someone else. But we still hand people optical media with photos, documents, etc. And it would be really annoying if your photographer could delete the DVD he gave you with the photos from an event a couple of years later.

Re: Designing a cloud storage service: pen or pencil?

vrypan — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:45:01 -0000

As noted in the article, there are many cases where "undo" is not desirable: What if you sign a contract and then decide you don't like it? It would be nice to be able to cancel the contract by using two-factor auth, but... we wouldn't sign contracts then, would we?

Longaccess will be great for the cases in which the most important thing is to make sure that a bunch of data will be there, unchanged, in a couple of decades. If you are looking for a place in the cloud where to add/delete/update data, there are other services that do a great job.

But you will have to see how the service works, I hope it will make much more sense then.

Re: Twitter IPO

vrypan — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:13:27 -0000

The last one, should be branded IMHO.

Re: Working without servers

vrypan — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:50:41 -0000

I think that Bittorrent Sync is an other interesting approach, similar to dropbox. Maybe you should have a look at it Dave. http://labs.bittorrent.com/... Not as polished as dropbox yet, but very interesting, IMHO.