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  <title><![CDATA[Pluto Review]]></title>
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<h2 id="org638aa67">Summary</h2>
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I would dare to say that Pluto is an anime carried almost entirely by its direction and art, while its story leaves something to be desired in many respects. I had difficulties with the way the author approached the problems inherent in the type of narrative he chose. In this review, I won't go into the technical aspects of animation and direction since I don't have enough knowledge to evaluate them. My focus will be on the writing and storytelling.
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<h2 id="org0482d5b">The premise</h2>
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The story takes place in a world where artificial intelligence has evolved to the point where it is difficult to distinguish robots from humans. As expected of any work with this premise, the author uses this basis to raise reflections on humanity, ethics, morality and even religion. However, one of the biggest problems I found with Pluto was the attempt to draw a parallel between robots and slaves. On the surface, it may seem like a valid comparison, but it's not. The reason is simple: robots are not living beings, let alone humans.
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Although there is a significant difference between a simple calculator and a robot with advanced artificial intelligence capable of simulating human emotions, that doesn't make it valid to equate robots with slaves. However advanced an AI may become, it will still be <b><b>ARTIFICIAL</b></b>. The moment you suggest that these machines should have the same rights as humans, you are actually lowering the meaning of what it means to be human, equating us with mere codes and circuits.
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I believe that the two biggest flaws in the narrative are exactly these: the attempt to humanise the robots to the point of comparing them to slaves, and the implication that they possess genuine empathy. I'll explore these issues in more detail below.
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<h2 id="orgb8be761">Robots are not slaves</h2>
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I hope I'm not using a Strawman fallacy here, but my impression is that the author is trying to generate empathy for the robots through this analogy. By portraying the conditions in which they lived before the implementation of the International Robot Laws, it is clear that the intention is to move the viewer, evoking feelings similar to those we experience when learning about the horrors of slavery in real history.
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However, there is a fundamental difference between the two cases: human emotions are real, while the emotions of robots are only <b><b>SIMULATIONS</b></b>. When an enslaved human being is forced to work under degrading conditions, both their body and their mind suffer real damage. Fear, fatigue, illness and death are concrete and <b><b>REAL</b></b> consequences. A robot, however advanced, merely simulates these states. Just as we feel empathy for fictional characters in a film, we can be moved by the robots in the story - but that doesn't make them comparable to humans.
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<h2 id="orgc81a594">Do robots have empathy?</h2>
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This is another point that the author deals with in a paradoxical way. At the same time as he tries to convince the viewer that robots are highly humanised, he himself exposes the limitations of this supposed empathy. The best example of this is Uran. In the anime, her ability to ‘feel’ human feelings is described as impressive. After Atom's death, we see that she has ‘suffered’, something that is perceptible to the people around her. However, this idea is contradicted when Uran realises that the pain of a boy, a victim of bullying, is much deeper than hers.
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This scene completely breaks the idea that robots can really feel like humans do. If even one of the world's most advanced machines, programmed to recognise and react to human emotions, shows less grief for losing her brother than a child who has been bullied, how can we equate these robots with human beings? This inconsistency ends up undermining the author's own proposal.
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<h2 id="org23ea2ca">The Best Part</h2>
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For me, the highlight of Pluto remains the first episode. The story of Sir Duncan, an elderly musician who has lost his sight and starts living with North #2, one of the most advanced robots in the world, is well done. Apart from showing the horrors experienced by North #2 in the war, the episode also explores Duncan's childhood in a more satisfying way than the rest of the series. Even the soundtrack of this episode stands out, being more striking than that of the rest of the anime. I could even say that watching just the second half of the first episode gives you a better and rewarding experience than watching all the following episodes.
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<h2 id="org3a751d2">Conclusion</h2>
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The end of the story is different from the rest of the series. Yes, I understand that inside Pluto was Sahad, a ‘good-hearted’ robot, but seeing his shell of hatred defeated with a few words from Atom made it feel like I was watching Naruto, not a work by Urasawa. All the hatred that motivated the destruction of the seven most advanced robots in the world was simply dispelled with a ‘hatred isn't worth it’. And no, this isn't just a problem with the anime adaptation - it's exactly the same in the manga. Even if Sahad was a robot with no bad intentions, Pluto was pure hatred, and seeing him defeated with such a simplistic cliché completely undermined the climax of the story.
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<p>
I also missed a more memorable soundtrack. There were several moments in the anime when the lack of an emotional music made some scenes less impactful than they could have been. Overall, the music in Pluto seems to serve more as a backdrop than as an element to intensify the emotions.
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<h2 id="orgf62e36f">Final considerations</h2>
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Pluto starts in a good spot, excellent direction and artwork, but it fails to explore its narrative and the problems presented. The attempt to equate robots with humans fails to sustain the complexity of this discussion. The first episode is exceptional, but overall the plot is very inconsistent. The anime ends in an anticlimactic and simplistic way.
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In the end, Pluto raises interesting questions, but fails to answer them reasonably.
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why I Chose Guix Over Nix]]></title>
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I've been using NixOS for quite some time, but somehow I ended up with Guix. In this article I will try to write about the reasons why I don't use Nix anymore.
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<h2 id="org52a7020">The Emacs &gt; Elisp &gt; SICP &gt; Scheme pipeline</h2>
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I honestly don't remember the first time I heard about Emacs, but I remember the first time I tried to use it I got gatekept by the Elisp magecraft.
After that, I spent some days trying to learn some basic concepts of this ancient text editor. Thanks to <a href="https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elisp/">https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elisp/</a> I was able to write some simple functions to make my Emacs experience smoother. To be honest, I didn't really liked to write Lisp back then, it sucked a lot for me. Even reading simple functions was a hassle since I wasn't used to see through all the parenthesis.
At that time, I already knew about the 'Structure and Interpretaion of Computer Programs' book, but didn't read until then. It was only after seeing the MIT class linked below that I got hooked into computer magecraft:
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Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA</a>
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That was when I finally decided to read the SICP and, consequently, learn Scheme.
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<h2 id="orge3f7226">The Nix Language is not easy to write</h2>
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And that alone is huge win for Guix. Configuring Nix packages was a pain in the ass. Not because you need to set everything up from scratch (that's not even a problem), but because the language is confusing as hell and the documentation doesn't help. It's not a secret, everywhere you go on the internet you will find people complaining about how the Nix language is hard to grasp, but no because it is complex, just because it lacks proper documentation. You can't be sure to find what you're looking for. All the information is fragmented on the internet, there is not a place where you can just find what you're looking for.
At the end of the day you spend more time guessing "where the information is" rather "how to do X".
For instance, here's a comparison between the figlet package ported to Nix and the one ported to Guix:
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And no, I'm not even talking about how the Nix code is bigger than the Scheme code, that's not really a problem. The thing is, which one is easier to read? Which one is easier to maintain? Which one is more elegant? Which one is more expressive about what it does?
The Nix language was a mistake and I think it is the Achilles' heel of the Nix project. I can assure you that most of the people using NixOS right now don't even know how the language works, most of the time tthey just copy and paste code that was already written by some Nix wizard and call it a day. But the moment you need to do something new you're left in the lurch. But I have to admit, most of the Nix wizards are nice people and they will probably help you. The thing is, do you really want to depend so much on the community to get things done?
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<p>
Guix solves that. It's not like you need to learn a complex language to start with Guix, Scheme is relatively simple and most of the time the docs are everything you need to get up and running. Packaging a program for Guix isn't hard, I plan to make another blog post to delve into that soon.
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<h2 id="org155caa0">The LISP way of life</h2>
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There are some reasons why some Emacs wizards stick to LISP: metaprogramming, macros, higher-order functions, recursion etc. Not only that, LISP is a crucial part of computer science history. It helps you understand why things are the way they are. It helps you understand mathematical concepts. It helps you understand functional programming. It helps you understand core concepts of programming, hence Scheme is used as the language for the SICP book.
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And yes, Nix also supports abstractions, but Guix's use of Scheme provides more powerful and general ways to define those abstractions.
Since all the Guix configuration and packaging logic is expressed in Guile Scheme, you can deeply customise and program your system at at level.
For instance, you can define custom operating system services, package definitions, or system configuration options entirely in Guile Scheme.
You can't really say the same for NixOS. The language itself is more limited to package definitions, which makes it harder to set system-level configurations. If you want to customise deeply at system-level you will probably need external scripting or some other configuration management tools.
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Scheme has a long history in theoretical computer science and has been used for decades in academic research and programming language design. Using Scheme to configure your system basically gives your superpowers, it's pretty much like standing on the shoulders of giants.
To be honest I don't see a point in learning such a complex language as Nix just to define packages. Scheme gives you so much potential for broader use cases other than package definitions. System configuration, scripting, automation, general programming, you name it. Even if you don't plan to write packages for Guix you still can use Scheme for lots of other tasks, specially if your using the Guix operating system.
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<h2 id="orgf929901">Guix is Free (as in Freedom)</h2>
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Guix places more emphasis on software freedom and adheres to the FSF standards for ethical distros.
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Yes, I do use some proprietary software, but that's something I want to change. I would say that the only reason I still use the Linux kernel is because of the lack of free bluetooth drivers for my laptop. That's something I also want to change. I made a mistake buying a bluetooth headphone, specially because I already knew that there were no free bluetooth drivers for me. I hope to abandon Linux and its proprietary binaries as soon as possible. Software freedom might be hard to achieve, but freedom in general isn't easy to achieve.
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I've been using Guix for quite some time now. It's been a great experience so far!
Here are some wallpapers I've been collecting for my Guix desktop.
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I think it goes without saying that Suika is the perfect candidate to be the Guix mascot .
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  <title><![CDATA[Monogatari - Text Editor in Python]]></title>
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Monogatari is a text editor built with Python using the Tkinter GUI library.
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/henrique-marques-vsoft/monogatari/master/pics/shinobu.gif" alt="shinobu.gif">
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Assuming you already have Python installed in your machine:
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<pre class="src src-bash">$ git clone [email protected]:all123all/monogatari.git
$ cd monogatari
$ python monogatari.py
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If you're using Linux you probably will need to install tk manually:
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<pre class="src src-bash">//Arch based distros
$ sudo pacman -S tk
//For Ubuntu based
$ sudo apt-get install tk
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<h2 id="org4f24ae7">Goals</h2>
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<li>Basic text editor functionalities (create file, open file, exit etc.)</li>
<li>Black background and a colorpicker option to choose another color</li>
<li class="off"><code>[&#xa0;]</code> Test routine for the basic functionalities</li>
<li class="off"><code>[&#xa0;]</code> Release a package</li>
<li class="off"><code>[&#xa0;]</code> The close function is being called even when the file isn't modified</li>
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<h2 id="orgfd5380a">Contribute to MONOGATARI - Text Editor</h2>
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<li>Click the fork button on top right</li>
<li>Git clone your fork</li>
<li>Connect with my repo:</li>
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<pre class="src src-bash">$ git remote add all123all git://github.com/all123all/monogatari
$ git remote -v
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You are now ready to start to code! Just do as always:
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<pre class="src src-bash">$ git add .
$ git commit -m "fix: something that was fixed"
$ git push
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Then you can create a pull request right here on Github. Just go to the Pull Requests tab and select `New pull request` button to do so.
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  <title><![CDATA[Lum - Linux Ubiquitous Marker]]></title>
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<p>
Link: <a href="https://github.com/0xhenrique/lum">https://github.com/0xhenrique/lum</a>
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<p>
Lum is a project I started as a way to escape the feeling of being tied to the web-browser when it comes to bookmarks.
The objective is relatively simple, to have access to my bookmarks outside of the browser. This way I could call my bookmarks from anywhere on the computer, whether from Vim, Emacs, the browser itself, the window manager or wherever.
I'm still not sure if I'm going to turn this project into a CLI tool or a library. I still need to try to integrate Lum with some other tool and evaluate which points I failed, which ones I need to improve and where I got things right.
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<p>
I started using the Rust language, but I realized that I wasn't familiar enough with the language to do this. So I left Rust aside for a while and took advantage of the situation to rewrite Lum using Clojure, since I had been planning to put it into practice for a while.
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<p>
This was my first more "serious" project using Clojure, so a lot of things are out of place, a lot of rough edges, a lot of design mistakes, etc.
For example, I'm using JSON to save the bookmarks, but to be honest I don't know if I'll keep this format until the end.
I'm still evaluating whether this would be the most practical and quickest way, considering that I already accumulated more than 12 thousand bookmarks at the height of my NEET time.
I don't think parsing 12 thousand objects in JSON is efficient, but it's something I still need to test in practice.
But at least it helped me get better grasp of a Lisp language. I still intend to revisit this project sometime in the future, maybe even restructure it from scratch to fix the mistakes I made.
For now, I don't think it can replace browser bookmarks, but it's something I'll focus on more in my next iteration with Lum.
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Although it is not really necessary to run this program, having fzf and xclip would be great if you want to integrate with other programs. A pretty useful command to fetch your bookmarks would be:
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<pre class="src src-bash">$ lum -l | fzf | xclip -selection clipboard
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While I'm not deploying binary packages to Lum, I can check my bookmarks through Emacs with a very simple function:
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<pre class="src src-emacs-lisp">(defun pache/my-consult-bookmark ()
  "Select a bookmark using `completing-read` and copy it to the clipboard."
  (interactive)
  (let* ((candidates (split-string (shell-command-to-string "java -jar ~/path/to/lum-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar -l") "\n" t))
         (selection (completing-read "Select bookmark: " candidates)))
    (when selection
      (kill-new selection)
      (message "Copied to clipboard: %s" selection))))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b") 'pache/my-consult-bookmark)
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  <title><![CDATA[Internet Lurk Compilation #1]]></title>
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<h2 id="orga90ca24">General Findings</h2>
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<li>Pure gold from the 90s: <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-computers-used-to-do-3d-animation">https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-computers-used-to-do-3d-animation</a></li>
<li>Symbolics Internet Museum: <a href="https://symbolics.com/museum/">https://symbolics.com/museum/</a></li>
<li>What is the relationship between Apple and Serial Experiments Lain? <a href="https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm">https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm</a></li>
<li>The Cornell Anime Club: <a href="https://www.cjas.org/">https://www.cjas.org/</a></li>
<li>Appearances of MIT in Anime: <a href="https://anime.mit.edu/resources/mit_in_anime">https://anime.mit.edu/resources/mit_in_anime</a></li>
<li>How Emacs got into Tron: Legacy: <a href="https://boingboing.net/2011/04/06/how-emacs-got-into-t.html">https://boingboing.net/2011/04/06/how-emacs-got-into-t.html</a></li>
<li>The Jargon File: <a href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/">http://www.catb.org/jargon/</a></li>
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<h2 id="org8467a66">Neocities</h2>
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<li>Lainzine (Lain Magazine): <a href="https://lainzine.org/">https://lainzine.org/</a></li>
<li>About Software Privacy and other topics: <a href="https://digdeeper.neocities.org/">https://digdeeper.neocities.org/</a></li>
<li>Reminds of Fauux: <a href="https://blackwings.neocities.org/">https://blackwings.neocities.org/</a></li>
<li>Fauux: <a href="https://fauux.neocities.org/">https://fauux.neocities.org/</a></li>
<li>Tatsumoto's guide to Nihongo: <a href="https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/">https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/</a></li>
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<h2 id="orgbc25ecd">Internet Archive Findings</h2>
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<li>Oh! PC (Jul 01 1990) [Content in Japanese]: <a href="https://archive.org/details/oh-pc-issue-127-jul-01-1990/Oh%21%20PC%20Issue%20127%20%28Jul%2001%201990%29/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/oh-pc-issue-127-jul-01-1990/Oh%21%20PC%20Issue%20127%20%28Jul%2001%201990%29/mode/2up</a></li>
<li>Comptiq Manazine [Content in Japanese]: <a href="https://archive.org/search?query=comptiq">https://archive.org/search?query=comptiq</a></li>
<li>The Symbol of the Knights of Eastern Calculus: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200121124624/http://www.cjas.org/~leng/knights.htm">https://web.archive.org/web/20200121124624/http://www.cjas.org/~leng/knights.htm</a></li>
<li>MSX Magazine (1985-02) [Content in Japanese]: <a href="https://archive.org/details/msx-magazine-1985-02-ascii-jp/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/msx-magazine-1985-02-ascii-jp/mode/2up</a></li>
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<h2 id="org54a56ab">Websites I visit from time to time</h2>
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<li>A <code>~modern~</code> Javascript approach to SICP: <a href="https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/">https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/</a></li>
<li>A blog by Sam Greydanus: <a href="https://greydanus.github.io/">https://greydanus.github.io/</a></li>
<li>Xah Lee (he's also one of the minds behind ergoemacs and xah-fly-keys): <a href="https://xahlee.info/">https://xahlee.info/</a></li>
<li>Sasha Chua blog: <a href="https://sachachua.com/blog/">https://sachachua.com/blog/</a></li>
<li>Lunduke Journal: <a href="https://lunduke.substack.com/">https://lunduke.substack.com/</a></li>
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<h2 id="org1807383">whoami</h2>
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Hello there! You can call me Henrique.
The main purpose of this website is to share some interesting things I find on the world wide web and the projects of mine.
Some of the stuff I work on <a href="https://github.com/0xhenrique">Github</a>.
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<h2 id="org9f2cc9c">My Computers</h2>
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<h3 id="org2e69940">ThinkPad T480</h3>
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<li>OS: GNU Guix</li>
<li>DE: EXWM/XFCE4</li>
<li>CPU: Intel i5-8350U (8) @ 3.600GHz</li>
<li>GPU: 😕</li>
<li>RAM: 24Gb</li>
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<h3 id="org3184da4">Xeon PC</h3>
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<li>OS: GNU Guix</li>
<li>DE: EXWM/XFCE4</li>
<li>CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (24) @ 2.900GHz</li>
<li>GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X</li>
<li>Memory: 32GB</li>
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<h2 id="org145ec2e">Keyboards</h2>
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<h3 id="org6f8c1d0">The Charybdis by Bastard Keyboards</h3>
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Right now I'm using the Charybdis. It simply feels "correct" to type with it.  
The only <span class="underline">drawback</span> from this keyboard is the price, but I don't think you will find a dactyl for a cheap price.  
As far as I know, there's no company mass producing that type of keyboard.  
But at the end I think it's worth it, at least for me it is.
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<h3 id="org6aa6145">The Sofle V1 by Mechboards UK</h3>
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The other one I have (although don't use very much anymore) is the Sofle V1 that I bought from Mechboards UK.
It was very nice to type on a <span class="underline">low profile</span> keyboard. It's not so expansive as the Charybdis.
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I visited Nazaré Beach last year (2023). Such a lovely place.
Shame on me for not taking my camera with me that day. I'm not a fan of smartphone cameras to be honest. Still, I couldn't let the opportunity pass. Here are some photos I took that day.
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According to Wikipedia, Nazaré is one of the most traditional Portuguese fishing villages, having the most popular bathing beach on the Portuguese west coast, where you can still find, on the sand, some women dressed in the traditional costume of seven skirts, taking care of the fish that dries in the sun, lined up on stakes.
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I plan to go back there in the winter, but this time I will remember to take my camera with me. I have an 18-55 and a 200mm, but I believe I will get better photos with the 200mm, especially in the higher parts. Not to mention that I will be able to aim further without losing too much sharpness.
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