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  • May 23, 2023 12:45pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Well I’m on #bluesky bsky.app/profile/r…

  • May 22, 2023 8:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Leaked Government Document Shows #Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End #Encryption

    The file reveals how a proposal to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material is forcing #EU states to defend or deny encryption’s importance. #csam

    archive.is/202305221…

  • May 22, 2023 8:51pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Protecting #SSH keys with #TPM 2.0, now available on #Debian #infosec

    www.ledger.com/blog/ssh-…

  • May 22, 2023 5:10pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Why on Earth is #Twitter restoring three-year-old information? And what does it say about the ability of the platform’s users to control their own data? Nothing good, obviously.

    www.theverge.com/2023/5/22…

  • May 22, 2023 4:12pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Holy Cow 🙄

    VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads- PII Exposed, and Backdoors Enabled

    blog.checkpoint.com/securing-…

  • May 22, 2023 1:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Would that be enough to deter the predatory behavior of the US in terms of European’s data? #gdpr

    #Meta Fined Record €1.2 Billion in #EU Over US Data Transfers

    ground.news/article/m…

  • Generation X / Millennial Overlap, in between worlds

    May 21, 2023 10:50pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    I was born on October 29, 1980, which technically places me in Generation X, which spans those born from 1965 to 1980. So, while technically I would fall into Generation X, I may identify more with Millennial characteristics, given I’m on the very edge of these generational divisions. This is all very subjective of course but often, I do feel in between two periods while not belonging to any of them for all kinds of reasons. Continue reading →

  • May 21, 2023 10:31pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    J’ai envie de dire: crises des démocraties, (pas que retraites) que nous apprend Machiavel ? www.radiofrance.fr/francecul…

  • May 21, 2023 10:27pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    With IndiePass and Micro.blog I’m testing disabling automated cross-posting to different socials silos and instead use case by case basis to send my updates to where I want, while using my blog as the source.

  • May 21, 2023 10:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Le balai libéré ! #UCL

    Ou comment reprendre les choses en mains ! youtu.be/FHEIyTv4S…

    lebalailibere.be

  • Book extract: Cultish, the language of fanaticism by Amanda Montell

    May 21, 2023 11:51am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    I keep coming back to this book because, it’s literally a gem everyone should read and I think parents should give it to their teenagers and friends to their friends in any obvious spiritual quest of their own. This book is like a detoxification manual for the internet age and the era of shared delusions amplified by influencers and gurus 2.0 It’s a must read to, actually stay grounded, and navigate what’s inevitably around us with a working BS detector. Continue reading →

  • May 21, 2023 7:37am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    40 years later… The MIDI 2.0 code for the Linux kernel is now under review and if all goes well could potentially be mainlined for the v6.5 cycle this summer.

    www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI…

  • May 21, 2023 5:42am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Interesting read : Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

    And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks

    “It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. And half the time, it’s completely wrong.” —Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-4-cal…

  • May 20, 2023 10:08pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    It’s like our specie is discovering fire on demand all over again… #AI www.atomic14.com/2023/05/1…

  • May 20, 2023 9:22pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    #chatThis github.com/simplex-c… is REALLY an impressive and mature alternative to signal that allows you to gather people without exchanging phone numbers, it’s also possible to self-hosted the relay and the ICE turn server 🥳 #simplex #chat

  • May 20, 2023 12:05am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Huh this is cool :)

    Nyxt browser: The hacker’s #browser

    nyxt.atlas.engineer

  • May 19, 2023 3:54pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Crazy nice idea implemented in a cool way!

    Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles & Unreal Engine

    nilsbakker.nl/portfolio…

  • May 19, 2023 3:45pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    I have been dreaming of a “virtual screen” since as long as I remember having a computer (that’s 1998) and I believe the hybrid device that will fit this idea will change personal computing forever.

    mikeelgan.substack.com/p/the-vir…

  • May 19, 2023 7:31am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    This is really nice tooling to work with #ChatGPT

    llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs

    simonwillison.net/2023/May/…

  • May 16, 2023 9:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Pandora’s box to even more mass-surveillance 🤔

    A majority of the EU Council of Ministers seem to favour expanding the scanning of private messages to audio communications to detect child sexual abuse material, according to a new document dated 12 May.

    www.euractiv.com/section/l…

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