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#TIL: Die #Bibliothek im Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie in Hamburg und Rostock besitzt eine #Flaschenpost-Sammlung!

#TIL that #git has an `--end-of-options` option because they used `--` for something else in `git checkout`. 🤦
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html
(thanks to @… for the link)

#TIL that there is also a pre-commit check for uv audit: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/productive/security.html#codecell3

Security
In previous chapters, we have already provided some tips designed to help ensure safer operation. Here, we would like to summarise and expand on the individual elements once again. We will be using...

#TIL that in some 12 based number systems (i.e. #duodecimal systems), the digits for 10 and 11 are not A and B as common in hexadecimal systems, but a turned 2 and 3 digit:
↊ — U 218A TURNED DIGIT TWO
∋ — U 218B TURNED DIGIT THREE

#TIL: SciFree Journal Search Tool: https://scifree.se/jst
via University of Iowa Libraries:

#TIL es gibt eine Frederick #Merz Schule und die kinder dort singen ausländerfeindliche lieder. auch die ausländischen.

#TIL es gibt eine Frederick #Merz Schule und die kinder dort singen ausländerfeindliche lieder. auch die ausländischen.

#TIL that #uv can export #CycloneDX compatible SBOM files. Really helpful for observing your supply chain.
Exporting a lockfile | uv

#til #linkedin

vutuv
vutuv ist das offene Business-Netzwerk. Fachleute vernetzen sich, tauschen sich aus und werden gefunden. Kostenlos dabei.

#TIL @… advises against the use of file systems for verified boot - because file system parsing is complicated:

#TIL: Die #zotero-App kann auch epub ... damit wird das Handy zum ebook-Reader 👍

Oof.
#TIL that I, for many years, have used a word consistently wrong.
I've used the word "ignorant" when I meant to say "nescient" (🇧🇻: "uvitende").
Now I know that "ignorant" contains a measure of willfulness that "nescient" doesn't. 😅
So when I've said things like "we're all born ignorant" – I see now…

#TIL there’s now AV2, the successor of the AV1 video coding format.

#TIL the #NittyGrittyDirtBand had two #accordion players scattering work through their discography!
More research is necessary

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Dirt Band
2nd version By Praguefrank, Michel Ruppli, Thieu Van De Vorst, Lennart Gustavsson, Tore Brennodden SESSIONS December 1966 poss. Ho...

#TIL: ls --hyperlink=auto

#TIL that the English equivalent of the popular Polish term "towarzystwo wzajemnej adoracji" (lit. "mutual adoration society") is "circlejerk", and it's very fitting.

#TIL "rejection cake" 'a cake that someone decorates and shares on social media after their application to a university has been rejected, usually as a light-hearted way of showing their disappointment'🤨
https://

#TIL: There are conspiracy theorists who think Locks of Love is a scam and they have access to video cameras. @…

#TIL vimeo staff picks still exist: https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/staff-picks/

Staff Picks
Back Staff Picks Search CategoriesAds and CommercialsAnimationBranded ContentComedyDocumentaryExperimentalMusicNarrativeSportsTravel Sort byMost RecentAlphabetically (A-Z)Alphabetically (Z-A)Duration (Longest first)Duration (Shortest first) IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS Shirin Sohani | Hossein Molayemi Motherland Christina Yoon Boat People National Film Board of Canada ILY, BYE Taylor James FILE Sonia K.Hadad Retour à Hairy Hill (Return to Hairy Hill, 2023) Daniel […]

#TIL that #Firefox v153 (the current version) has a new Local Mode feature. 🎉
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or

#til Here’s #DollyParton covering Stairway to Heaven. Didn’t she’d done this. https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw?is=CmoBVG

#TIL: #shelfies sind nicht nur selfies vor bücherregalen, sondern auch hörbücher zum anfassen, sozusagen. oder tonies für große. :)
» https://www.

J'ai découvert les fonctionnalités de Goreleaser
#TIL #Golang

#TIL: #DELL used #FreeBSD for their ThinOS thin client operating system, except they b0rked it pretty hard in terms of boot integrity.
They then switched to Ubuntu and b0rked that instead.

#TIL: es gibt in japan eine "nonverbal communication association":
https://nca-japan.or.jp/
[via ausgabe Q3/2026 vom „JAPANMARKT“:

Mon til du jour "Reine Genepil"
J'ai vu sa tombe et je l'ajoute dans OpenStreetMap
#tildujour

TIL Die Etymologie von “Schach” ist persisch “Shah” (also König) 💡 So naheliegend! #til #schach

#TIL : in the ISO-639-3 norm, there are 12 languages primarily linked to Madagascar :
- 11 individual languages in the Malagasy macrolanguage https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mlg
- the Madagascar Sign Language

#TIL that if I kill #PipeWire server that's automatically started with my desktop and it is restarted, it is used for bells in xfce4-terminal rather than PC speaker.

#TIL that #Wikivoyage has a nifty travel map feature! 🗺️
Just log in with your #Wikimedia account on Wikivoyage, open the account menu on the top right, then select “My Travel Map”. You can then check off th…

Yesterday I learned the Enterprise D actually contained an aquarium, filled with dolphins who aid in the navigation of the starship. This was referenced in a tech manual and at least one episode (the perfect mate). WTAF.
#startrek #TIL

#TIL: GECOS
Originally the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System (wat), it made it into `/etc/passwd` as the fifth field that describes a user, such as through their full name, possibly office number (corpo vibes) etc. And the field is still just named after the OS!

#TIL: es gibt ein [allerdings wohl nicht sehr breit bekanntes] symbol zur waldbrandgefahr, und das ist ein eichhörnchen! 🐿️🔥☝️ #squirrelcontent
(artikel aus dem spiegel 2026.34:22)
links dazu:

#TIL about KolibriOS
#permacomputing

#TIL there’s actually a name that’s common enough in my company that has exhausted all the 24 combinations of:
- JohnDoe, JohnDo, JohnD
- JohDoe, JohDo, JohD
- JoDoe, JoDo, JoD
- JDoe, JDo, JD
- DoeJohn, DoeJoh, DoeJo, DoeJ
- DoJohn, DoJoh, DoJo, DoJ
- DJohn, DJoh, DJo, DJ

... and someone with that name has landed on JohnDoe1 as their email alias.

#TIL that "geek" used to mean a carnival freak.
(by watching Nightmare Alley (1947))
#English

#TIL: es gibt zwei neue französische songs von #CélineDion! 😊
« Bonjour, Pardon, Merci »
https://youtu.be/BbatcDcn4AU

#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.

Die Brandstifter [Wie Extremisten die republikanische Partei übernahmen (Ungekürzte Lesung)] – Álbum von Annika Brockschmidt | Spotify
Annika Brockschmidt · Álbum · 2024 · 207 Songs

#TIL es gibt die Website vmz- niedersachsen.de und das ist ja wohl das interessanteste, was ich seit langem gesehen habe. In bezug auf #kritis #verkehrswende

#TIL es gibt die Website vmz- niedersachsen.de und das ist ja wohl das interessanteste, was ich seit langem gesehen habe. In bezug auf #kritis #verkehrswende

#TIL Droid Sans, Open Sans, and Noto Sans are all on the same family tree.
youtu.be/s2wyABY-o8Q

#TIL: das "arctic world archive" auf spitzbergen
https://arcticworldarchive.org/
wird erwähnt in der terra-x-doku "was die welt zusammenhält" in der folge zur kommunikation.

#TIL that the Python Pillow library uses the PING command as a #Windows equivalent of sleep.
#cmd

#TIL about #Ghidra:
It might be that the decompile view shows you
```
void foo(void)
{
/* ... */
}
```
and yet, you see in another function calling it smth like
```
iVar1 = foo();
```
- leaving you puzzled.
It looks like a bug!
In…

#TIL in einem selbstlernkurs meiner uni zu unserem hauseigenen KI-GPT-tool: man kann den "denkaufwand" runterschalten. für manche menschliche intelligenzen würde ich mir einen hochschalt-button wünschen. 🙃

#TIL GitHub Copilot CLI came with computer-use MCP tools.

#TIL https://www.pizzint.watch/polyglobe/app exists. Is this supposed to be civil palantir for the masses?

Polyglobe — Live Global Intelligence Map
Interactive 3D globe tracking live conflict zones, thermal anomalies, OSINT intelligence feeds, and Polymarket prediction markets in real time.

#TIL: Es ist nicht nötig, faschistisch und zugleich islamistisch zu sein. Es ist auch möglich nur eines zu sein.
Also entweder Paradies und 72 weiße Weintrauben, oder Walhalla und Met bis zum Abwinken.

#TIL: Es ist nicht nötig, faschistisch und zugleich islamistisch zu sein. Es ist auch möglich nur eines zu sein.
Also entweder Paradies und 72 weiße Weintrauben, oder Walhalla und Met bis zum Abwinken.

#TIL: Index on Censorship
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/
"Freedom of expression is under attack. Everywhere you turn, powerful forces – whether driven by money or wielding authority – are tryin…

#TIL: Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders
https://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/
"Since 2007 [it] has been working to provide everyone with access to knowledge. Thanks…

#TIL dank @…: die wiener #oboe wird wirklich nur in #wien gespielt.

#TIL that the #FAT #filesystem doesn't really store anywhere whether it's #FAT12, #FAT16 and #FAT32. What you're supposed to do is to look at the number of clusters, and determine which range it falls into. More specifically, you're supposed to look at the partition size and divide it by the number of sectors per cluster (which is stored in consistent position irrespective of FAT type).
The obvious implication of that is that the volume sizes are limited by possible cluster size ranges. There's some overlap here, though: you get more clusters (and therefore use a "longer" FAT) by using a smaller cluster size, or fewer clusters by using a larger cluster size.
https://elm-chan.org/docs/fat_e.html#fat_determination
However, there's a curious trick: there's a 16-bit "FAT size" field that indicates how many sectors are used for FAT on FAT12/FAT16 filesystems. On FAT32 this field is zero (there is a separate field for 32-bit FAT size there), and apparently some tools recognize the filesystem as FAT32 in that case, irrespective of number of clusters. This is what mkfs.vfat does when you force FAT32 on a small block device.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/1590cf0329716306e948a8fc29f1d3ee87d3989f/fs/fat/inode.c#L1675-L1680
Why did I learn all this? Because a friend tried to make a very small EFI partition and was surprised it didn't work. I was compelled to get to a bottom of this!

#TIL: #trauer ist wie glitzer: zuerst ist er überall, an den händen, in den haaren, überall. irgendwann ist er dann weg: abgeklopft, weggewischt, weggesaugt. aber noch jahrelang findet man immer wieder hier und da kleine glitzerteilchen.
– machs gut, lessi! 🖤

#TIL: #Eurofurence.
https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/eurofurence-100.html…

#TIL: das #GND-sachschlagwort für 'voodoo' lautet "wodu".
https://lobid.org/gnd/4066709-1
…

#TIL how the secondary selection used to be used on #Unix desktops.
https://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lindsec/secondary-selection.html
TL;DR: apparently you could select and copy something immediately into your current cursor position without having to move it.

#TIL that #GNU #patch has an `-i` argument. So you can do:
patch -i foo.patch
instead of:
patch < foo.patch

#TIL the #NittyGrittyDirtBand had two #accordion players scattering work through their discography!
More research is necessary #CountryMusic"

#TIL ich bin gar kein #Mensch.
Ich lade seit einiger Zeit Videos, die ich in den letzten 10 Jahren für #Wikipedia gemacht habe auf #Loops

#TIL ich bin gar kein #Mensch.
Ich lade seit einiger Zeit Videos, die ich in den letzten 10 Jahren für #Wikipedia gemacht habe auf #Loops

#TIL that another way to make #tar (GNU and libarchive) create an empty archive is to pass a file and --exclude that same file.
tar -c --exclude=README.md README.md