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My blog in Brazilian Portuguese: http://www.mosquito.pro.br
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neves··on I made my phone slow on purpose
This guy is crippling a top notch device he paid good money for. This is crazy.

This isn't a personal problem. It is a social one, and there lies the solution. These apps are engineered for addiction, to Dubai our attention and lives. The companies behind them should br punished and their employees ashamed.

Society must curb socially and environmental nocive organizations.

neves··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
The market can't solve healthcare. It must be public. Americans shouldn't need to kill healthcare CEOs.
neves··on Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
Why do they need to reimplement a robust piece of difference as rsync?
neves··on Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
It was fun, but not a bad idea. Are there mosquito mousetraps, or mosquitotraps?
neves··on The dead economy theory
The problem below just was solved with workers organization.

> The agricultural transition took a hundred and forty years. Carl Benedikt Frey at Oxford has documented that the Industrial Revolution took seventy years before wages and employment recovered for the workers it displaced. In the interim, wages stagnated, the labor share of income collapsed, profits surged, inequality skyrocketed

neves··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
Back light is a necessity for couples or places with bad light. It is one the greatest Kindle features of all time.
neves··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
It's what I hate the most: I can't lend a book to my wife to talk about it.

Just US and UK have family accounts.

neves··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
Does anyone has experience with Android e-ink ebook readers? Are they worth it?

Brazilian Government just released a great public library of e-books: https://meclivros.mec.gov.br/

An Android e-ink reader would be perfect for it. And I'd use kindle app to read my kindle ebooks. But I don't really see people using them.

neves··on US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate
USA has always seemed it's companies. Will they do the same they did with International Criminal Court? They were investigating Israel genocide and now they judges can't use a credit card or travel.

Reference: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-strongly-rejects-new-us-san...

neves··on Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
Great article, I visited Vietnam reading it. Now I want to buy a cóc
neves··on Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
Have you ever seen the videos of American fleeing Saigon?
neves··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
As an user, this is what really annoys me:

Crazy sneaky complex billing in which they hit you for data movement within their own systems, double billing you and sometimes triple billing you. Billing footguns and traps are everywhere - you must be a deep expert to avoid them.

IAM - the hideously complex auth and access rules system - this was invented by Lucifer sitting on his burning throne in the ninth level of Hell as the worst possible torment for those who have been sent below for using AWS.

neves··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
"the media" as an entire without human beings behind.
neves··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
It's not
neves··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
The economist Mariana Mazzucato has some eye opening books about innovation and the role of governments. They are eye opening and dispel a lot of myths
neves··on The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
Where can I watch Connections show? What's the best place? Any episode recommendations?
neves··on Think Linear Algebra (2023)
BTW, if Allen Downey is reads this, I just want to send some love. I saw the beginning of the Internet. Everybody was full of dreams of the free flow of information and shareable knowledge, which greatest representation was executable code. Now, when we are surrounded by walled gardens and evil billionaires, Allen is always sharing his knowledge for all the world. Thank you.
neves··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Man, It is perder of magnitude different. I've noticed it when I gave small money for a beggar using pix. It's really revolutionary.

And remember that credit card fees are greater in Brazil

neves··on Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
Will these trillion dollar companies pay the work of human knowledge workers?
neves··on China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
Maduro will certainly have a fair trial.
neves··on The Classic American Diner
All rational reasons for the configuration, but it is still antisocial. Remember that your reasons are valid all around the world but just USA has this table/chair configuration.

The weapon reason is really funny.

neves··on DeepSeek v4
Can you cite real examples not based in American propaganda?
neves··on France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American
It's very sad that the rest of the world is seeing USA as a non trustable partner. It always has been an inspiration and now using their services as a liability.
neves··on DeepSeek v4
China is a peaceful country. They don't interfere with other countries politics. They look more trustworthy than countries that kidnapped chiefs of state they don't like.
neves··on The Classic American Diner
The photos does not display what I hate the most: the fixed 2 double seats tables. It is completely antisocial.

You can't arrive with your group of six friends and "join tables" so everybody can seat together. What Americans have against a big group of friends?

neves··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Note that your 2 best features were usb-c and replacement batteries. Both were government mandated against unethical behavior of Apple.

That's what governments are for.

neves··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Japoneses aesthetics favor assimetry. There's a lovely book , Book of Tea, that have fun with west tastes https://www.gutenberg.org/files/769/769-h/769-h.htm
neves··on Ads in ChatGPT
In Brazil cable started not having ads. Don't take USA for all the world
neves··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
And it means that it has been oil free since the 70's.

Brazil, a continental country, has more than 80% of its energy from renewables

neves··on Ads in ChatGPT
Tell "doesn't match reality" to cable television. All channels ended having ads. This is Capitalism in a American society that is looking more of a plutocracy than a democracy.
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