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Comment Re:Here's one reason for manga piracy (Score 1) 54

there is also the case where a story starts being translated to other languages but, due to a multitude of reasons, see the official translations end without giving non-japanese readers a way to read those stories other than via unofficial translations.

one of my favorite series, Full Metal Panic, was never fully translated to english or portuguese (my language), despite the story being concluded in 2013. Lone Wolf and the Cub is another example of a story that took decades to be fully translated to portuguse.

Comment Twitter/X vs Brazil (Score 1) 255

while the article fails to mention it directly, it quotes "Independent regulators now police social media companies, including prominent American platforms like X, and threaten immense fines for non-compliance with their strict speech regulations.”

This directly indicates this ban is (partially) aimed at Brazil's Supreme Court ban on Twitter/X because the platform failed to follow the law in Brazil, and failed to follow a a Supreme Court ruling against a group of misinformation/propaganda users.

Comment Re: Distance from Equator, not Separation (Score 1) 104

do you live in Brazil ? i do, in the southernmost state (near uruguay). I usually wake up with the sun light in the morning. That means that during the summer i wake up at 5h30 and during winter i wake up at 08h!
with DST that difference will be smaller and better for my body, since i feel drained earlier at night for waking up this early

Comment Re:So long and thanks for all the confusion (Score 1) 64

based on the pictures i saw on another article, the new device looks double the side of the current chromecast dongle. It will also support multiple ports, so i figured that is the reason behind the more expensive price tag.

Most people will only need the HDMI port and USB-C/Power input, and the smaller size is also one of the reasons i liked it so much. I hope this does not become another smartphone industry war, where each new device is bigger and bigger than the previous, even though 99% of their consumers will only use the same functions already provided by the current hardware.

Comment not how geeks and nerds work (Score 2) 239

> it spreads quickly to not only the front-end dev community
That is not exactly how Geeks and Nerds work on Open Software tools.
Even if the US Govt stops using Firefox, several countries still use it, and >7% of desktop users still do. These people will need to have their Frontend frameworks / libraries work with the mozilla browser. And even if that number goes to 1%, you will still have geeks and nerds working on supporting the browser just because they feel like it.

Comment hope it reduces garbage in the NL (Score 1) 42

I move to the Netherlands a couple of years ago.

A thing that often surprises me is the amount of used furniture that people abandon on the streets to rot, and later be picked up on garbage day. It's one of the most wasteful things i ever seen. I have found even a mini-fridge and a 4-seater sofa on the streets once.

I already managed to home two garden chairs out of it, and some other small pieces of furniture.

Comment let phones be phones (Score 1) 33

there are plenty of reasons to love the current iphone se
- small size
- small weight
- seamless camera
- still have an audio jack
- the materials used to make it
- no useless gizmos i dont care about, like faceid

if i want a better camera, i can use my canon camera
if i want i bigger handheld device, i can just use my ipad

let phones just be phones

Comment Re:If agile doesnt work for you, switch (Score 1) 235

The ability to point to any success story in the world and assert 'Agile' as the cause (even if the developers didn't claim they were doing Agile) combined with any bad examples as 'well they just didn't embrace Agile the right way'.

Aye aye. You will see rotten apples in this industry, as much as you'd see in any other. And there is no easy way to tell them from the fresh apples in the bucket.

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