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Check out everything that came out on Manual do Usuário blog in the last week.

This week in Manual

Monday, Jan 19^th

Emoji design convergence review, 2018–2026. If emojis are a new language, very different representations can cause deep noise in the conversation. In 2018, Emojipedia predicted that the different emoji providers would converge their designs. The forecast has materialized.

Zoneless. This website offers an easy-to-read view of time zones. Great help for deciding on meeting times between people from different countries. More cool links.

Tuesday, Jan 20^th

Firefox joins Chrome and Edge in the problem of dormant extensions that spy on users. The Malwarebytes blog warns of a new wave of compromised browser extensions in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. A good way to mitigate damage is to limit yourself to extensions endorsed by browser stores. Here I explain how.

Nova Launcher now has advertising trackers from Google and Meta. The new version of Nova Launcher, popular "launcher" for Android, brought an unwanted novelty: advertising trackers from Meta and Google. On Exodus, a non-profit app audit platform, you can see the changes.

Imginn. Private front-end for Instagram, without relying on login/authentication. Can open stories. More cool links.

Wednesday, Jan 21^st

In his annual message to the public, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that “AI will be a boon to the creatives who are ready to lean in” and that more than a million channels used AI to create videos daily in December. At the same time, he promises measures “to reduce the spread of low quality AI content.” These seem like contradictory promises. Good luck to him. #

WalletWallet. Convert physical barcodes and QR codes into cards compatible with the iPhone Wallet. Free and runs in your browser. More cool links.

Thursday, Jan 22^nd

What's on your phone, Júlia? Come see what's on Júlia's iPhone 16.

Satya Nadela, Microsoft's CEO:

For this [AI] not to be a bubble, by definition it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread. I think a telltale sign of if it’s a bubble would be if all we’re talking about are the tech firms. If all we talk about is what’s happening to the technology side that then that’s just purely supply side.

30 years of ReactOS. The project aims (since 1996!) to create a FOSS alternative that is compatible with applications and drivers made for Windows. What perseverance! More cool links

Thanks for reading!

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Rodrigo Ghedin