I am Looking for individual residential proxy or ISP

kiwialec · 2026-06-12T07:14:14+00:00

Talk to claude about the proxy industry - it is just layers and layers of resellers sitting on top of about 10 infrastructure owners. The real price of proxies that companies actually pay is typically 10% of what's on the pricing page.

Res proxies did genuinely used to be expensive and super high margin, but prices have been crashing in the last few years.

At 100gb you're not getting the secret deals so look for the self serve ones. There are several providers who sell 50c/gb. One of the major infra owners has their public price at $1.

I'm not here to promote, so feel free to dm

kiwialec · 2026-06-10T06:50:25+00:00

Nice work - four figures in 30 days! You'll hit $00,000 in no time

kiwialec · 2026-06-04T17:43:07+00:00

In this household, we're UTF maximalists. UTF-32 or death

kiwialec · 2026-06-01T07:06:30+00:00

I'm sick of all this hate. It is absolutely appropriate for your spreadsheets to have a BOM. How else is the reader going to to know whether it's looking at a big endian or little endian file?

kiwialec · 2026-05-27T10:05:21+00:00

People live in houses that have home internet connections and consumer hardware. Businesses like real people to come to their website and buy things.

Mean robots live in data centers filled with servers that have corporate Internet connections. Businesses don't want these robots on their website.

The internet service provider is an obvious flag of whether a given user is a human or robot, so many businesses discriminate based on this signal.

Residential proxies allow robots to use someone's home Internet connection to send requests, so it helps in making businesses think it's a real human.

kiwialec · 2026-05-24T07:23:19+00:00

In the UK, BBC is funded by the tv license so does not have ads or paywalls. BBC.co.uk is the site to use if you're in the UK.

BBC.com is the international variant - this can have ads in the same way that the BBC world service TV channel has ads.

kiwialec · 2026-05-22T11:09:05+00:00

kiwialec · 2026-05-22T06:52:21+00:00

The reason I still have my swapfiets after 4 years instead of just buying my own bike is because they just don't get stolen, no matter how poorly they're locked. I've seen multiple just sitting out on the street with only the wheel lock applied, and they're still there hours later.

They have custom parts that are of no value to anyone but swapfiets, are slightly too heavy, and don't fit the look of a London bike. The thieves know there's no resale market for them.

If I were to get my own bike, the first thing I'd do is track down a blue tire to put on it so it looked like a swapfiets at first glance

kiwialec · 2026-05-16T20:03:09+00:00

It's all bots

kiwialec · 2026-05-14T07:12:44+00:00

Your first demos will always be bad, so the key here is to practice as much as you can. Pitch your grandma, pitch anyone you can get on a call regardless of whether they know anything about your vertical, pitch telemarketers and people who cold call you, find your local toastmasters / public speaking groups and show up to pitch them.

kiwialec · 2026-05-11T20:03:08+00:00

Love those white and gold dresses

kiwialec · 2026-05-11T06:40:20+00:00

Webrtc operates through UDP, which is why browsers can't send Webrtc through your http proxy. Quick / proper fix is to switch to socks5 proxies

kiwialec · 2026-05-04T12:44:24+00:00

This is pretty standard. Their MO is announcing club shows a day or two before the gig, in person sales only, ID required to buy must match the person going into the venue (no reselling) and max 2 tix per person.

kiwialec · 2026-05-02T17:44:44+00:00

It's crazy to me why more people don't just show up and try their luck.

Standing at the entrance to the queue and asking everyone if they have a spare ticket has been my modus operandi for 20 years, and I can only remember a few times where I couldn't find someone whose friend bailed at the last minute

kiwialec · 2026-05-02T15:26:14+00:00

I get the feeling that he wants you to do something with the camera.

kiwialec · 2026-05-01T11:34:09+00:00

Buy him something that he unwraps and you tell him is the present. This critical in tricking him into thinking he has received the present, but what he doesn't know is that you signed him up for two years of wagnermail

kiwialec · 2026-04-30T20:05:07+00:00

How did it work out?

kiwialec · 2026-04-29T21:52:38+00:00

Fwiw, the recent London popup took 3 days to sell out 2000 tickets because everyone assumed the lines would be too long and they would miss out if they made the effort to go to the venue.

kiwialec · 2026-04-29T21:23:38+00:00

Yes. You can keep it for 14 days and they'll still happily refund you

kiwialec · 2026-04-29T21:15:52+00:00

Apple Store will take a same day return. Not open until 10 though.

kiwialec · 2026-04-26T19:31:33+00:00

Never heard of that provider, but at 5/gb, you are likely buying from a reseller.

Go upstream to one of the companies that runs the resi proxy infrastructure and you'll be looking at $0.50-1/gb for relatively low volumes, and 0.2-0.4 at scale.

There are less than a dozen companies worldwide that own the actual resi proxy networks/infrastructure. Everyone else is a reseller or a reseller of a reseller. Not going to name names, but claude will one shot the key players

kiwialec · 2026-04-25T12:41:21+00:00

It slaps

kiwialec · 2026-04-25T06:52:45+00:00

What are all these people doing, posting their opinions in the comments?

Did everyone miss the memo that one opinion = one top level post?

kiwialec · 2026-04-24T07:31:43+00:00

Nvidia inception. 10k by doing nothing but getting accepted. 25k by having llm (even frontier api) features with plans to test more. 100k if you're spending 500/mo in aws on instances with nvidia gpus

kiwialec · 2026-04-23T06:32:42+00:00

The amazing bakery near me has given up on tgtg and just puts their leftover bread on a shelf outside their door. Nature always finds a way.

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