Hacker News: rlf_dev

New comment by rlf_dev in "Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack"

rlf_dev — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:58:34 +0000

There still are cars being sold without much of new "technology", I daily a MY2024 Abarth 595 that still doesn't have start-stop, ECall, auto braking, telemetry, lane-assist, the infotainment is replaceable by a standard third-party box without messing with the rest of the car and still has a traditional ignition key. It's a basic turbocharged FIAT FIRE engine, so maintenance is stupidly cheap and anyone can do it.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

rlf_dev — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:46:02 +0000

I checked the Portuguese content available and you should clarify it's Brazilian (and change the flag to the Brazilian one so it doesn't induce in error).

New comment by rlf_dev in "300k airplanes in five years"

rlf_dev — Fri, 24 May 2024 09:25:17 +0000

Portuguese here, yes we most definitely are. It’s been of the arguments to support immigration by the previous government since they usually are always net contributors to Segurança Social (Social Security).

New comment by rlf_dev in "Ask HN: Why does it seem hard to buy an ONT for fiber?"

rlf_dev — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:42:21 +0000

In Portugal you have at least two ISP’s that do ONT and router in the same device (MEO and Vodafone).

New comment by rlf_dev in "Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months"

rlf_dev — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:07:19 +0000

I buy a 10L jug every 4500Km for my car, last time I bought one it was 15€, don't see what is the pain to deal with it.

New comment by rlf_dev in "The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal"

rlf_dev — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:45:11 +0000

"Those who stayed behind, either stayed because they benefit from the cronyism or are held back by family or lack of marketable skills."

Or maybe none of those, there are plenty of people with good jobs here and no reason to leave, not all of us make minimum wage or live in Lisbon.

New comment by rlf_dev in "The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal"

rlf_dev — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:27:39 +0000

"My takeaway is, to put it very bluntly, that the average Portuguese person is quite ignorant. They either don't know a lot of important things, or they know a bit but don't care (because they don't know why it's important). It feels like time stopped here in the mid 1900s."

This is quite true, we are ranked very low on things like financial literacy, and most people here don't care why things are the way they are.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Ten years with a Citroën C6 (2021)"

rlf_dev — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:43:58 +0000

By the end of my time with it, my 307 headlight stick would also trigger the horn whenever I turned on the high beams, the AC would stop working at around 90 KM/h, the air intake pipe to the turbo had at least two tears glued down and I had to carry a 5L jug of water replenish the radiator on hot days. I sold it with 340k KM and AFAIK it's still being driven, refusing to die.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Thoughts on C# and .NET"

rlf_dev — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:48:24 +0000

Rider runs on Linux too

New comment by rlf_dev in "Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?"

rlf_dev — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:20:50 +0000

It's been an absolute joy toying with TV after all this years for some TUI side-projects.

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

New comment by rlf_dev in "Am I the only person who can’t get a job?"

rlf_dev — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:17:50 +0000

And you're going to do that in Python ?

New comment by rlf_dev in "BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking"

rlf_dev — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:24:57 +0000

Thanks ! I'm now in the process of updating to the new 2022 model.

New comment by rlf_dev in "BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking"

rlf_dev — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:47:23 +0000

Hey, you guys are looking to implement BirdNET into iOS ? If so I have no problem sharing the code I'm using in a small app I made using BirdNET-Lite (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bird-sound-identifier/id154189...)

New comment by rlf_dev in "Show HN: I built an online programming language"

rlf_dev — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:19:56 +0000

I also think having everything in the formal form makes it a little bit jarring, like the sample code in the main page having the keyword "faca" when "faz" would be much more clearer.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Portugal proposed law tries to sneak in biometric mass surveillance"

rlf_dev — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:49:29 +0000

And it was Mobile plans only, since it's illegal to have zero-rating plans on fixed plans.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Extracting Data from an Old iOS App Broken by iOS 14.5"

rlf_dev — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:38:08 +0000

Sure, but it's still your own LLVM IR that's being compiled, just on their end and not yours.

New comment by rlf_dev in "Extracting Data from an Old iOS App Broken by iOS 14.5"

rlf_dev — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:18:52 +0000

App Thinning removes unused slices on download, it doesn't change compiled code.