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’Til Tuesday:
🎵 Voices Carry
#TilTuesday
https://pentafonica.bandcamp.com/track/til-tuesday-voices-carry
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZYf6N5eBeXStMri0mf3DZ

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

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

#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 Since :git: version 2.5 from 2015 (!) there is the `git worktree` command.
It lets you checkout a branch in a parallel directory which can be super useful if you have to interrupt your current task but do not want to commit or stash.
This tutorial was helpful to me:

#TIL "Fußpils"

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

#TIL: ls --hyperlink=auto

#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

#TIL `volta` is unmaintained. The maintainers recommend migrating to `mise` 😩 https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/issues/2080

Volta is unmaintained; we recommend migrating to `mise` · Issue #2080 · volta-cli/volta
The volta maintainers recommend using mise. It is the tool that most of them use nowadays. They're working on getting an official statement out to that effect at some point. Until then, this pinned...

#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 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.

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

« J'ai découvert snip et rtk et testé rtk (reduce LLM usage) »
#TIL

#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 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.

:git: #TIL Put the line
**/*__gitignore__*
in your ~/.gitignore_global file to ignore any file or directory whose name contains __gitignore__ anywhere in the path.
This handy little glob trick allows you to quickly create a space for temporary files, ad-hoc-experiments or other "stuff" you want to keep out of version control (and also out of you versioned repo-specific…

#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: die aufkleber auf glastüren, die verhindern sollen, dass man in die scheibe läuft, heißen auflaufschutz! ☝️
aus: "Die Neugestaltung der Hochschulbibliothek der Katholischen Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen in Köln: Partizipative Planung, Zonierung und Open-Library-Betrieb"

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

« J'ai découvert snip et rtk et testé rtk (reduce LLM usage) »
#TIL

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

RE: #TIL You can copy or rename files without retyping the path:
❯ cp /your/long/path/config.toml{,.bak}

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

#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 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. 🙃

« J'ai découvert le terme "test sociable" »
#TIL

#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 In bash you can create multiple (nested) directories with a single compact line:
❯ mkdir -p a/{b,c/{x,y},d/{e,f}}
❯ tree
.
└── a
├── b
├── c
│    ├── x
│   └── y
└── d
├── e
└── f

#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.

« J'ai découvert le terme "test sociable" »
#TIL

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

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

#TIL that if you quote the "EOF" word for #bash here-document thing, it does not perform all the substitutions inside the here-doc, i.e. treats it like single-quoted rather than double-quoted string.
cat > ... <<-'EOF'
${foo}
EOF
will get you raw '${foo}', no escaping needed.

« J'ai découvert gh-issue-sync »
#JaiDecouvert #TIL

#TIL: "Anders als arabischer Text, der von rechts nach links gelesen wird, liest man die #arabisch​e Brailleschrift gemäß den internationalen Konventionen von links nach rechts."
– aus dem newsletter 4/2026 des @…

#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 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: den #gedankenstrich kann man nicht nur mit alt 150 eingeben, sondern auch mit windowstaste und minuszeichen!

« J'ai découvert gh-issue-sync »
#JaiDecouvert #TIL

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