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jaz :twt: :wales_flag:<p>A lot of people describe certain words as a portmanteau of two other words, e.g. "fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe".</p><p>This of course assumes that everyone knows what "portmanteau" means.</p><p>Portmanteau is actually a combination of "portman" and "tow", from the Norman "teau". </p><p>In olden times, the portman would stand on an oared tugboat and tow boats into harbour two at a time, with a rope over each shoulder.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Sector9<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> <br>Just a reminder that the 'A' in 'AI' stands for:<br>Artificial - Insincere; fake, forced or feigned. Not natural or normal: imposed arbitrarily or without regard to the specifics or normal circumstances of a person, a situation, etc.</p><p>It's literally NO intelligence. It can't think. It's a toaster that talks based on the things it recorded.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Dave<p>I learned yesterday that WWII US subs had toilets that took 10 steps to flush because the water had to be pressurized. If you missed one of those steps the next person to flush would get the contents sprayed back up at them. It was called the "Freckle Maker".</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/themoreyouknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Alison Wilder<p>TIL that Michael Bay directed that milk ad from the 90s where the guy who runs an Alexander Hamilton museum can't call in and answer "who shot Alexander Hamilton" for $1M because he's out of milk and has a mouth full of peanut butter sandwich.</p><p><a href="https://io.waxandleather.com/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Nick Savage<p>Because the world doesn't need more garbage in landfills, when I ship any product from my company, I will use either compostable mailing bags or reuse boxes shipped to me. Besides reducing waste, it keeps costs down on the consumer end. Check out everything I offer at www.theauthornicksavage.com or at www.savagecanvasarts.com <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/themoreyouknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>themoreyouknow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tshirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tshirts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recycle</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>(But this revolution may be linked to Spotify.)</p><p> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>Some may not realize the phrase "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" comes from a poem. Have a listen. All still very apropos.</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vjslqo2VxiDOahYlV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vj</span><span class="invisible">slqo2VxiDOahYlV</span></a></p><p>There's also a feminist response to it from the 90s. </p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3RnnKPZTVu639oOZ5Qry5y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/3RnnKPZ</span><span class="invisible">TVu639oOZ5Qry5y</span></a></p><p>Are there any other versions in this piece?</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a></p>
Magnetic Dope Synthesizer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>georgetakei</span></a></span> That is not the ABAWD, or Education and Training requirements, nor the SNAP work rules. This is inaccurate information. Maybe it's a typo and he meant 80 hours per month. <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Gina Blank<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@carpingdiem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carpingdiem</span></a></span> Well, there's a throwback! My mom used to enjoy watching that show, which meant I often caught snippets.</p><p>Fun fact: The body of water seen briefly in the opening theme of Murder, She Wrote, is the same body of water they used in certain scenes of Jaws (and probably other productions since I learned that tidbit on a tour of Universal Studios in 1995). <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
S★m V★rm★<p>So it seems like the very first words you need to know in another language are:</p><p>Please <br>Thank you <br>Excuse me <br>Do you speak English </p><p>TIL "Teşekkür edemir", thank you in Turkish</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Isocat<p>In Italian, the plural of 'pimple' is 'ziti'. </p><p><a href="https://tiggi.es/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Gina Blank<p>I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the cup holder in your vehicle is the perfect size for a 4” potted plant.</p><p><a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/GardenersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GardenersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Custard! 🍮:fedora:<p>Hoy vuelvo a explicar la funcionalidad de los contadores de interacción en el fediverso, para los nuevos y para los curtidos... Nunca está de más!</p><p>El conteo de los impulsos/favoritos es algo raro, pero entendible en el fediverso</p><p>Simón publica algo en pepita.com a las 12:00 a.m.<br>Ésta publicación se vuelve popular en 3 horas, a las 03:00 a.m. ya lleva 69 impulsos y 69 favoritos</p><p>Alguien sigue a Simón en haba.lol, e impulsa la publicación, el conteo irá incrementando +1 en cada interacción en haba.lol cada vez que alguien de la misma instancia interactúe con la publicación de Simón, pero no verá el conteo real que está sucediendo en pepita.com, el conteo se realiza por instancia (ocurre desde cero porque al momento de publicar su actividad Simón en pepita.com, haba.lol obtiene y resuelve casi inmediatamente la actividad, el contador crecerá para Simón cada vez que alguien interactúe con su actividad en su servidor origen, pero no para los que lo siguen en otras instancias</p><p>Alguien en trivago.hotel impulsa la publicación de Simón a las 04:20 a.m., para ese entonces la lleva 210 impulsos y 210 favoritos, pero nadie en trivago.hotel sigue a Simón, así en que ésta instancia el conteo se obtiene en el momento en que sucede la primera interacción con la actividad de Simón (así se le llama a las publicaciones en el protocolo ActivityPub) subsecuentemente si alguien de trivago.hotel impulsa esa actividad, será de 210 +1 y así...</p><p>Es así por diseño (actualizar cada estado publicado añadiría peticiones extra a la red, no es algo caro computacionalmente hablando cuando se trata de sólo una, pero ahora imagina miles de actividades por segundo siendo actualizadas en sus contadores...)</p><p>Existe Substitoot, una extensión para navegadores basados en Chromium/Firefox que hace esa función, (y también obtener las respuestas remotas de la actividad consultada) obtiene esos números de la instancia origen de la actividad seleccionada (pero, ojo, se hace cuando abres la actividad deseada en la vista Web de Mastodon, y ese número real de actividad sólo será para ése momento de la consulta y sólo para tí, ésta consulta NO hace que el conteo se actualice en el servidor que estás usando, anque las respuestas obtenidas remotamente SI se guardarán en el servidor desde el cual la extensión está haciendo la consulta)</p><p>Y así</p><p><a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/Fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedi</span></a> <a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/Fediverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverso</span></a> <a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/MastoAyuda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAyuda</span></a> <a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/HowTo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HowTo</span></a> <a href="https://bonito.cafe/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
slotos<p>When Russia claims to want peace, do remember about the crucial role of nuance:</p><p>&gt; Rarely any agressor wants THE WAR. They want a swift victory and a fancy parade. War is waged by those opposing conquest. They don't want it, either. But an average Ukrainian has more chances of survival and keeping his possessions in the army rather than under the occupation.</p><p>- Остап Українець (<a href="https://nitter.net/Ukrostap/status/1898345545367715927#m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nitter.net/Ukrostap/status/189</span><span class="invisible">8345545367715927#m</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/themoreyouknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>themoreyouknow</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a></p>
Jinna, Experimental Edition<p>Nerdsniping of the day (I was the victim): Are there years when the US vs ISO abiding countries do not agree on the week number?</p><p>The answer as per playing a bit with python is: yes indeed, and 2027 will be the next occurrence. On this date 2 years from now, the US is living week 15 while most of us are still in week 14.</p><p>The root cause is a different definition of week 1, whether it's placed on January 1st or January 4th.</p><p>In addition there's the bit where we disagree on the number every Sunday and other Fun conflicts I'm omitting for brevity, but that's mostly small potatoes to almost an entire year of potential misunderstandings!</p><p><a href="https://gts.laalaa.land/tags/nerdsniped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nerdsniped</span></a> <a href="https://gts.laalaa.land/tags/themoreyouknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
KSev 🇳🇴🌻🚲 :donor:<p>Hypervitaminosis A. <br>I do not recommend. <br>Also, a good reason to never consume polar bear liver. <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/theMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theMoreYouKnow</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/notACureForMeasles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notACureForMeasles</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervit</span><span class="invisible">aminosis_A?wprov=sfti1</span></a></p>
Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪<p>Few recall Audrey's groundbreaking work in Gravity Theory back in the day, and that she was instrumental in getting the Gravity Lens to work, which, in turn, ended the Martian invasion.<br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/Audrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Audrey</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Feral Aunt Nessie :v_bi:<p>Huh the audiobook version of A Brief History of Time was read by Michael Jackson?? <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TheMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Tor Kingdon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lowqualityfacts</span></a></span> and here I thought the still said does but didn't give each other rings. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/theMoreYouKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theMoreYouKnow</span></a></p>
Nick Silkey 🪓🪵 🪣💧<p>Digging into the ‘Mumps IGG AB' test in the results, the doctor shared this with the single order approach they used: </p><p>“For MMR, we titer all parts of the vaccine, measles (rubeola), mumps, and rubella.”</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/themoreyouknow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>themoreyouknow</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/billfknnye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billfknnye</span></a> 🚀</p>
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