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Pedro Melo

@pedromelo

Early 70's born, long-time Perl programmer. Founder of https://xitter.gq/t.co/Nler0OiBv7, https://xitter.gq/t.co/BVczQ1Rc1L and a couple of others. Married, kids, dogs, the works. Now at Worten Architecture.

 Portugal
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Joined January 2007
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<puts on conspiracy hat> This is how covid escaped Wuhan!!1!! simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/2…

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …

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What other Motorsport requires drivers to go slower to reach the end of a lap?? Requiring teams and drivers to have a strategy is great, but this is F1, not chess. I’ll rename #F1 to #FSlow now, and skip Monza, it would be to painful to watch
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What a disgrace… I’ve been watching Suzuka qualifying, seeing cars lift and coast on the last straights is so sad for someone that saw the Alonso overtake on turn 15, and Prost and Senna antics on the 80’s… #formula1 #f1 #suzuka
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Talking with an AI is the closest thing I’ve experienced to the Librarian in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
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I find it sad to see Apple moving from great software and lousy hardware to great hardware and lousy software. Everyday I have to use MacOS gets me closer to go back to 2001 and switch back to some form of Linux, ideally running on Apple hardware
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My guess: bird strike arstechnica.com/?p=2005834
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Blusterfuck: a Brexit-induced clusterfuck
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I’m guessing that by now US Secret Service agents are all thinking who will get the shitty job after Jan 20th
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Best email rule ever...
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Replying to @gitlab
@gitlab Yubico security keys work with Safari and WebAuthN on Github but not on Gitlab.com, plans on fixing this?
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Replying to @Cloudflare
@Cloudflare would you consider adding a simple DynDNS-style updater? or as an alternative, a personal developer version of Argo Tunnel, like a ngrok competitor?
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I adore @KeybaseIO but it seems they were taken over by @zoom_us ... A very sad day... Keybase was awesome... Time to find another solution for identity management... cnbc.com/2020/05/07/zoom-buy…
Zoom buys Keybase — its first acquisition — as part of 90-day plan to fix security flaws

Zoom buys Keybase — its first acquisition — as part of 90-day plan to fix security flaws

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said adding Keybase technology will allow users to make sure that intruders don't enter meetings.

cnbc.com
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I REST my case… I SOAP my case is a bit kinky
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I wish @Cloudflare "Always Use HTTPS" setting had an exception built-in for "/.well-known/acme-challenge/" path prefix...
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Replying to @Cloudflare
@Cloudflare where should I send Access product feedback? Case in point: one app, two Access Policies, the App shows up twice on App Launch portal...
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Right now I need 6 apps (Slack, Telegram, Teams, WhatsApp, Keybase, iMessage) to keep in touch with all the communities I interact every day #xmpp #federation
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“global” has a different meaning at AWS.... DynamoDB global tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
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@jgrahamc @eastdakota CF success story @ Lisbon - the leading electronics retailer in Portugal is using Workers for this BlackFriday - after 2 weeks playing around with it for the first time, it went live on Sunday. Rocking out pages at 50 ms to our customers... #win #thx
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New rule: if an online service doesn't have a public price page, you probably cannot afford it.
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Canceled my subscription to @zoom_us, this is not acceptable behaviour for a company I used to trust and recommend medium.com/@jonathan.leitsch…
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