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Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FOSSDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSDroid</span></a>;</p><p>"... the project’s aim is to promote free and open source apps on the Android platform. Fossdroid takes its data from F-Droid and organizes the apps in an attractive Google Play-like arrangement, with the ability to view apps by what’s new / trending / most popular."</p><p><a href="https://fossdroid.com/blog/about" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fossdroid.com/blog/about</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDroid</span></a></p>
Atemu<p><a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a> can somehow restart itself in a running system and <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> does it automatically whenever necessary.</p><p>This must have happened dozens of times already and I never noticed because it's entirely seamless.</p><p>I only found out because I was curious what exactly the <a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> activation script means when it says "restarting systemd" as that struck me as near impossible.</p><p>I confirmed that /proc/1/exe points at the same store path that my new version of systemctl comes from; how cool is that?</p>
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Schokoladisten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schokoladisten</span></a> <br><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schokoladisten" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schokola</span><span class="invisible">disten</span></a></p>
Thirteenth Worrier<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> Drapetomania. Holy shit. I learned something awful today.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
LAYERED<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: In the past, there were devices called “Wire recorder”. This was the very first magnetic recording technology, invented back in 1898!</p><p>Fascinating.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUOWRTBf0I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=WJUOWRTBf0</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a></p>
🇨🇦 McRocker<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@goodthinking" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>goodthinking</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chris</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://socialbc.ca/@dustindame" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dustindame</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> ... no idea where WOP came from...</p>
Ayo<p><a href="https://social.ayco.io/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> today is the 9th year anniversary of Mastodon’s first post</p><p>👉 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mastodon.social/@Gargron/1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Lance (Ranger Bob) Taylor<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Carney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carney</span></a> has Been Living Rent-Free in Our Wallets This Whole Time! Suck it <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PeePee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeePee</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TimbitTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimbitTrump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FAFO</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Never51</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BuyCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuyCanadian</span></a> 🍁</p>
Yvan<p>Fascinating about 🍆</p><p>I had always assumed eggplants were another "new world" thing like tomatoes, potatoes, and chillies. Same family innit.</p><p>Turns out they're from Africa and we're primarily domesticated in Asia: <a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/luomus/news/how-eggplants-became-asian-genomes-and-elephants-tell-story" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">helsinki.fi/en/luomus/news/how</span><span class="invisible">-eggplants-became-asian-genomes-and-elephants-tell-story</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.ale.gd/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> the funny “You remind me of the babe” bit from David Bowie’s performance in the movie Labyrinth is a reference to the 1947 Cary Grant screwball comedy “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_and_the_Bobby-Soxer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bach</span><span class="invisible">elor_and_the_Bobby-Soxer</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/Bowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bowie</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/Labyrinth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labyrinth</span></a></p>
Marcos Dione<p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p><p>* I already knew snake_case, camelCase (which is not PascalCase, TIL too); and now, kebab-case.<br>* while discussing this with my team, we came up with THISISTHENEWANGRYCASE, which is not SNAKE_CASE.</p>
Wolf<p>I had many concerns about things **not** provided by <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> when I started this journey. I tooted about them. You can look back at my history to see. As I have learned, I have seen what Rust has instead of each missing feature. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> about `catch_unwind` and looked deeper into `Result`s. So now I feel better about Rust not having <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> exceptions. </p><p>I still don’t see a replacement for Python’s keyword arguments or default values in function calls. Every time I mention this, people reply that I shouldn’t have so many arguments that I need these things. That’s absolutely not why I want them. I want them because they are better than comments at helping the reader understand what is happening without diving down into the function definition.</p>
Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ :python:<p>TIL about the bulk import functionality in django-import-export library.</p><p><a href="https://django-import-export.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bulk_import.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">django-import-export.readthedo</span><span class="invisible">cs.io/en/latest/bulk_import.html</span></a></p><p>Some caveats:<br>- set `batch_size` for better performance<br>- doesn't work with many-to-many relationships<br>- no `pre_save` and `post_save` signals sent (it' doesn't call `model.save()`)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Learning</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Django" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Django</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a></p>
Camilo Bravo :drumset:<p><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> you can call an object like a function in <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PHP</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://todayilearned.net/2025/03/call-object-function-php-using-invoke" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">todayilearned.net/2025/03/call</span><span class="invisible">-object-function-php-using-invoke</span></a></p>
Jeremiah Lee<p><a href="https://alpaca.gold/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: “Learnt” is British for “learned”</p>
Sammy (#!) Fox<p><a href="https://fox.nexus/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about the <code>user-select</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CSS property</a> :3</p>
Schrank :shopware: 🐘 (er/ihm)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>foone</span></a></span> 😳😳😳<br><a href="https://phpc.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Julien Deswaef<p><a href="https://m.xuv.be/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> 15% of beers sold in <a href="https://m.xuv.be/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> are without alcohol. </p><p>I did notice that the zero-alcohol area in supermarkets was rather big these days. But this is still something unexpected.</p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> the Basilic cannons used to take Constantinople in the fifteenth century could only be fired three times a day to prevent them from destroying themselves, which they did anyway after six weeks. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic_(cannon)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic_</span><span class="invisible">(cannon)</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a></p>
Susanna the Artist 🌻<p>Just learned a useful new word! <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malversation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">merriam-webster.com/dictionary</span><span class="invisible">/malversation</span></a></p>
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