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per_sonne

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Turbo Dude; Ubuntu Lover, Floss Advocate, Trainer.

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per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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My Mastodon is on fire with the Slack stuff today. Which begs the question: is money and the pursuit of insane amounts of money the ONLY thing that matters to us as a civilization? I'm pessimistic and becoming more so as time goes by. Humanity sucks. Levi-Strauss is waiting for me in Hell, so we can rant about it when I die with a sigh of relief.

paulasimoes, to random Portuguese
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Dirigentes demitidos por falhas “críticas à operação da AMA”

https://www.dn.pt/1996263505/dirigentes-demitidos-por-falhas-criticas-a-operacao-da-ama/

per_sonne,
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@paulasimoes ...vêm aí novos contractos com empresas amigas e era preciso tirar os empecilhos...?

paulasimoes, to random Portuguese
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2024 e ainda se lêem coisas como a da imagem.

Câmara apresenta queixa contra comerciante do Bolhão por ofensas

https://www.jn.pt/683801333/camara-apresenta-queixa-contra-comerciante-do-bolhao-por-ofensas/

per_sonne,
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@paulasimoes Já agora, outro sintoma da mesma mentalidade herdada da ditadura:

"O PSD vai fazer contas aos custos das propostas com impacto orçamental significativo aprovadas na generalidade, "à revelia" do Governo. O anúncio foi feito pelo deputado social-democrata Hugo Carneiro, durante a reunião desta quarta-feira da Comissão de Orçamento e Finanças no Parlamento. Ao PÚBLICO, o social-democrata diz que a publicação destas contas deverá ser feita no site do partido "muito em breve". Em cima da mesa está ainda a contabilização do "número de horas" que os membros do Governo passam no Parlamento, a pedido dos partidos, revela Hugo Carneiro."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/05/08/politica/noticia/psd-vai-contar-custos-propostas-oposicao-horas-ministros-passam-parlamento-2089711

per_sonne,
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@paulasimoes Agora fiquei com vontade de ler os e-mails. Qual é a parte da responsabilidade PÚBLICA e de serviço PÚBLICO que as instituições PÚBLICAS ainda não perceberam? A Democracia é uma chatice, os cidadãos estão sempre a importunar. Se ao menos tivéssemos uma "democracia" mais musculada, em que o Presidente do Conselho decidisse em conjunto com as grandes empresas corporativas, não tínhamos de aturar o empecilho que são os cidadãos de um país. Quem é que os cidadãos julgam que são, para acharem que têm direitos? Milionários?

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    per_sonne,
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    @DrALJONES something something the only democracy in the middle east something something

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    Quando eu estava desempregado era muito mais fácil preencher a porcaria do IRS. Agora é uma confusão de vários contratos, recibos verdes, segurança social, anexos A, B, H, deduções à colecta... É preciso um doutoramento para perceber as alíneas todas. Não admira que os mais ricos sejam peritos em evasão fiscal, com contabilistas dedicados pagos a peso de ouro.

    popey, (edited ) to random
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    Tomorrow, I'll be up early to take number one Son to photograph cars. I'll take the laptop. 💻

    Which of these activities should I do while I wait with my coffee for him to finish? 🤔

    per_sonne,
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    @popey
    "I have written code over the years. Starting with BASIC on the Sinclair ZX81 and Sinclair Spectrum, I wrote stuff for fun and no financial gain. I also coded in Z80 & 6502 assembler, taught myself Pascal on my Epson 8086 PC in 1990, then QuickBasic and years later, BlitzBasic, Lua (via LÖVE) and more.
    In the workplace, I wrote some alarmingly complex utilities in Windows batch scripts and later Bash shell scripts on Linux. In a past career, I would write ABAP in SAP - which turned into an internal product mildly amusingly called “Alan’s Tool”."

    You know more code than I do [my level is: zero. Never ever wrote code anywhere], so yes, you're a developer. If you know how to bake bread, and you do it for a living, you're a baker.
    You develop; you're a developer. Congrats!

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    https://blog.nuneshiggs.com/codigo-aberto-e-liberdade/
    "Assim como os portugueses celebram o 25 de abril como O marco da Libertação, os utilizadores do opensource celebram cada linha de código como um pequeno ato de resistência contra a opressão digital. Porque, no final das contas, a verdadeira revolução não é aquela que acontece nas ruas, mas sim aquela que acontece nas mentes e nos corações das pessoas.

    Enquanto os cravos continuarem a florescer, o espírito de liberdade que os inspirou continuará a arder vivo. E enquanto o opensource continuar a prosperar, a chama da liberdade digital continuará a queimar brilhantemente, iluminando o caminho para um futuro onde a tecnologia serve à humanidade, e não o contrário."

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    50th anniversary of the 25th April ("The Carnation Revolution") lots and lots of pictures, videos and testimonies of friends who attended the parades all over the country, but most especially Lisbon, which was absolutely massive by all accounts. They all report perhaps one of the largest demonstrations yet, with lots of young people and an overwhelming feeling of absolute, stubborn pure defiant JOY.
    I don't think I can convey this as eloquently as I would like to, to my foreign friends over here...it's just...heartwarming. Despite all the obstacles, despite the massive funding of the far right, despite the cosy support they seem to enjoy in the media and social networks, despite all the loud noise they make seeding hatred and flaming cultural wars for the benefit of a few; today a wide river of red carnations rumbled powerfully through the country, like a dormant volcano of equality, fraternity and Freedom, roaring beneath our feet.
    There is yet Hope.

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

    "But it's totally different when you build your product under an open source license, foster a community of users who then build their own businesses on top of that software, then yoink the license when your revenue is affected.
    That's called a bait-and-switch."

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

    "Zitron tells the story of a boardroom struggle over search quality, in which Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

    Zitron contrasts the background of these two figures. Gomes, the hero, worked at Google for 19 years, solving fantastically hard technical scaling problems and eventually becoming the company's "search czar." Raghavan, the villain, "failed upwards" through his career, including a stint as Yahoo's head of search from 2005-12, a presiding over the collapse of Yahoo's search business. Under Raghavan's leadership, Yahoo's search market-share fell from 30.4% to 14%, and in the end, Yahoo jettisoned its search altogether and replaced it with Bing."

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    12 de Abril de 1961: subiu aos céus o filho de um humilde carpinteiro, aos ombros da ciência e tecnologia e graças ao esforço colectivo de gerações de professores, engenheiros, pilotos, cientistas, operários, artesãos, físicos e matemáticos: Yuri Gagarine - primeiro ser humano no Espaço.

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    Cool stuff.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/11/fairphone-fairbuds-review-ethically-made-earbuds-with-replaceable-batteries

    gerrymcgovern, to random
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    In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce pubic water was a “trade secret”.

    per_sonne,
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    @gerrymcgovern This is how fascism starts. And no, it's not an exaggeration; check the role of Krupps, BMW, Volkswagen, Bayer, and Commerzbank, for example, in supporting and having secret agreements with the German government during the 1930's and all the way to 1945. If private companies can operate in secret, evading public scrutiny on deals involving public property and consequences for the general public, then...you don't have a democracy anymore.

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    Quick reminder that the XZ backdoor discovery and patching would take a lot longer and make many more victims along the way, if the code was proprietary and closed-source.

    • slapping the laptop with an open hand *
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    O novo Cartão de Cidadão vem “tornar mais leves as complexidades do mundo actual".

    Em breve, a tua identidade pode ficar associada aos transportes públicos em que andaste e aos espectáculos e eventos a que foste.

    Diz-nos, que mais coisas queremos associadas ao CC? 🙄 (apenas respostas erradas)

    https://youtu.be/S3mVFa-s8xc?si=8DC8jfh1Pxteikot

    per_sonne,
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    @d3 E precisamente no momento em que a extrema-direita se prepara para alargar o seu controlo do Parlamento Europeu e de vários Parlamentos nacionais.
    O que é que pode correr mal, am I right?

    per_sonne,
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    @d3 E já agora, videovigilância por todo o lado + IA:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

    Isto tem tuuuudo para correr bem.

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    "This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive"

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    WOW. Worth a read! https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked/

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    A assistir à Angola Open Source Fest; questões MUITO interessantes do público relativamente à legislação Angolana sobre software e direitos autorais no universo do Software Livre, com Elisabete Sá Cardoso. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xIj5SZRPe8

    per_sonne, to random
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    The European Commission refuses to attend sessions to debate their ChatControl proposal. How very democratic. Are we heading towards a Chinese-style internet in the EU? What will happen when environmental activists have their communications monitored under the guise of these laws, for example? What will happen to LGBTQA+ people and opposition parties when Viktor Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary will be able to monitor and target their private communications? Is anyone even considering the implications? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?event=20231023-1230-SPECIAL-OTHER

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    Isto é provavelmente uma das piores coisas que já vi em termos de violação de privacidade e direitos digitais; diria mesmo, de direitos humanos. Quanto mais leio, mais chocado fico. Isto não é ilegal, como? Miúdos vigiados o dia todo, monitorizados por GPS e com câmara e microfone que podem ser activados à distância para escutar as suas conversas privadas (e as conversas de outrém). Já era mau o suficiente esta opção de reduzir a autonomia dos miúdos, sempre de cordão umbilical do telefone ligado aos pais-helicóptero, treinados para normalizar o capitalismo de vigilância...isto é abuso normalizado.

    https://www.savefamilygps.com/pt/relogios/relogios-savefamily-adolescentes/savewatch-plus/

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    "When Molly*, 35, was growing up, she remembers the message of “work hard and you’ll get rewarded” being drilled into her by parents and schoolteachers. As a result, she spent her early career putting in the hours.

    But when she had a child and sought a flexible work pattern at her professional services job, the company denied her request. “I was replaceable,” she says. “I was very much a cog in the machine.”

    That prompted a realisation that the long hours she’d put in – arriving early, staying late, working outside her brief, going “above and beyond” – would not be rewarded."

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/26/it-felt-futile-young-britons-swap-career-driven-lives-for-family-and-fun

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    A @_anacom_ cria um portal (tem.rede) para verificar a cobertura de rede dos diferentes operadores.

    1 - É feita com ArcGIS proprietário do monopólio ESRI (arrepios);

    2 - A estrutura por trás é Microsoft Azure (mais arrepios);

    3 - Não funciona para o público, porque alguém se esqueceu de retirar o painel das credenciais de gestão do portal.

    Brilhante.

    https://www.anacom-consumidor.pt/-/-tem-rede-a-sua-aplicacao-para-verificar-a-cobertura-das-redes-moveis

    per_sonne, to random Portuguese
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    A Ciberlândia é a instância mais fofinha do Mastodon.

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