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jt_rebelo

@jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt

Não gosto de fazer parte do problema, prefiro fazer parte da solução. Gamer e Techie. GIF overload. Atleta não praticante. Boosting ≠ Endorsement.
Migrei de mastodon.social (25.04.2022) e masto.pt (03.01.2024)
Imagem de Perfil: "Jan 21 2011 [Day 081] "Spartan"" por JamesInOregon, sob licença CC BY 2.0, visite https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Cabeçalho: "UB Law Library - Scaffolding" por James G. Milles, sob licença CC BY 2.0., visite https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Some stuff we've pulled out of abandoned houses just left to rot:

A leather picture frame with an old time military painting, if you think you can tell me what it is of that would be awesome
An old Victorian Chest
This insane mid-century lamp it is pretty tall and is a very shiny copper color with ornate metal decoration

jt_rebelo,
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@RickiTarr I know little about the second image, but it depicts the same picture as here https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Print-Commander-in-Chief-Aide-de-Camp-Line-Officers-1779-1783-by-Ogden-/321632469008?_ul=DO (and I think it is George Washington on the horse).

jt_rebelo,
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@RickiTarr you're welcome, glad to help.
I had previously seen this one as part of a "George Washington does things" meme thread that was doing rounds in Tumblr some time ago, the commander-in-chief was always saying something to/about his wife Martha in comic sans, mostly acting like an absent father and/or a not-really-there husban.
The OG painting provenance: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-e78c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

alanferrier, to random
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The laughable assertion from the Tories that "Britain is the Second Most Powerful Country in the World," (backed up by an article in the Daily Express, FFS) reminds me of this from Professor Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge. https://archive.is/6NC4N

jt_rebelo,
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@alanferrier 1 of 2
The English have been unable to recognise how much of their society and its norms was constructed during the imperial period and in order to sustain empire, and have therefore been unable to mourn the empire's passing or to escape from the compulsion to recreate it. Over three centuries the needs of empire shaped England's systems of government, national and local, its Church, its schools and universities, the traditions of its armed and police forces, its youth movements, its sports, its BBC, its literature, and its cuisine.
The end of empire meant the end of all this. And because England has been unable to acknowledge that loss, it has also been unable to acknowledge the end of English exceptionalism, the end of the characterlessness the English had enjoyed as rulers of the world - with no need of distinct features to mark them off from their equals since they had no equals, embodying, as they did, the decency, reasonableness and good sense by which they assumed the rest of the world privately measured its lesser achievements and to which they assumed it aspired. The trauma of lost exceptionalism, the psychic legacy of empire, haunts the English to the present day, in the illusion that their country needs to find itself a global role.

jt_rebelo,
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@alanferrier 2 of 2
Of course it IS an illusion: do roughly comparable countries such as Germany or Italy or Japan have such a need? The psychosis, the willed triumph of illusion over reality revealed by the [Brexit] referendum result, is most damagingly still at work in the determination of the English to cling on to their old exceptional status as anonymous masters of the United Kingdom and of the other nations with which they have to share the Atlantic Archipelago.
For the English, the United Kingdom occupies the psychic space once filled by the empire: it is the last guarantor of their characterlessness, it is the phantom which in the English mind substitutes for the England which the English will not acknowledge is their only home. They will not acknowledge it lest they become just another nation like everybody else, with a specific, limited identity, a specific history, neither specially honourable nor specially dishonourable, with limited weight, limited resources, and limited importance in the world now that their empire is no more.
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fkamiah17, to random
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It's not our fault, it's because our army doesn't obey orders.
Yaniv Kubovich is a military reporter with Haaretz.

jt_rebelo,
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@fkamiah17 @MadeyeTheCarnaptious not even going for the easy "just following orders" cop-out answer, or are the higher-ups washing their hands, the Pontius Pilate way?

jt_rebelo, to Taiwan
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As for 's , the ensuing has reached and . is under tsunami alert, please evacuate to a safe location. If you are a foreigner in Japan, please stay alert, watch NHK World and follow the authorities' advice. When in doubt, follow the local authorities and seek help of locals, as they are more used to tsunami alert procedures and react timely.

futurebird, to random
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What kind of entertainment are "Let's Play" series?

It's a bit like a reality show, a bit like a how to program, a bit like a role playing game.

Role Playing games are under-appreciated as art forms because they can't be easily mass distributed. I call them "collaborative story telling"

The "Let's Play" is even more alien to the people who study great literature and movies.

But they still should be engaged with as art, analyzed like art, valued like art. (preserved for history like art)

jt_rebelo,
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@futurebird they also democratise access to a costly medium of entertainment. I don't have a PlayStation and I've seen many Sony's console exclusives being played, or games of consoles I own but that I don't have the money to pay for/wouldn't experience for the price they're sold at.

dangillmor, to random
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Reddit's business plan involves selling the very words -- the conversations -- that unpaid subreddit managers and users pour into the site. Who's buying? The big "AI" companies.

The ugliest part of this exploitive plan is that it might work, at least until the current AI bubble implodes.

jt_rebelo,
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@dangillmor I overwrote all my posts with impossible to understand gibberish, but seemingly normal wording, before deleting my account. I know they can restore/use the previous version of the posts, but if everyone did that, how could they keep it profitable?

GossiTheDog, to random
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    jt_rebelo,
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    @GossiTheDog company CEO: 1st quarter was really good, we have a share buyback operation going on, I sell my shares and jump out with my golden parachute. Done.

    jt_rebelo, to microsoft Portuguese
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    @d3 @fsfe
    pela Portaria n.⁰ 395/2024/2 (de 29.02.2024), hoje (18/03/2024) publicada em Diário da República, a Direcção-Geral do Orçamento fica autorizada a assumir os encargos orçamentais resultantes da celebração de contrato de aquisição de licenciamento de software para os anos de 2024, 2025 e 2026, até ao montante de €362.243,97, mais IVA.
    Mais 445 mil euros de dinheiro público para Código Fechado, para a MS.

    jt_rebelo, to random Portuguese
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    Um dos denunciantes da Boeing foi encontrado morto nos EUA, dias depois de iniciar o seu depoimento na investigação aberta contra a empresa.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

    jt_rebelo, to random Portuguese
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    Para quem dizia que Portugal não é racista e xenófobo, parece que há pelo menos um milhão de racistas e xenófobos.
    Não me venham com a conversa do voto de protesto, isso era se votassem no Manuel João Vieira para PR...
    Se pensam como fachos, andam como fachos e falam como fachos, é porque são fachos. Quem vota em fachos é facho, independentemente das supostas razões, há não fachos a quem entregar votos de protesto se o votante não for facho.

    bossito, to random Portuguese
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    O "caso ADN" é igual ao "caso PCTP/MRPP" que sempre tirou votos à CDU. A culpa é da campanha do PSD que brincou com o branding do partido... E dos eleitores distraídos, demasiado para voltarem em quem queriam.

    Conclusão: o PSD perdeu mais votos para o ADN do que os votos que ganhou com CDS e PPM à custa de vários deputados 😆 enfim, péssimo negócio e querem governar.

    jt_rebelo,
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    @bossito https://masto.pt/@Pndulo/112073531370763856

    jt_rebelo, to random
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    I once again repeat my call for opensource platform agnostic alternatives to #OneDrive that could work like it (I mean, on and offline access on Linux, Windows and mobile, with safety measures in place that respect the GDPR letter and spirit). Paid or not (I'll donate to libre projects of course).
    Or I'll end up with some kind of storage connected to the Internet for out-of-office access. #Fedihelp #TechHelpNeeded
    https://masto.pt/@tugatech/112065545804636620

    jt_rebelo, to random Portuguese
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    Considerando o facto de serviço atrás de serviço do Estado Português (sobretudo os Tribunais) fazer uso do WebEx, cada dia que passa me sinto "mais" seguro.
    https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112037258202235341

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    Still thinking about the concept of studying ant communication by getting down to ant level. Make a tiny robot (we don't know how to make walking robots that small, so wheels it is) the robot would have a camera, little pads to collect pheromones (which could be dropped off to be analyzed) antennae IR sensors and maybe a way to stridulate?

    Then one could really find out what's going on in there.

    Worst case you have made an immersive ant VR experience!

    jt_rebelo,
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    @futurebird there is a Drone Racing League (https://youtube.com/@Thedroneracingleague), but apart from the cost, motion sickness is a big factor.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    @GossiTheDog and since you are the source, even if you classified it as TLP:RED, it would be for our (recipients) eyes only, so we couldn't share it with othera, not you. Am I missing something, or was the "request" made by NoName themselves?

    jt_rebelo, to random Portuguese
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    @pluralistic Radicalized's "Unauthorised bread" was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a manual for HP to enshittify printing through Printing as a Service... https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112017332382343903

    mntmn, to random
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    me designing laptop electronics using pencil 😵‍💫

    sketching and measuring the whole motherboard to rk3588 sandwich height

    jt_rebelo,
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    @mntmn I bet there is a single german word or long expression about an unsharpened pencil. Or one that is used in several contexts with different meanings. 😂

    jt_rebelo,
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    @mntmn we found one, one, situation were the german language hasn't found a word with 20 characters to speak about it. Yet. 😁

    EposVox, to random
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    Crunchyroll is shutting down the Funimation streaming service and deleting everyone's purchased copies of stuff, while also hiking their own prices.
    Stop paying for streaming media. Buy things you actually own. Or get it elsewhere.

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    @EposVox #Alt4You #AltText screen capture of Crunchyroll asnwer to the question "What is going to happen to my digital copies?
    We understand that you may have concerns about your digital copies from Funimation. Please note that Crunchyroll does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which means that access to previously available digital copies will not be supported. However, we are continuously working to enhance our content offerings and provide you with an exceptional anime streaming experience. We appreciate your
    understanding and encourage you to explore the extensive anime library available on Crunchyroll".

    manu, (edited ) to random
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    jt_rebelo,
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    @manu cartoon by manu[at]twit.social showing a large number of people walking around a table with iPhones in their hands and looking at them. In the background we can see silhouettes of people also using Apple devices, since the white apple is seen, but not those people faces.
    At the table, in the bottom of the image, there are several persons sitting, all using Apple laptops.
    At the center bottom of the image, against a white background, is written in black "Think different.".

    hrbrmstr, to random
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    I honestly did not expect to wake up to the start of the second civil war in 'Murica. At least not this soon in 2024.

    jt_rebelo,
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    @hrbrmstr ?!?

    jt_rebelo,
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    @hrbrmstr thank you, I don't use the dumpsterfire site and those news hadn't reached Mastodon, nor the media on the other side of the Atlantic.
    My oh my, I did not have a situation like this one on my punchcard this early in the year. Well, bound to happen, so let's punch it already... Secession or overthrow of government are next... God help the US and everyone.
    What a year 2024 is becoming!
    @rmflight

    GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    Cyber incident at Equilend

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/wall-street-s-stock-lending-tech-firm-goes-down-in-cyberattack?leadSource=uverify%20wall

    https://archive.ph/rxLUX

    jt_rebelo,
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    @GossiTheDog screenshot from bloomberg.com, article "Lockdown Enabled", which says:
    "For its part, ICBC has told users that its US division is back online and operational, the people said. One person familiar with the hack and investigation said a reason the bank could get back online quickly was that a key part of its
    trading system was unaffected by the attack - a server that was more than 20 years old, made by now-defunct IT equipment maker Novell Inc.
    That server contained much of the bank's trading data and capabilities and is so old that LockBit's ransomware didn't work on it, the person said."

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