Hacker News: gregoriol

New comment by gregoriol in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

gregoriol — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:39:05 +0000

I think a company has to be able to change its commitment, but should not screw users at the same time. For example, if they want to remove the free plan, why not, strategy can change with context, the world is moving around the company, so then remove it for new users not existing ones and it's all good.

New comment by gregoriol in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

gregoriol — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:30:02 +0000

Maybe they should ban metal grinders as they allow people to steal things?

New comment by gregoriol in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

gregoriol — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:12:56 +0000

We have been using AWDL intensely (not via AirDrop but Network.framework) for 6+ years and it fails less than 5% of the time. It's pretty impressive for a non-connected link between devices. The most common problems we face are very high device density places (100+ device in 30sqm space) and device wandering out of reach quickly (sometime as low as 5m).

New comment by gregoriol in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

gregoriol — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:09:42 +0000

Apple docs say iOS 26/macOS 26, that's so brand new that no apps are using it right now, will have to check that again in a few years.

New comment by gregoriol in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

gregoriol — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:33:23 +0000

AWDL is such an amazing technology, it's understandable that Apple wants to keep it only for their devices as it gives them a noticeable advantage for quick stuff sharing.

New comment by gregoriol in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

gregoriol — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:12:22 +0000

The law is not about you, but about everyone: 1) Apple doesn't have service centers everywhere: some countries/cities/small towns don't have them 2) Apple doesn't provide service for older devices 3) making it easier doesn't mean you'll be able to swap them live as we did in the 90s, but it means you could do it at home with a reasonable set of tools instead of sending the device to some shop that would need to unglue, unsolder, ...

New comment by gregoriol in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

gregoriol — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:59:32 +0000

So you mean you are keeping full card numbers somewhere in your logs to... fix some potential security issue...?

New comment by gregoriol in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

gregoriol — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:20:29 +0000

Is that really on BBC? what a world we live in...

New comment by gregoriol in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

gregoriol — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:29:24 +0000

You are missing one important part: maintenance. While on a managed service, dozens of hours of maintenance are done by someone, when you are self-hosting, you'll be doing 3 times that, because you can't know all the details of making so many tools work, because each tool will have to be upgraded at some point and the upgrade will fail, because you have to test you backups, and many many more things to do in the long run.

So yeah, it's fun. But don't under-estimate that time, it could easily be your time spent with friend or family.

New comment by gregoriol in "Swift 6.3"

gregoriol — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:11:48 +0000

That is going to be used... less than Swift for the servers

New comment by gregoriol in "Apple Business"

gregoriol — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:35:15 +0000

By excellent, you mean excellent at not being able to talk to someone about your real world problem and need to rely on your linkedin contacts to find someone to talk to?

New comment by gregoriol in "Apple Business"

gregoriol — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:04:48 +0000

In any serious business, you don't want people to use their personal Apple IDs: that could lock their company provided devices for ever when they leave, you also don't want to buy them apps that you won't be able to re-use when they leave, ...

New comment by gregoriol in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

gregoriol — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:48:58 +0000

This is the worst: people who use them hate the receiver

New comment by gregoriol in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

gregoriol — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:38:11 +0000

The poster has built something that, while technically interesting, is profoundly annoying as a user and deserves to be backlashed to prevent more of this kind of stuff to be built

New comment by gregoriol in "LLMs can be exhausting"

gregoriol — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:54:54 +0000

LLMs can be exhausting because you are processing more information per hour than you used to do: first because LLMs know much more than you did and they provide that to you at a quick pace, second because you have to think about more difficult stuff like decisions/architecture/edge-cases than you did before when you managed on average more smaller details and less big picture.

Working with an LLM is kind of like working with one (or more) junior developer(s): try that first, then you'll really see how LLMs can be (less) exhausting.

New comment by gregoriol in "LLMs can be exhausting"

gregoriol — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:51:01 +0000

Here you are describing any job, nothing related to LLMs.

New comment by gregoriol in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

gregoriol — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:29:52 +0000

Why contact Algolia when it is the users' responsibility to handle their keys? Contact all the users.

New comment by gregoriol in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

gregoriol — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:06:29 +0000

There is show and there is reality: French TGV achieved 574,8 km/h in 2007 for show, but it was under specific conditions, not in real world conditions.

While it is technically proven that it is possible to do 400+km/h on rail, it's not practical: maintenance, wear, noise, turns, embranchement, and overall cost, ... many considerations that are probably less important for Chinese railway now, which needs some "show".

New comment by gregoriol in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

gregoriol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:23:21 +0000

2FA is more secure than 1FA even if that one has a high security level

New comment by gregoriol in "Claude Code Remote Control"

gregoriol — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:28:17 +0000

Yes and no: I hope (not verified) that regular claude code client only sends requests, and doesn't open ports for remote access