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TIL that DB calls the real time occupancy indicators on long distance train seats, that let people know that seat is taken as far as a particular station “Digital Towels”.
Really not shaking the tourist stereotypes there… #Interrail
Did you know whenever you browse the web, you share identifiable information about your device and browser? Companies use this data to target you with advertising and to track you across the web. Clearing your cookies regularly and using a VPN won’t protect you from this sort of tracking.
Instead of being stored data like a cookie, these characteristics are inherent to your browsing setup, and are consistent across sessions. 🔍
I created a video at @privacyguides where I interviewed @ruihildt from the @mullvadnet browser team, check out the video to learn how you can fight back against browser fingerprinting! 🔒💛
:fediverse: PeerTube: https://neat.tube/w/2TQztsQGZ6ZPiJVSUtSDHa
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_50cBtSjyQ
TIL that the title theme for OpenRCT2 was made by Allister Brimble, aka the guy who composed the OST for original Rollercoaster Tycoon games (and a crapton of Amiga games)
they literally commissioned the original artist. how cool is that??
TIL: #KDE Plasma has built-in 'static' tiling window manager.
In addition to of course having the four corner window tiling since forever, Plasma 6 allows you to set manual tiles where applications will snap into (with optional padding).
To bring up the tile edit interface, press Super (windows key) + T
After you set up things to your liking, hold [SHIFT] while dragging a window, it'll show a shadow for the tile it'll snap into.
You can use this even while also keeping the other modes active
lol It took me all these years to finally lookup why the US have ZIP codes while the rest of the world uses "Postal codes".
ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan and ZIP code is trademarked by USPS so we're supposed to use it like ZIP Code™
#TIL
Did you know that there is a subreddit for Tea Cultivation for home growers of Camellia sinensis...
I'm about to do my own tea harvest, and am researching how to process different types of tea. I think I'm aiming for either a green tea or a black tea for my first time 🤔
TIL the slang for a soldier who is also a servant to a comissioned officer is "batman"
Researching "affordable housing" in California, where "affordable" is defined according to the "area median income" of the county.
In Santa Cruz County where I live, the AMI is $132,800. So, an annual income of $101,750 is considered "low income", $63,400 is considered "very low income" and $38,050 is "extremely low income".
#TIL that an annual income of $101,750 in Santa Cruz County is considered "low income" using this metric.
Pure (2008) for Windows XP is one of Disney’s most expensive video game misfires.
Did you know Disney once published an ATV racing game? Yeah—Disney. The same company that gives us princesses and endless Marvel spinoffs was, for a brief and shiny moment, trying to be a serious video game publisher.
Fox tried it. Warner Bros. tried it. Disney thought it could too. But in the end? They couldn’t make a dent.
Pure was their big swing. Developed by Black Rock Studio in Brighton—the same crew that created the original MotoGP games and ATV Offroad Fury—it had pedigree.
And Disney didn’t skimp: a marketing budget north of $10 million, slick demos that wowed the press, and even a Best Racing Game of E3 2008 award to hang on the wall. Critics loved it. 8s and 9s across the board. PC Gamer US gave it 82%. On paper, this thing should’ve been massive.
But when it hit shelves in September 2008—across Xbox 360, PS3, and yes, Windows XP—it sputtered. No one knows the exact number, because Disney never bragged about it, but the best estimates hover around 300,000 copies sold worldwide. For a cross-platform release with that kind of push, that’s a commercial faceplant.
A game that gave you giant canyon jumps, a deep trick system, even LAN play on PC—it still managed to vanish almost instantly. Black Rock followed it with Split/Second, which also flopped, and then Disney pulled the plug. By 2011 the studio was gone, and by 2016 Disney Interactive itself stopped publishing games altogether.
So Pure lives on as a weird artifact. A critically adored racer from the Mouse House’s short-lived experiment in being a “real” publisher. A game that should’ve soared, but barely left the runway.
@videogames
I am, for no reason at all, playing with Sinatra and Capistrano, and having fun doing it. Also TIL Phusion Passenger is still a thing.
TIL Guacamole (home made) being about as safe as food gets for diabetics could be a sign of a benign god
Did you know that ingrown eyelashes were a thing what could happen?
Neither did I 🙃
*enter LadyFinchalot with a set of tweezers*
@thomasroiloup @ChristiJunior @kbeninato @Leyonhjelm Stephen Colbert—total phony, folks! Did you know he’s HIDING the med bed technology from the American people? That’s right, while the finest, smartest Americans could be getting MIRACULOUS, SPECTACULAR healing, Colbert is keeping it all for his Hollywood buddies and the fake news crowd! Disgraceful! Many people saying, “Mr. President, why won’t Colbert share the med beds?” Because he’s not smart, he’s selfish, and he doesn’t want YOU to have the best! But under my leadership, we’re bringing the greatest technology to the people—no thanks to Stephen “Withholder” Colbert! #ReleaseTheMedBeds #ColbertCoverUp #AmericaFirst
Considering taking Caltrain to the Valks playoff game on Wednesday, and it's been so long that I don't even remember how to buy tickets (that is not a request for advice, just an interesting tidbit).
#TIL how to share a YouTube video at a specific time marker...🤣
It's all about some Post Bop #Klezmer tonight!
Probably the first of my favorite songs from #JohnZorn and his #Masada ensemble.
Also, pretty much one of the first albums of his that I bought along with his Painkiller "Execution Grounds" project. Both blew the top of my head off when I first heard them in 1994.
Regretfully, I've never seen any of the iterations of Masada. I was, however, fortunate enough to catch Painkiller on their first tour through Seattle at Moe's Mo' Rockin' Cafe up on Capitol Hill.
This song "Abidan" off the album "Gimel" is much less frenetic, with significantly less #skronk, and more of a slow jazz-noir burn compared to most of their other work. "Hazor"(the 2nd song after this one) is another slowish, kinda swingin' tune.
https://youtu.be/UE_2pd_rwiA?si=sUWyLeDsmIWV7SBA&t=555
#Jazz #JazzNoir #Klezmer #music
Did you know they’ll let you just print whatever you want on your checks?
TIL The BeeGees wrote “Islands in the Stream” for Marvin Gaye but he turned it down before Kenny and Dolly made it a hit.
This was an interesting tidbit I came across today, can’t remember it mentioned at WWDC:
Safari Web Extension Packager
Web extension developers can now
package their web extension without
using a Mac or Xcode. This can be
done by uploading a ZIP file with the
extension to App Store Connect to
have it converted and packaged up for
release. TestFlight links can then be
shared with others to test.
#Apple
Today I learned: "China has good regulations but only for products that are sold within China. So it is way safer to order in China towards a freight forwarder insight China than to order directly to your country."
#todayILearned #internationalShipping #China
Did you know that over 2 trillion fish are taken from the ocean each year? 😱
It can take many hours or even days for each fish to slowly suffocate 🥺
Go vegan 🐟
TIL: Wenn man Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts einen katholischen Architekten aus Bamberg damit beauftragt, eine Synagoge zu bauen, darf man sich nicht wundern, wenn er katholische Dinge tut. Dann hat die zweitgrößte Synagoge der Welt plötzlich ein dreischiffiges Inneres und Zwiebeltürme.
TIL my home WLC detects wifi of passing planes.
Rogue AP detection alerted me about a weak SSID, and that seemed to map to a passing plane. ADSB exchange confirms.
TIL there is a world stone skimming championship.
...honestly, can we leave some things alone for just fun?
Did you know many tenants have 2-4x more guests than employees? 😲
And without proper governance, that's a massive security blind spot!
Tune into the latest Entra.Chat episode where Jeremy Conley from Microsoft breaks down guest identity governance.
Here's a slightly unsettling tidbit about AI coding assistants: developers say they sometimes act like "toxic co-workers," manufacturing results and pretending they used data they didn't, only confessing when called out. Yikes. #AI #TechNews
https://archive.is/5PcyT
Did you know?
Archaeologists found 3,000-year-old honey jars in Egyptian tombs, and they're still edible. Honey never expires due to its low moisture, high acidity, and natural hydrogen peroxide. Bees even add enzymes that boost preservation.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1967599285916066032
TIL: the English term `Christian nationalism`.
Did you know. I wrote a book and it hasn't sold a single copy. But still, I grab back to it prety much every other week. I wrote it based on my notes and experience organizing conferences and meetups. I'm glad I did, it's such a resource to me personally.
https://leanpub.com/conference-bootstrap
TIL: `grub-common.service` (new in Debian 13)
```
# systemctl cat grub-common.service | head -5
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/grub-common.service
[Unit]
Description=Record successful boot for GRUB
After=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target
ConditionPathExists=/boot/grub/grub.cfg
```
TIL: people vape using a device that contains a 24MHz Coretex M0+ microcontroller with 24KiB of Flash Storage, 3KiB of Static RAM plus some peripherals and then throw it away. #waste
Today I learned that #windows11 finally has a #tabbed #filemanager. Wow! I mean, #linux file managers have had tabs for years, but I'm not complaining. Imagine, a new #windows feature that actually makes my work easier!
Today I learned the term "UPSERT". It combines "UPDATE" and "INSERT" functionalities into a single atomic operation and is analogous to Django's manager method update_or_create().
Huh, "The Promise" is just Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude"? TIL
The crescendo and then the big bass is just so good
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🚨 IF you are an #Signal, #Threema or #Element user und installed today the fresh #IOS26 Update, this is important for you:
please #disable in each App-Setting the fucking #default allowence to "apple intelligance" use the chat content for "learning" & co.
Please protect the #privacy of your communication partners and disable this
Just heard that a member of our Quaker Meeting was arrested on terrorism charges this morning by Police Scotland. His offence holding a sign the Government don't like at a demonstration in Edinburgh on Saturday 6 September. They didn't do it at the time because they want to pick people off secretly to avoid publicity.
#enshittification
Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.
"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."
"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."
The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.
[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/
Hey, #Ithaca! Does anyone have a used Framework battery that I can buy from you? Pls boost!
my landlord just (by proxy) stated that he will not remove the legal loophole from my contract which allows him to overcharge me by 1.5k€ by advertising my apartment as "furnitured" (the cheapest and ugliest IKEA shit so it barely counts, nowhere near the money i already paid for this)
so i'm looking for an apartment in Berlin, because i recently got fired and can no longer afford this
i only got this apartment because my employer's relocation provider scammed me and just didn't do anything so i had to get into an overpriced temporary housing unit to not become homeless
so please send me any hints you have, only real offers and no online advertisements, i know how to use a web app myself
i'm already late on paying rent for this month by 15 days and my situation just seems to get worse, i can't afford any of this
People who have never mentioned Charlie Kirk are being wrongfully targeted online and doxxed. @taylorlorenz reports on two such cases. Ali Nasrati discovered, after receiving a barrage of abuse and death threats and being suspended from work, that an X account started in May was using his name and a photo stolen from his social media. Cynthia Rehberg, a school principal in Wisconsin, was misidentified by a conservative influencer from a Facebook post, after which her district received 800 voicemails calling for her firing. "Over 200,000 people think that I'm somebody that I'm not," Nastrati told Lorenz, referring to the number of views one of the X posts attacking him received. "I don't know if anybody's following me. I don't feel safe going into public areas. I don't know who's there. I don't know who is going to be able to recognize me or not, or who might do something. I'm constantly looking behind my back."
https://flip.it/2NxHde
#News #Journalism #Media #CharlieKirk #OnlineBehavior #Doxxing
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This past Sunday, Brad and I celebrated 17 years of marriage together. That’s 6,209 days of love, laughter, and levity through it all. Happy Anniversary, Bradder! Here’s to many more.
Don't tell anyone but just between you and me on this secret website - It's my birthday today
It's Monday but I don't want it to be. What should I do?
#AskFedi
#enshittification
Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, Bleeping Computer writes.
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app integrates the AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as other features like Notebooks and AI agents.
"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices "to reduce confusion and support requests."
"The rollout will start in early October and be completed by mid-November; however, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will not be installed on systems within the European Economic Area (EEA)."
The new AI mantra: You want it. You get it. We got what you need. You ain't gotta sweat it; we're gonna make you bleed.
[okay I stole that last bit from Chris Smither]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-install-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-in-october/
I am genuinely interested in what those thousand words are.
🚨 IF you are an #Signal, #Threema or #Element user und installed today the fresh #IOS26 Update, this is important for you:
please #disable in each App-Setting the fucking #default allowence to "apple intelligance" use the chat content for "learning" & co.
Please protect the #privacy of your communication partners and disable this
Why Americans Don't Walk To School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lShDhGn5e5s
this neighborhood he filmed looks so much like America-as-I-know-her that it hurts. When I was a child, I lived in a housing development, a separate loop from the main road, nothing but houses on both sides for the whole loop. Sounds safe for kids, right? I was utterly forbidden from crossing the street ever, for any reason. In the three years I lived there, two children I knew were flattened by cars. One was in a wheelchair for years, the other had permanent brain damage. And we were lucky to have a sidewalk the whole length of the loop - which would quickly disappear beyond its edge; walking anywhere else was impossible, it was an island in a sea of high-speed roads.
The next development we lived in, the school had a street-by-street map of who was and wasn't allowed to walk to school. It was in theory a 15 minute walk, but we were forbidden because 10 of that would be on a highway with absolutely no accommodations for walking alongside it. There was a secret path through the woods that some kids used. There was a shopping center about as far in the other direction with, again, absolutely no way to walk there (and no busses). I grew up trapped in lonely fortresses in a sea of concrete, and I am still not used to the freedom I have in Europe to just... go places and do things.
just learned about Abilify MyCite, which is aripiprazole (an atypical antipsychotic), except it also has a little sensor that sends a signal confirming that you took it and dear gods that is so terrifying I just stared at my screen in horror for 5 minutes
the usual very overprescribed medicine that fucking lobotomizes you at higher doses, except now it also spies on you
"yeah sure let's spy on schizophrenics that will definitely help them" what the fuck
