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New Kitten release

• Fixes #236¹: The data preview pages in Kitten’s settings how handle circular references in the deserialised data (which may contain your custom classes if that’s what you were persisting in the database).

kitten.small-web.org

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PS. Those pages are very rudimentary at the moment and are good for getting quick visual overview of the data you’re persisting. For a fully interactive view, use Kitten’s interactive shell (REPL)² to explore your data until I’ve had a chance to implement a more comprehensive visual interface.

PPS. You persist data in Kitten using the built-in JavaScript Database (JSDB)³ (Or, of course, you can install and use any other database.)

¹ codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues
² kitten.small-web.org/reference
³ codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#j

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@f @ai6yr @briankrebs I think it's less of a "#political" question but an act of #SelfDefense and #MutualDefense at this point.

Re: #TechIlliterates that are unwilling to learn, act like a "#BenevolentDictator" and enshure they can't harm themselves in the sense that they don't get #sudo or other administrative privilegues and can't do any #persistent #changes.

  • And if that means they get forced to use #Tails then that's a "necessary evil"...

After all, societies almost everywhere ban people from driving motor vehicles faster than 6 km/h by people who actively refuse to even take basic exams and classes for a #DrivingLicense.

  • And I'm convinced one can do more damage as #TechIlliterate with a #PC than a single-cylinger two-stroke engine driven motorcycle...

My life was forever changed by March 2020, what about yours?

#PandemicImpact

"For a while, things were weird.

For many, the start of #thePandemic was like going through the looking glass. We had to learn to live a little differently — to do things for ourselves, and sometimes just to fill the time.

It was a time of contradictions, and of #trends that seemed to signal bigger and more permanent #changes than actually happened."

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

The New York Times · 30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020By Aatish Bhatia
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@RoundSparrow @suqdiq oh, good grief. If it were anything I'd want anyone to glean, it's:

God = Love

That's it, but since there's a #huge #problem with #accountability among #humans everyone keeps bouncing off each other rather than making the #changes that come from #within #acceptance #trust #understanding #truth

#kids get it from day one. Then somewhere along the line it's, #workWorkWork then you #die and they're left with two choices, never #thinking there's a #THIRD

Be true to #yourself it's hard #work

#GodisLoveDipshit

youtu.be/HL1UzIK-flA

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Big changes are coming, think we’ve all been observing them in nature recently. Set your intentions, know where to stand and get out of harms way if necessary. Nature reminds us that every changing season.

Life is simple, no need to worry about making it too complex. Setting my intention to be more loved, so I’m going to be more loving. I want more friends, so I’m going to be more friendly. I want to be helped, so I’m going to be more helpful.

Putting the 3, 6, 9 code into action and seeing what can happen. Happy #mountainmonday

There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-19.

However, it remains unknown whether the impact of #SARS-#CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder cases,
and whether this can reveal possible mechanisms contributing to brain #pathology.

Here we investigated #brain #changes in 785 participants of UK Biobank (aged 51–81 years) who were imaged twice using magnetic resonance imaging,

including 401 cases who tested positive for infection with SARS-CoV-2 between their two scans
—with 141 days on average separating their diagnosis and the second scan
—as well as 384 controls.

The availability of pre-infection imaging data reduces the likelihood of pre-existing risk factors being misinterpreted as disease effects.

We identified significant longitudinal effects when comparing the two groups, including

(1) a greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contrast in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus;

(2) greater changes in markers of tissue damage in regions that are functionally connected to the primary olfactory cortex; and

(3) a greater reduction in global brain size in the SARS-CoV-2 cases.

The participants who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 also showed on average a greater cognitive decline between the two time points.

Importantly, these imaging and cognitive longitudinal effects were still observed after excluding the 15 patients who had been hospitalised.

These mainly limbic brain imaging results may be the in vivo hallmarks of a degenerative spread of the disease through olfactory pathways,
of neuroinflammatory events,
or of the loss of sensory input due to anosmia.

Whether this deleterious effect can be partially reversed, or whether these effects will persist in the long term, remains to be investigated with additional follow-up.

nature.com/articles/s41586-022

NatureSARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank - NatureAfter infection with SARS-CoV-2, individuals show a greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contrast in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus; greater changes in markers of tissue damage in regions that are functionally connected to the primary olfactory cortex; and a greater reduction in global brain size.