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Academia<p><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/AcademiaEndeuill%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademiaEndeuillée</span></a> 😢 14 août 2025<br><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/VeilleESR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VeilleESR</span></a></p><p>Margaret W. Rossiter est morte.<br>Autrice du concept "effet Matilda", elle a accompagné les efforts féministes de l'histoire des sciences. Pour que les femmes scientifiques cessent d'être invisibilisées, ignorées, volées, maltraitées</p><p><a href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/margaret-rossiter-obituary?id=59185372" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">legacy.com/us/obituaries/bosto</span><span class="invisible">nglobe/name/margaret-rossiter-obituary?id=59185372</span></a></p>
do Zokale wagone (Global)<p>The current word for “microwave” is a compound word and is written as follows:</p><p>G3: zelekoyuyun‐<br>G2: zelekiyuyun‐<br>Z4: zeleki:yuyun‐</p><p>But six syllables is long. Maybe we should think of a new word that isn’t a compound word.</p><p>電子レンジ -&gt; denshi renji -&gt; deshi reji -&gt; desilez‐</p><p>I guess that’s about it. However, this is difficult for people other than Japanese to understand intuitively. I’ll think about it a bit more before deciding whether to actually adopt it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conlang</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zokale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zokale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>word</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/auxlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auxlang</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Your Indo-European beard**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://blog.oup.com/2025/08/your-indo-european-beard/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.oup.com/2025/08/your-indo</span><span class="invisible">-european-beard/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Satellite: An Etymology**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/satellite/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordorigins-org.ghost.io/satel</span><span class="invisible">lite/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a></p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p>In my childhood, I often liked to read encyclopedias and dictionaries (yes, I read them like novels). They were travels to unknown continents!</p><p>Nowadays, I still use dictionaries to get a better feeling for words and contexts, their etymology and changes. My tip: Look at a completely ordinary word in a foreign language. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amazing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">merriam-webster.com/dictionary</span><span class="invisible">/amazing</span></a><br>Machine translation is fine but you often miss these wonder worlds.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>word</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amazing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amazing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/adventureTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adventureTravel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a></p>
Moani<p>Kainō == thought, presumed, or assumed (but it was not so)<br>“Kainō ua hele ʻoe,”== “I thought you had gone.” (from Wehewehe)<br>Isn’t that a cool word! :blobcatcool: I wish we had that in English! The fact that my assumption was wrong, all wrapped up in a single word.<br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianWordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianWordOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>word</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiian</span></a></p>
Deep Breath; Start Again<p>🦊<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FoxiMax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoxiMax</span></a> #1069 7/8<br><a href="https://foximax.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">foximax.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<br>🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<br>🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<br>🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩<br>⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩<br>⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩<br>🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 <br>Yeow! Almost ended badly. 😂<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wordgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wordgames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/puzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dailygames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dailygames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a></p>

Looking for solutions for automated file backup and versioning for less technical person on Windows or Linux.

My wife writes novels. She's has been using #Word on #Windows with autosave and #OneDrive for backup.

But Word is bloated and getting worse, she keeps hitting conflicted-version issues on ~100K word documents, and Microsoft is Microsoft.

So, she's ready to move to #LibreOffice and probably #Linux, but she needs a near-bulletproof way to keep having her documents backed up as she writes.

I’m inclined to set her up as follows, but would like any better suggestions:

* All documents autosaved by LibreOffice #Writer to a folder without any cloud backup

* Python program runs every 10 minutes and copies any changed files to timestamped versions in a history folder that is synced automatically to #pCloud (or similar privacy-oriented backup)

* Program also prunes previous versions, keeping last few and some increasingly diffuse ones from earlier times and dates

* Program also maintains a copy of the history folder on a compact USB drive

This should address the main risk of file corruption, work even when offline, maintain a cloud copy and have a belt-and-braces local backup too. It should avoid the conflicted-version issue when saving the master copy. If some versioned copies are invalid, it’s not a big deal.

Does this make sense? Is it stupid? Is there a better well-written archival/versioning tool that does all this?