Let it be on record.
I drove my mother to do things, but there was no parking available, so I dropped her where she had to be and was faced with a choice of what to do before picking her up again:
* drive back home (feasible, but probably would have meant having to come back as soon as I arrived)
* stop at a nearby small hardware shop and do some shopping for things I didn't need
* visit a cemetery
and exercised self-restraint and choose the latter.
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Hexagonal Pattern Weights
Posted on February 24, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:3dprint, craft:sewing
For quite a few years, I’ve been using pattern weights instead of pins when cutting fabric, starting with random objects and then mostly using some big washers from the local hardware store.
However, at about 22 g per washer, I needed quite a few of them, and dealing with them tended to get unwieldy; I don’t remember how it happened, but one day I decided to make myself some bigger weights with a few washers each.
I suspect I had seen somebody online with some nice hexagonal pattern weights, and hexagonal of course reminded me of the Stickers Standard, so of course I settled on an hexagon 5 cm tall and I decided I could 3D-print it in a way that could be filled with washers for weight.
Rather than bothering with adding a lid (and fitting it), I decided to close the bottom by gluing a piece of felt, with the added advantage that it would protect whatever the weight was being used on. And of course the top could be decorated with a nerdish sticker, because, well, I am a nerd.
I made a few of these pattern weights, used them for a while, was happy with them, and then a few days ago I received some new hexagonal stickers I had had printed, and realized that while I had taken a picture with all of the steps in assembling them, I had never published any kind of instructions on how to make them — and I had not even pushed the source file on the craft tools git repository.
And yesterday I fixed that: the instructions are now on my craft pattern website, with generated STL files, the git repository has been updated with the current sources, and now I’ve even written this blog post :)
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Water Resistant Hood
Posted on February 23, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Many years ago I made myself a vest with lots of pockets1 in a few layers of cheap cotton, and wore the hell out of it, for the added warmth, but most importantly for the convenience provided by the pockets.
Then a few years ago the cheap cotton had started to get worn, and I decided I needed to replace it. I found a second choice (and thus cheaper :) ) version of a water-repellent cottonand made another vest, lined with regular cotton, for a total of just two layers.
This time I skipped a few pockets that I had found I didn’t use that much, and I didn’t add a hood, which didn’t play that well when worn over a hoodie, but I added some detached sleeves, for additional wind protection.
This left about 60 cm and some odd pieces of leftover fabric in my stash, for which I had no plan.
And then February2 came, and I needed a quick simple mindless handsewing projects for the first weekend, I saw the vest (which I’m wearing as much as the old one), the sleeves (which have been used much less, but I’d like to change this) and thought about making a matching hood for it, using my square hood pattern.
Since the etaproof is a bit stiff and not that nice to the touch I decide to line3 it with the same cotton as the vest and sleeves, and in the style of the pattern I did so by finishing each panel with its own lining (with regular cotton thread) and then whipstitching the panels together with the corespun cotton/poly thread recommended by the seller of the fabric. I’m not sure this is the best way to construct something that is supposed to resist the rain, but if I notice issues I can always add some sealing tape afterwards.
I do have a waterproof cape to wear in case of real rain, so this is only supposed to work for light rain anyway, and it may prove not to be an issue.
As something designed to be worn in light rain, this is also something likely to be worn in low light conditions, where 100% black may not be the wisest look. On the vest I had added reflective piping to the armscyes, but I was out of the same piping.
I did however have a spool of reflector thread made of glass fibre by Rico Design, which I think was originally sold to be worked into knitting or crochet projects (it is now discontinued) and I had never used.
I decided to try and sew a decorative blanket stitch border, a decision I had reasons to regret, since the thread broke and tangled like crazy, but in the end it was done, I like how it looks, and it seems pretty functional. I hope it won’t break with time and use, and if it does I’ll either fix it or try to redo with something else.
Of course, the day I finished sewing the reflective border it stopped raining, so I haven’t worn it yet, but I hope I’ll be able to, and if it is an horrible failure I’ll make sure to update this post.
- and I’ve just realized that I haven’t migrated that pattern to my pattern website, and I should do that. just don’t hold your breath for it to happen O:-). And for the time being it will not have step-by-step pictures, as I currently don’t need another vest.↩︎
- and February of course means a weekend in front of a screen that is showing a live-streamed conference.↩︎
- and of course I updated the pattern with instructions on how to add a lining.↩︎
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Articolo su alcune soluzioni adottate da aziende italiane per ridurre l'uso del gas
ilpost.it/2025/02/22/aziende-i…
#condividereAncheLeBuoneNotizie
Le aziende italiane che provano a fare a meno del gas
Stanno emergendo soluzioni alternative, e innovative, per produrre calore industriale con l'energia elettrica, e ridurre così i costiIl Post
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Round two, FIGHT!
ehm, no. print!
no. stick?
Anyway, guess what I've just received
We did a group order, so some aren't mine, but the second picture has the ones I'm guilty of, mostly selected because I need them on my laptop (except for the Arch one, that one is my fault, but will go on other people's laptops / phones, mine will have the *Debian* one :D )
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Round 2, FIGHT!
ehm, no, stampa!
no, neanche. attacca?
Indovinate un po' cosa mi hanno appena consegnato?
Abbiamo fatto un ordine di gruppo, quindi una parte non sono miei: nella seconda foto c'è ciò di cui sono colpevole, selezionati in base al principio “ne ho bisogno sul mio portatile” (tranne quello di arch, che è colpa mia, ma andrà su portatile / telefoni di altri, sul *mio* va quello di *debian* :D )
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anyway, some stickers have gone on my laptop, and I may have spent the last few minutes moving the laptop to see the rainbow effect on the fediverse sticker
it's *shiny*!
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comunque, qualche adesivo è finito sul mio portatile, e potrei aver passato gli ultimi minuti muovendo il portatile avanti e indietro per vedere l'effetto arcobaleno sull'adesivo del fediverso.
*luccica*!
@Sini Tuulia it is!
I love the fact that some nerd took the time to write the Stickers Standard, and that it has since been somewhat adopted by nerds everywhere :D
and I've just realized that I have some hexagonal pattern weights (these ones social.gl-como.it/photos/valha… ) and only 3 out of 8 had proper stickers on them!
(no pictures of the full up-to-date set of pattern weights because it's dark, sorry)
e mi sono appena resa conto di avere dei pesi da cartamodello esagonali (questi: social.gl-como.it/photos/valha… ) e che su 8 solo 3 avevano già degli adesivi sopra!
(niente foto dei pesi aggiornati, perché è già buio, sorry)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua la struttura esagonale è di PLA stampato 3D, all'interno il peso sono delle rondelle di dimensioni significative, sotto c'è un pezzo di feltro che copre le rondelle e protegge ciò su cui li si usa
prima o poi (TM) ho intenzione di pubblicare il modello stampabile e tutto quanto
se serve, prima o poi potrebbe anticipare di qualche mese (il che non vuol dire che arrivi *presto* :D)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ok, tecnicamente il modello era quasi pubblicato e ho fatto in tempo a togliere il quasi (ma mancano le istruzioni per personalizzarlo e/o assemblarlo)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua si diceva sul “non sarà presto”?
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Thanks to “digging through a box of old microcontroller boards until I found an #arduino leonardo compatible one and digging through another box until I found an IR receiver and a random cheap remote labeled car mp3” I now have a remote I can use to control mpv to watch videos when I'm further away from the laptop/pc keyboard than the length of my arm (or when there is an ironing board between myself and the laptop).
18 out of 21 buttons have been assigned to a function
3 out of 21 buttons actually have the function that is labeled on the remote
3 additional buttons have a function that may be vaguely hinted at by the label on the remote (very vaguely)
everything else is completely unrelated.
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Tramite la tecnica “scavare in una scatola di schede a microcontrollore fino a trovare un compatibile #arduino leonardo e scavare in un altra scatola fino a trovare un ricevitore a infrarossi e un telecomando cinese con scritto sopra car mp3” adesso ho un telecomando che posso usare per controllare mpv quando guardo video a distanza dal pc/portatile maggiore della lunghezza del mio braccio (o quando tra me e il portatile c'è un asse da stiro).
18 bottoni su 21 sono stati configurati per avere qualche funzione
3 bottoni su 21 hanno la funzione che c'è effettivamente scritta sul telecomando
altri 3 bottoni hanno una funzione che potrebbe vagamente essere richiamata da quel che c'è scritto sul telecomando (molto vagamente)
tutto il resto è completamente scorrelato
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Tonight an early victorian gentle woman embraced me warmly, moved her mouth close to mine and sensually told me of the virtues of a sontag when walking in the cold season.
(yes, early victorian is probably too early for sontags, and yes, that's the only odd thing in the dream, right?)
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@Dún Piteog è un tipo di scialle che si avvolge attorno al torso e si lega sulla schiena, quindi rimane più aderente al corpo di uno scialle appoggiato e basta
qui ci sono un po' di esempi, con dagherrotipi¹ e disegni mathomhouse.typepad.com/bluest…
e qui invece c'è una foto costumegirl.wordpress.com/2015…
¹ no, non sono sicura che ci siano dei dagherrotipi, almeno qualcuna delle foto è su carta, ma era per dare l'idea dell'epoca delle immagini :D
@Dún Piteog uops, no, era più una situazione tipo “non esiste maltempo, esiste abbigliamento non adeguato”
(in effetti noto che cercando sontag e basta non si trova molto di correlato, serve almeno “sontag garment” o simili)
Per fare un esempio di quote toot (o meglio “cita e ricondividi”), @peaceful aggro
Non sono d'accordo con l'introduzione della possibilità di citare i toot (il "quote post" di twitter). Non solo rischia di portare la sciagura della polemika tipica del birdsite, ma secondo me rende più facile un uso mentalmente pigro, anzi siccome la pigrizia è una bella cosa, forse direi superficiale del mezzo.Poi oh magari mi sbaglio
@peaceful aggro c'è da dire che questo era il modo di ricondividere con friendica da molto prima che esistesse mastodon, il boost è stato aggiunto negli ultimi anni per compatibilità con mastodon (e/o con activity pub), missà
secondo me è questione di comunità tossica che viene incentivarne a farne uso tossico (e probabilmente la cosa si reinforza)
mentre quando ai tempi su friendica eravamo quattro gatti che al massimo litigavano su quale fosse la distribuzione linux migliore non è che si fosse santi, ma i numeri erano bassi e probabilmente mancava l'effetto rinforzo.
/me, yesterday evening: listened to Barbero talking about villagers in a certain part of the Middle Ages weren't too unhappy about paying the right¹ amount of taxes to a local lord, because they *did* have a need for the service they provided of protection from raiders and outside threats.
/me, just afterwards: pays a kibble tribute to the local lord, who provides protection from mice and other critters, and sometimes even gracefully allows us to pet him.
¹ how much the *right* amount was was of course a completely different matter :D
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/me ieri sera: ascolta Barbero spiegare che gli abitanti dei villaggi in un certo periodo del medioevo non erano così scontenti di pagare le giuste¹ tasse al signore locale, perché avevano effettivamente bisogno del servizio che questo forniva di protezione da scorribande ed altri pericoli esterni.
/me subito dopo: paga un tributo in croccantini al signore locale, che fornisce protezione da topi e altri animali molesti, e a volte concede generosamente di fargli persino due grattini.
¹ decidere quanto fosse *giusto* ovviamente era una questione totalmente diversa
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Filed under: questions I'm not sure it was wise to ask myself.
Is it possible to #weave a twill tape with tablets on a #backstrapLoom? (apparently yes)
Is it a good use of my time to do so, when I can buy twill tape from the haberdasher? (not in linen, and not in the colours I can buy linen thread in)
Does Nm 24 yarn / thread mean that it will take forever?
Note that I've started with a few rows of plain weave, just to stabilize everything, and I've only woven the bare minimum I felt confortable with before removing the warm from the clamps and moving it to the backstrap loom.
Also, this brown yarn is cotton, not linen, I'm keeping the nice linen for when I'm sure that this whole thing can actually work.
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Quella tecnica ha funzionato 5000 anni, non vedo perché non debba funzionare ora.
Se poi ti serve per fare cose che non si trovano in commercio ancora meglio, altrimenti cosa avresti come alternativa, comprare uno stabilimento che produce 5000 km di fettuccia l'anno?
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ecco, non lo so se ha funzionato 5000 anni fa, o se sono combinazioni di tecniche che hanno funzionato 5000 anni fa, ma non assieme: di solito con le tavolette si fanno cose con più di due fili, e per fare la fettuccia spigata credo che ci siano strumenti più semplici.
Però è sono tutti strumenti che ho sottomano, e quindi perché no?
(Come alternativa avrei cercare meglio siti che vendono materiale specializzato in giro per l'europa, ma dov'è il divertimento così? :D )
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/me, ieri sera: guarda un video¹ che parla dello stato dell'aviaria negli stati uniti, e prevede (in modo non particolarmente affidabile) che ci saranno nuovi lockdown
contesto: siamo a metà di un trasloco che si sta trascinando nel tempo
/me stamattina: ok, va bene tutto, ma se Meloni o peggio Salvini fanno dichiarazioni sull'argomento e dicono che non ci saranno lockdown io prendo un giorno di ferie, salgo in macchina e vado *subito* a prendere i vestiti estivi da casa vecchia
¹ era da un canale di notizie scientifiche, che è interessante soprattutto quando parla di fisica e argomenti correlati, su altri argomenti quando da interpretazioni delle conseguenze delle notizie va preso pesantemente con le pinze
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@LaVi hai visto? cambia la persona da insultare quando i treni non vanno
varesenews.it/2025/02/finisce-…
(consiglio l'apertura del link con opportuno preservativo)
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Alla presidenza confermata Federica Santini, che viene da Fs
Viaggia con 72 minuti di ritardo.
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I've just watched Bernadette Banners' video “How to Identify Quality in Clothing (A Rant)” and I'm a bit surprised by the way serging is basically condemned as evil.
I do hate the serger (and the serger hates me), so on the clothing I make I tend to use french seams, bound edges and all those finishes, but other than the odd flat felled seam on sportswear I don't think I've ever seen a professionally made garment where the raw edges weren't finished with serging, even when it was an actual seamstress doing custom work.
Of course there is serging and serging, and the video does mention what to look for for better (or less worse, as they framed it) serging, but I just don't understand how one is supposed to find garments that aren't serged at all for sale.
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What really stung me was the reminder about seam-allowance size and ease of modifying seams. Do I think she was right in that department? YES! How often I've seen of-the-rack pants with easily modifyable mid-back seam? Once in several years!! (I look always, because most pants don't fit my curvy figure) ...
I'm just generally very sad how shit most of contemporary clothing has become, and I wanted to complain a bit more about it. 😅
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I had just finished listening to an 1976 album (from a cd ripped to flac stored on a media center and played by a pinephone connected to the line in of the stereo) and there was a clank sound, possibly coming from the neighbors that sounded very much like the sound the turntables makes when stopping and returning the arm to the resting position.
I had earlier decided against listening to music on vinyl because I was also cutting fabric at the same time.
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Avevo appena finito di ascoltare un disco del 1976 (da un cd rippato in flac, salvato sul media center e riprodotto dal pinofono collegato al line-in dello stereo) e c'è stato un *clank*, probabilmente proveniente dai vicini, che sembrava il rumore che fa il piatto quando si ferma e riporta il braccio alla posizione di riposo.
Prima avevo deciso che non avrei ascoltato musica su vinile perché nello stesso momento stavo anche tagliando della stoffa.
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Have I mentioned that #handsewing water resistant cotton by hand (four layers of it, because I'm whipstitching two finished edges together) is *interesting*?
(it may not be the best way to keep the seam watertight, but I may treat it with seam sealant later if I really need it. not that I intend to wear this hood under a downpour, I have a full plasticy cape for those, this is just intended for light rain)
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and since I want to make things even more *interesting* for myself, now I'm adding a border of blanket stitches all around the edge of the hood, in a thread made of *glass fibre*.
(I think it was meant for knitting, but I have had it in my stash for ages, and I decided that I wanted something visible on a black garment meant to be worn while walking in the rain and gloom)
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e per rendermi la vita ancora più *interessante*, sto aggiungendo un bordo di punto coperta(?) tutto attorno all'orlo del cappuccio con del filo fatto di fibra di vetro.
(credo che fosse pensato per il lavoro ai ferri, ma ce l'ho in giro da secoli, e ho deciso che volevo qualcosa di visibile su un capo di abbigliamento nero da indossare quando si cammina sotto la pioggia)
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l'immagine in testa all'articolo è stata scelta totalmente a caso, vero?
ilpost.it/2025/02/06/quanto-ci…
Si fa presto a dire andare su Marte
Per farlo veramente come vorrebbero Trump e Musk c'è una finestra ogni 26 mesi, a causa di come si muovono i due pianetiIl Post
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Filed under #sillyQuestionsAtDinnerTime
Does the fact that the name prescinsöa has a umlaut in it mean that it is metal? \m/
(it's a cheese-adiacent food from Liguria)
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Nella categoria #domandeStupideAllOraDiCena
Il fatto che nel nome prescinsöa ci sia un'umlaut vuol dire che è metal? \m/
(per chi non la conoscesse, è un quasi-formaggio ligure)
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@Justin Time avevi in mente di fare qualcosa questa sera?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…
(attenzione, link ad una wiki dove si perde un sacco di tempo)
And this is when I'm sorry that friendica doesn't support creating polls.
This night at about 6:20 somebody tried to check the time, let the phone¹ fall on the ground, hitting other things and causing a lot of noise. who could have been?
* The dog (we don't have a dog)
* A black cat (there are a few in the neighborhood, none of them enter our bedroom
* The naked monkey in a black pajama
¹ an old nokia. the floor is still intact, thankfully.
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Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One
Posted on February 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits
A few ago I may have accidentally bought a ring of 12 RGB LEDs; I soldered temporary leads on it, connected it to a CircuitPython supported board and played around for a while.
They we had a couple of friends come over to remote FOSDEM together, and I had talked with one of them about WS2812 / NeoPixels, so I brought them to the living room, in case there was a chance to show them in sort-of-use.
Then I was dealing with playing the various streams as we moved from one room to the next, which lead to me being called “video team”, which lead to me wearing a video team shirt (from an old DebConf, not FOSDEM, but still video team), which lead to somebody asking me whether I also had the sheet with the countdown to the end of the talk, and the answer was sort-of-yes (I should have the ones we used to use for our Linux Day), but not handy.
But I had a thing with twelve things in a clock-like circle.
A bit of fiddling on the CircuitPython REPL resulted, if I remember correctly, in something like:
import board
import neopixel
import time
num_pixels = 12
pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.GP0, num_pixels)
pixels.brightness = 0.1
def end(min):
pixels.fill((0, 0, 0))
for i in range(12):
pixels[i] = (127 + 10 * i, 8 * (12 - i), 0)
pixels[i-1] = (0, 0, 0)
time.sleep(min * 5) # min * 60 / 12Now, I wasn’t very consistent in running
end, especially since I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to run it at the beginning of the talk with the full duration or just in the last 5 - 10 minutes depending of the length of the slot, but I’ve had at least one person agree that the general idea has potential, so I’m taking these notes to be able to work on it in the future.One thing that needs to be fixed is the fact that with the ring just attached with temporary wires and left on the table it isn’t clear which LED is number 0, so it will need a bit of a case or something, but that’s something that can be dealt with before the next fosdem.
And I should probably add some input interface, so that it is self-contained and not tethered to a computer and run from the REPL.
(And then I may also have a vague idea for putting that ring into some wearable thing: good thing that I actually bought two :D )
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e per cena spezzatino cucinato in modo da rispettare una serie di restrizioni alimentari con — oltre ad altre verdure — insalata belga stracotta e sciroppo di Liegi.
come contorno patate lesse, perché non posso mangiare patatine fritte.
e una bottiglia di Rochefort 10 (divisa con @Diego Roversi , perché siamo troppo vecchi per bere una bottiglia di birra a testa, figuriamoci una bottiglia di birra *belga*)
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and dinner was spezzatino cooked to accomodate a number of food restrictions, with — among other vegetables — overcooked belgian endive and syrop de Liège.
the side was boiled potatoes, because I can't have frites.
and a bottle of Rochefort 10 (shared with @Diego Roversi , because we are too old to drink a bottle of beer each, nevermind a *Belgian* one :D )
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Ho deciso di fare #NoPizzaFebbraio . Aiuto .
Per due motivi: primo ho effettivamente esagerato ultimamente; secondo: febbraio è il mese più corto. Scemo si, pirla no. eh.
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TIL that Sirop de Liège from Belgium (and variations) goes quite nicely with re-heated lake Como style polenta
(and these are the kind of things you do while remoting #fosdem)
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Dear federation obsessed people of the fediverse,
does anybody know of a #xmpp web client with the look and feel of slack?
we are looking for it, and it feels strange that nobody ever wanted something like that
@Alessandro @fabrixxm@gl-como.it
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They are in development, currently still alpha I think.
@alorenzi@livellosegreto.it @tag-xmpp@relay.fedi.buzz
Prose – All of your workplace communication lives here
Prose is a decentralized, open-source and native workplace communication platform.prose.org
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@Menel @Alessandro @Zash uhm, do you have experience with prose?
looking at the websites there are a few things that aren't very encouraging (e.g. the limit of 100 users for the self-hosted version, and the fact that their hosted proprietary version has more features)
No, I've no experience there, as I said, as far as I know it isn't production ready. I guess we'll have to wait what will come of it.
I guess this limitation is easily to overcome, since it's open source and the underlying xmpp server doesn't know such a limitation.
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@Tobias said:
“it [Friendica] looks like backend developers doing frontend”
and this is one of the reasons I love the way it looks :D
(plis, plis, plis keep this look as an option even if you get a frontend dev!)
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And we're ready to remote #fosdem
(I know, the couch is not full *yet*, but will be later in the weekend)
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sadly, our home wifi is not ipv6-only. And the morning of fosdem is not a good time to try to set it up as such
maybe we will do it for the next year? :D
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There isn't much context, but, on the topic of debian packaging plugin-style things that could be downloaded from some software:
“There was also some confusion about why we bother when there's now a
builtin contentdb (which didn't exist when the first mods were
packaged). I found this quote about minetest use in prisons:> The context of this is, I ship Debian to people in gaol, and they
> can't just download random shit off the internet, or watch tutorial
> videos on youtube. If I can't provide them a "basically fine" default
> setup, there's no point shipping anything”
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This afternoon I've received 5 sensors of a certain type¹ I've bought in the weekend.
They were in individual plastic bags (purple), I've put them all in a single plastic bag, and put the bag back in the box they came in.
In the last hour or so I've taken one of them out, connected it to the microcontroller on a breadboard I use for these things, programmed it to use it, it worked. Then I decided to take another microcontroller whose sensor² was broken, and change it with one of these.
So I picked up the soldering iron, all of the accessories, and changed³ the board that connects the microcontroller and the sensor, soldered headers to *another* one of the new sensors, and update the firmware, and everything worked.
And now I wanted to put away the remaining ones in their right place, and I can't find them anymore.
They aren't near in the box, they aren't near the upgraded microcontroller, they aren't in the plastic box where they are supposed to end up
Aaaand thanks everybody, while writing this I looked under the soldering mat (which I had put back into its place) and the sensors were there!
¹ BME280 on a breakout board, but that's not the issue
² SHT20, it had started to give absurd humidity values
³ it's an I2C device. There are 4 pins. *why* is everybody putting them in different combinations??? why can't they settle on something like always putting them in the same order??? (maybe the one used by easyC / StemmaQT, since it's already out there?)
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Oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto dei sensori¹ che ho comprato nel weekend.
Erano in bustine di plastica (viola) individuali, li ho messi tutti nella stessa bustina, e rimesso la bustina nella scatola in cui erano arrivati.
Nell'ultima oretta li ho ripresi in mano, collegati al micro su breadboard con cui faccio le prove, programmato il micro per usarlo, funzionava. E poi ho deciso di prendere un altro micro il cui sensore² si era rotto e sostituirlo con uno di questi.
Quindi ho preso il saldatore e tutto quanto, cambiato³ la schedina che collega microcontrollore e sensore, saldato headers su un altro dei sensori nuovi, aggiornato il firmware e tutto funziona.
E poi volevo mettere i sensori rimasti al loro posto, e non li trovo più.
Non sono nella scatola, non sono vicino al micro aggiornato, non sono nella scatola di plastica dove dovranno andare.
Eeeee, grazie mille, mentre scrivevo questo post ho guardato sotto al tappetino per saldare (che avevo rimesso a posto) e i sensori erano lì!
¹ BME280 su una breakout board, ma non è quello il punto
² SHT20, aveva iniziato a dare valori di umidità assurdi
³ è un dispositivo I2C. Ci sono 4 pin. *perché* li mettono in tutte le combinazioni possibili? perché non si mettono d'accordo per usare sempre lo stesso ordine???? (magari quello usato da easyC / StemmaQT, visto che esiste già)
“Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di #Trenord” (secondo i dati 2024 pubblicati dall'azienda)
(consiglio l'apertura del link con opportune precauzioni)
varesenews.it/2025/01/per-qual…
Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di Trenord
I dati complessivi registrati nel 2024, tra scioperi, guasti ai convogli o alla rete. Lo scorso anno il numero di treni totali in programma è comunque aumentato del 4%Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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Consider this: it's morning, it's raining, you are under the porch where you've slept, but the people who feed you at that location don't give you regular hours. You feel as if you haven't eaten in the last six months¹. And now you have to decide whether to wait here for some more time, and hope to get some food, or to brave the rain and go to beg for food somewhere else.
And the light inside the house turns on, and nobody appears at the door with your food for *hours*²!
complaints were vocalized.
¹ since yesterday, I have no idea at what hour, since I believe that almost everybody in the neighborhood feeds him
² a full 15 minutes, as I was dealing with my clean laundry before getting the smell of kibble on my hands. I know, unacceptable :D
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TIL: for some unexplained reason, if you ask circuitpython to write in a location that is not on the SD card, it won't be able to write on the SD card.
also, after weeks of ignoring the issue because I didn't know how to debug it, I now have a device that can log GPS data on an SD card.
additionally, if in the function write_sentence(sentence) you use fp.write(sentence) instead of fp.write(gps.nmea_sentence) you can even write *other* things on the same log! such as, I don't know, sensor data!
now I guess I have to write something for the PC that can extract sensor data from a NMEA log and show it in a nice way? meh, maybe, at some point :D
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TIL: per qualche ragione incomprensibile, se chiedi a circuitpython di scrivere in una posizione fuori dalla scheda SD, non riesce a scrivere sulla scheda SD.
e così, dopo settimane in cui ho ignorato il problema perché non sapevo come debuggarlo, adesso ho un dispositivo che salva dati GPS su una scheda SD
e per di più, se nella funzione write_sentence(sentence) usi fp.write(sentence) anziché fp.write(gps.nmea_sentence) riesci anche a scrivere *altre* cose nello stesso log! tipo, chessò, dati da dei sensori!
adesso immagino che dovrei scrivere qualcosa per il PC che estragga i dati dei sensori da un log NMEA e li mostri in modo carino? mah, magari, prima o poi :D
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Fatemi il sacrosanto favore, se il vostro progetto implementa un controllo della qualità della password alla creazione di un utente, di mettere un opzione per disabilitarla
Che se voglio provare qualcosa in locale, al secondo "la password è forte solo al 79%" mi girano le palle e cancello tutto.
Se voglio creare un utente admin con password admin in locale, per San Bittér, lo devo poter fare!
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intanto, grazie a il post scopro dell'esistenza di trainstats.altervista.org/
statistiche sulla puntualità dei #treni italiani (almeno quelli tracciati da viaggiatreno)
edit: ho visto che prendono dati anche sui treni su rete FerrovieNord
on unrelated news: I've unpacked the sewing machine and sewed something!
it's just a draft stopper, but I've sewed something!
(next #sewing “project”: changing the elastic to some pajama pants. If I can find where the box with the elastics is. fancy, right?)
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today's let's try to resume #sewing resulted in:
* one hair towel wrap inspired by ikea.com/nl/en/p/stjarnbuske-h… but a bit bigger, made from two towels I'm not using.
* one broken needle at about 2 cm from the end of the very last seam
* while looking for the tip of the needle, discovering that I had not cleaned the sewing machine before packing it (uooops)
* realizing that I still don't have unpacked the sewing machine oil (and won't be able to get to it until the weekend), so gave a quick clean to the machine instead of proper quality time
* couldn't find the needle tip
* it was stuck in the towel layers, of course, ready to hurt myself if I had used the wrap
* finished the last 2 cm of seam, success!
And I also took pictures, but I have no idea when I'll have time to prepare a blog post and instructions.
risultati del “cerchiamo di ricominciare a #cucire” di oggi:
* un asciugamano per capelli ispirato a ikea.com/it/it/p/stjaernbuske-… ma un po' più grande, fatto con due salviette che non stavo usando.
* un ago rotto a circa 2 cm dalla fine dell'ultima cucitura
* mentre cercavo la punta dell'ago, accorgermi di non aver pulito la macchina da cucire prima di impacchettarla (uoooops)
* rendermi conto di non aver ancora spacchettato l'olio per la macchina (e non riuscire a raggiungerlo prima del weekend), quindi ho dato solo una pulita veloce anziché dedicarle del quality time per bene
* non riuscire a trovare la punta dell'ago
* era incastrato tra gli strati di salvietta, ovviamente, pronto a farmi male se avessi usato l'asciugamano
* finire gli ultimi due cm di cucitura, successo!
Ho anche fatto foto, ma non ho idea di quando avrò tempo per preparare un post per il blog e le istruzioni.
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our weekend started Saturday morning with a nice, relaxing 2+ hours walk (uphill, of course) in the woods, to take a break.
then it was followed by an afternoon of packing things up, carrying them down the stairs, loading them in the car (not the *boot* of the car, the car. anywhere there was a free cubic centimeter that was safe to load), driving, unloading the car, carrying the boxes up the stairs.
the same thing happened Sunday morning
And then today I waited for a person who didn't come, and while doing so I did another round of carrying boxes (that had already been packed) and loading them in the car, etc., this time alone.
And for some reason this evening as I changed the sheets on the bed my back started to complain about the workload or something :D
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And yesterday I've ordered by very first PCB!
a trivial one that I could have easily done with wires on perfboard (actually, a variation of one I've done a few times on perfboard), if I had not been out of the right size of perfboard and not wanting to bother with cutting a bigger one down to size :D
but I have wanted to try my hand at that for some time, but was somewhat intimidated by the whole thing, and as usual doing it in anger is good at overcoming intimidation :D
anyway, the point of this post is to say thank you to #librePCB for making the whole process quite smooth and to @federico :debian: for maintaining it in debian :D
They have arrived!
Thanks to the person on the fediverse who recommended pretty good stickers: I don't remember who you are, but it was a good recommendation :D
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Sono arrivati
Grazie alla persona sul fediverso che ha consigliato pretty good stickers: non ricordo chi tu sia, ma è stato un buon consiglio. :D
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Dear #train-verse,
do you know if there is a website with real time position data on swiss trains? I'm interested in local trains, not long distance ones
For trains in Lombardy (Italy) I would use either viaggiatreno.it/ or trenord.it/linee-e-orari/circo… , but trying to track e.g. the 25410 or 25458 (Varese - Como line) there is a swiss shaped hole¹ in the data.
I've found tilo.ch/servizi/informazioni-t… and sbb.ch/it/informazioni-viaggio… but unless I'm mistaken none of these have real time data.
¹ I'm sure there is a swiss cheese related pun in there :D
Informazioni traffico ferroviario | TILO
Dove trovare informazioni su perturbazioni del traffico ferroviario, ritardi e scioperitilo
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vediamo, sto seguendo un S50 (25568) che per ora è in italia, con 10 minuti di ritardo, e su quel sito risulta coi dati da orario anziché quelli in tempo reale (che afaik rsi non molla. o se lo fa usa formati non compatibili. inserire imprecazioni qui.)
Today's dinner is avocado toast on slices of artisanal bread with¹ wholewheat stone ground flour².
We're never getting rich, right?
¹ not 100%, just a bit because I had leftovers and wanted to get rid of them
² i.e. whatever stale bread I had from last week
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update: it was followed by bits of fresh cheese with fine herbs¹ covered with locally produced chestnut honey³, on durum wheat bread rolls².
¹ leftovers from stuff bought for the holiday feasts
² the other stale bread I had from yesterday
³ the honey is just a staple in this house, not a leftover :)
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Winter
Posted on January 10, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:painting, medium:acrylic
A few days ago1 I wanted to paint, but I didn’t know what to paint, so I did a few more colour tests to find out which green combinations I can get out of the available yellows and blues (and greens) acrylic I have (from a cheap student grade line).
I liked the cool grey tones in the second to last line, from 200 “Naples yellow” (PY3 PY83 PW6) and 410 Ultramarine blue (PB29), so I went up a step on the scale of “things to do when having a desire to paint, but the utter inability to actually paint something ” and did a bit of a study with those two colours plus titanium white.
And btw, painting with acrylics on watercolour paper taped to a sheet of scrap paper works just fine for stuff like this that is not supposed to last, but the work will get glued to the paper below when (not if) the paint overflows :D
- i.e. almost three months, and then I wrote 95% of this post and forgot to finish and publish it.↩︎
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Ho portato mia madre in auto a fare commissioni, ma non c'era parcheggio, quindi l'ho scaricata dove doveva andare e dovevo scegliere cosa fare prima di tornare a prenderla:
* riportare l'auto a casa (fattibile, ma probabilmente avrei dovuto poi ripartire appena arrivata)
* fermarmi al brico vicino e comprare cose che non mi servono
* visitare un cimitero
e con sforzo di autocontrollo ho scelto l'ultima.
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