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rozzin: !TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable) Had to look that up to make sense out of a track on Andrew Liles' album, `Ouarda': https://www.andrewliles.com/discography/andrew-liles-ouarda-the-subtle-art-of-phyllorhodomancy/ https://status.hackerposse.com/url/22914
rozzin's status on Sunday, 29-Nov-2020 10:45:36 EST
!TIL that zucchini is an immature `marrow': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable) Had to look that up to make sense out of a track on Andrew Liles' album, `Ouarda': https://www.andrewliles.com/discography/andrew-liles-ouarda-the-subtle-art-of-phyllorhodomancy/ https://status.hackerposse.com/url/22914
lnxw48a1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedbag Not much of an alternative to a https://www.etsy.com/market/nose_mitten Looking at the nose mitten photos on DuckDuckGo, they resemble smaller, nose-only COVID-19 face masks. Marking “nose mitten” as #TIL.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 15:23:10 EDT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedbag Not much of an alternative to a https://www.etsy.com/market/nose_mitten Looking at the nose mitten photos on DuckDuckGo, they resemble smaller, nose-only COVID-19 face masks. Marking “nose mitten” as #TIL.
lnxw48a1: #TIL: MOS Burger is the 2nd largest franchised chain in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Burger Previously, I wasn't even aware they existed.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 01:35:39 EDT
#TIL: MOS Burger is the 2nd largest franchised chain in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Burger Previously, I wasn't even aware they existed.
lnxw48a1: #TIL: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/22406 (Australian Copperhead Snake) "Austrelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to the relatively fertile, temperate, southern and eastern part of the Australian continent. Three species are currently recognized, with no subspecies. They are commonly called copperheads or Australian copperheads. They are not closely related to https://nu.federati.net/notice/3338121
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 04-Oct-2020 23:46:22 EDT
#TIL: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/22406 (Australian Copperhead Snake) "Austrelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to the relatively fertile, temperate, southern and eastern part of the Australian continent. Three species are currently recognized, with no subspecies. They are commonly called copperheads or Australian copperheads. They are not closely related to…
lnxw48a1: #TIL: The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution took over 200 years to pass. The push to get it done came about because of a bad grade on a college paper. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution [www npr org]
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 11-Sep-2020 21:18:04 EDT
#TIL: The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution took over 200 years to pass. The push to get it done came about because of a bad grade on a college paper. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution [www npr org]
lnxw48a1: #TIL: #W3CDTF date format: https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime ( a subset, or profile, of #ISO-8601 )
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 03:27:46 EDT
#TIL: #W3CDTF date format: https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime ( a subset, or profile, of #ISO-8601 )
bobjonkman: bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: #TIL: Gravity keyhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole and Roche limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
bobjonkman's status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 17:16:19 EDT
bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: #TIL: Gravity keyhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole and Roche limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Hill Sphere ( Roche Sphere ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere ... part of the late night explorations. This is something I had thought about before, but not in sufficient detail to have the concept crystallize.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 14:44:17 EDT
#TIL: Hill Sphere ( Roche Sphere ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere ... part of the late night explorations. This is something I had thought about before, but not in sufficient detail to have the concept crystallize.
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Gravity keyhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole and Roche limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 02:55:11 EDT
#TIL: Gravity keyhole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole and Roche limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
lnxw48a1: #TIL: “Ukraine” is the English transliteration of “Україна”, pronounced oo-CRAY-yee-nah I just assumed that we pronounced it the same as they did. Also, there used to be some Ukrainian families (refugees) living nearby in the 1990s. I really enjoyed the sound of their language when they spoke to one another. I have not heard it since then.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 14-Aug-2020 19:52:56 EDT
#TIL: “Ukraine” is the English transliteration of “Україна”, pronounced oo-CRAY-yee-nah I just assumed that we pronounced it the same as they did. Also, there used to be some Ukrainian families (refugees) living nearby in the 1990s. I really enjoyed the sound of their language when they spoke to one another. I have not heard it since then.
lnxw48a1: #TIL: “Moolean” https://nu.federati.net/url/273952
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2020 17:30:53 EDT
#TIL: “Moolean” https://nu.federati.net/url/273952
lnxw48a1: Those commercials were years before I ever even heard of Garth Brooks. Wow. I'm surprised. #TIL also. (For me, if I'm ever looking back trying to figure out what I learned today, http://moodpoint.com/lyrics/garth_brooks/dr_pepper_commercial.html ... see thread )
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2020 17:43:05 EDT
Those commercials were years before I ever even heard of Garth Brooks. Wow. I'm surprised. #TIL also. (For me, if I'm ever looking back trying to figure out what I learned today, http://moodpoint.com/lyrics/garth_brooks/dr_pepper_commercial.html ... see thread )
lnxw48a1: #TIL about #jq ... like #awk, #sed, #grep, except specialized for #JSON data. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 08-Aug-2020 15:09:21 EDT
#TIL about #jq ... like #awk, #sed, #grep, except specialized for #JSON data. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Window tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax (Not Windows tax; I have known of that for years.)
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2020 03:22:14 EDT
#TIL: Window tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax (Not Windows tax; I have known of that for years.)
lnxw48a1: #TIL: A certain sect of Jews was sometimes exempted from Russia's anti-Jewish laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 03-Aug-2020 14:40:24 EDT
#TIL: A certain sect of Jews was sometimes exempted from Russia's anti-Jewish laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Brushing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce) Thanks, @guizzy
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2020 12:14:32 EDT
#TIL: Brushing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing_(e-commerce) Thanks, @guizzy
lnxw48a1: #TIL: dik-dik, a small antelope from East Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 21-Jul-2020 21:32:53 EDT
#TIL: dik-dik, a small antelope from East Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Boogaloo Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Uh oh. Another group of potentially violent extremists.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2020 15:14:10 EDT
#TIL: Boogaloo Boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement Uh oh. Another group of potentially violent extremists.
lnxw48a1: @mangeurdenuage I did not know chicken eat mice. #TIL.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 23-May-2020 11:00:31 EDT
@mangeurdenuage I did not know chicken eat mice. #TIL.
musicman: #TIL: Angular's web-server doesn't deal with networking like #nginx or #apachehttpd (both of which work fine on test server). I learned that working on https://github.com/Faldrian/bandcamp-scraper I also learned that #CouchDB is a PITA. I probably could have figured it out, but it isn't high on the "must learn" list.
musicman's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 17:22:41 EDT
#TIL: Angular's web-server doesn't deal with networking like #nginx or #apachehttpd (both of which work fine on test server). I learned that working on https://github.com/Faldrian/bandcamp-scraper I also learned that #CouchDB is a PITA. I probably could have figured it out, but it isn't high on the "must learn" list.
lnxw48a1: https://deno.land/ --> A sort of successor to #Node.js & NPM, written from scratch in #Rust. #TIL
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 15-May-2020 23:39:05 EDT
https://deno.land/ --> A sort of successor to #Node.js & NPM, written from scratch in #Rust. #TIL
lnxw48a1: #TIL: “Password Spraying” — https://nu.federati.net/url/268853 [www coalfire com]
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 06-May-2020 18:03:49 EDT
#TIL: “Password Spraying” — https://nu.federati.net/url/268853 [www coalfire com]
atarifrosch: !TIL: Man kann eine #MediaWiki Datenbank aus 1.20 (mysql von $verdammtlangher) direkt in ein MediaWiki 1.34.1 (MariaDB 10.x) einlesen. Der Rechner (4 Cores, 16 GB RAM) hatte zwar minutenlang ordentlich zu rödeln für die Anpassungen, aber es geht. :-)
atarifrosch's status on Tuesday, 05-May-2020 13:39:10 EDT
!TIL: Man kann eine #MediaWiki Datenbank aus 1.20 (mysql von $verdammtlangher) direkt in ein MediaWiki 1.34.1 (MariaDB 10.x) einlesen. Der Rechner (4 Cores, 16 GB RAM) hatte zwar minutenlang ordentlich zu rödeln für die Anpassungen, aber es geht. :-)
lnxw48a1: Finally did a web search to find out what “based” means. #TIL: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2020 19:11:35 EDT
Finally did a web search to find out what “based” means. #TIL: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/
lnxw48a1: I wanted to know what a Monte Cristo sandwich was. #TIL: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20803/monte-cristo-sandwich/
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 22:26:59 EDT
I wanted to know what a Monte Cristo sandwich was. #TIL: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20803/monte-cristo-sandwich/
atarifrosch: !TIL: Bio-Soja-Drink der Marke Berief zeigt sich gegenüber Joghurt-Kulturen völlig unbeeindruckt und bleibt nahezu flüssig. Ich hab's mal in den Kühlschrank gestellt, glaube aber nicht, daß da noch was fest wird.
atarifrosch's status on Friday, 24-Apr-2020 07:17:24 EDT
!TIL: Bio-Soja-Drink der Marke Berief zeigt sich gegenüber Joghurt-Kulturen völlig unbeeindruckt und bleibt nahezu flüssig. Ich hab's mal in den Kühlschrank gestellt, glaube aber nicht, daß da noch was fest wird.
lnxw48a1: Interesting conversation about Western Digital "Red" HDDs for #NAS devices http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20845 ... he links to [1] in the OP. "Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba have begun selling SMR drives without labeling them as such, thus revealing a large controversy, as SMR drives are much slower in some circumstances than PMR drives.[9] These practices were used t https://nu.federati.net/notice/3303187
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2020 14:03:02 EDT
Interesting conversation about Western Digital "Red" HDDs for #NAS devices http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20845 ... he links to [1] in the OP. "Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba have begun selling SMR drives without labeling them as such, thus revealing a large controversy, as SMR drives are much slower in some circumstances than PMR drives.[9] These practices were used t…
atarifrosch: !TIL: jhead, um falsch gesetzte Zeitstempel in den Exif-Daten von Fotos zu korrigieren. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/140427/change-time-date-in-or-from-exif-data
atarifrosch's status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2020 10:02:22 EDT
!TIL: jhead, um falsch gesetzte Zeitstempel in den Exif-Daten von Fotos zu korrigieren. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/140427/change-time-date-in-or-from-exif-data
atarifrosch: !TIL: When you need to run an OpenVPN server on port 443, you need to use TCP instead of the usual UDP. With 443/udp the server will start, but the port will not be opened, with no error message.
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 09-Mar-2020 11:27:49 EDT
!TIL: When you need to run an OpenVPN server on port 443, you need to use TCP instead of the usual UDP. With 443/udp the server will start, but the port will not be opened, with no error message.
lnxw48a1: #TIL: SETI@Home is "going into hibernation" ... long ago, I had BOINC running on a couple of computers, attached to SETI@Home and some other projects. "SETI@home hibernation On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation. We're doing this for two reasons: 1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing return https://nu.federati.net/notice/3283014
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2020 23:56:37 EST
#TIL: SETI@Home is "going into hibernation" ... long ago, I had BOINC running on a couple of computers, attached to SETI@Home and some other projects. "SETI@home hibernation On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation. We're doing this for two reasons: 1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing return…
lnxw48a1: #TIL: "Thing" (assembly), also known as "ting". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28assembly%29
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2020 00:24:12 EST
#TIL: "Thing" (assembly), also known as "ting". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28assembly%29
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Battle of Taranto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto #WWII #World_War_II
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2020 22:37:45 EST
#TIL: Battle of Taranto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto #WWII #World_War_II
lnxw48a1: #TIL (Today I Learned): timedatectl https://blog.steve.fi/_usr_bin_timedatectl.html
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2020 21:08:23 EST
#TIL (Today I Learned): timedatectl https://blog.steve.fi/_usr_bin_timedatectl.html
lnxw48a1: #TIL: Blue potatoes, or "Pomme de terre Bleue d'Artois" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Blue_potato Thanks to @mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org@loadaverage.org
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2020 17:22:43 EST
#TIL: Blue potatoes, or "Pomme de terre Bleue d'Artois" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack_Blue_potato Thanks to @mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org@loadaverage.org
lnxw48a1: #TIL: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-seven-noachide-laws #Noahide #Noachide
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2020 23:04:43 EST
#TIL: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-seven-noachide-laws #Noahide #Noachide
atarifrosch: !TIL in #Python3 about reversed(range()) to count downwards in a for loop. (It's the small things. ????)
atarifrosch's status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 20:16:00 EST
!TIL in #Python3 about reversed(range()) to count downwards in a for loop. (It's the small things. ????)
atarifrosch: !TIL in #Python3 about reverse(range()) to count downwards in a for loop. (It's the small things. ????)
atarifrosch's status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 20:13:22 EST
!TIL in #Python3 about reverse(range()) to count downwards in a for loop. (It's the small things. ????)
lnxw48a1: #TIL: George McCrae (known for #1974 hit “Rock Your Baby”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo-ZiHqbls ) and Gwen McCrae (known for #1975 hit “Rocking Chair” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Xf0mA16hE ) were married at the time. #1970s
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 21:54:11 EST
#TIL: George McCrae (known for #1974 hit “Rock Your Baby”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo-ZiHqbls ) and Gwen McCrae (known for #1975 hit “Rocking Chair” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Xf0mA16hE ) were married at the time. #1970s
atarifrosch: !TIL: In vielen Anleitungen zur Umstellung der Zeitzone unter Linux wird nur /etc/localtime erwähnt, aber /etc/timezone vergessen. Der output von date stimmt dann, die Zeitstempel in den Logfiles aber nicht …
atarifrosch's status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 14:28:08 EST
!TIL: In vielen Anleitungen zur Umstellung der Zeitzone unter Linux wird nur /etc/localtime erwähnt, aber /etc/timezone vergessen. Der output von date stimmt dann, die Zeitstempel in den Logfiles aber nicht …
lnxw48a1: #TIL: https://en.wikipedial.org/wiki/Dab_(dance) I've seen people occasionally mention "dabbing" before, but I never cared enough to look it up. Today, I learned what it is.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 02:22:23 EST
#TIL: https://en.wikipedial.org/wiki/Dab_(dance) I've seen people occasionally mention "dabbing" before, but I never cared enough to look it up. Today, I learned what it is.
lnxw48a1: Spurred by your question, I looked it up. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie and https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie #TIL (today I learned)
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 27-Dec-2019 17:42:32 EST
Spurred by your question, I looked it up. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie and https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie #TIL (today I learned)
lnxw48a1: @moonman #TIL (Today I Learned).
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 13-Dec-2019 11:36:17 EST
@moonman #TIL (Today I Learned).
lnxw48a1: https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/1205180579370733568 "List only subdirectories of the current directory: ls -d */" #TIL.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2019 13:46:06 EST
https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/1205180579370733568 "List only subdirectories of the current directory: ls -d */" #TIL.
lnxw48a1: https://twitter.com/AlgebraFact/status/1205156643115278338 "Not all Mersenne numbers are prime. For example, 2^11 - 1 = 23*89." #TIL
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2019 11:49:49 EST
https://twitter.com/AlgebraFact/status/1205156643115278338 "Not all Mersenne numbers are prime. For example, 2^11 - 1 = 23*89." #TIL
lnxw48a1: #TIL: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scobberlotcher Who says the #Fediverse isn't educational? @moonman
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2019 01:18:32 EST
#TIL: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scobberlotcher Who says the #Fediverse isn't educational? @moonman
atarifrosch: !TIL: Mit #31# + Wahltaste kann man einem Mobiltelefon sagen, daß man dauerhaft die eigene Rufnummer mitschicken will, wenn man wo anruft. Nach gut 20 Jahren Mobiltelefonie zufällig erfahren. m)
atarifrosch's status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2019 14:31:28 EDT
!TIL: Mit #31# + Wahltaste kann man einem Mobiltelefon sagen, daß man dauerhaft die eigene Rufnummer mitschicken will, wenn man wo anruft. Nach gut 20 Jahren Mobiltelefonie zufällig erfahren. m)
lnxw48a1: This isn't really #TIL, since I learned about it yesterday: #aglets -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet (I didn't know there was a name for shoelace tips) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglets / http://aglets.sourceforge.net/
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 01-Nov-2019 22:58:12 EDT
This isn't really #TIL, since I learned about it yesterday: #aglets -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet (I didn't know there was a name for shoelace tips) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglets / http://aglets.sourceforge.net/
lnxw48a1: #TIL: #Sig-Alert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sig_Alert is mostly a #California term.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 25-Oct-2019 14:31:12 EDT
#TIL: #Sig-Alert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sig_Alert is mostly a #California term.