If this can win elections, then why not?

I doubt this can win elections.

They will frame it as "child porn trafficking patriot saving act" and majority will vote in favour without reading fineprint.

Ever heard of Nerd vote?

Can you mention a single decent product that came out "because of EU regulation"?

I didn't say it would be decent, just that it might make financial sense.

Hetzner seems to be a pretty good example. It wasn't solely because of EU regulation, but once GDPR made it a worthwhile investment to companies to segregate their data, European data centers have been growing steadily.

iPhone with USB-C

> I'm curious: what is the sensible choice for technical people with a reasonable amount of money?

I am probably the extreme minority, but I prefer cars with as little "tech" as possible. I don't need "drive assist" and sorts.

All my cars are 10+ old benzes, Nissans, Toyotas. All under good maintenance routine so giving me very little headache.

I had all sorts of stupid issues with modern cars while renting. One toyota scared the crap out of me while it imagined some pedestrian and yelled with all signs while I was going 100+ km/h on highway. Horrible crap

The "driving" tech I want in my car is:

- Cruise control.

- Camera for parking. I guess sensors too. These are just unbelievaly useful IMO, it makes parking trivial in cases that used to require quite intense focus. I see the appeal of fully automated parking, but with cameras and a car that you have lots of experience parking I think I am fine Austin-Powers-ing into any space that the car physically fits into.

- I guess, maybe, I kinda like the thing where it automatically watches your blindspot and has a little orange light to remind you that there's a car there.

I dunno, when did cars get all that stuff? (Cruise control was basically universal in the US before I was even born I think, but not sure when the others showed up).

But then there's some non-driving tech that I do want:

- Completely frictionless navigation and media control. Android Auto just seems to be fucking nonfunctional so I think maybe what I want here is actually just a Qi mount and a reliable bluetooth controller?

- I've never had it but I bet remote climate control is really nice (warm up the wheel 5 mins before you set off on a frozen morning / turn on the AC 2 mins before you get into a car that you couldn't park in the shade).

I totally agree. This "tech" has been out there for decades, at least for Benz. Perhaps even long enough not to be called the tech :)

> Buying a used Pixel is economical, environmental, and likely doesn't support Google

Interesting. What do you think are reasons for google to run Pixel then?

Not being sarcastic here, but what links you shared (thank you) say imply there are almost no benefits for Google to run Pixels and as we all know, Google is not a company doing charities.

> What do you think are reasons for google to run Pixel then?

Get millions of users using their services. The average person who buys a Pixel will likely go all in with the Google ecosystem giving Google every word they type, every message to a loved one, every search. It's a data gold mine.

I doubt they sell Pixels at a loss, but even if they did they could make up for it like how Amazon does with kindles.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/28/price-of-...

I think they also use pixels for testing android and such which is why they keep it secure and open.

Pixels used to be a reference devices for AOSP. Maybe they're proving that ultimately they have the skill and capabilities to provide good solutions?

Perhaps screenshots and sleek UI is not their selling point (and it isn't).

One mans sleek ui is another's trash fire

I'd say you are a great optimist.

If you'd ask me, I would put chances or learning somewhere between 0.001 and 0.01

Quite interesting, but what is your selling point vs say ipinfo.io?

To maintain this sort of service you need access to vast scale of intelligence. Do you have it?

I work for IPinfo. We do not provide reputation scoring, by the way. Reputation is such a subjective matter.

It would be easy for us to make a very quick sales if we start offering reputation scoring, but we, as a company, would rather support fraud detection, threat intelligence and bot detection services with raw data from us.

In fact, the 1400 servers we operate for internet measurement all have very sophisticated honeypots baked into them, but still, we have not productized that data. In our experience of the fast-moving world of IP addresses, reputation scoring, even with the best intentions, can introduce some downsides. We can do many things which will be better than most things out there, but we have to really balance the consequences of our product.

Thank you for your work and insights. I am a very satisfied paid user for many years. Keep up the good work!

Appreciate the balanced view as well.

Reputation scoring is useless metrics IMHO exactly for reasons you stated - risk appetite and risk model are generally different for everyone. We actually do have IP scoring build on datapoints we have + what ipinfo API gives us. This is tuned to specific projects and practically useless for anyone else.

One of practical point for OP is perhaps to consider an PoV that providing this sort of service will require a lot of intelligence collected from many sources, which OP may not have at this point. Even 1400 servers probably cover limited scope.

After I read your question I thought other people would wonder the same thing and I already had some ideas about greynoise. I'm going to go ahead and add this to the site for other people. Thanks. https://tunnelmind.ai/compare

Thank you for sharing it.

> GreyNoise tells you whether an IP is internet-background scanning noise.

My somewhat poorly expressed point was that to make a decision whether IP is or isn't a "internet-background scanning noise" (btw how would you define that?) you need to have access to substantial volume of data. And also how the decision is made remains unclear. If some sysadmin on legitimate node does network scan to investiage something and you catch it - will it become positive "internet-background scanning noise"?

Well in a way you do. They send you a fine bill every month and you do credit some of your allegedly hard earned bucks.

Just one slop would be sufficient.

If we wanna know ai opinion we all can get it.