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@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-05-30 11:18:44

#TIL you can pick a View to Make it Change here: reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki

@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-06-29 10:57:06

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

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Madame Caroline Testout was a late 19th-century French dressmaker from Grenoble, the proprietor of fashionable salons in London and Paris. She regularly purchased silks from Lyon, which was an important center for rose breeding. The nurseryman Joseph Pernet-Ducher was called 'The Wizard of Lyon' due to his success in developing hybrid tea roses. Madame Testout was an astute businesswoman and understood the value of good publicity. She asked Perner-Ducher to …
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In 1915, Jesse A. Currey, rose hobbyist and Sunday editor of the Oregon Journal, convinced city officials to institute a rose test garden to serve as a safe haven during World War I for hybrid roses grown in Europe. Rose lovers feared that these unique plants would be destroyed in the bombings. The Park Bureau approved the idea in 1917 and by early 1918, hybridists from England began to send roses. In 1921, Florence Holmes Gerke, the landscape architect for …
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-05-26 20:30:00

#TIL: Zeugma. n. The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each word in a different sense.
#English #vocabulary

@stephane_klein@social.coop
2025-06-22 21:41:02

J'ai découvert #Vercel Chat SDK
#TIL

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-26 19:34:43

TIL Homer Simpson's namesake was born in Saskatchewan.
Oh, and Marge dies. (don't worry, no spoilers, everyone dies!)
#Simpsons #Animation #TIL #Saskatchewan #MattGroening
cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-06-17 20:34:38

#TIL: die umstellung von #autohotkey version 1 auf version 2 verlangt einige anpassungen in der skript-datei:

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-06-16 11:44:53

#TIL that sloths can turn their heads 270°. Cats can't keep up.
(Explanation for non-maths people: this means back and even further to sidewards.)

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-06-12 21:36:02

#til
The built in calculator app on the iPhone can do all sorts of conversions.
Long-press the icon at bottom left and you get a pop-up menu. Slide the toggle on and the default $ to € currency converter appears. There’s a bazillion other currencies available too. But you can also choose among 15 other unit conversions, like weights, energy, force, pressure.

Screenshot of iPhone calculator app.
Calculator pop-up menu.
Calculator pop-up menu.
@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-06-23 08:51:52

#TIL Electric power is not just "pumped electrons".
#veritasium

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-06-15 12:02:53

#TIL dank #podcast der TH Köln: @… ist auch halb zufällig in ihre studienfachausrichtung geschlittert. :)

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-05-31 18:00:27

#TIL: Canada is a global hammerthrow powerhouse. flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-06-15 11:03:51

#TIL: der #podcast "open science talk" ist umgezogen: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/OS

@stephane_klein@social.coop
2025-06-10 09:47:15

« J'ai découvert le support SSH agent de Bitwarden et ses conséquences sur l'utilisation de Age »
#TIL

@stephane_klein@social.coop
2025-05-19 21:35:34

Faut-il encore configurer du swap en 2025, même sur des serveurs avec beaucoup de RAM ?
J'ai découvert le paramètre kernel "swappiness"
#TIL

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-06-05 08:20:01

#TIL: Bei der Betrachtung vom Stromverbrauch von #LLM floss bei mir bisher nicht der zusätzliche Verbrauch ein, der durch das Webscraping bei Webservern entsteht,
#KI

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-05-31 12:18:45

#TIL #Onleihe

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-05-30 19:36:43

#TIL that #spotify offers paid content that is not included in the premium subscription.
(Luckily, same release is included in my local library subscription. Also via app.)

screenshot of what it looks like in the app (play button is locked)
An offer via email after I touched the locked play button: 18,49€ for Hesse's Steppenwolf