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#TIL about this awesome interactive tool to explore toponyms in #GreatBritain called Grep Britain. 🇬🇧
https://conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/

#TIL "Dampflanze"

#TIL there's a server limit on Discord 😅
Joining a new server will show "You must leave a server first to join."
There's a site to get the number of servers you are in: https://github.com/NobreHD/Discord-S…

#TIL: sogar josh groban hat schon [die englische ausgabe von] "la quête" gesungen, "the impossible dream": https://youtu.be/SBNwmPiMZbQ.
[ich kannte bis grad nur die französische fassung von ja…

#TIL (von @…) Es gibt https://podradar.de/ – Ein Dienst um in den Transkripten von extrem vielen Podca…

PodRadar
Wissen, worüber Podcasts sprechen

#TIL I learned that anyone can register a #MediaType for a format they didn't create *and* get it registered with their name in the media type.
#MIME

#TIL about Benford's law where for some data sets of numbers, the first digit is usually 1 and rarely 9 (with descending probability in between). It's especially common in data sets following the power law (which is common in nature).
Seems a useful consideration when generating random numbers shown directly to players (like a multiple choice) -- even if they're unfamiliar, …

J'ai découvert l'extension Firefox Unlock Medium Article : #TIL #Firefox

The IETF created a standard for sending encrypted email, Privacy-
Enhanced Mail (PEM)
#til #tls

Am regnerischen Sonntag Museumsbesuch im Stapferhaus Lenzburg der Ausstellung „Hauptsache #gesund“. Nett gemacht, man muss im Wartezimmer warten, bis zur Konsultation aufgerufen wird. #TIL:
- die Effizienz des Wirkstoffs von #Dafalgan

#TIL 华康翩翩体 HanziPen 的 Hanzi 不是「汉字」，而是「Hand 字」

……?!

RE: #TIL

#TIL: Supralibros #Buchwissenschaft

#TIL you can concatenate "=~ s/…/…/r" in modern #Perl (in this case since Perl 5.14). Example:
my $a = "foobar";
my $b = $a =~ s/foo/bar/r =~ s/bar/fnord/r =~ s/fnord/gnarz/r;
say $b;
Output:
gnarzbar

@… in other news, TIL that I can get a person's toots without their boosts.
from:stefano
I am a contentedly slow learner.
#TIL #slow

#TIL about Pride Versioning, a whimsical take on Semantic Versioning. 🏳️‍🌈
https://pridever.org
Edit: tagging the creator so you can all follow him: @…

Pride Versioning - Pride Versioning 🏳️‍🌈 0.3.0
Forget semantic versioning, use PRIDE VERSIONING 🏳️‍🌈

#TIL that #R7S doesn't describe the fitting size, just the fitting mechanism.

#TIL that #GitHub doesn't let me see the public SSH key I've added to it 🤦.
Yeah, Microsoft security experts at their best, I guess.

J'ai découvert la technique "Lavarand". Je suis impressionné par cette technique, je la trouve très élégante.
#TIL

#TIL
`sudo apt clean` can free dozens GB of diskspace within seconds without loosing anything important.
It only deletes cached .deb package files from /var/cache/apt/archives.
I run #Debian #Linux

Primitive Type never
#TIL #Rust

#TIL: The Spanish Conquest was an economic disaster for Spain and to a lesser degree all of Europe due to massive inflation , huge cost of imposing Spanish administration on the colonies, and fighting off pirates like the English.
(From the BBC’s Unexpected Elements )

31,8 mm Lenker-Durchmesser beim Fahrrad fand ich immer seltsam. Aber wenn man mal den Umfang ausrechnet ergibt das 99,9 mm.
#TIL #Fahrrad #Fahrradtechnik

Today in chat with colleagues we discussed different behaviours and I stumbled across the term FOBI, Fear of being involved #TIL #Interesting

#TIL dank @…: der VDB ist jetzt auch auf LinkedIn vertreten: https://www.

In #Wien gab es „Pompfüneberer“.
#TIL

#TIL GPT4o gibt täglich anhand veröffentlichter Artikel ein Ranking der globalen Krisen ab.
https://panthrisk.com/

#TIL
> The macros describing this structure live in <asm/ioctl.h> and are
> _IO(type,nr) and {_IOR,_IOW,_IOWR}(type,nr,size). They use
> sizeof(size) so that size is a misnomer here: this third argument
> is a data type.
>
> Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases they
> are wrong, either because of buggy macros using
> sizeof(sizeof(struct)), or because of legacy values.
#Linux

#TIL An Relevanz gescheiterte und aus anderen Gründen gelöschte Artikel gibt's bei https://de.everybodywiki.com/

Ciphersuite Info
#til #tls

I only noticed now that the famous string riff in the iconic shower scene in Psycho accompanies the mention of the movie in Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
#TIL #music #songs

Today in chat with colleagues we discussed different behaviours and I stumbled across the term FOBI, Fear of being involved #TIL #Interesting

#TIL there’s no longer a Twenty Twenty-Six theme for WordPress this year. So I won’t change the theme of my blog like I did in the past years.

ref: wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-plugins-color-plugins-2026-official-theme/

Menu Plugins, Color Plugins, 2026 Official Theme | WordPress.org
Is there a plugin that can help me force block themes in Gutenberg to work and show menus and menu items like with themes before blocks? Because I…

#TIL
#Python :python: #Flask web development detail:
If you change data in a nested structure in your `session` object you might need to set
`session.modified = True`.
(I took me q…

#TIL Wer in der #DDR zum politischen Häftling wurde, begegnete den lebenslang sitzenden Altnazis in den Vollzugsanstalten.
https://www.youtube.com/…

#TIL that the gyroscope is not very helpful for leveling photos when the train is accelerating or breaking.

Meine bisherige sonntagmorgendliche #Wikipedia-Themenreise:
Konzil von Nicäa II -> Anastasius Bibliothecarius -> Hadrian II. -> Walpurga - Walpurgisnacht -> Brocken.
#TIL: Bibi kommt eigentlich vom Brocken, dem dominantesten Berg Deutschlands.

#TIL #YSK Der Diercke hat kostenloses Kartenmaterial zur #Ukraine online gestellt.
https…

#TIL: Greenland, which is an *island*, shares a *land border* with Canada. 🫨
Yup.
#Greenland #Canada #geography #borders #fact #trivia

#TIL: von der reihe "Mistress of the Art of Death" von Ariana Franklin ist 2020 noch ein fünfter band erschienen!
https://www.goodreads.com/series/44043-mistress-of-th…

Leçon du jour que je dois retenir : « Toujours utiliser unlink pour supprimer un lien symbolique, ne jamais utiliser rm »
#TIL

#TIL o.b. steht für Ohne Binde

#TIL: "Aus MPDL Services wird DEAS" https://www.deal-oa-services.de/aktuelles/umfirmierung

J'ai découvert #AIChat, alternative Š llm cli
#TIL <…

#TIL I learned that #Signal usernames need to have two digits. Should I use the last two digits of my InterCity pass there?

#TIL Kabelkappen findet nicht nur in der Ostsee statt.
#china

« J'ai découvert le concept de "catch up culture" »
#TIL

to trump = to fart
#til

#TIL we were supposed to shout at AI.
https://www.robert-glaser.de/prompts-as-programs-in-gpt-5/

The End of Shouting: Prompts as Programs in GPT-5
Why does a prompt that works brilliantly with Claude suddenly break on GPT-5? And since when do we have to write prompts like rule-based programs? How do we enforce “creativity” when Marketing pushes for it? The answer is a fundamental paradigm shift: GPT-5 with reasoning (GPT-5 Thinking) follows instructions with

#TIL that #Gitolite can't handle repositories with different default branch names. As in, if you push a "main" branch into a "master" server, you get no HEAD 🤦. And you can only change that via SSH-ing to the server and modifying the underlying repository.
Apparently, you could also install a hook to automatically fix HEAD for you: #Gentoo #git

#TIL about CYBATHLON #cybathlon

CYBATHLON
The official YouTube channel of CYBATHLON, an initiative of ETH Zurich. CYBATHLON of ETH Zurichoffers a platform to advance research in the field of assistive technology suitable for everyday use and to promote dialogue with the public about the inclusion of people with disabilities in daily life. Main driver is a unique championship in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. For more inf…

#TIL "postdemokratischen Empörungsbewegungen"
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/mahnwache-vs-antifa-t61kO5CsTSKZ14VBJfP2SA#0

#TIL IXION is an aestethic economy strategy game and shares the composer of WH4K Mechanicus, #GuillaumeDavid
https…

#TIL The famous #Monchichis are a Japanese merch. (#BANDAI, who also do #tamagotchi)