*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@freemo Salmiak, savign a search for the rest of us.

"Salty liquorice, also known as salmiak or salmiakki (in Finland), is a variety of liquorice flavoured with ammonium chloride, common in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. Ammonium chloride gives salty liquorice an astringent, salty taste (hence the name), which has been described as "tongue-numbing" and "almost-stinging"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice

File along with Marmite, Excentricities, Acquired Tastes. 😜

@quad Impressive numbers, the wireless link in the first post - mobile or home wifi?

Also impressive your desk picture, 4 monitors? Wow.

@SecondJon Wow, impressive. Well done.

had to translate 'Merican to SI, almost 22 Km is a lot. 😜

@Nikolai_Kingsley @DissidentKitty@radical.town
I aspire to relax like cats do. Anywhere. Anytime.

Fully.

Great pic. 👍

@maison_faim #nowplaying Jazz in the Morning @ spotify radio

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX71VcjjnyaBQ

"Companies like Facebook and Twitter are poorly policing automated bots and other methods for manipulating social media...

For €300, the researchers bought over 3,500 comments, 25,000 likes, 20,000 views and 5,000 followers...

After four weeks, about 80% of the fake clicks remained. And virtually all of the accounts remained active three weeks after researchers reported them"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/technology/fake-social-media-manipulation.html

Re-Toot with Comment is Possible.

Nolan's thoughts are interesting.

About Media articles frequently quote, mentioning and including snapshots of random twitter posts.

OP at https://toot.cafe/@nolan/103270233532909125

@mngrif Sleep well, that was a late session, eh.

Morning shift checking in...

@QuentinMann I have been so busy with reading, posting and investigating projects here in the Fedi that my news reading has fallen drastically.

The UK election is very important, it was dismaying that they went into it coerced by the PM who had a big lead on polls and wanted a crushing majority to rule unimpeded (same crap happens here in Canada, Proportional Representation is sorely needed to avoid PM dictatorships'').

I saw you mentioning and quoting a statement by the american Sec of State, which I found rather offensive -- on the open saying they would do all they could to change an election result?

These men have no shame.

@kosame

Fedilab supports a lot of different protocols and fediverse projects, which is interesting.

I have used and enjoyed the Lite version, available on F-Droid.

@fedilab@toot.fedilab.app

@freemo Good morning, hope the code writing goes well.

No snooping at cartoons while you are at it, lol.

I used to tel my students I was going to put a 3 or 4 foot high banner at the front of class, over blackboard. One word.

F O C U S.

Used to call and mention it as the 'F'word. they always had chuckles, by association with the other, bad F word.

@QuentinMann Good morning, nice post with good points.

One thing to mention is that we have full text searching here at Qoto; I find it wonderful to retrieve things I posted and now need to refer to or mention. This is active here, but not everywhere, and in a very large instance it would be hard on the system.

We should be getting bookmarks, which will help with keeping tabs on good, interesting topics.

Instances running the GlitchSoc fork already have Bookmarks and some other interesting new features. It's the cutting edge of development, it seems.

I think we can try and complement Mastodon with one or more of the other fediverse projects. They sometimes offer different things, and we can search, mention and link back here.

Write.freely, Friendica are two that I have started looking at, and integrate well.

@SecondJon Good morning, I hope your run goes well!

* Resized from OP at https://twitter.com/23057/status/1201854145101062146