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aucisson_masque··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
And before he came back, apple was on the verge of bankrupt because people without any vision whatsoever took the lead.

The same kind of people are now doing it again, it will take time but every decision apple has been taking is giving me a bad taste.

even the evolution of macos and IOS. They are much closer to windows and android now.

aucisson_masque··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Exactly what i was thinking, with these decision they are making a quick bucks but in the long term apple will just be another washed and forgetful brand like most of the windows brand, and then what reason to get a macbook ?

They worked so hard to "think different", get a following with people that would willingly spend more for a product inferior technically because it was just bold.

i am the first one to appreciate the direction apple is taking, as a customer it will bring even more competition to the windows laptop market because everything will be similar, but when i put my self in steve jobs shoe, i want to puke.

aucisson_masque··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Apple directions is going insane. there is no other explanation.

They refused for decades to put a touchscreen because they know very well it will eat on their ipad sales.

One less reason to get an ipad pro.

aucisson_masque··on New iPad mini
They ticked all the boxes.

Add to that a locked OS, and you got a bingo.

aucisson_masque··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Because he was saying “hey guys “ naturally without thinking twice.

Now you make him think twice about what he’s saying, of course he’s going to nitpick everything.

aucisson_masque··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
> In response to the AI-driven platform shift, Microsoft is trying to reskill and relocate workers and is still hiring

Damn, I’m glad I’m not a developer.

aucisson_masque··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
French gendarmerie ditched it a while ago, went to use Linux on all compares and been doing fine for decades.

There is no technical reason to be impossible, the issue is political.

Corruption promoted by American lobbies onto European government and preventing any actual decision.

When people in charge “have balls”, it does work.

aucisson_masque··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
I don’t see how it’s more reasonable. Google constantly nags you to accept terms and conditions to get things to work.

Most likely you will agree to share it with “other Google services” just by setting up an Android phone.

aucisson_masque··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
> The plaintiff (Sony Music Entertainment GmbH) then used a VPN to access the blocked content from Germany in circumvention of the geoIP blocking. The court agreed with Sony in their assertions of noncompliance, and we were fined for contempt of court.

This is some fucked up level of incompetency.

That’s why Justice can be abused by whoever got the most money, if it was competent they wouldn’t waste much time on these ridiculous claims.

aucisson_masque··on EA is shutting down BioWare
The frostbite engine seem to be the tip of the iceberg.

Core issue was lack of clear leadership from what I read on Wikipedia.

aucisson_masque··on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
It’s still better than windows but I agree that the trend is down and not upward.

That scares me because what are the alternatives ? Windows is even worst and no light in sight, Linux is Linux… and that’s all.

aucisson_masque··on Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023)
I don’t think the issue is really that api aren’t mature enough or that some developers refuse to use flatpak sandboxing correctly and instead use static permissions.

Linux, Unix and most computers were designed from the ground up as open system where everything can access everything.

It’s absolutely not secure, but that’s not what flatpak is supposed to fix.

Flatpak is supposed to make installations of apps easier by sharing common dependencies across all distributions. That’s all. And in a way, it works.

It has downside even on that, people who have slow internet connection will require hours to download a simple calculator app whereas it took a few seconds before, but it works.

Now on the sandboxing part, you can’t fix a sinking ship with a chewing gum in the hole. The whole structure is not designed to work this way.

It has to come from yet another distribution where permission are enforced at the operating system level, like on macOS. It’s a lot of work, and then you got to get developers on board, so it will never happen and it’s fine. Linux is not macOS, it doesn’t have a trillion dollar company backing it up and it’s not unified.

You got to play with your strength, not your weaknesses.

aucisson_masque··on Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare
Same, just scroll and it dismiss it.
aucisson_masque··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Yes it’s maddening.

It also highlight that Google really isn’t about search, all they care about is advertising and making users profiles.

aucisson_masque··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
I’d agree with it. Any other country would have been bashed over and over, people would hate it like North Korea or Irak in the 2000’s.

Today, I saw an American news reporter got beaten up on the ground by 50 Israeli colonists.

That fact alone would get media, government most us citizens angry with pitch forks.

There is some very strong lobbying at multiple levels.

aucisson_masque··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
You wouldn’t put personal data and trust in a Chinese app.

Israel still have the reputation of being part of the ‘free world’ in the collective mind.

that is more dangerous.

aucisson_masque··on Thunderbird for iOS
Apple mail has excellent search, there are filters, it indexes file content and is done locally so it’s very fast. What more do you want ?
aucisson_masque··on Thunderbird for iOS
I agree but at the end the convulated Ui makes you waste so much time.

Even just searching for a setting can take 5 minutes, and you often got to look for them because default settings make no sense at all.

aucisson_masque··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
Bulgaria government is responsible for the security of private infrastructure.
aucisson_masque··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
> No User-written text reviews

Everything you don’t like, you can avoid.

aucisson_masque··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
> No Discussion forums and community hubs

> No User-written text reviews

> No Community-created guides and walkthroughs

>No Screenshot, clip, and artwork sharing

I can’t believe they don’t have the resource to bring these features to their launcher, they actively refuse to make it a tool for communities.

It must be a way to buy game and launch them, that’s all. Don’t talk, don’t give your opinion on the game, don’t help others in forums,..

I managed to stay away from epic even when they locked games from steam, glad I did. It’s embarrassing.

aucisson_masque··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
> It is not absurd at all. You can't arrest somebody for a sabotage without letting him to execute the deed. Because if he won't execute there's nothing to arrest him for...

You can very well arrest someone for the intention of sabotaging.

aucisson_masque··on Thunderbird for iOS
> $99.99 for a lifetime license

Yeah, just a small hiccup. I can buy a whole phone with a hundred dollars.

aucisson_masque··on Thunderbird for iOS
K9 and Thunderbird on Android suck. The ui is clunky but worst of all, the search is bad. Very bad.

If you don’t do anything special, that will be enough but for everyone else that won’t do it.

If I type ‘repor’ in Apple mail, It will show me all report before I even type enter. And if there is too much, I will then add ‘2026’ for instance.

On k9, first you got to type the entire word because it won’t progressively search as you type, but then you press enter and see hundreds of mail so you want to add 2026 ? Too bad. Got to type report once again followed by 2026. Made a typo mistake ? Got to rewrite it all over again.

This is just bad.

And I’m not trying to diminish the work done by Thunderbirds/k9 developer, it’s just that it’s done by unpaid developers and it shows. Things move slowly and just suck at using.

aucisson_masque··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Everyone love it, I just want to remind people it’s a concept car !!!

Design of the actual car that will go on production is not even done.

We have seen hundreds of nice concept car that lead to nothing or disaster.

Also the 2cv was great because it was cheap, reliable and easy to repair. Good luck with these electric car, it certainly won’t be ‘farmer favorite’.

aucisson_masque··on How Protein Took over the World
I drink soy isolate protein, no flavor, every day and it tastes ok. Not incredible, just as completely as whey isolate.
aucisson_masque··on Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
How does it compare to handy ?
aucisson_masque··on LineageOS 24.0
I wouldn’t want to run Linux or windows on my phone lol.
aucisson_masque··on How Protein Took over the World
Why they all using whey when you got soy, pea and other much cheaper protein ?

Whey got to be the most expensive, especially isolate.

aucisson_masque··on Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
macOS does it pretty well, right ?
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