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Potential Marburg vaccine doing well

Potential Marburg vaccine doing well in early clinical trials

(If you’re not familiar with Marburg, it’s similar & related to Ebola – they’re both viral hemorrhagic fevers that can cause horrific rapid outbreaks with high death rates when they hit a human population. They’re absolutely terrifying, with the only bright spot being that they’re *so* fast they tend to burn themselves out quickly.)

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#DS9 rewatch continues. O’Brien problems…

#DS9 rewatch continues. O’Brien problems: The episode where Keiko thinks it’s strange that Miles is drinking coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war is followed *immediately* by the episode where Miles is drinking extra coffee while helping with the resolution to a civil war because he thinks Keiko is acting strange.

#StarTrek

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Spoiler alert

And it turns out that Miles isn’t actually drinking coffee under the circumstances shown in either episode, but for very different reasons!

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TIL there is a #StarTrek #LowerDecks character creator.

TIL there is a #StarTrek #LowerDecks character creator.

https://www.startrek.com/replicateyourself/constructor

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Note: In Firefox, the save feature was broken and only saved the background. (It worked fine on my wife’s phone.) I took a screenshot rather than starting over in another browser.

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Book Formats

Responding to a poll about book formats

I like the portability of eBooks, and being able to adjust font size and such, but I really prefer to read them on an e-ink display rather than a glossy backlit screen.

There are some authors or series that I prefer to get in print form, though, especially if there’s a good chance I might go back and re-read them someday.

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Content

Responding to a post about how awful the term “content” is for everything we do online.

I can imagine web devs talking about layout vs. content as tech terms back in the day, only to have corporate marketing/legal jump on the term and run with it in the worst, dehumanizing way possible.

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I wouldn’t say it was ever a *great* term. I’m just speculating on possible etymology. It wouldn’t be the first or last time a jargon term got stretched way beyond its narrow use case.

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Interoperability

Realized that my tinkering with #GoToSocial, #Takahe, #CalcKey and #Snac2, continuing to use #Pixelfed, #Lemmy and #Bookwyrm, and looking for compatibility problems are part of the same impulse that had me trying out every web browser I could find in the early 2000s and deliberately using Firefox and Opera on Linux as my daily drivers instead of IE on Windows.

It’s a drop in the ocean, but it’s my push for interoperability over #monoculture.

#Fediverse #BrowserWars

Geocities

Found something I wrote in 2009, when Yahoo shut down Geocities:

“It’s funny: the things we expect to disappear from the web often don’t, but the things we expect to be permanent often do drop out of existence. GeoCities appeared 14 years ago. Will today’s blogs, Facebook pages, forums, and wikis still be around 14 years from now?”

GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages

The blog I posted it on is still there. A lot of sites it linked to aren’t.

#permanence #SelfHosting #linkrot #Geocities #Indieweb

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Question for the makers of various #fediverse platforms (but especially the two I'm currently …

Question for the makers of various #fediverse platforms (but especially the two I'm currently testing: @gotosocial and @calckey )

Is there an equivalent to Mastodon's self-destruct command for decommissioning a server cleanly and letting federated instances know that it's going away?

Wondering about it in the context of this thread:
https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/109678669657135324
which got me thinking about my own testing.

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Thinking about this post on “permanence” with #SocialMedia / #IndieWeb / #SelfHosting (for things that …

Thinking about this post on “permanence” with #SocialMedia / #IndieWeb / #SelfHosting (for things that you *want* to keep permanent, anyway), balancing questions like are you going to outlive Facebook or the other way around, etc.

I still think an “export to static site” option should be standard on any CMS as an exit strategy (on top of actual data portability) for cases where you no longer have the resources, time, inclination, etc. to maintain it.

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re: Imperial Internet

I think of it kind of like the early Internet, where you might be able to telnet to one server, then telnet from there to another server, then download a file by FTP to that one, then figure out how to get it from the second telnet server to the first, and then download it at the computer lab and save it to a disk you can carry home because you only have dial-up at home (but meanwhile you can carry on a live phone call with someone in the same room as the original FTP server). #

I keep getting tripped up by “derecho” meaning both “right” and “straight ahead,” and …

I keep getting tripped up by “derecho” meaning both “right” and “straight ahead,” and i keep reminding myself that English does the same thing with, for instance, “on your right” and “right down the line” and I can tell the difference there implicitly, so I should be able to absorb the Spanish rules too. Eventually.

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