Manual do Usuário
Manual do Usuário
Rodrigo Ghedin
Technology blog in Portuguese and English maintained by Rodrigo Ghedin.
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Editor’s note: Job openings are a recurring topic in the Manual supporters’ WhatsApp group. In a recent conversation there were so many useful LinkedIn tips that we ended up with a kind of playbook for doing well on the platform. Thanks...
Ecosia, the search engine that directs its profits to climate action, asks whether there’s a “green” alternative for generative AI in the title of this post — and in the same post’s headline answers that “the world’s greenest AI is...
Part of most people’s learning curve when they start coding is trying projects that, with luck, might become useful to themselves and others. In May I wanted to get a better handle on the WhatsApp API. I set up my local environment,...
Mustafa SuleymanCEO da Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman’s outburst is a reaction to Windows 11 users’ criticism of another Microsoft exec, Pavan Davuluri, who said Windows is evolving into an “agentic” operating system. “Agentic” is a...
I was flattered to get a reply from Anil Dash to my post about the backlash Mozilla faces for its plan to add AI to Firefox. I’ve read Anil for a long time and admire his work. That said, I respectfully disagree with his arguments —...
Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce. Based on Mozilla’s official announcement...
The excellent KeePassXC, an offline, open‑source password manager, is at the center of a controversy over the use of AI‑generated code after the project’s collaboration policy and README added this paragraph: Generative AI is fast...
Reuters shed light on Meta’s lucrative business built on selling fraudulent ads on its platforms — Facebook and Instagram. Internal company documents obtained by the news agency show that 10.1% of Meta’s 2024 revenue, or US$ 16 billion,...
A few months ago, youtubers reported unsolicited interventions by Google to “improve” their videos with generative AI. It appeared to be a test; now it’s official. Channel owners can disable this feature in Studio: go to Settings,...
Jason Lefkowitz@jalefkowit@vmst.io
In the same vein as the “phones that will stop running WhatsApp” beat, Brazilian news sites seem to have found a new evergreen click source for tech desks imported from Forbes’: millions of leaked Gmail passwords. There is, in fact, a...
Many people were surprised to learn on the 20th that Signal uses Amazon/AWS infrastructure. Signal’s president, Meredith Whittaker, had to explain why: Instant messaging demands near-zero latency. Voice and video in particular require...
I find it fascinating that so many people fall for the fallacy that artificial intelligence is reliable enough to guide decision‑making. And sometimes I find it funny, too. Brazilian startup Jumpad is intriguing from the pitch itself: a...
On macOS 26 Tahoe, run this command to disable Liquid Glass: defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES Kinda shocked this is possible. Is Liquid Glass just a skin layered on top of macOS’s now‑classic UI? That would...
Framework, which makes and sells modular, repairable computers, is facing a small uprising on its official forum after announcing sponsorships of the Hyprland and Omarchy projects — a Linux window manager and a pseudo‑distro based on...