Tag: internet
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Piraña River
People who work to close or even inside the global AI ecosystem is kind of scared this week. It all started with a post on X.com that went viral with a doomsday tone content from a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee. Here’s a segment of it: Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These…
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O Estranho Caso do Malware SC 4.0.3
Na verdade, o título correto deste texto seria “O Estranho Caso do Sumiço de Ameaças”. Vejamos. Em meados de agosto de 2026 recebi inúmeras mensagens de email da empresa de hospedagem HostGator reportando a presença de malware no meu servidor que hospeda 6 domínios e alguns projetos web independentes. Inicialmente não dei muita atenção porque…
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Pavel Durov’s Open Letter to the Free Internet
I totally agree with him, but especially this statement: We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. So we need to work to reverse that sentiment. Those social institutions are the ones that require…
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Resilient Web Design
If web designers wished to remain true to the spirit of One Web, they needed to provide the same core content at the same url to everyone regardless of their device. At the same time, they needed to be able to create different layouts depending on the screen real-estate available. The shared illusion of a one-size-fits-all approach…
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C2 Wiki
This is the most incredible web rabbit hole on the Internet. https://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors
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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,…