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jmmfernandes.bsky.social
Uma pessoa passa a fronteira, vai a qualquer capital europeia, e entende imediatamente o sucesso turístico de Lisboa: este exotismo do centro de uma capital afogada em carros
lxparapessoas.pt LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas @lxparapessoas.pt · Jun 16
São agora 390 mil os carros que entram diariamente em Lisboa – mais 20 mil do que há oito anos. Os maiores aumentos registaram-se nas vias com origem na Margem Sul, em Loures e Odivelas, e na região Oeste.

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June 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
“Historically, no one lived past age 35”

"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.
A demography myth that won't die
jenndowd.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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feralkittee.bsky.social
"If we had to PAY slaves we wouldn't be able to run our plantations!" (yes, this was an argument used before the Civil War).
May 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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pestefm.bsky.social
concordo. mas podia ser igualmente diligente a limpar o resto do lixo espalhado pela cidade
May 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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dianacatarina.bsky.social
Estamos a caminhar para uma cidade onde apenas há espaço para a publicidade comercial ou, por outro lado, institucional da CML, que se transforma na voz política dominante no espaço publico e construtora de narrativas. Se vamos falar de ruído visual, podemos falar dos JCDecaux por todo o lado?
May 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
andre.breda.pt
Falta de estacionamento certamente
May 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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myrrlyn.net
great day to discover how many places with a strict “refer to people by their birth names” policy won’t deadname the pope
May 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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fasterthanli.me
lol, is Apple waiting for an antitrust decision for each individual country???
The prohibition on encouraging users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase does not apply on the United States storefront.
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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manuelreis.bsky.social
A arrogância da EMEL perante esta situação é sintomática de muitos dos problemas em Portugal: a falta de soluções não tem a ver com a alegada burocracia nem com a falta de dinheiro, tem mesmo a ver com a mesquinhice e a falta de vontade.
lxparapessoas.pt LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas @lxparapessoas.pt · Apr 21
A app oficial da GIRA continua a deixar vários utilizadores frustrados. Por isso, alguns jovens têm mantido duas apps alternativas. A EMEL tentou bloqueá-las novamente, mas bastaram poucos dias para que a mGIRA e a GIRA+ voltassem a funcionar.

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April 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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rodmcleven.bsky.social
Estes títulos de notícias…

Então as tarifas não são pagas por quem importa? Já são pelos “países da UE” ?
April 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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myrrlyn.net
the first port to evict customs officers and openly smuggle / issue fraudulent certificates of tax paid is going to get demolished by the feds

but the second port is going to make more money than god
donoteat.bsky.social donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · Apr 2
figure between the tariffs and the fact that there's nobody in the government who can issue permits or ensure compliance from industry the whole economy grinds to a complete halt in a few months
April 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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fasterthanli.me
representation matters 👏
New 18.4 emojis include: face with bags under eyes. Fingerprint leafless tree root vegetable harp shovel
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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fasterthanli.me
happy trans day of visibility to all my trans friends 🏳️‍⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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clivethompson.bsky.social
Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits?

The New Jersey system crashed ...

... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems

Nope

He was wrong

the COBOL ran *fine*

It was the newer web-site code that croaked

5/9
Screenshot reading: "A good example of this could be witnessed during the pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, businesses shut down en masse. Laid-off employees swarmed online to apply for unemployment benefits, and the websites for many state governments crashed under the load. In New Jersey, the governor told the press that their COBOL systems desperately needed help to deal with the new demands. “Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old,” he noted. But technologists who were working behind the scenes to fix the problems knew that the number-crunching COBOL wasn’t the problem. That old stuff was working fine. No, it was the newer stuff that had crashed — the programs powering the website itself. “The thing that went bananas was this web application in between the mainframe and the outside world. That was the thing that sort of fell apart,” says Marianne Bellotti, a programmer and writer who worked for years on government systems, and who observed New Jersey’s system. But it’s too embarrassing, as the historian Hicks points out, to admit that “oh, our web systems broke down.” Bellotti’s seen the same thing happen with other government agencies, like the IRS. She was called in once to help with an IRS web app that wasn’t working. When they investigated, they found that, indeed, the problem was in newer programs, “this chunk of poorly written Java code”. The mainframe running COBOL, in contrast, was racing along like a Ferrari."
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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clivethompson.bsky.social
This idea -- that a really *old* code-base can be far more reliable and rock-solid than something written in a newer language?

It violates a lot of Silicon Valley mythos, of course ...

... where "new" is nearly always seen as "better"

4/9
Screenshot reading: "This idea — that older code can not only be good, but in crucial ways superior to newer code — is at odds with a lot of Silicon Valley myth-making. Venture capital-backed startups usually tout the shiny and novel. Founders do not prance around boasting about how old their codebase is. Quite the opposite: They brag about their code being cutting-edge, pounded out in all-night sessions by bleary-eyed genius 21-year-olds. But as nearly every programmer will tell you, the newer and more recently written the software, the more likely it is to be a hot mess of bugs."
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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clivethompson.bsky.social
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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jjleiria.bsky.social
«Actualizaremos este artigo logo que tenhamos novas informações da Câmara e caso estas nos cheguem.»

Seis dias depois: «Aquisição de serviços de peritos avaliadores para a realização de avaliações imobiliárias para um edifício de cafeteria para o parque Urbano Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles» 🙂 #eppur
print-screen do portal Base.gov.pt
March 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal
March 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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fasterthanli.me
ok, new rule for 2025: if you're designing an app, NO MORE 6-DIGIT PINs.

you have face ID. I can store a 32-character password in my password manager. do not make me multi-lane-drift between my password manager to type 6 digits in your shitty numpad. thanks.
March 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jjleiria.bsky.social
🙌 «Não deveria haver gratuitidade do primeiro dístico de estacionamento por habitação e os dísticos seguintes deveriam ser [bastante] mais caros.»
lxparapessoas.pt LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas @lxparapessoas.pt · Mar 25
Para incentivar os residentes a trocar a rua pelos parques subterrâneos ou edificados, a Câmara de Lisboa lançou um tarifário nocturno de 22 €/mês. Contudo, sem alterações na política de dísticos, a medida poderá não aliviar a pressão nas ruas.

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March 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.
March 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Misleading posts claiming Signal is vulnerable are getting thousands, if not millions, of impressions. This happens frequently, there are attempts to undermine Signal and scare users away from safety. Signal is one of the most secure apps ever made.

Please watch out and let family and friends know.
A reply to an r/News post (which was on Reddit’s front page) reading: “But according to a Pentagon "OPSEC special bulletin" seen by NPR reporters and sent on 18 March, Russian hacking groups may exploit the vulnerability in Signal to spy on encrypted organizations, potentially targeting "persons of interest" I guess Pete Hegseth didn't get the memo. The comment has 754 upvotes.
March 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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littlenomad.bsky.social
Thing is, there are secure, government-approved ways of having these conversations that follow legal guidelines for records retention. Signal ain’t that. If they were using Signal for this, they’ve been using Signal for all kinds of other things, probably to avoid recordkeeping. For obvious reasons.
March 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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kevincollier.bsky.social
It's really crucial to understand how badly framed this is. There is no Signal vulnerability. The Pentagon email did a bad job explaining a Google report from a month ago and NPR repeated it.

This is like saying because you got a phishing email at your Gmail address, there's a Google vulnerability.
davidfolkenflik.bsky.social David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · Mar 25
News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼
REPORTABLE: NPR’s Tom Bowman has learned that a Pentagon-wide email went out one week ago warning about the vulnerability of using the messaging app Signal. "A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," the email begins. The app is the same one used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other leading national security officials within the administration to discuss bombing Houthi sites in Yemen – journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group and privy to the highly sensitive discussions.
March 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM