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Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/UnnamedComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnnamedComputer</span></a>;</p><p>"... a group of humans dedicated to reclaiming the web as a tool of community, creativity, and learning.</p><p>We are currently looking for founding members:</p><p>* Working on a project that uses technology to build community, encourage human creativity, or otherwise benefit humanity?<br>* Interested in person-to-person learning? (any skill-level. mentor? apprentice?)</p><p>Read on, and if the vision resonates with you, please reach out."</p><p><a href="https://unnamed.computer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">unnamed.computer/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@smallcircles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>smallcircles</span></a></span></p>
Drew<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BlackSabbath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSabbath</span></a> nearly didn't release "Paranoid," because they felt it was too close (bass line mainly ) to <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/LedZeppelin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LedZeppelin</span></a> 's "Communication Breakdown" <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/trivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trivia</span></a></p>
Tobi<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a><br>Der rechtsradikale und antifeministische Kulturkampf ist an deutschen Familiengerichten angekommen. Er verbreitet scheinar seriöse Konzepte wie "Bindungsintoleranz" und "parential alienation syndrome" (PAS), die jegliche wissenschaftliche Grundlage entbehren und aus dem 19. Jahrhundert stammen könnten. Die Folge: eine wachsende Anzahl von Frauen berichten von Gaslighting seitens Gutachtern und Richter*innen und büßen — selbst gegenüber gewalttätigen Partnern — das Sorgerecht für ihre Kinder ein.</p><p><a href="https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/doku-und-feature/die-entfremdungs-luege-wie-rechte-netzwerke-das-familienrecht-unterwandern-feature-2025-03-14-100.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">swr.de/swrkultur/doku-und-feat</span><span class="invisible">ure/die-entfremdungs-luege-wie-rechte-netzwerke-das-familienrecht-unterwandern-feature-2025-03-14-100.html</span></a></p>
lnd maar dan fonetisch<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internetGem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internetGem</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://programminghistorian.org/en/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">programminghistorian.org/en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>The Programming Historian publishes "novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computationalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computationalHistory</span></a> is a thing</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tutorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tutorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Abie<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> On ne sait pas identifier le sexe d'un Tyrannosaurus rex d'après son squelette, sauf dans un cas particulier : quand il s'agit d'une femelle gravide, car ça se voit dans l'os médullaire.<br><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/its-a-girl-paleontologists-examine-pregnant-t-rex" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalgeographic.com/science</span><span class="invisible">/article/its-a-girl-paleontologists-examine-pregnant-t-rex</span></a></p>
Judith van Stegeren<p>TIL that `git stash list` takes the same options as `git log`. So if you want to search for a specific string in your entire git stash, you can do `git stash list -S &lt;search term&gt;`.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/versioncontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>versioncontrol</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Tanguy Fardet<p>Today I learned, from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@NationalGeographic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NationalGeographic</span></a></span> that potatoes probably came from a hybridization event with tomatoes!</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/plant-evolution-potato-tomato" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalgeographic.com/science</span><span class="invisible">/article/plant-evolution-potato-tomato</span></a></p><p>Besides the "fun fact", this is quite important for researchers to try to recreate potatoes that are more resilient: one of the researchers from the study is described as "on a mission to develop a new hybrid potato, one that has fewer bad mutations and can also be grown from seeds, as opposed to modern potatoes, which cannot." (today you grow a potato from an elder one)</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/tomato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tomato</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tomatoes</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/potatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>potatoes</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/sciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciComm</span></a></p>
kgoetz<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> has no way to create UpperCaseCamel strings.<br>And <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> saying "uppercase camel" is not as obvious or common as I thought.</p><p>Going above and beyond, the python community appear to CallThisStyle "Pascal case", while they sayThis Style is "camel case".</p>
🌸Raquel de Abril🌸<p>No sé si conocíais esto, pero yo hoy he descubierto que existe una fundación, llamada Anisfield-Wolf, que desde 1935 concede un premio anual en Estados Unidos a libros de ficción, poesía y no ficción que contribuyan a la comprensión del racismo y a la defensa de la diversidad humana.</p><p>Su lista de premiados es una buena lista de recomendaciones de lectura, os la dejo por aquí 🥰</p><p><a href="https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/winners/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">anisfield-wolf.org/winners/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/recomendacionesdejanadelbosco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recomendacionesdejanadelbosco</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Lien Rag<p><a href="https://mastodon.tedomum.net/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <br>‪<br>"The American prosecutors at Nuremberg never invoked the newly-coined concept of "genocide," in large part because US Senators from the South worried about the US being charged with genocides of both the Black and the Native American communities."</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/joelhs.bsky.social/post/3lwccmzp74s2m" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/joelhs.bsky.s</span><span class="invisible">ocial/post/3lwccmzp74s2m</span></a></p><p>(j'ai pas vérifié l'info personnellement, mais le gars est sérieux normalement, il enseigne notamment l'histoire juive européenne)</p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> the term "Law and Order" in U.S. Politics appears to originate with the "Law and Order Party of Rhode Island", a political effort to ensure that most property owning men in that state would continue to be deprived of voting rights in honor of the King's Charter of 1663 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Order_Party_of_Rhode_Island" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_</span><span class="invisible">Order_Party_of_Rhode_Island</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/LawAndOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawAndOrder</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/KingsCharter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingsCharter</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/RhodeIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RhodeIsland</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a></p>
Schalk Neethling<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> Along with Element.moveBefore we also got connectedMoveCallback for customElements - From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mdn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdn</span></a></span> - "When defined, this is called instead of connectedCallback() and disconnectedCallback() each time the element is moved to a different place in the DOM via Element.moveBefore(). Use this to avoid running initialization/cleanup code in the connectedCallback() and disconnectedCallback() callbacks when the element is not actually being added to or removed from the DOM." - <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components/Using_custom_elements#custom_element_lifecycle_callbacks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do</span><span class="invisible">cs/Web/API/Web_components/Using_custom_elements#custom_element_lifecycle_callbacks</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>
ByteOnBikes<p><strong>TIL about the Concorde aircraft that flew at twice the speed of sound, and thad passenger flights from NY to London in three hours (versus 7 hours)</strong></p> <p><a href="https://discuss.online/post/25168715" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">discuss.online/post/25168715</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Abie<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> il existe une espèce de paresseux qui pèse 3 kilos !<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_three-toed_sloth" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_th</span><span class="invisible">ree-toed_sloth</span></a></p>
C.Suthorn :prn:#TIL seit januar hat #deutschland ein #gewalthilfegesetz. Es wird aber erst in 7 jahren (2032) wirksam. Einen Artikel über das #gesetz gibt es in #wikipedia nicht. Die suche findet aber den Artikel "Gewalt gegen Frauen" der eines meiner Fotos als Titelbild verwendet.
Crystal Huff (they/them)<p>Today I learned about the Roman history of public strike, aka "secession of the plebs."</p><p>Like, the "commoners" withdrew from Rome and let the patrician class fend for itself, for months and sometimes years. FIVE separate times that we know of. <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio_plebis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessio</span><span class="invisible">_plebis</span></a></p>
Scott Francis<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that aerodynamic horsepower increases with the cube of velocity, which is why the efficiency hit between 60 and 70 mph is noticeably less than between 70 and 80 mph <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15108689/drag-queens-aerodynamics-compared-comparison-test/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">caranddriver.com/features/a151</span><span class="invisible">08689/drag-queens-aerodynamics-compared-comparison-test/</span></a></p>
Christian Quest 🌍<p><a href="https://amicale.net/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>… l’électro gyrocator !</p><p>Un système de navigation conçu par Honda et Alpine, commercialisé en 1981.</p><p>Pas de GPS bien sûr !</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_</span><span class="invisible">Gyrocator</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>So apparently that dude with the teeth in the ever-present Trivago ads is some kind of sportsball celebrity?</p><p>“The Trivago Guy’s Teeth : An Internet Obsession”</p><p><a href="https://www.todays-woman.net/2025/travel-2/the-trivago-guys-teeth-an-internet-obsession/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">todays-woman.net/2025/travel-2</span><span class="invisible">/the-trivago-guys-teeth-an-internet-obsession/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Abie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://piaille.fr/@Galamadryade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Galamadryade</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@st3rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>st3rk</span></a></span> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> pour le champagne</p>