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aucisson_masque··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
That's interesting, at least it's a reason to put tax on delivery method.
aucisson_masque··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
They already play at the evening, and or in cooled stadium. Beside it's the same condition for both team.

Adding 2 more pauses is actually bastardizing football.

aucisson_masque··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
Side note but did anyone here tried to sell stuff on eBay ?

Their pricing are insane, they take a cut on your product price, but also on the delivery method and even on the taxes !

It amounts to about 13% of total price, including delivery and taxes.

It looks absolutely insane to me, but some people seem to defend it.

To put some perspective, here in France we have an extremely profitable competitor called Leboncoin, it's crushing eBay shares in the country, and they take only 5% cut on the product price.

aucisson_masque··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
How close are they to Chinese ?
aucisson_masque··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
We have been playing footbal as 2x 45 min for ever. Make it 4x 22 min and it's not the same game at all.
aucisson_masque··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Agree. The best team are in Europe anyway, why would we care about the rest of the world ?

UEFA is all we need, make the best fight against the best in Europe and let fifa do it's shit.

Maybe we could do something like Europe - south America competition.

aucisson_masque··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Honestly no one care about United States, Canada and Mexico in soccer. These countries are irrelevant.
aucisson_masque··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
The Xiaomi box also send lots of data to Xiaomi server but also ads/tracking network.

I switched to a Google box, this has no bloatware and this way I get tracked only by one company.

aucisson_masque··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
I bet you'd have sell it for much more than 1777 at the end of the 3 years. As long as you don't break, you'd find a buyer in less than a day at this price, this is insanely good.

Usually you'd find people asking for 4 to 6k$

aucisson_masque··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
> It preserves optionality. If you get to the end of the lease period and there’s a new iPhone you want or the battery isn’t holding up, you can choose not to buy it. You don’t have to deal with selling it or trading in.

If you don't buy it at the end of the 24 month, you've been paying for a very costly lease.

2/3 of the price for a 24 month lease whereas iphones are updated for 7, 8 years ? And the resell value is very good.

Especially financially, it would make zéro sense.

aucisson_masque··on Kill The Cookie Banner
It's absolutely not the right time to contact EU representatives. They are in vacation, and the vote goes on september/october.

Put a note in your calendar, write a letter and send it then.

btw, the link say it's around 3% of people who want to be tracked when the reports state it's between 3 and 10%. it's misleading.

aucisson_masque··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
You wouldn't be surprised if that happened when traveling to China or any other autocratic country.

I think the issue is that people expect the USA to be the "land of freedom" when it's not anymore. It's turning more and more into an oligarchy and we are at the point where it's just as bad as russia or china.

If i was offered a trip to China or russia, i'd go but i would take a burner phone with absolutely nothing important; It's the same for the usa now.

aucisson_masque··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
> 1. Don't travel with anything you can't afford to lose on device. This means setting up travel-specific password managers and hardware keys for a subset of your accounts that you absolutely need to access while abroad, and being prepared to reset those passwords and disable those hardware keys very quickly once home.

> 2. Review past legal cases against travelers and identify what behaviors the government considers worthy of prosecution or harassment. Your secure setup must function without needing you to engage in those behaviors, even if it is less convenient as a result. This isn't perfect, as the government may decide some new behavior is prosecutable.

> 3. Consult with a lawyer and review your security procedures from a legal standpoint. All of the above is technical and practical advice, not legal counsel and no substitute for it.

Just don't go to the usa and if it's for professional reason, don't bring your personal phone.

aucisson_masque··on GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
But I've got nothing to hide
aucisson_masque··on Firefox Containers Preview
For once, that's a great thing. I'm glad Firefox includes it directly into the app, but could we also use that opportunity to get it to work on Android ?
aucisson_masque··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Since it's open, everyone can download and run it on their computer, it makes no sense to ban them. Everyone would still keep using them.
aucisson_masque··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM.

And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

aucisson_masque··on Advertise in ChatGPT
How long until advertisement impacts chatgpt answer, I mean not just adding a sponsored link at the end but changing it's answer.

We've seen it with Google, money is too hard to resist. Enshitification is coming !

Thanks god for the open Chinese models, they are the future. All hail the CCP.

aucisson_masque··on The Voice of Google
Love Google for what it once was, hate it for what it became.
aucisson_masque··on GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
Even on grapheneos you got to install the play store and play services to get most app to work, which mean connecting to a Google account.

Technically you can use fdroid, Aurora store, or only use stock applications but if we are serious, not all domestic abuse victims are also geeks that know how to do all these things.

They will need their apps, for instance for social security. Also, many people use their phone to pay nowadays, can't do on grapheneos.

Domestic abuse is a serious threat and people are motivated to stay away from their abusers, but if you give them something so barebone that they can't do 90% of their stuff, a significant percentage of them will revert to their old behavior and risk compromising themselves. For instance, buying a second phone and connecting it to the old Google account just to browse tiktok.

aucisson_masque··on GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
It's mostly the app. Nothing come close to apple notes or reminder for instance.

Even safari... On Android, you get chromium that doesn't have any extension or Firefox that has incredibly frustrating UI and doesn't work well on some website.

aucisson_masque··on GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
Why care about what Google know about you, in case of domestic abuse ?

It's not like Google is going to sell your tracking data to abuser.

There are many reasons to get rid of Google altogether, I just don't understand this one.

aucisson_masque··on GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
Only in Google camera, which is usable on grapheneos: You get a live shot feature, it ain't exactly the same tho, look into that.

I run pixelos and the amount of stuff I miss from iphone is staggering, the difference between pixelos/grapheneos isn't as big as the difference between iphone/pixel.

aucisson_masque··on Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
Unison is dead, this project is alive.
aucisson_masque··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
I don't know what you are speaking about You have millions of competitors.

From small business to big shopping centers, online resellers,...

aucisson_masque··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
I don't mind paying a little more in exchange for good customer support. My internet provider has gone from having support in Arabic countries, that speak French good enough but don't really care about you, to support in France and it makes all the difference in the world.

I was astonished when I asked a question and the guy did actual research, called back and told me things that a simple Google search on my end wouldn't have find.

Usually it's very different, they either don't know/don't care or say things that are obviously false.

I believe it's also why Amazon took so much in popularity. If I got an issue with Amazon product, I know it well be dealt with swiftly, as long as it's sent by Amazon and not by a third party.

aucisson_masque··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Remember it's apple lawyer words, not established facts.
aucisson_masque··on Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base
Indeed
aucisson_masque··on Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base
I'm a huge fan of recall, going to test this out. This looks very interesting.
aucisson_masque··on Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years
You don't increase T by lowering E2 or tricking your brain into it. It comes with too many sides effects and anyway the effect ain't strong.
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