Im Deutschen spricht man ja die Einerstellen vor den Zehnerstellen: 42 ist "zweiundvierzig". Mich stört das schon lange, und dachte, ich probier mal eine Weile aus "vierzigzwei" zu sagen.

Stellt sich raus: Es gibt seit 2004 den Verein https://zwanzigeins.jetzt, der sich für diese "unverdrehte" Sprechweise einsetzt! Sie führe zu weniger Lernhindernissen und Zahlendrehern.

Der Verein hat unter anderem ein 60-seitiges Positionspapier ausgearbeitet, aus dem ich ein paar Sachen berichten mag! 🧵

TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.

The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.

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I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent 

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

if anyone needs to know the time, 1194online.com has you covered

https://1194online.com/

Good news, the Tuscolo CT logs are now "Qualified" (meaning that some of your certs are/will soon be using our CT log!!)

The bad news is that by including our new logs in the well known list of CT logs, some stuff now instantly crashes (seemingly because the array of non "Sunlight" (aka next gen) logs is empty).

Impacted things seem to include:

1. 80% of the food delivery app market in Brazil
2. Lots of banks in India
3. Lowes????
4. Basically any app that uses appmattus/certificatetransparency

Suboptimal.

More info:

1. https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues/143
2. https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go/issues/1712

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MUNICH (June 15th, 2025) - FAFO e.V. has announced today that it has successfully observed quantum tunneling effects between a tungsten probe (made with a pair of pliers) and a brass plate in a DIY scanning tunneling microscope that one of its members built a decade ago.

"Oh, we are tunneling!", exclaimed @rahix, lead Rust developer at FAFO, having never done this sort of work in his life before. "I think we can work with it", he claimed with full confidence.