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TIL there will be a sequel to "The Social Network" (again written by Aaron Sorkin) 😮
#TIL

#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 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 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: #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 NASA offers free ebooks. https://www.nasa.gov/ebooks/
Looking for literature about NASA's test-development-cylce approach during rocket science, though.

e-Books - NASA

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

#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.

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

#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

#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: 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!

/insights
"Generate a report analyzing your Claude Code sessions, including project areas, interaction patterns, and friction points"
#ClaudeCode #TIL

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

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

#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 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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
’Til Tuesday:
🎵 Voices Carry
#TilTuesday
https://pentafonica.bandcamp.com/track/til-tuesday-voices-carry
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZYf6N5eBeXStMri0mf3DZ

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

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

#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 that "Delete Files and Remove" in #Transmission doesn't actually delete files but puts them into trash instead. You can guess how I learned.

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

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

#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 about #osm-mode, allowing you to browse #openstreetmap from #emacs.

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

#TIL that instead of grepping through `git log -p` to figure out when the last dependency on a package was removed, I can just search through gentoo-commits ml archives.
#Gentoo

#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 #RStudio supports multiple levels of code sections. The level depends on the number of # signs at the beginning of the line.
# First Level -----
## Second level ------
This is also reflected in the document outline you get with Cmd Shift O (on a Mac, I guess it's Ctrl Shift O anywhere else).
Why did no-one tell me that earlier?!?
#rstats

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

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

#TIL: "The book store supply chain [#Bookland] wanted to be able to identify individual books in greater detail than was possible with the U.P.C. code. […] The EAN aggreed and assigned them a country code [in 1985]. The code proposed by Bookland with a "978" prefix has now been accep…

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

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

#TIL: beim verlag ESV gibt es "bürolizenzen" für ebooks für maximal 3 nutzer:innen. 🤨
beispielbuch: https://www.esv.info/978-3-503-24306-8

#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

#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: The Atthi Varadha idol at Varadharaja Temple in Kanchipuram #India stays submerged in the temple tank and is brought out once every 40 years; and only for 48 days. A true *once in a lifetime event*. ☺️
The idol will be brought out next in 2059. So, not in my lifetime. 🥹
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadharaja_Perumal_Temple,_Kanchipuram#Atthi_Varadhar

#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!