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  • December 29, 2025 8:21pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    So … I have been busy contributing to this

    tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.

    It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months

    it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.

    check it out !

  • December 29, 2025 8:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)

    arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

  • Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian

    December 29, 2025 5:48pm
    Reading Time: 9 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Upgrading from Funkwhale 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on a Debian 12 server involves several steps, including creating backups, installing the new version, updating configurations, and running database migrations. Continue reading →

  • December 14, 2025 10:55am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Information Manipulation is a market.

    www.cam.ac.uk/stories/p…

  • December 10, 2025 6:43pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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    do you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own?

  • December 10, 2025 6:40pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    This is really funny futuristic HN frontpage post reach HN frontpage and delivers gold satire 😅

  • December 2, 2025 9:05pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Photo prĂšs de mon nouveau chez moi l’autre jour en allant au boulot.. c’est fou que pendant des dĂ©cennies l’horrible building de la gare du Nord cachait cette beautĂ© dans le paysage nord de Bruxelles.

    A domed building is framed by two tall structures and silhouetted trees under a warm, glowing sky.
  • November 24, 2025 9:49pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Damn.. the new #Cloudron UI revamp is sick đŸ˜Č loving it! cloudron.io

  • Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?

    October 14, 2025 8:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anything remotely as close to Carlin was alive today and dismantling whatever is the ongoing political/economic cast in power (not just in the USA) Continue reading →

  • [Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“

    October 12, 2025 6:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    “A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that the core algorithms were developed by a Chinese company with close ties to government surveillance programs.“ Read more Continue reading →

  • September 25, 2025 8:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin

    Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitĂĄrio belga-portuguĂȘs, foi preso em ZĂ©mio, uma cidade no leste da RepĂșblica Centro-Africana.

    BĂ©lgica e Portugal tĂȘm que tomar ação!

    #Wagner

  • September 25, 2025 8:56pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Sign The Petition to free Joseph Figueira Martin

    On 26 May 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, a Belgian-Portuguese humanitarian, was arrested in Zémio, a town in the east of the Central African Republic.

    Portugal and Belgium must act!

  • Le comble de notre Ă©poque c'est le mirage de l'immigration

    September 23, 2025 10:54pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Le comble de notre Ă©poque : aprĂšs des dĂ©cennies de perte de souverainetĂ© Ă©conomique, financiĂšre et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prĂ©tendent la « rĂ©cupĂ©rer » en fermant leurs frontiĂšres. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas au capital, pas aux dĂ©rives financiĂšres, ni Ă  l’exode fiscal des 1 %. Non, c’est sur les corps que se concentre la rĂ©pression. On en vient Ă  parquer des ĂȘtres humains dans des conditions inhumaines, pour satisfaire des rhĂ©toriques d’extrĂȘme droite devenues banales, prĂ©sentĂ©es comme des vĂ©ritĂ©s canoniques. Continue reading →

  • September 23, 2025 10:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    The Groyper Wars The seriousness of this story is rivaled only by its dizzying stupidity.

    www.webworm.co/groyperwa…

  • September 18, 2025 10:46am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Ever needed to duplicate a #keycloak realm.json, change a few values and re-import into the same keycloak ? this is a Keycloak realm rekeying utility, safe UUID regeneration and alias normalization to avoid duplicate constraints during import

  • September 15, 2025 8:20pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    On MAGA factions and the meme wars of 2025 and beyond :

    This is a PHD/level breakdown of the two alt-right movements set out to destroy each other and the rest of the USA in the process. The creator is Cy Canterel.

    On my reading list : Lost in the Kingdom of Kitsch

  • September 13, 2025 10:01am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Chris Hedge on Kirk death “Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.”

    Read Full Article

  • La Belgique doit agir pour ne pas laisser brĂ»ler les droits des femmes

    September 13, 2025 9:56am
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Aux États-Unis, l’administration Trump a marquĂ© un tournant idĂ©ologique majeur. Sous couvert de rĂ©formes et de moralitĂ©, elle a menĂ© une vĂ©ritable offensive contre l’autonomie des femmes: remise en cause du droit Ă  l’avortement, pressions sur les financements de la santĂ© reproductive, et obstacles Ă  l’accĂšs aux contraceptifs. La destruction programmĂ©e de stocks entiers de contraceptifs (sur le sol belge) encore parfaitement utilisables ne peut se lire autrement que comme un geste idĂ©ologique politique. Continue reading →

  • From Distrust to Retribution: America’s Escalating Spiral

    September 11, 2025 7:18pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    The core problem in the đŸ‡ș🇾 right now is trust in information, democracy, institutions. Whatever is put forward, whether a “manifesto,” “killer’s note,” or shooting suspect’s story, no matter what the authorities claim, the public has come to believe that it’s all manipulated. That distrust is being weaponized by the alt-right / MAGA crowd, and it won’t be long before they demand retribution, for real or imagined. Because the current administration is seen as deeply biased, compromised, even complicit by many, every statement, every slip, every omission becomes fuel. Continue reading →

  • Face aux horreurs du monde, tenir debout

    September 11, 2025 6:27pm
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    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Avec toute l’horreur qui se dĂ©roule sous nos yeux Ă©blouis par la lumiĂšre bleue de nos Ă©crans, j’ai parfois l’impression que le 11 septembre n’a plus aucune importance. Comme si, face au gĂ©nocide Ă  Gaza, Ă  la guerre perpĂ©tuelle en Ukraine et aux conflits oubliĂ©s qui ensanglantent d’autres continents, la tragĂ©die d’il y a vingt-quatre ans n’était plus qu’un fait divers. Pourtant, c’est elle qui a propulsĂ© le monde dans une dĂ©rive dont nous ressentons encore les secousses. Continue reading →

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