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#TIL: es gibt eine zeitschrift für "mensch-puppen-diskurse", herausgegeben an der uni siegen: https://www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/zeitschriften/denk…

#TIL: eine Schnürsenkelspitze nennt man "Pinke" sofern sie aus Metall ist. Phineas & Ferb just taught me.

#TIL Hunger Games https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/

#TIL, aus aktuellem Anlass:
Es gibt das eine Sonnenfinsternis-Foto, das alle toppt, obwohl es bald 55 Jahre alt und sauschlecht ist:
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/eart

Earth Eclipses the Sun - Apollo 12
This photograph of the eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon.

#TIL The open crowdsourced database of food prices
https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/

#TIL that… uh… Windows 12 is not released yet 😅. i honestly thought it that was the latest version and it was just that nobody cared about it. i may seen a youtube thumbnail mentioning "Windows 12", maybe some speculation or pure clickbait, but i didn't click it because i didn't care 😛, i was just like "huh, i guess they are having a tighter release schedule again 🤷".
…

#til that when the Russians sent dogs into space, and the Americans sent monkeys, the French sent a cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félicette

Félicette - Wikipedia

#TIL: ring-#pizza. was es nicht alles gibt. (war lecker.)

#TIL that… uh… Windows 12 is not released yet 😅. i honestly thought it that was the latest version and it was just that nobody cared about it. i may seen a youtube thumbnail mentioning "Windows 12", maybe some speculation or pure clickbait, but i didn't click it because i didn't care 😛, i was just like "huh, i guess they are having a tighter release schedule again 🤷".
…

#TIL #California is amongst 5 US States that have #law on the books that can prevent a woman from finalizing a #divorce if she is

How Missouri’s ban on pregnant women divorcing creates a ‘perfect storm’ for reproductive abuse
At least five US states, including California and Missouri, prevant pregnant people from finalising a divorce. But with abortion under attack, women’s rights groups say such laws pose a grave danger to survivors of domestic abuse. Io Dodds reports

#TIL Our rod cells (the monochromatic photoreceptors) are apparently a little bit sensitive to cyan light. Good to know considering my cone cells skipped that area lol.
Could this be related to cyan being the most abundant in sunlight so we evolved to be less sensitive to it?
#askScience

#TIL Brown noise is not named from a color analogy like with white noise. It's named because it is produced using Brownian motion, named after Robert Brown.

#TIL: Beim Fahrrad und Motorrad spricht man eher von #Schutzblech, beim Auto eher von #Kotflügel. Ich hatte beides bisher synonym verwendet. "Kotflügel" ist übrigens ein Begriff, der noch älter …

Warum heißt der Kotflügel eigentlich Kotflügel?
Am Fahrrad heißt es einfach Schutzblech. Doch wie kam der Kotflügel zu seinem eigenartigen Namen?

TIL. The "buck" in "pass the buck".
Thanks ChatGPT for the info, but it is sad I've to cross-check the info with other AIs. 😥
#til #chatGPT #Copilot

#TIL:
1. Tapirs are most closely related to equines and rhinos.
2. Mammalian phylogeny is a realm of turmoil that exceeds the worst nightmares of GRRM trying to flesh out Westeros genealogies and their backstories.
3. There's a classification group with broad support that is based on their having scrotums and not being Primates.
4. The slur “wastebasket clade" exists, bu…

#TIL: "kohero", ein "Magazin für den interkulturellen Zusammenhalt": https://www.kohero-magazin.de/
[via brandeins

#TIL
CSS-Code inklusive media-queries lässt sich in SVG-Dateien einbetten. Dadurch können Grafiken unkompliziert einen dark mode bekommen. Sehr nützlich für den anstehenden relaunch der Seite von @…

#TIL that now there are two Starbucks outlets in #Mysore. My favourite thing to do at #Starbucks is to place an order and say that my name is Ashtamichiravilasini.

#TIL Tags on Mastodon are case-sensitive.
Or at least they seem to be based on the two clients I tried (Mastodon and Phanpy). Good to know!

#TIL: "The Journal of Interrupted Studies" https://brill.com/view/journals/tjis/tjis-overview.xml?rskey=G5hwAH&result=5
"… …

#TIL

Today I learned what Sesquipedalian means… and I'm afraid I suffer a strong case of sesquipedialianism, both in English and Spanish…
#TIL #WordOfTheDay #Sesquipedalian

Live UK #music and #EU exit...
Petition to reduce barriers for a sector that #til apparently employs more people than steel and fisheries.
➡️ https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/face-the-music

#TIL: Zumindest im QR-Code auf Convenience-Food-Produkten vom #Coop ist das #Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum mit codiert. Denn der Self-Checkout-Automat brachte mir heute bei einem Produkt ein Pop-Up "Mi…

#TIL
#Verkehrsschau

#TIL that Python's .rstrip(chars) removes any trailing given chars, not the exact given string.
Caused some weird duration displays in #annextimelog, now fixed:

fix pretty_duration cutting off trailing zeros (2b753c84) · Commits · Yann Büchau / ⏱️ annextimelog · GitLab
git-annex based cli time tracker

#TIL
CSS-Code inklusive media-queries lässt sich in SVG-Dateien einbetten. Dadurch können Grafiken unkompliziert einen dark mode bekommen. Sehr nützlich für den anstehenden relaunch der Seite von @…

#TIL embiggen is a real word.
Today my vocabulary was embiggened.
It's a word, but it sounds stupid.

#TIL someone released the complete source for Machines - Wired for War on #Github: https://github.com/markol/machines…

GitHub - markol/machines: The 3D Real-Time Strategy video game from 1999 developed by Charybdis and distributed by Acclaim.
The 3D Real-Time Strategy video game from 1999 developed by Charybdis and distributed by Acclaim. - markol/machines

#TIL that SSRN does automated screening of the contents of submitted papers for medical terminology. My paper has one mention of "severe mental illness" and another of "influence of alcohol or drugs". It is not a paper on a medical topic. Interesting.

#TIL that npm, the package manager for Node.js, officially stands for "'npm' Is Not An Acronym" and the project doubles down on that in a novel and amazing way. (This tweet is even cited by Wikipedia.)

- https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
- https://koofr.eu/

GitHub - siyuan-note/siyuan: A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. - siyuan-note/siyuan

#TIL
FoundationDB | Home
https://www.foundationdb.org/

#TIL: Vegan Literary Studies. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-vegan-literary-studies.html

#TIL about the so-called #AffordableArtFair, which will take place in #Berlin this weekend:

#TIL that Denis Villeneuve’s and Isaac Newton’s surnames have the same etymological meaning.
#etymology

#TIL: #macOS has a background process named MessagesBlastDoorService, and if you run Messages long enough you might get a few of these, all sleeping and masking SIGTERM. It might correlate to Messages failing to launch. Also maybe related to increasing Messages delays and weirdness. And an absurdly large Messages…

#TIL someone released the complete source for Machines - Wired for War on #Github: https://github.com/markol/machines…

GitHub - markol/machines: The 3D Real-Time Strategy video game from 1999 developed by Charybdis and distributed by Acclaim.
The 3D Real-Time Strategy video game from 1999 developed by Charybdis and distributed by Acclaim. - markol/machines

#TIL that #Python is older than #Java

I was today years old when I realized why that meal is called MAC and cheese........... #til

#TIL Today I learnt that adding `?` after `*` transforms a #regex expression from being "greedy" into "lazy" (important for performance, safe validators, and protection against DoS attacks).
I don't know how I missed this bit of knowledge for so long. :blobfoxbox:

#TIL
#GülleRAF

nielslaukens/caff2: caff-like tool to mail signed PGP keys to their owner
#TIL #GPG

GitHub - nielslaukens/caff2: caff-like tool to mail signed PGP keys to their owner
caff-like tool to mail signed PGP keys to their owner - GitHub - nielslaukens/caff2: caff-like tool to mail signed PGP keys to their owner

Finally a powerful :android: image manipulator!
#til #anyroid

GitHub - T8RIN/ImageToolbox: 🖼️ Image Toolbox is an powerful picture editor, which can crop, apply filters, add some drawing, erase background, edit EXIF or even create PDF file
🖼️ Image Toolbox is an powerful picture editor, which can crop, apply filters, add some drawing, erase background, edit EXIF or even create PDF file - T8RIN/ImageToolbox

#TodayILearned that the color Magenta is derived from the 1859 #TIL

#TIL Today I learnt that adding `?` after `*` transforms a #regex expression from being "greedy" into "lazy" (important for performance, safe validators, and protection against DoS attacks).
I don't know how I missed this bit of knowledge for so long. :blobfoxbox:

#TIL
#Vaude, der Outdoor-Hersteller, ist gar keine schweizer Firma aus dem #CantonVaud.
Und weil es eine deutsche Firma ist, spricht man es gar nicht [vod] aus, sondern [fau’de].
Und es fühlt sich…

#TIL: es gibt ein @gndnet-sachschlagwort namens "Heile Welt". http://d-nb.info/gnd/4159374-1 🙃
#fachreferat

#TIL about the #Mandelmap, which combines two nerdy things that I love: #maps and #fractals! 😍

Mandelmap
Mandelmap poster - a detailed map of the Mandelbrot set in a beautiful vintage style.

#TodayILearned that the color Magenta is derived from the 1859 #TIL

#TIL #WACUP #WinAMP

WACUP
Your updated classic media player experience.

#TIL #Voyager is unable to tour 2024 because of singer's cancer 😬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgXe23BlJ

I followed that #UFO on the mysterious "The Bahlsen Family" logo into the web and found several #TIL​​​​s.

#TIL: "Small-Town-Roman". https://blog.leo.org/2024/04/09/fremdsprachliche-rechtschreibhuerden-vom-smallto…

#TIL https://cimbar.org

#TIL https://www.sprachnudel.de/woerterbuch/Drachenfutter

#TIL. Long pressing the # key in Android* causes the character № to show up. 😮
I don't know when I'd need that character but good to know the shortcut exists.
*at least on my SG21
#Android #technology

#TIL #geekend #jetzt5 und es findet in #dresden statt.