Notices tagged with til, page 6

  1. !TIL about trakt.tv I wonder if there are !selfhost'ed alternatives.

    Tuesday, 20-Jun-17 18:15:30 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  2. C'est ce qu'on faisait quand on était tout petit avec le tourne disque d'arrière-grand-maman, donc ? !til

    Saturday, 17-Jun-17 06:43:50 UTC from herds.eu
  3. !TIL that today is # National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm

    Wednesday, 07-Jun-17 03:58:04 UTC from status.hackerposse.com
  4. !TIL: When you mark a row or some rows in a LibreOffice Calc table and move its contents, and the row gets marked by „running ants“, Xorg (!) needs lots of CPU time in order just to show these „running ants“. In this case: ~ 50 % CPU on an AMD Dual Core 4850e with 2,5 GHz. I wondered why Xorg wants so much CPU time – until I closed LibreOffice … m(

    Sunday, 28-May-17 15:52:36 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de in context
  5. !TIL: Wenn man bei der Postbank Überweisungen auf Papier abgibt, dauert es schonmal ein paar Tage, bis sie überhaupt ins System erfaßt wird.

    Ja, es gibt Leute, die kein Online-Banking machen möchten. (Nicht ich. Freund von mir.)

    Nein, das ist kein Grund, die Überweisungsfrist – zwei Bankverkehrstage – massiv zu überschreiten und das Papier erstmal vier Tage lang beiseite zu legen.

    Friday, 26-May-17 11:45:44 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  6. Wow: !TIL that # was founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the # / # # works: http://web.archive.org/web/20141027135352/https://keybase.io/docs/tracking https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2014-December/051939.html https://www.linux.com/blog/pgp-web-trust-delegated-trust-and-keyservers

    Sunday, 21-May-17 19:16:27 UTC from status.hackerposse.com
  7. # that the word geek comes from Hindi and was originally used to describe a carnival personality who performed disgusting acts.

    Thursday, 18-May-17 20:54:15 UTC from web
  8. !TIL about SSHFP Resource Record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFPResourceRecord

    Wednesday, 17-May-17 23:05:29 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  9. !til how to open different filetype files (json or md) with different foldlevel in # with autocmd FileType in .vimrc

    Wednesday, 17-May-17 09:00:24 UTC from herds.eu
  10. @archaeme huh, !TIL !

    Monday, 15-May-17 16:01:28 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W in context
  11. !TIL: copytruncate and dateext as parameters in /etc/logrotate.d scripts. First one empties and contiues with the same file after copying it for rotation as some programs don't use the file name as handle but the inode number and then (at least sometimes) continue logging into the rotated logfile. Second extends the names of the rotated logfiles by the current date.

    Saturday, 13-May-17 14:32:17 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  12. !TIL whois queries happen on port 43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS#Protocol The things you learn with restrictive firewalls on.

    Saturday, 13-May-17 03:06:35 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  13. !til of ViewTube (http://isebaro.com/viewtube/). ViewTube lets you watch videos on YouTube (and other sites) without proprietary javascript.

    Saturday, 13-May-17 02:49:18 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  14. !til that # has an issue tracker for package submissions. Yay, for no more crappy forum! https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp

    Friday, 12-May-17 17:47:56 UTC from gnusocial.de at 48°22'0"N 10°53'55"E
  15. !TIL: It is not (yet) possible to run an icecast2 with a Let's Encrypt cert. :-(

    Tuesday, 09-May-17 13:23:00 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  16. # feature creep really creeps up on you. !gamedev #

    Tuesday, 09-May-17 01:32:26 UTC from loadaverage.org
  17. !TIL that black idols exists >> http://nextshark.com/amina-du-jean-meet-the-first-black-idol-in-japan/

    !japanplus 

    Saturday, 06-May-17 04:56:02 UTC from quitter.es
  18. And !TIL that # is currently without a developer: https://urandom.ca/nosquint/ "Unfortunately I'm not able to dedicate the time required to keep pace with Firefox's evolution."

    Monday, 01-May-17 01:23:29 UTC from sn.jonkman.ca at 43°36'0"N 80°32'58"W
  19. !til the French overseas departments are printed on the € bank notes: https://gnusocial.de/url/3850156

    Saturday, 29-Apr-17 21:45:20 UTC from gnusocial.de at 48°22'0"N 10°53'55"E
  20. awesome, didn't know that one. !TIL

    Saturday, 29-Apr-17 00:15:05 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W
  21. !TIL: pelican, static site generator, can also work as blog. Written in # Does not use SQL. Looks really interesting.

    Friday, 28-Apr-17 22:33:54 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  22. # Debian's finest games https://packages.debian.org/jessie/games-finest

    Wednesday, 26-Apr-17 16:59:06 UTC from loadaverage.org
  23. !TIL how to make # automatically give !xmpp logins for users in a !gnusocial DB: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14906

    Tuesday, 25-Apr-17 18:09:37 UTC from status.hackerposse.com in context
  24. !TIL about the !XMPP extension to sound a "ding" on the console: XEP-0224 "Presence Obtained via Kinesthetic Excitation" or POKE

    Thursday, 20-Apr-17 01:10:56 UTC from sn.jonkman.ca at 43°36'0"N 80°32'58"W
  25. !TIL: .Xdefaults – in fluxbox the xterm uses a white background which I don't like. So I found ~/.Xdefaults to change xterm settings, not only background and foreground colour, but also font and font size. Yay :-)

    Monday, 17-Apr-17 14:58:21 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  26. !til Porn actress Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa with an IQ of 156. An atheist, Carerra wore a colander for her driver's license photograph. State law normally prohibits hats in such photos but she used an exception for religious headwear (the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Carrera

    Friday, 14-Apr-17 20:28:22 UTC from gnusocial.net
  27. !til of !emacs pdf-tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools), a much better replacement for the built-in docview-mode.

    Wednesday, 12-Apr-17 14:00:47 UTC from social.systemreboot.net
  28. !TIL os.walk() in # to traverse recursively through a directory and get all files with their full path.

    Wednesday, 05-Apr-17 16:23:52 UTC from social.stopwatchingus-heidelberg.de
  29. <Ctrl-u> # Delete everything from the cursor to the beginning of the line. This can also be used to clear a password attempt and start over. # !til

    Tuesday, 04-Apr-17 23:10:41 UTC from gnusocial.de at 48°22'0"N 10°53'55"E
  30. !TIL about #'s image-orientation: from-image; property/value: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image-orientation

    Sunday, 02-Apr-17 20:28:02 UTC from sn.chromic.org at 45°25'15"N 75°41'24"W