Coco Lowres

@cocolowres@mstdn.social
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Feel welcome, but have a look below, unfortunately it doesn't get any more exciting...
I am interested in many things, would like to learn and expand my understanding of things. Based in Berlin.
All typos are made with love!

she/her

I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:

“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”

Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.

“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”

Almost every hand went back down.

“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”

I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.

Nur ein Mal im Jahr ist Tag des Schabernacks und zwar heute!
Vier von zehn Deutschen glauben, sie könnten nicht mehr frei ihre Meinung sagen. Kleiner Einwand: Liegt hier vielleicht eine Verwechslung vor? https://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-4198.html
Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 12. Juni 2025 – Die Macht der Moralkeule

Vier von zehn Deutschen glauben, sie könnten nicht mehr frei ihre Meinung sagen. Kleiner Einwand: Liegt hier vielleicht eine Verwechslung vor?

MDR
Your smart fridge or washing machine might not be able to help you much more with food or washing, but at least you can find the parts you need for killer FPV drones.

Hier eine unbedingte Empfehlung für Filmbuffs mit Interesse an der Antikorruptionsthematik: Morgen geht die #Dokumentale25 in #Berlin los!🎦 Und unsere Dachorganisation Transparency International ist sogar Kooperationspartner. 😎🙌

Infos und Programm:
➡️ https://www.dokumentale.de/de/

Seljalandsfoss is a well known waterfall located on the South Coast of Iceland, because it's one of those waterfalls that you can walk behind and get soaking wet. The waterfall drops from a height of 60 meters and is surrounded by cliffs, greenery and tour buses. #waterfallwednesday #waterfall #iceland

are there practically usable alternates to commercial search engines (e.g. google, bing, duckduckgo)?
Extensive bookmarking / shared curated lists is a partial solution. Any recommendation for cool local bookmarking apps that are browser independent is appreciated as well.
Is Yacy actually usable?
Also poking around in r/degoogle for ideas.

My typical use case for commercial search engines is largely a stepping stone to wiki, known news sites, etc. Occasionally its a "what does the internet know about <topic>"? Short of leveraging a commercial index sitting in a massive server farm, whats the next closest answer?

Is there such a thing as a local search aggregator? I'm thinking that it would fire off search queries to wiki, reddit, specific news sites, (some user definable list of sites), and present the feedback?

Am I missing any major topics or solutions in my search?

#notgoogle

Kennt ihr in #Dresden einen Ausbildungsbetrieb, der einer Kurdin mit B1 Sprachlevel einen Ausbildungsplatz geben würde?
Sie wird sonst abgeschoben. 😑
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Edith Margaret Fish and Mrs. Ida Nell Fish standing in front of building, Chicago (1929)
Photo: Chicago Daily News