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TIL that it is the female ginkgo trees that stink in the most inappropriate way, not the male ones. And that smell is from butyric acid that comes out of its false fruits when they fall off the tree and break apart on the ground.
Apparently the foul smell is thought to have evolved to attract dinosaurs!
What's the correct term for words that are spelled the same but mean different things depending on how they're pronounced?
For example 'tear', meaning to rip when it rhymes with 'hair' versus a droplet of water falling from the eye when it rhymes with 'ear'.
And does this phenomenon occur in other languages? For something more phonetic like Spanish I'd imagine not, but would love some Spanish examples if they exist...
@blag supot in Tagalog could mean bag or uncircumcised depending on emphasis, I am given to understand. Per Wiktionary, the latter definition has a visible accent mark over the o, so not sure it counts as a true homograph.
Yes, NovelWriter and Scrivener have a lot of similar features, and a lot of great additional ones I don't personally need, but they don't have the customizability and extensibility, and the power of org-mode and full vim capabilities built in.
I dislike that my writing setup is ugly compared to something like Neo, but I get *so much* in exchange for sacrificing a little bit of beauty.
🧵5/5
@masukomi My solution was to take the functionality of scrivener, and reproduce the parts I wanted in Obsidian.
Of course for me a major advantage of doing that for me was that I get vim functionality. And that has improved considerably with the neovim plug-in.
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/
(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)
@dangillmor Filth does not enjoy the spotlight - or public knowledge
With the Rails 8.2 release (probably) imminent, work is about to ramp up on @mosscap, the fork we've been laying the groundwork for.
If you want to reduce the impact of the "weird guys" on Rails, Ruby and OSS in general, we need your help!
This is ESPECIALLY true if you're a member of a community marginalized by the far-right rhetoric that comes from Rails' founder. This fork can't be led by the usual white male voices (e.g. me), we need *much* more diverse leadership.
Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play.
Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore.
https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #OpenSource #Google #GooglePlay
@daniel
How are you funding the conversations.im server now then?
We're all crowded into a parking lot just past Mimico Creek. I think someone might be making a speech but if they wanted people to know that they would have brought some kind of amplification
The breeze off the creek is nice! However I'm running out of Snickers bars
Back home and in comfy clothes and fed. (I took a little nighttime ramble in High Park afterwards.) Here's the view from Bloor W. near Glendonwynne.
fetching water in the haunted wood (2021)
@flexghost very little i listen to counts as groovy!
@stefan @flexghost You can improve your groove by attending the U of RUFUS. First: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fbwok5caD8
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717
#HackerNews #mathematics #mathematicians #STEM #education #future #of #math #math #community
In Conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor https://robertreich.substack.com/p/in-conversation-with-naomi-klein?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@rbreich Excellent conversation! Surprisingly hopeful.
Related to your Collabora thread, I have been very intrigued by Euro Office, its development and partners. It has only been organizing for 6 months and a bit.
I should set up an instance to play with it a bit.
https://wikis.world/@legoktm/117329403402411320
@Amgine my impression was that Euro-Office is trying to compete with Google Docs / Microsoft 365 (online Office) rather than build a proper desktop application (what I want). I am surprised Nextcloud invested in it given they already support Collabora Online but 🤷
Regardless I think more competition in the FOSS office suite space will be good so I'm curious what you think of it!
Since it seems like it’s Veilid Friday around here, a little something not ready just yet, but coming soon.
Veilpass
@thegibson
Only downside is that you have to have multiple devices 😂 very neat idea. I’ll keep an I on it!
Everyone thinks the aliens are at area 51 in Nevada but they are actually at Area 340 at the Newark NJ Airport
Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias | Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw7709
@neoluddite @akent if they didn’t want to have them make a giant crashing noise when I open them, they would make them lighter to open
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@amapanda
I didn't know there were ergonomic left handed mice. Normally the most lefties get is something that's symmetric.
@gedankenstuecke @mdione
@InsertUser @amapanda @mdione the upright ergo mice are the exception to that rule. For "regular" mice you're 100% right (I spent ages looking for a lefty one to bind a bunch of JOSM shortcuts to it and the best you can find are symmetrical ones - cf here: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117331505105585171)
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