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3x35r22m4u··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
I wonder if I showed up (as a foreign visiting) in the US how long it would take and what kind of documents would it take to have a Visa/Mastercard. I guess it would be the same as having or even longer to have your CPF issued and a digital account here in Brazil.
3x35r22m4u··on An Introduction to Meshtastic
Maybe it depends? In my city, the online map shows only 2 Meshcore nodes, while Meshtastic 36 nodes.

And I've never spent time learning about it, but I'm under the impression Meshtastic is all about open-source and closer to ham radio philosophy, while Meshcore is backed by some for-profit organization?

3x35r22m4u··on Migrating the American express payment network, twice
Norton Antivirus for Android doesn't allow me to access the site. Hmm.
3x35r22m4u··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
I can more or less understand where the legislator might be coming from: laser printers and copiers are already mandated to include fingerprinting in the output and disrupt any attempt of copying money.
3x35r22m4u··on IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
SideKick had the ability to take "screenshots" of the text shown in other applications. Being a TSR was cool, but stealing text from another program interface was mind blowing!
3x35r22m4u··on Morse Code Translator
I've been waiting for maybe some 15 years for some statistical method or (more recently) AI model able to decode live Morse Code in HF radio (CW as ham radio operators usually refer to it). This has been challenging not only because radio transmissions SNR is always changing and, just like handwriting, each operator sends Morse in its personal way (unless, of course, they use a PC keyer).
3x35r22m4u··on Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progressl
Yup. Home version is full of gadgets with news, weather, offers, AI stuff in the task bar... feels claustrophobic.
3x35r22m4u··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
It'll sound crazy: I've never used Macs, but the IMAP-based client was Outlook Express back in 2005-2010.

100% multi-thread download and synch of folder contents, instantaneous display of messages, super-responsive.

I've tried a lot of clients on Windows and Linux and none of them get near the experience I had 20 years ago.

3x35r22m4u··on More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises
I used to work at an ISO in 1997 and we tested Mototola Sufr 28.8 and USRobotics Sportster 33.6 modems this way, just a short pair between them back-to-back. ATX1D on one side, ATA on the other, connection established.

However, recently a friend of mine tried to use the same trick with two USB modems from Trendnet and it failed. It seems they either don't have oomph enough or they rely on 9vdc off-hook carrier voltage to work.

3x35r22m4u··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Please stop. The moment you mentioned started mixing the Executive with the Judiciary ("has support of sitting president") it became clear you are not providing pure facts, but an opinion.

The way I see this: the Supreme Court asked X to remove content and accounts that main purpose were to promote hate and aggression towards the electoral system and institutions; X didn't comply; fines were issued; fines were never paid by X; the justice started using all available legal tools to fulfill the previous mandates (content removal and/or pecuniary penalties).

3x35r22m4u··on Brazilian Constitution Forbids Anonymity
Because the answer to a defamation and asking for its compensation are also constitutional rights.
3x35r22m4u··on Arctic temperatures soar 50°F/28°C above norm in long-lasting heat wave
> 50⁰F/28⁰C

50⁰F is 10⁰C

> Temperatures are expected to remain up to 36 to 50 degrees (20 to 30 Celsius)

36⁰F to 50⁰F is 2⁰C to 10⁰C.

TWP can't Celsius.

3x35r22m4u··on I Received an AI Email
Do you work at Zoom by chance? :)

https://youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE

3x35r22m4u··on The Rise of Packet Rate Attacks: When Core Routers Turn Evil
> Indeed, a great part of these IPs are known as MikroTik Routers

I wonder why they decided not to include the exact percentage of the attack coming from Mikrotik devices or a list of the top 10 vendors and their share.

Like, did Mikrotik generate 50% of the high packet rate DDoS? Or was it like 10% coming from Microtik, 10% from major vendors and 80% of others/unknown?

3x35r22m4u··on What is going on in Argentina?
"In Brazil, there is a frequent rhetoric about “we don’t want to become like Argentina” or “this politician will turn us into Argentina”. So I was left wondering: how bad is it over there really?"

In the 80s Brazil, there was a TV ad from Orloff vodka[1] where the guy talked to future-himself. The catchphrase was "Who are you?" "I'm you, but tomorrow".

That was it. Every news outlet started using the term "Orloff effect" to scare viewers and readers about brazilian government policies that would, in their opinion, inevitably make Brazil become an Argentina.

1. https://youtu.be/r5-Tsp1nLJU

3x35r22m4u··on The failure of self-checkout technology
Back in 2006 IBM already had predicted how self- checkout should work[1].

Their TV ad made was so cool, so well done and so "I want to live in this world" that became one of my favorites even today:

https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA

[1]https://mashable.com/article/ibm-predicts-amazon-go

3x35r22m4u··on Netscape 1.x
When they installed a gopher client at our local university Vax system, it was a thrill. So many hours using Veronica search stuff. And I remember kept using gopher during the Mosaic and Netscape 1-2 era.
3x35r22m4u··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
If any dev out there is looking for a challenge/cool thing to do, here it is: a TUI DE following the practices of TurboC/TurboPascal, CUA visuals and keybindings from edit.com and support for multiple languages and LSPs.
3x35r22m4u··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
It allowed to copy text from screen and paste into its editor, had a modem terminal app, contact app and a calculator. It was a joy to use!
3x35r22m4u··on Oi (Interjection)
Oi! (with this enthusiasm you'd be friends with a Brazilian in a second :).)
3x35r22m4u··on Get started with technical writing
The first time I had contact with a book from O'Reilly was some point in 1997 with their "Running Linux".

One of the things that I still reckon is the small section describing the book pipeline, the editor used by the author, typesetting and DTP. IIRC they used Emacs, LaTeX and Quark Xpress. I loved that tidbit.

3x35r22m4u··on Ask HN: Is (n)vim worth the trouble?
I've tried Helix for 3-weeks. The micro for half a week. I'm back to joe, nano, geanny, vscode,

It's 2023. Our keyboards are standardized (looking at you, Chromebooks) with control, alt, altgr, meta keys.

I can't understand why micro is the only console/cli editor that (partially) supports 1987's CUA standard[1]. All I want is TUI text editor or IDE that let me use Shift-Arrows to select text, Home/End keys should do what their names say, but if you hold Ctrl, they go to the beginning and end of file. I'd like to use use Ctrl-Ins/Ctrl-Del/Shift-Ins/ to access the Clipboard. Can we also have some menu or palette system, perhaps context-sensitive that includes every mapped shortcut? How about an easy system to create some windows or panes that can. E easily moved and resized? Wouldn't it be terrific if I pressed momentarily say, control-alt, and a calculator, calendar or a terminal showed up?

MS-DOS edit.com, Borland SideKick and Turbo IDEs had all these em 1991. I'm very fond of Midnight Commander editor, micro, joe, nano exactly because they have this DOS atmosphere, where the learning curve looked more gentle.

Linux and other unices got into a very interesting scenario. If the application is intended to run over a graphical desktop environment, it'll likely follow the CUA specs. OTOH, console/cli tools decided they don't care about CUA or current UI/UX practices (notable exception is micro), they will keep using standards created 40+ years ago, ignoring the standardization we've adopted since PC GUI massification around 1990.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

3x35r22m4u··on Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths
I was truly expecting a reenactment of Gary vs David Synth Wars! Bummer.
3x35r22m4u··on Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
Could someone please confirm or deny Samsung has it better because they included 10 times larger sensors, 20x better zoom, titanium since 2017 and hired BTS for their ads?

Reference: https://youtu.be/dLHJl7mwY7M?si=e0Cm2q4bnn_u14Qf