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República do Nojo
Sep 6, 2026 · original
This post is only available to RSS subscribers. Está foto é a imagem mais nojenta que todo brasileiro teve o desprazer de ver nessa semana. Após sessão plenária do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, Gilmar Mendes, Edson Fachin e Cristiano Zanin são flagrados rindo — Foto: Brenno Carvalho/Agência O Globo Nada mais, nada menos, temos alguns ministros do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) gargalhando em meio a uma das maiores crises institucionais e de credibilidade que o país já passou desde a redemocratização. E tudo isso no dia seguinte à queda do sigilo de um relatório da Polícia Federal relativo ao Banco Master, onde veio à tona mensagens muito nebulosas atribuídas ao ex-banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro e ao Ministro Alexandre de Morais (o indivíduo careca na foto), o mesmo o qual o escritório advocatício da esposa possuia um contrato de aproximadamente R$ 130 milhões de reais (~
Brazilian Elections Around the Corner: My Thoughts on the Main Candidates.
Jul 20, 2026 · original
This post is only available to RSS subscribers. This post is RSS-only because I don’t trust the current climate in Brazil. Call it paranoia if you want. I call it pattern recognition. People who criticize powerful institutions get dragged, doxxed, investigated, and turned into examples. I’m not volunteering to become content for someone else’s political theater. Anyway, the 2026 presidential race. Polls come and go, and Brazil is a country where sure thing candidates have a way of turning into how did that happen candidates overnight. Still, the basic shape of it is what you’d expect: Lula is sitting there like the default setting, and the opposition side is a messy pile of brands, egos, and people auditioning for attention. Lula, to me, is the symbol of everything that keeps Brazil stuck. Not because he’s the only problem, but because he’s the clearest proof the country never really dea
AUR
Jul 19, 2026 · original
As an Arch Linux user, I ve always praised the AUR (Arch User Repository) as one of Arch s greatest strengths. Actually, it s one of the reason why so many people recommend Arch. Last month, I found out that over 400 AUR packages were compromised in a massive supply chain attack, leaving me feeling the same frustration many of you probably felt as well. I spent some time researching, running some checks on my system, and figuring out whether my system was affected. What Was Compromised? As far as I know, the attack exploited the AUR s orphan-package adoption process , where attackers took over packages that had no active maintainer. The malicious code included: npm install atomic-lockfile (malicious npm package v1.4.2) bun install js-digest (second wave payload) Payload stored at: src/hooks/deps Step 1: Checking If I Had Compromised Packages Listing All My AUR Packages # Using yay (AUR h
Convocação da Seleção Brasileira
Jun 1, 2026 · original
A convocação da Seleção Brasileira para a Copa do Mundo de 2026 saiu há alguns dias e, como sempre, a cobertura da mídia vem sendo um show de horrores à parte. Impressiona como a imprensa esportiva brasileira perdeu completamente a capacidade de analisar futebol sem militar ou cair em clichês rasos. O caso Neymar é um ótimo exemplo, onde ninguém consegue discutir a convocação do cara sem transformar tudo em novela, julgamento moral ou pauta de rede social. Análise tática, contexto, futebol mesmo? Esquece… Na boa, a culpa do Neymar ser convocado de novo não é só dele, nem do técnico. Pra mim, Vinícius Jr. e Raphinha têm tanta responsabilidade quanto. Nenhum dos dois assumiu o protagonismo que se esperava na Seleção. O Vinícius, inclusive, só é tratado como craque absoluto por causa de militância e narrativa, porque, bola por bola, ainda não entregou metade do que se espera de quem vestia
Brazil Failed (Again) to Confront Organized Crime
May 31, 2026 · original
The Trump administration labeled Brazil s CV and PCC as terrorist organizations, and a spotlight was pointed straight at Brasília (our Capital), and at the embarrassing habit this shit government has of acting like semantics matter more than dead bodies. Marco Rubio, now running State, said the obvious about these groups. They re brutally violent, they don t stop at Brazil s borders, and they move money, weapons, drugs, people, influence… They export chaos through many regions and, yes, into the US. And this isn t a surprise for any sane Brazilian. I actually wrote a long post related to this last year . In 2025, David Gamble, the State Department s sanctions coordinator at the time, came to Brazil with a proposal tied to treating these factions as terrorist groups so the U.S. could hit them harder with sanctions. Reuters reported Lula s government rejected that approach and repeated the
MS cut Game Pass Subscription Prices
May 28, 2026 · original
Microsoft recently changed the Game Pass lineup and pricing here in Brazil. The small reductions and new tiers came after the unexpect price rise back in September of last year, user backlash and people cancelling their subscription. It felt more like damage control from the new CEO than putting customers first. Game Pass Essential is 43,90BRL/month (about $8.50 USD), Premium is 59,90BRL/month (about $11.60 USD), and Ultimate is 76,90BRL/month (about $14.90 USD). Ultimate remains the top tier, with access to console, PC, cloud, EA Play, Ubisoft+ Classics, and more. I m on Ultimate, and while it s a good value compared to buying games individually, that doesn t change that Microsoft is reacting to public pressure instead of leading with better service. With Brazil’s economy and an unfavorable exchange rate for us locals, those prices still matter, but context should be kept in mind. If yo
F* Sponsored Web
May 22, 2026 · original
I spent three hours last weekend trying to figure out if a pair of earbuds was worth buying. Not three hours of enjoyable research. Three hours of wading through a swamp of sponsored content disguised as real reviews. I wanted the Huawei FreeClip 2. They have an OWS design, which means they sit on the outer ear and do not seal the canal. I like this concept because I can wear them for calls and still hear my kid or the doorbell or whatever is happening in the room. I also was prepared to sacrifice some sound quality given the nature of the design. I just wanted to know about the microphone quality, whether the Bluetooth connection was stable, and how they performed in real-world scenarios. YouTube was useless, and I was kind of expecting that. I watched a couple of review videos. All of them had the same script. They started with the same unboxing sequence, the same the company sent me t
How to style a Hugo Atom feed with XSL
May 3, 2026 · original
If you open my rss feed url in your browser, you ll won t see raw XML content anymore, but a styled HTML page with the same header and footer as the main site, and a list of recent posts in between. This won t affect feed readers, which will still see the original XML content. The styling is applied only when a human visits the feed URL in a browser, to make it more readable. I ve achieved something similiar years ago with Jekyll , but never really got around to doing it in Hugo until recently. The idea is simple: Generate an Atom feed in Hugo 1 . Add xml-stylesheet to the XML. Create XSL files in static/xsl/ for a human-friendly browser view. Apply the same approach to sitemaps. Why Atom instead of Hugo s native RSS? In this project I use Atom, not Hugo s default RSS, for one practical reason: Atom supports an explicit updated field per entry. That lets feeds expose both publish and upd
Introducing RSS-Only Posts
Apr 29, 2026 · original
This post is only available to RSS subscribers. I ve just added a new feature to the blog: RSS-only posts . These are pieces of content that appear exclusively in your feed reader but are never rendered as public web pages. This post itself is an RSS-only post that you re reading it in your feed, not on the website. Why did I add this feature? Because RSS is great, so are you for using it. I also wanted a way to share quick thoughts, and experimental ideas with RSS subscribers. How does it work? Summary: Put rss-only content under content/rss-only/ (I use year subfolders like 2026/ ). Use an archetypes/rss-only.md that sets build.render: link so Hugo processes the content but does not emit an HTML file. Update the feed template to include rss-only pages. [Optional] Update tag/taxonomy templates to exclude rss-only items from public tag counts and listings. Archetype archetypes/rss-only.m
🔗 How China Broke (and Fixed) the Audio Industry by Mind the Headphone
Jan 23, 2026 · original
Science Beat Branding: How China Fixed Audio Clicking the video constitutes your consent to view it via YouTube. Questions, comments, or feedbacks? Feel free to reach out by email , mastodon , or webmention .
🔗 Thoughts On People and Blogs
Jan 19, 2026 · original
I just read Manu Moreale s recent update about the future of his series, People & Blogs , and it resonated deeply. While Manu explicitly asked readers not to email him now (a sentiment I completely understand), his reflections on the challenges of running an independent project deserve a public response - maybe not for him to read, but for all of us who consume and write online. He spoke of the increasing administrative burden, the ghosting from potential guests, the sheer exhaustion of trying to keep a consistent and high-quality output, and the perceived lack of engagement and the nature of online support. He wrote: And nothing makes me angrier than seeing people popping up from nowhere to express their sadness when a project gets shut down. Because where the fuck were these people when the creators of these projects needed some help to keep the momentum going? And I’m talking about so
🔗 Is gen alpha screwed?
Jan 17, 2026 · original
Companies are literally designing everything for addiction these days. Trying to get you hooked on whatever they can profit off of as early in your development as possible… Limiting screen time, curating the entertainment so it’s not just an algorithm determining what our kids watch, hell just BEING present with your kid is like 99% of the battle. by Absurd Pirate Read post My Thoughts Reading this as a father of a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old brings up a lot of reflections. The original post hits on something most people - and parents - often ignore: the difference between being tech-native and actually being tech-literate. We see kids who can navigate a locked iPhone at age two, but as the author points out, they’re lost when it comes to how things actually work. The author also mentions the mental death of parenting under modern life, and I totally get that. There are days when I’m so
Learning to Speak in Notes
Jan 16, 2026 · original
I just gifted myself a guitar. Honestly, I m just really happy because I m about to start learning something I ve always wanted: playing an instrument. Music has always been a big part of my life, and it’s one of the few things that genuinely makes my days better, whether it s calming me down, lifting my mood, or simply make me feel better. I don t know where this journey will lead, but I know that starting already means a lot to me. Here s to wrong notes, endless practice, and small wins along the way. If I’m going to start something new, let it be with music 🎶 Questions, comments, or feedbacks? Feel free to reach out by email , mastodon , or webmention .
Are Influencers Replacing Real Work?
Jan 15, 2026 · original
It feels like everyone wants to quit their job and become a content creator. Honestly, I get the appeal. More freedom, flexible hours, working from anywhere, and maybe even making a hell of a lot of money. However, is this really a healthy direction for society? I don’t want to tell people how to live their lives, what choices they should make, or even how they should earn their money. But this whole thing just feels wrong to me in so many different ways. Let s start with how weird the money distribution in this market really is. Even if it doesn t look like that at first glance, only a tiny percentage of creators make absurd amounts of money, while most people barely scrape by. Another thing is why does one viral video sometimes pay more than years of studying or working in a skilled profession? Essential jobs like teachers, nurses, engineers, and technicians - the people who actually k
Stuck on Repeat
Jan 13, 2026 · original
I’ve found myself feeling reflective these past few days and wanted to share. It might sound a bit stupid, but who hasn’t had stupid thoughts? Basically, it has to do with my relationship with time. Let me explain. I was listening to a live album I really like called Ao Vivo em Lisboa by Resistência , and I started thinking about why I listen to so little current music (by current I mean from the 2000s, maybe even from 2010 onward). Clicking the video constitutes your consent to view it via YouTube. I listen mostly to music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The same goes for most of the movies I watch. Often on repeat, I find more comfort in songs, rhythms, and stories that feel familiar or that make me think. There’s something grounding about them, something that feels alive in a way I struggle to find in much of today’s mainstream output. I don’t feel that this is just nostalgia, but rather
Why People Should Not Ask for Donations or Money to Run Their Own Personal Blog
Jan 8, 2026 · original
This post is not meant as a subtle jab, nor is it intended to offend anyone who had (or still has) this kind of behavior. Why do you run a blog? Is it to make a living, or is it a hobby? If you write from your small corner of the internet for pleasure, to meet new people, or simply for engagement, then you probably shouldn’t ask for money for it. Here s why: First, asking for donations creates an implicit transaction, even when framed as optional . Readers may feel entitled to certain topics, frequency, or opinions. Second, financial incentives often (if not always) influence behavior. Writers may unconsciously avoid controversial opinions, difficult topics, or experimental ideas out of fear of alienating supporters. This certainly leads to self-censorship, where authenticity is sacrificed in favor of maintaining income. There are many examples of this among content creators out there. T
Your Content Should Be Easy to Find
Jan 8, 2026 · original
One of the things I enjoy most is discovering new IndieWeb sites. I love seeing how bloggers like me experiment with their themes. Some go very old-school, using plain HTML, while others are highly polished - a masterclass in CSS usage. What often frustrates me, though, is how many sites obscure their primary entry points. Posts, archives, or feeds are frequently hidden behind minimal navigation, visual abstraction, or missing links altogether. In some cases, RSS or other syndication endpoints are not exposed at all. When I update my site’s theme, my first priority is that it should feel personal. I try (within my technical limitation) to design it to reflect who I am. But that is only part of the equation. I also try to think carefully about content discoverability, i.e. how easily a visitor can find posts, follow updates, subscribe, and engage. The small web thrives on links, visibilit
The SaaS Takeover
Jan 5, 2026 · original
Some days I imagined the time when I could actually buy software. Pay once, install it, use it for years, done. It looks like every tool wants to live in my credit card, and even the simplest app insists on a monthly relationship. That didn’t happen by accident. I mean, the world didn’t wake up one day and decide SaaS was more elegant. It took shape as a practical solution, and over time it became the model users were expected to accept. From a developer’s perspective, SaaS is almost obvious as predictable revenue keeps the lights on, and helps paying for servers, support, cloud bills, and the never-ending work of keeping software secure. Security alone is a full-time job now, actually. But then comes the uncomfortable side. Once revenue depends on retention, features become a tool, not always a solution. I’ve seen products ship updates no one asked for, just to justify another email say
Why Everyone Is Reacting
Jan 4, 2026 · original
A few months ago, during a family visit, I noticed my brother watching a gameplay video of a first-person shooter. I asked him why he was watching it instead of playing. He couldn’t really explain. He went on to show me other videos he’d been watching lately, introducing me to the react content , which consists of someone filming themselves watching someone else’s work, pausing, nodding, laughing, pretending to be shocked, or whatever. Where did the fucking creativity go? Questions, comments, or feedbacks? Feel free to reach out by email , mastodon , or webmention .
Immich on a Raspberry Pi
Jan 4, 2026 · original
This post is not a tutorial, but rather my account of the process of migrating my photos from iCloud to Immich and how my Raspberry Pi has been able to run it without many issues. Before you ask why I made the switch: I’ve been using Android since 2024, and the only decent solution that would give me easy access to my photos - despite being a privacy nightmare - was Google Photos. I happened to hear about Immich on a podcast, and the quality of the software immediately caught my attention. Migrating my photo library to Immich turned out to be a bit more technical than I initially expected. Although the installation was straightforward - thanks to the Immich team for having well documented the entire process - the bigger problem occurred in a different way: how to import my files. I started with what seemed like the most easier approach: uploading directly from the Immich iOS app. It was

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