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by pcardoso 6d ago
Even some updates will trigger the acceptance screen from time to time, with a second scare confirmation shown when I reject. If my wife or kids were shown that screen when I’m not around they would accept it.
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by pcardoso 2mo ago
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a non-fiction book about this, I think it is called Voice Across the Sea. I read it many years ago and found it very good.
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by pcardoso 4mo ago
If Meta refuses to back down and removes news from the feed, could that actually be a net positive? It might push people to visit newspaper sites or apps deliberately, rather than stumbling across news passively and mistaking that for being
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by pcardoso 4mo ago
As a father of 3, I’m kind of guilty of that prejudice myself. It is not towards Brazilians themselves, which I frankly respect, but because of the low quality stuff my kids are exposed to on the internet. You just can’t avoid it and of hav
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by pcardoso 4mo ago
There are plans for interoperability between the various European payment apps. My local app (MB Way, PT) can be used to send money to Spain and Italy. Others will follow. https://www.mbway.pt/a-interoperabilidade-e-o-futuro
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by pcardoso 5mo ago
Reminds me of Carl Sagan’s Contact, where Haden, the millionaire funding Ellie’s work, made a TV ad blocker and then sued the TV companies when they refused to play ads for his product. I wonder if that is what will happen next.
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by pcardoso 6mo ago
Just like Val Kilmer? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/18/val-kilmer-resu... RIP both...
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by pcardoso 8mo ago
I tend to hoard things sometimes: links, notes, screenshots with useful tidbits, scraps of paper with notes… One of the things I keep is the list of stuff I did during the day for when the standup call comes. Sometimes I forgot of mention a
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by pcardoso 10mo ago
Stories as in Instagram Stories, Youtube Shorts, whatever they are called in all platforms. Short video or video-like content.
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by pcardoso 10mo ago
Short videos, stories, etc. I refuse getting addicted to them. Terrifying watching everyone around me consuming the stuff like we are in a crack house.
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by pcardoso 11mo ago
Congratulations on shipping. I had a similar idea a while ago after noticing a company at beach using multiple stop-watches to keep track of people renting kayaks and jetskis.
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by pcardoso 11mo ago
Close, it was actually portuguese missionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet
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by pcardoso 1y ago
I'm getting used to Linux again after 20+ years of Mac OS. First, just using more cross-platform software on my Mac. Ditched Safari for Firefox; replaced my MacOS-only password manager; using iMessage less. Bought the cheapest Framewor
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by pcardoso 1y ago
I think video is not really required in a baby monitor. A nice to have, perhaps. As I said in another thread, I used a audio-only baby monitor with 3 kids and didn't feel the need for video. We just wanted to know if the baby started c
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Congratulations on this project, excellent idea. I sometimes used a FaceTime call between an iPad and my phone as a make shift baby monitor. Audio only, I don’t think video is really necessary. In fact, our Angelcare monitor at home was aud
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Two side projects, as if 3 kids are not enough! - a booking platform for surfing schools - a tool for pelvic physiotherapy practitioners handle appointments and exercise prescriptions Doing backend and frontend for both, but there is a smal
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by pcardoso 1y ago
So, they reinvented Do Not Track? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
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The narco-subs that cross oceans carrying pounds of cocaine(theguardian.com)
5 points by pcardoso 1y ago|0 comments
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by pcardoso 1y ago
And for me it was where it was the smoothest. But it even worked in Safari, albeit a bit slowly.
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Where I live in Portugal glass eels are a seasonal delicacy (galeota/meixão). There is much confusion about the nature of this fish, as the same name is reused across the country, but I believe it is glass eel. I don't like it and
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Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse (2009)(theguardian.com)
31 points by pcardoso 1y ago|5 comments
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Fastmail?
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Also the name of a song by Ludovico Einaudi, quite popular. At least to me it was the first thing I thought when I saw this post.
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Songs of Distant Earth by Clarke also mentions this.
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by pcardoso 1y ago
yes, this one!
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by pcardoso 1y ago
I have one of these, sitting in a box since I bought it for peanuts many years ago (sold as a 48K). I like it but, due to lack of time and expertise to take care of it, I have been debating whether to keep or donate all my old machines the
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by pcardoso 1y ago
Don’t forget the JWST was launched by an Arianne rocket…
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by pcardoso 1y ago
I once wrote a script to change my password randomly X times and then back to my original password. Worked like a charm.
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by pcardoso 1y ago
There are now plenty of other high-quality BEV to choose from. And Tesla had an edge but it has been eroding with some idiotic decisions (like the no stalks model 3) and Elon's recent behavior completely destroyed the brand to those mo
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by pcardoso 1y ago
I agree. And between these practices, ads everywhere for services such as Apple TV+, Music, iCloud storage, etc and some feeling that software quality is declining and focused on fluff (emojis, etc) I have decided to start looking around fo

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