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On the other hand, when I was a teenager, some friends posted content referring to me with pictures on a popular local platform at the time.

I either lost contact with those friends or they lost access to their account, so I tried multiple times to get the platform to remove the content about me, they wouldn't do it, despite all the proofs I could provide them with.

The day I heard that they were finally going out of business was quite a relief.

But contrary to you I made copies of this content, part of it during my attempts to get the platform taking it down...

Having had this discussion many times, the conclusion we often come to is that part of the popular success of football is the scarcity and simplicity.

In most sports, you have a world championship every year, meanwhile, a World Cup happens only every four years.

When you have screens and stuff setup by the city to follow a World Cup, the crowds are not made of die hard football fans, the majority of people there are normies that don't give a hoot about football during the 47 other months of a WC loop. Here we call them "footix". If the WC was happening every year, they would be bored and less and less of them would come out to the public events. Meanwhile, making it only every four years, they have time to forget that they didn't quite enjoyed it, they can believe things are very different from last time, and they agree to reserve part of their mental bandwidth to the event. They wouldn't do this on a yearly basis because they fundamentally don't care about football. They want to enjoy sharing a unique experience surrounded by friends, family and random peers. You can't do this every year because it removes the special character of it.

To illustrate this further: here we have the Tour de France (cycling), that happens every year, so no scarcity. Unless a stage passes near you. Which is something that happens even less often than a World Cup. In that case, people with no interest in cycling will go to the side of the road and go crazy.

I'm confused by your answer because I can't tell which way you're going.

Are you saying companies have to mandate AI everywhere?

Or are you saying the exact opposite, as your second sentence suggests?

I haven't heard of AI mandates in small companies, only in big ones.

Seems weird to base a FOSS reservation system on... Google Sheets?

The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change

Otherwise it would have been smoother

So the weekly updates are... fake?

https://codecguide.com/changelogs_standard.htm

Since Codex-5.3 came out it was my daily driver for everything: quick scripting, greenfield projects, new features on old projects...

Idk if it was the harness (OpenCode), my AGENT or my prompts, but I was getting exactly what I wanted, and quickly.

With GPT-5.5 it tries to play smart, takes much more times and is often stuck on basic stuff that DeepSeek solves oneshot.

There's at least one person in this situation in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599384

I suspect the numbers will grow given how much cheaper they are compared to the standard medical devices.

My point was: I understand where you're coming from, I used to feel the same, but a shift is in the making, and you could consider someone's attitude rude when they are actually impaired.

So starting from: "this person is wearing AirPods as hearing aids" to realize that they're just being rude, is probably better than starting from "they're being rude for wearing AirPods" only to realize you've made a mistake.

Purely anecdotal, but when OpenAI removed Codex-5.3 from the ChatGPT sub and forced me to move to GPT-5.5, the result was far worse than what I was enjoying with Codex.

And, of course, it was burning 10 times more tokens for this output.

I'm having fun doing that to be honest.

But to get back to the topic: that's why I'm wearing AirPods in public now; signaling that I'm not interested.

  > And it all starts to become a bit superficial.

I'll never confide in a stranger, so if they want to talk, I'll try to bore them out with superficial stuff.

Signed: an introvert.

Keep in mind that some AirPods are now certified hearing aids.

So before calling someone rude for talking to you with their AirPods on, make sure they don't need them on to hear you in the first place.

I myself always put at least one down when talking to someone, but I've learned to make the distinction between someone that is actually involved in the discussion, and someone that's still listening to what's coming from their connected device.

I thought it was about Renaud' song _Laisse béton_

https://genius.com/Renaud-laisse-beton-lyrics

That's not what I understood from their posts.

They know of him because he's going on lots of radio stations/tv channels.

They haven't expressed any opinion on what they think about the guy.

Author seems to imply that the issues are the landlord's fault though, since their theory is that it's on purpose to be able to raise rent on the next guy.

They also imply that is always happen.

  > I've noticed this myself with every apartment I've ever lived in.

Sure, you can have a mold issue in the bathroom because of poor ventilation. Happened to me in a flat. But if it happens every time, the renter can probably be the culprit.

Same for the cockroaches. You can be victim of a neighbor’s lack of care. But if it happens in every flat, maybe you're the problem.

I'm all-in for blaming landlord's of taking money from renters and not putting any money back on helping keeping the flat in a livable state. But some of the issue the author is pointing out, and the fact that they happen in every flat, make me think that maybe part of the blame is on them.

That's funny you're referring to "PAF" because it was a confusing word for me for a long time: it was used for this purpose, but also the "PAF" (as Participation aux frais) written on events flyers. Trying to find their meaning while thinking they were the same word...

I don't listen to France Culture or any other radio station for that matter ; only FIP.

And I don't watch TV so it won't help either.

After posting my first comment I actually did asked, first at work and later to friends/family ; the only positive answer was from someone who listen to France Inter daily. Otherwise they said they never heard of the guy.

Actually it's an interesting topic because it's far from the first time that I see some journalist talking about "someone famous", and yet I never heard of them.

It seems that there's actually no real "mainstream medias" like it used to be when I grew up, where the vast majority of people were watching the 20h everyday. Talking to adults in their 20s is quite illuminating. Things we could consider "mainstream" are unknown to them. They don't even know they exists.

Should have added context to my message but I'm French and lived in France all my life.

If his supposed popularity is coming from a spot on France Culture, I understand why I'm not familiar with him or his work

> One of France’s most famous science communicators

Never heard of him

OVH just raised their VPS prices by about 30%.

They shifted right (VPS-1 2026 is now VPS-2 2027) and increased prices.

Crazy stuff

One is an ad company the other a lifestyle venture?

For good reasons, they don't have access to our infra.

I wasn't involved, but I heard last year they tried to vibedeploy, provisioning an AWS account in their own name with their own credit card. I let you imagine what happened and why they haven't retried this since.

I've been writing code since my teens, I've studied assembly... yet the fact that _things_ start happening when I press the power button on my computer are pure magic to me and I like it this way.

I started digging a few times, but, I prefer the "magic".

I've also have to work with a guy like that.

It could be okay if it wasn't for the fact that they have a high esteem of themselves and don't learn shit.

The first POC they vibecoded and managed to sell was a pile of trash that we couldn't realistically deploy as it.

So we spent two weeks to make it something decent enough to have the minimum confidence of the thing being reliable and safe enough to reach staging. Two weeks during they told us daily how we were slowing everything down.

After that we spent an hour explaining them how making something works on their computer, without tests, without thinking about edge cases... was not the same thing as deploying it and releasing it to actual users.

We agreed on, next time, asking us for an estimate on how much it would take to move the POC to something that could be released, before signing on any engagement with a customer.

Well, last week they came with a new deal they just signed on a completely new POC. Customer was expecting it for yesterday. To make it work, we have to setup a VPN between our infra and customer infra. Their internal process make it impossible to have this under a month.

Now, my guy and the customer, are mad at me because I can't deliver.

And the first POC? Customer wants new features. My guy don't want to deal with it because it's not their job.

I can suggest having a look at Infomaniak: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/service-mail

And with the kSuite, you have everything: file storage, chat, emails...

I have no involvement with the company, except as a happy customer for many years

Damn!

A bit disappointed by the name

They'll probably start selling _Microsoft Copilot AI Defender_ or something similar?

SCOUT: Sentient COpilot UTilities

> Look at the mess that Microsoft has made for itself by setting the requirement that software made in the 90s must still run on modern OSs and hardware. It's bonkers and is slowly killing the company.

Forcing people to create a MS account to log in their Windows computer, that's because of backward compatibility?

Pushing Copilot absolutely everywhere, that's because of backward compatibility?

GitHub being down almost daily, that's because of backward compatibility?