TIL that Limp Bizkit got a letter and a fruit basket from the World Trade Center, congratulating them on their VMA win and thanking them for featuring the Twin Towers in the Rollin' video. The next day, the towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
It’s been 19 years since the World Trade Center attacks. On September 11, 2001, two passenger planes crashed, with a few minutes interval at the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
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%.
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 iD - the #OpenStreetMap-editor on the main website - has a "tag this photo id onto the current object" for street level imagery such as @panoramax or #Mapillary
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.
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#TIL If you use #ClaudeCode, you can start your terminal session with `claude --resume`, and Claude will pop up a list of your recent conversations which you can scroll a select the one you want to continue. Convenient! #AI
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! ✨️
#TIL There is a solution called @yunohost. It's kind of an environment that allows you to install lots of apps. And my main insight was: there are LOTS of open-source web apps for everything. If I have enough time, I will definitely test many of them and document their #accessibility. I do remember struggling with some of them definitely, but some (like #NextCloud and #Miniflux) are decent. Here is their catalog: apps.yunohost.org/catalog
#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 .
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