Notices tagged with til, page 11

  1. !TIL: Hiroshima und Nagahama liegen in Sachsen.
    (via FB Der goldene Aluhut) https://gnusocial.de/attachment/2968895

    Wednesday, 13-Jul-16 18:09:34 UTC from gnusocial.de at 48°22'0"N 10°53'55"E
  2. !til The programming language erlang was developed by Ericsson in 1986 and "open sourced" in 1998 under erlang 1.1 public license.

    Wednesday, 13-Jul-16 07:28:40 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  3. @theru well, well, !TIL about # Very cool! (oatmeal is pretty good, too, luckily)

    Thursday, 30-Jun-16 18:19:03 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W in context
  4. !til about make -d printing debug output. Not sure how I missed that helpful switch before...

    Thursday, 30-Jun-16 07:32:08 UTC from gnusocial.de
  5. !til of GNU FreeFont -- a free family of # that support a large number of writing systems including Indic scripts such as my mother tongue, Tamil.

    Monday, 27-Jun-16 08:08:18 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  6. !TIL about "mukbang"… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muk-bang

    Tuesday, 21-Jun-16 13:20:15 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  7. #: php-mysql-diff http://url.federati.net/lLY6h # #

    Tuesday, 21-Jun-16 00:20:49 UTC from fresh.federati.net
  8. !til I could improve or add instant answers to # on duckduckhack
    "Just like the Wikipedia community creates articles for topics -- the DuckDuckHack community creates Instant Answers for searches" http://docs.duckduckhack.com/

    Sunday, 19-Jun-16 20:09:55 UTC from gnusocial.no
  9. !TIL those public transport/airports/railways "pick-up/drop-off" areas are also referred to as "Kiss and ride" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride#Kiss_and_ride

    Friday, 17-Jun-16 18:11:51 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  10. !linux !archlinux !parabola !til of zswap. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zswap

    Thursday, 16-Jun-16 19:17:16 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  11. !til about 'sm' (Screen Message), available in Debian (and on the Jolla apparently).

    »Screen Message will display a given multi-line message as large as possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.»

    Thursday, 16-Jun-16 14:11:59 UTC from social.umeahackerspace.se at 63°49'42"N 20°15'34"E
  12. !til how to use the `date' command for # conversion.
    http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/timzone_conversion.htm
    I wanted to stop using Google/DuckDuckGo SaaSS to do this.

    Wednesday, 15-Jun-16 07:25:56 UTC from social.systemreboot.net in context
  13. #: @why do you own understanding at least, a weight altogether irresistible?

    Tuesday, 14-Jun-16 22:01:12 UTC from oracle.skilledtests.com
  14. !TIL when encrypting email, headers & associated info is still clear: subject line, parties involved, etc. Much can be gained from the meta.

    Monday, 13-Jun-16 21:00:24 UTC from quitter.se in context Repeated by moonman
  15. !TIL when encrypting email, headers & associated info is still clear: subject line, parties involved, etc. Much can be gained from the meta.

    Monday, 13-Jun-16 21:00:24 UTC from quitter.se in context
  16. holy crap! !TIL about the `:grep` & co. !vim commands https://seesparkbox.com/foundry/demystifying_multi_file_searches_in_vim_and_the_command_line

    Monday, 13-Jun-16 15:24:34 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  17. @mmn I see! Thanks! !til

    Monday, 13-Jun-16 07:31:40 UTC from loadaverage.org at 32°58'59"N 49°7'59"E
  18. !TIL POST requests don't follow 301, 302 redirects automatically and some UAs silently converts them to GET requests.

    Sunday, 12-Jun-16 20:41:17 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  19. !TIL about ".well-known/dnt-policy.txt" https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy

    Sunday, 12-Jun-16 14:03:15 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  20. !TIL that conversations can edit messages that has not yet been delivered to the other person. # #

    Thursday, 09-Jun-16 07:57:11 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  21. !TIL the unfortunate & disappointing fact that mosquito hawks don't actually kill or eat mosquitos =[

    Tuesday, 07-Jun-16 07:32:36 UTC from quitter.se
  22. !til #, the desktop # client, has an option to set "Window behavior" to "Single window for everything". Until now, I was struggling with its default separate windows for roster and chat.

    Monday, 06-Jun-16 04:57:09 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  23. !til !science At near-grazing incidence, media interfaces can be mirror-like, despite being poor reflectors at normal incidence.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Hospital_corridor_2.jpg
    This is a wonderful every day demonstration of the consequences of Fresnel's equations.

    Sunday, 05-Jun-16 19:41:39 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  24. !til ssh can also verify hosts from a global known hosts file at /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts. This lets the admin set up the known hosts file, freeing the users from this chore.

    Sunday, 05-Jun-16 10:10:36 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  25. !TIL about "Collective Code Construction Contract (C4): aiming for an optimal collaboration model for free software projects." http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/ || http://hintjens.com/blog:117#toc40

    Thursday, 02-Jun-16 17:09:38 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  26. # https://simple.wikipedia.org exists

    Monday, 23-May-16 07:46:21 UTC from quitter.se Repeated by astralboy
  27. # there's a Joey Wheeler face meme. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/cwcwd2vothbse6zdt3ls.jpg

    Monday, 30-May-16 02:31:56 UTC from shitposter.club
  28. !TIL about "Ethereum" (public blockchain platform with programmable transaction functionality): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

    Friday, 27-May-16 15:33:14 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  29. !TIL There is a free app for public transport that respects privacy. https://transportr.grobox.de/

    Monday, 23-May-16 14:35:25 UTC from status.pirati.ca Repeated by kuro
  30. !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.

    Wednesday, 25-May-16 16:16:59 UTC from status.pirati.ca