dsilverz

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Isn't a file browser needed for browsing the saved documents and spreadsheets?

Not to mention that office suites (such as WPS, OpenOffice and LibreOffice) will inevitably pop up a file browser when the "Open" or "Save" buttons/menu items are clicked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

/r/unexpectedfactorial (2!)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Indeed, but even hiring and giving citizenship for such people (nazi scientists, military and engineers), especially considering how they got their "knowledge" isn't an "ok" thing. Neither for US's Paperclip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In Brazil, there are regional variations and word/phrasing variations as well.

Formally:

  • "Você ligou para o número errado" (you called the wrong number)
  • "Você discou o número errado" (you dialed for the wrong number )
  • "Você está ligando para o número errado" (we call it the "gerúndio", something like "-ing", as in "You're calling the wrong number")

Informally/casually:

  • "Discou errado, irmão" / "Discou errado, mano" / "Discou errado, cara" / "Discou errado, mermão" ("dialed wrongly, bro", with "bro" variations across Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (the latter being the latter variation))
  • "Tu ligasse errado, visse" (some Brazilian northeast states, something like "Thou calledsth wrongly, see?")
  • "Né aqui não, moço" (Minas Gerais, something like "It's not here, boy")

There are lots of other variations and I'm not really aware of all of them.

Also, the way I answer depends a lot on multiple factors such as: my emotional state (wrath? Sad? Okay? Excitedly happy (rarely)?), my current pace (rushing? Chilling?), among others. Generally, "Não é aqui não" (the Minas Gerais variation without the ending "moço" and a fully spelled "Não é" instead of "Né", because I'm originally from interior of São Paulo state but highly culturally influenced by a part of the family from Minas Gerais).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

On my laptop, Brave for non-"personal" things (such as fediverse, SoundCloud, AI tools, daily browsing, etc) and Firefox for "personal" things (such as WhatsApp Web, LinkedIn, accessing local govt. services, etc). On my smartphone, Firefox for everything (I disabled the native Chrome).

I've been using Brave in a daily basis because it's well integrated with adblocking tools, especially considering the ongoing strife regarding Chromium's Manifest V2 support, where Brave nicely stands keeping its Manifest V2 support independently of what Google wishes or not.

Firefox is also good, but I noticed that, for me, it has been slightly heavier than Brave. So I use it parallel to Brave, for things I don't need to use often. For mobile, it's awesome, as it is one of the few browsers that support extensions, so I use Firefox for Android, together with adblocking extensions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

"The system can listen to conversations".

What a timely coincidence! Patent got published basically at the same time Meta's, Google's and Microsoft's "Active Listening" got public as well. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Regarding privacy, PGP is far better than out-of-the-shelf IM-embedded encryption, if used correctly. Alice uses Bob's public key to send him a message, and he uses his private key to read it. He uses Alice's public key to send her a message, and she uses her private key to read it. No one can eavesdrop, neither governments, nor corporations, nor crackers, no one except for Alice and Bob. I don't get why someone would complain about "usability", for me, it's perfectly usable. Commercially available "E2EEs" (even Telegram's) aren't trustworthy, as the company can easily embed a third-party public key (owned by themselves) so they can read the supposedly "end-to-end encrypted" messages, like a "master key" for anyone's mailboxes, just like PGP itself has the possibility to encipher the message to multiple recipients (e.g. if Alice needs to send a message to both Bob and Charlie, she uses both Bob's and Charlie's public keys; Bob can use his own private key (he won't need Charlie's private key) to read, while Charlie can use his own private key to do the same).

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