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🌈 breaking ranks. 🇺🇦Aus der <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/SoLaWi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoLaWi</a> Email: "Topinambur [ist lecker und] hat [viele] Vorzüge, zum einen sind sie sehr schnellwüchsig und werden binnen kurzer Zeit über 2m hoch. Damit geben sie uns den notwendigen Windschutz, damit die feuchte und Co² gesättigte Luft in Bodennähe erhalten bleibt. [...] Falls Wühlmäuse auftreten, bevorzugen sie Topinambur und lassen alle andern Pflanzen unbeschädigt. Und die späte Blüte macht sie für Bienen und Hummeln so interessant."Wieder was gelernt.<a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/Topinambur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Topinambur</a>

StarkRGWell, <a href="https://myside-yourside.net/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> the word "rooster" is a euphemism, from "one who roosts," due to the slang use of the proper term "cock."Similarly, English doesn't have a word for what most would know as a "toilet" that *isn't* a euphemism. The word "toilet" originally referred to a dressing room. John, dunny, latrine, washroom, bathroom, privy, commode, water closet, etc. Every *single* one is a euphemism.

FurtheringTIL that in some European parliaments, the members can be tried for crimes but don't suffer the consequences because of "immunity." However, in some cases, the ballot shows what crimes they've been tried for so that people have that info when they vote. <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crime</a>

Jason Yip<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> (from 2017) Former <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GE</a> CEO <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JeffImmelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffImmelt</a> used to have an empty private jet fly next to his — just in case there were delays <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ge-jeff-immelt-two-private-jets-2017-10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/ge-jeff-immelt-two-private-jets-2017-10</a>

Eric Likness<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> the origin of the word: Decimation Thankyou <a href="https://mstdn.social/@Wikipedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)</a>

Pixel Purrito<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> about <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Visidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Visidata</a>: <a href="https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/</a>If you ever need to wrangle, filter, sort, edit, navigate, subset or get basic statistics out of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> in <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CSV</a> format (comma-separated values), this is a super useful piece of software. It takes raw data and implements a very handy subset of functionality from spreadsheets directly on top, with both a keyboard (modal Vi-style operation) and menu/mouse driven operation.Nice one to have in the toolchest.

Tomi the Slav and 1024 others<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3dprinting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> if I print directly from the dryer box and filament is not running smoothly (there is a tension in filament), there are strange inconsistencies and gaps in print, mostly visible in top layer. I needed a year to figure it out.

DearMoogleTIL baby hedgehogs are called hoglets <a href="https://lemmy.today/post/26591031" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lemmy.today/post/26591031</a>

marc [sustain release] ✅Today I learned <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> they sell <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> in post offices in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portugal</a>. (I actually did not just learn about it just today, but today I thought it might be noteworthy enough to share it with you!)

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc<a href="https://mstdn.social/@noelreports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@noelreports</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@wiebepaul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wiebepaul</a> …🧐 Hungary is surrounded by EU / NATO countries, with the exception of small, discontinuous segments of border with Ukraine and Serbia (and Austria, which is EU, but not NATO, apparently). <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/faschism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#faschism</a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hungary</a>

Marijke LuttekesGood morning all!I saw this interesting video by ColdFusion about why managers are bad at their job, and the Peter Principle.<a href="https://youtu.be/m7-UdDg5uIw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/m7-UdDg5uIw</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a>

Crystal Huff (they/them)Hooooooly crap. Today I learned about the Osage Indian Murders in the 1910s-1930s, which resulted in at least 60 deaths of Osage indigenous people, and was a major argument used for starting up the FBI. Like, the lowest estimate is that this murder spree killed off 10% of the tribe at the time. O.o <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders</a>

gugod<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DrsbB4J8bg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DrsbB4J8bg</a><a href="https://g0v.social/tags/TodayIListen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayIListen</a> <a href="https://g0v.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a>

Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ⒶTIL. There is a shortcut in Celluloid that quits the player saving current playback position. Next time you open the same file Celluloid will continue playing from where you left it. The key combination is "Shift+Q". Just like that -- nice and simple.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Celluloid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celluloid</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VideoPlayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VideoPlayer</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a>

Strypey<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> that the island of Sicily, off the coast of the Italian mainland, was an Islamic emirate between 831 and 107;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Sicily" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Sicily</a>(1/2)

deutrinoand <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> hashtag TOTP is used to discuss Top of the Pops a hell of a lot more than it's used to discuss Time-based One-Time Passcodes.

Abie<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> about contracted Braille. <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/f1B4OAULWOs?si=F8_o4s5ShpOFn51L" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/f1B4OAULWOs?si=F8_o4s5ShpOFn51L</a>

Jupiter<a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rl_dane</a> Haha... <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> you can long press the comma to access keyboard options on Android devices!And it works on Heliboard too.

Simon TathamAlways nice when software developers have thought of the thing you wanted already.When <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#git</a> on my laptop wants to talk to my machine at home (usually to continue work on something I left half-finished, append another commit or two, and push it back to my home checkout), it has to use <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PuTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PuTTY</a> rather than OpenSSH, because only my PuTTY configuration knows how to find its way to that machine. So I have to set either GIT_SSH or core.sshCommand to "plink". Ideally the latter, and only in the context of that one checkout.What this _really_ needs, I thought, is an option to 'git clone' that will set an arbitrary 'git config' option early enough to affect the actual cloning operation, and then leave it set in the resulting checkout. That'd be perfect. I wonder if the git developers have thought to provide one?And they have! <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> 'git clone -c key=value'.git clone -c core.sshCommand=plink my-home-machine:src/half-finished-thing

PC<a href="https://mas.to/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a>Did you know that there already was a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GulfofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfofAmerica</a> once?<a href="https://mas.to/tags/NakhodkaBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NakhodkaBay</a>Just north of North Korea, the gulf was named in 1906 and later the USSR changed it in 1972 so people wouldn’t think America owned it!<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhodka_Bay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhodka_Bay</a>

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