Estava devendo um testemunho sobre aluguel de infraestrutura em centro de dados da empresa alemã Contabo, da qual ainda, embora não mais com tanto gosto, sou cliente — assim como #Ayom já tinha passado a ser, pouco antes, por seu fundador e principal mantenedor @pedro@ayom.media .

Atendi a pedidos da própria empresa, aparentemente enviados em massa para clientes brasileiros, para que fizesse uma avaliação do serviço num tal TrustPilot, que parece análogo ao brasileiro ReclameAqui, ou vice-versa. Segue uma cópia adaptada do relato:

⭐️⭐️ Tecnicamente nos conformes, porém enganosa para o consumidor

Estou extremamente insatisfeito com a prática comercial da Contabo, em especial em relação a um aumento de 20% na mensalidade que passou de 5.50 dólares para 6.60 com a justificativa de uma suposta descontinuação do suporte à minha máquina virtual. Isso pareceu um estratagema de manipulação que se aproveitou da boa-fé do consumidor e contornou os Termos e Condições do serviço (Cláusula 4-9) para evitar tratar seu potencial abusivo. Embora o serviço tecnicamente funcione, o lapso ético é decepcionante.

Pela legislação europeia, acredito que isso possa ser considerado abusivo por desprezar a boa-fé e criar desequilíbrio entre as partes. No Brasil, provavelmente seria julgado abusivo e nulo de acordo com o Código de Defesa do Consumidor que proíbe tais práticas enganosas.

Acabei mantendo o plano original e depois contratei um novo, até perceber que ambas as máquinas têm infraestrutura idêntica. Isso é revoltante e destaca ainda mais a falta de ética do fornecedor.

Sugestão de melhoria: Para construir confiança, a empresa deve divulgar claramente suas práticas comerciais padrão tais como potenciais aumentos de preço após o primeiro ano e oferecer opções genuínas de continuidade do serviço a fim de não enganar os clientes.


Reposta da empresa:

Obrigado por dedicar tempo para compartilhar sua opinião. Lamento realmente pela sua experiência — nós levamos isso a sério e vamos investigar mais a fundo.
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Breaking History Ep. 104: Iran’s Century of Empire, Oil, and Revolutions – Featuring Cynthia Chung matthewehret.substack.com/p/br…

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 17, to share information about the agency’s upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than late July. The TRACERS mission is a pair of twin satellites that will study how Earth’s […]

Used @Vivaldi for the entire day today and I gotta be honest, I got used to the non-Arc-like tabs pretty fast.

Tab stacks are cool, I wish drag and drop was smoother (or at least gave better visual feedback), but overall I think it solves my need for organizing tabs quite well.

I set new tabs to always open in a stack with the current tab (i.e. if I open a link in a page in a new tab, it creates a stack for it) which helps with keeping things tidy when going down a rabbit hole.

I also mapped the Quick Commands dialog to open on cmd+t, mimicking Arc's spotlight-thingy. It is fast and works quite well, especially after configuring it to open links in a new tab as well.

Gonna keep using it, I think. Arc still works and probably will for a while, but I'm preparing for the day its updates cease. Plus, Vivaldi seems to deserve some spotlight, there's obviously a lot of care put into it.

Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth projectcensored.org/empathy-at…

It's been a busy time for us UB-monkeys! We've caught up on the archives, so here are the latest UB RADIO SALON shows have been posted to the Internet Archive, and are now available for streaming/download:

UB Radio Salon 904 - Experimental Sounds... 11 May 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio Salon 905 - Experimental Sounds... 18 May 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 906 - Big City Orchestrae & The Fourth Sunday Players... 25 May 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 907 - live experimental sound session... 1 June 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 908 - live experimental sounds... 8 June 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 909 - live experimental sound session AJ Pinecone + dAs + pxe... 15 June 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 910 - live experimental sounds... 22 June 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 911 - Big City Orchestra Presents: The SquircUbe Chronicles... 29 June 2025 on DFM.nu
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UB Radio 912 - live experimental sounds w/guests Brian Lucas + Kevin Van Yserloo... 6 July 2025 on DFM.nu
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G. #Kuzmanovic . Fréquence Populaire Média

🚨 Vladimir #Poutine a bel et bien participé au sommet des #BRICS2025 à Rio !
📺 À voir ici : youtu.be/s91VEpdsBgs
🐑 Certains répètent comme des moutons que #Poutine n’était pas présent.
👉 Faux ! Il est intervenu depuis Moscou, en visioconférence, lors de la séance plénière officielle, dans un décorum pleinement estampillé #BRICS.
Pour Fréquence Populaire Media, et afin de rendre ce discours accessible à tous pour que chacun puisse se faire sa propre opinion, j’ai traduit son intervention intégrale, que nous vous proposons sous-titrée en français :
💥 Refus de l’hégémonie occidentale et de la globalisation néolibérale.
🌍 Défense d’un monde multipolaire et souverain.
📣 Appel à la refondation des institutions internationales.
💱 Promotion des échanges en monnaies locales, hors du 💲.
👉 Pour information, la délégation russe était la deuxième plus importante du sommet, avec notamment Sergueï #Lavrov et Maxim #Oreshkin, directeur de cabinet de Poutine et pressenti comme l’un de ses successeurs.
🤔 Une fois encore, je suis sidéré par la légèreté avec laquelle la plupart des médias français et des "analystes" traitent ce qui se joue aujourd’hui dans le Sud global.

Brain: What are you doing?
Me: What am I DOING!? I'm trying to install AutoKey on #Linux Mint.
Brain: But you had it installed and running.
Me: I know. But it wasn't working correctly and I believe I had an incompatible version installed.
Brain: Did you follow the #GitHub instructions about uninstalling and making sure you have the right php dependencies - and then reinstalling the other version?
Me: Yeah... I think so...
Brain. SUCKS TO BE YOU GET BACK AT IT

KEY POINTS On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events […]

Imprisoned: Anas Abusrour's Story


It wasn't a prison. You can call it a concentration camp, you can call it mass grave, you can call it anything, but not a prison


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#AnasAbusrour #kidnapping #Palestine #MikoPeled

Of Course Trump Doesn’t Want to Release the #EpsteinFiles

Not only was Trump intimately close to #JeffreyEpstein, but there is a wealth of reporting tying the #billionaire #pedophile to intelligence circles. Trump is once again protecting the #elites he claimed he would fight on the #campaign trail.

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Hello, World!

I first learned Unix from NetBSD, moved on to running Linux myself in the 1990's along with FreeBSD and sometimes NetBSD. I'm also a former Solaris and OpenSolaris fan, and was an enthusiastic OS X user for a decade starting with 10.1.

These days my main machines are Fedora and recently NetBSD again. Work is programming microelectronics CAD software on RHEL.

I made this alt with the hope of following more of what's going on amongst BSD users, rather than just running a couple machines by myself.

#introduction

Flights halted at Ben Gurion Airport after Yemeni missile attack en.ypagency.net/362417

It's not exactly retrocomputing but it kind of is. Someone has started a project to make an Apple Lisa-like UI that runs in the browser. It's not just a font/icon thing. The way you did things on Lisa was very different than how we do things nowadays. It was a document-centric not app-centric workflow. It's pretty neat and pretty faithful representation. At first I thought it was infinitemac.org project which runs Mac and NeXT emulators in the browser running the real operating systems. That too would be an interesting project for someone to explore. #RetroComputing #Apple #AppleLisa alpha.lisagui.com/

Ύπατη Αρμοστεία: Έντονη ανησυχία για την αναστολή των αιτήσεων ασύλου στην Ελλάδα thepressproject.gr/ypati-armos…

Barristers Law Firm signed memorandum of cooperation with Caucasian organizations #Ukraine

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Ukraine religious leaders issue ‘desperate cry’ to world to end Russia’s war byteseu.com/1182026/ #Conflicts #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaUkraine #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #RussoUkrainianWar #Ukraine
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Jazzilla

@Bernard

Correct. Address and significance here:

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Howard Lutnik didn't go to work on 911. He was a chief exec at Cantor Fitzgerald at the time.

He's now the US commerce sec, a role previously filled in the first Trump presidency by Wilbur Ross, Director of Rothschild, LTD during the 1990 Trump bankruptcy bailout.

Lutnik, lower portion of the meme, is attending Rabbi Schneerson's annual ceremony.

Lutnik bought the house that Epstein used to use on East 71st Street (owned by Wexner). Wexner bought the mansion next door and moved Epstein there.


Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking?


I'm looking for a federated social media platform that allows for easy topic-based following and blocking, similar to how you can follow or block hashtags on Twitter. On Lemmy, you can follow communities, but there are so many that it becomes overwhelming. I want a platform where I can see or block everything related to a specific tag, and also view only the most popular posts about that topic, similar to how Lemmy communities work. Mastodon, for example, only shows the latest posts, which isn't ideal for trending content. I don't want a chat-like experience; I want to quickly see what's trending about a topic or what's trending in general, while being able to block a few specific topics. Ideally, I wouldn't have to spend hours curating a list of communities or followed users. Does anyone know of a platform that fits these criteria?
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On Lemmy, you might find it overwhelming by looking at the all communities feed and then blocking those you don't like. Instead subscribe to the ones you want and then just view the subscribe feed.

Personally, I use all to find more content and block communities I don't want. I then just jumpnjnto subscribed occasionally of there is too much junk.

It's a shame that there aren't finer controls, like to ramp up and down communities rather than just block or subscribe. Some communities, I wouldn't mind seeing their popular posts but I don't want to say the hordes of junk posts. Only option is to block.

Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews”


Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as... #tesla #ai #grok #llm #guardrails
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Could someone help me setup local file sharing? [Fixed]


So I have things working for me at this point. I was never able to get Samba worling properly. My initial issue was not having a / at the end of my folder path in the Samba config file. After fixing that issue I was able to see the shared folder but was prompted to log in each time, which was an issue in my use case. I ended up abandoning Samba and setting up Jellyfin which has been a much smoother experience, but also is providing many more features. So, if you are looking to share media on your local network, my recommendation would be Jellyfin!

Thank you so much to everyone that commented and helped me a long. I hope I get to return the favor in some way.

Hello, I've been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I'm having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can't figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I'm running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?

Thanks for your time!

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