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Ahmed90 | 4 years ago | on: Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster

Can confirm Arabic FB moderation is next to 0

--- my comment from an older relevant post ---- I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages 1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fight the "other side" of the religion (aka start a new civil war) instead of protesting against the corrupted government.

2nd was a post that was praising the guy who murdered the Danish (Or was he Norwegian?) teacher who mocked Islam, and calling him a hero.

and the 3rd was a post that says "Women education is satanic, women's purpose is marriage". --- end old comment ---

4th report was a friend of mine, he reported a page that post's pictures of underage boys im boxers/underwear and write nasty shit in the post and comments, like an obvious pedo community.

all of these 4 reports was "The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards" and then it explains how to block pages

Ahmed90 | 5 years ago | on: PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL

4 years ago one of my clients wanted to "donate" a system for the local fire department to help them do a quick proximity search to find the fire hydrants and quickly choose the healthy one near the fire.

And since it was charity and had a bunch of private data Google was not an option ($$$$), so I (just a full-stack developer back then) was like "listen I have no idea what is this GIS stuff, but I'll give it a try", after a quick research boom PostGIS, reading the docs and testing things, plus QGIS to visualize and to help understand it better 10/10!

That was my unintentional "career" shift, thanks to PostGIS I'm now a senior dev at the largest food delivery company (local), specialized in GIS and realtime data driven systems using PostGIS everyday lol

Ahmed90 | 5 years ago | on: Facebook blocked posts by a militia group opposed to the Turkish government

It's an obvious "following the local law" thingy, Facebook doesn't give a s*t, I personally reported 3 posts on different FB pages

1st was a religion extremist guy who says to Iraqi people that they should protest and fight the "other side" of the religion (aka start a new civil war) instead of protesting against the corrupted government.

2nd was a post that was praising the guy who murdered the Danish (Or was he Norwegian?) teacher who mocked Islam, and calling him a hero.

and the 3rd was a post that says "Women education is satanic, women's purpose is marriage".

all of these 3 reports was "The post was reviewed, and though it doesn't go against one of our specific Community Standards" and then it explains how to block blablabla... I don't report things anymore lol

Ahmed90 | 5 years ago | on: YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images

Genuine question, how viable is it, if we (code monkeys) created some sort of a blacklist of the entities that are not allowed to use our open source projects? -- something like "We don't support Internet Explorer" but a bit more aggressive? like "These entities don't understand the Internet, we don't support them, they cant use our software"?

Maintaining that list would be a ton of work and edge cases tho :/

Ahmed90 | 5 years ago | on: Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli?

I lived in Syria before the war and stuff, even back in 2010, because of the US export laws Syrians were banned from downloading the most basic shit like Java runtime, adobe flash player, and Nvidia gpu drivers, Skype, Messengers like Yahoo etc...

This type of internet "stupidity" is in every government DNA lol

Ahmed90 | 6 years ago | on: Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again

Dr. Vincent Racaniello was a guest on a Twitch.tv podcast hosted by Ethan Evans (Amazon VP) and Devin Nash (CMO @N3RDFUSION)

They talked for 2 hours and pretty much covered a bunch of questions about this subject, there is so much misinformation and panic going around

Here is a youtube link if anyone is interested @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWNuDT4t-TM

Also a Pastebin with the highlights https://pastebin.com/8juyjNFq

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Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D. (@profvrr on twitter) is Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Medical Center. He has been studying viruses for over 40 years.

Ahmed90 | 6 years ago | on: Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

The group leading the protest? wtf? there is no group leading the protest and the current government and all the political parties involved have been in power since the US gave it to them in 2003, and before that was Saddam for 30 years and as far as I know no one else was in power and Saddam is long dead...

Please stop making ignorant statements about my country... kthxbai

Ahmed90 | 6 years ago | on: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

They got in, shot down Saddam, got a bunch of anti-Saddam parties and gave them power... most of them were hiding in Iran or worked with Iran during the Iraq/Iran war they didn't understand the powerplay by Iran, they kept struggling with troops in or out whos who etc... withdrawn and left the incompetent government alone, gave Iran, even more, breathing space to take over
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