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Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine on Saturday September 29, 2018 @09:44AM (#18100263)
GNOME does.
Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:54PM (#17811340)
Also available in flathub.org
In the Brazilian voting machine this is often done. You type the numbers and it loads the candidate info in the screen. Once you click [Confirm] the screen gets blank with the message of success. Therefore the only way to take a picture is before the vote is actually processed. You have a [Reset] button to re-enter the numbers.
Re:Twitter employee deactivates Trump account on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:40AM (#15617831)
I am surprised at how many cynical people think that asking for Trump to be removed from Twitter has anything to do with censorship or violation of first amendment rights.

Twitter is a private business and its content is controlled by the company itself. If Twitter comes to the point when they would delete Trump's account, that would be the equivalent of kicking him out of your house. It is your house, your rules.

Right wingers tend to conveniently bend the borderline between public and private whenever it benefits them.

Re:Giving you more characters on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:46AM (#15364168)
I suggest the characters limit to grow/shrink dynamically based on the percentage of tweets that reach the limit.
Re:How to Study Physics (1949) on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:18AM (#15364059)
The fact that many "battles" weren't as heated as today sounds like you are implying that they aren't as important or worth fighting.

At some point the "battle" for slavery abolition wasn't very heated either.

p.s.: I'm NOT, in any way, putting both causes at the same level but they both sound legit to me.

Re:How to Study Physics (1949) on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:13AM (#15364041)
Yes, in Portuguese (my native language) it is the same.

For instance, "amigos" means "friends" with at least one male (the example of 50 women in a room and 1 man). "amigas" would be "friends" with only women/females.

There is in Brazilian Portuguese (probably in other pt speaking countries as well) a movement of people pushing for the usage of letter-tokens to turn gender-specific words into gender-neutral. In this case, they would use "amigxs" or "amig@s".

Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:34AM (#15363908)
Engineering is a political act!
Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:31AM (#15363894)
/me is looking forward for a new planet without politics </sarcasm>
Re:Is wealth inequality just…math? on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:21AM (#15337950)
You are definitely not an economist.
Re:The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:16AM (#15337923)
I love the smell of tex equations early in the morning.
Re:Chelsea Manning barred from entering Canada on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:13AM (#15337905)
she was probably never a "he".
Re:Cuban Embassy Attacks and the Microwave Auditory Effect on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:18AM (#15337690)
Never take Julian serious. They are not even a wiki.
Re:OpenMoko: 10 Years After on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:23PM (#14841780)
I remember John "Maddog" Hall speaking about it in Brazil. I was just a kid at the time.
Unfortunately they just need a "bigger evil" to forget it and move into their arms.
Re:Linux is not as safe as you think on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:33AM (#14709566)
1. click bait.

2. I would like to see the absolute numbers for the 300% increase vs. windows decrease information.

3. "it is easy to find vulnerability in open source", that's a dishonest way to put it.

You could say the same about using Windows.
Re:Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:53AM (#14654059)
In many countries you just need to write-read to be able to run for a gov position.
Re:Author of cURL denied entry to the USA on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:21AM (#14645608)
Brazil has a mirror policy with the US when it comes to Visas.
Re:NSA OSS Technologies on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:05PM (#14605670)
What about using the state infrastructure/technology to spy in the Brazilian state oil company and steal engineering secrets to hand to american competitors?
you don't.
Re:Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.? on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:49PM (#14605483)
yep yep. What should be discussed is why the C-section rate is much higher than it should be in US.
I live in the Czech Republic and I can find both in glass jars.
Re:Introduction to Microsoft To-Do on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:25AM (#14154870)
Does it have a public API?
yep. Or you could get it with an extension, if you wish. :)
It is worth mentioning the huge spam potential that ~unlimited~ @mentions can have: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8Nvg4EUwAE3Kzx.jpg (screenshot)

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