Daniel Costa
@dncosta.bsky.social
Problem solver geeking with computers. Music addict and photography enthusiast. Sports fan. In between, living life. Posts in PT and EN.
Main social @[email protected]
Main social @[email protected]
‘Tis the season to reinstall machines, reorganise data, tinker with services and configs - because nothing says holiday cheer like a good ol’ system overhaul.
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
‘Tis the season to reinstall machines, reorganise data, tinker with services and configs - because nothing says holiday cheer like a good ol’ system overhaul.
Memory prices (RAM) ... ugh. If there was ever a bad time to need an upgrade. My wallet is screaming.
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Memory prices (RAM) ... ugh. If there was ever a bad time to need an upgrade. My wallet is screaming.
Yeah … I’m out.
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Yeah … I’m out.
July 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
July 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hoje é dia de acompanhar @25abril1974.bsky.social. Que o privilégio que tivemos de nascer já em tempo de liberdade, não nos deixe esquecer nunca que nem sempre foi assim. #25abrilsempre
April 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hoje é dia de acompanhar @25abril1974.bsky.social. Que o privilégio que tivemos de nascer já em tempo de liberdade, não nos deixe esquecer nunca que nem sempre foi assim. #25abrilsempre
I really like Synology's software, but that is absolutely not enough for me to be ok with this move (I had already disliked when they did it on the enterprise line, but it didn't affect me so it was a non-issue). Off to find a replacement.
www.theverge.com/news/652364/...
www.theverge.com/news/652364/...
Synology is tightening restrictions on third-party NAS hard drives
It’s about to get harder to use your own drives with Synology.
www.theverge.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I really like Synology's software, but that is absolutely not enough for me to be ok with this move (I had already disliked when they did it on the enterprise line, but it didn't affect me so it was a non-issue). Off to find a replacement.
www.theverge.com/news/652364/...
www.theverge.com/news/652364/...
Back to a 2 wpm count, at least for a while :\ #newkeyboard
March 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Back to a 2 wpm count, at least for a while :\ #newkeyboard
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm a pretty fast typist, but I've been working on proper touch typing and now I realize how many years of bad habits I've accumulated!
February 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I'm a pretty fast typist, but I've been working on proper touch typing and now I realize how many years of bad habits I've accumulated!
![OpenAl says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of "distillation", which it suspects to be from DeepSeek. Distillation is a common practice in the industry but the concern was that DeepSeek may be doing it to build its own rival model, which is a breach of OpenAl's terms of service. "The issue is when you [take it out of the platform and] are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes," said one person close to OpenAI. OpenAl declined to comment further or provide details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot "copy" any of its services or "use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI". DeepSeek's release of its Ri reasoning model has surprised markets, as well as investors and technology companies in Silicon Valley. Its built-on-a-shoestring models have attained high rankings and comparable results to leading US models. Shares in Nvidia fell 17 per cent on Monday, wiping $589bn off its market value, on fears that big investments in its expensive AI hardware might not be needed. They recovered by 9 per cent on Tuesday, along with other tech stocks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wzylghel2tdi3ke27ippjuli/bafkreigejlqnmpu4fuwc4n3qxggdk6ac5nbpr27ucx6qeuxyeknczdnym4@jpeg)
January 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Half-life 3 is releasing this year" is the gamers' equivalent of "This is the year of Linux on the desktop", right?
January 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Half-life 3 is releasing this year" is the gamers' equivalent of "This is the year of Linux on the desktop", right?
2020 v5 successfully deployed.
January 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
2020 v5 successfully deployed.
Closing the year with some cleanup in my env. setup script in preparation for the regular reinstall of my machines.
December 31, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Closing the year with some cleanup in my env. setup script in preparation for the regular reinstall of my machines.
My favourite #jazz album of all time. Keith Jarrett was absolutely brilliant in this recording.
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)
How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)
Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne).
www.openculture.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:53 PM
My favourite #jazz album of all time. Keith Jarrett was absolutely brilliant in this recording.
New keyboard. No longer using the low profile Apple Magic Keyboard. This is gonna take some time getting used to. Plus, there's an additional column of keys to the right of the enter key ... hope it doesn't mess with my brain when switching between laptop and desktop keyboard.
December 20, 2024 at 10:21 PM
New keyboard. No longer using the low profile Apple Magic Keyboard. This is gonna take some time getting used to. Plus, there's an additional column of keys to the right of the enter key ... hope it doesn't mess with my brain when switching between laptop and desktop keyboard.
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if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux
December 12, 2024 at 8:27 PM
if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux