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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 merveilles.town/@makeworld on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
keepandroidopen.org
keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
@mauve www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
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O&O ShutUp10++: Improve Windows data protection
Enable recommended privacy options and make Windows 10/11 leaner and more private with just a few clicks.
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
> 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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
Is Atomic Habits a good book?
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Mauve 👁💜 @mauve.moe · 26/11/2025
Neat, you can induce smell perceptions in humans with ultrasound. writetobrain.com/olfactory
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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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
16 million colours ought to be enough for anybody
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025
> the patient's body can also act as an antenna which picks up electromagnetic interference, especially 50/60 Hz noise from electrical power lines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_right_…
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Driven right leg circuit - Wikipedia
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025
Just this month, the programmer's oath was archived without explanation. Sad to see it go! github.com/Widdershin/programmers-o…
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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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025
"Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?" - Valve store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma…
store.steampowered.com
蒸汽机
Steam Machine (store.steampowered.com) 01:59  ↑ 120 HN Points
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025
> The new [Alberta] law also bans strikes and lock outs the next three years archive.ph/T5zFo
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
TIL if you adjust for age, cancer rates are decreasing! usafacts.org/articles/how-have-canc…
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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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
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!
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
Did you know Microsoft maintains a fake fashion company website? prod.fabrikam.com/termsandconditions
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
On agency - by Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agency
henrikkarlsson.xyz
On agency
Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science. Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World* Deadline Dec 10: orbitalstudies.com Please share! We pay all contributors.
orbitalstudies.com
❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙
Ways of Seeing the Objective World
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Richard Terroriksson @sillygwailo.com · 29/10/2025
orbitalstudies.com
orbitalstudies.com
❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙
Ways of Seeing the Objective World
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
> 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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
Learning Rust for the first time this week
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
I've enabled Signal cloud backups on my phone support.signal.org/hc/en-us/article…
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
I have a technical computer graphics question, about colour quantization. Let me know if you know the answer! computergraphics.stackexchange.com/…
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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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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
Kodak test images r0k.us/graphics/kodak
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True Color Kodak Images
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
Any recommendations for a Toronto print shop? For personal home art printing.
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
Are there any oulipo-esque fedi users employing E-Prime? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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E-Prime - Wikipedia
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025
[Another detained tourist] > I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre | US immigration | The Guardian All these stories are so touching, shocking, and sad […]
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025
Started reading Borges
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025
I'm finally ready to release my desktop image dithering app, Dithertime! 🌟 It's more accurate, correct, and extensive than any other image dithering software out there. And it's fast too! I've been working on it nights and weekends for a year, and I'm […] [Original post on merveilles.town]
A screenshot of a desktop application. It says "Welcome to Dithertime" and has control options on the right side.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2025
It's 2026 and you wonder what your friends are up to. You tell the app on your phone to go and get everyone's most recent news. Jim's phone takes a sec to load because his wifi is crap in the garden, and Alex's phone takes a sec to load because their wifi is crap in the workshop, but nobody […]
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025
Just updated my website's robots.txt thanks to github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.…
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GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025
Kelly & Zach Weinersmith: Two nerds fall in love www.storycollider.org/stories/2016/…
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Kelly & Zach Weinersmith: Two nerds fall in love
<div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" data-updated-on="1452110072588" id="item-568d70adbfe87394ec2689f3"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block code-block sqs-block-code" data-block-type="23" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1525553912748_4739"><div class="sqs-block-content"><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=PPY4228190840" width="100%"></iframe></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-9ce1ef934e525525c972"><div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-html-content"> <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Biologist Kelly Smith and comic artist Zach Weiner were having trouble dating, until they met online and realized what they each needed was another nerd.</p> </div> </div></div></div></div></div>
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024
@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 square (Twitter). And that's why many people leave/don't join, bc it's not exciting and viral and big […]
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makeworld @makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2024
A screenshot of a website, fatebook.io. There is a title, "Will I make a Bluesky account this winter?". The current prediction is 55%, but in the past it was 15%, and 30% before that.
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