#TIL Un vélo a 4 roues, un moteur thermique et 1 à 2 tonnes d'acier.
Si j'en crois le fait qu'en 2 passages devant le carrefour au bout de ma rue, dont la voie d'en face est un sens interdit sauf pour les vélos et les bus : 1 "vélo" empruntant cette voie à chaque passage. Ce n'était pas des bus : pas assez de place dedans
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
"if fixed, undisturbed, in free air, not exposed to radiation, fire, or sun, but in the ordinary light of a well-ventilated room or outer air, the chemical mixture in a so-called storm-glass varies in character with the direction of the wind [...]"
"In 2008 an article in the Journal of Crystal Growth similarly concluded that temperature change is the sole cause of crystal growth in storm glasses."
Sometimes I look up from whatever weird subject I’m learning and marvel at the fact that I get to learn random things for work. Recently it’s been bathymetry and deep sea exploration, for a talk in Romania in two weeks where I relate them to distributed tracing for microservices-based systems. I love my job. https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Bathymetry
#TIL about a really high quality and expensive #vegetarian meal in #Japan called Shojin Ryori. It's a vegetarian cuisine that's prepared at Buddhist temples and is mostly found in Kyoto. You will need to reserve ahead of time for these. #Vegan#Japanese
@Deus if you are interested in Shojin Ryori or Japanese style cuisine and cooking see if you can get a hold of Victoria Riccardi's
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
There is a chapter/section where she talks about Shojin Ryori
@Deus the mushrooms used to make the broth are usually dried shiitake and that 'dashi' is very gently flavored (kombu is of course used). Otherwise a few other mushrooms used and served directly but nothing out of the ordinary (it's not too amped up in flavor or ostentatious in tastes)
Matsutake mushroom in Fall are good but expensive (and not really in the Shojin Ryori afaik but may be if it's local and from forests)
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."
"spacewashing" is things like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and SpaceX promoting their roles in supplying NASA missions while they make huge amounts of money out of weapons contracts.
e.g. Lockheed Martin alone makes several times NASA's entire budget from its DoD contracts.
@michael_w_busch@dfrancis@JohnBarentine That Urban dictionary definition is somewhat unclear and can easily be interpreted as negative for the whole space program.
#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.
Plans on moving platforms entirely are merely that, the plans. Right now, archiving their own content from devRant looks like something that everyone could use more than change a place of commute altogether.
From my limited knowledge, it is possible to make an app that bridges the gap. Why even worry about where your thing gets discovered, when you can have it in all places? Imagine: an aggregator, Mastodon app that integrates neatly with devRant and gracefully falls back to Fediverse.
If focus is on the engagement, you can opt-in to mirror posts and collect upvotes/favorites for your personal statistics. If focus is on backwards-compatibility, check how post will be parsed down to devRant. How about automatically linking back to Fediverse for better media quality? Sure, why not! Pleroma reactions come alive on devRant? Maybe we can play with plain text in comments.
Possibilities are huge: just keep them real and useful to people, maintain.
What's with the groups and the cost of their administering? Let's just say, I don't wanna get in these logistics here. What I want is to propose an alternative before such things are required.
Here's an idea: let's make an app that has a select few hashtags open in the home feed already. There are no levers, no buttons to remove some bad actor's posts for everyone else (definitely not on remote instances). But anyone can block or mute whoever they don't see fit just on their end. It's that one simple feature I was missing in devRant, which has place in #skyRant.
Everyone is on the same page, as far as their federation goes. Your instance's got to have interconnections with multiple other instances to provide a better coverage.
When time comes to gag someone, for everyone's safety, maybe delegate it to instance administration. Send a report, forward it, they can do something about this.