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Notre petite maison sur le Bassin d'Arcachon. Achetée en 1982 pour environ 125 000€. Bernard avait fait des heures sup à La Poste tout l'été pour compléter l'apport. On était si jeunes. L'agent nous dit qu'elle vaut 3,9M€ aujourd'hui, mais pour nous c'est juste notre chez-nous. 🇫🇷🌅
Apple engineered a $179 product to age one half faster than the other, and the fix would take about six lines of code.
One AirPod is always doing more work than the other. The microphone setting defaults to "Automatic," but in practice one pod gets selected as primary for calls, Siri listening, and voice processing. That pod is running beamforming mics, noise cancellation, and audio relay simultaneously. The other one is mostly a speaker.
The battery gap compounds over time. The pod that drains faster charges more often. Lithium-ion cells degrade based on total charge cycles. After 12 to 18 months, the "primary" pod has meaningfully more wear on its battery than its twin. Same case, same charger, different lifespan. You're watching one AirPod age faster than the other in real time.
The fix is almost trivially simple. Rotate the primary mic assignment every 24 hours regardless of call activity. Balance the processing load across both pods equally. Apple ships a $549 AirPods Max that does spatial head tracking with nine microphones but won't write a background task to swap L and R daily.
They won't fix it because the failure mode sells hardware. When one pod dies noticeably faster, you replace the pair. At $179 to $249 every 18 months instead of 36, that's the most profitable firmware bug in consumer electronics.
Le conflit va durer plus longtemps que prévu… #Iran
Thank you for doing your part 😂😂😂
Le truc le plus cher au kilo sur la photo est à base d'oeufs.
The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
Voilà près de 30 ans que je travaille dans le numérique. Trois décennies à faire 2 à 3 heures de veille par jour pour accumuler des connaissances. Et pourtant, toutes mes certitudes ont volé en éclat hier... lorsque j’ai découvert qu’il y avait un sens aux câbles USB-C ! 😮😱🤯
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The free major 'Thank You' update is live now!! ❤️🌹
Bringing you a number of new features - including PHOTO MODE 📸
Access at any time from the pause menu and capture your favourite moments (even mid cutscene) !!
🟥 Info @TheBigWhale_ I Fiscalité crypto
Un amendement communiste a été adopté mardi en commission de l'AN
Il propose d'obliger les détenteurs de wallets crypto en self-custody (@Ledger, @Metamask, @Rabby_io, @DeblockApp, etc.) de les porter à la connaissance de l'administration fiscale s'ils dépassent 5 000€.
Un autre amendement identique - socialiste et défendu par le rapporteur (Ensemble) - a également été déposé hier.
Avec ce soutien transpartisan, il est donc quasiment certain que la mesure sera votée.
Elle suit les recommandations du Conseil des prélèvements obligatoires (CPO) qui avait précisément mentionné le sujet des wallets non-custodials dans son rapport publié la semaine dernière
【Tai Po Fire, Bid-Rigging, and Bamboo Scaffolding in NSL-Era Hong Kong】
The Tai Po fire was not just a tragic accident; it was the predictable outcome of a broken system. A system where estate management, renovation contracts, and public safety have long been undermined by collusion, bid-rigging, and zero accountability. And since the NSL, Hong Kong has no civil society or independent media strong enough to hold these networks to account. Even when residents and expert and activists like Jason Poon, took their own samples of the netting and tried to expose the risks, they were ignored.
Wang Fuk Court was in the middle of a HK$330M “mega-repair.” Residents had protested the sky-high cost, accusing the owners’ corporation of force-pushing the plan through despite objections. Transparency was minimal. Oversight was weak. This is exactly how bid-rigging works in HK housing estates: pre-selected contractors, inflated prices, limited competition, opaque decisions, and incentives to cut corners on materials and safety, because no one is genuinely checking, nor can the civil society did what it used to do-- to hold different people to account and raise awareness of these issues.
During the renovation, the contractor wrapped the buildings with mesh, and foam boards that allegedly failed to meet fire-resistant standards. Some residents took a sample of the netting material to test on their own; videos showed it burned and dripped-- hardly in compliance with the regulations [1]. Here, cheaper, flammable materials meant higher profit margins and higher risk. The Wang Fuk Court contractor ignored safety again and again, with a long trail of corruption and violations. In 9 years, they racked up at least 17 regulatory breaches and fines.
When the fire started, the netting as shown in many videos, burned quickly. A slow fire became an inferno in minutes.
Police arrested multiple directors and engineers from the construction company. ICAC launched an investigation into the renovation contract itself — including how a controversial HK$330M plan was approved and whether corruption was involved.
This is the cost of collusion: Bid-rigging doesn’t just overcharge residents. It kills oversight, kills competition, and, in this case, helped create conditions that killed people. Hong Kong’s building maintenance system has tolerated collusion and corruption for years. The Tai Po fire is the clearest possible warning: corruption in estate management is not just a financial issue. It tells us a lot about HK-China relationship.
Beijing could and had rewritten Hong Kong’s political system overnight and crushed organised dissent, but it has never been able to cleanly uproot the entrenched construction and maintenance networks that profit from this model of “business as usual.” And this is where the politics of bamboo scaffolding enters the picture.
There is a long-understood agenda from Beijing to undermine Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding industry, not because it is unsafe, but precisely because it is a local craft, part of the Hong Kong identity, practised safely for decades, and one of the last corners of construction work where Chinese state-owned developers and their preferred contractors have never managed to gain a foothold. Bamboo scaffolding is not standard in the PRC; metal scaffolding is. And right now, mainland China faces a record glut of metal scaffolding materials, made worse by recent scandals over fake steel being used in their production , scandals that have no counterpart in Hong Kong’s bamboo trade.
So when the Hong Kong Government suddenly pushes a mandatory shift to metal scaffolding “for safety,” it is hard to ignore the timing. Yahoo Finance reports that Hong Kong experts defending the safety of bamboo scaffolding are being aggressively dismissed by PRC netizens, while the Government doubles down on the same narrative. In other words, this is not really about fire safety. It is a political and economic project to replace a resilient local craft with PRC-standard practices, conveniently absorbing a mainland oversupply while sidelining an industry Beijing has never been able to capture.
Thus, the tragedy is being used to accelerate “integration,” dressed up as technical modernisation. On paper, it’s about protecting the public; in practice, it sidesteps politically connected local players without ever reckoning with the actual causes of the fire: opaque estate governance, weak enforcement, collusion, and the hollowing out of watchdogs under the NSL.
We, Hongkongers, outside or inside the city do not trust the government or any of its proxies. Five years of national security crackdowns, media censorship, and relentless state messaging have not repaired the rupture exposed in 2019. That distrust is alive, deep, and justified.
HKSAR Gov and co are clearly not acting in good faith. Now, as you are reading, volunteers who organised themselves to help were reported to the police for unlawful assembly, a move that looks less like public order and more like spite. It is yet another sign that the Government now treats ordinary civic-minded Hongkongers as adversaries. And I fear reporting them is not the end of it, as Hongkongers came up with 4 very reasonable demands asking for investigation and accountability.
For us, the fact that John Lee decided to thank Xi Jinping first, rather than giving the credit to the brave firefighters, showed us that they are replicating the Mainland disaster-stagecraft: PR-first, people-last; party-state-first, people-last.
Taken together, the political economy of scaffolding, the erasure of civil oversight, and the Government’s behaviour during the crisis reinforce the same truth: the problem is not bamboo. The problem is a system where power, profit, and propaganda take precedence over safety, accountability, and the lives of Hong Kong people.
[1] https://t.co/1kEPkMcyEj
![chungchingkwong's tweet photo. 【Tai Po Fire, Bid-Rigging, and Bamboo Scaffolding in NSL-Era Hong Kong】
The Tai Po fire was not just a tragic accident; it was the predictable outcome of a broken system. A system where estate management, renovation contracts, and public safety have long been undermined by collusion, bid-rigging, and zero accountability. And since the NSL, Hong Kong has no civil society or independent media strong enough to hold these networks to account. Even when residents and expert and activists like Jason Poon, took their own samples of the netting and tried to expose the risks, they were ignored.
Wang Fuk Court was in the middle of a HK$330M “mega-repair.” Residents had protested the sky-high cost, accusing the owners’ corporation of force-pushing the plan through despite objections. Transparency was minimal. Oversight was weak. This is exactly how bid-rigging works in HK housing estates: pre-selected contractors, inflated prices, limited competition, opaque decisions, and incentives to cut corners on materials and safety, because no one is genuinely checking, nor can the civil society did what it used to do-- to hold different people to account and raise awareness of these issues.
During the renovation, the contractor wrapped the buildings with mesh, and foam boards that allegedly failed to meet fire-resistant standards. Some residents took a sample of the netting material to test on their own; videos showed it burned and dripped-- hardly in compliance with the regulations [1]. Here, cheaper, flammable materials meant higher profit margins and higher risk. The Wang Fuk Court contractor ignored safety again and again, with a long trail of corruption and violations. In 9 years, they racked up at least 17 regulatory breaches and fines.
When the fire started, the netting as shown in many videos, burned quickly. A slow fire became an inferno in minutes.
Police arrested multiple directors and engineers from the construction company. ICAC launched an investigation into the renovation contract itself — including how a controversial HK$330M plan was approved and whether corruption was involved.
This is the cost of collusion: Bid-rigging doesn’t just overcharge residents. It kills oversight, kills competition, and, in this case, helped create conditions that killed people. Hong Kong’s building maintenance system has tolerated collusion and corruption for years. The Tai Po fire is the clearest possible warning: corruption in estate management is not just a financial issue. It tells us a lot about HK-China relationship.
Beijing could and had rewritten Hong Kong’s political system overnight and crushed organised dissent, but it has never been able to cleanly uproot the entrenched construction and maintenance networks that profit from this model of “business as usual.” And this is where the politics of bamboo scaffolding enters the picture.
There is a long-understood agenda from Beijing to undermine Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding industry, not because it is unsafe, but precisely because it is a local craft, part of the Hong Kong identity, practised safely for decades, and one of the last corners of construction work where Chinese state-owned developers and their preferred contractors have never managed to gain a foothold. Bamboo scaffolding is not standard in the PRC; metal scaffolding is. And right now, mainland China faces a record glut of metal scaffolding materials, made worse by recent scandals over fake steel being used in their production , scandals that have no counterpart in Hong Kong’s bamboo trade.
So when the Hong Kong Government suddenly pushes a mandatory shift to metal scaffolding “for safety,” it is hard to ignore the timing. Yahoo Finance reports that Hong Kong experts defending the safety of bamboo scaffolding are being aggressively dismissed by PRC netizens, while the Government doubles down on the same narrative. In other words, this is not really about fire safety. It is a political and economic project to replace a resilient local craft with PRC-standard practices, conveniently absorbing a mainland oversupply while sidelining an industry Beijing has never been able to capture.
Thus, the tragedy is being used to accelerate “integration,” dressed up as technical modernisation. On paper, it’s about protecting the public; in practice, it sidesteps politically connected local players without ever reckoning with the actual causes of the fire: opaque estate governance, weak enforcement, collusion, and the hollowing out of watchdogs under the NSL.
We, Hongkongers, outside or inside the city do not trust the government or any of its proxies. Five years of national security crackdowns, media censorship, and relentless state messaging have not repaired the rupture exposed in 2019. That distrust is alive, deep, and justified.
HKSAR Gov and co are clearly not acting in good faith. Now, as you are reading, volunteers who organised themselves to help were reported to the police for unlawful assembly, a move that looks less like public order and more like spite. It is yet another sign that the Government now treats ordinary civic-minded Hongkongers as adversaries. And I fear reporting them is not the end of it, as Hongkongers came up with 4 very reasonable demands asking for investigation and accountability.
For us, the fact that John Lee decided to thank Xi Jinping first, rather than giving the credit to the brave firefighters, showed us that they are replicating the Mainland disaster-stagecraft: PR-first, people-last; party-state-first, people-last.
Taken together, the political economy of scaffolding, the erasure of civil oversight, and the Government’s behaviour during the crisis reinforce the same truth: the problem is not bamboo. The problem is a system where power, profit, and propaganda take precedence over safety, accountability, and the lives of Hong Kong people.
[1] https://t.co/1kEPkMcyEj](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G63Y-cTXcAA0yUp.png)
😡Le post auquel vous avez réagi ici est qu'on appelle communément du Ragebait, react economy.
L'objectif des gens sur les réseaux sociaux est de profiter de votre énervement afin d'exister grâce au boost algorithmique que vous allez leur donner grâce à votre commentaire ou votre citation.
À chaque fois que vous réagissez à un contenu, il est plus mis en avant chez les autres.
😡On utilise votre colère pour exister. Et quand vous commentez pour insulter quelqu'un, en fait vous lui rendez service si c'est ce qu'il cherche.
De plus ici, vous pourriez voir qu'il s'agissait de second degré vivant à parodier les posts inspirants de LinkedIn, qui, derrière une bienveillance affichée, cachent en fait des comportements absolument dégueulasses.
Un autre indice sur le côté parodique, c'est en allant voir sur mon profil sur quoi je travaille, il suffit pour ça de cliquer sur la source.
Pensez à ce proverbe : si vous vous tapez la tête contre un vase et que ça sonne creux... ce n'est peut-être pas le vase qui est vide.
Penser aussi au fait que finalement, plus vous allez commenter du contenu méprisable et plus l'auteur du contenu va gagner des vues et donc parfois de l'argent.... et donc va vouloir agir de manière encore plus méprisable.
Si, plus je suis bête et méchant, plus je reçois des insultes et donc je gagne des vues... Ben plus je vais être tenté d'être méchant.
On nourrit parfois soi-même la bête qu'on veut dénoncer. Et ça vaut le coup d'y penser avant de déposer un commentaire sur Internet.
Rassurez-vous donc, je n'ai qu'un enfant il a 3 ans et je m'en occupe très bien. 😊
Bonne journée.
#Mindsetdewinner
Amazon stock is up 1% as they successfully take down half the internet.
🕵 La Stasi en rêvait, l'Europe le fait : à partir d'octobre, nous serons toutes et tous mis sur écoute.
C'est la fin de la confidentialité des correspondances. Tout le monde est suspect. Une bascule hors de la démocratie libérale.
Avec l'aval de la France ? Ca dépend de nous👇
La présidence danoise de l’UE a décidé de remettre au sommet de l’agenda le règlement dit « ChatControl ». Sous couvert de lutte contre les abus sexuels sur mineurs, ce texte impose aux services numériques de scanner toutes les communications privées des Européens, y compris avant chiffrement. C'est l’entrée dans une société de contrôle par défaut.
🤯 Comprenez bien : chacun de vos messages, y compris sur les messageries chiffrées, sur Telegram, Instagram, Snapchat, Signal, Whatsapp... TOUT sera scanné préventivement, sans mandat ni soupçon préalable.
🤐 Et si vous pensez que « si l’on n’a rien à cacher, on n’a rien à craindre », vous faites l’erreur fatale de croire que c’est vous qui décidez si vous avez quelque chose à cacher. Un simple changement de gouvernement peut soudainement vous jeter dans la catégorie des marginaux ou des dissidents. Demandez-vous simplement : penseriez-vous toujours que vous n'avez rien à cacher si votre pire ennemi, et le pire parti politique, était à la tête du pays ?
🕊️ La vie privée est une condition de la démocratie. Elle permet de chercher, d’aimer, de militer, de consulter un avocat, de s’opposer, sans pression sociale constante. Quand la confidentialité disparaît, on n’ose plus parler. On n’ose plus penser. Une société sans vie privée est une société homogène, sans déviance, en bref, totalitaire. C’est d’ailleurs l’étymologie du terme totalitarisme, introduit par Hannah Arendt : « total », tout est politique, tout est public, rien n’est privé.
💸 Le même raisonnement sécuritaire a déjà été appliqué à la finance au nom de la lutte contre le blanchiment et le financement du terrorisme. Résultat : une surveillance totale des flux, une criminalisation de la vie privée, un coût démentiel pour les entreprises privées générant des barrières à l’entrée, des comportements de cartel, et un surcoût pour les consommateurs, le tout assorti d’une efficacité marginale sur les fonds criminels.
✊ J'ai décidé de mettre ce sujet et les libertés fondamentales au coeur de ma campagne pour les élections législatives, afin d'alerter sur les dérives de l'Union Européenne, qui prétend incarner l’État de droit, tout en le piétinant.
Demain, la France va clarifier sa position lors d'une réunion du groupe de travail du Conseil de l'UE. Jusqu'alors, elle était favorable à ce texte, c'est-à-dire favorable à la surveillance généralisée. Il faut changer cela.
⛔ Rejetons ChatControl. Défendons la démocratie.
Je pose solenellement la question à mes concurrents : @MichelBarnier , @fredbredin , et les autres candidats, soutenez-vous Chat Control ?
L'aboutissement de 13 ans de modding : la version 8 de mon modspack Skyrim est enfin disponible ! 😀
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⤵️Déroule pour en savoir plus ! (vidéo en 4k)
Hard truth.
Si vous utilisez WeTransfer pour envoyer des fichiers + ou - confidentiels à vos clients, arrêtez immédiatement : ils ont mis à jour leurs conditions d'utilisation pour se réserver le droit de voler vos fichiers pour les utiliser pour entraîner une foutue lA.
Mon gamin jouait tranquillement dans sa chambre, je suis allée le voir, je me suis mise à sa hauteur, je lui ai souri et par solidarité pour Israël, je lui ai mis une putain de grosse patate préventive dans sa gueule.
On sait jamais.
De nos jours on est jamais trop prudent.
This is the most accurate meme ive seen so far. What a strange time to be alive.
h/t /u/Necessary-Drummer800 /r/singularity
Ce lieu ressemble à une ville ordinaire.
Mais à l’intérieur, c’est une véritable prison.
KK Park.
Des milliers de jeunes y sont enfermés, battus, torturés… pour arnaquer le monde entier en crypto.
Voici l’histoire glaçante de l’usine à scams crypto.
🧵👇
Christine Lagarde est en train d'engager l'UE dans un choix monétaire historique et potentiellement désastreux. Je n'ai pas d'autre mot que désastreux.
Il y a 3 jours, la patronne de la BCE a réexpliqué qu'il fallait "accélérer la mise en place d'un cadre légal pour le lancement d'un potentiel euro numérique".
En misant tout sur une monnaie numérique de banque centrale (MNBC) — fermé, sans rendement, sans blockchain — elle fait le pari d’un modèle centralisé, rigide, à contre-courant des évolutions technologiques.
Et ce choix n’est pas neutre :
👉 L’UE se trouve à la croisée des chemins. Il n’y a pas d’entre-deux possible. Elle doit choisir entre 2 modèles radicalement opposés de monnaie numérique :
🇨🇳 Le modèle chinois : une MNBC 100 % centralisée, instrument de contrôle économique et social, peu innovante, incompatible avec les valeurs européennes.
🇺🇸 Le modèle américain : pas de dollar numérique public, mais un écosystème de stablecoins $ régulés, interopérables, bâtis sur des blockchains ouvertes, soutenus par la Fed. Un modèle décentralisé, compétitif, et déjà massivement adopté.
💥 Le résultat est sans appel :
Les stablecoins $ représentent 99,5 % du marché mondial (225 milliards $). Ils propulsent le dollar comme monnaie native de l’économie numérique.
🇪🇺 Et l’Europe ? Elle freine les stablecoins euro… tout en développant un euro numérique fermé et sans véritable potentiel à l’échelle mondiale.
🎯 Le risque ?
Un euro numérique version Dailymotion, pendant que le les stablecoins $ deviennent le YouTube de la monnaie mondiale.
Il faut être clair : une coexistence MNBC + stablecoins comme certains l'imaginent en Europe n’a aucune efficacité si l’un est promu et l’autre étouffé (comme c'est le cas avec la réglementation MiCA).
✅ Soit on choisit l’ouverture, l’innovation, la souveraineté monétaire européenne via des stablecoins euro sur blockchain publique.
❌ Soit on bascule dans un modèle fermé, inefficace, et à terme… hors-jeu.
L’heure est grave, mais il est encore temps de changer de cap pour que l'UE soit vraiment compétitive d'un point de vue monétaire et financier.
Les décideurs européens doivent faire un choix. Vite. Et le bon.
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