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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-08-31 02:05:38

#til Here’s #DollyParton covering Stairway to Heaven. Didn’t she’d done this. youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw?is=CmoBVG

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-31 09:19:30

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

Report generated by /insights on my blog sessions
@eana@s.1a23.studio
2026-06-30 01:34:11

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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-08-28 19:27:24

#TIL dank @…: die wiener #oboe wird wirklich nur in #wien gespielt.

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-07-30 05:33:25

#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.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-29 13:07:59

#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! 🖤

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-07-26 10:30:25

#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…

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2026-06-26 12:40:23

#TIL pizzint.watch/polyglobe/app exists. Is this supposed to be civil palantir for the masses?

@barijaona@mastodon.mg
2026-08-25 23:52:46

#TIL : in the ISO-639-3 norm, there are 12 languages primarily linked to Madagascar :
- 11 individual languages in the Malagasy macrolanguage iso639-3.sil.org/code/mlg
- the Madagascar Sign Language

@veit@mastodon.social
2026-06-25 05:49:24

#TIL that there is also a pre-commit check for uv audit: python4data.science/en/latest/

@xtaran@chaos.social
2026-07-23 15:04:08

#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

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-24 12:12:12

#TIL that #git has an `--end-of-options` option because they used `--` for something else in `git checkout`. 🤦
nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-o
(thanks to @… for the link)

@awinkler@openbiblio.social
2026-08-20 15:26:33

#TIL: Die #zotero-App kann auch epub ... damit wird das Handy zum ebook-Reader 👍

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-08-26 19:37:03

#TIL: #Eurofurence.
tagesschau.de/kultur/eurofuren

@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-06-16 07:45:40

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

@eana@s.1a23.studio
2026-06-26 23:16:45

GitHub Copilot CLI came with computer-use MCP tools.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-22 10:31:24

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
’Til Tuesday:
🎵 Voices Carry
#TilTuesday
pentafonica.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/0ZYf6N5

@sjn@chaos.social
2026-08-19 13:21:01

Oof.
#TIL that I, for many years, have used a word consistently wrong.
I've used the word "ignorant" when I meant to say "nescient" (🇧🇻: "uvitende").
Now I know that "ignorant" contains a measure of willfulness that "nescient" doesn't. 😅
So when I've said things like "we're all born ignorant" – I see now…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-08-27 06:45:14

#TIL: das #GND-sachschlagwort für 'voodoo' lautet "wodu".
lobid.org/gnd/4066709-1

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-08-12 01:16:43

#TIL the #NittyGrittyDirtBand had two #accordion players scattering work through their discography!
More research is necessary

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-07-11 00:31:57

#TIL: ls --hyperlink=auto

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-07-20 09:18:23

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

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-06-20 07:44:23

#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

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-07-29 20:37:37

#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

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-08-05 12:13:48

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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-24 18:27:56

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

@n8foo@macaw.social
2026-06-01 03:20:09

#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. 🎹💻

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2026-08-18 12:27:05

#TIL vimeo staff picks still exist: europeanfilmawards.eu/staff-pi

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-06-25 05:58:55

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

@stephane_klein@social.coop
2026-08-06 21:21:56

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

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2026-06-24 08:46:30

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

Rendered map showing a portion of South Wales on Open Street Map in an Emacs frame.
@usul@piaille.fr
2026-08-06 06:06:43

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

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-07-23 21:21:28

#TIL es gibt eine Frederick #Merz Schule und die kinder dort singen ausländerfeindliche lieder. auch die ausländischen.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-12 13:55:57

#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.

@eana@s.1a23.studio
2026-07-16 20:47:01

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

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-08-08 19:01:58

#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.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-06-21 12:22:00

#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…

page about the Bookland bar code from the book:
Nelson, Benjamin (1997): Punched Cards to Bar Codes. A 200 Year Journey with descriptions fo over 260 codes. Helmers.
photo from the book
Nelson, Benjamin (1997): Punched Cards to Bar Codes. A 200 Year Journey with descriptions fo over 260 codes. Helmers.
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchange
2026-07-06 10:59:12

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

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2026-06-08 08:06:06

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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-20 11:55:06

#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'🤨

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-08-07 10:19:52

#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!

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-19 16:38:39

#TIL: #shelfies sind nicht nur selfies vor bücherregalen, sondern auch hörbücher zum anfassen, sozusagen. oder tonies für große. :)
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-05 05:47:17

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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-06-18 08:29:48

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

screenshot eines ausschnitts der verlinkten website mit den metadaten zum buch
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-02 13:13:26

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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-08-15 13:09:43

#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:

screenshot eines kleinen artikels aus dem spiegel 2026.34:22 mit einem stilisierten eichhörnchen, dessen dicker schwarz einer flamme ähnelt, und folgendem text: "HIEROGLYPHE UNSERER ZEIT Da Worte nicht immer helfen, müssen manchmal Tiere herhalten, um Menschen zu sensibilisieren. In den USA weist ein Bär auf die Waldbrandgefahr hin, der »Smokey Bear«, in Deutschland dieses Eichhörnchen. Es blickte 1966 zum ersten Mal Waldbesucher an – zuerst in der DDR, später auch in der Bundesrepublik. In Bra…
@eana@s.1a23.studio
2026-07-01 18:24:54

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.

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-06-01 13:22:12

#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.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-08-09 19:28:48

#TIL: das "arctic world archive" auf spitzbergen
arcticworldarchive.org/
wird erwähnt in der terra-x-doku "was die welt zusammenhält" in der folge zur kommunikation.

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-08-04 12:44:42

#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

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-09 15:10:34

#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. 🙃

Screenshot eines kleinen Bildschirmausschnittes mit folgendem Text: "14. Denkaufwand: Beschränkt das logische Schlussfolgern (Reasoning) und beschleunigt die Antwort."
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-24 16:44:31

#TIL that the English equivalent of the popular Polish term "towarzystwo wzajemnej adoracji" (lit. "mutual adoration society") is "circlejerk", and it's very fitting.

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-06-20 19:28:57

#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. 🥹
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadhar

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-03 10:08:32

#TIL: Index on Censorship
indexoncensorship.org/
"Freedom of expression is under attack. Everywhere you turn, powerful forces – whether driven by money or wielding authority – are tryin…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-07-02 09:48:03

#TIL: Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders
librarieswithoutborders.org/
"Since 2007 [it] has been working to provide everyone with access to knowledge. Thanks…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-20 14:37:57

#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.
elm-chan.org/docs/fat_e.html#f
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.
github.com/torvalds/linux/blob
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!

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-09 16:34:52

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

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-08-12 01:16:43

#TIL the #NittyGrittyDirtBand had two #accordion players scattering work through their discography!
More research is necessary #CountryMusic"

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-04 15:05:38

#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