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US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel
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I have been thinking and reading quite a bit about Free Our Feeds, a campaign to “save social media from billionaire capture”.
#opensocial #SocialMedia #fediverse #activitypub #bluesky #Mastodon #freeourfeeds
on Fri, 3PM
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TCL's bet on screens that look like paper
7 9
Since 2021, TCL has been investing in an intriguing screen technology called NXTPAPER: an LCD panel that attempts to simulate paper to be less harsh on human...
on Wed, 1PM
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Read.cv and Posts sold to Perplexity; will be closed soon
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This Friday (17th), the Read.cv platform announced that it was acquired by Perplexity, an AI startup, and it will cease operations.
20h ago
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Tem uma galera descobrindo o Pixelfed, a alt… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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Tem uma galera descobrindo o Pixelfed, a alternativa ao Instagram no ActivityPub. O bom de não tirar fotos é que precis…
on Tue, 6PM
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Meta's moderation policy dismantling will hurt, but it can be good in the long run
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Meta’s announcement on Tuesday (7th) that, among other actions, it will end partnerships with fact-checking agencies in the US, replacing them with “communit...
on Jan 10
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Quando um canal no YouTube começa… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 25
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Ele pegou as chaves, notando que a barriga… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 18
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Sabido que reli a carta, antes e… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 11
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Somadas umas coisas e outras, qualquer… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 11
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Era um simples gracejo; disse-o, todavia… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 11
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O transplante de vasos foi um sucesso | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 10
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Ter pouca roupa nunca foi problema para mim… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 10
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Crime contra a incerteza do resultado esportivo | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Nov 5
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Passei os últimos dois dias estabelecendo… | rodrigo.ghed.in
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O jardim digital de Rodrigo Ghedin
on Oct 30
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Omnivore acquired by ElevenLabs AI startup
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Omnivore, the popular free read-it-later app, has been acquired by ElevenLabs, an AI startup focused on audio.
on Oct 29
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How to make an Amazon-free Kindle
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Even I, who prefer paper books, can’t deny the perks of e-readers like the Kindle—and, well, just the Kindle. In Brazil, you can pick any e-reader you want, ...
on Oct 17
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Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
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Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder and CEO of Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, made some strong criticisms of WP Engine, a WordPress-fo...
on Sep 22
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CSS: text-wrap para equilibrar títulos
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Tem tanta coisa possível no CSS hoje que já considero uma “obra aberta” — impossível conhecer tudo, sempre nos presenteando com pequenas pérolas.
on Sep 12
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Quando estou andando na rua e cruzo com…
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Quando estou andando na rua e cruzo com alguém, tento fazer a gentileza de dizer “bom dia”. Notei que isso é fácil com pessoas mais velhas. Ou talvez eu sint...
on Sep 12
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We notice that Twitter (or X), which is now blocked here in Brazil, is an addiction when people come to other social networks and are shocked by the bare min...
on Sep 7
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A gente nota que o Twitter é um vício…
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A gente nota que o Twitter é um vício quando as pessoas chegam a outras redes e se espantam com o mínimo de dignidade humana — ausência de anúncios de golpes...
on Sep 3
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Alguns dos esportes em que a vitória…
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Alguns dos esportes das Olimpíadas em que a vitória é conquistada via pontuação atribuída por juízes estão entre os que mais gosto de assistir. Ginástica e s...
on Aug 5
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Leitores insatisfeitos com a cobertura…
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Leitores insatisfeitos com a cobertura de inteligência artificial que tenho feito no Manual do Usuário devem ter gostado da edição do site/newsletter desta s...
on Jun 28
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The last good vibes social media platform
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I have a theory that every social media platform is destined to descend into chaos. It shouldn’t come as a surprise when we gather millions of people in one ...
on Jun 26
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Se pensarmos bem, todo software de…
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Se pensarmos bem, todo software de produtividade e corporativo é uma variação sofisticada e/ou multiusuários de planilhas eletrônicas, editores de texto simp...
on Jun 25
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O dia em que viajei com o Djavan
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Dia desses me vi a dois metros do Djavan enquanto aguardava para embarcar em um voo. Ele estava de boina, óculos escuros e máscara cirúrgica, talvez numa ten...
on May 26
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When smartphones became popular, a new kind of app emerged to address the limitations of the small screen and the mobile nature of these devices that keep us...
on May 16
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Dermatilomania ou transtorno de escoriação
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Há meses (anos?) vivo com os dedos esfolados por arrancar a pele em torno das unhas. (Foto meio nojenta.) É automático e irresistível, e sempre bate o arrepe...
on May 7
From ghed.in
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Americans have a notable talent for naming phenomena, a fact exemplified by the term “reply guys” – individuals who post disparaging comments on public posts...
on May 6
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Alguém no grupo do condomínio ofereceu…
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Alguém no grupo do condomínio ofereceu mudas de kefir. Outras pessoas pediram fotos “para ver como é” e perguntaram se se tratava de erva medicinal.
on May 3
From ghed.in
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A reader of my Portuguese-written blog unsubscribed from its newsletter because he was feeling bad about my ‘negative bias’.
on Apr 29
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Dicas para ser menos pessimista
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Um leitor do Manual do Usuário cancelou a inscrição na newsletter do site porque estava se sentindo mal com meu “viés negativo”.
on Apr 29
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Nunca fui ouvinte assíduo de podcasts…
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Nunca fui ouvinte assíduo de podcasts. Nos últimos meses, porém, nada tem me atraído — mesmo os poucos podcasts que costumava ouvir sempre. Atenho-me a um ou...
on Apr 23
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Text messages, the universal UI?
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I’ve been thinking about how text messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and iMessage, have become the dominant UI/UX to solve problems, organize events, deal with...
on Apr 22
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Android features I'm envy of as an iPhone user
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Since 2015, my daily driver phone is an iPhone. In this almost a decade, I have been closely following the moves of the only iOS alternative, Google’s Android.
on Apr 19
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The beauty of free and open source software
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The beauty of free and open source software (FOSS) is the possibilities that it opens up for better futures to abandoned or spoiled projects.
on Apr 17
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Uns meses atrás, aproveitei uma promoção…
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Uns meses atrás, aproveitei uma promoção de farmácia e comprei um punhado de desodorantes. Ao começar a usá-los, notei um perfume diferente e, investigando a...
on Apr 14
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Mozilla is testing a Firefox built in text translator
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Mozilla is testing the translation of selected text in Firefox. For now, as Omg! Ubuntu shows, it’s only available in experimental versions of the browser.
on Apr 11
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The “follow” button is Substack's attempt to extinguish newsletter competition
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I like to be right (who doesn’t?), but for some predictions I would like to be proven wrong. One of these is that Substack is a time bomb. Turns out it blown...
on Apr 10
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Escondendo meu rosto na internet
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Dois eventos não relacionados — o nascimento da bebê de alguém próximo e um site que gera avatares feios — me levaram a repensar a exposição a que me submeto...
on Apr 7
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Hiding my face on the internet
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Two unrelated events — the birth of someone’s baby close to me and a site that generates random ugly avatars — led me to rethink the exposure to which I subm...
on Apr 7