BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect fundamental rights on its
    • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?

      These are pretty annoying.

        • AlolanYoda@mander.xyzEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Always one of the first things I install with a new Arch Linux install! Not because it’s useful or anything, I’m not delusional, but because it’s hella cool

          • sharpratchet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            A modern use case: I like RSS in my terminal so I use newsboat but hate it opening firefox and swapping me out of the terminal when I want to read more. So I have it use lynx instead.

            I also have a computer without a DE that can browse the web (lynx), look at pictures (JP2a), watch movies (I don’t recall the name of the program but it converts the video to ASCII), edit word docs (take your pick), and send email (mail).

      • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        6 months ago

        robot with sign "no fun allowed"

        as a PSA, before 🫵you post images on the internet, it’s important to put alt text whenever you can. Some people need screen readers to acess the web, and it can give context to help understand it. Give a good description, and if there’s text on it, include that in the alt text. Acessibility is important!

  • blueamigafan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Brazil apparently propping up the internet, but huge swathes of twitter shutdown when Brazil banned it a while back, for a short time.

    • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It’s easy to be bold when the US president is weak. I don’t think they’d ban X if Trump was president at the time.

      • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        So strong he needs both hands to drink a glass of water?

        Or is it the way he literally shits himself in the middle of a rally? Oh wait, of course! Cause the only thing strong about that dementia riddled moron is his stench.

        Imagine looking at Trump and thinking, “Wow, him strong!” Fucking weird, I tell ya what…

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        It’s easy to be bold when the US president is weak.

        Vladimir Putin agrees and is greatly looking forward to it.

      • thericofactor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Hehe, I for one am going to enjoy watching the U.S. economy tank for the next four years and take the maga idiots down a notch or two.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          6 months ago

          those maga idiots will use that as proof there’s a global conspiracy against america and that their only protection is donald trump

      • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Hahahahahaha, that was a good one. Do another one where you pretend Trump wasn’t the biggest, weakest idiot ever to hold this office.

        • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I don’t know, Buchanan let the civil war happen?

          Mine and everyone else’s lifetime though for sure.

      • neoman4426@fedia.io
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        6 months ago

        Confessed serial rapist Donald Trump is one of the weakest presidents we’ve ever had, the fuck are you talking about. We, quite literally, have video of world leaders laughing at him to his face. Jeff Epstein’s best friend who bragged that they have the same “On the younger side” tastes didn’t accomplish a single one of his campaign promises the first time, other than tax cuts for the super rich.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They do, tho. It’s community notes. If multiple people agree on a correction, especially if those people usually disagree with eachother, it becomes the note

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Makes sense for any country tondo this because as has become clear, it doesn’t matter if you’re a democracy or a dictatorship, if you are liking musk and face or not, X and meta can and will destabilize your country and once it happens, there is nothing you can do about it except banning the entire site, which will be an unpopular choice.

    Musk especially has shown to be all about himself and he’ll just push whatever political right wing party to destabilize a country.

    Fuck x, fuck Facebook

    • wisely@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      If countries don’t start taking modern warfare seriously everyone is going to end up in far right authoritarian regimes that won’t accept election results. Bolsonaro would love to come back and never leave.

  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Brazil needs to solve their high homicide rate before demanding things from Meta. Serving the people instead of being petty.

    • deus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Enjoy it while it lasts. We like to immitate the US so in 2026 it’s very likely that we’ll elect a reactionary idiot again.

        • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          If we ban social media companies* we won’t.

          Privately owned social media is a tool of media manipulation. You can change the weights of some inscrutable algorithm and boost exposure to political ideologies that you want while no one can truly make a case against you, “it’s just the algorithm” they say. There’s no scenario where they should be allowed to exist in a sovereign country.