Notices tagged with til, page 7

ericxdu23

#TIL PackageKit(1) and I think: I wanted this to exist why did I never look for it? 1: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/pk-intro.html

arunisaac Today I Learned... , strypey

!til of https://solarcoin.org/ from @strypey's blog post https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/

ericxdu23

Today I learned http://www.sidetalkin.com/ #TIL

kaimi Today I Learned...

!til in welcher zugrichtung man sich am besten den kopf rasiert.

arunisaac Today I Learned...

http://www.hashcash.org/ !til of #hashcash, yet another novel way to patch up the broken #email system. Also, !emacs supports hashcash! :-) Will set it up sometime... !selfhosting

chimo Today I Learned...

!TIL You can tell pacaur which binary to use (instead of pacman) via the $PACMAN environment variable. That means you can seemlessly have it call pacsrv instead or pacman in the background: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/3m0iu8/ihave3computersrunningarchistherea/cvbbpoh/

atarifrosch Today I Learned...

!TIL: Schutzfolien auf Smartphone-Displays sind viel empfindlicher für Kratzer als das darunterliegende Glas.

reznik Today I Learned...

!til there is a subreddit called /r/unixporn :)

bobjonkmanformer Today I Learned...

!TIL #WireWorld. There goes the weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld

solariiknight Today I Learned...

!TIL How to crimp a LAN cable. Took an old discarded LAN cable from my college department, bought some RJ45 jacks and then crimped it.

arunisaac Today I Learned...

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/banana-peel/article4412006.ece
!til why a banana peel turns black within a short time after the fruit inside is consumed, while it stays yellow for a much longer time when it is covering the fruit. !science

arunisaac Today I Learned...

!til that there are heritable but non-genetic (Lamarckian) traits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WZx7lUOrY

chimo Today I Learned...

huh, !TIL "As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the Free edition [of Google Apps] to new customers." https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en

zorak Today I Learned...

!til about Etak Navigator, a precursor to today's GPS-based automotive navigation systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak

arunisaac Today I Learned...

!til of the Maillard reaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction

rozzin Today I Learned...

!TIL that if I put my #VW's #UI into metric mode, it tells me how much fuel is burnt idling!

solariiknight Today I Learned...

!TIL eDRAM, a RAM integrated into the die of a processor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDRAM

markov

#TIL: mnemonic for the standard taxonomy of biological organisms http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/King+Philip+Came+Over+For+Good+Spaghetti

atarifrosch Today I Learned...

!TIL: wp2md by dreikanter https://github.com/dreikanter/wp2md – the project could need a new developer. Just helped me to bring the XML export from a given up WordPress blog to better readable single files, comments included.

chimo Today I Learned...

!TIL about #Pacserve https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacserve !archlinux

markov

Also #TIL https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncpa/docs/Installing_NCPA.pdf #ncpa

atarifrosch Today I Learned...

!TIL: python-werkzeug – http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/

chimo Today I Learned...

!TIL about "Happy Eyeballs" (a.k.a. "Fast Fallback") algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs

chimo Today I Learned...

!TIL about "Web Bluetooth API" https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/01/nic56#webbluetooth

chimo Today I Learned...

!TIL the 3rd on-screen button on #android is called the "Overview" button. Double-tapping it flips between your current and previous app

arunisaac Today I Learned...

http://synfig.org/ !til of Synfig Studio, a free software 2D animation program.