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Brazil is way more decentralized in that way, especially health care, so health care quality will greatly change depending on your city even.

That said, organ transplants in Brazil are managed by the Federal Government (lists, etc), but the clinics and hospitals will usually be state or city made...

Brazil is pretty good at organ transplants, surprisingly.

Not really going on the point if what the Justice did is legal or not, but they won't impeach, because the Justices are the one who judge the politicians, and the majority of BR politicians, including right-wings, are corrupt.

Yes, it is? Usually, products with free offering + subscriptions get classified as "freemium".

Congress could impeach him until 2022 - and didn't. From 2016 to 2022, Brazil was governed by right-wing governments.

Oh, who nominated this Justice, was a right-wing president as well.

Don't you think they will put ads on ChatGPT?

There are several ways to monetize a product (they already make some use of it).

Yes, but still a free product. Unless you say that in the future the product won't have a free offering anymore, it's a free product.

That's like saying Youtube isn't free because there's a subscription...

I just tried the podcast generation, and got surprised! Sadly English only, but I gave a Portuguese link to it, and it did well...

I'm not arguing about that (I don't buy that either).

I'm saying that there was no change in laws or even in Supreme Court ruling since the block.

Elon Musk though it was unfair the decisions to block the accounts, and now he thinks it's fair. The only person who changed the opinion or ruling here is X.

Fun fact: Brazilian court did. PCO (Communist party) was banned from Twitter in 2022.

There was no laws change since the block have been made.

Hm. Super true, but at the same time, it would annoy a lot of people, and there would be a social pressure to unlock WhatsApp.

That's not the case with X. Isn't like X (or previously Twitter) ever had the amount of users that WhatsApp have in Brazil.

If I recall, X have 20 million monthly active users, and yet it was the 4 or 5 country where X had most users.

But for Brazil size, this is very ridiculous, WhatsApp have 170 million users in Brazil.

This just shows how Twitter/X is small compared to other networks. It was always a small social network with relevant people.

Most ISPs already blocked X again in this morning.

They are not blocking Cloudflare or Fastly.

They are blocking X IPs being used on Cloudflare and Fastly.

These CDNs agreed with Anatel, to reserve IPs exclusively to X, so IPs can block X without collateral damage, that's all.

That said, Cloudflare is also blocking X. Cloudflare Warp doesn't open X.com anymore, neither iCloud Relay's (which seems to use Cloudflare).

I know that for Instagram/Threads, IP is very key to their moderation. Once they ban a user with that IP, any other account from that IP will also be banned (or something like it), it's fundamental to avoid ban evasion.

For Mastodon, all of this is manual, so it will be up to moderators on the server....

No. X/Starlink didn't pay any fine, either. The accounts were locked by Justice order, and now transferred to the Federal Government.

They are just unfreezing because they already got the fines.

Well... the estimation for 2024 [1] is 212 million...

So it seems very likely that the 2022 census was also wrong (there was budget cuts on the institute who do the census, and it had several problems on doing it).

This was a big discussion here...

¹https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-...

You probably need to store user IPs to moderate.

At least on Mastodon, any instance stores IP, so....

Not even strong computer but worked fine here. I guess using Firefox helps :)

In this case, X closed the office to not pay the fines.

Usually these decision comes when a company closes to not pay the workers all their benefits left, and the judge then goes back to all the other companies that the shareholder is on, and is part of the "economic group". In Brazil legislation, what matter is if the judge decides that the companies are part of the same "economic group".

This is called a typo :)

I meant hundreds, obviously. Typo is still not ilegal :(

It's the Justice who interprets the law. 800 million people are in prison right now in Brazil. They can say all their arrest are illegal. That doesn't mean anything.

Legally speaking, they do. Elon is a shareholder there. In the case of Brazil, in the event of a company's insolvency, the shareholder's other company becomes liable and may have its bank accounts/assets blocked, this is a common case law of the Superior Court of Justice (another high court).

Weirdly, by compatibility is better on Linux than on Windows.

On Windows, on a clean install, I need to install the drivers from WU to get audio working, etc. And then I need to open Intel website to get the latest Bluetooth driver, go to Dell to get the latest wifi, as on Windows Update's these are not the latest.

And even after all of this, some of the drivers on Linux is better maintained, because the support for old Intel GPUs on Windows is very short. Meanwhile, on Linux, I get Vulkan support, and all recent drivers on my Broadwell. Video perf is way better on Linux here.

I moved to Linux for a few months (currently on EndeavourOS, but just distro hopping...). The main reasons for me was because of how the latest updates on Windows 11 has been very horrible.

Windows had only one OK consumer mail app, the inbox Mail apps, and they killed and replaced with Outlook Web App basically.

File Explorer got super awful, unstable, slow...

A ton of native things getting replaced by web apps... And each web app using their own Webview2, instead of at least using a shared webview between the apps (that's how W8 and W10 worked).

The result for this is that to show a simple weather info on taskbar, it literally needs a webview. Yes, the temperature thing on taskbar uses webview. If you are low on resources, the system just can't handle all of that.

Meanwhile on Gnome here, although with some issues, none comes close to that, and the design has been very consistent as well.

I was thinking exactly at this. I think a block of ads would hurt even more X than a total-block of X.

If you block X, you block obviously ads, but you also block local traffic to the website.

If you just block ads, and the traffic continues, you are actually losing even more money.

Sure, Musk could just implement crypto on X, but I think it would still be very effective.

That's right, but that's because every judicial decision can go to Supreme Court. A random person got arrested because it stole a chicken? You can appeal up to Supreme Court.

Btw, there's "assistant judges" to help each of the 11 Justices here. The Justice is able to pick 3 of his choice.

So no country have freedom of speech? Because in the U.S a person can't say that they will kill someone... Pretty sure that's a crime, right?

"The Firefox browser doesn’t support the video features we’ll need to run this demo. Please try again using Chrome or Safari."

Windows updates can definitely be manual. And anyway, this was not a Windows update. It was a CrowdStrike update.