#til — Public Fediverse posts
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#TIL for USA drivers, there is a site to check a vehicle license plate for flock detection https://haveibeenflocked.com
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#TIL for USA drivers, there is a site to check a vehicle license plate for flock detection https://haveibeenflocked.com
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Went down a weird rabbit hole…
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to go into my mom’s purse to sneak her favorite gum: Clorets. We loved it
Turns out Clorets was designed/marketed as “breath deodorant.”
Turns out the bad-breath ingredient is called “Actizol,” which includes chlorophyll. Yeah. From plants.
Turns out chlorophyll is used as a food additive for green coloring. Including in the liquor banned in many countries, absinthe.
You’re welcome.
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Went down a weird rabbit hole…
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to go into my mom’s purse to sneak her favorite gum: Clorets. We loved it
Turns out Clorets was designed/marketed as “breath deodorant.”
Turns out the bad-breath ingredient is called “Actizol,” which includes chlorophyll. Yeah. From plants.
Turns out chlorophyll is used as a food additive for green coloring. Including in the liquor banned in many countries, absinthe.
You’re welcome.
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#TIL rsync can sync block devices via
--copy-devicesand--write-devices. I always wanted aflashrom(for its read-modify-write feature) but for HDDs, it's just rsync. -
#TIL rsync can sync block devices via
--copy-devicesand--write-devices. I always wanted aflashrom(for its read-modify-write feature) but for HDDs, it's just rsync. -
#TIL (oczywiście, że przypadkiem) że jak wyjść do konsoli systemowej (ctrl+alt+Fn) to żeby wrócić do tej gdzie są odpalone „Xy” wystarczy wcisnąć klawisz Super zamiast szukać czy to była 6, 7 czy może 12 konsolka.
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#TIL (oczywiście, że przypadkiem) że jak wyjść do konsoli systemowej (ctrl+alt+Fn) to żeby wrócić do tej gdzie są odpalone „Xy” wystarczy wcisnąć klawisz Super zamiast szukać czy to była 6, 7 czy może 12 konsolka.
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#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:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQydIJat5Nb/
https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/wb/waldschutz/ressourcen/dateien/forschung/dokumente/thor-publikationen/THORNewsletter_Ausgabe2.pdf?lang=de (PDF) -
#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:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQydIJat5Nb/
https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/wb/waldschutz/ressourcen/dateien/forschung/dokumente/thor-publikationen/THORNewsletter_Ausgabe2.pdf?lang=de (PDF) -
#TIL qu'on peut télécharger des décimales de Pi...
Le record en calcul semble être celui-ci... 314 trillions de décimales, mais pas de téléchargement proposé :(
Il faut se rabattre sur un "petit" lot de 100 trillions de décimales sur https://pi.delivery/ qui propose et du téléchargement (prevoir de la place !!!), mais aussi une API pour récupérer n'importe quelle séquence de décimales.
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#TIL qu'on peut télécharger des décimales de Pi...
Le record en calcul semble être celui-ci... 314 trillions de décimales, mais pas de téléchargement proposé :(
Il faut se rabattre sur un "petit" lot de 100 trillions de décimales sur https://pi.delivery/ qui propose et du téléchargement (prevoir de la place !!!), mais aussi une API pour récupérer n'importe quelle séquence de décimales.
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RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117083457008540888
#TIL (Today I Learned) that Linus Torvalds apparently makes 1.5 million dollars a year and his estimated wealth is somewhere between 50 and 150 million dollars.
And yet he goes to Linus Tech Tips to ask if LTT will gift Torvalds a computer.
Torvalds didn't have to sell the world out to the evil companies funding the Linux Foundation, but he did.
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RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117083457008540888
#TIL (Today I Learned) that Linus Torvalds apparently makes 1.5 million dollars a year and his estimated wealth is somewhere between 50 and 150 million dollars.
And yet he goes to Linus Tech Tips to ask if LTT will gift Torvalds a computer.
Torvalds didn't have to sell the world out to the evil companies funding the Linux Foundation, but he did.
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Found this on TikTok and searched for it.
Damn....
#TIL #Medicine #WTF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema -
Found this on TikTok and searched for it.
Damn....
#TIL #Medicine #WTF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema -
En parfaite mécréante que je suis, je comprends seulement à présent, grâce à Fanny Chiarello, que des petits lieux de recueillements que j'avais croisés en les trouvant un peu lourds côté décoration, n'étaient autres que des facs-similés plus ou moins bien inspirés de la grotte de Lourdes. Je me coucherai moins ignare ce soir. #TIL
https://www.fannychiarello.com/2026/08/15/lourdes-n-pluriel/ -
#TIL (Today I Learned) that (regarding Arch Linux) the tool mkinitcpio apparently changed its default approach from the busybox approach to the systemd approach sometime in 2025.
So if you installed Arch in 2026 and follow some older guides/videos, you could maybe mess up your mkinitcpio configuration and thus initramfs image, maybe rendering your computer unbootable.
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#TIL (Today I Learned) that (regarding Arch Linux) the tool mkinitcpio apparently changed its default approach from the busybox approach to the systemd approach sometime in 2025.
So if you installed Arch in 2026 and follow some older guides/videos, you could maybe mess up your mkinitcpio configuration and thus initramfs image, maybe rendering your computer unbootable.
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"[...] when the home directory is placed on NFS [...] A 1 ms network latency makes these programs unacceptably slow (e.g., executing import torch takes more than 30s)."
They say the only users who care about the negligible PHY delays are all doing High-Frequency Trading or MPI. #TIL Some do extreme tuning not to simulate the Earth or make millions of dollars, they're just NFS users who want their Oh-My-Zsh and "import torch" go faster.
"[...] the Chinet [中科光电] optical-to-electrical port module I originally used introduced an extra 0.1 ms of latency, causing IOPS to drop by 2/3)." -
"[...] when the home directory is placed on NFS [...] A 1 ms network latency makes these programs unacceptably slow (e.g., executing import torch takes more than 30s)."
They say the only users who care about the negligible PHY delays are all doing High-Frequency Trading or MPI. #TIL Some do extreme tuning not to simulate the Earth or make millions of dollars, they're just NFS users who want their Oh-My-Zsh and "import torch" go faster.
"[...] the Chinet [中科光电] optical-to-electrical port module I originally used introduced an extra 0.1 ms of latency, causing IOPS to drop by 2/3)." -
#TIL The furthest time zones from UTC aren't UTC+12/UTC-12. They are UTC+14 and UTC-12. Human politics are complicated...
距离 UTC 最远的时区不是 +12 和 -12，而是 +14 和 -12。这是政治因素造成的，所以不是对称的。
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a7f5831-e448-83e8-80bc-a5e45a9a22de
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#TIL The furthest time zones from UTC aren't UTC+12/UTC-12. They are UTC+14 and UTC-12. Human politics are complicated...
距离 UTC 最远的时区不是 +12 和 -12，而是 +14 和 -12。这是政治因素造成的，所以不是对称的。
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a7f5831-e448-83e8-80bc-a5e45a9a22de
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This works for #FensterFreitag (it's a series of bus windows) and #FrogFriday!
Seen in a local neighborhood this morning. So #TIL about Miss Piper and Pals, which is focused on reptile education and outreach. https://misspiperandpals.com
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This works for #FensterFreitag (it's a series of bus windows) and #FrogFriday!
Seen in a local neighborhood this morning. So #TIL about Miss Piper and Pals, which is focused on reptile education and outreach. https://misspiperandpals.com
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Reading Empires of the Silk Road by Christopher Beckwith and I found this particularly interesting.
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Reading Empires of the Silk Road by Christopher Beckwith and I found this particularly interesting.
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#TIL ce style visuel moche très répandu de nos jours et qui ressemble à des trucs fait en 10s sous Illustrator s'appelle "Corporate Memphis"
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#TIL ce style visuel moche très répandu de nos jours et qui ressemble à des trucs fait en 10s sous Illustrator s'appelle "Corporate Memphis"
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Today I learnt what's the difference between sparkling water and soda.
Recently I was invited to a dinner by a friend. And my partner and I were asked to bring sparkling water. After we bought it, the friend corrected herself and asked for soda (she didn't know we already got it).
Neither of us knew what was the difference. We joked soda comes from Soda region and otherwise it's just sparkling water. Anyway, we got soda for the dinner party and ended up taking the bottle of sparkling water home. I don't like sparkling water (it tastes weird), so my partner ended up drinking it.
Today I learnt sparkling water is naturally fizzy while soda is artificially carbonated. That makes me wonder what's the point of soda in the first place, but I digress.
The more you know!
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Today I learnt what's the difference between sparkling water and soda.
Recently I was invited to a dinner by a friend. And my partner and I were asked to bring sparkling water. After we bought it, the friend corrected herself and asked for soda (she didn't know we already got it).
Neither of us knew what was the difference. We joked soda comes from Soda region and otherwise it's just sparkling water. Anyway, we got soda for the dinner party and ended up taking the bottle of sparkling water home. I don't like sparkling water (it tastes weird), so my partner ended up drinking it.
Today I learnt sparkling water is naturally fizzy while soda is artificially carbonated. That makes me wonder what's the point of soda in the first place, but I digress.
The more you know!
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#TIL Since Debian 12, the non-free firmware blobs were moved from
deb http://example.org stable main non-freetonon-free-firmware, so you won't find the firmware even withnon-freeenabled. I guess it's because some people still want non-free firmware without non-free userspace... :blobcatthinking: -
#TIL Since Debian 12, the non-free firmware blobs were moved from
deb http://example.org stable main non-freetonon-free-firmware, so you won't find the firmware even withnon-freeenabled. I guess it's because some people still want non-free firmware without non-free userspace... :blobcatthinking: -
"IPv6AcceptRA=: Note that kernel's implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is always disabled, regardless of this setting. If this option is enabled, a userspace implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is used, and the kernel's own implementation remains disabled, since systemd-networkd needs to know all details supplied in the advertisements, and these are not available from the kernel if the kernel's own implementation is used."
#TIL systemd-networkd replaces the Linux kernel's RA protocol. It's truly "systemd". -
"IPv6AcceptRA=: Note that kernel's implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is always disabled, regardless of this setting. If this option is enabled, a userspace implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is used, and the kernel's own implementation remains disabled, since systemd-networkd needs to know all details supplied in the advertisements, and these are not available from the kernel if the kernel's own implementation is used."
#TIL systemd-networkd replaces the Linux kernel's RA protocol. It's truly "systemd". -
#TIL 🇮🇹
Cozze / Cicerenella - Amaraterra
for those out there fans of #TheCyclingPodcast here is the song they use as 🩷🩷 #GirodItalia 🩷🩷 theme
https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/track/cozze-cicerenella
it's comforting, grounded in a sense, and it sounds fun and happy and it's may!!, nature and people are peaking.
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#TIL 🇮🇹
Cozze / Cicerenella - Amaraterra
for those out there fans of #TheCyclingPodcast here is the song they use as 🩷🩷 #GirodItalia 🩷🩷 theme
https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/track/cozze-cicerenella
it's comforting, grounded in a sense, and it sounds fun and happy and it's may!!, nature and people are peaking.
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Wenn Fernsehen bildet. Oder so.
Ich wusste bis heute nicht, warum SPAR 🌲 so heißt. Hab mich über das Sponsoring bei der EM gewundert und Wikipedia befragt.
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Wenn Fernsehen bildet. Oder so.
Ich wusste bis heute nicht, warum SPAR 🌲 so heißt. Hab mich über das Sponsoring bei der EM gewundert und Wikipedia befragt.
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🌈 Darf ein Mensch, der mit fast 61 Jahren immer noch keinen Regenbogen richtig herum sticken kann, trotzdem weiterleben? Frage für eine mir nahe stehende und extrem bekannte Person mit ausgeprägter Affinität zu Leinen.
Als ich mein Ladentür-Schildchen hier damals getröötet habe, hat mich auch niemand darauf hingewiesen. Sowas müsst ihr mir doch bitte sagen.
⌗ ωᥱℓᥴ𐐫꧑ᥱ ! 🌈Wie peinlich ist das denn. 🫣
Ich such jetzt dieses Loch…ihr wisst schon, das im Boden….🕳Tschühüss
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#TIL: `cat` has a brother `tac`, running in the opposite direction 🤯
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@nusquam_tuta_fides #TIL, ze Łódź ma cos takiego... 😂
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#TIL Also nicht heute, sondern gestern habe ich gelesen, dass eine Influencerin, die bei einer von diesen überflüssigen RTL-Sendungen mitgemacht hat, sich verplappert hat und dort ausgeplaudert hat, dass sie an ihrem Exfreund Rache nehmen will. Skandal, Skandal. Ihre Influencerin=Agentur hat ihr gekündigt. RTL hat das Ganze veröffentlicht, weil Transparenz, Transparenz. Und natürlich hat die Agentur recht. Das ist psychische Gewalt. Und sowas sollte nicht passieren. Aber was passieren sollte, ist, dass sie sich mit ihrem Ex ausspricht und nicht, dass sie durch die Öffentlichkeit gezogen wird mit dieser Nummer. Und das passiert doch dauernd. Jemand will Rache nehmen oder nimmt Rache. Ich erinnere mich an eine Ex-Kollegin, die von ihrer Rache an ihrem Ex erzählt hat. Ich erinnere mich an die Worte, die sie gesagt hat. Rache sei etwas, was kalt serviert werden müsse.
