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Tbh, Every new day that we wake up to is a gift, We truly need to learn to appreciate the little things.. Maybe then we can start to see life from a different perspective. #TIL #Introduction

#TIL that California passed a law allowing residents to submit a single request that requires *all* registered data brokers to delete personal info and stop selling it. will it work? for the ones who make a lot of money publicly, yes; for the criminals, probably not. But I’ll take it. https://privacy.ca.gov/drop

Today I learned that the saxophone player for the classic rock group Lighthouse was Howard Shore, who went on to compose the astoundingly good music for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I had forgotten this song until Tidal recommended it today. https://tidal.com/track/77413362/u #HowardShore#ClassicRock#LOTR#TIL

#TIL you can type repo.new in a web browser to be taken to the page to create a new repository on GitHub. FWIW I knew about .new, but not about this specific shortcut

TIL There are "hunger stones" in rivers in central Europe. These stones were carved during droughts to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they will have to endure famine-related hardships if the water sinks to this level again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wsd5tx/til_there_are_hunger_stones_in_rivers_in_central/

TIL The Dutch ate their Prime Minister in 1672 alongside his brother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt#Death #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wqx7vp/til_the_dutch_ate_their_prime_minister_in_1672/

TIL the Passenger Pigeon was an American bird that went extinct in 1914. Prior there was an estimated population of 3-5 Billion. Due to their population size they were used in shooting contests, some requiring 30k dead pigeons to place 1st. Trappers would catch as many as 800 at a time in large nets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wr90qx/til_the_passenger_pigeon_was_an_american_bird/

Neuerdings bin ich Aushilfsadmin auf einem Server, der bei @hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social steht. Nach einer Weile fiel mir auf, dass dieser Server Sicherheitsupdates erst ca. 6 Stunden später bekommt als meine anderen Linux-Server, die woanders stehen. Jetzt habe ich den Grund gefunden: In /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ liegt eine Datei, die https://mirror.hetzner.com/debian/security enthält. Dass Rechenzentrumsbetreiber Spiegel der Paket-Repositories von Gnu/Linux-Distributionen betreiben, ist sicher nicht falsch. Aber Sicherheitsupdates müssen schnell verteilt werden. Dafür sollte man ein Repository einbinden, das schnell aktualisiert wird. Jetzt habe ich diese Stelle durch https://deb.debian.org/debian-security ersetzt und denke, dass ich das Problem damit behoben habe. #hetzner #aptmirror #Sicherheitsupdates #til #sysadmin #itsecurity

When I don't have a laptop with me, I sometimes do server admin stuff using my smartphone. It's a reasonably secure phone because it runs a hardened Android distribution called #GrapheneOS. Or so I thought. Shoddy apps can of course violate your security and privacy on any operating system. As a matter of fact, I once set up a Mastodon server via SSH using my smartphone as a terminal. My terminal app of choice is @termux@fosstodon.org – it almost feels like Debian Gnu/Linux. Today I found out that the #Termux developers do not care about their users' privacy: They put Google's DNS resolvers as defaults into their app and do tell their users about it. Which means that until today, Google learnt about each hostname I resolved in Termux, although I had configured my smartphone to use a different DNS resolver. The Termux developers were alerted to this bug ten years ago by @rugk@chaos.social but chose not to do anything about it. Someone wrote a shell script to correct this. But it requires special permissions you can only grant via ADB. So I just used a text editor to replace Google's DNS resolvers with privacy-respecting ones gleaned from @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de's recommendations in my first link: editor /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/resolv.conf #TIL #dnsleak #terminal #android #app #privacy

TIL that Lose/Lose is a 2009 video game made as an art project that erases a random file from your computer for each enemy you beat and can therefore brick it by design if you're not lucky. A reviewer quipped that the game was so scary they only dared play it for 3 seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lose/Lose #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wmd9ll/til_that_loselose_is_a_2009_video_game_made_as_an/

#TIL that BackDrop CMS (a fork of Durupal 7) is working on an ActivityPub plugin; https://backdropcms.org/project/backdrop_federation The latest version is in alpha, released in March this year. If you can help the developers to test or improve it, please do! #BackDrop #ActivityPub #FediDevs @blogdiva@mastodon.social @johnnythan

@combatwombat@hachyderm.io @diazona@techhub.social @pilum@fedi.j1nk4l.com @apLundell@timeloop.cafe @Taweret@timeloop.cafe#TIL Octaman has an entry on the CthulhuEternal wiki! But it gets a very low tentacle rating there 😆 https://yogwiki.cthulhueternal.com/wiki/Octaman_(1971_film) The Dunwich Horror does better with 3.5 tentacles https://yogwiki.cthulhueternal.com/wiki/The_Dunwich_Horror_(1970_film) #Monsterdon #ReMonsterdon

TIL that the spiciest peppers in the world all belong to the exact same species called Capsicum chinense, named because it was mistakenly thought to come from China. It includes the habanero, Scotch bonnet, ghost pepper, Trinidad scorpion, Carolina reaper, Pepper X, and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_chinense#Common_C._chinense_varieties #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wm0xz5/til_that_the_spiciest_peppers_in_the_world_all/

#til H0H 0H0 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H0H_0H0

@danirabbit@mastodon.online I was curious what the related "news" item was. Searching didn't help, but – as a side effect – #til I could scare myself re #WWIII with a click of a button: https://warmonit.com/global-war-risk

#TIL juxtapose: verb when placing two things side by side to compare them.

TIL all of the vital organs in an electric eel are crammed just behind the head, the other 80% of the body is dedicated to producing electricity http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/electric-eel #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wjprkk/til_all_of_the_vital_organs_in_an_electric_eel/

philtrum, noun the groove between your nose and upper lip #TIL #words #anatomy #trivia

TIL The Dewey Decimal system is a copyrighted commercial product. Libraries pay a licensing fee to use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wiwgh5/til_the_dewey_decimal_system_is_a_copyrighted/

#TIL about Simple English Wikipedia https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Simple_English