Notices tagged with til, page 19
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!TIL about "Ethereum" (public blockchain platform with programmable transaction functionality): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
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!TIL: A small parcel with no transport insurance and without tracking to China would cost me 16,00 €. A parcel with transport insurance and tracking would cost me 43,99 €. And only a little less when I buy the postage online.
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!TIL There is a free app for public transport that respects privacy. https://transportr.grobox.de/
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!TIL: An eBay seller who claims their (electronic) articles are on stock in Germany and who even sends them to the buyers from that stock in Germany does not necessarily have to be located here. Their home location could also be China. – Bought an article from such a seller, came dead on arrival and now they want me to send it „back“ to China (on their cost, but hey …) – surprise?
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LOL!
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!TIL "dem Googledingsi"
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!til: When you give no charset to a vhost nginx delivers the static pages, which are written in utf8, in iso-8859-1 instead of using the system charset of the host (utf8). The server section needs the entry „charset utf8;“ in order to deliver utf8 correctly.
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!TIL: In the Middle Ages, artists knew about the existence of elephants, but they had only the descriptions of travelers to go by. – https://imgur.com/gallery/MpRBy
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!TIL: The hackerspace in Arnhem has got a collection of old telephones: https://twitter.com/Hack42/status/732618002454216705
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@aroque everywhere, technically.
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!TIL about http://geogratis.gc.ca #canada
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!til (well, actually yesterday) I could use gnu stow to organize dot configuration files under ~
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!TIL about AdvancedTomato router firmware. It's been a while since I was excited about router firmware :p This firmware offers a good bit of features (pretty sure more than DD-WRT), has a nice web interface, and seems to work nicely. My favorite features so far are easy-to-setup IPv6, can check WiFi interference levels from the web GUI, and the ability to use Name…
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!TIL about #F2FS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS
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So !til that the !uk does not have any !science !lgbt role-models.
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!til how to install !archlinux over the network using PXE. In all my 7 years of GNU/Linux usage, I have never had to do this before. Finally, on an old laptop without boot over USB drive, I did a network install rather than burn a CD and waste it.
And, after installing Arch, I migrated to !parabola GNU/Linux as well...
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!til Making a presentation using latex that has dissolve transitions
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@atarifrosch the simplest solution would be to uninstall WordPress :)
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!TIL: https://www.narga.net/avoid-nginx-wordpress-blank-page/ – What to do if nginx delivers only blank pages for a WordPress installation.
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!TIL something interesting but didn't feel like documenting it atm. Now memory cache is cleared, data stored... http://qttr.at/1aku