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by virgulino 2y ago
"People who use VPN to access X will be subject to daily fines of US$8,900" Edit: Thanks for this user https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404325 for posting the court order and bringing this new information: A
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by virgulino 2y ago
No, that's not what the law says. The law says that you need legal representation to be able to do business in Brazil. To sign contracts and pay taxes. Twitter no longer does business (i.e. doesn't sell ads) in Brazil. Twitter fir
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by virgulino 2y ago
X no longer has any business or legal representative in Brazil.
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by virgulino 2y ago
In 20 hours Brazil could join China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, as the only countries in the world where their citizens are banned from reading Twitter. We will no longer be allowed to read wha
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by virgulino 2y ago
> Do you have references to which cases those are? The most infamous case is the gigantic "fake news inquiry", which is still going: https://www.estadao.com.br/politica/inquerito-das-fake-news-... https
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by virgulino 2y ago
> Each minister has ~40 judges - not counting other staffers, law clerks, specialists, chief of staff - under them Not true. Each minister can pick only 3 assistant judges. There are only 38 assistant judges for the whole Supreme Court
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by virgulino 2y ago
> Can that really be right? That's an average of 276 rulings per day Yes. From the official website of the Supreme Court (STF - Supremo Tribunal Federal), real-time statistics: 65,173 rulings so far this year. https://t
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by virgulino 2y ago
Brazilian here. If anyone wants a great introduction to the context and the bigger picture, there's this great article from the NYT in 2022, written by an excellent reporter who lives in Brazil. I highly recommend this article to anyon
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by virgulino 2y ago
Psychobiography is charlatanism / pseudoscience.
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by virgulino 2y ago
"The World Premiere of the Amiga (1985, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry): Possibly wanting to one-up the Apple Macintosh launch in 1984, the Amiga 1000 debuted at a black-tie event held at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New
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by virgulino 2y ago
Jan Łukasiewicz and his (Reverse) Polish Notation.
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by virgulino 2y ago
I agree. I'm still amazed by the quality and depth of the Brazilian content (I'm Brazilian). The page about Portinari's huge "War and Peace" paintings at the UN headquarters is a striking example. https:/&#x2F
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by virgulino 2y ago
"The Good, the Bad, and the Weird" is also the title of an excellent Korean movie from 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad,_the_Weird
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by virgulino 3y ago
The creator of the QWK offline mail format, Mark "Sparky" Herring, widely used on BBSs, suffered a heart attack in a swatting and died. He was being harassed to hand over his Twitter username. https://www.theregister.co
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by virgulino 3y ago
Happy New Year, Master Ken! Thank you for all the gifts you've given us this year, even on the last day! Cheers, from an island Brazil!
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by virgulino 3y ago
From my memory: ^Y delete line / ^KB & ^KK block begin & end / ^KC & ^KY block copy & delete / "c^PH," for the "ç" character / etc. I started using these keys on WordStar 3.3 and Turbo
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by virgulino 3y ago
Sorry, I don't remember, but I found the manuals! https://bitsavers.org/pdf/borland/turbo_pascal/
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by virgulino 3y ago
Overlays were already included in version 3.0.
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World splitting between those who use ChatGPT to get better–and everyone else(businessinsider.com)
7 points by virgulino 3y ago|2 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
No crystals, but artificial neural networks: Somatik Blues https://youtu.be/crZ4myW0xVw Neverendingstory https://youtu.be/OGyzWyH8Hi8
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by virgulino 3y ago
Related: the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition through the Amazon River system, in Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt%E2%80%93Rondon_Scien... The River of Doubt , Roosevelt's documentary of th
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by virgulino 3y ago
"Russia stages military-style propaganda parade on Norway's Svalbard archipelago - More than 50 vehicles, a helicopter and snowmobiles driven by men in military-like uniforms on the 9th of May paraded down the main street of Bare
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by virgulino 3y ago
That BBS grew very, very fast, backed by venture capital, and quickly became a major ISP - national level, one of the first in the country. It was perfect timing, just as the commercial Internet was taking off. I know they used a lot of Cis
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by virgulino 3y ago
I'm holding a USRobotics Courier V.Everything V.34 in my hands right now. It was from the biggest BBS in my country. I got it when that BBS replaced the Couriers with access servers with E1/T1 digital interfaces. I keep it on my b
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Brazil police search&seizure targeting intelligence agency use of spy software(apnews.com)
2 points by virgulino 3y ago|0 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
PicoBSD - FreeBSD on a single 1.44 MB floppy disk. Just amazing. I ran the first cybercafé in our city here in Brazil with it. A 386 with 4 MB of RAM and a single 1.44 MB floppy disk as a router. Based on FreeBSD 2.something and a dedicated
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by virgulino 3y ago
Winter ended on October 23 here in Brazil. Two days later, Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, recorded the hottest day in history. 38.6oC, 101oF. The hottest day since 1910. It wasn't the hottest day of September
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by virgulino 3y ago
Japan's 10-year "Fifth Generation Computing Systems" initiative. I remember, this was very famous in the 80s. It was talked about all over the world. Even in popular magazines in Brazil (like Time), for example. https:/
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Atari 2600 sees its future in retro gaming(cnn.com)
3 points by virgulino 3y ago|0 comments
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by virgulino 3y ago
> Remember when Win95 could be crashed or even rooted just by pinging it the right way? We really have come a long way. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death Much more than that. With Windows 95, you coul

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