Good riddance.

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease.

A small Oregon county has been struck by one of the rarest but scariest ailments known to exist. Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.

Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past eight months, according to the Hood River County Health Department, two of whom are already dead. Local and federal health officials are now investigating the cluster, but they have not identified a link between the cases to date.

While CJD is the most common prion disease, only around 500 new cases of it are estimated to happen in the U.S. annually. This rarity makes three cases showing up so close together in the same relatively small county (roughly 24,000 people live in Hood River) all the weirder.

S6:E3 - Force Projection: Bobbie and Amos forget the Cant.

1.4.37

Apologies for the rapid release cycle this week. I'm taking advantage of the rare overlap in free time and motivation and trying to knock out all the low-hanging fruit as far as bugs and annoyances go plus incorporate feedback from the prior releases. The smaller, faster releases also help prevent me from getting too deep into feature creep.

Minor update with bugfixes, UI polish and, at least for now, the removal of a few rarely-used post views (they're rarely used and incompatible with the rewrite to the post body component).

Bugfixes

• Revert throw error in /post/instance/postid loader as it was preventing the prettier error in +page.svelte from showing
• Private message report modal wasn't closing properly.
• Issue 35: Preview length setting counts markup and trims before applying it resulting in short previews and broken links.
• Annoyance: When an <hr> element was used toward the top of the post bod

In a recent interview with Wired, Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan discusses his book Why We Die, in which he argues that death is not genetically programmed but rather a consequence of evolution favoring reproduction over longevity. Here are some of the most thought-provoking excerpts:

WIRED: Professor Ramakrishnan, the crucial question in your book is why we die. But exactly what is death?

Venki Ramakrishnan: By death, we mean the irreversible loss of the ability to function as a coherent individual. It is the result of the failure of a critical system or apparatus, for example, heart, brain, lung, or kidney failure. In this sense there is an apparent paradox: When our organism, as a whole, is alive, millions of cells within us are constantly dying, and we do not even realize it. On the other hand, at the time of death, most of the cells in our bodies are still alive, and entire organs are still functioning and can be donated to people in need of transplantati

Summary: Unless anyone speaks up, I'm leaning toward removing those two views.

I'm rewriting the component for the post body preview in the feed to address my own gripes as well as Issue 35 in Github.

TL;DR is that the "Ultra-Compact" and "Reader" views rely on the "Post Body Preview Length" setting and the old method of doing the previews which was just a dumb "show X characters of the post body" based on the un-rendered body markdown.

The new method uses the rendered output and controls the height of the body text for a similar effect. It's also MUCH more responsive and able to take the screen width into account. In short, it's much more flexible, looks much better, and is probably what I should have done the first time.

"Reader" and "Ultra-Compact" rely on a setting that I'm going to be removing. So, rather than re-implement those and complicate what is, finally, a clean/simple refactor, can I just get rid of them?

If

Currently, the post buttons are always a double row. In dev, I've set them to be a single row on desktop and reflow to 2 rows when the screen width goes below the xl breakpoint for smaller viewports and mobile (see main post image).

I like it, and I think it makes better use of the available space + more compact on desktop, but before I change the post buttons again, thought I'd ask for feedback. This is probably not something I'm going to make an option for (there's too many options already lol).

Current Layout: Post action buttons/indicators are always two rows.

I'm sure some of you've already read this, but it's new to me :shrug:

Joseph Mallozzi put together a handful of blog posts outlining where season 4 would have gone.

• Act 1
• Act 2
• Act 3
• Act 4
• Act 5

Cross-posted from "A Federal Judge Is on the Brink of Criminally Prosecuting Trump Officials for Contempt" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

In a thundering opinion on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg announced that he had found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for defiance of his orders. It is “obvious,” Boasberg wrote, that government officials “deliberately flouted” his commands by deporting Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison on March 15 under President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. And now they must answer for their unlawful conduct. “The Constitution,” he declared, “does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.”

Cross-posted from "‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 17 to Premiere in July With New ‘Abbott Elementary’ Crossover" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

I get it. There's some real jerks around here. Whether they're constantly argumentative, downright rude, always acting in bad faith, just plain trolls, overly opinionated on every subject, have the social skills of a Nausicaan, or whatever - the Fediverse is growing, and it's bound to attract toxicity in one way or another.

This post is mostly a PSA for anyone who's feeling like leaving because they're tired of dealing with things like that. I've been there several times myself, I know exactly how you feel, and I'm tired of seeing good people harassed off the platform.

Just remember that blocking is a very powerful way to stay in control of your experience. Be it a set of users, me specifically, a list of keywords, a whole community, or an entire instance: if it's causing you nothing but stress, hit that block button and see if that improves your experience here. Unlike the alien site, there is no limit to the number of entities you can block; you're in control.

Another thing

Bugfixes

• When zooming an image, it was using the thumbnail image rather than the actual image (when present). Apparently my local instance's thumbnails are close enough to the original quality that I just never noticed.
• Fixed truncation in site card for long instance names and domains.

New Features and Changes

Compatibility Layer: Supports Local /post/{post_id}/{comment_id} Route Format

Note: This only works for your home instance. It does not work for remotely fetched posts. Additionally, this is not a "supported" way to share Tesseract links; it's just there for convenience if you want to turn a local Lemmy UI link into a valid Tesseract link.

If you're in Lemmy UI and want to view a post in Tesseract, you can just change the domain and the post and/or comment params should translate transparently.

e.g. Where 123456 is the post ID and 98765 is the comment id:

Change https://lemmy.world/post/12345/98765 to https://t.lemmy.world/post/12345/98765

There's like, infinity videos to choose from.