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New comment by kioleanu in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

kioleanu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:47:31 +0000

I am currently in Italy (just passing through) and was able to open the archive link with the article

New comment by kioleanu in "Kobo can run apps now"

kioleanu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:25:05 +0000

You can jailbreak your kindle and get similar functionality through KOReader plugins https://omer-faruq.github.io/appstore.koplugin/

New comment by kioleanu in "Take-Two subpoenas Microsoft and Discord in hunt for GTA 6 leaker"

kioleanu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:02:12 +0000

I am a complete legal layman here. What is the actual damage produced by this leak? What can actually be asked for in a trial should it go there? Money? Or is this just a normal hacking case and some cyber law was broken?

New comment by kioleanu in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

kioleanu — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:14:40 +0000

This reads to me like “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”

New comment by kioleanu in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

kioleanu — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:06:50 +0000

I am shocked by the comments in this thread ranging from “yeah but humans also make mistakes” to “yeah but how many mistakes does an AI do compared to a human”. Neither of those is the point here. We have doctors that have employed AI as a software to help them and that software is flawed. I am a software developer and if I write some piece of medical software with bugs that are so blatant in it, I'd see hell up to potentially being sued into oblivion

New comment by kioleanu in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

kioleanu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:47:35 +0000

It’s the same in Romania where they use the system for every little thing from it’s raining heavily (often the alert comes during said heavy rain) or a nearby fire, or one infamous message saying something on the lines of “here comes the bear” when a bear was spotted within city limits. And it’s loud so a lot of people simply disabled the alerts altogether. But now that the real alerts are coming - see Russian drones entering the country, many people have them disabled

New comment by kioleanu in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

kioleanu — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:24:41 +0000

I avoid speaking to AIs in anything else than English as the results are almost always worse

New comment by kioleanu in "More German than many Germans"

kioleanu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:49:19 +0000

There is one rule of thumb that I’ve noticed: if you are a reasonable person and integrate you will be treated as one of their own. Otherwise not.

Your article mirrors my own experience 1:1, it’s like I’ve written it myself. Apart from the citizenship process. Even though it was also 14 months long (eerie lol), I had to do a lot of noise about it, because they are processing applications out of order (some people got theirs in two weeks, some in two years, no rhyme or reason) - press, meetings with local politicians etc. Which helped my personal case but didn’t fix the problem at all.

New comment by kioleanu in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

kioleanu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:33:05 +0000

> unless Ebay was run by a group of cruel Kindergarteners

I’ve been in the corporate world long enough in my life to know that that is not out of the question

New comment by kioleanu in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

kioleanu — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:32:15 +0000

* with a few universally hated exceptions

New comment by kioleanu in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:15:43 +0000

ACSM, I don’t know about Amazon. In my case I can still use the kindle software itself to read those if I decide to ever buy from Amazon again

New comment by kioleanu in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:16:17 +0000

Same for Kindle. Nothing changes, you just have a link to open KOReader and you can still use your device as before, if you choose to

New comment by kioleanu in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:14:12 +0000

I’ve only just installed it this week, but for me:

- DRM support (via a Plugin)

- Dark mode on an older device

- SSH Server

- Custom dictionaries

Next on my list is to find a plugin that can transform imperial to metric for when I’m reading American books

Edit: oh and also something that syncs my progress on books not bought from Amazon on multiple devices

New comment by kioleanu in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:02:48 +0000

I had no idea I can update it manually, I’ve always relied on the over the air update, that, in this case, says I’m on the newest version

New comment by kioleanu in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:58:41 +0000

I’ve just jailbroken my Kindle this week. I have a Paperwhite 7th Generation and my biggest problem was that I didn’t have dark mode on it. Turns out the only reason that is is because Amazon didn’t want me to have it. Maybe maybe I’ll buy a new device. KOReader has no problem with dark mode and is much faster and snappier than the Kindle software.

What’s funnier is that both my son and my wife have the Paperwhite 10th generation, but only my wife’s device has dark mode. Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.

The second major reason for Jailbreaking is that KOReader can do DRM through a plugin so I was finally able to loan out ebooks from my library. No need for a new device, the 10 year old one works extremely well with the right software

New comment by kioleanu in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

kioleanu — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:48:51 +0000

What exactly would be subsidized by the people taking the train if the people driving up to (not parking at!) the airport wouldn’t pay a fee?

New comment by kioleanu in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

kioleanu — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:28:38 +0000

I may be a socialist but being able to bring your heavy luggage to the door of the place you already pay a fee to be at (airport taxes) should be free, no? Like in all other parts of Europe

And they say, oh, no, you can come for free if you’re willing to walk 15 minutes to the terminal. No, that’s greed plain and simple.

New comment by kioleanu in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

kioleanu — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:15:40 +0000

Are these not the guys that ask like 7 pounds to drive up to kiss & fly? Good to see that money’s put to good use!

New comment by kioleanu in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

kioleanu — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:06:33 +0000

you're not wrong at all, this was abysmally handled by Anthropic and is a slap in the face for OP. I would have been much more upset

New comment by kioleanu in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

kioleanu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:14:30 +0000

Hopefully it will go better than the last time someone had such an ambitious plan with nuclear plants