Aspiring solarpunk living in Toronto. Software developer. Learning what I want and how to live it.
he/him
Joined: 2022-12-02
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Personality changes following heart transplantation: The role of cellular memory
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
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The lipostat is real: "Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss"
nature.com/articles/s41586-024…
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TIL that NIST still implements the Daytime protocol (RFC 867):
$ ncat time.nist.gov 13
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The Big Vitamin D Mistake
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
> He posits that people use computers as "really fast paper emulators,"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Vic…
> A decimal place error caused them to take about 10 times more of the drug than they thought they were getting.
vice.com/en/article/what-happe…
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2024-11-27 makeworld ┃ 1👤 2💬 ┃ RE: ?
@aw like what?
[Toronto tech and coworking]
2024-11-27 makeworld ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@palomakop really good idea
2024-11-27 makeworld ┃ 🔄 makeworld ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@vaporstack by planets and moons based on relative size. Earth (laptop), Moon (phone), Jupiter (NAS/homeserver), Neptune (VPS)
If you like reading about cryptography, I highly recommend @soatok's blog:
soatok.blog/b/
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Kurt Vonnegut: 'We are Dancing Animals...'
improvisedlife.com/2021/10/19/…
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Say One More Thing: a website that sends your message with an one-in-a-million chance sometime over the next year
say-one-more-thing.com/
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> Krinn is a hero and a pioneer. She is worth a hundred of the book-swallowers who can only comment and couldn’t collect a data point to save their life.
slimemoldtimemold.com/2024/11/…
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium | Paul Ford, 2011
ftrain.com/wwic
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2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1🔗 ┃ RE: makeworld
Maybe because it's really that boring? Sorry Manitoba-heads.
en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Manitob…
I have absolutely no sense of what Manitoba is like at all. It's kind of bizarre.
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1🔗 ┃ RE: mikael
@mikael my bad, it's here: social.coop/@cwebber/113527462…
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ RE: makeworld
I guess the networking and protocol is the hard part, but this seems like a straight upgrade from existing address book and DNS naming systems.
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1🔗 1👤 1💬
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
files.spritely.institute/paper…
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2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ RE: kon
@kon yeah there's definitely a log curve I've experienced, but that feels natural. I find the local feed is the best way to counteract that when I want to.
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@kon I think fedi is inherently designed around small communities having limited interactions with each other whereas most people have been conditioned to think of social media as a global town […]
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: kon
@kon it seems like there are fundamental design issues (Christine's post is a good read) but I am curious as well to see how things go in the future.
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: kon
@kon yeah I'm being a bit snarky but my point is that friends can't see my posts because one company has decided "no", which is exactly what the idea of decentralization is trying to get away […]
Bluesky has apparently "temporarily paused ingesting commits from federated PDSes" so the bridge is not working. Almost like one company holds all the power...
github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: makeworld
@mcc also it looks like the latest Teensy does not have a DAC unfortunately, although a hat board is sold for that.
2024-11-22 makeworld ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: mcc
@mcc good video though!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_s…
Anyone done electronic projects with a Teensy board? Looks super fun.
pjrc.com/teensy/
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2024-11-21 makeworld ┃ RE: makeworld
[ONpoli]
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