Tag: internet
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How Low Can You Go?
We were using this eSignature SaaS for collecting signatures from customers. One day, a key user came to me to say that users were complaining because they had to fill-in a long identification form before they could sign the contract — which makes sense because all that information would be added to the contract itself.…
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Google Finance in Brazil
As of today, December 2024, Internet users cannot get the current USD to BRL currency conversion from the Google Finance service. The Brazilian authorities prohibited the company to make the information available after it started to present a different value than the one traded in the local stock market. Several sources in the X.com network…
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It’s 2024. AI creates more than 25% of Google’s code.
A couple of weeks ago I was discussing with a handful of other people in LinkedIn how they keep their backups. It was interesting to know that people are more concerned about keeping their data safe. Some were using local servers and even SANs to run their backups. Nice! One comment caught my attention, though,…
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Fontes anônimas, pseudônimos e fake news
Alguns jornalistas apontam a “ocultação de identidade” como sendo a causa raiz das fake news. “Ocultação de identidade” é o anonimato. O mesmo anonimato que as fontes jornalísticas usam para transmitir informações sensíveis a um jornalista ou à imprensa. Essas pessoas têm sua “ocultação de identidade” garantida por lei. Essa garantia legal também garante vantagem…
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Is blockchain our best response to deep fakes going mainstream?
I don’t know. I saw some people bringing this as an hypothesis today on X. It makes sense to me that blockchain could allow looking back to previous versions of a given piece of content up to its original source. For that to work in practice, we would need a new kind of certificate authority…
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Big waves of technical evolution
Someone asked me how Bitcoin stands next to other technological marvels of our recent history. In my view, these are the “big waves” of technological evolution that change everything on their path.
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Frustration Engineering
The current freemium model adopted by most SaaS companies is disgusting. It seems to me that product managers start from the end, with a desired product state with all the features that add the most value to customers when combined. Then they cut out two or three of those features — as they were not…
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2024 privacy web browsing
On the desktop Windows 10 > Firefox > Private browsing (tab) > Mullvad VPN > remote VPS running Ubuntu with Gnome hosted by a privacy concerned company which accepts cryptocurrencies for payment > Apache Guacamole > Mullvad browser > the Web On the phone Firefox Focus > Mullvad VPN > the Web This setup takes…
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Cloudflare’s DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS domains
There are three domains available. Each one of them works under a certain scope. Malware blocking security.cloudflare-dns.com Malware and adult content blocking (including search results) family.cloudflare-dns.com Internet privacy (adult content is accessible) one.one.one.one When neither DoT nor DoH are available If your home wi-fi router/modem does not support DoT nor DoH, you can still change…
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You are not a magician, you are an entertainer
People are very creative now when describing themselves in the ‘About’ section of their LinkedIn profile pages. Are we really capable of describing ourselves accurately? How good are we in the task of evaluating ourselves and describing difficult aspects of us like ‘competencies’? No, not a magician. Maybe you are in the business of making…