TIL that Foot Binding, the practice of breaking and binding a woman's feet to change its shape and size, was once so widespread in China that it was estimated in the 19th century that 40~50% of all Chinese women had bound feet. Among upper class Han Chinese women, the figure was almost 100%.
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#TIL that Mattermost is now offering its own bridge to Matrix, which depends on a Synapse instance running alongside the MM server;
mattermost.com/marketplace/mat…
This is what RocketChat were doing since about 2022. Although their documentation suggests they are working on full Matrix support inside the RC server itself, due sometime this month;
TIL that paying someone to do something they already enjoy can actually make them enjoy it less - a finding known as the overjustification effect (or motivation paradox).
verywellmind.com/what-is-the-o…
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The overjustification effect is when intrinsic motivation to perform an action is reduced by being offered a reward. Learn more about why this effect occurs.Kendra Cherry, MSEd (Verywell Mind)
No sé si conocíais esto, pero yo hoy he descubierto que existe una fundación, llamada Anisfield-Wolf, que desde 1935 concede un premio anual en Estados Unidos a libros de ficción, poesía y no ficción que contribuyan a la comprensión del racismo y a la defensa de la diversidad humana.
Su lista de premiados es una buena lista de recomendaciones de lectura, os la dejo por aquí 🥰
#recomendacionesdejanadelbosco #TIL
Recognizing books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
My @thunderbird regularly marks some S/MIME-signed mails with:
"Digital Signature is not valid!"
#TIL the reason: these mails are signed with sha1-algorithm which is considered insecure since TB 115.
There is a config to accept such signatures, see blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/t…
However, I think the error message:
"There are unknown problems with this digital signature." is suboptimal.
Seems like an easy issue to fix, but on the other hand I was not even able to finde the appropriate repo. 😬
A change was made in Thunderbird 115.0 that rejects the use of the SHA-1 algorithm in digital signatures of S/MIME emails.Kai Engert (The Thunderbird Blog)
TIL about the bulk import functionality in django-import-export library.
django-import-export.readthedo…
Some caveats:
- set `batch_size` for better performance
- doesn't work with many-to-many relationships
- no `pre_save` and `post_save` signals sent (it' doesn't call `model.save()`)
#TIL that #Thunderbird lets me set #filters to move an #email to a particular place *when* I archive it, rather than immediately! So I can still read the emails as they come in, and then hit "archive" to have them automagically filed away 📁️
There are other triggers too, besides "as soon as the email comes in" and "when I archive" that I haven't explored yet. Thunderbird rocks! 
✨️
blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/m…
Worried about missing a crucial email? Thunderbird is flying to the rescue. Learn how to make important messages stand out with filters.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#TIL I learned that German cities used to have a "Bettelvogt" or "Armenvogt" - a minor official whose job was it to "control the behavior" of beggars and other poor people.
They were explicitly tasked to _control_ beggars, and not help them in any way. Which just goes to show that shitty behavior towards poor people by the authorities was well-established long before the advent of #LateStageCapitalism .
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenvog…
TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Ar…
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