nexoft

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.

[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.

maybe he is using tor on top of it

who knows

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

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.

  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'

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.

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: [email protected]

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

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.

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.