Resharing from Mastodon because I think some of my #gplusrefugees friends on #diaspora have probably been thinking lately about on how/if to preserve their old incarnation. The focus of the attached article is really about the ability to remember someone who has died, but it brings up some good points about the impact of even having a social media footprint to preserve.

Personally, I'm a bit mortified (pardon the play on words) that any of my old social media lives on. It's highly unlikely that I've said anything particularly literary or timeless. Even today, I cringe at the thought of going back to read my old Live Journal posts. That was an anxious, young woman that needed a hug and regular help not driving off of an emotional cliff.

I have no desire to live on in someone's memory as a collection of snapshots. However, I would like a way for my virtual connections to get notified of my demise and have a place to briefly commiserate and pass eCasseroles. But I would want them to remember how I made them feel, overall, or how I helped them. And then I would want them to get on with living.

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♲ Fitheach - 2019-03-07 10:02:54 GMT

I nicked an image for a post I made about 30 minutes ago.

Turns out the source page is a rather good discussion of what happens to your social media content once you die. Should relatives be able to access your content as a means of coming to terms with loss?

The article is almost 5 years old and is rather Facebook centric, but it is still a thought provoking read.

https://guff.com/where-does-your-social-media-go-when-you-die

Old dog, tough decisions

It’s really tough watching dogs age. They sleep more, engage less, and sometimes can’t abide by a routine. There are little signs along the way but perhaps the increasing frequency of issues isn’t so noticeable until a morning like this morning when they all hit me at once.

We got Miss Roo (our Italian greyhound) as a senior. She came with kidney disease and bad teeth, neither of which were reparable. But she has generally been a pretty happy dog, these 3 and a half years with us. She loves to be near me, asks me for back scratches, and loves to be in the sun. But some days she just doesn’t have much appetite; and when she wakes, she often wobbles like the room is spinning for a few moments; and her old body doesn’t always give her timely enough cues for her to make it to the yard to do her business. She has had a pretty serious recurring infection, and, last month, the vet said that it would be reasonable to expect her kidney disease would seriously impact the quality of her life in about 6 months to a year. Her remaining teeth may also be her hurting but I’m worried that she could not survive another extraction procedure and recovery.

So, this morning, as I was cleaning up after one of her accidents and stared at her bowl of uneaten breakfast, my sadness for the frustration she must be feeling with her old, unreliable body and for the loss and responsibility I will have to face sooner than later was all a bit overwhelming.

I’ve been “off” all day since then. And now that I have a break at work, I’ve found a quiet spot to eat my sandwich and let some tears fall.

#dogs #aging

Wilkommen/Welcome

Hi @Eduardo Thomas und @EmersonSch

Ein paar Tipps wie man am besten seinen ersten Beitrag verfasst. Es ist gut im ersten Beitrag den Hashtag "neuhier", also #neuhier einzubinden dazu noch ein kleiner Text, also zum Beispiel so:

Hastags

Hallo ich bin #neuhier und interessiere mich für #Friendica, #Android, #Datenschutz, #Netzwerke und #Hunde und gehe gerne #Paddeln.

Dieser Beitrag wird dann, sofern als öffentlicher Beitrag erstellt, auch an andere Server verteilt, über die Hashtags finden andere Nutzer mit gleichen Interessen deinen Beitrag. So lernst Du neue Menschen mit gleichen Interessen kennen und es kommt ein bisschen Aktivität in die eigene #Timeline. Grundsätzlich funktioniert das auch mit jedem weiteren Beitrag, #Tags helfen bei der #Vernetzung sehr.

Nach dem Absenden des Beitrags kannst du auch direkt den verwendeten Tags selber folgen, indem du diesen anklickst und über das Pluszeichen oben rechts speicherst. Du kannst auch andere Hastags über das Suchfeld (oben) suchen und jede Suche genau so speichern. Durch das speichern der Suche fordert dieser Server von anderen Servern Beiträge mit diesen Tags an und dieser erscheinen in deiner #Netzwerkleiste.

Das Erwähnen

Mit dem @ Zeichen kannst du User direkt ansprechen. Füge @username@domain in deinem Beitrag ein und Derjenige wird eine Benachrichtigung bekommen das er in einem Beitrag erwähnt wurde.

Das Teilen

Wenn du andere Webseiten schnell auf meld.de teilen willst kannst du den Code am Ende des Beitrages benutzen, als #Bookmark abspeichern und auf der zu teilenden Webseite anklicken. Es geht ein Popup Fenster auf in dem du noch deinen #Pod Adresse eintragen musst, das wäre dann meld.de, Pod speichern und schon kannst du besuchte Webseiten auf meld.de teilen.

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Here a few Tipps, how one writes best the first contribution. It is good to insert the Hashtag "newhere" thus #newhere in the first contribution. In addition still another small text, for example so:

Hastags

Hello I am #newhere and am interested in #Friendica, #Android, #Privacy, #Networks and #Dogs and like #Paddling.

This post will then be distributed to other servers if it is a public post. Hashtags will help other users with the same interests to find your post. In this way you get to know new people with the same interests and a little activity is added to your #Timeline. Basically, this works with every post you make, #Tags help a lot with #networking.

After submitting the post, you can also follow the tags directly by clicking on them and saving them with the plus sign in the upper right corner. You can also search for other #Hastags using the search field (above) and save each search exactly the same way. By saving the search, this server requests posts with these tags from other servers and these will appear in your #Network bar.

Mentioning

With the @ sign you can address users directly. Add @username@domain to your post and the one will get a notification that he was mentioned in a post.

Share

If you want to share other websites quickly on meld.de you can use the code at the end of the post, save it as #bookmark and click on the website you want to share. There will be a popup window where you have to enter your #Pod address, that would be meld.de, save the pod and you can already share the currently visited website on meld.de.
javascript:(function(){f='http://sharetodiaspora.github.io/?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&_amp_;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&_amp_;notes='+encodeURIComponent(''+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text))+'&_amp_;v=1&_amp_;';a=function(){if(!window.open(f+'noui=1&_amp_;jump=doclose','diasporav1','location=yes,links=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,width=820,height=750'))location.href=f+'jump=yes'};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()

Wilkommen/Welcome

Hi @Eduardo Thomas

Ein paar Tipps wie man am besten seinen ersten Beitrag verfasst. Es ist gut im ersten Beitrag den Hashtag "neuhier", also #neuhier einzubinden dazu noch ein kleiner Text, also zum Beispiel so:

Hastags

Hallo ich bin #neuhier und interessiere mich für #Friendica, #Android, #Datenschutz, #Netzwerke und #Hunde und gehe gerne #Paddeln.

Dieser Beitrag wird dann, sofern als öffentlicher Beitrag erstellt, auch an andere Server verteilt, über die Hashtags finden andere Nutzer mit gleichen Interessen deinen Beitrag. So lernst Du neue Menschen mit gleichen Interessen kennen und es kommt ein bisschen Aktivität in die eigene #Timeline. Grundsätzlich funktioniert das auch mit jedem weiteren Beitrag, #Tags helfen bei der #Vernetzung sehr.

Nach dem Absenden des Beitrags kannst du auch direkt den verwendeten Tags selber folgen, indem du diesen anklickst und über das Pluszeichen oben rechts speicherst. Du kannst auch andere Hastags über das Suchfeld (oben) suchen und jede Suche genau so speichern. Durch das speichern der Suche fordert dieser Server von anderen Servern Beiträge mit diesen Tags an und dieser erscheinen in deiner #Netzwerkleiste.

Das Erwähnen

Mit dem @ Zeichen kannst du User direkt ansprechen. Füge @username@domain in deinem Beitrag ein und Derjenige wird eine Benachrichtigung bekommen das er in einem Beitrag erwähnt wurde.

Das Teilen

Wenn du andere Webseiten schnell auf meld.de teilen willst kannst du den Code am Ende des Beitrages benutzen, als #Bookmark abspeichern und auf der zu teilenden Webseite anklicken. Es geht ein Popup Fenster auf in dem du noch deinen #Pod Adresse eintragen musst, das wäre dann meld.de, Pod speichern und schon kannst du besuchte Webseiten auf meld.de teilen.

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Here a few Tipps, how one writes best the first contribution. It is good to insert the Hashtag "newhere" thus #newhere in the first contribution. In addition still another small text, for example so:

Hastags

Hello I am #newhere and am interested in #Friendica, #Android, #Privacy, #Networks and #Dogs and like #Paddling.

This post will then be distributed to other servers if it is a public post. Hashtags will help other users with the same interests to find your post. In this way you get to know new people with the same interests and a little activity is added to your #Timeline. Basically, this works with every post you make, #Tags help a lot with #networking.

After submitting the post, you can also follow the tags directly by clicking on them and saving them with the plus sign in the upper right corner. You can also search for other #Hastags using the search field (above) and save each search exactly the same way. By saving the search, this server requests posts with these tags from other servers and these will appear in your #Network bar.

Mentioning

With the @ sign you can address users directly. Add @username@domain to your post and the one will get a notification that he was mentioned in a post.

Share

If you want to share other websites quickly on meld.de you can use the code at the end of the post, save it as #bookmark and click on the website you want to share. There will be a popup window where you have to enter your #Pod address, that would be meld.de, save the pod and you can already share the currently visited website on meld.de.
javascript:(function(){f='http://sharetodiaspora.github.io/?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&_amp_;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&_amp_;notes='+encodeURIComponent(''+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text))+'&_amp_;v=1&_amp_;';a=function(){if(!window.open(f+'noui=1&_amp_;jump=doclose','diasporav1','location=yes,links=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,width=820,height=750'))location.href=f+'jump=yes'};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()http://sharetodiaspora.github.io/?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&notes='+encodeURIComponent(''+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text))+'&v=1&';a=function(){if(!window.open(f+'noui=1&jump=doclose','diasporav1','location=yes,links=no,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,width=820,height=750'))location.href=f+'jump=yes'};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()[/code]" target="_blank">Enter a title

#dogs

Idea for a new breed of dog – the “NewLab”

There is now a trend afoot of breeding “designer dogs”. The basic idea is to cross two established, well-characterized breeds and attempt to obtain the best traits of each in the result, as well as eliminate the excessive genetic inbreeding that has overshadowed many of our current purebreds.

There are two forks to the “designer dog” trend. One focuses only upon the First (F1) generation – the 50/50 cross, and neglects to consider any subsequent progeny. The second branch of the trend is to actually develop a new breed of dog, with back-crossing to the original breeds (and even incorporating sometimes a third).

I’m recommending the second tack. I would very much like to see a dog which might be termed the “LabradorNewfie” Or maybe better, the “NewLab”. Here are the reasons:

1st (and maybe primary): It is good to have a wider admixture of genetics to choose-from than is available in the standardized AKC breeds, which widely tend to over-inbreeding.

2nd: The Labrador Retriever and the Newfoundland dog have a common origin in Atlantic Canada, many generations back, when the New World was first being colonized by European peoples. This common origin deserves to be rejuvenated and brought back in a new form.

3rd : Both the standard Labrador Retriever and the Newfoundland dog have a strong commonality in both being very intelligent, gentle, loving animals. The Lab typically is quite active however, while the Newfie, with his size, is less so. An animal that is intermediate might be very desirable in its own right.

4th: A larger, longer-coated version of the Labrador Retriever would be a very beautiful animal.

5th: A larger version of the Labrador Retriever could possibly be even more useful as a watch-dog than the standard Lab.

6th: The wider range of genetics in the mix might result in an even healthier and longer-lived animal, perhaps even more intelligent than the standard of either breed, despite being larger than a Lab.

Ok, so what would such a cross look like? Well it would depend upon the parents and then the cross-backs upon subsequent generations. Over time I myself would want to see a long-haired retriever-type dog, looking somewhat like a black Golden Retriever with a more square muzzle (if you can picture that) - but a little huskier – weighing-in at 80 to 100lbs. And yes, the dog would love water!

Here is what some might look like:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/56506170296701764/

These are mostly F1 crosses, But the type can be developed in any direction - genetic diversity should probably be an aim, seeing as it was an impetus.