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Rodrigo Ghedin

Sam Altman wrote a blog post titled “The Intelligence Age,” which I imagine wasn’t reviewed by…

“It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!),” Altman writes. “A few thousand days” means a good few of…

Oct 1, 2024

Oct 1, 2024

Rodrigo Ghedin

Plain text email

We’d live in a better world if HTML email didn’t exist (or plain text email was the default).

Mar 22, 2024

Meg Ryan using an ancient laptop in “You’ve Got Mail” movie.

Mar 22, 2024

Rodrigo Ghedin

Brave, Firefox, and Opera got more users in Europe. So what?

Browser companies are boasting downloads increasing in UE due to DMA. I think browser choice screens are a bad way to fight monopolies.

Mar 20, 2024

A chart without Y axis from Opera, saying “Growth in the inflow of new EU users on iOS”.

Mar 20, 2024

Rodrigo Ghedin

A noisy place

In “A quiet place”, horrible monsters kill human beings who make any noise. May my peers forgive me, but I think they have some reason.

Mar 15, 2024

Mar 15, 2024

Rodrigo Ghedin

Apps sold as single purchases are back, but with steep prices

Remember when the App Store was a universe of genius and cheap apps? Then, circa 2015, came the subscription era. Now, I’ve noticed a kind…

Mar 12, 2024

Mar 12, 2024

Rodrigo Ghedin

God Google now demands sacrifices “in the name of SEO”

SEO, the set of optimization techniques for sites to rank better in Google search results, is a kind of religion for marketers and…

Aug 14, 2023

Aug 14, 2023

Rodrigo Ghedin

The Concretude of the Cloud

It’s ironic that the “cloud” of the tech titans behaves in the opposite way to that of nature: instead of bringing water, it consumes it.

Aug 7, 2023

A hand holding a piece of paper with a cloud cut on it, against a cloudy, blue sky.

Aug 7, 2023

Rodrigo Ghedin

Thanks, Elon, for rebranding Twitter to X

Elon Musk’s latest move — throwing the “Twitter” brand away and rebranding the service as X — is actually a very good ideia.

Jul 27, 2023

An white X on a black background with some glitches spread.

Jul 27, 2023

Rodrigo Ghedin

Is Signal App Killing My iPhone Battery?

I have been trying to find the culprit of the excessive battery consumption of my iPhone. Signal app may be the one to blame.

Jul 25, 2023

A screenshot of iOS battery screen, showing a discharge of ~80% overnight.

Jul 25, 2023

Rodrigo Ghedin

In “Traffic”, Ben Smith Tells BuzzFeed’s Origin, Rise And Fall Story

In June 2015, Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed, went to the headquarters of the New York Times to explain to the centennial newspaper how…

Jul 19, 2023

Close of Jonah Peretti — white man, with a thin face, thick-rimmed glasses and short hair —, founder of BuzzFeed.

Jul 19, 2023

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