nimir

Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:18PM (#19383924)

As I said: "Main protests on Thursday" so no, Sudanese ppl don't protest once a week & btw People get shot here just for standing out and peacfully protesting so its far a way from the picture you have in mind. I've put a hashtag where you can see photos/videos & learn more and ofcourse share productivity tips

Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:33PM (#19382717)

I am not a big fan of social media too but you will be suprised ... For example here in Sudan (East Africa) the country has been under continuous protests for over 2 months now (53 dead, 4k+ detained, 500+ injured) with strong censorship from the regime & silents from the internatinal community. So facebook, whatsapp & twitter are the only media left for the people to fight for freedom —> every Thursday is the main protests in the week and this Wedensday night the outage might affect this as thousands around Sudan won't know about the meeting points of tomorrow!!!

Actually the government did block all social media for over a month but that was fixable with vpn. (Follow hashtag #SudanUprising on twitter to learn more)

How long US tech companies need to bring Sudan's sanctions easing into reality?

Posted by nimir on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:41AM
from the self-post dept.

It's been almost a month since the US deparment of treasury announced the easing of Sudan's technology and communication sanction to help Sudan's people communicate with each other! [1] Which should give Sudanese students, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, journalists, civil leaders and others better access to the telecommunications tools they need to study, create, grow and serve their...

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Re:Al-Jazari on Monday September 08, 2014 @06:20AM (#8284075)

I think they are numbers, more specifically showing device dimensions & others may refer to some formulas .

The Arabic notation for numbers as we know it now (1,2,3 ..etc) wasn't yet formed! i suppose!!

You will find most of the mentioned symbols in this image showing the developing of numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals#mediaviewer/Fil...

Note: (in the image the development in vertical, first line lists numbers from 1 to 10)