I feel sad I don't post here anymore. Yes, I use Bluesky now instead, but I don't post much there either. Is it that my is life better? Worse? Am I reading less? More? Change is all there is...
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Aspiring solarpunk living in Toronto. Software developer. Learning what I want and how to live it. I post a lot of links. he/him [bridged from https://merveilles.town/@makeworld on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
> Engels had a rationale for why it was okay to be a rentier. It went like this: Trading stocks “simply adjusts the distribution of the surplus value.” It doesn’t expropriate it from the workers […]
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Neat, you can induce smell perceptions in humans with ultrasound. https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
我们用超声波诱导气味
We Induced Smells With Ultrasound (writetobrain.com) 11-22 ↑ 112 HN Points
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16 million colours ought to be enough for anybody
> the patient's body can also act as an antenna which picks up electromagnetic interference, especially 50/60 Hz noise from electrical power lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_leg_circuit
Driven right leg circuit - Wikipedia
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Just this month, the programmer's oath was archived without explanation. Sad to see it go! https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath
GitHub - Widdershin/programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath
An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath - Widdershin/programmers-oath
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"Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?" - Valve https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
蒸汽机
Steam Machine (store.steampowered.com) 01:59 ↑ 120 HN Points
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> The new [Alberta] law also bans strikes and lock outs the next three years https://archive.ph/T5zFo
TIL if you adjust for age, cancer rates are decreasing! https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-over-time/
US cancer rates and trends: how have cancer rates and mortality changed over time? | USAFacts
Between 2000 and 2021, the cancer incidence rate per 100,000 people fell by 5.7%, while the mortality rate dropped by 27.5%.
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Transit (the app) seems to have improved recently, especially around streetcars. I've switched back to it for public transit planning from Google Maps and it looks great!
Did you know Microsoft maintains a fake fashion company website? https://prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
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Ways of Seeing the Objective World
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> Excessively hot weather now causes around 500,000 deaths every year. Despite the impression you’d get from the news, though, the number has been decreasing for some time, chiefly because more people can afford air conditioners […]
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I've enabled Signal cloud backups on my phone https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backup
I have a technical computer graphics question, about colour quantization. Let me know if you know the answer! https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/how-to-automatically-pick-palette-colours-for-dithering
How to automatically pick palette colours for dithering
I have written dithering software, and previously asked a question about that. Now I want to pick palette colours automatically, to make dithering easier for users. The way I've found for doing thi...
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Any recommendations for a Toronto print shop? For personal home art printing.
Are there any oulipo-esque fedi users employing E-Prime? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
E-Prime - Wikipedia
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John W. Gardner (from the r/plumbing sidebar)
For some reason this Wikipedia page contains a haunting gallery of underwater photographs of infant swimming lessons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
> The main danger with believing an extremist idea is that it’s very very easy to be negatively polarized by a ton of bad conversations with normal people about it, until you feel like the whole rest of the world is crazy and asleep […]
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Framework is so cool, they're like "here's how to resolder the HDMI board if you don't want to buy our updated version" https://guides.frame.work/Guide/HDMI+Expansion+Card+power+saving+rework+(Beta)/193?lang=en
HDMI Expansion Card power saving rework (Beta)
Reworking an HDMI Expansion Card to enable the new power saving mode.
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Maybe I have no principles, but what makes me feel like leaving GitHub the most is how slow it is to use these days.
Cool to see the Iroh team is working on a DHT, which could make it a full IPFS replacement. Maybe even superior to Bittorrent one day?? https://www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-write-a-dht-1
A DHT for iroh - Part 1, The Protocol
Let's write a DHT for iroh
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