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Keith Jenkins<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@mvexel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mvexel</span></a></span> Okay, so I just tested this theory using Audacity, and it totally checks out! <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about the <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/IndieBeatRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBeatRadio</span></a>, which carries on the spirit of the legendary <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://musician.social/@radiofreefedi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>radiofreefedi</span></a></span>;</p><p>"The Indie Beat Radio federates with Bandwagon.fm to amplify its music artists who’ve opted-in to distribution. We also play music in the public domain. Listen. Mix. Share."</p><p><a href="https://theindiebeat.fm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">theindiebeat.fm/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>They also have an OwnCast server for livestreams;</p><p><a href="https://live.theindiebeat.fm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">live.theindiebeat.fm/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/HatTip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HatTip</span></a> to<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benpate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benpate</span></a></span> for the tip, mentioned in his interview with Lorenzo's Music.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RadioFreeFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeFedi</span></a></p>
@frueheneuzeit<p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/til" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>til</span></a> if you don't want to fight virtual environments on a managed jupyter server (which really can be a hassle) and you don't need the notebook environment as such, you can just write pure python files, activate the virtual environment in a terminal and run the scripts from there.</p>
iverbpunkt<p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zdf.social/@3sat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>3sat</span></a></span> : In <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Basel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Basel</span></a> sind die vielen Brunnen der Stadt nicht nur zum <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Baden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baden</span></a> geeignet; es ist explizit erlaubt!</p><p><a href="https://www.basel.com/de/basel-inspiriert/sommer/brunnenbaden" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">basel.com/de/basel-inspiriert/</span><span class="invisible">sommer/brunnenbaden</span></a></p><p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/Brunnenbaden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brunnenbaden</span></a></p>
Martijn van Exel<p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that the keyboard bridge in The <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Beatles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beatles</span></a> "In my life" was not actually played on a harpsichord (as I had believed since I was 10 years old) but a piano recorded with the tape at half speed.</p>
Filippo A. Salustri 🇨🇦 ⚛️<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that there's a website that lists all the constitutions of all (most?) of the countries. You can even compare them to each other! For anyone interested, see <a href="https://www.constituteproject.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">constituteproject.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p>The Tuskegee Syphilis Study of 1932-1972 is an infamous case taught in all classes in medical ethics. Patients were denied existing effective treatment. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that it was preceded by the Oslo Study of 1891–1910. At that time there was no effective treatment: the standard treatment with mercury was actually just damaging. Two studies with the same object but completely different ethical situations.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_study" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_stu</span><span class="invisible">dy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
Sanjay<p>Do people unironically use github?<br>I thought there was a an exodus into gitlab or codeberg when Micro$oft bot github many summers ago.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
v_i_o_l_a<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: das <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/wissenschaftskommunikation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wissenschaftskommunikation</span></a>​sprinzip nach der AEIOU-regel: awareness, enjoyment, interest, opinion-forming, understanding. <br>via <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625030122004" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1177/09636625030122</span><span class="invisible">004</span></a> via folge 58 "Communicatio Scientiae" vom podcast "nullius in verba", <a href="https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/science-communication/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/s</span><span class="invisible">cience-communication/</span></a>. <br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scicom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicom</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/wisskomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wisskomm</span></a></p>
Luricaun the Smol<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> about <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Paraidolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paraidolia</span></a>.<br>For those of you who have no idea what this is don't worry. You probably know it even without knowing you do. </p><p>It's the phenomena where you see objects in things like clouds for example faces in a wall socket, etc. Read more about it on Wikipedia. There are some good examples. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidol</span><span class="invisible">ia</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mountains.social/@michael" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>michael</span></a></span> </p><p>Ötztal Man, "Ötzi", was found at or near a spot named Hauslabjoch. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> that *joch* is cognate and synonymous with Eng. *yoke* and Sw. *ok". It's a ridge between two peaks, a yoke, a mountain pass.</p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/deutsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deutsch</span></a></p>
Philip Mallegol-Hansen<p><a href="https://mastodon.mallegolhansen.com/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> renting a car through Costco travel is (at least for my specific parameters) ~30% cheaper than going direct through the rental company.</p>
Abie<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> La maison de Baba Yaga montée sur pattes de poulet est en fait une version légendaire des... greniers samis ! (= lapons)<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sami_Storehouse.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sam</span><span class="invisible">i_Storehouse.jpg</span></a><br>via <a href="https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/12/chicken-footed-building-sami-storehouse.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/12</span><span class="invisible">/chicken-footed-building-sami-storehouse.html</span></a></p>
knizer<p><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> little plastic single use terro ant bait stations can work wonders, but don't set the traps directly on the floor - put them on an index card or printer paper if there's room - on the off chance they tilt or somehow Bernoulli out; cleaning gooey floor is not fun! <br><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ants</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/PestControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PestControl</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/adulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adulting</span></a></p>