#til: für Formeln fühlen Linguist:innen sich nicht zuständig. :)

#TIL "Winddiebstahl"
Ja: Genau was man sich vorstellt beim Hintergrund Windparks.
"Weil in der Nordsee immer mehr Windparks gebaut werden, geraten deren Betreiber zunehmend aneinander. Denn die
Anlagen nehmen sich gegenseitig den Wind."
(Aus der Juni-Ausgabe "Neue Energie", noch nicht online.)

#TheMoreYouKnow #TIL
"Vinegaroons are an ancient amalgam of various arachnid bits and pieces that have been doing what they do since long before dinosaurs had their time in the sun.

While pretty terrifying to look at, they’re actually harmless to humans, aside from a strong-smelling acid spray from their back ends."

An interesting insect worth checking out.
https://factanimal.com/vinegaroon/

#TheMoreYouKnow #TIL
Have any of you heard of a Quincunx? Well, I had to look it up. For one thing, it's the 5 notches that make up the "5" on dice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincunx

A quincunx is also a 150° angle (within an 8° orb) between zodiac signs that are five signs apart.
https://www.astrology.com/article/quincunx-astrology/

It's also an amazing machine that shows the laws of probability. Here's an easy game you can play.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/quincunx.html

#TIL that Lumparn, the big round sea inlet in the south-east of the main Åland land mass, is an impact crater. Just like Lake Siljan in Sweden.

Merci beaucoup @bzg (et @louisvgn ) pour ton article "Un logiciel libre est un produit et un projet"

Je l'ai trouvé excellent ! Je pense avoir bien compris le message que tu as essayé de faire passer et je suis en accord avec tes propos.

https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-23_1149/

Confirmshaming #til #UnschönerWort

#TIL Electric power is not just "pumped electrons".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

#todayilearned: I can stream SoundCloud tracks with vlc just by copying the url and opening it as a network stream. Conveniently, this also bypass the sign-in prompt that SoundCloud likes to force upon their users... Open source to the rescue!

#TIL about #AudioMass, a web-based Free Code app which...

"... lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx."

https://audiomass.co/about.html

#HatTip to @poujolrost for the link.

#TIL You can use imagemagick to combine all images (e.g. jpg) of a folder to a single PDF.

convert *.jpg result.pdf

Je viens de découvrir l'excellente série d'articles "Nouvelles de l'IA" de @linuxfr

https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-22_1502/

#TIL about @fediversity;

"... a comprehensive effort to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom to everyone. We aim to provide high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use. Without tracking, without exploitation, in a way that runs everywhere and scales effortlessly.

... based on NixOS, a disruptive Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management."

https://fediversity.eu/about-fediversity/

Today I learned that (optic) computer mice relay movement by taking thousands of tiny images of the underlying surface and computing the pixel shift.
Essentially, minute patterns (scratches, irregularities, fibres etc.) are illuminated by the little light shining from the mouse underside - which is why most optical mice don’t work well on reflective surfaces. A camera then (constantly) captures monochrome images of only a few pixels. As the mouse is moved, subsequent images will have some overlap in one direction - which then allows calculating the path the cursor should take on the fly. Not only does this process have to be very fast, everything including the illumination is handled so energy efficiently that it can run a year on an AA battery.

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

Even though I use algorithms to calculate how images have shifted position at work nearly every day (multiplexed microscopy), I had never realised this was how optical mice work. Now I have newfound respect for the little buggers.

Heute gelernt: Obwohl beispielsweise im Smalltalk Buch von Strahringer und Kaufmann behauptet wird nil stünde „Not In List“, gilt als gesichert, dass die Angabe im bekannten Buch von Abelson und Sussman, es handele sich um eine Kontraktion von „nihil“ (lat. nichts), die korrekte Herleitung ist. #TIL #Scheme #Smalltalk #Oberon #Pascal

#TIL Alanis Morissette wrote the intro to No Bad Parts & has co-led retreats with Internal Family Systems' Dick Schwartz. #ifs

“I have 14 different opinions about one thing.” … (lyrics include: I’m high, but I’m grounded / I’m sane, but I’m ­overwhelmed), …

“I constantly reference multiple intelligences, … kids say, ‘I’m really dumb.’ … I’m just like, ‘What do you mean? Where are your intelligences? 

Interview: on addiction, midlife liberation & the predatory 90s
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/21/alanis-morissette-interview-sex-addiction-midlife-liberation-and-the-predatory-90s?CMP=insidesaturday_email

#TIL NASA launched a satellite dedicated to studying different kinds of plankton across the world, a subject we know upsettingly little about as we race to change the conditions they depend on for life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton,_Aerosol,_Cloud,_ocean_Ecosystem #PACE #NASA #plankton #climate