Rodolpho Arruda

Tag: internet

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Frustration Engineering

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Every person on the planet should have their own website

    Amin Eftegarie makes an excellent point on personal websites and Archive.org — that once you publish something online, there are good chances that it would become eternally available via Archive.org. On the other hand, content you publish inside walled gardens like social media may vanish after a handful of years of account activity or be…

  • We apologize on behalf of our bots

    I remember when I first read about social media accounts being cancelled by “somebody out there” who understood that user’s online behavior — or content — was not aligned to community standards. In this case you’d assume another human being pushed the button — clicked the button, maybe — and turned your account off. The…

  • Unmaintained GitHub repos

    There is too much content out there covering FOSS as an alternative to commercial apps. This is a good thing if you consider the ever growing presence of apps that contribute to Surveillance Capitalism or even oppressive government regimes. The problem is when you find true pearls like GoFOSS.net just to realize that some of…

  • HTML/CSS Challenge

    A internet é realmente uma maravilha do entretenimento.