Willian Braga

@neverping
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Shyness can stop you from doing things in life you would like to

Finally I watched the fantasy movie everyone talked about when I was a teenager: Lady Hawke.

It's is a good movie, and I believe I would love to have seen it in the 1990s. However, I would see it more as a love/romance movie with fantasy embedded.

Maybe 8/10?

Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

https://wiby.me/surprise

#web #indieweb #tech #technology

I don't mind a text being revised by AI. But when a text is either 100% Ai-generated or AI-fermented (meaning 50% or higher was not typed by human), it triggers me.
why universal translators use american accents

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

Happy to be back at #FOSDEM!
bing has, without reason, blocked neocities.org *completely* from its index: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789400
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing | Hacker News

Google: "We found that this gambling ad doesn't violate our policies against gambling ads, but you can personalise your ad experience to block the kinds of ads you don't want."

Me: "So, can I block gambling ads?"

Google: "No, we don't allow gambling ads so a toggle to block gambling ads doesn't make sense. What are you talking about?"

Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

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