Oh #TIL. The whole "AI" scraping bots are obviously not paying attention to nofollow, noindexand so on. So now all kind of "SEO" spam prevention stuff you do on your websites is pointless now. Cool, cool, cool.
Most people would probably star the repo or something? I do star repos, but then it's like a void that I never consult again. So I'm going to try TIL-ing the repos that catch my attention, even if I don't use them.
So this makes sense, and many of you will probably know this, but #TIL that the "print screen" button on our keyboards used to print the actual screen.
"In essence, whatever is currently on the screen when the key is pressed will be printed."
@Beedazzled Wow! I don't know about the 'wind pollinated crop' part but by default had simply thought that bees just don't visit maize/corn. Thanks for the info. #TIL
#devRant has vanished from app stores. Now I wonder how new people will ever make it to the community of funny and loud nerds like this one. The way I discovered it is by searching #DevHumor in Google Images and clicking on the one joke I liked. Despite being website second and mobile first, devRant has found its way to my desktop bookmarks, I quickly became a user just to throw a few snarky jokes back and take part in some interesting discussions. There are lots of #TIL moments to have, too.
Few telling signs show that dR does not feel well: subscriptions stopped functioning and now app is nowhere to be found on Play Store. There are simply periods when servers refuse to accept some LTE connections, which is strange for mobile first platform. Now users will have to resort to third-party app, like #skyRant, to access the platform at finger tips.
This situation got me musing again about an app that could interact with devRant and Fediverse, optionally archiving stuff on the latter.
#TIL using https://sentry.io for error & performance monitoring turned out easy... set it up for the parent app and it will already monitor all sub-routes, which means my flask blueprints (/threads, /ori) will already be monitored
"Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is. It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another. Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing. Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first-order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species vocalize."
Today I learned the #Japanese equivalent of the #English phrase 'Food Porn' is '飯テロ' or 'Meshi Tero', where the 'tero' part is a borrow word for 'terrorism'.
The literal translation is 'Food Terrorism'. Consider that in relation to the Japanese penchant for filling their #SocialMedia streams with pictures of every single thing they eat.
#TIL that @JasonPunyon curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from #StackOverflow and assorted #StackExchange Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:
Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that #Kiwix kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.
// Name this so it's quick to autocomplete
// in the URL bar, like "Paywall be gone".
javascript:(function(){window.open('<https://archive.today/'+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)>);})();
I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.
Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.
#TIL that the American Enterprise Institute has built what looks to be a useful dashboard based on data aggregated by @planet4589 and @celestrak to visualize lots of information about trends in #space launches, #satellites and #SpaceDebris.
#TIL (or re-learnt) that the "5G" in "5G WiFi" is a short form of the 5 GHz frequency for #WiFi networks and doesn't have any connection with #5G (the mobile standard)