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Scientists successfully used lab-grown viruses to make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response, tricking the immune system into attacking the cancerous cells. This ruse can halt a tumourโ€™s growth or even eliminate it altogether, data from monkeys and humans suggest. byteseu.com/662845/ #Science


Viste le notizie che arrivano da oltre oceano, sarebbe una bella cosa se lasciassimo le piattaforme tech americane e provassimo a usare app europee o comunque in linea con i principi europei. Le alternative non mancano (mancano gli utenti semmai). Sapete qual รจ l'unica funzionalitร  che ci manca? L'omino per la vista 3D di Google Maps. ๐Ÿงญ



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I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Not for sale.

Pixelfed belongs to the people.

I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.

That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.

It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.

Are you with me?

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@marionline I've finished my next story in time to start posting it on Tuesday -- it's not the biggest buffer I've ever had in terms of page count, but at nine weeks, it might be the furthest I've ever worked ahead.

What are you up to?






Passionate about open-source software? ๐ŸŒŸ
๐Ÿ“Œ Join Dolibarr at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels!

On February 1st and 2nd, Dolibarr will be at FOSDEM, one of the largest European events dedicated to the world of open source. This unmissable gathering will take place at the ULB campus in Brussels.

More information here: fosdem.org/2025/

We canโ€™t wait to welcome you to share, learn, and shape the future of open-source technologies.

#FOSDEM2025 #Dolibarr #fosdem #OpenSource
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Jโ€™utilise #darktable pour remplacer Lightroom. Techniquement trรจs bon, mais lโ€™ergonomie est vraiment pas bonne. Est-ce que quelqu'un peut me recommander de bons #tutos ?

#photo #linux #photography

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After major 2024 defeats, the Democratic Party searches for a new direction


The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

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We had a most wonderful first meetup of the year this Thursday at Taiste. The talks and hallway discussions were so captivating that we forgot to toot about it.

Ilkka Vuorio opened the night by talking about Jupyter and Marimo notebooks and how to deal with them better when using git for version control.

@jpakkane introduced us to Meson build tool and CapyPDF generator he has built.

FInally, @hugovk brought us the newest updates from the Python ecosystem.

It was a wonderful evening, thanks to everyone who joined.

Our next event is Thu 13.2., more info later.

#Python #archipylago #TurkuDev



great to see all these institutes joining open infrastructure with hate speech, fake news, and full of inclusiveness and warmth. the screenshot is the indexing in @wikidata

#Wikidata #Mastodon

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#interview : a conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication

- French: Entrevue

- German: das Interview

- Italian: intervista

- Portuguese: entrevista

- Spanish: entrevista

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Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatioโ€ฆ



Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the @upstream blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19.

We express our deep concerns about the treatment of @eLife by the #WebOfScience and #Scopus databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

@cwts

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#App is overloaded to meaninglessness.

@cwebber once wrote a fine paper on #petname systems. The word "app" should become a pet name that one chooses where it suits as convenient and intuitive personal concept. Someone else might prefer the word "foo" or "bar" if that resonates better.

If we do the same with "platform", then mankind will have made progress.

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...I'm pretty sure that petnames are about nicknames in a contact list, not about any noun in a dictionary

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seeing as you need common words to express things like "browser" "computer" or "ipv6",

vs petnames like "Alice's friend Dave"

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If you want them to be that, and that is useful to me. There are other users, like indicating the name of your dog or cat ;p

Just kidding. The more serious yet still #showerthought'y idea is that in so many discussions the word "app" flies around with everyone having a different understanding what that means. Esp. in R&D contexts where it becomes a dogmatic concept that may hamper innovation.

Both in technical as well as conceptual space I'd prefer 'app-free computing'.

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@risottobias
An example is Solid talking about "Solid Apps". Then if you look what they are you find a bunch of JS projects. Or you may start to wonder "Does Solid wants us to rewrite all existing apps into Solid apps to reach their technology adoption ambition?" and stuff like that.

On fedivers an app can mean the server project, while a non-tech fedizen thinks about a client and gets confused. Etc.

App is in the eye of the beholder.

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tangential to this,

I have a concept in spec called "decals", which are hashtags with a short description and a wiki article attached to them, curated by a group (they're non-global, group defined tags).

for example `#wiki:cats@wikipeeps@@somegroup.someserver.phish` "for posts that include cats"

bivouac.wiki/6decal.html

or `#mod:spam`

#wiki #mod
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@risottobias

Ohh, fascinating project is Bivouac! ๐Ÿ˜

Related to the name.. I ditched my TV but unfortunately now I watch more YT to replace that. And I binge-watched this channel: youtube.com/@AntsCanada

Your project is very related to some stuff I am brewing on and elaborating for a long time now, and slowly emerging under the umbrella of the social coding movement (yes, emerging. I am using an approach quite unortodox for planning life and work, and involves mimicry of nature voodoo magic :)

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@risottobias
Mikey Bustos seems like a fine person. I do think heโ€™s a little more focused on โ€œbeing a youTuberโ€ than ants in particular sometimesโ€” and he has never promoted others in the online ant community much.

But I donโ€™t read too much into that. His content is nearly error free and he *will* make corrections. Heโ€™s built a lot of enthusiasm for ants and is skilled at making popular videos.

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@futurebird @risottobias

Thanks. Yes, I liked his narrative style which helps a - in my case total noob - person look on in wonderment about the miracles of nature. Really uplifting tone, and a good help against doom & gloom exposure to me :)

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