manucode

joined 9 months ago
[–] manucode@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ice cream cone?

[–] manucode@feddit.de 12 points 6 months ago

This blur makes it seem like he's doing something far less SFW than gardening

[–] manucode@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Jokes have to be precise to be funny /s

[–] manucode@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago

This text has an incredible lack of substance. The typos don't improve it either.

[–] manucode@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

East, West or North Frisia?

[–] manucode@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] manucode@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

I share the same experience. Lemmy imitates Reddit, Mastodon imitates Twitter. The concept of Twitter might be more reliant on algorithms than that of Reddit, algorithms that Mastodon mostly lacks. Bluesky is a Twitter alternative designed for federation that has algorithms, and it appears more lively to me. The same might be true for Threads but I won't test this out.

[–] manucode@feddit.de 167 points 6 months ago (26 children)

I'm rather sceptical that this can work as a good alternative to Wikipedia. Wikipedia's content moderation system is in my opinion both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. To create a better Wikipedia, you would have to somehow innovate in that regard. I don't think federation helps in any way with this problem. I do though see potential in Ibis for niche wikis which are currently mostly hosted on fandom.org. If you could create distinct wiki's for different topics and allow them to interconnect when it makes sense, Ibis might have a chance there.

[–] manucode@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago

You can download your account settings as a JSON file. That includes the lists of followed communities, saved posts and comments, and blocked instances, communities and users. I'm not aware of any other way to download additional data.

[–] manucode@feddit.de 43 points 8 months ago

This is OBVIOUSLY just in case some future government might do something that COULD be misconstrued as abuse of office. TOTALLY unrelated to anything the current government might want to do.

 

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has put its former head, who has become a hard-right politician since being removed from the job several years ago, under scrutiny.
Hans-Georg Maassen posted a letter from the BfV agency to his lawyer on his website Wednesday after public broadcaster ARD and media outlet t-online reported that the authority he led from 2012 to 2018 now has him in its files on right-wing extremism.

More Context:
Germany's spy agency chief loses job over Chemnitz video claims
Ex-German intelligence boss plans to leave CDU for new party

[–] manucode@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Freezer bag sealing clips like Ikea's Bevara

[–] manucode@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

That appears to be just a regular interview, alternating between the interview questions and the answers of the person interviewed.

 

I just stumbled across this post linking to this article. In its reporting, the article keeps alternating between short descriptions of events and short quotes by people somewhat involved in the case.

Wilson's friend tried CPR, but it was too late.
Det. Marc McLeod: It sounded like it started off near the door … and went backwards. Like she was trying to get away or there was some sort of struggle.
Austin Police Officers Marc McLeod and Jonathan Riley worked the case from the beginning.
Det. Marc McLeod: Whoever shot her at that point stood over top of her and shot her at least once.
Investigators wondered who could have murdered this promising young athlete. As they canvassed the immediate area, police discovered a possible clue. Wilson's expensive racing bicycle had been discarded in the bushes.
Det. Jonathan Riley: So, at that point … OK. Is this a burglary, a robbery gone wrong?

I've seen this style of reporting in other English-language news reports before, and found it quite confusing.

So, my questions: is this style of reporting common in English-language media, or maybe just in the US, or is it more of an outlier? And what do you think about it, as an English native speaker or as a non-native speaker like me? Do you like it, dislike it, neither?

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