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vitorgrs··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
I use exactly on Firefox, but maybe your use is less? With groups, etc it heavy super fast...
vitorgrs··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
It's a ram hog if you stay the tab open for a while, with ton of messages. So from time to time I need to close the tab and open again.

Huge perf issues because of this.

Also had some serious bugs for a few week. Had to let WhatsApp Web wait for completely sync for 15 minutes~ or else it just stop responding and crashes everything.

vitorgrs··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
It will use 1gb on your browser.
vitorgrs··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
If is anything like the WhatsApp Web, "works" might be optimistic choice of word.

When I switched from Windows, the thing that I missed from Windows on Linux was the native WhatsApp App. Now they killed there, so feeling better on my switch now!

vitorgrs··on Tell HN: Azure outage
At least in Brazil, that's not the case. You get there to vote, and it doesn't take longer than 5 minutes to leave the place.
vitorgrs··on Boring is what we wanted
Windows also need this for 10 years, since Windows 10 launch. But never happened. I guess it's just not really viable, as they need to continue selling new devices...
vitorgrs··on Keep Android Open
Especially considering how much software these days on Windows are all Electron/Web. So is not a hard switch as it once was.

I switched from Windows to Linux it's been 2 years. One of the few things I missed on Windows, was the native WhatsApp app, as the Web WhatsApp it's horrible. Then a few months Meta killed the native app and made into a webview-app :)

vitorgrs··on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
I mean... Edge already have copilot integrated for years, and Edge actually have users, unlike Atlas. Not sure why people are getting shocked now...
vitorgrs··on WhatsApp and Generative AI Propel Brazil into the Future of Finance
I still don't know why WhatsApp itself didn't integrated Pix on the app... as they have the flopped WhatsApp Pay. Google Wallet did it.

I think it must some Visa/Master contract?

vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
> Not in all cases. They can and will make the patient and multiple doctors fill out half a dozen forms to "justify" the use of an expensive medication.

But any doctor can do it, not just SUS doctors. You know the country we live in. Private doctors will do the prescription... Actually, to buy it you already need a prescription, and yet, even skinny healthy folks buy ozempic.

And to get in the SUS, it's pretty simple here in Paraná at least (and as a SUS user). The worst that happens, it's that for expensive/controlled medicines, they centralize into a single public pharmacy in the city center, and you need to schedule a day/time, and bring the ID - don't even need to be the user, you can ask anyone you want to get it if the prescription and ID it's there.

Which is why for my cheap medicine, I prefer to buy it. Not worth for me going to city center only for 30 pills that cost R$ 15.

vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
In Brazil, medicines lose patent protection 20 years after the original filing date. The filing date was in 2006, so the patent expires in 2026.

But note that the patent was only granted in 2019, it took 13 years. They went to court last year, but the justice (as far as I know) has continued to follow the precedent that the original filing date applies.

So they went to the federal government to try to change the law, but the government has refused so far.

The INPI (Brazilian Patent Office) used to take a VERY long time to register/grant patents. It's faster now (about 4 years on average), but it's still slow.

But I'm seeing here that in the US it was 2017. So not that different from 2019 anyway.

PS: Brazil also have several local labs focused on generics, and besides this, there's also state-owned lab, Fiocruz, who makes vaccines and medicines as well, several of them, to distribute though SUS.

In Brazil by the constitution, everyone has the right of health, so if the public health care (SUS) don't distribute, you can sue the governament and get the medicine. So there's a big incentive for the governament to make patents expire as soon as possible to have generics and include on SUS.

e.g Fiocruz manufacture PrEP, and started now PrEP injection (Cabotegravir).

vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
First, it seems obvious to me that they'll prescribe it to everyone who, supposedly, undergoes bariatric surgery through the SUS. Generic Ozempic is certainly cheaper than bariatric surgery.

That said, I believe it will go even further.

To get medication through the SUS, you only need a prescription from a doctor. Any doctor. So even if the SUS itself don't prescribe, you can just find a doctor who will do it...

But, likely SUS will prescribe anyway. Rio mayor:

"Rio will be a city where there will be no more chubby people; everyone will be taking Ozempic at family clinics." "Said the mayor, adding that he has already taken the medication. He claimed to have lost 30kg with the medication."

vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
Depends the price of the generics, of course. But I wouldn't doubt if the governament itself would manufacture it. Fiocruz (federal gov lab) already manufacture several drugs.

Also, Rio mayor already said he will just give to everyone basically lol

You also need to remind that on a public health care system, having less obese people means you'll spend less on health care.

vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
Yeah, sorry, it's just here we just talk about monthly wages. A month!
vitorgrs··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
In Brazil it will expire in July 2026. It's pretty relevant as it's kinda already announced they will put the generics on the public health care (SUS) for free... Which is big deal as an Ozempic shot costs almost the same as the minimum wage.

This year they already did an analysis to include Ozempic, but it was denied, probably because of the cost difference...

But they were trying on justice to extend the patent...

vitorgrs··on Semaglutide loses patent protection in '26 in India, Canada, Brazil and Turkey
It's relevant in Brazil because it's already announced the public health care system will distribute for free.
vitorgrs··on Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere
And... Sell in more countries as well.
vitorgrs··on Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads
In Brazil it went from R$ 59,90 to R$ 119,90.

Double.

vitorgrs··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Would you think that the U.S would encrypt gov data and store on Alibaba's Cloud? :)
vitorgrs··on GLM-4.6: Advanced Agentic, Reasoning and Coding Capabilies
GLM 4.5 for me one of the best coding model when running with agents such as Claude Code and Opencode (excluding Claude and GPT-5).

Looking forward to try GLM 4.6.

But Z AI should do like KIMI¹ and launch a verifier to see how GLM models behave on 3rd party providers.

[1] https://github.com/MoonshotAI/K2-Vendor-Verfier

vitorgrs··on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
I didn't even mention crime. Not sure why this question.

Obviously it doesn't stop all crimes, probably helps on some.

Just saying how there is a very different culture, where no one see having an ID as something weird and invasive.

vitorgrs··on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
As a Brazilian, it's pretty weird when I see that countries like UK or the U.S don't have national IDs.

Here that would be seen as a completely insane.

vitorgrs··on China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers
So, you are saying China is run by a chemical engineer? Xi studied that at Tsinghua University.
vitorgrs··on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
It always had dates... They release multiple versions and update regularly. Not sure if this is the first 2.5 Flash update, but pretty sure Pro had a few updates as well...

This is also the case with OpenAI and their models. Pretty standard I guess.

They don't change the versioning, because I guess they don't consider it to be "a new model trained from scratch".

vitorgrs··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
KDE as a whole feels "UI design made by programmers" no offense to programmers who do UI (and to KDE designers)
vitorgrs··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
KDE changed their design to include hamburger menu. Even KDE's Terminal have a "hamburger" menu.
vitorgrs··on DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?
DeepSeek chat it's free... No need to pay to test, thought.

https://chat.deepseek.com/

You can also use the API directly for free on OpenRouter.

vitorgrs··on Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex
Gemini seems to be pretty awful as agentic coding. It always finish the task, and when I see the result, it just breaks my code.

Not sure the fault it's "doing bad code", I guess it's just not being good at being agentic. Saw this on Gemini CLI and other tools.

GLM, Kimi, Qwen-Code all behaves better for me.

Probably Gemini 3 will fix this, as Gemini 2.5 Pro it's "old" by now.

vitorgrs··on Wind and solar power fuel over one-third of Brazil's electricity for first time
Didn't find any direct news mentioning specifics thermal plant being retired because of this, but I found several news of thermal plants being retired in the region (because some cities in other states in Amazon region were not connected).
vitorgrs··on Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
There was a poll released this week [1]:

[...] What is your position on the final outcome of the trial?

49.6% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be convicted

36.9% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be acquitted

¹ https://www.cnt.org.br/pesquisas

This is one of the few polls that got the 2022 election results right, so pretty big deal.

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