nexoft

Proton have a real problem with intrusive practices. 2 things that happened on the span of 2 years and almost got me to leave them :

1 - there was a persistent, very visible at all time big ass button on the Proton-Mail UI asking/suggesting to upgrade to a more premium plan, while I was already a paid customer. It was done in a way that was so wrong. Never experienced such frustrating things elsewhere even with my 99% full google drive.

2 - This must’ve been 2022 or 2023 Black Friday/cyber Monday season and there was a persistant, hardcoded, very annoying pop up that would immediately spawn each time I was opening Proton-Mail, asking me against to upgrade to the more premium plan than the premium I had, this will spawn every time I refresh despite hitting “don’t show this again”.

There are so many slick and smart way to get customer to use more services. Shoving unsolicited pop ups and spams is the worst thing you could do for your brand. I even start to wonder about their core values of privacy and whatnot, they play the suiss neutral privacy friendly so badly, their head of marketing is either so bad and should be fired or we going to discover another [Crypto AG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG) scandal.

I don't understand these low effort, superficial takes on complex topics from non-specialists trying to get visibility.\ This is literally 101 neural network/deep learning fact you learn when you are introduced to LLMs : it is a non-lossless compression of large dataset.

[Anredj Karpathy first minutes of Intro to Large Language Models / 4Min20](https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=257)

Training is a compression of a huge chunk of the internet.

The replies and interactions looks like a bunch of agentic models discussing with each others. Nobody is real.

"prompt engineering" ....ouch. I would say "common sense"\ also the problem with software engineering is that there is an inflation of SWE, too much people applying for it for compensation level rather than being good at it and really liking it, we ended up having a lot of bad software engineers that requires this crutch crap.

I've read Acer for some reason, and was surprise and disappointed it is actually Asus.

SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer" i.e not involved in the foundational creation of the tools and their back-end, understanding their internal mechanics, what is really to create a "Search" engine and how it works but you're rather reverse engineering and heuristically guessing how they work on surface. In essence you're optimizing keywords to improve a resource reach for a search engine, until the said search engine changes its ranking algorithm. Because of this I cant really give credit to what you are stating. Plus this really felt like hyping Grok out of nowhere with those cringe screenshots of tweets as if they were made up, until you hype something else weeks later and post about how Perplexity AI will kill OpenAI (They won't, they are a ChatGPT wrapper). Google is presumed dead multiple times per month. Read their financial statement, Search is literally their Life insurance, don't you think they have their best guys on it?

I was sucked in it for 1 hour

not if he is using his neighors

maybe he is using tor on top of it

who knows

kind of violent approach but I agree on the bottom line. I don't see why should somebody be enthousiast about this. someone was just able to spend 8× the figures a random teen is able to spend for his gaming rig, and he just iterated the teen's rig 8 times, he then installed ubuntu+cuda and called it a day.

something that is actually interesting that is attempting to bring something on the table : check tinygrad/tinycorp

I thought we safe and beyond these kind of considerations, especially in the EU, since the wikileaks/snowden/shelsea manning era? Aren’t we? Well, I guess you should never take something for granted…

Timestamp : https://youtu.be/5imrulocDlY?t=771

1-The gambling business is shady by design, whether you like it or not. This was probably more risk than benefit for them based on what they were getting from you.

2-Your business is probably very profitable, and $300 a month is very cheap compared to the potential hassles they could face working with such a business.

3-I find it very inappropriate to dox business representatives and show names when you have carefully hidden any information regarding yourself and haven't even disclosed your company name.

After all they can choose with whom they want to do business. They gauged what price they could ask you, factoring in how profitable your business is and how noisy and painful it might be to work with you. It sucks but this is the downside of SaaS/PaaS.

Incredible production on their part, learned a lot. a few content creators spend this much time and effort and are eager to deliver such detailed content on such niche subject.

This is a good feature that I didn't know about as a Firefox user, can't they get a little bit aggressive, just like MSFT when you want to use Edge to download Chrome, and put a big arrow near the edit button the first time you open a PDF in Firefox? or something similar so people would know about it.

indeed you are right, I did read the opposite for some reason.

Same In the EU, no ones that's legit uses Telegram, except scammers that you can run into in local "graigslist" website.

Just started ditching Salesforce Auth for Google Auth. I use bw password manager and I like it. why the hell not.

are you implying that the comment above praising Mint is LLM-generated?

bien joué!

yikes, patent trolls man.

The issue I noticed is I still could make calls from and to local numbers (+33 to +33) but not from/to foreign numbers (+33 to +else)

  Location:Paris - France
  Remote:Open to both - Onsite and Remote
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies:Hardware & Infrastructure engineering - Datacenter Operations and Engineering - On Premise - Network/Compute/Storage -HPC/IA Hardware engineering
  Résumé/CV: Can be shared by email, please reach out.
  Email: 'said' at 'nexoft' and the TLD is 'fr'

Getting from scratch to new businesses, and the most complicated ones and succeeding is no luck. Rocket science and automotive are very complicated in their own ways, and competing against businesses with 100+ years of IP and experience.... If the Space shuttle and Apollo were so good they would still be in production, the Concord as well. I guess it has something to do with the reliability and % to have a crew survive the launch and also the cost. I kinda respect his legacy more than all those social networks/search engine/marketplace gurus. But I do hate Musk's personality and I'm definitely not a fanboy,but still, respect is due where it's earned.

Looks like an homage/reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

The logo was remastered from the original that's in the leaked powerpoints. whois infos are anonymized, domain was registered since 2013. I think someone want to have fun, I found no reference anywhere to who could've created it. Not sure if the login field are dummy and if someone is supposed to login.

Location: Paris - France

Remote: it doens't matter

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hardware & Infrastructure engineering - Datacenter Operations and Engineering - On Premise - Network/Compute/Storage Hardware engineering - AI hardware

Résumé/CV: available upon request

Email: t2fskjn3 at duck.com

Interest in : opensource / linux / ai / hardware / pytorch / tensorflow

"South Koreans already toil more than many of their overseas counterparts. They work an average of 1,915 hours per year, compared with 1,791 hours for Americans and 1,490 hours for the French, who have a 35-hour workweek"

Oh no. Being in France don't know which is more embarassing : thinking that somwhere, someone is expected to work for 69 hours a week or being acounted for the country working the least hours per week and possibly being considered as lazy.

Chill guys... I think this guy is being bullied because he is different, like many others. I hope he will hang tight.

I've heard horror stories about substack/medium censoring/closing blogs for unclear reasons. I would go selfhost. I use ChyrpLite, I am considering WordPress as well.

Official comms from the CNIL who issued the fine (French link) : https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-sanction-de-60-millions-deuro...

Translated using ChatGPT : On December 19, 2022, the restricted training of the CNIL (French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) fined Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited 60 million euros, particularly for not having set up a mechanism allowing cookies to be refused as easily as they are accepted.

The context Following a complaint regarding the conditions for depositing cookies on "bing.com," the CNIL conducted several checks on the website in September 2020 and May 2021.

It found that when a user visited the site, cookies were deposited on their terminal without their consent, and that these cookies were used for, among other things, advertising purposes. It also found that there was no button allowing cookies to be refused as easily as they were accepted.

As a result, the restricted training, a body of the CNIL responsible for imposing sanctions, fined Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited 60 million euros, which was made public.

It justified this amount by the scope of the processing, the number of people affected, and the benefits that the company derives from the advertising revenue indirectly generated from the data collected by the cookies.

In addition to the administrative fine, the restricted training also issued an injunction with a penalty clause requiring the company to obtain consent from French residents on the "bing.com" website before depositing cookies and trackers with an advertising purpose on their terminals. If it fails to do so, the company will be subject to a penalty of 60,000 euros per day of delay.

Violations of the Data Protection Act The restricted training identified violations of Article 82 of the Data Protection Act.

Depositing cookies without prior consent from the user When a user visited the "bing.com" search engine, a cookie with several purposes, including combating fraudulent advertising, was automatically deposited on their terminal without any action on their part.

Furthermore, when the user continued to navigate the search engine, a cookie with an advertising purpose was deposited on their terminal, again without their consent being obtained.

However, the law requires that this type of cookie can only be deposited after the user has given their consent.

The absence of a compliant means of obtaining consent for the deposit of cookies While the search engine provided a button allowing cookies to be immediately accepted, it did not offer an equivalent solution (a refusal button or the like) to allow internet users to refuse them as easily. It took two clicks to refuse all cookies and just one to accept them.

The restricted training found that making the refusal mechanism more complex effectively discourages users from refusing cookies and encourages them to choose the ease of the acceptance button. As such, the company did not have a compliant mechanism for obtaining consent for the deposit of cookies.

I would say that such relatively mature software companis carry such old products with dependencies to account for that they are overwheght and only address vunl/p0 bugs; no new features or improvement. I do use Concur where I work and it is bad, in this particular case maybe less effort was made from SAP on the front end, or your back-then-company's SAP departement did a poor job implementing it. either way such mess is also the result of poorly managed departement having 15+ years members that lost interest and that are maintainig very old products.

Sounds like it was dead on arrival because of FM band.Reminds me of Thomson MP3pro's proprietary audio format that didn't take off either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3PRO

You could play an mp3pro 64kpbs with any regular mp3 codec and it sounded bad as expected, but using mp3pro codec it artificially improves it by recreating higher frequency harmonics that were removed due to the low bitrate and compression. Edit : typos and precision.