User: fbobraga

Re: Perennial Question

On: Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? (sfgate.com)

Yeap, I know it has some flaws (legal justice is only a tool, that can be misused: that's why laws over this subject must be much discussed before crafted)

Re: Of course they can - here's how:

On: Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? (sfgate.com)

People who form their opinions and beliefs from social media are the problem.

I agree with you: the form proposed ("attack platform's wallets") will make the platform avoid it from it's users, I think...

Re:Of course they can - here's how:

On: Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? (sfgate.com)

1. Shut the company down.

... and other popular social media platform will rise. I think only a heavy liability for this companies, by helping the spread of "fake news", can solve this question: attack their wallets, so their will inhibit this practices :P

It's all "social media", not only facebook

On: Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? (sfgate.com)

Here, on Brazil elections, the main "guilty" was WhatsApp... Twitter helped too, besides facebook

Re:The way it should be, I suppose

On: Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com)

NN is not "implemented" in the common way: it only forbids traffic shaping use by ISPs :P

Zero rating for WhatsApp: negative efects

On: Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com)

It does not infringe NN? I think it does... besides this, zero rating for WhatsApp is very common here in Brazil (all popular cellphone carriers do it here...), and, I think, it have a very negative impact on elections here, collaborating to "fake news" spread: it's very difficult to verify sources, when the internet access is limited only to this app...

Re:There is a mountain of voter suppression

On: Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting (cnn.com)

If you can't win, cheat. It works.

I've seen it here, in Brazil: countless disinformation campaigns (mostly via WhatsApp) leaded to Jair Bolsonaro election...

Re:My account was suspended

On: Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting (cnn.com)

I don't think so: I'm Brazilian, we just passed for elections here...

Re:OMFG

On: Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? (theatlantic.com)

because we're making Earth more livable for humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

My account was suspended

On: Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting (cnn.com)

I I'm not a bot, I think...

OMFG

On: Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? (theatlantic.com)

it softens the fact that we are making the Earth unlivable to humans?

Re:Top contributors

On: 'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' (tidelift.com)

Not all programmers are poor.

I can tell more: not half of them are - or more: only a small amount of it are :)

Re:News?

On: 'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' (tidelift.com)

Then have a big "open source" company force a crappy "close source" change on it

This is why GPL-like license is needed, to avoid that

Re: News?

On: 'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' (tidelift.com)

I was paid to support FLOSS for years (it only stopped because I'm retired now: it continues to pay many people now, and I suppose it will remain...) :P

Re:Turns out...

On: 'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' (tidelift.com)

Remember: not only RH pay salary for FLOSS engineers and supporters...

Re: +1

On: People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com)

I've replaced my S5 battery 3 times now (and the last replaced becomes my extra battery :P)

Re:Why not use them until they die?

On: People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com)

For many people their phone _is_ their camera

yeap: and their watches too

Re:There's nothing new

On: People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com)

yeap: my Galaxy S5 has Android Oreo thanks to lineageos.org :P

Re:Newer = worse

On: People Are Keeping Their Phones Longer Because There's Not Much Reason To Upgrade, Study Finds (vice.com)

I'm happy with my Galaxy S5, with removable batteries :D

Re:He's right

On: Richard Stallman Calls Open Source Movement 'Amoral', Criticizes Apple And Microsoft For 'Censoring' App Installation (newleftreview.org)

but simply screaming about it does nothing.

With a huge audience, yes it does something...

Re:He only makes sense...

On: Richard Stallman Calls Open Source Movement 'Amoral', Criticizes Apple And Microsoft For 'Censoring' App Installation (newleftreview.org)

Makes sense to me (as a freedom lover) :P

Tech is neutral!

On: With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com)

misuse of it is what have sides

Re: No escape from online video

On: Firefox 63 Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, Search Shortcuts, and Picture-in-Picture on Android (venturebeat.com)

and it only happens with already full-screen videos (not to any video)

Re:Vegans are protected?

On: Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com)

simple filtering water is not enough to avoid it?

Vegans are protected?

On: Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com)

... by don't eating fish?

* I'm a vegan, and just want to know