things i did not expect to learn through a mini-documentary about #Nebula's font design:
the person who added the gender modifier to emoji found out they're nonbinary through the process of making the proposal.
https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans/

Today I learned, #Russia has also been invading #Georgia for a way long day. Not cool, and really freakin’ surreal to see and hear from people near the “current borders”.

#todayIlearned #TIL #invasion #Nebula

https://nebula.tv/videos/johnnyharris-the-invasion-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/

Pour les camarades utilisatrices de Firefox, il y a un paramètre pour l'IA qui est activé par défaut.

Pour changer ça il faut taper dans votre barre d'adresse "about:config".
Après avoir dit que vous saviez ce que vous faites, dans le champ qui apparait il faut taper "browser.ml.chat".
Au bout droit des lignes qui apparaissent il y a une icône avec 2 flèches. En cliquant dessus cela va passer la valeur par défaut "true" à "false".

Et voilà.

Did you know that visiting the US from a foreign country adds to US GDP by way of exports?

Per the US government’s trade website, the top three visiting countries in 2023 were:

1) China
2) Canada
3) United Kingdom

#TIL #travel #tourism #USeconomy #USA

https://www.trade.gov/report/top-export-market-rankings-travel-and-tourism

#TIL that the source code for adding ActivityPub support to a Ghost instance is available for experimentation by community-hosters. With the caveat that;

"This repository is being actively developed and is currently in early alpha - expect many breaking changes. It is not suitable for production use."

https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub

Today I learned, when you leave a pot party, you walk right out into the wild west.

I need to find a pot party. I want to step right out inti the wild west.

Also, this short film is talking about "blowing pot". From now on, in my world, it's not toking or smoking - it's blowing

#TIL: UEFI boot really matters. Cut my boot times in half on the new nodes, saving *minutes* probably because of the 256MB of RAM being checked or something. Or because Supermicro's boot code seems to do everything thrice.

I was musing just now that the non-word "assword" occurs very often in software, specifically the kind of bodgy expect-type script that's looking for a password prompt in its input stream and isn't sure whether to expect it to begin with p or P.

I thought, I bet there are a lot of web search hits for "assword". Indeed there are, but more, #TIL that it's actually the name of a password management tool. Excellent – a great choice!

Makes up for my recent disappointing discovery that there appears to be no software called "argo0" that handles JSON.

#til the German transformer model for #spacy is not trained for #ner. Room for improvement, I'd say.

Hangul "is not the only [writing system that we know and can trace who exactly created it]. We know exactly who created the Cherokee and the Cree-Inuk syllabaries. There are also several new scripts in parts of Africa and elsewhere who’s creators are still alive among us, e.g., Herman ‘Mogri’ Mongrain Lookout for the Osage alphabet."
#TIL #alphabets #linguistics
https://xcancel.com/avzaagzonunaada/status/1907497588074672518
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/osage-nation-master-language-teacher-herman-mongrain-lookout-receives-k-state

Death day of the inventor of morse code- who was also a painter!

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

#TIL Pothos est un amour, et je parle pas de la plante.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotes#Pothos

#TIL: Es gibt neben Comic Sans auch Comic Serif.

https://www.hvdfonts.com/fonts/hvd-comic-serif

#electronics #DIY #TIL

I've never seen this before, but a MOSFET I was tooling with in a buck converter I made just literally exploded. Flames, sparks, everything. I figured out that the output cord I used had a short in it I didn't catch. Ugh.

It was pretty entertaining but now I'm out a fairly rare 600v transistor. I didn't know FETs could detonate like that...

#TIL #TodayILearned

For those kitchen chemists and physicists out there - apparently, you can create plasma in your microwave with just a couple grapes!

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Scientists now know why microwaved grapes make plasma fireballs

https://www.snexplores.org/article/why-microwaving-grapes-makes-plasma-fireballs

Okay, I'm occasionally dipping into the senate coverage today, and it's worth it to see Cory Booker chew this scenery even while exhausted. Booker is now on hour 20 or something of this "non-filibuster."

a) We just heard Senator Hirono from Hawaii say, "wtf comes to mind!" Priceless.
b) Today I learned that Cory Booker has a "favorite federalist paper." What a lovely nerd.
#TIL #USPol #USPolitics #CoryBooker

Cory Booker just yielded the floor to discuss M&Ms which were invented in New Jersey.
#TIL