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#TIL that your employer has final say if you can access distributions from your #401k.
You do (supposedly) have legal recourse of they say No or fuck with you, but only if you have the time and money for a legal challenge, on top of whatever other crisis you're dealing with that requires you to take money out.

#TIL Il y a quelques mots Bretons qui se sont retrouvés dans l'usage du français :
➡️ un goéland, qui vient du breton Gwelan, les pleurs (inspiré par le cri de l'oiseau)
➡️dolmen et menhir (oui OK cette liste pour l'instant c'est du cliché) contiennent tous deux "men" (=pierre); le dolmen est une table (taol) et le menhir est une pierre longue (hir)
➡️ça baragouine quand ça demande dans une langue mal maîtrisée du pain (bara) et du vin (gwin) (c'était un terme méprisant pour les expatriés bretons à Paris qui essayaient de demander les bases avec un français pas bien parlé
➡️la cohue (ou koc'hu) c'est la halle où y'a plein de monde qui se bouscule !
➡️un dernier, et celui c'est un bijou ! On porte les bagues au doigts (au singulier biz et au pluriel bizoù), d'où le bijou !

(bretonnant'es soyez dans l'indulgence, je débute à peine)
(il y a d'autres mots ! J'ai mis les plus communs)
#breton #bzh #brezhoneg

Today I Learned #TIL the reason English spelling rules are so nonsensical is largely due to something called the 'Great Vowel Shift'.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

Apparently English speakers once spelled things they way they spoke them, but then the vowels started to shift around the fourteenth century; resulting in written English diverging from spoken English.

For example, the word 'name' was once pronounced 'nahmey' and 'food' was once pronounced 'foh-ohd'.

#language #HumanCondition

I'm a bit embarrassed
#TIL the passwords are stored in #ActiveDirectory without a Salt.

I'm still in shock. For all my career (30+ years) storing salted and hashed passwords has been the standard (or at least I thought so)

For non-#Cybersecurity security people an explanation:
The term Salt means that each password is extended by some random data. When calculating the hash (a mathematical function which can't be reversed) this Salt is included. As the Salt is different every time a password is set or changed it guaranties that even if people choose the same password that the hash differs. Without the salt the same password would have the same hash, so attackers would instantly know which accounts have the same password. Making it much easier for them.

Actually, it is even worse. If the password was used and cracked before it is likely in a list of cracked hashes. So you don't need to crack any hashes. You can simply look it up.

E.g the NTLM hash 8AC2859EC4AF435BA6AD116B0690A904

Looking it up at https://ntlm.pw/ reveals the password "ZaqwsX7679bgHrty!"

Brute forcing it would take billions of years, but a simple lookup reveals it in milliseconds

#TIL: there's a dedicated EM for Tram drivers. And the next event will even be in Vienna this year.
https://www.tramem.eu/

#PublicTransport #TramEM #Vienna #OEPNV #ÖPNV

Un fait #linguistique amusant :

la langue française actuelle a retenu au moins deux fois plus de mots d'origine arabe que de mots d'origine gauloise (une petite centaine difficile à certifier).

Évidemment la période d'intégration de ces mots est à prendre en compte.

(Errance #wikipedia du jour)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais#Origines_:_vocabulaire_et_%C3%A9tymologie

#TIL

@leniwcowaty Huh, it's been a while since I've used Mint, and when I do it's always a clean install because I'm just testing it. I didn't know they did that. #TIL I guess.

#TIL: Filter in #htop (either via pressing F4 or via the commandline option "-F") can't do regular expressions, but the pipe character "|" can be used to separate multiple search terms. E.g. only showing processes which have `systemd` or `sd-pam` in their name works like this:

htop -F 'systemd|sd-pam'

#unix #linux #commandline #cli #climagic #tui

https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/5n/Z/v9.mp3

Could Sydney burn like Los Angeles?

Is there a risk that bushfires as intense and destructive as those that have ravaged Los Angeles could bear down on an Australian city?

The head of Australia’s largest firefighting service says yes, Sydney, with its national parks so close to homes, could see similar devastation.

Today, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Rob Rogers, who will leave the service at the end of this fire season, on how firefighters have responded to the threat in LA and how we need to prepare.

Featured:

Rob Rogers, Commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service

Oh geez, #TIL that NSW has implemented Straya's only #AI -based fire monitor & resource dispatcher system.

I now look fwd to the imminent auto-dispatch of RFS Hornsby to a bushfire in Antarctica, RFS Sutherland to Mt Everest, & RFS Dubbo to The Faroe Isles, on the basis of unsolvable inevitable AI #hallucinations .

🙄🤦‍♀️

#TIL Lol... this may have been around for awhile, but I just encountered it for the first time today :

"liztruss" as a descriptor for a wilted lettuce in @pluralistic 's latest piece

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/

#TIL #WhatDidYouLearnToday #phonologie
Un peu de phonologie pour bien commencer l'année ?
La gémination est le redoublement d'une consonne qu'on entend à l'oreille.
Ainsi, en espagnol : pero est différent de perro, par le phénomène de gémination.
C'est très rare en français, mais on l'entend dans "Allah" par exemple, qu'on prononce avec 2 l, pas comme dans "alla", passé simple de "aller"

#TIL Victor Hugo a appelé ses horribles Thénardier d'après Thénard, chimiste, politicien, baron d'empire et ministre qui s'opposa à la diminution (même pas l'interdiction !) du travail des enfants.

#TIL that #debian has both an excellent commandline dictionary *and* thesaurus:

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/aiksaurus
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/dict

I kinda wish dict was offline (like aiksaurus AFAIK is), but it's still really nice.

Turns out that it wasn't a bug! The world is complex and Kale can be seen as either a dark green leafy vegetable or a cruciferous vegetable. #TIL