Omgggg I've been wondering if there's a way to search through my own posts and I just saw a tip today on how to do it.
Just type from:@[your full user id] and then your search term.
Holy carp.
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#TIL: Der #OKSH betreibt seine eigene #Castopod Instanz, auf der man bereits 14 Podcasts folgen kann. https://podcast.oksh.de/
TIL that Tunic, one of the more recent games that I enjoyed, is just 1.3 GB on Steam. It’s amazing to have an enjoyable game that doesn’t eat up too much storage.
Today I learned #TIL: "human.json"
human.json
Thanks to a toot by Seth Larson yesterday I learned about the still in draft human.json spec by Beto Dealmeida: human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites. Basically, a web of trust to confirm that pages are written by actual human beings vs just LLM generated slop.
foosel.net · foosel.net
Link author: 
Gina Häußge@foosel@chaos.social
#TIL how to add swap space easily on #OpenBSD
1) Create a swapfile made of many many 0's, in the size of how large a swapfile you want, so e.g. for 16gb:$ dd if=/dev/zero of=~/.swapfile bs=1m count =16384
2) Add it as swap:# swapctl -a ~/.swapfile
3) For great success, check it out to get warm fuzzy feelings:
$ swapctl -l
Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
/dev/sd2b 17065992 0 17065992 0% 0
/home/puffy/.swapfile 33554432 0 33554432 0% 0
Total 50620424 0 50620424 0%
#TIL Le nom "désert du Ténéré" est une tautologie : ténéré veut déjà dire désert.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
They say wrestling is fake
🤔
A few years ago I came across dis dude covering I can't make you love me. He was pretty good I must say. Several years later I come across Teddy Swims - Lose control, I like it so much that my roommate gets tired of it. #TodayILearned that dude and Teddy Swims are the same person.
Shai Berger 
#TIL `hexdump` default to the two-bytes-hex (`-x`) format, which honors the endianness of your system (so it'll swap every pair of bytes, unless you're running on an IBM mainframe). Use `hd` (= `hexdump -C`) to get the canonical format
Well, there’s yr problem
@moiraSolarbird 
#TIL there are tiny cute furry beasties inside capacitor
#TIL that France uses the word 'préfecture' to mean the capital city of a department or other region. Kinda confusing to an English speaker! It's like using the word 'state' or 'province' to describe a city or town, yanno.
#TIL about ewphoria, thanks to a friend
#TIL "L'entomologiste tchèque Pavel Štys a fait l'hypothèse d'une insémination « androtraumatique » chez le genre de punaise Phallopirates, dont seuls les mâles sont connus, et qui n'ont pas d'orifice éjaculatoire (gonopore). Il suppose que le mâle doit briser l'apex de son phallandrium pour pouvoir transmettre ses spermatophores à la femelle."
Mot du jour : Androtraumatique
#motdujour #Wikifact
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copulation_traumatique
RE: https://f.cz/@xChaos/116068064212129067
#TIL A purposefully Scottish, private expedition studied Antarctica in parallel with Scott's Discovery expedition, establishing a manned meteorological Observatory that is still in operation.
And tried the musical taste of a penguin.
This week I learned, from a blind acquaintance here, that when we write in ALL CAPS in alt text, their screenreader* reads it all out, *one letter at a time*.
Totally defeating the point of alt text making things accessible, right?
Needless to say, I've stopped.
Well, LOL remains LOL, of course!
#TIL #accessibility #blind #deafblind
* apparently, not all screenreaders.
#TIL about Cashu, a protocol for e-cash, *without* a distributed but centralised public ledger of transactions;
"Ecash transactions between users or service providers respect the user's privacy. A mint does not store a database of user accounts and their activity which protects users from leaks or hacks and can provide stronger censorship resistance than classical payment systems."
Curious to know how this compares to InterLedger.
#TIL that Wolfram Alpha interprets :3 as "regular cat face"
#TIL about the existence of the forkiverse, a fediverse service set up by the folks behind the Hard Fork and Search Engine podcasts;
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/podcasts/can-we-build-a-better-social-network.html
@mapacheMaho 🦝🍻 wrote an intriguing blog post riffing off this to discuss the ways using different services for an account changes the experience of using the fediverse;
https://hachyderm.io/@mapache/115935628584490587
I suspect this is because each fediverse service has a community with different range of interests, and therefore sees a different slice of the verse.
TIL Inkscape has built-in zine templates! You can design the individual pages and then it lays out the print layout automatically. Neat!
A chilling comparison of Nazi Germany to today’s USA: as the Great Depression made unemployment the norm, and the Brown Shirts (Hitler’s paramilitary, now compared to Trump’s ICE) “offered what the labor market did not: a uniform, a purpose, a promise of action. Ideology mattered less than belonging.”
A dark History is repeating itself
#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.
These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.
How cool is that?
#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats
TIL: There exists an inspector tool for your GTK apps. Focus on any of your GTK apps and invoke the shortcut below.
Default shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+D
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html
So
vi has this great thing where you can open a .zip file, and get a file directory, and go down to a file you're interested in, open it, and say :w filename to extract it
Is there a way to get vi, in that zip-directory view, to copy out an entire directory recursively? Or a different curses-y posix command line that can give me such a file listing and a directory-unzip capability?
TIL a great phrase: “no pasarán!” One of the moderators on our team mentioned it as part of her 2026 well wishes to the mod team.
It basically means “they shall not pass” in reference to fascists. It had a rich etymological history, beginning in France and moving to Spain. Originating in opposition to Nazis and fascists.
More:
https://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2013/07/no-pasaran-they-shall-not-pass/
#TIL I don't have enough locks.
I counted 231, but 🤷🏼♀️, who knows if I missed any.
Update: I found a whole other box of locks, so add ~25 more.
*I gave away like a hundred when I moved several years ago—this is what I have now.
#TIL The word "Tsundoku (積ん読)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
"...is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread #books on a bookshelf meant for reading later."
More:
I'm beginning to think SoftBank will be the first #AI #bubble brick to tumble. They took a huge hit earlier this week and then again overnight.
> SoftBank Group logs almost $50 billion in weekly losses as investors sour on AI plays. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/softbank-shares-ai-linked-stocks-asia-valuation-concerns.html
> “SoftBank Group’s shares are falling as many bought it as the only listed proxy for OpenAI,” said David Gibson, senior research analyst at financial services firm MST Financial.
New #bubblewatch tomorrow, as markets open overnight.
In the meantime, Today I Learned #TIL about the 'Hindenburg Omen'.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Omen
This is a market technical analysis pattern, which supposedly predicts stock market crashes. It happens when some stocks hit new highs and others hit new lows simultaneously.
*Apparently this happened three times last week.*
Something else to watch for tomorrow morning…
How to feel old with one picture ...
@leyrer 
@pcdogJuustoperse | In a train The Japanese have young people? #til 😅
@MW1CFN Okay that's cool!
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@MW1CFN
#TIL sidereal time, thank you!
#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-Server-Count
Subscribing to Nitro plan bump up to 200 servers 🤦♂️
#TIL file:///abspath and file://localhost/abspath are strictly equivalent per RFC 8089. Python's pypa/packaging had a bug in the past, all URLs without a hostname were rejected, it became impossible to specify a Python pip dependency by path on Debian oldoldstable. The format file://localhost/ saved my package. Thankfully, pip developers got it right.
#TIL about one of the most useful tools for #nix and #nixos - https://github.com/samestep/npc
It is basically a git bisect but for nix channels. It also has great flake support. Just run npc bisect until you find the #nixpkgs version that works and it will automatically fix it in your flake.lock.
The issue for me was #devenv package being broken in the latest nixpkgs-stable release (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/459720). It turns out ghidra build results are not used to determine the package status and the possibility to commit the new version to master branch.
I think this tool is a game changer, especially if you use nixpkgs-unstable
#til 今天看影片學到三個電扶梯小知識
1. 電扶梯扶手有時候會感覺稍微比較快是故意的，因為驅動扶手的傳動輪會因為磨損而導致扶手移動速度隨時間變慢，所以全新的傳動輪故意設計會快上一點點來減少更換的頻率 😂
2. 電扶梯兩側的刷毛是為了防止東西卡進側面的縫隙，我一直以為那是給乘客刷鞋子(?)
3. 下行的電扶梯上站足夠人的時候，乘客的重量其實就可以驅動電扶梯運轉了，馬達實際上是在煞車，這還蠻合理的。但現代的電扶梯馬達其實可以利用類似電動車或油電混合車煞車回充的技術，在煞車時把這個多餘的動力轉換成電力稍微回充給電力系統 😲
@stefanoStefano Marinelli in other news, TIL that I can get a person's toots without their boosts.
from:stefano
I am a contentedly slow learner.
#TIL less 裡有的內建的 `^` `$` 書籤可以和 `|` 搭配使用
linux less 裡 `|` 可以把內容用管道傳給指令，我以前就知道這個。
但是 `|` 會要求輸入書籤過的位置，只會 pipe mark 和現在位置間的內容，
以前我都是要先 `g` 回頭頂部 `m` 標書籤，再 G 到最底部 pipe。
今天發現 less 有二個特殊書籤 `^$` 代表頂部或底部，
可以直接在最頂部輸入 `|$` 把整個 buffer pipe 出去，
或是 `|^` 在底部。
I didn't realize you could mix `import` and `require()` in Node.js now, I always thought it was either ESM or not, but you can mix: https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-22-features.
```js
import { createRequire } from 'module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
const pkg = require('./package.json');
```
I likewise had no idea #WASI (that is, #WebAssembly System Interface) was a thing in Node.js. Need to investigate more…
It's all still experimental and not super tightly sandbox secure yet, but #WASI support in Node.js is very much a thing: https://nodejs.org/api/wasi.html. #TIL 🤯 #Wasm #WebAssembly
#TIL about UUID7 (mainly because it's now supported in the new #python 3.14). Until today I thought, why bother, uuid4 is fine.
Turns out, UUID7 comes with a free timestamp and the generated ids sort by time.
Read about it here
https://uuid7.com/
And it's available as a library for older python versions, too. https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/
I have a few projects where I use UUID4 for temporary files - I'm going to move these over to UUID7
#til: In der Schweiz gabs einen Gefängniszug. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/jail-train-sbb-schaffen-schweizer-gefaengniszug-ab-393844756407
@BartoszMilewski 
@acollierastroAngela Collier - that's part of the story, but there's always been vast inequality in things like knowledge of physics. One new thing is that it's easy for the uneducated to communicate to a mass audience. When it comes to technical subjects like physics I feel it's working quite badly so far: people seem more persuaded by someone charismatic and confident than someone clear, precise, credentialed and a wee bit boring.
@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski This thread makes me sad. I get where you guys are coming from but it's just not a good look (and that says a lot that even I, autistic as I am, can sense that).
So instead, maybe let's focus on the real problem which is I think you guys have an issue figuring out how to reach an audience; it's not magic, it just takes skill and time but imho, the problem is that it's just not enjoyable to develop that muscle, especially now a days. FWIW, i've been following Sabine for a decade and have been following angela's youtube channel since almost when she started it. And lo and behold, once Angela getting popular, she started running into the same scaling problems that Sabine ran into. I don't know how to make everyone play nice with each other, but I sure don't think ragging on the few science & math advocates out there is a good look for physics.
the #tldr is i guess #TIL that mathematicians are human too and are just as salty and in their feelings as the rest of us
😋
#TIL Random ordering in Django. order_by('?') works but can be costly on large tables. Prefer order_by(Random()) (Django’s DB function) + LIMIT.
Notes + pitfalls inside. #Django #Python #ORM #PostgreSQL #Perf
https://til.sanyamkhurana.com/#/topics/django/random-ordering-with-order-by-in-django
#TIL that "browser" is an acronym for
"BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval" although acronyms with variable amounts of letters at the start are weird…
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/history-of-internet-terms/
🇺🇦 Huh. #til that a) TI makes a calculator that runs #Python code, b) #CircuitPython is a thing - and it's from adafruit, though that's in part their packaging of MicroPython, c) my wondering which version it's based on is probably completely silly (or stupid) seeing as how Python 3 has been around longer than any kids likely to be using Python on "approved for school" devices like calculators (or at least longer than they've been using calculators)
