tmpod

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Hello!

I got a BTWIN RockRider 540 some years ago and use it for some light trails, but nowadays mostly just roads. My region is very hilly and has multiple >10º hills, which are perfectly fine for cars, but not really for bikes 😅

Since I'd like to start doing more things in the city center (which is itself also on the hilly side), I was considering either getting an e-bike or converting mine. I'm more inclined towards the latter option, since I really don't need another bike (already have an extra all-terrain bike for trails and a vintage road bike), it would just be a waste of materials and, from what I understand, money. I'm really not sure where to start looking for appropriate conversion kits, so thought to ask here :)
My budget is flexible, but I'd like to keep it under 200€.

Any comments are appreciated!

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, exactly! I was quite amazed at how fast my French degraded after I stopped having classes.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English and can understand Spanish and French. Despite having had 3 years of French in school, I can no longer speak properly, and my writing is really bad, but I can understand pretty well. Spanish just comes to me because of the similarities with Portuguese, I never formally learned it.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah right, Molly. Have yet to tried it, but looks interesting.

I think I'm too afraid of moving my main stuff to Molly, lest I lose something :P But the UnifiedPush and multiple mobile clients is enticing.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True, it's been much more slow paced. Thought it was because the videos took much more time to make, wasn't aware he was quite active on Patreon.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is a good suggestion. Docker is more mature and has more resources, so it's better to learn the ins and outs of containers. After getting comfortable with it, you can move to Podman and have a much better time tackling its peculiarities regarding permissions and rootless.

I used Docker for years and only recently decided to give Podman a try, porting my Lemmy instance to it.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh really? Was not aware of that at all. Their recent videos about the second Punic Wars were incredible.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah that's a bummer. Signal has multi device support but only for desktop and iPad (yeah, not Android tablets), but you always need to have a master phone device.

It's been an issue for so long, but this is Signal, they do whatever the f they want.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 9 points 2 weeks ago

How can I make using Arch Linux my personality

That cracked me up x)

Anyway, I'd say it's good that the OS is out of your way once set it up. Even though I don't use Arch directly, I like how comprehensive the AUR is (even though there may be repositories more packages, like nix and whatnot), think the ArchWiki (like the GentooWiki) is a very useful resource, even if you use a completely different system.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 weeks ago

Very well put, he makes an effort of bringing you along, which is a nice thing for a younger audience. I never stopped liking his relaxed style, though. His videos are one of those things I always reserve some time to enjoy.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I suppose. His channel has less than 500k subs, though, so I always like to recommend it :P

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 13 points 2 weeks ago

encrypted email

Besides being a form of messaging (so the text somewhat contradicts itself), typical email is a deeply insecure protocol.
In my opinion, it's probably impossible to secure without making a new protocol or making such drastic changes that it might as well be considered one.

Here are some key concerns regarding the usual PGP-powered encrypted email:

  • Email, at a simple level, works much akin to physical email — there's an "envelope" containing important info regarding the communicating parties, which can't be encrypted, otherwise the mailing servers wouldn't know where to forward the messages. This essentially leaks a lot of metadata that can be almost as valuable as the message body itself.
  • There's no forward secrecy — one of the best cryptography features that has become pretty much a commodity in modern systems is forward secrecy, which prevents attackers from decrypting older messages after gaining access to one of the keys.
  • While not an issue with the protocol itself, it's the sad reality and we need to consider — most people use GMail, Outlook and the like, which ultimately need to read your emails in plaintext, for better or worse reasons (search is incredibly useful, but some big players don't stop there of course :p).
  • Another thing is the fact that it's incredibly easy to have an imbalance of encryption, i.e. someone is encrypting their messages, but others aren't. With the very popular email culture of quoting (be it top or bottom posting), an unencrypted party in the the conversation can leak important information.
  • PGP is... peculiar, so to speak. I has a lot of issues, mostly stemming from its age (which could also be a source of robustness and security, due to being very battle-tested, but I don't think that's quite the case with PGP/GPG), tries to do too much and typically has a clunky UI, which impedes wider and proper adoption by less technically people.

This isn't to say people should definitely stop using and promoting encrypted email, since it can be useful.
It's just it gives, more often than not, a false sense of security and can lead less proficient users to send sensitive data through this medium which isn't nearly secure enough for such use cases. Preferably, people with such threat models should opt for better alternatives, most suggested in that article (such as, but definitely not limited to, Signal, SimpleX, Matrix+Olm, XMPP+OTR/OMEMO, sharing files via MagicWormhole, encrypting with tools like age).

On a slightly tangential note, I think someone should make a Matrix client with an email client interface. I started working on a new traditional chat client (completely nonfunctional still, very much in-dev), but I've been honestly thinking more and more about making one looking like an e-mail client, where there isn't much focus on instant room-based chats, but rather on longer-lived 1-to-1 and list-like exchange of messages.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 15 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I went through my subscription list on FreeTube and filtered these out (the list was much lengthier initially :p)

  • Alt Shift X — well detailed and narrated videos about fantasy series such as Dune, ASOIAF.
  • Captain Disillusion — very well made videos about VFX.
  • Computerphile — computer science twin of Numberphile; neat videos about the field with a wide range of guests.
  • EthosLab — pretty much the only Minecraft creator I still watch; witty, quiet and virtually the same for a long time.
  • hbomberguy — well known video essayist, easily one of the best in the platform
  • Jacob Geller — another quality essayist, exploring different themes, such as horror
  • Lemino — very well known creator focusing on mysteries, with incredible narration and stunning visuals
  • LockPickingLawyer — very simple, to the point and informative channel about locks and lockpicking; also virtually unchanged for years
  • Oversimplified — great overviews of major history events and periods, with funny narration and visuals
  • Tantacrul — fairly unknown essayist on music, with well researched material and nice takes :P
  • Then & Now — possibly my favorite atm (alongside hbomberguy); extremely well researched and presented video essays about history, politics and philosophy; very underrated imo
 

publicação cruzada em: https://lemmy.pt/post/6007935

Em produção durante vários anos por um designer português, Exophobia foi lançado em todas as consolas e PC, um FPS de estilo retro que lembra clássicos como DOOM.

 

A Disney atualizou os termos e condições dos seus planos, e estes incluem algumas surpresas que deixarão os utilizadores bastante chateados. Uma é a já muito falada proibição de partilha de contas; a outra é a possibilidade de até mesmo os planos premium poderem incluir anúncios que interrompam o conteúdo.

 

Temperaturas nos 40ºC obrigam a emitir aviso laranja em Bragança, Guarda, Faro e Castelo Branco. Outros sete distritos estarão sob aviso amarelo. Mais de 50 concelhos sob perigo máximo de incêndio.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tmpod@lemmy.pt to c/portugal@lemmy.pt
 

(repost do Reddit)

O projeto do Elétrico de Lisboa (mítico 28) submetido à LEGO Ideas está quase a alcançar os 10 mil votos e a chegar à fase final com a possibilidade de se tornar num conjunto oficial da marca.

Faltam cerca de 250 apoiantes que precisam criar uma conta ou fazer login na plataforma da LEGO Ideas para validar o voto.

Basta aceder a este link, clicar no botão SUPPORT e seguir os passos indicados utilizando um email válido. É gratuito: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/172720c0-844f-4ffd-a867-4344110f3362

Esta é a segunda tentativa de colocar um simbolo de Lisboa no catálogo da marca.

Desde já o meu obrigado pelo vosso apoio.

Ezequiel

 

Governo quer criar mais 23 lojas e 250 Espaços do Cidadão, incluindo em hospitais, até 2026. Portal dos fornecedores do Estado deixa de exigir documentos às empresas que já estão na esfera pública.

O Estado português já tem um portal que funciona com esse objectivo – o site eportugal.gov.pt, gerido pelo instituto público Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA) — que já permite direccionar os cidadãos e as empresas para as entidades responsáveis pela resolução dos assuntos procurados pelos utilizadores (como e onde tratar do passaporte, do cartão de cidadão, onde pagar o Imposto Único de Circulação, onde consultar dívidas fiscais, o que fazer para abrir um restaurante ou outro estabelecimento, por exemplo).

Agora, com a criação do canal “Gov.pt”, o Governo pretende que tornar mais acessível a forma como os cidadãos e empresas interagem com o Estado. Os sites de serviços específicos, como o Portal das Finanças, não vão acabar. O que acontecerá, explicou Balseiro Lopes, é que “o cidadão entra no Gov.pt e, sem se aperceber, porque seguimos o mesmo design system [desenvolvimento de sistema], está a ter acesso a um serviço da AT.”

 

CP queixa-se de danos de imagem e reputacionais e ameaça a Meta com processo judicial.

Mas que palhaçada XD

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pt/post/5733711

A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing

 

A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing

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Mozilla Common Voice (commonvoice.mozilla.org)
 

publicação cruzada em: https://lemmy.pt/post/5732123

O Mozilla Common Voice é uma iniciativa para ajudar a ensinar às máquinas como pessoas reais falam.

Voz é natural, voz é humana. É por isso que estamos empolgados com a criação de tecnologia de voz utilizável para as nossas máquinas. Mas para criar sistemas de voz, os programadores precisam de uma quantidade extremamente grande de dados de voz.

A maior parte dos dados usados por grandes empresas não está disponível para a maioria das pessoas. Nós achamos que isso sufoca a inovação. Então, lançamos o Common Voice, um projeto para ajudar a tornar o reconhecimento de voz aberto e acessível a todos.

Uma excelente iniciativa da Mozilla, pouco conhecida apesar de já ter uns bons anos.
O Português continua a ter poucas horas faladas e relativamente poucas frases, por isso partilho aqui.

Contribuam!

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Mozilla Common Voice (commonvoice.mozilla.org)
 

O Mozilla Common Voice é uma iniciativa para ajudar a ensinar às máquinas como pessoas reais falam.

Voz é natural, voz é humana. É por isso que estamos empolgados com a criação de tecnologia de voz utilizável para as nossas máquinas. Mas para criar sistemas de voz, os programadores precisam de uma quantidade extremamente grande de dados de voz.

A maior parte dos dados usados por grandes empresas não está disponível para a maioria das pessoas. Nós achamos que isso sufoca a inovação. Então, lançamos o Common Voice, um projeto para ajudar a tornar o reconhecimento de voz aberto e acessível a todos.

Uma excelente iniciativa da Mozilla, pouco conhecida apesar de já ter uns bons anos.
O Português continua a ter poucas horas faladas e relativamente poucas frases, por isso partilho aqui.

Contribuam!

 

publicação cruzada em: https://lemmy.pt/post/5726842

Morreu este domingo, o pintor e ceramista português Manuel Cargaleiro, com 97 anos. A notícia foi avançada pela Presidência da República numa nota de pesar pela morte do "desenhador, gravador e escultor" que deixa "a sua assinatura em igrejas, jardins ou estações de metro, e em inúmeras peças".

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