Hacker News: tEem21

New comment by tEem21 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

tEem21 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:39:42 +0000

You could just not have a user-facing AI agent

New comment by tEem21 in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

tEem21 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:40:48 +0000

If your bank doesn't have its own payment app, but PayPal Card is available in your country, I got this setup to work on Graphene by installing PayPal into the Secure Folder, install the sandboxed Play Services there (required) and setup the mobile payments in the app. It's not a great solution, but for I keep it around for emergencies.

New comment by tEem21 in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

tEem21 — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:53:08 +0000

Agreed. First, they came for the communists...

New comment by tEem21 in "You don't have to"

tEem21 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:40:35 +0000

I also believe the Milli Vanilli argument to be flawed, but the other way around: music videos were all the rage back then and the two supposed singers were actually just performers for the cameras. Does this mean they had no part in the success of the music? I don't believe that. That's not to say they were right in misleading the public and their fans, but it seems to me that Milli Vanilli was a fruitful combination of the public-facing performers and the musical process behind them. Everyone is fine with ghostwriters, why is this so different? The entertainment industry is fake through and through, but nobody is actually taking offense from this fact. I often wondered if a similar project could find success if it were presented differently, as a cooperation of musicians and performers

New comment by tEem21 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

tEem21 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:57:02 +0000

This has been EU-wide legislation for quite some time, see https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...

New comment by tEem21 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

tEem21 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:52:36 +0000

They are running their own trains and their own liveries. What happens a lot of the time in German regional services is that private operators run routes for DB, because they are required to offer them. There is some actual competition forming in German long-distance trains (Flixtrain), but the important bottleneck in Germain train travel is the rail network, which is owned and (at least supposedly) maintained by the recently formed DB InfraGo

New comment by tEem21 in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

tEem21 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:39:19 +0000

The recipient would need to have this enabled, though it is by default. You can deactivate allowing others to initiate chats with you from your phone number (Settings > Privacy > Phone number)