Last Notes
Better days will come. I believe it.😐
Donnie: “Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?”
Frank: “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
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English is the universal language, we can say that. But in Brazil, this is somewhat analogous to capitalism in the sense that being bilingual is not common; it puts you outside the norm.
I’ve noticed a real lack of access to technology-related knowledge in the country. Few people know much about it, and those who do often keep that knowledge... in English.
I’m going to start posting more in Portuguese on the blog and here as well. To encourage interaction. To promote it. Maybe this is a chance to do something different.
After years of using Material for MkDocs, I just found out that it has entered maintenance mode. I’m going to migrate my personal documentation to Zensical. 🙄
hey friends, we’ve also been working on tuno on the side. it’s very experimental and much less mature than bimbooo, but it’s open for testing. fair warning: it has approximately 4 billion and 3 bugs, but it’s getting there.
https://tuno.place/
Visiting my cousin Monique's country place, with a little mutt and a waterfall right on the property. What a spectacular spot!
#Photography #Nature #Waterfall #Dogs #Countryside
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I’m building a very precarious Usenet network at https://skull.black. I’ve spent the whole day working on it, and it’s actually coming together nicely. I thought I was “done” until I got the idea to share binaries alongside the board.
Right now, nearly 13 hours later, I’m disabling cyclic CNFS to allow for unlimited retention!
Anyway, if anyone wants to study Usenet, you’re more than welcome to join this experiment born out of creative idleness.
This is Bela, my cousin’s daughter. She’s such a beautiful, adorable little girl, and that smile is impossible not to love.
#Family #PortraitPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Childhood #LittleMoments
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Went for a walk at Parque das Águas in São Lourenço today. It's always good to spend some time here and recharge.
#Photography #ParqueDasÁguas #SãoLourenço #Nature #MinasGerais
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Amon
#dog #dogs
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late night vibes
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developing with WSL on Windows is so satisfying! 😌
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Absolutely not, haha I'm sorry my late replies, it didn't show notifications on my own build app :( I promise to fix
well, the servers are down right now, so getting federation working is kinda tricky, buuuut here’s a link explaining bimbooo and zion wallet:
https://pablomurad.com/bimbooo-and-zion-wallet/
Bimbooo (https://bimb.ooo) has been really well received! I honestly didn’t expect us to have so many active users after just two days. Now we’re working on Tuno Notes 😎
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My friends, please forgive me for not replying as quickly as I’d like. I wasn’t getting notifications for messages and replies... I’ll fix that soon!
Self-knowledge, trying to become a better person, day after day! :)
This is a pretty experimental project: https://bimb.ooo :D
Maybe you’ll like it.
Welcome to bimbooo.
🐘
Gram is strangely nice to use.
#gram
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our brilliant illustrator, Gabriela Maçom, just sent me the artwork for a project she, Gustavo, and I are working on. it’s wonderfully weird, and I love it.
😍
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In Brazil, we have an expression: sossega o facho. It basically means “calm down and take it easy.” I’m not familiar with the concept: sussurra.me
Better days will come. I believe it.😐
Do you know what a Monte Carlo simulation is? It’s basically a way of making projections when you have no idea exactly what’s going to happen.
You take a bunch of assumptions, run thousands of possible combinations, and look at how the results spread out.
In short: every manager’s nightmare.
🫣
Especially when I’m the one who has to show the projections to the executive team.
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Donnie: “Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?”
Frank: “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
https://pablo.news/uploads/e7393eaccb9446e7.jpg
English is the universal language, we can say that. But in Brazil, this is somewhat analogous to capitalism in the sense that being bilingual is not common; it puts you outside the norm.
I’ve noticed a real lack of access to technology-related knowledge in the country. Few people know much about it, and those who do often keep that knowledge... in English.
I’m going to start posting more in Portuguese on the blog and here as well. To encourage interaction. To promote it. Maybe this is a chance to do something different.
A Motto of Love
If you long to reach the realms of peace,
Do not pursue vain riches, nor harbor any shadow.
Sorrow and affliction, one by one,
Clear from your path, and leave them far behind.
When faced with blows and snares along the road,
Reveal the fullest strength of goodness you possess.
And when evil surrounds you, or wounds you, overcome it
As silently as sunlight conquers cold and mist.
Forgive those who fail to understand,
And bless, throughout your life,
The lips that kiss you
And, moments later, mock you.
Let self-improvement be your purpose,
And helping others your delight.
From the splendor of the stars
To the humbleness of dust,
Here is love’s motto for eternal victory:
Give, serve, restore, work, and forget.
#poem #books
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After years of using Material for MkDocs, I just found out that it has entered maintenance mode. I’m going to migrate my personal documentation to Zensical. 🙄
After spending the entire night and early morning documenting the services I host, it’s time for a short walk on this rainy day. It feels so good to breathe. ❤️
#brazil #wild
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I’ve spent the last six hours organizing and documenting my services. It’s starting to take shape, and I think it could turn out really well. It’s also the first website I’ve had hosted on GitHub in years. And of course, it’s entirely in my native language, Brazilian Portuguese.
https://docs.pablomurad.com/
😛
Over the past two years, I’ve had the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Colorsoft, Kobo, Xteink X3 and X4, and I finally think I’ve found a winner in the e-reader race: Bigme.
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Super happy to see that my first blog made it into the printed edition of the Internet Phone Book :) https://internetphonebook.net
I’m number 39, one of the first ones =D
I could put this into a metaphor, but I’d rather not. And I’d rather not be too direct either. What destroys me is wanting to help someone and being unable to. Having to watch something terrible happen while knowing there is nothing I can do, standing there with my hands tied in the face of someone else’s suffering. It feels like two different kinds of torture. One for the person going through it, and another for me, having to watch.
Some things, I choose to believe, are truly in God’s hands.
I do not believe in politics. I do not believe in sides. In good and evil. I do have faith in people, though. A great deal of faith. I believe in love for others and in understanding. In equality and fraternity among people all over the world. I dream, and I dream of a better tomorrow. The world was better when our political party was the human being as a whole.
And no, I do not deny evil; I know it exists. I just avoid talking about it. I do not give strength to something that should be disregarded, and that is not why this evil grows. You can be a monk and have darkness in your heart, or a rebel with the peace of a saint. Regardless, evil will prevail wherever love is absent.
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One of the wonderful things about Docker: building a minimal Ubuntu image inside Debian.
i spent the whole day editing the layout and design of the same system... i’m terrible at this, zero skills... at least 10 hours doing the same thing over and over again... and it turned out like shit.
Among the expressions that fill me with dread, one of them is: “We’re going to have to migrate the server.”
i need to find another problem in my life
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anyway, anyway, i found an old shelved project and decided to put it online. it must be about 6 years old by now, but it still works like a charm: https://exif.cool 😎
Three years ago, I bought 10 computers for the company with Intel 14900K processors.
Nine of them had problems because of the infamous microcode bug. Today, the tenth one finally gave up too... here we go again for another therapy session with Intel.
too tired to write properly, but anyway, i’m moving to a new house and i didn’t remember i had this many books :p
Brazil is an amazing country. We’ve perfected a national magic trick: your money disappears into taxes and fees, and somehow never makes it back to the people. Instead, it mysteriously reappears in the pockets of corrupt politicians. Nothing works properly, nothing gets fixed, and somehow Brazilians still applaud. It would be hilarious if we weren’t the ones paying for the show.
😒
my weather bbs :3
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My little system for keeping private tracker accounts alive worked so well that I’m thinking about distributing it on Unraid, hehe. 😋
i'll never be banned from a private tracker again
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Even after all this time, the sun asks nothing in return from the earth. It simply continues to give its light. That is what selfless love can do: it asks for no debt, demands no repayment, and still has the power to illuminate the whole sky.
#poem
As an old teacher of mine used to say: “You can teach a parrot to read, but you can’t teach it to think.”
#freemason
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This morning, I was thinking about building an email server based on Stalwart.
Now I sit down at my PC, open my email, and find an invitation to Thundermail.
Thundermail is built on Stalwart.
What am I supposed to do now?
Masonic insignia/plaque from when I served as Worshipful Master in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil.
#Freemasonry #Freemason #Masonic
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Final step: upgrade the company library server from Debian 12 to Debian 13.
Late-night session moving the videos from the VPS at https://pablo.tube into an S3 bucket... and it worked.
