Ateu Coloque o seus amigos cristãos pra ler o Novo Testamento

Posted on Mon 27 April 2026 in religião • Tagged with religion, religião, ateismo, atheism, jesus • 1 min read

Uma estátua de Jesus na cruz presa a uma parede de pedra

Jesus (picture from https://pixabay.com/photos/cross-crucifix-jesus-crucifixion-1979473/)

Não sei se eu já mencionei aqui no blog, mas eu espero que quem me seguia no finado Twitter ou que me siga no Bluesky (link ali do lado) saiba que eu sou Ateu. Ateu mesmo, não sou nem agnóstico, não acredito que haja um ou múltiplos deuses, nem me faz falta acreditar. Mas fui criado cristão, e até que não tenho nenhum problema com a pessoa histórica ou mitológica de Jesus. Eu queria muito que todos os cristão tivessem a chance de conhecer as palavras daquele cara …


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Reboot

Posted on Tue 25 November 2025 in selfhelp • 3 min read

Green grass starting to regrow after a fire

Image by Whisker Flowers from Pixabay

So for some reason you could not do anything to prevent you and hit rock bottom? I'm sorry about that, and be sure you can always find/fight your way back.

How do you restart from scratch? The answer is pretty simple, you just do something new, use something you already had or know and just start again. Might sound easy but it's not, you probably already painted yourself into a corner and need to jump out of that corner.

You might want to make a list of all things …


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Terra and Lua - UEFI

Posted on Wed 28 May 2025 in programming • Tagged with lua, terra, c, lowlevel, uefi • 6 min read

2015: Moon crosses Earth (EPIC/DSCOVR)

2015: Moon crosses Earth (EPIC/DSCOVR) Image Credit: NASA/NOAA

Now in part 2 we will see how we can generate code and link it to GNU-EFI so it can run on the EFI environment, but first.

I asked ChatGPT... I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'll copy more or less the wording on Wikipedia rather. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a specification for the firmware of computer systems that supports booting from a hardware-based EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) environment, and it's used by both UEFI 1.0 & later versions as well with some older BIOSes like …


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How to (not) Install C on the AOS on a Nova MV

Posted on Mon 26 May 2025 in programming • Tagged with data general, nova, bcpl, alto • 4 min read

a Nova rack in the center with a terminal on the top, PDP-11/35 control panel to the left on top of some other smaller rack a Data General branded teletype terminal in betwen the two and an old large ociloscope behine. On the right a table with a glass terminal with the Data General colors.

I have this idea of restoring the Mesa/Cedar compiler but discipline and skill are lacking. I have documented the progress I made from a archive that was released by the Computer History Museum while ago in https://github.com/xspager/Cedar_tools.

So I was the other day watching the a Data General Nova being restored (Usagi Electric playlist, Tech Tangents playlist) and wondered if I could get myself familiar with the software on that platform and see if that helps with recreating the kind of …


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Batman Carioca

Posted on Mon 28 April 2025 in short stories • 2 min read

Era o calor das noites de verão, 42 graus a noite inteira, por semanas, era isso que causava essa insanidade tão característica da cidade em que ele cresceu sempre tentou não odiar. A maior parte da população não dormia por muitos dias seguidos, ele tinha certeza que era essa a causa. A cidade de São Sebastião não era desconhecida da criminalidade, de gangsters e milicianos, de políticos corruptos, e sim, de alguns heróis. Era uma cidade rica que já havia sido a capital de um império modesto, teve seu período de grande estagnação, viu alguma melhoria …


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