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by cesarb 5mo ago
A lot of entry-level laptops from other manufacturers also had small SSDs, and Windows already consumed a large fraction of that limited storage.
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by cesarb 5mo ago
The reason Pix needs a Brazilian bank account, is that at its core, it's just a bank transfer mechanism, like the older TED or DOC. Pix sends money from one bank account to another bank account. The main novelties are being instant, wo
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by cesarb 5mo ago
> "_Everyone_ has it. How come you don't?" To put it in context: everyone with a Brazilian bank account can use Pix. That's the reason "everyone" has it.
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by cesarb 5mo ago
> in some countries banks have been removing functionality from their online-banking website, and you can only do certain things in the phone app. The most infuriating I've seen, is a bank which removed the anual tax report (which y
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by cesarb 5mo ago
> The open open choice already exists. Unfortunately, not in my country. > Sent from my Librem 5 running GNU/Linux. Can I buy a Librem 5 here in Brazil? (Unless it has ANATEL certification, which I doubt it has, buying online fro
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> As long as developers can opt into the new system (which they can with the manifest approach) [...] Microsoft has added a mishmash of flags in the app manifest Could you please tell me, where are all these manifest flags documented? I
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> I mean I have my own laptop and phone, why would I use a work device for that stuff? Because you're traveling for work, and carrying two separate laptops eats into your limited baggage size/weight. Things are marginally bette
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> I assume HDMI has a USB channel? No, it doesn't, it only has I2C (for display identification and control, same as VGA and DVI) and CEC (for remote control).
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> there's a fourth one which has an extra key on both the right and the left side of the keyboard. An example is the Brazilian Portuguese layout Model M (pic: ...) That's the ABNT2 keyboard layout, which is the keyboard layout
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> Five minutes later, I check and it had found a /cancel.php URL that accepted an ID but the ID wasn't exposed anywhere, so it found and was exploiting a blind SQL injection vulnerability to find my reservation ID. xkcd was p
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> If it’s your own personal blog, then for sure no need to read the code, I can off the top of my head think of at least three ways in which being careless with the code powering "your personal blog" could have real consequence
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways. [...] That dedicated fiber terminates in a neutral, open hub. If you think about it, other than the "neutral, open" part, it&#x27
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by cesarb 6mo ago
> IPv4 is pretty simple and good for LANs. Until the place you're VPNing to happens to use the same RFC1918 network address as your LAN (that is, your LAN is 192.168.10.x and the network on the other side of your work's VPN is
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> all of those things have a single common denominator: Microsoft, over you, getting to decide what your computer is doing. [...] OS (and device) manufacturers have gotten it in their heads that it's OK for them to have a strong say
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> By the time you want to upgrade a machine part (c. 5yr+ for modern machines), you'd want to upgrade every thing, That's only the case for CPU/MB/RAM, because the interfaces are tightly coupled (you want to upgrade y
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> How is this going to work? You need uncontrolled compute for developing software. I've read about companies where all software developers have to RDP to the company's servers to develop software, either to save on costs (shar
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> Most people want a computer that works with their software. No, "learn the FOSS version" is not a solution. Why is that argument always applied against Linux, and never against for instance macOS, which also can't run Wi
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> Take away the car and people cannot live. [...] It is almost impossible to find a job and a house you can afford in walking distance of each other, As a Brazilian, that statement feels bizarre. Yeah, my job and my home are not in walki
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> It's set by the administrator of the computer, so a parent can set it for their child instead of hoping their child is honest to every single individual site. You are assuming the parent is the administrator of the computer.
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> One 'answer' to this concern is to have a 'leap hour' or something in the future (some future generation's problem, not ours) A simpler solution: we already have an offset between local time and coordinated tim
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> and see if, maybe just maybe, they can get by without js. Unless it changed recently (it's too slow right now for me to check), Wikipedia has always worked perfectly fine without JS; that includes even editing articles (using the
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> For local users (the account in question wasn't local) you need to be an "interface admin", of which there are only 15 on english wikipedia. It used to be all "admin" accounts, of which there were many more. Re
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> One of those random scripts was a 2 year old malicious script from ruwiki. This script injects itself in the global Javascript on every page, and then in the userscripts of any user that runs into it, so it started spreading and doing
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> Its difficult problem, because even if GitHub shows whole body of the updated method or a file, you still don't see grand picture. > For example: A (calls) -> B -> C -> D > And you made changes in D, how do you know
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by cesarb 7mo ago
> US style plugs and derivatives (and Australian, Japanese, Brazilian, etc) Brazil no longer uses US style plugs (though you'll still find them in older installations), it nowadays uses a much safer EU-derived style. > I find it
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by cesarb 8mo ago
> > Good luck with that. > No luck needed. Linux based phones are starting to become viable as daily drivers. Then please tell me, which non-Android Linux-based phone can I buy here in Brazil (one of the first places where Android
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by cesarb 8mo ago
> Also it is almost impossible to guarantee two runs of an application will trigger the same machine code output As long as the JIT is working properly, it shouldn't matter: the code should always run "as if" it was being
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by cesarb 8mo ago
> More games run on GNU / Linux than any gaming console. Not for long. The Steam Machine aka "GabeCube" is also a gaming console, and will run all these games.
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by cesarb 9mo ago
> I take the opportunity to let people know that there are alternatives to Google/Apple duopoly on mobile. In my country (which will AFAIK be one of the first ones to get the new app install restrictions), so far I haven't foun
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by cesarb 9mo ago
> but then it sits there on an SD card in the camera. I have to boot a desktop, hope the USB connection works today [...] OR open the camera, take out th SD card [...] Or open the app on your smartphone ( https://play.google.co

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