TIL: If you’re trans in Germany and you want to start hormone therapy, you still need to be officially declared “trans” first (Indikationsschreiben, page 18: https://www.transinterqueer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hormontherapie_DE_barrierearm.pdf) and then you can try to find an actual doctor to get the meds. All with super long waiting lists. This takes forever. 😩
Changing your legal name is surprisingly easy in comparison, at least since 2024: https://www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/aktuelles/alle-meldungen/anmeldung-zur-aenderung-des-geschlechtseintrages-jetzt-moeglich-243056 (From my perspective, that’s the less relevant part, though, because there’s a good chunk of people that you can just ask to call you differently (friends, cowokers, …) and then do that legal stuff later. But you want your body to change, like, now.)
TIL that #Processing 4 on Windows now has an installer!
I is not just a zipped folder anymore, I wonder if it will make it harder for people to use it on restricted school labs…
TIL that #Processing4 on Windows now has an installer!
https://processing.org/download
I is not just a zipped folder anymore, I wonder if it will make it harder for people to use it on restricted school labs…
TIL that #Processing4 on Windows now has an installer!
https://processing.org/download
It is not just a zipped folder anymore, I wonder if it will make it harder for people to use it on restricted school labs…
Speed dating a solution to the slow dating lives of farmers
When the dating app radius won’t reach the edge of your property, and you’re harvesting grain from sun-up til sundown, how do you find a partner? ⌘ Read more
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sudo is a sandwich. 🫠 https://www.sudo.ws/
TIL that there is a dedicated page for sudo. 😅
TIL: The logo of sudo is a sandwich. 🫠 https://www.sudo.ws/
love-hate and otel: using it while avoiding complexity
I quite appreciated his workflow for keeping OTel’s complexity at arm’s length. Also, he’s got a generic tool that can parse logs and turn them into otel spans that combines well will canonical logs and “wide events”: https://github.com/jonjohnsonjr/logspan
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Hi everyone,
I've drafted a Request for Comments (RFC) to improve how threads work in twtxt:
https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/18
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TIL that RFC means Request For Comments
TIL my high school publishes its own research journal. https://www.pingry.org/our-community/students/pingry-community-research-pcr-journal
TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp
TIL there’s a Director’s Cut of Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball video and it’s much better than the original.
TIL: Antarctica has its own unofficial flag. You could see Graham Bartram’s design in emoji: 🇦🇶
TIL that there’s no flag emoji, there are “regional indicator symbols”, which are basically letters that are combined into two-letter codes for countries.
TIL that changing a .bashrc alias to a bash function requires you to restart the terminal as calling source ~/.bashrc does not change the alias to the function call.
if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt
#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform
TIL: the guy who invented the toilet wasn’t named ‘crapper’, but he WAS named ‘cummings’.
TIL that there’s an organization for promoting McLuhan’s work whose initialism is TMI.
TIL that Tron was written by Alan Kay’s wife. That adds so many new dimensions to that movie, and makes ‘I fight for the users’ even more appropriate as a slogan.
Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “TIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet Arc…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841
TIL that Jaron Lanier is to blame for Second Life’s shitty/dysfunctional internal Linden economy
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
TIL: doing google image search for ‘japanese ’ is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. ‘anime ’ works much better.
TIL git checkout - works like cd - and checks out the last branch you were on.
TIL http://t.co/FvhyPpEQWK is like the olde timey myspace. My eyes hurt from all the glitter.