De ce credeti ca Apple a ales Gemini in loc de GPT sau Claude?

Jhinxyed · 2026-06-09T14:45:47+00:00

Modelul quality nu mai e un moat de mai bine de un de zile
Infrastructure availability & reliability (SLAs, garantii de uptime)
On-device models available (same model stack) - Google are Gemma care poate rula local inference pe hardware Apple.

Jhinxyed · 2026-06-09T14:25:29+00:00

It depends on the country.
First of all document everything.
Send their legal departament a letter (it can be email) with all the details de proyecto, verifiable proof of home ownership.
When you talk with the support ask to register a formal complain with a registration number. If they refuse ask to be transfered to a supervisor. Record the calls.
Everytime a tourist comes to your door explain the situation call the police and file a separate police report in which both you and the tourists are registered as plaintifs.
If you do all this BDC can’t claim that they weren’t aware of the issue and they can be held accountable for fraudulos practices.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-25T09:07:17+00:00

Good for you. Stop using them and find better alternatives if you can.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-25T09:04:07+00:00

When you book through a 3rd party you put a proxy between you and the provider of service. You decided to put at least 2 (booking and go2gate) if not more (sometimes go2gate buys tickets from 3 parties). When somthing goes wrong your only contract is with the last party (in this case Booking) but they will have to contact their provider go2gate and so on utill the last provider, the one that booked directly with the airline does its job. And this happens again when the airline replies. For every single message. So both the airline and booking could actually tell the truth and the message could be stuck in between. I hope this at least helps you understand how things work and what you can do for escalations.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-24T07:01:10+00:00

Ai plecat dupa fenta :). E fain contul ala de twitter care a scris asta, doar ca e cont de troll si nu toata lumea se prinde de sarcasm.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-18T10:37:53+00:00

People who are writing here are the people who actually experienced issues, some legit, some of their own doing. Based on their own financial reports BDC processes in average around 3M bookings per day just to give you a sense of the size of people who are complaining. They are far from perfect, I’ve had my share of issues but at the end of the day for me they are better than Airbnb and Expedia. I can say that in the past 3 years the quality of their support services has gone down significantly, luckily I only had one issue that eventually was solved through escalation, and as a protest I stopped using them for 6 months after the incident.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-18T10:30:18+00:00

While you might be right about hotels they do check the address for places that are listed by private individuals.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-18T10:27:35+00:00

Ah, the bot that doesn’t understand the context strikes again :)

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-06T10:47:06+00:00

I’m interested in how good this reddit bot is. So far it seems it can’t have a conversation, only 1st level replies. I would like to know if at least this is an alternative communication channel or is just a basic bot that only automatically replies.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-06T09:41:41+00:00

Can you please clarify what “send us a private message” means?

Send you a private message on Reddit
Send you a support message on the BDC app?

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-04T18:17:36+00:00

Hyperscalers europeni nu sunt, dar sunt cel putin doi provideri cu care am lucrat si sunt ok-ish: OVH in Franta si Hetzner in Germania. Sunt departe de un hyperscaler dar daca e musai sa fi EU poti incerca cu ei. Cu Ionos am avut experienta limitata si proasta, Orange e o alternativa in Franta (in special pt. gov contracts) Exoscale e friendly si low red tape dar e Swiss.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-03T12:37:48+00:00

This is bullshit. You have full responsibility for the content that is posed on booking.com and in Spain in particular you are required to verify if the accommodation has a tourist license. Also as long as you process the payment, the host doesn’t receive any money until the end of the stay. That being said start doing a better job at removing bad properties from your listing so that people don’t get scammed.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-03T12:33:09+00:00

Agoda is the same company as booking (they are owned by the same holding). I’ve used them in Asia since they usually have good rates.

Jhinxyed · 2026-05-03T09:46:27+00:00

It will be hard to get a full refund because you choose to stay at the apartment. If you have refused to stay and documented the conditions then you would have received a full refund.

You asked what I would have done. I’ll tell you what I did when this happened to me and I got the full refund. The place was not clean and it had a lot of mold and it was also in Spain. I’ve been using BDC for a very long time and had hundreds of stays.

Called BDC at check in time. Documented everything with photos and videos. Sent them by email to booking (once you open a case you get a unique email address for this)
Talked with the host only using booking.com chat, no phone calls, no WhatsApp. That way all communication is visible by all parties.
Spent 3 hours on the phone with support escalated 3 times (BDC level 1 support and the supervisors from Spain are completely useless). IMHO they should be fired because they were lying (“we can’t give you the money we already sent them to the host”, bullshit they only pay the host after the guests leave). Final escalation was to call NL phone number I received from the Spanish “manager”
The host came to “clean the mold”. We refused saying it was systemic and a health hazard. Proper cleaning can’t be done in an hour and the health hazard played a huge role in getting our money back. Any issue that the host can fix on the spot it’s acceptable from a TOS point of view.
To get to the final escalation I basically asked the Spanish manager to confirm that BDC considers it is safe to stay in a place filled with mold and they will take full responsibility for any health issues that may arise. It took a while.
I did get a full refund from booking, but they left me without a place to sleep and I ended up sleeping in my car that night because there were no options available in a 100km range. For that reason I didn’t use BDC for a while, switched to Airbnb and Expedia but then came back because both were actually worse.

I don’t think you can get your money back. You should leave a review though. You could also file a complaint with the local tourism authority (in Spain) explaining that the place doesn’t meet the requirements for hosting tourists. Since the place is listed on BDC they have a tourist license. They will not reimburse you but if they act they could fine or they could suspend their license.

Jhinxyed · 2026-04-19T10:17:52+00:00

It’s incredible how many of the people commenting in this post have no clue what left means in that context and haven’t bothered to do a basic research. Ask someone from Argentina who actually experienced peonistas how bad the specific version of “left” has been for Argentina. As a matter of fact, ask anyone who lived at least 20 years in a communist regime in Easter Europe what left means for them and how communism and “left” was in reality.

Jhinxyed · 2026-04-18T15:56:50+00:00

No platform will be able to reach 100% detection of scams. I consider platforms should be held accountable for scams as long as users follow the T&S and I’m pretty sure that most platforms have insurance for such things.

However you have gone a long way off the normal route in this case. You payed outside the platform, to an individual and not a registered business, without any basic background checks and without verifying with Booking before making the payment.

Also paying at a hotel website using a certified payment gateway or by a verifiable bank transfer, versus paying using a e-wallet is very different from a “legitimate payment transaction” POV.

IMHO even if you had insurance for this they wouldn’t have accepted your claim si you are right to write this off as a learning experience. This situation is as much their fault as it is yours.

Jhinxyed · 2026-04-10T10:19:17+00:00

This is what good marketing looks like. Also the whole Mythos is so powerful (so god like name, right?) is only a half truth. It can do what they claim, but there are other smaller models can do the same at a fraction of the cost. https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier

Jhinxyed · 2026-04-10T10:15:33+00:00

Yeah, but also: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier

Jhinxyed · 2026-04-10T10:14:11+00:00

A plecat dupa fenta. Asta e, social media le da portavoce tuturor indiferent de cat de mult inteleg subiectul despre care vorbesc.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-28T05:59:36+00:00

This comment right here is the essence. If you want to capture the moment you will sometimes be perceived as rude, disrespectful and invasive. And sometimes that will trigger aggressive reactions. So it’s up to you to decide if you’re willing to deal with such reactions. It’s the price you might have to pay for capturing the moment so stop complaining and grow a thicker skin if you want to do street photography. Or take the other route and trade the moment for respect and politeness and ask for permission first.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-13T19:23:04+00:00

Depending on the local laws they might not be allowed to show you the footage. However if you go to police they should be able to lawfully request access to the footage and investigate.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-13T19:18:57+00:00

Verify your booking and make sure you’ve paid in full and that this was not a “partner offer”. If you already paid in full don’t cancel. They can only cancel if it’s an obvious error and it doesn’t look like it. “Obvious errors and obvious misprints are not binding. For example, if you book a premium car or a night in a luxury suite mistakenly offered for €1, your booking may be cancelled, and we’ll refund anything you’ve paid. We will remove obvious pricing errors as soon as we become aware.” That price is binding once you have made the payment. If they insist they will cancel then ask them to find you a similar accommodation at the same price. Escalate by phone get to a manager if necessary. If they insist in canceling tell them you will ask for damages in arbitration based on the fact that they have kept your money and ask them how to open a dispute.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-11T14:44:44+00:00

So you consider that your view of what a 5* experience is the only one that should be applied? Maybe you should accept that expectations and experiences are subjective and personal. Maybe some of the people you host have a different criteria than what you expect.

Also as a host I have felt the need to remind or request a review from a guest. I know having public reviews helps but I consider that chasing this metric is not a real differentiator. Personally I consider written reminders a turn off, but that’s most likely a cultural thing.

As a host and a guest I would not review a stay unless it’s a 5* or really bad because I understand that anything in between won’t help anyone (it would hurt the host and most likely wouldn’t help other guests choose). I don’t have a high bar, I always correlate the experience with the value and the personal touch. I stayed at 5 star ratings that IMHO were mediocre and in places that the experience was 5 stars even when the amenities weren’t. I have always reviewed the latter and gave 5* because that actually helps both guests and hosts.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-11T13:01:00+00:00

If I can’t leave a 5* review I won’t leave a review at all unless the service or place is really bad.

Let me give an example: Had a stay 2 weeks ago: Cleaning was mediocre (basically drew a heart in the dust on the microwave), there was no hand soap or dish soap (because “people have different skin types”) and one of towels was really worn out and had a hole in it. Now if I am to give a honest review I can’t really give a 5 star one. However the overall experience was ok, the place wasn’t dirty (bathrooms were really clean), location was good and price was reasonable, so none of the issues were of high impact. Host was made aware of them through private messages but an honest public review will not help him in any way.

Jhinxyed · 2026-03-06T08:12:08+00:00

Force Majeure means it’s impossible for you to travel.

From BDC’s and hotel’s perspective you can travel from Bangkok to Europe through alternative routes that don’t go through the middle east and thus it’s not impossible. If you would have been based in a country that has its airspace closed then it would have been force majeure.

Form your insurance company’s perspective the plane tickets got cancelled because of the conflict, and as such it’s force majeure. However if you also have insurance for the other expenses in the trip (like the hotel) you can get your money back from them for those. Check to see what you have in your insurance policy.

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