Updates from members of til on the Education Posse!
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
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. :-)
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.
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.
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. ????)
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 …
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)
atarifrosch: !TIL: RegEx tester https://regex101.com/
atarifrosch's status on Friday, 25-Oct-2019 14:24:13 EDT
!TIL: RegEx tester https://regex101.com/
rozzin: Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memory-debugging diagnostics for unexpectedly-copious "add" and "del" operations; panicked for a moment until I realized I'd #typo'd "git" as "dig". !TIL what dig's "-m" option of does ☺
rozzin's status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 07:37:38 EDT
Fright of my life: ran "git commit -a -m ..." and got a ream of bizarrely-detailed C-level memory-debugging diagnostics for unexpectedly-copious "add" and "del" operations; panicked for a moment until I realized I'd #typo'd "git" as "dig". !TIL what dig's "-m" option of does ☺
atarifrosch: !TIL wie das so ist mit Pfand-, Mehrweg-, Glas- und PET-Flaschen. Danke NABU! Der NABU-Mehrweg-Guide: Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zu Mehrweg und Einweg – http://eduposse.org/url/17885
atarifrosch's status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2019 12:12:30 EDT
!TIL wie das so ist mit Pfand-, Mehrweg-, Glas- und PET-Flaschen. Danke NABU! Der NABU-Mehrweg-Guide: Die wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zu Mehrweg und Einweg – https://www.nabu.de/umwelt-und-ressourcen/ressourcenschonung/einzelhandel-und-umwelt/mehrweg/nabumehrwegguide.html
atarifrosch: !TIL: You can of course use nginx 1.14 from #Debian but you will still have no TLSv1.3 because of OpenSSL: https://blobfolio.com/2018/07/enable-tls-1-3-in-nginx-on-debian-stretch/ (or you make your own build, and I even could, but … no, I don't want to.)
atarifrosch's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2019 18:00:45 EDT
!TIL: You can of course use nginx 1.14 from #Debian but you will still have no TLSv1.3 because of OpenSSL: https://blobfolio.com/2018/07/enable-tls-1-3-in-nginx-on-debian-stretch/ (or you make your own build, and I even could, but … no, I don't want to.)
atarifrosch: !TIL: „Kurzfristige Beschäftigung“ ist für Arbeitgeber gar nicht so kompliziert, wie ich das erst verstanden habe. Person finden, bei der Minijob-Zentrale anmelden, die kümmern sich quasi um den restlichen Papierkram.
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 02-Sep-2019 11:07:09 EDT
!TIL: „Kurzfristige Beschäftigung“ ist für Arbeitgeber gar nicht so kompliziert, wie ich das erst verstanden habe. Person finden, bei der Minijob-Zentrale anmelden, die kümmern sich quasi um den restlichen Papierkram.
rozzin: !TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4 #toaster
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2019 22:28:43 EDT
!TIL that there are toasters that #toast without desiccating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6lGaYh71g4 #toaster
atarifrosch: !TIL: Die Canon EOS 750D hat eine deutlich besser Tiefenschärfe bei Video, wenn man den Servo (ständig Schärfe anpassen) abschaltet.
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 12-Aug-2019 16:45:25 EDT
!TIL: Die Canon EOS 750D hat eine deutlich besser Tiefenschärfe bei Video, wenn man den Servo (ständig Schärfe anpassen) abschaltet.
atarifrosch: !TIL: How to reject certain email addresses with postfix (no additional tools necessary): Postfix blacklist or reject an email address – https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-blacklist-reject-sender-email-address/ #postfix
atarifrosch's status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2019 09:21:10 EDT
!TIL: How to reject certain email addresses with postfix (no additional tools necessary): Postfix blacklist or reject an email address – https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-blacklist-reject-sender-email-address/ #postfix
atarifrosch: !TIL: Der Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II hat einen Stromsparmodus. Eine Weile nicht benutzt, geht er einfach aus. :-)
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 15:26:41 EDT
!TIL: Der Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II hat einen Stromsparmodus. Eine Weile nicht benutzt, geht er einfach aus. :-)
chimo: !TIL #Twitter works with JS disabled http://sn.chromic.org/attachment/387045
chimo's status on Monday, 03-Jun-2019 19:22:54 EDT
!TIL #Twitter works with JS disabled http://sn.chromic.org/attachment/387045
rozzin: !TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performance and #perception (and reception): https://youtube.com/watch?v=paBsyBY_-dA
rozzin's status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2019 18:40:35 EDT
!TIL that Diane Torr died--not long after she gave this great #TED #talk on #gender #performance and #perception (and reception): https://youtube.com/watch?v=paBsyBY_-dA
rozzin: !TIL about Tonya Harding... https://music.sufjan.com/album/tonya-harding
rozzin's status on Monday, 20-May-2019 10:28:08 EDT
!TIL about Tonya Harding... https://music.sufjan.com/album/tonya-harding
mararm's status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 19:20:36 EDT
!TIL cat /proc/cmdline
solariiknight: !TIL Power MOSFETs trade off between conduction losses and switching frequency. High Rds(on) devices have lower turn on and off times, while lower Rds(on) devices are sluggish.
solariiknight's status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 16:25:47 EDT
!TIL Power MOSFETs trade off between conduction losses and switching frequency. High Rds(on) devices have lower turn on and off times, while lower Rds(on) devices are sluggish.
atarifrosch: !TIL: An Fensterrahmen sind unten links und rechts jeweils ein längliches „Loch“, durch das Wasser, das die Scheibe runterfließt, nach außen geleitet wird. War bei meinem Küchenfenster auf einer Seite verstopft, deshalb war bei mir Wasser reingelaufen. Dichtung ist OK.
atarifrosch's status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2019 08:48:04 EST
!TIL: An Fensterrahmen sind unten links und rechts jeweils ein längliches „Loch“, durch das Wasser, das die Scheibe runterfließt, nach außen geleitet wird. War bei meinem Küchenfenster auf einer Seite verstopft, deshalb war bei mir Wasser reingelaufen. Dichtung ist OK.
atarifrosch: !TIL: pwgen (generates random passwords of given length)
atarifrosch's status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 15:51:41 EST
!TIL: pwgen (generates random passwords of given length)
atarifrosch: !TIL: WTF – https://wtfutil.com/
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 15:52:06 EST
!TIL: WTF – https://wtfutil.com/
atarifrosch: !TIL: Why Does Cold Weather Drain Your Phone Battery? – https://www.livescience.com/61334-batteries-die-cold-weather.html
atarifrosch's status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 08:41:08 EST
!TIL: Why Does Cold Weather Drain Your Phone Battery? – https://www.livescience.com/61334-batteries-die-cold-weather.html
atarifrosch: !TIL: Soroptimist International – https://www.soroptimistinternational.org/ – international NGO for women's rights and gender equality.
atarifrosch's status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2018 12:07:38 EST
!TIL: Soroptimist International – https://www.soroptimistinternational.org/ – international NGO for women's rights and gender equality.
rozzin: Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman socks.... And !TIL that #Einstein was the one that never wore #socks. #irony
rozzin's status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 00:04:03 EST
Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman socks.... And !TIL that #Einstein was the one that never wore #socks. #irony
gjchen: !til apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update to accept repo info changed https://guany.in/attachment/630673
gjchen's status on Thursday, 08-Nov-2018 20:47:16 EST
!til apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update to accept repo info changed https://guany.in/attachment/630673
atarifrosch: !TIL: Color temperature filter from the G'MIC filter package for GIMP. White balance / color temperature correction for JPGs, exactly what I needed :-)
atarifrosch's status on Sunday, 21-Oct-2018 08:16:03 EDT
!TIL: Color temperature filter from the G'MIC filter package for GIMP. White balance / color temperature correction for JPGs, exactly what I needed :-)
moshpirit: !TIL: John Francis, an American environmentalist, decided to stop speaking for a day to learn to listen better to his opponents. He turned it into a 17-year vow of silence. During those 17 years, he went to school and even earned a PhD. - https://quitter.es/url/2037440
moshpirit's status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 05:48:09 EDT
!TIL: John Francis, an American environmentalist, decided to stop speaking for a day to learn to listen better to his opponents. He turned it into a 17-year vow of silence. During those 17 years, he went to school and even earned a PhD. - https://quitter.es/url/2037440
atarifrosch: !TIL: Schnurgerade Kratzer in gescannten Negativen bekommt man mit dem GIMP-Filter „destripe“ ziemlich gut weg.
atarifrosch's status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 08:18:53 EDT
!TIL: Schnurgerade Kratzer in gescannten Negativen bekommt man mit dem GIMP-Filter „destripe“ ziemlich gut weg.
chimo: !TIL about patchelf "a small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables." https://nixos.org/patchelf.html
chimo's status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 10:42:06 EDT
!TIL about patchelf "a small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables." https://nixos.org/patchelf.html
chimo: !TIL maybe https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe !cli
chimo's status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 17:17:46 EDT
!TIL maybe https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe !cli
moshpirit: !TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CIRCjoICA
moshpirit's status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 10:38:14 EDT
!TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CIRCjoICA
moshpirit: !TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before #Atari, his former workplace. - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-archive-name-apple-2011-12 #apple
moshpirit's status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 15:55:57 EDT
!TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before #Atari, his former workplace. - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-archive-name-apple-2011-12 #apple
moshpirit: !TIL that in the 1950's, donut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break. This is why donuts became associated with cops. - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-doughnut-loving-cops-became-stereotype-180956730/
moshpirit's status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 20:17:32 EDT
!TIL that in the 1950's, donut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break. This is why donuts became associated with cops. - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-doughnut-loving-cops-became-stereotype-180956730/
chimo: !TIL about pkgfile #archlinux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile "pkgfile is a tool for searching files from packages in the official repositories."
chimo's status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 20:54:49 EDT
!TIL about pkgfile #archlinux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile "pkgfile is a tool for searching files from packages in the official repositories."
arunisaac: !til !emacs has a process manager in the spirit of dired. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/displaying-interacting-processes-proced
arunisaac's status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 02:59:23 EDT
!til !emacs has a process manager in the spirit of dired. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/displaying-interacting-processes-proced
moshpirit: !TIL there's a post about a guy who turned his preferences for #Reddit into Spanish and asked there for help receiving more than 2000 comments *in Spanish* ??? HELP reddit turned spanish and i cannot undo it! - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cq1q2/help_reddit_turned_spanish_and_i_cannot_undo_it/
moshpirit's status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 10:38:27 EDT
!TIL there's a post about a guy who turned his preferences for #Reddit into Spanish and asked there for help receiving more than 2000 comments *in Spanish* ??? HELP reddit turned spanish and i cannot undo it! - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cq1q2/help_reddit_turned_spanish_and_i_cannot_undo_it/
moshpirit: !TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purchase_alcohol
moshpirit's status on Monday, 30-Jul-2018 10:24:30 EDT
!TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purchase_alcohol
moshpirit: !TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent (!), cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy - https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-are-you-still-washing-your-clothes-in-warm-water-1706931003 But it's recommended to use warm water (>42°C) to kill bacteria from bed clothes and underwear! #science #lifeprotip
moshpirit's status on Thursday, 26-Jul-2018 03:57:54 EDT
!TIL that when washing clothes with modern detergent (!), cold water is just as effective as warm water, while using 75% less energy - https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-are-you-still-washing-your-clothes-in-warm-water-1706931003 But it's recommended to use warm water (>42°C) to kill bacteria from bed clothes and underwear! #science #lifeprotip
moshpirit: !TIL Early in life, each #dolphin creates its own unique vocal whistle that gives it an individual identity. Because each whistle is unique, dolphins are able to call to each other by mimicking the whistle of a dolphin they want to communicate with. It's the equivalent of calling each other by name. - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23410137 #ethology #biology
moshpirit's status on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2018 18:26:12 EDT
!TIL Early in life, each #dolphin creates its own unique vocal whistle that gives it an individual identity. Because each whistle is unique, dolphins are able to call to each other by mimicking the whistle of a dolphin they want to communicate with. It's the equivalent of calling each other by name. - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23410137 #ethology #biology
moshpirit: !TIL Flying home via Germany (Berlin) was cheaper than a one-way train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM94Wg92T0
moshpirit's status on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2018 18:17:29 EDT
!TIL Flying home via Germany (Berlin) was cheaper than a one-way train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM94Wg92T0
chimo: Hmm "Data Transfer Project" https://datatransferproject.dev/ ???? !TIL
chimo's status on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2018 17:24:25 EDT
Hmm "Data Transfer Project" https://datatransferproject.dev/ ???? !TIL
atarifrosch: Ha! I knew since long that it is possible, but never found out how. Now !TIL: Getting previously typed complete command lines back from .bash_history by typing the first few characters and then using cursor up/down. This is the solution I found (and already tested; it works): http://eduposse.org/url/17858
atarifrosch's status on Tuesday, 24-Jul-2018 19:07:22 EDT
Ha! I knew since long that it is possible, but never found out how. Now !TIL: Getting previously typed complete command lines back from .bash_history by typing the first few characters and then using cursor up/down. This is the solution I found (and already tested; it works): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5366/command-line-completion-from-command-history/20830#20830
moshpirit: !TIL that #Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/sweden-blood-donors-text-message_n_7657156.html #Sweden
moshpirit's status on Tuesday, 24-Jul-2018 02:13:13 EDT
!TIL that #Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life. - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/sweden-blood-donors-text-message_n_7657156.html #Sweden