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ybc37··on Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
See also this official special page, which lists places nearby:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

ybc37··on The pneumatic tube mail system in New York City
I recently learned that Hamburg had a big tube system ("Großrohrpost"). The tube diameter was 45cm and the length of the wagons was 1,60m.

Some information in the German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrpost_in_Hamburg#Gro%C3%9Fr...

Recent article (paywalled) on German news site: https://www.zeit.de/2023/37/grossrohrpost-hamburg-kommunikat...

ybc37··on How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
According to this page [1], they do use external sources (Google, Mojeek, Yandex and more), but not Bing ;)

They also have their (two) own indexes.

Tbh, for me (as small town dev) it feels like magic how fast those different sources are combined, additionally with user search preferences like raising or blocking certain domains. Insides welcome :)

Edit: Here [2] are some benchmarks and general strategies they pursue. Would love to read more details.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

[2] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-speed.html

ybc37··on Times New Bastard
Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...

ybc37··on Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
> xclip, read from and write to the clipboard in the command line

There's wl-clipboard with the commands wl-copy and wl-paste: https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

Works flawless in my experience.

ybc37··on Using your phone as a software development platform
Another keyboard for this use case is Unexpected Keyboard [1]. I opted for this one, because Hacker's Keyboard seems to be in maintenance mode (sure, not necessarily an issue, but see the warning in the readme [2]).

[1] https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

[2] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard#overview

ybc37··on Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
The readme contains this section:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot#user-content-configuration

There's also a template in the repo:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/foot.ini

So, looks like one has to just set the font in the config file ;)