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I've never seen a e-commerce fight as big as this. Brazil it's probably one of, if not the most, diversified e-commerce right now.

I actually believe this would happen.

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CNN Brazil’s report asks Trump about removing tariffs on Brazil on Thursday. He mentions that there would be another “big announcement on Friday”. On Saturday morning Bolsonaro is arrested for tampering with his electronic ankle monitor, something he did late on Friday but was caught in time.

Trump says he spoke with Bolsonaro on Friday and that they were going to meet. Then the reporters says he was arrested. He gets surprised that Bolsonaro was arrested and says it was too bad...

In Brazil I think basically more than half of fixed broadband should be CGNAT.

Basically only one single ISP don't use CGNAT...

Would be interesting if Cloudflare could give this info!

I usually ask a simple question that ALL the models get wrong: List of mayor of my city [Londrina]. ALL the models (offine) get wrong. And I mean, all the models. The best that I could, it's o3 I believe, saying it couldn't give a good answer for that, and told to access the city website.

Gemini 3 somehow is able to give a list of mayors, including details on who got impeached, etc.

This should be a simple answer, because all the data is on wikipedia, that certainly the models are trained on, but somehow most models don't manage to give that answer right, because... it's just a irrelevant city in a huge dataset.

But somehow, Gemini 3 did it.

Edit: Just asked "Cool places to visit in Londrina" (In portuguese), and it was also 99% right, unlike other models, who just create stuff. The only thing wrong here, it mentioned sakuras in a lake... Maybe it confused with Brazilian ipês, which are similar, and indeed the city it's full of them.

It seems to have a visual understanding, imo.

I use exactly on Firefox, but maybe your use is less? With groups, etc it heavy super fast...

It's a ram hog if you stay the tab open for a while, with ton of messages. So from time to time I need to close the tab and open again.

Huge perf issues because of this.

Also had some serious bugs for a few week. Had to let WhatsApp Web wait for completely sync for 15 minutes~ or else it just stop responding and crashes everything.

It will use 1gb on your browser.

If is anything like the WhatsApp Web, "works" might be optimistic choice of word.

When I switched from Windows, the thing that I missed from Windows on Linux was the native WhatsApp App. Now they killed there, so feeling better on my switch now!

At least in Brazil, that's not the case. You get there to vote, and it doesn't take longer than 5 minutes to leave the place.

Windows also need this for 10 years, since Windows 10 launch. But never happened. I guess it's just not really viable, as they need to continue selling new devices...

Especially considering how much software these days on Windows are all Electron/Web. So is not a hard switch as it once was.

I switched from Windows to Linux it's been 2 years. One of the few things I missed on Windows, was the native WhatsApp app, as the Web WhatsApp it's horrible. Then a few months Meta killed the native app and made into a webview-app :)

I mean... Edge already have copilot integrated for years, and Edge actually have users, unlike Atlas. Not sure why people are getting shocked now...

I still don't know why WhatsApp itself didn't integrated Pix on the app... as they have the flopped WhatsApp Pay. Google Wallet did it.

I think it must some Visa/Master contract?

> Not in all cases. They can and will make the patient and multiple doctors fill out half a dozen forms to "justify" the use of an expensive medication.

But any doctor can do it, not just SUS doctors. You know the country we live in. Private doctors will do the prescription... Actually, to buy it you already need a prescription, and yet, even skinny healthy folks buy ozempic.

And to get in the SUS, it's pretty simple here in Paraná at least (and as a SUS user). The worst that happens, it's that for expensive/controlled medicines, they centralize into a single public pharmacy in the city center, and you need to schedule a day/time, and bring the ID - don't even need to be the user, you can ask anyone you want to get it if the prescription and ID it's there.

Which is why for my cheap medicine, I prefer to buy it. Not worth for me going to city center only for 30 pills that cost R$ 15.

In Brazil, medicines lose patent protection 20 years after the original filing date. The filing date was in 2006, so the patent expires in 2026.

But note that the patent was only granted in 2019, it took 13 years. They went to court last year, but the justice (as far as I know) has continued to follow the precedent that the original filing date applies.

So they went to the federal government to try to change the law, but the government has refused so far.

The INPI (Brazilian Patent Office) used to take a VERY long time to register/grant patents. It's faster now (about 4 years on average), but it's still slow.

But I'm seeing here that in the US it was 2017. So not that different from 2019 anyway.

PS: Brazil also have several local labs focused on generics, and besides this, there's also state-owned lab, Fiocruz, who makes vaccines and medicines as well, several of them, to distribute though SUS.

In Brazil by the constitution, everyone has the right of health, so if the public health care (SUS) don't distribute, you can sue the governament and get the medicine. So there's a big incentive for the governament to make patents expire as soon as possible to have generics and include on SUS.

e.g Fiocruz manufacture PrEP, and started now PrEP injection (Cabotegravir).

First, it seems obvious to me that they'll prescribe it to everyone who, supposedly, undergoes bariatric surgery through the SUS. Generic Ozempic is certainly cheaper than bariatric surgery.

That said, I believe it will go even further.

To get medication through the SUS, you only need a prescription from a doctor. Any doctor. So even if the SUS itself don't prescribe, you can just find a doctor who will do it...

But, likely SUS will prescribe anyway. Rio mayor:

"Rio will be a city where there will be no more chubby people; everyone will be taking Ozempic at family clinics." "Said the mayor, adding that he has already taken the medication. He claimed to have lost 30kg with the medication."

Depends the price of the generics, of course. But I wouldn't doubt if the governament itself would manufacture it. Fiocruz (federal gov lab) already manufacture several drugs.

Also, Rio mayor already said he will just give to everyone basically lol

You also need to remind that on a public health care system, having less obese people means you'll spend less on health care.

Yeah, sorry, it's just here we just talk about monthly wages. A month!

In Brazil it will expire in July 2026. It's pretty relevant as it's kinda already announced they will put the generics on the public health care (SUS) for free... Which is big deal as an Ozempic shot costs almost the same as the minimum wage.

This year they already did an analysis to include Ozempic, but it was denied, probably because of the cost difference...

But they were trying on justice to extend the patent...

It's relevant in Brazil because it's already announced the public health care system will distribute for free.

And... Sell in more countries as well.

In Brazil it went from R$ 59,90 to R$ 119,90.

Double.

Would you think that the U.S would encrypt gov data and store on Alibaba's Cloud? :)

GLM 4.5 for me one of the best coding model when running with agents such as Claude Code and Opencode (excluding Claude and GPT-5).

Looking forward to try GLM 4.6.

But Z AI should do like KIMI¹ and launch a verifier to see how GLM models behave on 3rd party providers.

[1] https://github.com/MoonshotAI/K2-Vendor-Verfier

I didn't even mention crime. Not sure why this question.

Obviously it doesn't stop all crimes, probably helps on some.

Just saying how there is a very different culture, where no one see having an ID as something weird and invasive.

As a Brazilian, it's pretty weird when I see that countries like UK or the U.S don't have national IDs.

Here that would be seen as a completely insane.

So, you are saying China is run by a chemical engineer? Xi studied that at Tsinghua University.

It always had dates... They release multiple versions and update regularly. Not sure if this is the first 2.5 Flash update, but pretty sure Pro had a few updates as well...

This is also the case with OpenAI and their models. Pretty standard I guess.

They don't change the versioning, because I guess they don't consider it to be "a new model trained from scratch".

KDE as a whole feels "UI design made by programmers" no offense to programmers who do UI (and to KDE designers)

KDE changed their design to include hamburger menu. Even KDE's Terminal have a "hamburger" menu.