hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Programmer @ Carleton University Library
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"A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.
Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first times a medication has been shown to effectively treat the condition. "
I want a Canadian journalist to follow one Ontario grown grocery item through the whole supply chain to help me understand why food has become unsustainably expensive. Show me where markups have doubled or tripled. Who is benefiting?
Wow. These are some drastic cuts.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/
@Techaltar@mas.to Love that "Enthusiast" t-shirt!
@Techaltar@mas.to On the latest Friday Checkout, you talked about older Xbox games coming to PC. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Kevin LaChapelle, Microsoft's vice president of Xbox Platform and the former lead of the backwards compatibility initiative was recently laid off: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xboxs-backwards-compatibility-program-and-cloud-gaming-lead-has-been-laid-off-from-microsoft-after-37-years
(Thanks to @LoadingReadyRun@kind.social for making this connection on Checkpoint).
The new secondary plan for Confederation Heights looks ambitious. I hope they can pull it off.
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D01-01-25-0006/details
I saw the best minds of my generation, and they're doing great! They're really having a good time of it and it's so nice to see.
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1smvufx/the_city_shrouded_2am_in_toronto/
Some beautiful photos of yesterday evening's fog on the Toronto subreddit.
Feeling thankful that Carleton uses Brightspace and not Canvas as our LMS. What a headache. https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
Just watched the Charge v Fleet highlights. Thank God for Philips!
Ontario is Open For Business... for some people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuKoKeaOVnw
What If You Repeatedly Save an Image as a JPEG, then WebP, then Avif?
https://corecursive.com/the-aging-programmer/
Another great episode of CoRecursive.
I don't understand what's going on in this Balatro GDQ run but it's very exciting.
I don't think I can finish Ministry for the Future. Reads like the worst Mary-Sue fanfiction, and I'm only about a quarter of the way through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwI0YoJlBbo
Strange Collection by St.Arnaud (music video animated by GingerPale)
@brianfagioli@mastodon.xyz You probably saw this, but I thought you might be interested after posting https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/notepad-plus-plus-mac/
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/
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If I very carefully add lines to a commit with 'git add -p', I know for a fact I'll automatically add '-a' to the 'git commit' afterwards.
