Boy do I love the law that forces me to type this every time I add a contact phone number, even though in Portugal the first digit of a number indicates weather it’s a mobile or a landline… \s
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What a time we live in where not only my keyboard/mouse software comes with an “AI prompt builder”, but also that module its constantly pinging the internet in the background without me even having any device connected or even the app opened…
Honest question here - does anyone find the default Zoom behaviour of automatically resizing the window to full screen when someone starts sharing their screen a sensible default?
To me its just so annoying the window randomly taking over the entire screen when I forget to turn it off…
IKEA Portugal taking a massive W. As the government collapsed after police found stashes of money hidden inside books on the PM Chief of Staff’s office, which amounted to more than €75k, IKEA launched this campaign.
The outdoor reads: “Good to store books. Or €75,800.”
(source: BPTR114 on X)
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Please stop putting ginger on everything
I used to be a Mastodon/Fediverse geek back when few people were on it and now even the organisation I work for created a profile! So happy with the huge strides decentralised social media has taken! 🥰
Overheard the bus driver: “I’ve got the worst sight of everyone you’ve ever known” Me: oh boy
Enjoy your beer like nobody’s watching
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Enjoy your beer like nobody’s watching.
Made a program that pulls your Wallabag library and generates a CSV to import into Omnivore!
Meanwhile in the Lisbon Metro… just overheard 2 people (certainly from out of town) get in the platform, look at a train that was stopped on the other track and without hesitation shout:
“What an ugly thing!!”
In the name of the people of this city, our apologies if you found the aesthetics of our transport infrastructure disappointing.
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So I was having this juice and happen to notice a weirdly specific thing quite prominent on the label
“Vitamin E contributes towards protecting cells against undesirable oxidations.”
Scientifically correct? Definitely! Meaningless for 99.99% of consumers? Yes.
Today we remember the victims of Nazism and Stalinism. Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, be them fascist or communist have taken the lives of many, and they still do.
May Europe and the world reach the day where we can all live in peace and democracy.
In the news: “In a year, Portugal lost 128k workers with higher education degrees. […] Analysts hypothesise it’s due to the emigration of the highest qualified.”
It is sad, but unfortunately not surprising :(
Thinking about the set of life decisions that lead me to writing these lines of code…
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