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PC1/2 A little northern California geography:<a href="https://mas.to/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> Lake Berryessa is one of the largest reservoirs in California!But what was even more interesting was it is one of two reservoirs formed with Putah Creek, which originates in the mountains northwest of Berryessa. A few miles more at the base of the foothills Putah Creek is Lake Solano. Putah Creek - Wikipedia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putah_Creek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putah_Creek</a>

Dr. Juande Santander-VelaToday I learned about `plistlib` on Python 3, and used it to easily get the dimensions of a file using its metadata:Gist: <a href="https://gist.github.com/juandesant/1984572bd48aeaf8254b9aff36972897" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/juandesant/1984572bd48aeaf8254b9aff36972897</a> Plistlib: <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Python</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Python3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Python3</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metadata</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/plistlib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plistlib</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/plists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plists</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macOS</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a>

Lady ArtemisToday I learned, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> has also been invading <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> for a way long day. Not cool, and really freakin’ surreal to see and hear from people near the “current borders”.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/todayIlearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayIlearned</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/invasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#invasion</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nebula</a> <a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/johnnyharris-the-invasion-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nebula.tv/videos/johnnyharris-the-invasion-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/</a>

Lady ArtemisToday I learned, when you leave a pot party, you walk right out into the wild west.I need to find a pot party. I want to step right out inti the wild west.Also, this short film is talking about "blowing pot". From now on, in my world, it's not toking or smoking - it's blowing 🤗<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/marijuana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marijuana</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PSA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PublicServiceAnnouncement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicServiceAnnouncement</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/blow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blow</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/todayIlearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayIlearned</a>

Bok<a href="https://lor.sh/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> that <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Verizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Verizon</a> FIOS TV has stations for <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Tubi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tubi</a>, <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/PlutoTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlutoTV</a>, and <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a>. <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a>

Dave Rahardja<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/todayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayILearned</a> that whales descended from a land mammal that looks like a dog. It walked on land and swam in the water. It had hooves and webbed feet, and eyes that were set high on its skull.Its name is Pakicetus—the whale from Pakistan—because that’s where their fossils were found.This sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pakicetus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pakicetus</a><a href="https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1025450/view/pakicetus-whale-ancestor-illustration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1025450/view/pakicetus-whale-ancestor-illustration</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus</a>

WTLI've been working through my Pocket read-later queue. Saturday morning is spent catching up on the previous week’s saves and Sunday morning is going backwards to earlier saves.I'm now into November 2023, so it is an interesting lens as to what I was curious about then.Today, I learned about the Sieve of Eratosthenes: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes</a>Have you learned anything interesting this weekend? 🤔<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlwaysBeLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlwaysBeLearning</a>

Paul WeberHeute gelernt: das Lied Tears in Heaven hat Eric Clapton für sein Kind geschrieben dass mit 4 Jahren bei einem Sturz aus den Fenster gestorben ist. Danke <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/%C3%B61" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ö1</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/todayilearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayilearned</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/heuteGelernt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heuteGelernt</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/musik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musik</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/zeitgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zeitgeschichte</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/clapton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clapton</a> <a href="https://ooe.social/tags/sicherheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sicherheit</a>

PC<a href="https://mas.to/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a>In February 1969, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JohnnyCash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnnyCash</a> had a party at his house (that) turned into a guitar pull, with some of Johnny's friends trying out their latest songs. " <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BobDylan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BobDylan</a> sang 'Lay Lady Lay,'" recalled Cash. " <a href="https://mas.to/tags/KrisKristofferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KrisKristofferson</a> sang 'Me and Bobby McGee.' <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JoniMitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoniMitchell</a> sang 'Both Sides Now.' <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GrahamNash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrahamNash</a> sang 'Marrakesh Express.' And <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ShelSilverstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShelSilverstein</a> sang 'A Boy Named Sue.'"<a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30082/johnny-cashs-boy-named-sue-was-written-shel-silverstein" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30082/johnny-cashs-boy-named-sue-was-written-shel-silverstein</a>

FiXato<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> that <a href="https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@oatmeal</a> is on mastodon. Unfortunately the account doesn't provide alt text / <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ImageDescriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImageDescriptions</a> for the comics :(

takeonrulesDid a double take on a link provided by <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/@sacha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sacha</a> Did not realize that adding the suffix `#:~:text=<starting phrase>,<ending phrase>` would scroll a modern browser to that text, and highlight it.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/html5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#html5</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a>

sijmen<a href="https://mk.vijf.life/tags/todayilearned" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todayilearned</a> it is not normally allowed to have red or salmon pink cables in Australian data centres, as they are reserved for secret data Control: ISM-0926; Revision: 11; Updated: Dec-24; Applicability: NC, OS, P; Essential Eight: N/A Non-classified, OFFICIAL: Sensitive and PROTECTED cables are coloured neither salmon pink nor red. Control: ISM-1718; Revision: 1; Updated: Mar-23; Applicability: S; Essential Eight: N/A SECRET cables are coloured salmon pink. Control: ISM-1719; Revision: 1; Updated: Mar-23; Applicability: TS; Essential Eight: N/A TOP SECRET cables are coloured red.

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> that Robert Loggia heavily campaigned for the role of Frank Booth in David Lynch's 1986 "Blue Velvet." After being kept waiting three hours for his audition, just to be told that Dennis Hopper had already been hired, Loggia unleashed a profanity-filled rant on Lynch that he still remembered a decade later, which inspired him to invite Loggia to play a similar role in his 1997 "Lost Highway."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDilD3wAxt8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDilD3wAxt8</a>

WTLOne thing I really enjoy; discovering a word I’ve never seen before and finding its definition hits that “oh, that's cool" portion of my brain.I've been making good progress clearing up my Pocket (AKA ReadItLater) queue lately. Found this while reading: <a href="https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodayIlearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayIlearned</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> that Warner Brothers originally created the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LooneyTunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LooneyTunes</a> cartoons because they had just acquired five popular music publishers at the beginning of the Great Depression, and wanted to heavily promote the songs they now owned so to encourage the sale of sheet music. For example, the very first Looney Tunes cartoon was called "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," created specifically to promote the 1929 song "Singin' in the Bathtub."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes</a>

Russ SharekAfter years of running `ls` commands to figure out where a symlink was pointing, today I found out about the readlink1 command:<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/readlink" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://man.openbsd.org/readlink</a><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/CommandLineWizardry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommandLineWizardry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TechnicalJiggeryPokery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechnicalJiggeryPokery</a>

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern</a>"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯 <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/TodayILearnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearnt</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Birds</a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Birbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Birbs</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> about female rockabilly pioneer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SparkleMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SparkleMoore</a>, a flamboyant live performer in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, who released only two singles in her entire career before retiring in 1956 to raise a family.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkle_Moore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkle_Moore</a>

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