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New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:35:55 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:25:17 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:21:17 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:35:09 +0000

wow, thank you, this is great. I was thinking they should have a page like this, but I couldn't find myself.

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:09:03 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:38:53 +0000

no, the key is actually universal, you can't choose a specific product

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:04:44 +0000

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.

New comment by kioleanu in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

kioleanu — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:52:18 +0000

If you build enough things, you will also gain the experience to fix those things

New comment by kioleanu in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

kioleanu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:04:13 +0000

Well I’ll be damned, I’ve really seen it all, OP sorry for doubting w

New comment by kioleanu in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

kioleanu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:36:29 +0000

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.

New comment by kioleanu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

kioleanu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:47:46 +0000

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!

New comment by kioleanu in "iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how"

kioleanu — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:26:45 +0000

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.

New comment by kioleanu in "Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died"

kioleanu — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:17:32 +0000

Try the AV Herald, you’d be surprised how many incidents there in the world every day

New comment by kioleanu in "Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China"

kioleanu — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:25:43 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "Bye, Prime"

kioleanu — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:17:27 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

kioleanu — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:32:18 +0000

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

New comment by kioleanu in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

kioleanu — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:03:20 +0000

Which law are referring to? I work in such an agency and I’ve never heard of such a thing

New comment by kioleanu in "Bitwarden Was Down"

kioleanu — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:55:21 +0000

I’ve heard LastPass doesn’t have any downtime

New comment by kioleanu in "Bitwarden Was Down"

kioleanu — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:54:52 +0000

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.

New comment by kioleanu in "DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration"

kioleanu — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:41:34 +0000

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