ugh.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕

[renchap@oisaur.com]

@jerry Be ready for all providers to announce some in the coming weeks, the hardware world is on fire right now thanks to OpenAI and their shenanigans to kill their competitors (and the AI bubble overall).
OVH announced a 10-15% increase as well.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@renchap I don't blame Hetzner, and I know they aren't the only ones. It's going to soon impact just about everything else we do online, I am guessing.

[renchap@oisaur.com]

@jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.

[briankrebs@infosec.exchange]

@renchap @jerry You might be on to something here. There are a vast number of smaller orgs whose websites are getting positively swamped by all kinds of content scraping activity, much of it to build out LLMs. There are real and direct costs, and this is an important and seldom highlighted one.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@renchap Interesting trivia from the refurbished server market: more and more offerings are now bare-bone (meaning without RAM, SSD/NVME) at the same price. They are now removing those parts to sell separately. Capitalism at work. @jerry @glynmoody

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@renchap @jerry
> This will have a *huge* impact.

Of course it will. For instance the price of non-artificial intelligence able to optimize not only code but the architecture of systems possibly will raise too. If 672 bytes were once enough to play chess, why do we now need hundreds of millions of bytes to render a single web page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess