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kioleanu

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kioleanu··on Protestware for coding agents
How is it malware tho? Do you not check the output your agents produce?
kioleanu··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
I had the same problem with my Skoda, but it was fixed under warranty, albeit it took 7 months for them to do it, although they've acknowledged it from day one.

I use Apple CarPlay and one thing that consistently worked was starting the navigation on the phone before it connected to the car.

Otherwise, the fix is relatively simple and cheap: the ECU has to be replaced, it doesn't cost too much, but it's pretty labour intensive.

kioleanu··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
I am from Eastern Europe and I’ve been living for many years in Western Europe. Where I come from, kids get their first phones when they start school at 6 (there’s a pre-school year) simply because every other kid has one. I keep coming back in my mind to two examples from my birth country: a friend’s kid carrying an 8 inch smartphone in his hand everywhere because the phone was as big as half his thigh and would have to carry a bag for it. The second one was on a visit at the zoo, I was on a bench and a family with two young children with them, in a cart. And both children, couldn’t have been older than 4 or 5, were scrolling TikTok, that was showing them children content!

In contrast, in Western Europe, my son is now in the sixth grade, more than half his class doesn’t have phones, phones are absolutely forbidden on school grounds and at school activities, and they are now doing a class trip where they were told that there’s a pay phone at the hotel, in case they want to call the parents - our son promptly informed us that he’ll rather buy a pack of Pokémon cards than call us and 3 days is not so much anyway.

And it is not only at school, he travels for tournaments with his team every other week and mobile phones are absolutely forbidden on the team bus. Children read, play games (including chess on a magnetic board), sing and change stories for hours at a time

kioleanu··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
You want to have your cake and eat it too, I think the best solution in your case is paying for youtube
kioleanu··on The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars
I have a Skoda and the GPS module was broken and that messed up a lot of the systems in the car, I couldn't use the adaptive cruise control, no traffic signs recognition and no SOS module. And apparently CarPlay sometimes uses the car's GPS module, so navigation was also a pain. I'd have to start the navigation from outside the car, otherwise it wouldn't use the phone's GPS.
kioleanu··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
If I enable reader mode on this article on my iPhone, I get an AI summary instead of the article text. I’d it the sure doing that or my phone? I hate it either way as there’s no way to read the article in reader mode
kioleanu··on He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
Yes, people are using LLMs for this because that is how they've been marketed, like being able to solve every day tasks like a personal assistant on one hand, but also like researchers being able to solve old problems that humans couldn't crack.

Does the model say it can't do that when asked? No, it answers confidentely.

Also it's easy to trust it if you don't know how it works

kioleanu··on Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes company database in 9 seconds
AI identified a problemm namely a credential missmatch and it decided it needs to delete a volume in order to fix that. Then it went and searched inside the whole codebase for a token that allows it to do that, found a production token meant for something else and issued the deletion request with said production token.

On the other end, the cloud company had something, _by design_, that also deletes any backups if you delete the volume.

kioleanu··on Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
Oooh it’s for the children!
kioleanu··on Migrating to the EU
I think he means that he can have a catch-all, but to reply from that address, there needs to be an alias created on the account
kioleanu··on Migrating to the EU
If you buy directly from Mullvad, they delete the transaction details after two weeks. Sure, your payment procesor knows you’ve bought from Mullvad, but in this case so does Amazon, no?

Regarding Migadu, after extensive research it seemed to be the best option, but man that 20 outgoing emails limit is just so off-putting and the next tier is so far apart. I would be comfortable paying 50-60 euros per year for 50 outgoing emails, but no, it’s either 20 for 20 euros or 100 for 90 euros

kioleanu··on Migrating to the EU
The problem is that, even if Fastmail are Australian, they host exclusively in the US. They state that sure, there is the possibility of interference at the data center level, but they rely on their anti-hacking measures to prevent unlawful access
kioleanu··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
wow, thank you, this is great. I was thinking they should have a page like this, but I couldn't find myself.
kioleanu··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
you might be correct. for example, they have an intellij plugin that allows integration without the AI Assistant, but it is only available for Enterprise customers
kioleanu··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
no, the key is actually universal, you can't choose a specific product
kioleanu··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
I like Mistral, it hits the exact sweet spot between cost and my data staying in the EU, withouth a significant drop in quality, but man are their model naming conventions confusing af. They mention they have a model called Devstral 2, which is neither Codestral nor Devestral. I want to use it, but the api only lists devstral-2512, devstral-latest, devstral-medium-latest, devstral-medium-2507, devstral-small, devstral-small-2507.

I think, devstral-latest should be it, no? So I write to support and get an answer 12 hours later that says oh, no, devstral 2 is definetely called devstral 2 and then a page of instructions on how to set it up in Intellij... generated with AI. The screens it is refering to don't exist and never did.

kioleanu··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
If you build enough things, you will also gain the experience to fix those things
kioleanu··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
Well I’ll be damned, I’ve really seen it all, OP sorry for doubting w
kioleanu··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
As I live around the area where this happened and I am well aware of how DB is on this route, this story sounds extremely sketchy - why would the train change lines to the other side of the Rhine and not stop at any of the 17 (!!!) stops along the way to Neuwied? Especially with people in it?

The problem was a broken relay, no trains were able to run for a few hours through Bonn. The official statement said that the trains have stopped and were replaced by buses.

kioleanu··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
What a wonderful project the Leihbar is! My local MakerSpace has something similar, but it’s pretty unofficial, you just have to announce what you’ve taken in a public chat.

I’ve often had the problem that I’ve needed a tool and borrowing it from Obi or similar cost more than half the price of a new one so I just bought a variant from Parkside for cheaper or similar price. Keep up the good work!

kioleanu··on iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how
This is happening in Germany too, but in another form. The delivery is handed personally, you sign or confirm it. The package is sealed, but when you open it, there’s something else in there, usually of the same weight as to not trigger alarm bells along the way. The phone or tablet disappears along the way somehow.

Then you go into a kafkaesque process with Amazon, who say “sure buddy, we sent you something else”, and then you have to file a police report and probably have to claw the money back which leads to the forfeiture of your account.

A good solution I’ve seen from Otto, another big eshop here in Germany is that they seal the package with tape that can’t be removed without damaging either the tape or the box and you are instructed not to accept the package if it’s been tampered with.

kioleanu··on Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died
Try the AV Herald, you’d be surprised how many incidents there in the world every day
kioleanu··on Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China
In Germany, it sure didn’t help that the 2024 TüV report says that 14% of Tesla Model 3s fail their first inspection, which is done when the car is 2/3 years old (VW is at 3,5 - 7%).

My last car, a Ford Focus, passed the inspections on the first try for 13 years in a row

kioleanu··on Bye, Prime
My experience is that most of the smaller stores actually process the orders fast, but then give the packages to DHL and lately DHL deliver on time only if they feel like it. Last week I had a package that went in the delivery van 3 days in a row before being delivered.

With Amazon however, they probably have an ironclad contract, which they never break. If it says it will be delivered on a specific day, it will also happen

kioleanu··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Yes, that makes sense, we don’t allow people to connect to our databases directly either, and in any case the systems should be built so they are separated, it’s good architecture.

I was very much more intrigued about the statement that data can’t be easily/legally shared within the same agency

kioleanu··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Which law are referring to? I work in such an agency and I’ve never heard of such a thing
kioleanu··on Bitwarden Was Down
I’ve heard LastPass doesn’t have any downtime
kioleanu··on Bitwarden Was Down
I prefer Vaultwarden because it’s much much easier to set up and had only minimal problems, the only one I could think of being some inconsistent behavior when syncing passwords for the clients inside organizations. I find the setting up of Bitwarden locally gruesome.

There was a breaking change when I updated to iOS 18, but by the time I’ve noticed that, it was already fixed in an update.

kioleanu··on DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration
I’m a fluent speaker in the language I am translating to, but have trouble with grammar. I write texts (email, jira tickets etc) in English or my native language and let DeepL translate. I then adapt the translation to sound less machine-y
kioleanu··on DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration
As a paying customer for the last five years, I can’t wait for an alternative that also allows inline adaptations of the translations, like DeepL does. The quality of the translations is worse now than in the beginning and the customer service is abysmal, should you have a problem
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