Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”

Eine Bäckereikette in Leipzig hat als Claim "Der Brotagonist", was ich schon janz lusti find. Dass es aber dann noch eine Brötchenmischung gibt, die "Vollversemmlung" heißt, haut mich aber mal so richtig weg.

TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.

The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.

🤯

I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent :flan_wink:

peak open data berlin

A slide from a presentation I just finished.

I didn't know

When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.

"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.

Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.

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If you regularly take #PublicTransportation, you will have an unofficial #community, whether you want to or not.

Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:

private String gender
not
public const bool gender

* affectionate

I took some old pixel fonts, turned them into vector fonts, but normalized their cap height… so the original pixel size is now serving as this new strange property – kind of like “pixel resolution.”

It’s kind of interesting to play with! I made a little playground and you can also download all the fonts I made there: https://aresluna.org/pixel-fonts/

Made this picture in 2019, updated just now with 2025. Can you guess what’s the next step will be?

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)

tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.

A Canadian friend's perspective on US behavior since the Trump regime was installed:

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One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, and it's been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don't actually know what's going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here's a timeline to explain why we're here, and why we're angry.

Nov 30th, 2018 - The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as 'the greatest trade agreement in history". (This is important.)

Nov 29th, 2024 - In a face to face meeting, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.

Nov 30th, 2024 - Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister 'Governor Trudeau' and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.

Eine Frage, die der politische Journalismus irgendwie nie stellt: „Welche konkreten Ergebnisse erwarten sie von diesen Maßnahmen¹ und an welchen Größen können wir messen, ob sie erfolgreich waren?“ – und natürlich dann bitte die Überprüfung nach dieser Zeit nicht vergessen.

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¹Gesetze, Verordnungen, Verwaltungsvorgaben, Verträge, …

#pol

This is my favorite photo for demonstrating the impact of #LightPollution on physiology. The image was taken by shows a soybean field illuminated by a badly directed streetlight.

What's happening here is that soybeans are supposed to grow leaves in the early part of summer, and as nights get longer, they should make #soybeans and turn brown. In the green area, the plants don't understand what time of year it is, and it's therefore a complete loss for the farmer.

The reason I love the photo so much is because you can see the shadow of the light mast on the field.

The photo was taken by Dwaine Eddie McGriff & Ben Tankersley, and originally posted to Xitter (the post no longer exists).

The problem could be entirely solved by using a streetlight with strong backlight shielding (i.e. shining the light only on the roadway).

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TIL about the name "early-pull strategy".
As my company recently switched to a PR-based git workflow, my colleague shared this article: https://ben.straub.cc/blog/wip-pull-request/
I knew what this looks like in practice, but was not aware of the name "early-pull".
Nice to see that @forgejo has that feature baked in and even decorates WIP-PRs with a little "Draft" badge in the UI:

Classic French saying.

BBC: Inside Usonia: A 1940s utopian town in the United States

100-year-old Roland Reisley is the last original founding member of Usonia, a small community nestled in the woods about one hour north of New York City. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright - widely considered the greatest architect in American history - Usonian houses were affordable ($5,000 of the time, about $66K today), exquisitely designed, and integrated into nature. The town is often praised as the best designed town in America.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kjntdg/inside-usonia-a-1940s-utopian-town-in-the-united-states

#architecture #franklloydwright #coop

In a nutshell

User privacy & safety is a temporary luxury, granted to Apple during peacetime by the governments in the regions in which it operates. There's a whole lot that Apple says it stands for, that its marketing desperately wants us to believe, that won't hold up when push really comes to shove (as can be seen elsewhere in the world). It was always an illusion