Yesterday, I had to reinstall Windows 10 on a computer because the owner was complaining it was too slow. After a successful, albeit slow, reinstall, I had to change the language. This computer had Windows in English and the owner wanted it in European Portuguese. So, after reinstalling the OS, I selected the European Portuguese language in the system options (or whatever it is called) and chose the pt-PT langpack. ...
Image from the addon page Image from the addon page Lately, I’ve been switching between Gnome and Plasma. Both are great desktop environments and, like all the other software in the world, both have some shortcomings. So, this is not a flamewar post, nor is intended to start yet another one. Yesterday, I logged on a Plasma session and opened Firefox to check my email, social network accounts and read the news. Moments after firing up the browser, I got a Plasma notification about an integration with my browser of choice. I clicked on it and it opened the page for an add-on on the official add-ons website for Firefox. ...
Read The Autocracy App, published in The New York Review of Books, and draw your own conclusions. It’s a long, but well worth, text about the impacts of Facebook on our societies and the apparent inclination it has for favoring dictatorships and autocracies. It gave me the chills…
WARNING Third-party repositories will be enabled and it was only tested on Fedora 28. This could have an impact on your system ranging from none to destroying all cat videos on the internet. You have been warned. Disable annoying AMD iommu warnings on boot Only for some AMD CPUs, like mine, an AMD A9-9420 Edit the /etc/default/grub file and append the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line: iommu=soft amd_iommu=off Full example: ...
Google Chrome is such a privacy hell that it has become it’s own hell in the japanese folklore. You’re better off with Firefox and you get better performance. But if you really want Chrome, Ungoogled Chromium is based on the previous (technically, it’s based on Chromium) with some bits removed for added privacy.
A few days ago I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 320-15AST. I had a budget of €400 and, after browsing a few stores for a couple of hours, I found this one for a bit less than €350. At the hardware level, the computer has reasonable specs. They are (retrieved from inxi): CPU: AMD A9-9420 dual core (1397MHz/3000MHz | boost: 3600MHz) GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M260/M265 HDD: 1000.2GB 5400RPM RAM: 8GB DDR4 This is the first time I’m buying Lenovo. I’ve always had a preference for Asus that dates around two decades, either in laptops or in desktops and components. Also, I haven’t used AMD for probably 10 years or more, but I have good memories of their CPUs at the time, so let’s see how this goes. The expectations are high. ...
In order to adapt a bit more my Debian Stable installation to my workflow, I’ve been tweaking the bash prompt. Simplicity and small line width are key here, because I often have tmux running with several panes in the same window and small panes with large one-liner prompts suck a lot! Everything feels crammed and hard to read. Just take a look at the image below to get an idea. ...
Que raio se passará com o site do Facebook? Cada vez demora mais a carregar, faz a temperatura do processador do meu portátil disparar e está cheio de coisas a tentar roubar constantemente um bocadinho da minha atenção. Na volta é por estar cheio de porcarias como esta. Facebook answered 2,000 questions posed by the Senate Committee. Among these, Facebook explained that it collects information about users’ computers, phones, or other connected devices, including their mouse, reports India Today. The main purpose is to personalize content, but mouse movements are also tracked to help the company analyze whether a user is a bot or not. A person’s mouse movements also reveal whether Facebook is open on the foreground or background of their computer—so Facebook knows if you’re actually browsing the site, or merely have it open in one of a dozen different browser tabs. ...
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As passwords são tão importantes quanto são difíceis de gerir. Este é um dos motivos que nos leva a utilizar as mesmas palavras-passe repetidamente e a descartamos a complexidade em favor do facilitismos quando escolhemos/criamos uma. As passwords também são difíceis de escolher. As regras recomendadas há uns tempos atrás, em que nos diziam para combinar maiúsculas com números e caracteres especiais (o # ou o _ sendo dois exemplos), já não são párias para um pequeno cluster de placas gráficas a processar informação para o hashcat. ...