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If anybody is interested, micropython.org/download/ESP32… works on olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32-…

thanks to @Olimex for telling me that micropython was supposed to work on that board, some months ago

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varesenews.it/2026/01/a-gallar…

waaaitasecond

significa che fino all'altro ieri Gallarate era ancora gestita a relé degli anni 50?

in reply to Alessandro

@Alessandro perché tra gli anni 50 e oggi i sistemi per la regolazione del traffico ferroviario hanno introdotto un po' di sistemi di sicurezza che fanno comodo per evitare che i treni si schiantino

(e/o per far passare treni più ravvicinati, riducendo comunque il rischio di schianti, che ok, serve alle ferrovie per guadagnare di più, ma nella situazione delle ferrovie lombarde non fa neanche schifo ai pendolari)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

nel frattempo mi hanno soppresso un treno e quello dopo é un ritardo di 20'. E passano per Gallarate. Sarà un caso? Io non credo.
in reply to Alessandro

@Alessandro

intanto, stamattina alle 6:34

trenord ha scritto:

“AGGIORNAMENTO La circolazione della direttrice è stata rallentata da un guasto a uno scambio nella stazione di GALLARATE, che ha richiesto un intervento di ripristino da parte dei tecnici di RFI. Si sono registrati ritardi fino a 30 minuti. Il guasto è stato risolto e la circolazione torna progressivamente alla normalità. Info sull'andamento del treno in APP e Sito nella sezione "Real time | Linee e orari - ricerca treno".”
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@Alessandro in realtà mi pare che ora di quando ho postato qui le cose fossero tornate alla normalità e i treni relativamente in orario anche lì
in reply to Alessandro

@Alessandro no, quella non è normalità: quella è “non abbiamo fatto investimenti (e pure poca manutenzione) per decenni, e ora dobbiamo rimediare tutto in una volta”

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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua tu sai vero che esistono tribù di nativi per cui la BMW, o comunque una macchina in grado di andare veloce tenendo bene la strada, è molto utile per il tradizionale rituale di corteggiamento in cui il partner che dimostra di non saper correre a sufficienza sulle curve finisce nel lago (e non ripescano più né l'auto né il cadavere) e quindi si toglie dal pool riproduttivo?

certo, chi mostra di saper superare il rituale con una panda 4x4 mostra di essere ancora più adatto alla riproduzione, ma quello è davvero difficile :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

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food, swiss

our plans for the morning (walking) were prevented by external factors, so we decided to to the thing we had been postponing since this summer and had to do before the end of the month when the motorway payment expires: drive to a mall in Lugano, in Switzerland.

And this is why our lunch was pasta and potatoes with cenovis, while drinking rivella.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

food, swiss

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in reply to 5Ub-Z3r0

food, swiss

@5Ub-Z3r0 that's what we had at home, after coming back from Switzerland with the cenovis and rivella

(it was supposed to be pasta, potatoes and either pesto from the supermarket or olive paste from the supermarket, or some other quick thing like that)




legitimate¹ advertisement email:


Subject: The ball season is starting

Will you be sewing your own formal dresses?


me:

surely you mean “sit on the couch wrapped in two blankets season”, right?

And yes, I should really sew myself another cuddling-on-the-couch dress, because the ones I have are starting to be a bit worn :D (but I think I already have all of the materials in the stash)

¹ it's from a shop I buy from, and I haven't bothered unsubscribing yet

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Blanket wrap skirt (basically a rectangle with some pleats on the back) from some scrap pieces of fleece fabric is my first but also the most useful ever sewing project.

Can highly recommend for all Work-From-Homers.

in reply to Aleksandra Fedorova

@Aleksandra Fedorova mine is slightly more shaped (two trapezoids instead of a triangle, and it's cotton fleece rather than synthetic fleece, but 10/10 would recommend!


I have been wondering one thing:

when residential #solarPanel installations produce energy that is used in the same house and not sold to the grid, is it counted in the stats about the renewable energy production of a country / grid-area-whatever? Or does it get missed because the grid never sees it? Or does it depend on the local regulations?

does anybody know?

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

It seems very variable. Pakistan for example everyone does because it's almost entirely not grid tie so the non grid attached stuff matters. UK OTOH nobody seems to have a clue how much is non grid tie because it's unregistered and invisible to the government and it's probably too small to matter as a percentage.
in reply to The Penguin of Evil

there is another complexity too. Increasingly people are building microgrids for groups of new houses with shared big battery storage and grid connecting the whole microgrids as one supply. That avoids the grid operators raking in money moving power next door. In those cases it's even less visible what goes on.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

usually not.

Some research houses (including ours, and Ember for Pakistan where this number is large) estimate from installed capacity and typical insolation, for some purposes.



L'#accessibilità della #pubblicaamministrazione

comune.cadorago.co.it/novita/a…

la pagina: "Avviso! la carta di identà di cartà non sarà più valida! Vedi Allegato!"
l'allegato: jpg

questo: comune.cadorago.co.it/halley//…

dovrebbero smettere di metter li gente che sa solo mandare meme su uassap nel gruppo "buongiornissimo"

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in reply to Fabio

non sono al pc per aprire la console js, ma graficamente è uguale al sito del comune dove abito e a mille altri siti di comuni che ho visitato per lavoro, quindi penso che sia una soluzione chiavi in mano, e qualcosa mi suggerisce che è della best azienda it italiana, sogei.
in reply to akiran_n

@akiran_n la grafica è uguale più o meno per tutti perchè segue delle linee guida agid.gov.it/it/linee-guida

Di produttori che vendono soluzioni chiavi in mano ce ne sono diversi. la grafica è più o meno simile, la parte tecnica no.
Da un veloce giro fatto ieri sera ho trovato almeno quattro diverse soluzioni da altrettante società che gestiscono diversi comuni nel circondario.

Il grosso problema, secondo me, è chi poi va a scriverci in questi siti.
Non puoi mettere una news "cose importanti da fare: vedi allegato" e l'allegato è una jpg a fondo azzurro e testo verde che sembra un meme girato via uassàp.

E' l'antitesi di quello che dovrebbe essere quel sito. E' l'opposto del concetto di accessibilità. Quella immagine faccio fatica a leggerla io, che ok che porto gli occhiali da lettura, ma non ho problemi di daltonismo.
Oltre al fatto che vado sul sito, clicco sulla news, clicco sull'immagine e da li devo aprire un'altra finestra del browser per copiarci l'indirizzo che è scritto nell'immagine. Perché non è nel testo? Perché non è cliccabile? Perché c'è gente che ha la competenza informatica di un tasso del miele con il compito di tocchicciare il sito con le manine appiccicose?

in reply to Fabio

perché lui è quello che ce ne capisce, poi lo aiuta suocuggginoquellobbbbbravo.
Un po come quando mi altero con mia moglie e parentado perché invece di condividere il link a tale sito/articolo mettono una screenshot
in reply to Fabio

Bè carino, ed erano lustri che non vedevo siffatti commenti in produzione...


Sunrise has happened

I could get up from the chair and go outside to do things

(checks the temperature, it's -4°C)

maybe I'll wait another 30 minutes :D

(it's 8:30 here, and sunny enough that I expect the temperature to go above freezing soon-ish)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Il sole è sorto

potrei alzarmi dalla sedia e andare fuori a fare cose

(controlla la temperatura: -4°C)

ma magari aspetto ancora mezz'ora, vah :D

(qui sono le 8:30, e il cielo è abbastanza limpido per cui mi aspetto che salga sopra lo zero abbastanza presto)

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@Kermode you are in Canada :D I live in a technically subtropical climate :D

(also, it's still the middle of the night over there, right?)

(-4°C is on the colder end of what we routinely get, nothing unusual, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to get outside without gloves and use water based glue right now :) )



And now for something completely different


Posted on January 4, 2026
Tags: topic:walking

Warning

mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense.

One side of Porto Ceresio along the lake: there is a small strip of houses, and the hills behind them are covered in woods. A boat is parked around the middle of the picture.

A lot of the youtube channels I follow tend to involve somebody makingthings, so of course one of the videos my SO and I watched a few days ago was about walking around San Francisco Bay, and that recalled my desire to go to places by foot. Now, for health-related reasons doing it properly would be problematic, and thus I’ve never trained for that, but during this Christmas holiday-heavy time I suggested my very patient SO the next best thing: instead of our usual 1.5 hours uphill walk in the woods, a 2 hours and a bit mostly flat walk on paved streets, plus some train, to a nearby town: Porto Ceresio, on the Italian side of Lake Lugano.

I started to prepare for it on the day before, by deciding it was a good time to upgrade my PinePhone, and wait, I’m still on Trixie? I could try Forky, what could possibly go wrong? And well, the phone was no longer able to boot, and reinstalling from the latest weekly had a system where the on-screen keyboard didn’t appear, and I didn’t want to bother finding out why, so re-installed another time from the 13.0 image, and between that, and distracting myself with widelands while waiting for the downloads and uploads and reboots etc., well, all of the afternoon and the best part of the evening disappeared.

So, in a hurry, between the evening and the next morning I prepared a nice healthy lunch, full of all the important nutrients such as sugar, salt, mercury and arsenic. Tuna (mercury) soboro (sugar and salt) on rice and since I was in a hurry I didn’t prepare any vegetables, but used pickles (more salt) and shio kombu (arsenic and various heavy metals, sugar and salt). Plus a green tea mochi for dessert, in case we felt low on sugar. :D

Then on the day of the walk we woke up a bit later than usual, and then my body decided it was a good day for my belly to not exactly hurt, but not not-hurt either, and there I took an executive decision to wear a corset, because if something feels like it wants to burst open, wrapping it in a steel reinforced cage will make it stop. (I’m not joking. It does. At least in those specific circumstances.)

This was followed by hurrying through the things I had to do before leaving the house, having a brief anxiety attack and feeling feverish (it wasn’t fever), and finally being able to leave the house just half an hour late.

A stream running on rocks with the woods to both sides.

And then, 10 minutes after we had left, realizing that I had written down the password for the train website, since it was no longer saved on the phone, but i had forgotten the bit of paper at home. We could have gone back to take it, but decided not to bother, as we could also hopefully buy paper-ish tickets at the train station (we could).

Later on, I also realized I had also forgotten my GPS tracker, so I have no record of where we went exactly (but it’s not hard to recognize it on a map) nor on what the temperature was. It’s a shame, but by that point it was way too late to go back.

Anyway, that probably was when Murphy felt we had paid our respects, and from then on everything went lovingly well!

Routing had been done on the OpenStreetMap website, with OSRM, and it looked pretty easy to follow, but we also had access to an Android phone, so we used OSMAnd to check that we were still on track. It tried to lead us to the Statale (i.e. most important and most trafficked road) a few times, but we ignored it, and after a few turns and a few changes of the precise destination point we managed to get it to cooperate.

At one point a helpful person asked us if we needed help, having seen us looking at the phone, and gave us indication for the next fork (that way to Cuasso al Piano, that way to Porto Ceresio), but it was pretty easy, since the way was clearly marked also for cars.

Then we started to notice red and white markings on poles and other places, and on the next fork there was a signpost for hiking routes with our destination and we decided to follow it instead of the sign for cars. I knew that from our starting point to or destination there was also a hiking route, uphill both ways :) , through the hills, about 5 or 6 hours instead of two, but the sign was pointing downhill and we were past the point where we would expect too long of a detour.

A wide and flat unpaved track passing through a flat grassy area with trees to the sides and rolling hills in the background.

And indeed, after a short while the paved road ended, but the path continued on a wide and flat track, and was a welcome detour through what looked like water works to prevent flood damage from a stream. In a warmer season, with longer grass and ticks maybe the fact that I was wearing a long skirt may have been an issue, but in winter it was just fine.

And soon afterwards, we were in Porto Ceresio. I think I have been there as a child, but I had no memory of it. On the other hand, it was about as I expected: a tiny town with a lakeside street full of houses built in the early 1900s when the area was an important tourism destination, with older buildings a bit higher up on the hills (because streams in this area will flood). And of course, getting there by foot rather than by train we also saw the parts where real people live (but not work: that’s cross-border commuters country).

Dried winter grass with two strips of frost, exactly under the shade of a fence.

Soon after arriving in Porto Ceresio we stopped to eat our lunch on a bench at the lakeside; up to then we had been pretty comfortable in the clothing we had decided to wear: there was plenty of frost on the ground, in the shade, but the sun was warm and the temperatures were cleanly above freezing. Removing the gloves to eat, however, resulted in quite cold hands, and we didn’t want to stay still for longer than strictly necessary.

So we spent another hour and a bit walking around Porto Ceresio like proper tourists and taking pictures. There was an exhibition of nativity scenes all around the streets, but to get a map one had to go to either facebook or instagram, or wait for the opening hours of an office that were later than the train we planned to get to go back home, so we only saw maybe half of them, as we walked around: some were quite nice, some were nativity scenes, and some showed that the school children must have had some fun making them.

three gnome adjacent creatures made of branches of evergreen trees, with a pointy hat made of moss, big white moustaches and red Christmas tree balls at the end of the hat and as a nose. They are wrapped in LED strings, and the lake can be seen in the background.

Another Christmas decoration were groups of creatures made of evergreen branches that dotted the sidewalks around the lake: I took pictures of the first couple of groups, and then after seeing a few more something clicked in my brain, and I noticed that they were wrapped in green LED strings, like chains, and they had a red ball that was supposed to be the nose, but could just be around the mouth area, and suddenly I felt the need to play a certain chord to release them, but sadly I didn’t have a weaponized guitar on me :D

A bench in the shape of an open book, half of the pages folded in a reversed U to make the seat and half of the pages standing straight to form the backrest. It has the title page and beginning of the Constitution of the Italian Republic.

Another thing that we noticed were some benches in the shape of books, with book quotations on them; most were on reading-related topics, but the one with the Constitution felt worth taking a picture of, especially these days.

And then, our train was waiting at the station, and we had to go back home for the afternoon; it was a nice outing, if a bit brief, and we agreed to do it again, possibly with a bit of a detour to make the walk a bit longer. And then maybe one day we’ll train to do the whole 5-6 hour thing through the hills.


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in reply to Fabio

And now for something completely different
@Fabio e invece no! :D sempre disattendere le aspettative! :D


food

and under “technically Christmas leftovers” (ingredients bought in excess for Christmas and not opened): sushi with smoked salmon and avocado.

/me makes a convincing impersionation of Tux (i.e. a penguin stuffed full of herrings)



Comunque, oggi ho preso un treno di #trenord ed è arrivato con uno o due minuti di anticipo

certo, è sabato.

tra capodanno e l'epifania.

con mezza linea chiusa per cui i treni del nodo di milano non potevano interferire.

però era in anticipo :D

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(0.25 l / 1 gallon * 2 pounds) to g

needed to write no person living in a sane world ever.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

OH. g is grams, not 9.8m/sˆ2...

still, units don't seem to match, volume times mass converted to mass?

in reply to Marcos Dione

@Marcos Dione volume (proper unit) divided by volume (ungodly unit) multiplied by mass (ungodly unit) , the result converted to mass (proper unit)
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@Kermode it wasn't anything special, just checking the ratio of shellac to alcohol that is typically used as a wood finish, and converting it to sane units I have an intuitive feeling for.


dear #DIYverse,

does anybody know how long #wheatPaste takes to dry and to cure?

i.e. how long should I keep the pieces under weights, and how long should I wait until covering it with waterproofing material

I'm assuming somewhere between overnight (~8 hours) and a day (~24 hours) for the first part, is it wildly off?

right now the specific application is gluing together 4 layers of corrugated cardboard approximately B3 sized, but generic guidelines are welcome for the future

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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua quando son scesa nel pomeriggio qualcuno, probabilmente il gatto, aveva appena spostato i pesi, e sembra attaccato bene

per andare avanti a farci cose aspetto domani o dopo, a seconda degli impegni, comunque

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E come anticipato ieri sera: questo è quello che ho trovato in cantina:

la propaganda stampata su cartoncino di #FerrovieNord, prima dell'unione in #Trenord, con cui speravano di tener buoni i pendolari mentre i treni nuovi non si facevano vedere (ricorda qualcosa? :D ), e qualcuna delle copie ha pure l'etichetta con il mio indirizzo, perché lo spedivano pure a casa agli abbonati! (questa cosa non me la ricordavo, onestamente)

a qualcuno interessano? io non ho posto per tenerli, quindi se a nessuno interessano mi tocca farli finire nel riciclo carta

@LaVi @Matteꙮ Italia @Yaku 🐗

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Yaku 🐗 @Matteꙮ Italia @LaVi ah, e in realtà nel trafiletto c'era la spiegazione del perché avevano pubblicato la lettera (per avere ”un rapporto più diretto e rispettoso dell'utenza”), la risposta sui vari punti era sotto alla lettera e a pagina quattro
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

OK quindi più o meno quel che mi han sempre risposto, probabilmente si tengono lì quel volantino come template 😄


Intanto su #trenord varesenews.it/2025/12/un-cervo…

(consigliata l'apertura con ad blocker, che altrimenti il sito è inguardabile)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

a me fanno morire i siti che hanno l'avviso per chiederti se per piacere puoi disabilitare l'adblock, solo per il loro sito.


meanwhile, I've just used another bit of the flour that has been around the house for, I don't know? three years? after suffering a bit of delivery mishap that made it not really something I'd trust for eating.

It looked like flour, it didn't smell bad, currently the forbidden budino smells like lavender oil

nobody will ever know how it tastes (hopefully not even the bugs)

#diy #glue

#diy #glue

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

e intanto ho usato ancora un po' di quella farina che è rimasta in giro per casa per, boh, tre anni? dopo aver subito traumi durante il trasporto che l'hanno resa non proprio adatta all'uso alimentare.

aveva l'aspetto di farina, non aveva cattivi odori, al momento il budino proibito odora di olio essenziale di lavanda

nessuno saprà mai che sapore ha (spero neanche gli insetti)

#faiDaTe #colla



first world problems, food

I've just realized that all of my yogurt is in the fridge downstairs.

also, I haven't set the timer for my tea

this breakfast isn't starting right :D

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first world problems, food

@cate but we had plans for the morning!

shopping!

at the hardware store! :D

@cate



@LaVi @Yaku 🐗 @Rapita dagli alieni se ne parlava l'altro giorno: questa è un'agenda giornaliera formato A5 stampata su carta da stampante (circa 75 g/m²) e rilegata

Il lato con la rilegatura è alto 37 mm, di cui 10 mm sono le due copertine, il lato con solo i fogli sono 27 mm in tutto (e lavorando un po' di martello di gomma lo si potrebbe probabilmente arrotondare e abbassare anche il lato con la rilegatura)

non è un quadernetto snello, ma neanche inusabile, secondo me



I'm making a simple project in circuitpython that should remain running for a few hours, but at times just freezes.

I'm considering putting an except Exception around the main loop

should I write the exception to a log file on the SD card that I will never look at, or just pass?

wrong answers only :D

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

sto facendo un progettino in circuitpython che dovrebbe rimanere in funzione per qualche ora, ma a volte si pianta.

sto meditando di mettere un except Exception attorno al main loop.

meglio scrivere l'eccezione su un file di log sulla scheda SD che poi non leggerò mai, oppure metterci solo un pass?

solo risposte sbagliate, grazie :D

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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua purtroppo sto usando un adalogger che non ha il wifi, altrimenti potrei vedere se il sito delle poste ha un'api che si possa usare da microcontrollore per inviare il file error.log via posta ogni volta che il dispositivo passa da una rete alla quale riesce a connettersi

sarebbe comodo, no? :D



Filed under: self-induced problems

Years ago, before I read a bit about the producer, I was looking for an ink in a specific shade of blue, and I bought a bottle of Noodler's Eternal Polar Blue #fountainPen ink.

And it's *perfect*, it's exactly the shade I wanted.

And also, it's *crap*, it feathers and bleeds even on decent paper and using my extrafine nib pens.

I had to add gum arabic to make it vaguely usable (with nib pens), but if I add enough to make it behave it's no longer the smoothest writing experience.

And now I have the best part of a whatever 3 oz is in real units bottle and I want to use it, but I also don't want to use it, and if I keep writing with my usual thin nib pens it will take forever!

(edit: I wrote the ink name wrong)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Nella categoria: problemi auto-indotti.

Anni fa, prima di leggere cose sul produttore, stavo cercando un'inchiostro da #stilografica in una sfumatura precisa di blu, e ho comprato una bottiglia di Noodler's Eternal Polar Blue..

Ed è *perfetto*, esattamente la sfumatura che volevo.

Ed è una merda che spiuma e trapassa anche su carta decente usando un pennino ad intinzione extrafine.

Ho dovuto aggiungerci abbondante gomma arabica per renderlo usabile (coi pennini), ma così l'esperienza di scrittura non è più così piacevole..

E adesso mi rimane una buona parte di una bottiglia da qualunque cosa siano 3 oncie in unità di misura vere, e lo voglio usare, ma non lo voglio veramente usare, e se continuo ad usarlo coi pennini fini mi dura per sempre!



Uooops, missà che qualcuno ha fatto una scelta del nome poco felice, se per caso dovessero scoprirlo gli italiani e/o i veneti :D


Mona 7 is available now 🎉 getmona.app

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Oblomov

@rubecula non dimentichiamo il Vinculo per Arduino.

Poi vai a sapere magari quanti nomi e sigle nostre fanno ridere in Asia, per carità.



Per chi prende le linee #trenord che passano da Gallarate:

“Si informa la Gentile Clientela che, dal 26 dicembre 2025 al 5 gennaio 2026, per lavori di potenziamento infrastrutturale a cura di RFI, la circolazione dei treni è sospesa tra le stazioni di Gallarate e Rho; per questo subirà variazioni il servizio delle seguenti linee: a.mktgcdn.com/f/3714691/aKy1DA…



Programmare FPGA sotto linux.


Se a qualcuno può interessare, al seguente link un presentazione su come programmare una FPGA sotto linux, con tanto di introduzione su come funzionano.


We have the *power sapling*!

Which is like a power plant, but smaller :D

#solarPanels

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@Oblomov me l'aspettavo precisa precisa tipo fantozzi, ovviamente :D

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minor injury

does anybody know whether getting hurt while doing a feudal corvee counts as work-related injury for insurance reasons?

asking for a friend who just hit the back of her ankle with a metal door just after feeding the Marquess (before breakfast, because of course you have to harvest your lord's field before your own).

(I'm fine, it's just a small scrape)

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

piccola bua

per caso qualcuno sa se infortunarsi mentre si sta svolgendo una corvee feudale conta come infortunio sul lavoro e va denunciato all'INAIL?

chiedo per un'amica che si è tirata una porta di metallo sulla caviglia subito dopo aver dato da mangiare al Marchese (prima di colazione, perché ovviamente si deve fare il raccolto sui campi dei signore prima del tuo).

(è tutto a posto, solo una sbucciatura)

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Have I just tried to tell the Marquess (a.k.a. #notOurCat) that we have just had solar panels installed, and as soon as they'll get actually connected I'll change the time when I wash my laundry, and thus the time when he sees me putting out the laundry to dry?

Did he understand one single word of what I was telling him? I only implied, but didn't say “and give you kibbles”.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

"I find your lack of understanding that my kibbles are obviously NOT subject to puny human thingies like time... disturbing"

- his grace the Marquess

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@Carlo Ricchiardi qui dovrebbe mancare una giornata di lavoro (ancora non sappiamo quando sarà se tutto va bene entro la settimana)


food, baking

yesterday I've spent the evening with a low-grade worry that I was forgetting something

this morning I woke up realizing that the bread rolls I was supposed to cook yesterday after dinner had not been cooked

5 minutes ago I had a slice of freshly baked flat loaf :D

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cibo, panificazione

ieri ho passato la serata con un vago senso di stare dimenticando qualcosa

stamattina mi sono svegliata ricordandomi che i panini che avrei dovuto cuocere ieri dopo cena non erano stati cotti

5 minuti fa ho mangiato una fetta di pagnotta bassa appena uscita dal forno :D

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Magari a @LaVi interessa sapere che ho appena restituito retebibliotecaria.provincia.va… ed è in viaggio per tornare in quel di Saronno

(è un libro del 1978, con riproduzioni delle stampe dell'ottocento)

@LaVi
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@LaVi beh, lettura è parola forte, visto che c'erano 4 pagine di introduzione e tutto il resto erano stampe di personaggi lombardi, tipo

però indubbiamente interessante

@LaVi

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Is this the day when we¹ all² talk about our writing tools obsessions?

When I'm home, most of what I write is written using #dipPens, including vintage ones that were in use in the schools of Italy up to the 1950s and modern ones.

AMA :)

¹ flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11…
² craftgoblin.club/@silhelm/1156…

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I'm not going to say that it's cheaper than using fountain pens, because 5 EUR fountain pens exists, and dip pens are a bit harder to find and come with postage cost, but the basics are a couple of EUR for a penholder and a couple of EUR for each nib, plus a bottle of basic fountain pen ink (maybe ~5 EUR)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@LaVi @Panormus tutti privilegi, giusto? :D


dear virt-manager,

when I try to create a virtual machine that uses a network that is not currently active you conveniently provide me with a button to activate it.

*why* don't you do the same when I try to *start* a virtual machine?

*why* do I have to start the network somewhere else???

(Could I add a whishlist bug? yes. Do I want to bother? eh.)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

caro virt-manager,

quando cerco di creare una macchina virtuale che usa una rete attualmente non attiva mi fornisci un comodo pulsante per attivarla.

*perché* non fai la stessa cosa quando cerco di far *partire* una macchina virtuale?

*perché* in quel caso devo far partire la rete da un'altra parte?

(Potrei aprire un bug whishlist? sì. Ne ho voglia. meh.)



Oh guarda, il mio spirito natalizio..

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@Fabio The first shot of 2025's War on Christmas has been fired!


Confy 0.9.0


Oh, hey. #confy 0.9.0 has been released!

In this version

  • Automatically update schedule when cache expire. Before it was updated only on open.
  • New and improved page navigation logic
  • Improved handling of shortcuts
  • Fixed the sidebar: no more out of order items when opening new conference
  • Added the ability to clean the "recent conference" list
  • Fixed opening event page from "next up" notification

and some more small fixes

you can get it on flathub, your package manager or install from source



I've decided to write on my planner the days when I've taken an oil based integrator (one capital letter per month), and the only valid reason why I shouldn't buy a new golden-green #fountainPenInk is that I already have a CMYK kit, right?

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho deciso di segnarmi sull'agenda i giorni in cui prendo un integratore a base d'olio (devo scrivere una lettera maiuscola al mese) e l'unico motivo valido per non comprare un nuovo #InchiostroPerStilografica verde dorato è che ho un kit CMYK, vero?

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HP fanfic, JKR-free, christmas

I've just read Christmas Magic by BrilliantLady

archiveofourown.org/works/5529…

am. dead.



Alla serata del @Gruppo Linux Como stasera abbiamo trovato il nuovo sistema di init successore di systemd: puntarellad!

e abbiamo anche i sorgenti di puntarellactl:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Nun me va de fa un cazzo"
exit 255

#Puntarella



Ringraziamo il postino che non ha potuto trattenersi dal piegare la busta.
#scalendario @Kenobit
in reply to Fabio

Sei sicuro? Davvero, l'abbiamo tenuto in conto. ❤
in reply to Kenobit

@Kenobit Sicuro, non c'è problema. Magari aggiungete lo scrittone sulle prossime buste, se ne avete ancora da spedire 😊


PDF Planners 2026


Posted on November 27, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:bookbinding
A few years ago I wrote some planner generating code to make myself a custom planner; in November 2023 I generated a few, and posted them here on the blog, in case somebody was interested in using them.

In 2024 I tried to do the same, and ended up being even more late, to the point where I didn’t generate any (uooops).

I did, however, start to write a Makefile to automate the generation (and got stuck on the fact that there wasn’t an easy way to deduce the correct options needed from just the template name); this year, with the same promptness as in 2023 I got back to the Makefile and finished it, so maybe next year I will be able to post them early enough for people to print and bind them? maybe :)

Anyway, these are all of the variants I currently generate, for 2026.

The files with -book in the name have been imposed on A4 paper for a 16 pages signature. All of the fonts have been converted to paths, for ease of printing (yes, this means that customizing the font requires running the script, but the alternative also had its drawbacks).

In English:
daily-95×186-en.pdf
blank daily pages, 95 mm × 186 mm;
daily-A5-en.pdf daily-A5-en-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A5;
daily-A6-en.pdf daily-A6-en-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A6;
daily-graph-A5-en.pdf daily-graph-A5-en-book.pdf
graph paper (4 mm) daily pages, A5;
daily-points4mm-A5-en.pdf daily-points4mm-A5-en-book.pdf
pointed paper (4 mm), A5;
daily-ruled-A5-en.pdf daily-ruled-A5-en-book.pdf
ruled paper daily pages, A5;
week_on_two_pages-A6-en.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week on two pages, A6;
week_on_one_page-A6-en.pdf week_on_one_page-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page, A6;
week_on_one_page_dots-A6-en.pdf week_on_one_page_dots-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
week_health-A6-en.pdf week_health-A6-en-book.pdf
weekly health tracker, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
month-A6-en.pdf month-A6-en-book.pdf
monthly planner, A6;

And the same planners, in Italian:
daily-95×186-it.pdf
blank daily pages, 95 mm × 186 mm;
daily-A5-it.pdf daily-A5-it-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A5;
daily-A6-it.pdf daily-A6-it-book.pdf
blank daily pages, A6;
daily-graph-A5-it.pdf daily-graph-A5-it-book.pdf
graph paper (4 mm) daily pages, A5;
daily-points4mm-A5-it.pdf daily-points4mm-A5-it-book.pdf
pointed paper (4 mm), A5;
daily-ruled-A5-it.pdf daily-ruled-A5-it-book.pdf
ruled paper daily pages, A5;
week_on_two_pages-A6-it.pdf week_on_two_pages-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week on two pages, A6;
week_on_one_page-A6-it.pdf week_on_one_page-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page, A6;
week_on_one_page_dots-A6-it.pdf week_on_one_page_dots-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly planner, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
week_health-A6-it.pdf week_health-A6-it-book.pdf
weekly health tracker, one week per page with 4 mm dots, A6;
month-A6-it.pdf month-A6-it-book.pdf
monthly planner, A6;

Some of the planners include ephemerids and moon phase data: these have been calculated for the town of Como, and specifically forgeo:45.81478,9.07522?z=17, because that’s what everybody needs, right?

If you need the ephemerids for a different location and can’t run the script yourself (it depends on pdfjam, i.e. various GB of LaTeX, and a few python modules such as dateutil, pypdf and jinja2), feel free to ask: unless I receive too many requests to make this sustainable I’ll generate them and add them to this post.

I hereby release all the PDFs linked in this blog post under the CC0 license.

You may notice that I haven’t decided on a license for the code dump repository; again if you need it for something (that is compatible with its unsupported status) other than running it for personal use (for which afaik there is an implicit license) let me know and I’ll push “decide on a license” higher on the stack of things to do :D

Finishing the Makefile meant that I had to add a tiny feature to one of the scripts involved, which required me to add a dependency to pypdf: up to now I have been doing the page manipulations with pdfjam, which is pretty convenient to use, but also uses LaTeX, and apparently not every computer comes with texlive installed (shocking, I know).

If I’m not mistaken, pypdf can do all of the things I’m doing with pdfjam, so maybe for the next year I could convert my script to use that one instead.

But then the planners 2027 will be quick and easy, and I will be able to publish them promptly, right?


blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/1…

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode yeah, sorry, I published the article in a way that meant that the links in the rss were broken, and friendica didn't get the fix

the links are now correct on the blog:

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/1…

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