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

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

#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,…

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

#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: 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…

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

#TIL "Fußpils"

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

#TIL tittles in “i” and “j” doesn’t have to have the same shape as period.

#typography

Donny‘s Existenzgrundlage.
#TIL that actually exist.

#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"

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

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

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
#til #history

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia

#til

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

🍉 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: 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!

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

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

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

Autobahnkirche – Wikipedia

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

#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 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

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

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

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

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

« J'ai découvert snip et rtk et testé rtk (reduce LLM usage) »
#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: den #gedankenstrich kann man nicht nur mit alt 150 eingeben, sondern auch mit windowstaste und minuszeichen!

#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…

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

#TIL: there is a new journal called "Humanities Methods in Librarianship"! @… & 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 people listen to translated versions of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, not Davina Porter's read. What a waste, all the scott dialect gone.

#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 @…

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

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

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

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

#TIL: tageslärmexpositionspegel. #bibliothek #bau #vorbesprechung

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