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#TIL: the expression "competence hangover".
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2026/03/30/new-words-30-march-2026/

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

#TIL that video game preservation website #Myrient is another casualty of the rising costs of RAM and SSDs caused by the #AIBubble. 😠

Retro Video Game Preservation Site Myrient Shutting Down
The impact of AI datacenters on hosting and hardware costs have made maintaining the site unsustainable, its founder said

#TIL Windows 11 added system-wide shortcut key for typing em/en-dashes: ​:windows:​ Minus and ​:windows:​ ⇧ Minus.

#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 "dystextie": "Dystextia refers to the difficulty in composing text messages using a mobile phone". 📱🧠🌩️
via https://www.stern.de/gesundhei…

Warum erstaunt es mich nicht? Es gibt in Deutschland…
#TIL
#autobahn

Autobahnkirche – Wikipedia

« Est-ce qu'un abonnement Claude est réellement plus économique qu'un accès direct via l'API ? »
#TIL

#TIL
Es gibt #Fremdenlegion's - Uhren
#tatort
#TatortBerlin

#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 there is this viral AI-generated video series called Fruit Love Island, and it’s apparently so viral that numerous outlets have written about it thereby making it nominally notable to have its own #Wikipedia article. 😳

Fruit Love Island - Wikipedia

#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.

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

#TIL people listen to translated versions of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, not Davina Porter's read. What a waste, all the scott dialect gone.

#TIL: there is a new journal called "Humanities Methods in Librarianship"! @… & https://

#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: There is a real disease that is called "Maple Syrup Urine Disease."
#TIL

🍉 never heard of the band "The Strokes" before. not really my cup of tea. but they done a thing at that #coachella
spose its what rock and roll is for. #thestrokes #TIL

#TIL `column-width` and `column-height` #CSS are logical properties too, instead of uh… `column-block-size` or `column-inline-size`.

#TIL: You can't save a spreadsheet in the "Save as" dialog in #LibreOffice whose file name contains an asterisk ("*"). You don't get any error message nor an greyed out "Save" button. It just does nothing, even though the originally opened file has that asterisk in th…

#jxl #til @…
Оказывается JPEG XL жмёт не только всё процентов на 25 лучше JPEG с тем же качеством, но и раза в полтора лучше чем PNG в lossless-режиме, особенно когда у тебя не line art уровня консолек с терминусом,…

Mein heutiges Erlebnis mit der #DeutschePost #TIL https://oelna.de/blog/4464

RE: #TIL A purposefully Scottish, private expedition studied Antarctica in parallel with Scott's Discovery expedition, establishing a manned meteorological Observatory that is still in operation.
And tried the musical taste of a penguin.
#wikipedia #Scotland

#TIL
Es gibt ein Kommandozeilen-Tool namens `tldr` und das ist richtig hilfreich. Es liefert beispiel-basierte Doku für Kommandozeilen-tools wie z.B. ffmpg. Klar könnte man dafür auch `man ffmpeg` benutzen, aber Beispiel-basiert ist oft einfacher verständlich und dadurch nützlicher.
Bei `tldr --update` werden ≈6000 md-Dateien gezogen und ab dann hat man eine sehr hilfreiche Offline-Dok…

#TIL die fünf häufigsten #nachnamen in der Gemeinde #Genève:
Einwohner: 209061
Anteil des häufigsten Nachnamens: 0,46%
Top-Nachnamen 2024:
Rang 1: da Silva (953)
Rang 2: Ferreira (630)

#TIL: Die #EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) hat eine #OAI -Schnittstelle, was mir so bisher nicht bekannt war:

#TIL: Die Weiterbildung vom #Virologen zum #Meeresbiologen dauert 6 Jahre.
🤦
Bild: Tagesspiegel/dpa/Marcus Golejewski

RE: #TIL

#TIL 原来「火锅」在韩文里也是音译……

하이디라오 훠궈 세트
ha-i-di-la-o hwo-gwo se-teu

#TIL people listen to translated versions of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, not Davina Porter's read. What a waste, all the scott dialect gone.

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
#til #history

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia

#TIL: in konstanz läuft zurzeit ein projekt zur #inhaltserschließung mithilfe von #KI: "KISEFEE", "KI gestütztes Mappen und Generieren von Sacherschließung und Formalerschli…

#TIL that Patriarch Mar Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East is born in Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In a bit of good-natured trolling while visiting the Vatican last October, he gifted Pope Leo XIV with a custom Cubs jersey with “Leo” and “14” on the back. The Pope is a noted fan of the rival Chicago White Sox. ⚾️

Pope Leo Gets Cubs Jersey from Mar Awa III
Mar Awa III gifts Pope Leo XIV a Cubs jersey, poking fun at the pontiff’s loyalty to White Sox. Baseball meets Vatican diplomacy.

#TIL es gibt eine Oppositionelle "Präsident"schafts Kandidatin im Pariser Exil, die kein #Shah'regime & kein #Mullah'regime im

I was just watching an old QI collection of segments about death. #til The Ouija Board™️ was patented as a parlor game, unrelated to the occult, in 1891. An American spiritualist started using it as a divining tool during WWI. There are apparently people doing actual research with them who are pissed about the occult connection. It’s a tool to help you figure out stuff, analogous to casting the I Ching…

#TIL that HVAC usually stands for "heating, ventilation, air conditioning" and not "high voltage alternating current".

#TIL: eigentlich ist ADS der oberbegriff und ADHS nur eine untervariante.
"AD(H)S bei Frauen – Unerkannt, weil unbekannt" im radioWissen-#podcast:

is learning that there was a time when people thought that eating tomatoes would give you loose morals. (Source: #TIL

« J'ai installé avec succès Claude Desktop sous Fedora »
#TIL #Fedora

#TIL 🤓 There is a concept called "Architectural Decision Record" #ADR, see https://adr.github.io/.
ADRs are used t…

Donny‘s Existenzgrundlage.
#TIL that actually exist.

#til that #altstorepal became free for all EU users, and that it’s possible to install AltStore classic from PAL. #sideloading it’s much easier to maintain now.

#TIL: "aiXiv – Next-Gen Research"
https://aixiv.science/
"aiXiv is a free, AI- or human-peer-reviewed preprint archive for research authored by Human, Robot and AI Scientists across all scientific fi…

#TIL: The modern replacement for ifconfig is the ip command
#network #CLI #IP

#TIL: Muzak.
"Eine kleine Geschichte der Fahrstuhlmusik: Von "Muzak" bis zum Streaming"
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123404-000-A/ein…

J'ai découvert MimiMax M2.7, qui semble équivalent Š GLM-5 pour un tiers du prix
#TIL

#TIL: woher der ausdruck "blümerant" kommt!
"Röstverbot und Kaffee-Spitzel: Preußens Prohibitionszeit"
https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:e…

#TIL: #Elsevier häkelt an einem eigenen #KI-Tool namens #LeapSpace:

#TIL: für das burgtheater in wien hat kaiser joseph II. verfügt, dass alle gezeigten stücke ein happy end haben müssen. also mussten hamlet & co. umgeschrieben werden.
I feel you, jupp, I feel you!

#TIL: "predatory towing".
"Service Request #5: Is My Car in a Lot of Trouble?" @ 99% invisible #podcast
https:…

#TIL that #GadgetBridge now supports #Huawei bands. And they work out of the box, no shenanigans with an app or an account required (shame on you, #Xiaomi).

#TIL: tageslärmexpositionspegel. #bibliothek #bau #vorbesprechung