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gpribeiro··on MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive
Coyote Linux, maybe? I used it at home in the beginning of the 2000s.
gpribeiro··on Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps
Unfortunately, I don’t see Reddit going back on this. Unfortunately, I don’t think Reddit will die because of this. They are bigger than this, and the community will just migrate from the people who are affected by this decision to those who are not. Just as it happened with every controversial decision reddit took in the last decade. From migrating from links only to allow commenting, migrating from unobtrusive and static ads only, to incorporating in line ads, from the various different views on speech to the decisions regarding site moderation and administration (different from the other examples, this one I agree with), to the redesign and so on. The site simply drifted to a different steady state of users and communities, and I guess this will also happen here.
gpribeiro··on Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters
Hey, great idea! I have always wanted to start playing, but I don't know anyone interested in DnD. Having some GMs willing to introduce new players to the game is fantastic!

There are some comments here suggesting that the service might not make much sense since it should be easy to find someone willing to be a GM in a group of friends. I just wanted to say that that is not always the case :)

gpribeiro··on Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?
I was diagnosed with prediabetes and hepatic steatosis 8 months ago. As per my doctor's recomendation, I followed by 3 months a ketogenic diet combined to a time restricted kind of intermittent fasting, which basically means that I started to skip breakfast. My glycose and insulin levels normalized and the liver fat went away.

I can't pinpoint which factor contributed the most, but I continue to do intermittent fasting skipping breakfasts. When I feel like it, I try to fast for 24h, usually 2 to 3 times a month. It really isn't that difficult, it just takes discipline and focus.

Regarding your advice, I'd like to add just a point: drink more water, true, but also try to increase your salt intake. It seems to make a lot of difference in the beginning, alleviating possible side effects.

gpribeiro··on Out-of-bounds write in systemd-resolved with crafted TCP payload
"A malicious DNS server can exploit this by responding with a specially crafted TCP payload to trick systemd-resolved in to allocating a buffer that's too small, and subsequently write arbitrary data beyond the end of it."

When your program doesn't handle a malformed input, and this leads to a buffer overflow, it's your fault. When this program is something as important as systemd, the problem is even worse.

gpribeiro··on European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
Capitalism implies economic agents that follow fair rules. What this ruling shows is that EU haven't forgot what capitalism is all about.
gpribeiro··on Efficient music players remain elusive
Even though a little late to the party, I just wanted to give my vote to the best Windows music client I know, XMPlay [0], which, with a minimalist skin [1], for me is unbeatable. Does anyone else use it?

[0]: http://support.xmplay.com/ [1]: http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=308

gpribeiro··on Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
> Paying Gmail users never received the email-scanning ads like the free version of the program, but some business customers were confused by the distinction and its privacy implications, said Diane Greene, Google’s senior vice president of cloud.

Google doesn't read e-mails from GSuite. So the change is to stop reading from Gmail's free accounts.

gpribeiro··on America is now a second-tier country
I understand that naming the US as America can bother some people, specially in countries where it is taught that America is a continent (like here in Brazil and in some places in Europe, from what I've heard), but I can't see how this point brings anything useful to this conversation. Anyway, it is just a naming convention that is taught differently in diferent places, why should it matter?
gpribeiro··on Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
Firefox OS is getting discontinued, not Firefox the browser.
gpribeiro··on Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet
Sorry, but there are a lot of disagreement about your "coup d'etat". A portion of the population, me included, don't see it as a coup, as the deposition of the president followed, and is following, the law. I don't think here is the place to have this kind of discussion, but I just wanted to make it clear that that are opposing ideas on this...

Regardless, I think that social media in general was key to some very important social movements here, but you won't agree with my examples :). But I agree it wasn't clear what he was referring to in case of Brazil.

gpribeiro··on Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torrent site
The last case involved a judge asking Whatsapp to implement a backdoor in its services.
gpribeiro··on Bluetooth LED bulbs
Just made an account to say this and you beat me to it.

I built a garage door opening sensor using an ESP8266 (connected to my home wifi) and a magnetic contact switch. I'm also using TelAPI to send me SMS messages every time the garage door is opened.

It is very simple to do, and kind of cheap.