TIL that, when traveling overseas, Queen Elizabeth II did not need a passport. Since all passports were issued in her name, it was unnecessary for The Queen to possess one.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 13 days ago

Georgians have no friends.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 19 days ago

A fair amount of tinkering needed, but a raspberry pi + display can accomplish this if you don’t need the voice assistant.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-build-a-wall-mounted-family-calendar-and-dashboard-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-cheap-monitor

(Spoiler alert, he uses Dakboard)

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 22 days ago

Half the time you can just open up a different browser

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 25 days ago

Probably wouldn’t buy a 2017 drive in 2025. I’ve retired almost all of my 2018-2019 used drives at this point.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Needs to be 3.11 skifree

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

We had IRC and AIM but it just wasn’t the same.

We searched yahoo and lycos. We asked Jeeves. We had it all.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Damn they can unlock phones with toothprints??

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Seems like it’s mostly people who hate AI

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

One of the best maps for gun game.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Would run doom at max settings for sure tho

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Going to guess you mean 512MB, since that’s the perfect amount for 98 and it can only address 4GB lol

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

I normally don’t like posts like this but these weekly ones are great! I learn about so many projects.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Yeah human error from getting phished or leaving their laptop in the car.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

They have them in the US too, at regular libraries. Obviously not such a wide selection.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

References to The Dark Tower or Murakami characters.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

The other fun part is when it updates and changes your privacy settings.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

I’m not an expert but I’d guess yelling all your search queries and favorite porn sites in the middle of a thanksgiving dinner offers more privacy than Google.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

That’s Turok 4

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

That you’ve time traveled from 2002 to save us

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Word. That’s good to know. I’ll give it a shot.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL that, when traveling overseas, Queen Elizabeth II did not need a passport. Since all passports were issued in her name, it was unnecessary for The Queen to possess one.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL that axolotls, a salamander native to Mexico, can regenerate entire limbs, spinal cords, and even parts of their brains without scarring.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL that Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat that helped prevent famine and is credited with saving over 1.2 billion lives. He won the Nobel Prize

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL evidence of a precursor to warfare has been found at Nataruk in Kenya. Remains of at least 27 individuals have been found and dated to 7550–8550 BC. The skeletons were bound and beaten.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL two men conned €55m from wealthy people by asking for aid posing as French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in online meetings by wearing a silicone mask of Le Drian & sitting at a fake official desk.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL that in 2015, Seal released an official explanation of the lyrics to "Kiss from a Rose." It read: "I have avoided explaining these lyrics for 25 years. I am not going to start doing it now."

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

I cannot believe I did it!

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL April 8th 1945 a prisoner at Buchenwald rigged up a radio transmitter and sent a message in a desperate attempt to contact the allies for rescue. 3 minutes after his message the US Army answered "

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 months ago

TIL After Joan of Arc was executed on charges of heresy, her mother spent 25 years clearing her name. She convinced the pope to reopen Joan's case and attended the retrial - in her 70s.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL Danny Trejo has a clause in his movie contracts that requires his villainous characters to die by the end of the film. He wants children to learn that crime doesn't pay.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL, that the largest arthropod in the world is a spider crab with a width of over 12 feet and weighing in at nearly 45 pounds! Known as the Japanese Spider Crab.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL a poll of 1,000 US visitors to Scotland found 33% thought haggis was an animal; 23% said they came to Scotland believing they could catch one. Haggis is traditionally made out of a sheep's stomach

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL Robert Kehoe discovered reports that the chemical benzidine caused bladder cancer. His client, DuPont, made benzidine. Instead of alerting the American public, Kehoe stuffed the report in a box. T

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL that two libraries in Portugal allow bats to nest in them, because they eat bugs that would eat the books.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL During the height of Frasier's popularity, Moose, the dog who played Eddie, received more fan mail than any of his human costars.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL In 1863 Copperhead leader Clement Vallandigham was exiled across enemy lines to the Confederacy by order of Abraham Lincoln, who considered him a “wily agitator” but did not want him to become a m

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL Australia is home to 10% of the world's reptile species, which is more than any other country.

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL In 1315 the republic of Florence abolished direct taxation, which was perceived as oppressive. The city was funded instead by indirect taxes, like tariffs and consumption taxes but also adopted a

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL in 1945 after a compulsory viewing of a film on the holocaust, 1000 German POWs at Camp Butner burned their German uniforms in disgust

Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

TIL optical telegraphs (at the turn of the 19th century) had many features now commonplace in modern networks, including control characters, routing, error control, flow control, message priority, and

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