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EDM is interesting. What I like is that there's ~no physical pressure on the head or work, so no flex at all. What I don't like is that the tool erodes with the work, so you really need to keep on grinding it back to shape and re-inserting. Or if you use a wire machine, you burn through a FUCKTON of wire.
I’m thinking of starting with a die sinker or drill. They are supposed to operate at lower frequencies. What kind of pressure are you aiming for on your water jet?
I was really just curious about the feasibility of a water jet, it looks like it's "not very". Pressure needs to be >60k PSI, the head is complex because contains a mixer for adding grit to the stream, and the flex hoses will be painful to make, and bankrupting to buy.
This is a GLOBAL OPERATION. CHILD TRAFFICKING is a GLOBAL SCOURGE, and the MAINSTREAM MEDIA, GLOBALLY is what serves to distract us and cover it up for THE GLOBAL CABAL. One of our most trusted PATRIO
Democrats in Minnesota kept her in the senate for A YEAR after her arrest because they needed her vote to ram thru legislation. She was the tiebreaking vote. Even on votes about her own expulsion.
Israel isn’t going to stop its genocide. Israel must be stopped. Question is who is going to do it? Our spineless Western governments? amicale.net/@france24_en/11489…
Our rulers will do sweet fuck all until it starts costing them money to cheerlead for genocide. The only way to make them change course is to hit them where it hurts - their wallets.
🇳🇴 Norway is ready to significantly boost funding for Ukraine’s air defense, PM Jonas Gahr Støre announced. The move is being coordinated with Germany, as both countries already closely cooperate in producing air defense systems and ammunition for Ukraine. He also noted that Norway and Germany are discussing the delivery of additional Patriot systems—but emphasized that broader partnership and U.S. involvement are key.
"Our bodies are breaking down. We feel constantly weak, unfocused, and off-balance. We grow irritable easily, but most of the time we just stay silent. Talking uses up too much energy."
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GNOME Dconf video:
Device manager lets you see all the components of your PC, and the devices plugged into it. It lets you check for drivers, fix various problems, set some options, and view some logs related to your devices.
On Linux, this thing has no equivalent. We do have a third party app called HardInfo, but it's not an actionable application. In KDE, you have the same thing, with the Info Center.
Device manager is an important tool on Windows, and it would have a LOT of uses on Linux as well. I wish we had something like that.
Linux runs services in the background, for printing, bluetooth, network, virtualization, the graphical server or compositor, and a lot more things, generally managed by systemd on most distros.
And almost no Linux desktop has a complete graphical user interface to manage these services, turn them on or off, enable one at startup or not, or view logs related to this service.
On GNOME, you have an extension called systemd-manager, but no way to configure them, or select options, or enable autostart. On KDE, you have a services page in the settings, but you can basically just start and stop them, no other action is available.
As far as I know, only OpenSUSE has a decent services manager, that is baked into YAST, their configuration tool.
On Windows, the services app might look like it's 20 years old, which it probably is, but it lets you start and stop services, select if you want to start them manually, or at boot, or completely disable them, and it lets you set policies for various services failures, like restarting the computer, restarting the service, or opening another program.
Another thing that is not entirely available in our desktop environments is a graphical tool to configure the firewall, and general system security.
KDE has a config module in their settings, so that's handled. And yet again, OpenSUSE has a firewall config tool in Yast, which works really well.
For GNOME, there are third party tools you can install, depending on the firewall the distro uses, like firewall-config for firewalld, but these are rarely provided by default.
Linux desktops also don't really have an equivalent to the Windows "security center". GNOME has the basics of such an implementation, with their device security page, but it's not actionable.
Anyway, we could add here some information depending on certain libraries, apps, and kernels we use, if vulnerabilities have been detected, we could have access to the firewall settings, apps that have incorrect permission...
And then we have backups. A lot of distros ships with a third party backup tool, like Déja Dup, or Timeshift, but they generally only ship one or the other. We sort of need a complete solution that works ideally for both.
What I'd want is to right click on a file in my file manager, and have a "versions" menu item. What I'd like is a system settings option, native to the desktop environment, that lets me configure a backup, and restore it.
The windows registry is a horrible, horrible thing. It's illegible, it's super messy, modifications can result in a horrendously broken system, and generally it's better left alone. But it does surface a LOT of options for applications and the system. And not all Linux desktops have an equivalent.
GNOME has dconf, which has a lot of various settings you can tweak. KDE doesn't have that. Yast has a bunch of additional configurations available graphically.
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
The starkest contrast of the 20th century is how China's socialist development led to the greatest sustained increase in life expectancy and quality of life, while capitalist reforms led to the greatest measurable reduction in life expectancy in post-Soviet countries.
Over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction in the same period, according to a new report released on Thursday.
I'm proud to be an American where at least we have EBT, And, I won't forget the niggers who died who gave that right to me. And I'll gladly stand up (!) next to you and defend gibs, still today. Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land... God Bless the U.S.A.!
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i really need to stop complaining about linux so much. all my friends think that linux is some awful torturous hell i put myself through for strange religious reasons or something and i dont know how to explain to them that "no this is actually the good option, this is better, i swear, i like this"
🇨🇦 Canada will provide CA\$20 million (approx. US\$15 million) to support the maintenance and repair of Ukraine’s Leopard 2 tanks in Poland, Defense Minister David McGuinty announced at the Ramstein meeting. The funding comes from Canada’s 2025–2026 military aid package for Ukraine.
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Join us in person at symbiop.com to hang out with fellow coop nerds and learn about how SymbiOp is organized.
boosts very welcome!
Edit: i am a regular visitor of the coop meetup, but not the organizer. I did get the real organizer (JT) to make a non facebook link so i could share here!
We are excited to make our way back to SymbiOp Garden Shop, a worker-owned ecological garden shop and landscaping cooperative since 2020!
Schedule:
6:15 - 7:00: How the worker-owned co-op started
7:00 - 8:15: Unfacilitated socializing and networking.
In March 2025, his family learned that an occupation court had sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum-security colony on charges of “high treason,” followed by one year of restricted freedom.
He died on June 26, 2025, during a transfer. The circumstances and exact cause of death remain unknown.
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I was chatting paper airplanes with one of my kids and fondly remembered the ‘Whitewings’ airplanes I made as a kid with help from my dad.
Here’s a gallery with photos (!) and printable PDFs (!!) for most of them: meinframe.com/whitewings/
Even more remarkably, the folks behind Fold ’N Fly have just completed a round of crowdfunding and plan to reprint the original set, with some slight modernizations (different suppliers, no lead weights, etc.): whitewings.com/ — that merits an (!!!)
The Democrat running to be Nassau County’s top prosecutor encouraged convicted criminals to apply for a job on her campaign that could pay them up to $7,000 a month.
District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise’s campaign posted an ad seeking a “communications director” on job website indeed.com as she tries to unseat Republican incumbent District Attorney Anne Donnelly.
Crime does pay, according to the Democrat running to become Nassau County’s top prosecutor. District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise is welcoming convicted criminals to apply for a top paid …
The Hierarchical Reasoning Model is a brain-inspired architecture with two recurrent modules: a slow, high-level planner and a fast, low-level one for computation. With only 27M parameters and ~1000 training examples, it excels at complex reasoning without pre-training or Chain-of-Thought.
HRM significantly outperforms larger models in benchmarks and solves complex Sudoku and mazes where CoT methods completely fail.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who was best known for starring in "The Cosby Show" as Theo Huxtable, has died at age 54. Costa Rican National Police told @abc that Warner drowned. Here's ABC's news report, plus a tribute to Warner from @Variety.
She probably always blamed the subway for her being late and it wasn't her fault because she can't afford to live closer to work and is forced to live in a minority neighborhood that is far from her job.
Having worked in the subway I see it all the time. It should take 30 minutes door to door if everything goes perfect, so they leave 30 minutes before they're supposed to be at work. Just 1 little delay, you're late.
Kantçı Rasyonalizm: Duygular Güvenilmezdir Immanuel Kant, “Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi” (1785) ve “Pratik Aklın Eleştirisi” (1788) eserlerinde, duyguları ahlak dışı saymasa da ahlaki kararlar için yetersiz bulur:
Heteronomi Sorunu: Duygular (sempati, nefret, korku) dışsal veya içsel uyaranlara bağlıdır; özerk iradeyi zedeler. Evrensellik Eksikliği: Duygular kişiye ve duruma göre değişir, oysa ahlak yasası (kategorik imperatif) nesnel ve evrensel olmalıdır. Çıkar Karışması: “İyilik yaparken mutlu olmak” bile, eylemi çıkara dayalı hale getirebilir. Örnek: Birine sırf “acıdığınız için” yardım etmek, Kant’a göre ahlaki değildir; çünkü bu, duygusal bir rastlantıdır. Oysa aynı eylem, “insan onurunu koruma” ilkesiyle yapılırsa ahlakidir.
Hume’cu Duyguculuk: Ahlak Duygular Üzerine Kuruludur David Hume, “Ahlak Üzerine Bir İnceleme” (1751) eserinde, Kant’ın tam aksine ahlakın temelinin duygular (sentiment) olduğunu savunur:
“Akıl, tutkuların kölesidir”: Hume’a göre ahlaki yargılar, mantıksal çıkarımla değil, sempati ve nefret gibi duygusal tepkilerle oluşur. Yararlılık İlkesi: Bir eylemin iyi veya kötü olduğunu belirleyen şey, toplumsal fayda ve duygusal onaydır. Örneğin, adalet kavramı, insanların “haksızlığa öfke duyması” sayesinde gelişmiştir. Evrensellik Duyguda Aranmalıdır: Hume, evrensel ahlakın insan doğasındaki ortak duygularla (örneğin, acıya sempati) temellendirilebileceğini savunur. Örnek: Birini kurtarmak, “onun acısını hissettiğiniz için” ahlakidir; Kant’ın dediği gibi “soğuk bir ilke” gerektirmez.
Aristoteles: Duygular ve Erdem Dengesi Aristoteles, “Nikomakhos’a Etik” (MÖ 4. yy) eserinde, duyguların kontrol edilmesi gerektiğini savunur:
“Altın Ortalama”: Öfke, korku, sevgi gibi duygular, aşırıya kaçmadan kullanıldığında erdemli hale gelir. Pratik Bilgelik (Phronesis): Ahlaki kararlar, akıl ve duygunun dengelenmesiyle alınır. Örneğin, cesaret, korkaklık ile pervasızlık arasındaki dengeyle mümkündür. Örnek: Adaletli olmak, öfkeyi bastırmak değil, hakkaniyetle yönlendirmektir.
Modern Psikoloji ve Nörobilim: Duygular Olmadan Ahlak Mümkün mü? Kant’ın aksine, günümüz psikolojisi duyguların ahlaki kararlardaki kritik rolünü vurgular:
Antonio Damasio (“Descartes’ın Yanılgısı”, 1994): Duygusal hasarı olan hastalar (örn., ventromedial prefrontal korteks lezyonu), mantıklı kararlar alabilir ama ahlaki yargıları bozulur. Jonathan Haidt (“The Righteous Mind”, 2012): Ahlaki yargılar önce sezgisel/duygusal olarak oluşur, sonra akıl gerekçe uydurur. Ayna Nöronlar: Empati, başkasının acısını hissedebilme yeteneğiyle doğrudan bağlantılıdır. Örnek: “Tramvay ikilemi” deneylerinde, insanların çoğu duygusal tepkilerle (örn., birini itmekten tiksinti) karar verir.
Feminist Etik: Duyguların Ahlaki Değeri Carol Gilligan ve Nel Noddings, Kant’ın “soğuk evrenselcilik”ine karşı bakım etiğini (ethics of care) savunur:
İlişkisellik: Ahlak, soyut ilkelerden çok, insanlar arası bağlarla (sevgi, sorumluluk) şekillenir. Duygusal Bağlar Önemlidir: Bir annenin çocuğuna sevgisi, “evrensel bir yasa” gerektirmez; doğal ve ahlaki bir tepkidir. Örnek: Bir hasta yakını, “sevdiği insanın acısını dindirmek” için yalan söyleyebilir. Kant’a göre bu yanlıştır, ama bakım etiğine göre meşru olabilir.
Sonuç: Duygular Güvenilmez mi? Filozof/Görüş Duyguların Rolü Temel Argüman Kant Güvenilmez Ahlak, akıl ve evrensel ilkelerle belirlenmeli. Hume Temel Ahlak, duygusal onay ve sempatiye dayanır. Aristoteles Kontrollü kullanılmalı Erdem, duygu ve aklın dengelenmesidir. Modern Psikoloji Kritik Duygusal hasar, ahlaki yargıyı bozar. Feminist Etik Merkezi Bakım ve ilişkisellik, duygularla şekillenir.
The European Union's decision to impose sanctions on the Nayara Energy oil refinery in India is groundless and in breach of international law, Russian oil giant Rosneft said on Sunday.
I do not understand how Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, and Blacks, and Hispanics and Asians and Arabs and Indians can all reproduce with White people and had ancestors that might have existed for a long time before meeting White people
But are claimed to be genetically predetermined to have a parasitic relationship with White people
How did they survive before meeting White people if they can not be self sufficient but biologically can only survive as Parasites
Also it seems strange that a parasite would be able to reproduce with it's host while producing Hybrid offspring containing a mixture of their DNA and the host DNA
For example Misquitos Tics, Tapeworms, Hookwoms and so on do not such thing
Some parasites need their host to reproduce but do not merge DNA with their hosts
I know of no other Parasites that merge their DNA with the host when reproducing
So I would suggest that they are taught to be parasites culturally & it is not genetic 2 of 2
I thought I saw a raccoon or similar looking animal that I do not have a name for posted in a picture doing a possible Hitler salute lifting one hand but not lifting the other hand
I do not have time to scroll further looking for it again on the home listing of posts
On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held since April 2023, Lystrup also was responsible for guiding the direction and management of multiple other NASA field […]
Well, that is peculiar. Did her mom take the Fauci sauce, by any chance...what about any of those Bill Gates (of Hell) "vaccines"...
"Kipekee: A spotless reticulated giraffe born at Brights Zoo in Tennessee on July 31, 2023, and named after a public vote. She is believed to be the only known solid-colored giraffe of her species."
Der US-amerikanische Journalist und MAGA-Influencer #TuckerCarlson in einem Interview mit dem #BILD -Reporter Paul #Ronzheimer (20.07.2025) #Merkel #Merz
Darwin himself, as well as the contemporaneous heads of the British Museum and the Smithsonian, were all animatronic robots made in China to divert us from the True Scriptural Path.
I have no idea why they would fake the existence of Darwin in order to undermine spirituality as you said when they could just write an anonymous book or use their own name or a pen name to undermine spirituality but it would be very easy to do such a hoax as faking the existence of Darwin as you suggested
I remember seeing fossilized footprints in rock formations, outside. Not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they may have been put there, but I think old records of fossil hunts strongly substantiates the claim that they were there before people.
That said, there is NO solid evidence linking oil to fossils. "Fossil fuels" is a forced meme, and based on first principles, it's more likely that oil is a natural formation resulting from carbon and hydrogen in the earth being squeezed together by tectonic pressure.
I start with the assumption that most news that has a large scale reach is fiction made by a propaganda writing team
And later people compile old news articles or now videos and audio to figure out history
So much of history is potentially compiled fiction that was called News in the past
Sometimes small scale news is real, but people are less likely to use the budget or effort to mass propagate news on a large scale unless it benefits them as propaganda
Yup, there are archeological ruins in the americas which were built by a race that is not formally acknowledged to have existed. Exploring them is crimalized.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw affecting Instant On Access Points that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37103, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Hard-coded login credentials were found in HPE posted by pod_feeder
A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track mobile phone users’ locations without authorization, security researchers have revealed. The attack leverages weaknesses in the decades-old SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol that underpins international cellular networks. New Attack Method Discovered Security experts at Enea’s Threat Intelligence […]
A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities, to track mobile phone users' locations without authorization.
Vielen Dank an #ARD, dass nun auch jeder Bürger sehen konnte, wie unprofessionell + v.a. parteilich der #ÖRR agiert. In Zusammenarbeit mit der #Antifa wollte die ARD Alice #Weidel zu Fall bringen. Doch Alice hat das Interview dominiert. Der ÖRR gehört abgeschafft! #GEZ #GEZAbschaffen
Pretty common in Germany. You have some country-wide discounter gyms that are used like that by homeless people. Once they have a certain hygene regime in place it probably won’t bother anyone.
ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ON THE WAY! Me: No, it's not. The label was created. Sometimes it takes a week for the shipper to actually ship it. Even eBay has stopped this misleading hype.
ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ARRIVING TODAY! Me: Bets? According to the shipping company's tracking page It's getting ready to depart *Poland*. It is NOT arriving today.
ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR STATE! Me: Again, label created. In my 760mi. long state. Yay... FFS!
"« Qu'on soit trans, trans-adjacent ou autre, qu'on refuse le cadre et les conditions dans lesquelles on prétend nous faire accéder aux soins, qu'on y ait de toute manière jamais eu accès ou bien qu'on s'inquiète de s'en voir priver, il existe tout un tas de raisons de s'intéresser à l'automédication et au do-it-yourself hormonal. Ici, on va parler de testostérone sous
About once a month I am struck by how useful the way we categorize political beliefs is to the people in power, and how damaging it is to political discourse otherwise.
Are you right wing? Wait - conservative? Or are you a liberal? Are you a "leftist" - or is that a liberal? Are centrists liberals? Or are they right wing? Or conservative?
Your answer may determine what other people assume you want, based on their *own* biases, no matter what else you tell them explicitly.
This is a huge frustration for me: I find myself having to deny the "liberal" beliefs that people attribute to me one-by-one, when I try to have a conversation about something
"But you're liberal: don't you believe in xyz?"
A) I didn't say I was "liberal" b) nope, I don't & I never have.
Example, if you say you believe that we can provide for everyone's needs collectively people will immediately go "I can't believe you trust the GOVERNMENT," & it's like...who tf said I do?
The combination of fuzzy definitions + strong biases makes political conversations fraught for basically *anyone* on the real left.
And that's because "left" and "right" are the most inane and meaningless words for one of the most important and complex aspects of human society that anyone could have picked.
*Any time* language has been manipulated to the point where it ceases to have clarity of meaning, you can find powerful people behind the manipulation.
That's because *they* hold the reigns of our media establishment, and can define and redefine words as they choose - especially if those words have already been shaken loose from any common meaning.
This is most obvious in the "liberal" or "left" debacle that routinely bamboozles otherwise smart people, but has been used for decades to conflate "conservative" and "far right" as well.
Other examples include things like "terrorist" and "criminal", which are so flagrantly used as to have no real meaning beyond "bad because we said so".
You can see it with the political class' selective use of "protester" and "rioter", as though these two words have no substantive difference in meaning.
Discordo fortemente quando alguém afirma equivocadamente que “Linux” — querendo frequentemente dizer GNU — seria projetado para ser utilizado apenas pela linha de comando. Alegam que, por isso, usuários finais seriam melhor satisfeitos por um ou dois sistemas operacionaisnão livres para computadores pessoais, especialmente o que domina o mercado.
Há, de fato, um enorme esforço de GNU/“Linux”/etc. no lado do servidor (back-end). Isso felizmente, já que é o tipo de sistema operacional que tem dado sustentação à sociedade da informação global, executando a maioria dos servidores da Web, a infraestrutura de telecomunicações em geral, os maiores supercomputadores, projetos científicos de variadas áreas. Seu núcleo está em dispositivos móveis e embarcados, incluindo veículos automotores. Os ditos interpretadores de comandos, na realidade, tornam a vida de quem aprende a usá-los mais fácil e rápida. Isso não é uma fraqueza, e sim uma vantagem muito poderosa.
Dito isso, também tem havido grande desenvolvimento, por décadas, do que chamamos de ambientes de área de trabalholivres (Free Desktop), com diversas implementações, algumas menos e outras mais orientadas ao usuário final leigo.
Usuários comuns de navegadores Web e aplicativos em geral não têm necessidade de saber muito sobre o que o computador faz por trás da interface gráfica humano-máquina. Eles contam com outras pessoas para suporte técnico, e os ambientes desktop livres não mudam esse fato. A maior diferença é que oferecem mais opções e liberdades, dando a impressão de uma escolha mais difícil. Contudo, independentemente da categoria de software envolvida, quando solicitados a instalar ou dar manutenção em uma máquina dessas, faz parte do trabalho de profissionais de TI levantar o que seus clientes precisam no computador, conhecer as opções disponíveis ou pesquisá-las, para satisfazer essas necessidades. Não precisa ser tratado como uma religião que tenha algum dogma inquestionável para todas as situações, mesmo que isso infelizmente pareça ser o caso com frequência. Ao contrário, a idéia, aqui, é empoderar os usuários para que consigam exercer sua liberdade tecnológica e mantê-la sustentável.
Meu pai (com mais de 70 anos) que, felizmente, é saudável, embora nunca tivesse usado um computador antes, acabou se tornando um usuário final de Xfce e Firefox praticamente sem treinamento. Ele sabe como ligar, colocar sua senha, iniciar o navegador por um ícone na tela, abrir alguns sites que deixei na Barra de Favoritos, como de notícias, correio eletrônico, instituições financeiras etc. Eventualmente, aprendeu como digitar outros endereços simples, fazer buscas, e até a iniciar uma sessão de assistência remota e me chamar quando precisa. Isso teve início antes de ter começado a usar celulares inteligentes. É como o usuário idoso médio de outros sistemas, ou melhor. Há alguns docentes pós-doutores que, mesmo utilizando o sistema operacional dominante, chegam a ter dificuldade para fazer isso tudo, talvez por falta da vontade necessária. Ele, na realidade, até chegou a experimentar, sem minha interferência, o sistema privativo que veio instalado em um então novo laptop, já há vários anos. Não demorou até me pedir para “consertá-lo”, para que deixasse como já estava acostumado. De vez em quando, atualizo para ele o GNU que, então, permanece estável, eficiente em uso de recursos, seguro, possuindo o que ele precisa, sendo que, com outro sistema, provavelmente a máquina já estaria obsoleta. Então, como poderia ele não estar feliz com isso? Reclama quando um site não faz o que ele quer, o provedor de Internet cai ou a impressora trava, como qualquer outro usuário. Por tudo que é tão elogiado naquele típico sistema operacional privativo, dito intuitivo, era para ser bem fácil para todas as pessoas se acostumarem a ele, certo?
A lição é que qualquer mudança de hábito é muito difícil para a maioria das pessoas, que costumam ser teimosas. Se tivessem sido ensinadas desde o princípio a usar algum ambiente desktop, ferramentas e aplicativos livres, mesmo que diferentes de seus equivalentes privativos com funcionalidades semelhantes, elas estariam acostumadas e provavelmente evitariam a situação oposta. Assim como as massas têm sofrido lavagem cerebral para acreditarem que existe apenas uma maneira de usar o computador. É por isso que elas mantêm tudo na mesma, ainda que estejam sujeitas a obsolescência programada, aprisionamento tecnológico, práticas monopolistas, comprometimento de privacidade e segurança, ou algum outro tipo de dependência pesada das maiores corporações de tecnologia, preferindo isso a aprender qualquer coisa que pudesse torná-las capazes de exercer mais liberdade perante o software.
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