#TIL

TIL: 70% of ICE Detainees Have No Criminal Record

lemmy.world/post/42211110

2026-01-26

הל"מ:
"קמין" נקרא בפינית kamiina

המקור לשתי המילים הוא ביוונית עתיקה -
κάμινος (kámīnos)
לעברית היא הגיעה מארמית, ואילו לפינית היא הגיעה משוודית שאליה הגיעה מלטינית

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A7%
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kamiina

#פנינים_בפינית #אטימולוגיה #TIL

Klaus Alexander Seistrupkas@social.magnetic-ink.dk
2026-01-26

#TIL about the #OrganicMaps / #CoMaps drama:

🔗 https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

For years I have been a staunch supporter — and promoter (please forgive me) — of Organic Maps, but it seems I need to re-evalute my position. What a disappointment.

Cc: #FOSS

Carsten Müllermalison@soc.nochn.net
2026-01-26

#TIL 1917 hat Dänemark die amerikanischen Jungferninseln an die USA verkauft. Dazu gehörte auch Little Saint James heute besser bekannt als #Epstein Island.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-01-26

RE: c.im/@BBC/115960932159792611

#TIL:
1. Bonnie Tyler is a pseudonym
2. She's Welsh
3. She is being absolutely screwed by Spotify
4. The Beeb mentions #3 in passing, rather than really digging into it.

8B streams ‘makes nothing’

2026-01-26

#TIL Raspberry Pi Imager, can now add an Ethernet over USB device driver to your Pi Image. And you can do all your setup via SSH without being connected to a monitor or keyboard direct connected to the Pi. It DOES set gadget mode on the USB port you direct connect to, which means you cannot attach any USB peripherals to it.

I will have to try this out the next time I have issues with my RPi and have to re-pave and re-image it.

raspberrypi.com/news/usb-gadge

@gfadrelle Ha ha ha #TIL²

Tiens, Gene peut aussi être un prénom féminin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tie
#TIL #WhatsInAName

Johannes Schnattererschnatterer@floss.social
2026-01-26

💡 Deutsche Sprache: Arbeits-Du und Hamburger-Sie

> Das „Arbeits-Du“ ist ein zeitlich begrenztes Du-Angebot, das nach Ende [ von zu definieren] erlischt.

> Das sog. „Hamburger Sie“ ist eine Kombination aus Siezen und der Verwendung von Vornamen.

Kanntet ihr die Begriffe schon?

Habt ihr schonmal ein zeitlich begrenztes Du in der Praxis erlebt?

infopool.univie.ac.at/startsei

#TIL

Foucauld Pérotin ❦ ⧖⃝🇺🇦FoucPerotin@piaille.fr
2026-01-26

#TIL Alcofribas Nasier est un pseudonyme de François Rabelais, dont c’est l’anagramme.

C’était le super banco. Les candidats ne l’ont pas trouvé, et c’est con parce que Stoufflet a mentionné le xvıᵉ siècle, et ils n’ont pas percuté.

Je cherchais un portrait. Aucun n’existe du vivant de Rabelais, et je n’aime pas trop l’anonyme xvııᵉ de Versailles. Les plus anciennes gravures, probablement copies l’une de l’autre ou d’une troisième perdue, sont dans les livres :

Gargantua, François Juste, 1542*
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

Les belles Figures et Drolleries de la Ligue**, 1580-1606
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6

* cf der pouet du fil
** cf pouet suivant

#Rabelais

Page de titre du Gargantua de 1542Portrait de Rabelais, dans le Gargantua de 1542Planche de portraits d’ « hommes illustres », dont un portrait de Rabelais.Portraits de François Rabelais, parmi de nombreux « hommes illustres ». Il y a une mention manuscrite sous son nom, que je ne déchiffre pas « qui ne lui re…ait aucunement » ? Si vous lisez mieux que moi, dites-moi.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-01-26

#TodayILearned #TIL ... that you can use combining accents on the # of a #hashtag! For example #̧Cedilla. Why? Because someone, in a heroic feat of #DefensiveProgramming, thought "I bet some #weirdos will do that, I'd better deal with it sensibly". Why would weirdos like me do that? Because we're weirdos!

Also, you can pile them on top of each other! Therefore the official hashtag of #Zalgo is not #Zalgo, it is #̶̧̼͖̖̦͍͉̝̗͐̈́̏͜Zalgo.

#Unicode

TIL getting married young during the European Medievel times was rare.

lemmy.ca/post/59302761

Andy Woottonwoo@fosstodon.org
2026-01-26

#TIL (re-learned) what a scalene triangle is, after struggling to remember the definition of an isosceles triangle last night (and apparently how to spell it too.) I'm not completely sure I was ever told the complete triangle story of entangled classification systems. I guess equilateral and right-angle triangles must be most important in 'Grown-Up Life'. If I need to forget another triangle, do I give up Uprightness or Equality? (3rd attempt at a feeble joke.)

2026-01-26

#TIL Vulgarians entertaining Barbarians.

2026-01-26

#TIL I learned about #Unstream;

"Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming"

unstream.stream/

#search #WebSearch #music #MusicSearch

Kayla Eilhart (en) ⚛️ FOSDEM 🇧🇪kayla@eilhart.cz
2026-01-26

I'm wondering how many "blind spots" I have in the city I have lived in all my life. I've just read an article about a really big historical building which I have never been in nor even seen or knew about.
I looked at the map and I've been around it many many times, but always a block or two away, so I've never seen it because of other buildings in the line of sight. And it's even funnier because there's a whole subway station named after it, but the building itself is not directly at it and I always thought that it's just a historical name based on something that used to be there, not that it's actually still there.

#til #morningthoughts

Court Cantrell does not complycourtcan
2026-01-26

"Bulls have been fucking robots a lot longer than we have."

--from a conversation with a friend about the artificial insemination of cows (don't ask)

In related news, that there are what amounts to Fleshlights for male cattle.

2026-01-26

Bossa Nova: I had to look up what this style of music is. It sounds like a cabana. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossa_no #TIL
Lounge: Henry Smith plays a piano version that's brighter than Tori Amos. It's putting me to sleep.

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