João Santos

https://social.jsantos.eu/@jmcs

#Software Engineer/Senior Hacky Code Duct-tapper

Based in #Berlin 🇩🇪, but posting mostly in #English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and #Portuguese 🇵🇹.

I usually post/boost about #opensource, #Technology, #GreenPolitics, #EuPolitics, #EuropeanUnion, #Environment

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2026-04-05 08:16:41 UTC

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Amazon always tried to make the AWS data centers as "invisible" as possible for security reasons - there are relatively few pictures of AWS DCs online for this reason. I imagine they would just redouble the efforts when the photos can be used to improve targeting of ongoing attacks.

2026-04-04 18:05:39 UTC

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it's Youtube, there's an option to hear the original French if you look for it.

2026-04-04 07:29:35 UTC

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you are being way to generous to the children killing button. Even separating the author and the work it's still a treaty on why the author thinks reforming society to address systemic inequality (including literal slavery) is not actually that important.

2026-04-02 15:38:15 UTC

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they won't. They will announce HL3 exclusively on Linux though.

2026-04-02 14:29:42 UTC

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116330846560141150
Finally an AI that I can confidently endorse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2026_Rubber-Ducking-Avian-Intelligence/
#RubberDuck
#note1sas…f0p2

2026-04-02 09:07:53 UTC

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that was given with private healthcare. But the public health spending in the US being ~15% of the GDP vs ~5% to ~10% in most EU countries, is completely bonkers. For that level of spending, not only should healthcare be free for patients, but hospitals should feel like 5 stars hotels.

2026-04-02 08:00:19 UTC

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In 2026 the US spends an higher percentage of the government budget in healthcare expenses than almost every single European country. If the US had universal healthcare, there would be _more_ money for bombs (or secondary things, like, say, housing), but the some plutocrats would need to forego their 5th yacht.

2026-04-01 14:34:13 UTC

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worse he said "the new Iranian president" asked for a ceasefire. The pro-US media is scrambling to find out if he means the new supreme leader, some puppet he wants to replace the current regime, or if he got confused by Pezeshkian's press release after the call with António Costa, which mentions the will to end the war, provided there are security guarantees. My money is in made it up. Again.

2026-04-01 07:33:01 UTC

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stocks are going up, oil and other commodities are going down, and I strongly suspect there are lots of institutional investors that aren't shrewd as they think they are

2026-04-01 05:39:50 UTC

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It's a crime on its own that the investigators aren't releasing recordings of their faces when she claimed that random hackers were transferring money from her former boss's account to her account, for reasons.

2026-03-31 19:20:02 UTC

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Skrillex is 40. While I appreciate the sentiment that a 40 year old is young, that's pushing "young generation" a bit.

2026-03-30 15:57:04 UTC

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I did my interview for my current job by video call way before the pandemic, and as an interviewer most were online too. At some point we started bringing people already in the EU in for the second round but for people outside of the EU it was not worth the paperwork let alone the plane tickets just for an interview.

2026-03-30 12:03:23 UTC

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I would like to say a) but I've playlists composed entirely of covers of the same song.

2026-03-30 12:00:33 UTC

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For tech companies it's pretty normal to interview people that are not even in the same continent as the job position. On top of the costs, it would be a bureaucratic nightmare to deal with visas in some cases. So it makes sense to conduct at least the first rounds online.
The downside is that we are probably going to see an uptick on people being fired on the second month in the job.

2026-03-29 11:13:36 UTC

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that sounds the kind of request that can be answered with a price quote with several 0s.

2026-03-27 18:16:31 UTC

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oh crap, I didn't know that was a contagious condition.

2026-03-26 07:19:02 UTC

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but don't you find the story about a mediocre dude seeing first hand the consequences of legalised slavery, racial segregation, and other atrocities, and then deciding to become a cop enforcing those rules inspiring? /s

2026-03-23 15:57:57 UTC

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ironically in this context, I think the Gen-AI bubble will lead to Processing-in-Memory being standardised and available everywhere.

2026-03-21 08:30:18 UTC

Unpopular Opinion: if the the categories are broad enough, and the system just accepts what the user inputs without question, then having an API apps can use to control access for minors is the least bad solution to the problem. We need to have standard for parental controls, and I rather have them controlled locally rather than having to send private info to a service like most EU countries are going to demand.
#ageverification #technology

2026-03-17 15:06:06 UTC

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that was also my immediate thought, even some of the example Nvidia gave for DLSS 5 are very close to the edits that the "mansphere" losers keep doing to video game and movie characters.
But hey, Aloy gets botox and lipstick, so progress, right? /s

2026-03-17 08:54:55 UTC

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there's lots of bad legal advice online, but there are also factors, like the existence of hundreds of different jurisdictions, and lots of nuances on each of them, and real life situations had complexity on top of it. You need to be able to *understand* things to navigate it even at a basic level, and LLMs aren't actually intelligent, so they will predictably fail on anything that's not 100% trivial.

2026-03-17 07:56:56 UTC

Apparently #Kagi Translate is the most sloptastic (and accidentally hilarious) use of LLMs yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703
#AI #slop #llm #tech

2026-03-16 16:55:14 UTC

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I think this far beyond the point it can be justified with incompetence on their part. People will complain less about the developer registration if most 3rd party "app stores" implode before it's rolled out.

2026-03-14 10:50:46 UTC

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2026-03-14 10:02:29 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/china-ethnic-unity-law-parliament
Four legs good, two legs better! And no farm is a proper farm without a bit of genocide on the side.
#politics #China

2026-03-06 15:09:29 UTC

Eu apanhei o discurso do Montegro a meio. Quando ele fala de um país com violações de direitos humanos e que ataca outros países de forma indiscriminada, estava a falar do Irão ou dos Estados Unidos?

2026-03-02 15:43:49 UTC

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the main limitation here would be practical. How would they support age verification in every single country in the world and keep it updated at all times?

2026-03-02 11:48:24 UTC

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in most countries you can also deduct expenses you have with your work from the income tax.

2026-03-02 10:01:25 UTC

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sales taxes and VAT are tied to revenue (even though in the case of VAT it's paid by the customer on paper the end effect is the same)

2026-03-01 19:19:27 UTC

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time to geoblock the US.

2026-03-01 17:38:02 UTC

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Hashtag "Autos statt Menschen"?

2026-02-26 06:29:45 UTC

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I'm pretty sure there's a free picture of a parrot making a huge mess while eating somewhere on the internet.

2026-02-25 18:22:05 UTC

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if they trained it on Wargames it wouldn't be this stupid.

2026-02-20 20:16:48 UTC

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lack of hyperlinks, which means some man pages are either excessively verbose or miss important context.

2026-02-20 18:58:50 UTC

Using "AI" for DevOps should be called SlOps.
#devops #ai #programming

2026-02-20 18:57:49 UTC

Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws
No further comment required.
#tech #ai #llm #sre #reliability

2026-02-20 12:59:34 UTC

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if it's a know risk it needs to be mitigated.

2026-02-17 21:09:01 UTC

Morge your featues continvoucly in Microslop Github https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow
Because there's no human made graph explaining gitflow in the entirety of the Internet.
#slop #ai #Microsoft #Microslop #tech #programming

2026-02-13 13:44:10 UTC

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is that a challenge?

2026-02-13 07:47:20 UTC

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exactly, if law looked only at the content in disk and didn't consider intent then things would become silly very fast. An encrypted copy of Disney's latest movie also doesn't contain the movie by itself, and that never stopped Disney lawyers.

2026-02-12 16:57:24 UTC

Eu sabia que a tempestade era a Marta. Ainda não sabia que o governo era a OK Teleseguro: https://sicnoticias.pt/meteorologia/2026-02-12-video-governo-corta-apoios-as-vitimas-da-tempestade-kristin-com-dividas-fiscais-acea4214
#Portugal #politica

2026-02-09 17:11:10 UTC

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slophub had 6 incidents today - which means they are on track to have a worse month than January which was already atrocious - but git operations were supposed to be working again. Did they broke already?

2026-02-09 08:36:18 UTC

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I was positively surprised by the first round. I always expected the initial favourite Gouveia e Melo to tank once the campaign started, but I thought media favourite Marques Mendes would get to the second round easily, since he had been preparing the public narrative for 10 years now. Ventura was always going to lose the 2nd round. He has a dedicated cult around hum that always show up, but has a massive rejection rate in the rest of the population.

2026-02-09 08:27:18 UTC

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I'm happy with the result but really disappointed with some emigrant communities. Ventura got an overwhelming majority among Portuguese emigrants in countries like Switzerland (71%) and France (64%), and the "we are better than Nepalese immigrants in Portugal" and "we somehow got it harder despite other European countries rolling a red carpet for us" speeches make my blood boil.

2026-02-08 08:44:18 UTC

Caros compatriotas, a democracia não se faz de previsões ou intenções, mas sim de atos concretos de soberania popular. Por isso apelo-vos, ignorem as sondagens e assumam o vosso papel no futuro da República. Não brexitem esta merda.
#Presidenciais2026 #Portugal #Politica

2026-01-28 14:00:21 UTC

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I'm putting 5 euros on the security review being done by a Gemini agent.

2026-01-28 08:32:49 UTC

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everyone knows that "temporary" is always a lie.

2026-01-28 07:41:13 UTC

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Nominative determinism strikes again.

2026-01-27 19:27:40 UTC

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Infantino is the corollary to the "it can always be worse" rule.

2026-01-27 12:43:54 UTC

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some people bought into the idea that Apple is a benevolent cult instead of being the same Orphan Crushing Machine as the rest of big tech. The iPope showing up for the newest propaganda event causes them some cognitive dissonance.

2026-01-27 08:24:58 UTC

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> Tariff cuts on 96.6% of EU goods, saving **Indian citizens and businesses** €4 billion every year
Please don't use Trumpisms on your communication

2026-01-26 11:52:34 UTC

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6% of the revenue fine for producing CSAM and other non-consensual sexual images sound less than a slap in the wrist. That's almost in the same ballpark as littering fines for the average citizen is some countries.

2026-01-26 06:37:52 UTC

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já está confirmado que vão usar ATProto como o Bluesky: https://atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/, o que na prática os deixa dependentes de infraestrutura americana (https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/)

2026-01-24 17:16:39 UTC

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Ouvi dizer que presidente dos estados unidos anda à procura de pinguins na Gronelândia.

2026-01-24 17:15:37 UTC

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o bluesky também é "federado". Não exactamente como o Mastodon, porque na prática tudo depende do Relay do bluesky mas permite interação entre o que eles chamadam PDSs (https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture)

2026-01-24 17:09:19 UTC

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2026-01-23 13:27:55 UTC

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that would be more like a distributed/federated DMOZ. From a protocol level it's almost a subset of Lemmy or Piefed, so it sounds doable.

2026-01-22 18:09:28 UTC

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paraphrasing Luke Skywalker, amazing, every word of what they said was wrong.

2026-01-22 18:03:09 UTC

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Good tsar, bad boyars. The Republican Party is really russified to the core.

2026-01-21 12:04:59 UTC

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I'm still waiting for the American Radical Centrists take once they realize that Carney's speech in Davos means that even other western centrists wrote them off as a lost cause.

2026-01-21 07:57:07 UTC

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it might not be much easier than package dependencies. Since the files might go into different partitions, it's not trivial to know if you have enough space.
For most installations checking the `/` partition would be enough, but then apt should have some heuristics to avoid guessing when the partition setup is more complicated than usual.

2026-01-18 12:05:44 UTC

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you can buy most music DRM-free in a few places. Some, like Qobuz, often have better-than-CD quality DRM-free too.

2026-01-18 12:01:27 UTC

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they could at least start by prosecuting the one producing CSAM and other SA content. The issue, is that regarding the US, EU politicians' single hammer is appeasement.

2026-01-16 12:25:09 UTC

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I think Google Docs actually makes a good job at promoting this. In my opinion, the MS Word UI is too noisy, and probably "scares" more users that way.
I also wish there were more standardised sections. For example, I can't imagine code examples on a technical document will sound pleasant on a screen reader.

2026-01-16 07:42:13 UTC

Os fachos do costume têm de cumprir a lei.
Este toot foi patrocinado pelo Artigo 307° do Código Penal.
#Presidenciais #Portugal #politica

2026-01-13 12:34:15 UTC

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provavelmente esqueceram-se de pagar a avença à Spinumviva. É uma distração muito comum.

2026-01-13 10:04:46 UTC

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não sou tão pessimista. Os franceses são muito mais tolerantes a agressões de natureza sexual, e a carreira política do Dominique Strauss-Kahn implodiu com uma acusação.

2026-01-12 10:44:55 UTC

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if the keypad and keys were on the left it would be a left-handed keyboard.
It still looks perfect for right-to-left languages.

2026-01-12 06:58:22 UTC

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somehow I'm not seeing the Portuguese government kicking the US out of Azores. No only is the current executive full of sycophantic Ameriboos, a big part of economy of Terceira Island is reliant on the Lajes Airbase and despite the US threatening to leave several times in the last 20 years, nothing was done to remove or reduce that dependency.

2026-01-11 10:26:07 UTC

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Kidnap, Sanction, Prop-up is the spin-off of Fuck, Marry, Kill for world leaders.

2026-01-10 13:28:52 UTC

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what do you consider AI? Features like translation are something completely different from something that does bad summaries of web pages.

2026-01-08 13:32:19 UTC

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why not something like https://anubis.techaro.lol/ with an high difficulty?

2026-01-03 11:50:52 UTC

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I assume those are people that are not old enough to remember Bush.

2026-01-03 11:05:00 UTC

To all the Americans that are making their country's latest criminal coup all about themselves and how bad it is for the US, Americans, and American tax payers: you are as much a part of the problem as Trump and his supporters. Be better.
#US #Venezuela #War #politics

2026-01-03 10:16:04 UTC

The US is a criminal state. And if European politicians weren't such a bunch of weak sycophants Trump would wake up to the "hugest" sanctions in history.

2025-12-31 11:21:34 UTC

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this is an ad against trying to solve problems caused by the torment nexus by implementing an open source torment nexus.

2025-12-22 17:45:53 UTC

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AI doesn't mean anything anymore.
It's almost an universal law that, when marketing discovers a term, it soon loses all meaning.

2025-12-20 08:29:46 UTC

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The link is broken. I assume you meant https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=COM:2025:797:FIN ?

2025-12-18 15:51:43 UTC

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ethics in general in Philosophy in High School, professional deontology in my Bachelors. The latter was basically just listing the basic principles without enough time to discuss what they actually mean in practice.

2025-12-17 13:52:15 UTC

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sendo caridoso pode ser uma versão de "quando os serviços públicos só são usados pelos mais pobres tendem a ser subfinanciados", mas isso é um argumento contra toda a política deste governo e a favor da limitação da oferta privada.

2025-12-11 11:58:56 UTC

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Fraktur was banned in Germany by their spiritual forefather, so that was out.

2025-12-11 06:37:38 UTC

Sans Serif is #woke and satire is dead. https://www.dw.com/en/us-rubio-restores-times-new-roman-over-wasteful-calibri/a-75100367
#uspolitics #idiocracy #typography

2025-12-10 16:50:57 UTC

The only kind of app yearly review I want.
#privacy #antennapod #android #podcast #android
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjsantoseu/media_attachments/files/115/696/287/876/434/192/original/d97ab761d2da137c.jpg

2025-12-09 10:01:23 UTC

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the zip drive takes it from no-distractions work to high-risk gambling.

2025-12-09 07:13:12 UTC

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I've heard cases on social media where local beekeepers removed a beehive from a residence for free. I would try to find any local beekeeper hobbyist group and see if anyone wants a new beehive.

2025-12-08 17:56:11 UTC

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li o artigo do The Economist. A ideia base é que Portugal é o melhor país ocidental para ser rico neste momento.

2025-12-08 12:05:43 UTC

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around 12, more if there are holidays, but that probably cancels out for the days I have something planned.

2025-12-08 09:21:59 UTC

RE: https://social.jsantos.eu/@jmcs/114573339587607929
Some posts are evergreen.
#SaaS #productGraveyard #tech
#note1ad7…5uhr

2025-12-07 11:10:56 UTC

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IMO `img`'s child should have been the alt text. That way missing accessibility would look visibly wrong.

2025-12-04 11:51:20 UTC

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Vibe coders, vibe coding on a vibe coded vibe coding IDE, are not vibed that the vibe coded vibe coding IDE is a vibe coded buggy mess without guardrails.

2025-11-28 22:27:33 UTC

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that explains it

2025-11-28 06:50:56 UTC

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if the dynamics end up being the same as in TikTok (i.e. people disproportionately using a few popular choices) then "Reverb" describes the end result better.
"Jukebox" makes a bit more sense from perspective of the person posting.
If you are willing to consider other options, the name that popped up first on my mind after reading the 4 choices given was "Chorus".

2025-11-25 09:09:07 UTC

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and I assume it's much worse on a code base with 40 years of tech debt and different styles in some points.

2025-11-25 08:01:39 UTC

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Purism and Framework are the final proof that the entire Californian tech ecosystem is a gigantic nazi bar.

2025-11-25 07:54:51 UTC

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if you count hosting services like masto.host it's not that weird for people that want more control over their online presence.

2025-11-20 08:49:30 UTC

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Acho que é este: https://planapp.gov.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLANAPP-Estudo-SmartphonesEscolas.pdf

2025-11-18 15:08:54 UTC

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Há algumas alternativas (fastly, akamai, e as grandes platformas cloud como AWS, Azure, e GCP) mas a Cloudflare tem reputação de ter a melhor integração dos vários serviços que oferece num único produto.

2025-11-17 13:30:14 UTC

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I wonder how much of that is learned vs innate. A famous case of a mixed-hand person is Rafael Nadal, who is left-handed while playing tennis but right-handed otherwise, and in his case it was deliberate choice, since left-handed tennis players have a statistical advantage. Eating would be another case where it can be learned - anyone that follows European style fork-and-knife etiquette will be more proficient using the fork with their left hand.

2025-11-12 20:42:13 UTC

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just check any of the "let's rewrite curl in rust" discussions.

2025-11-12 19:54:04 UTC

https://itsfoss.com/news/sudo-rs-issue-ubuntu/
It seems that, despite all the rust cult's assurances, real applications can have bugs that are not memory management related.
And that maybe replacing a time tested solution with a rush job to prevent one category of bugs is not such a great idea.
#rust #security #tech #Linux #ubuntu