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Yesterday I had been reading yet another late Victorian tailoring manual, and this morning I was telling @Diego Roversi about the part when the author claims that there are some measurements that would be useful do draft certain garments, but a (male, of course) tailor can't take them on a female customer, and there are ways to guess them. But at least in one case, he suggested doing the obvious thing, and just ask the customer to have her husband or maid take the measure.
And I commented that everybody who was buying cycling or riding trousers from a tailor was living with a husband, or a mother, or a sister, beside having a maid.
Unless she was unmarried, and only had brothers, and her mother had died (while giving birth, of course) and she was running her father's house because he had not remarried yet.
Or even, she was unmarried, only had brothers, she was running her father's house because he didn't want to remarry and she was quite happy with the situation because she didn't want to marry herself but wanted to keep living with that very close friend (but just a friend!) who had been living in their house for quite some time now. But then, her not-a-lover could very well take her inseam measurements.
Things escalate quickly, right?
@Vi 💙 and now I need to read the steamy romance short story involving those two and the inseam measurement.
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Roll Top Backpack, Handsewn
Posted on July 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
I might be slightly insane? Or am I going to prove something about the nature and accessibility of sewing and MYOG1 as a hobby?
I love my modular backpack, but it has a very modern look that is maybe not the best thing when otherwise dressed in historybounding dress, and it’s also a bit bigger than I planned or needed it to be.
So, when one of the shops I buy from had some waterproof cotton canvas on sale I failed my saving throw against temptations and bought a few meters, with the intent to make myself a backpack in a different style.
It needs to be a backpack, because my back doesn’t like asymmetrical bags2, and as far as I know 19th century backpacks weren’t the most comfortable things, so I decided to go for a vaguely timeless roll top model that has the added advantage not to require a lot of hardware for the closure, just a few D-rings.
Leather straps would look cool, but also require some tools that I still don’t have, so I decided to look for some cotton webbing, and when I finally found some in 25 mm and 50 mm width I could finally start on the project.
Except for one thing: thread. As much as I believe that regular n°50 cotton thread got a bad reputation from sellers who decided to cut quality in favour of profit, it is not up to the task of sewing a backpack. Nor that I’d use regular sew-all poly thread either.
I do have some of the thread I used for my other backpack, which would have been strong enough, but it’s also in black, which isn’t exactly the look I was aiming for on the natural / ecru colour of both the canvas and the webbing. I also misremembered it as only being available in that colour (it isn’t), so I wasn’t tempted into doing a full online order of technical materials just for that.
On the other hand, I did have in my stash some strong thread I could trust for this job, in natural / ecru. There was only one problem: it was 33×2 Tex linen, and not suitable for the sewing machine. You can’t handsew a backpack.
Or can you? Of course it’s going to be much slower, but I’m still in a situation where I have more time and space for handsewing than I have for machine sewing. And as for strength, my perception is that for the same stitch length an handsewn backstitch is stronger than a machine lockstitch, or at least it is more effort to unpick (and thus harder to accidentally unravel if the thread breaks).
And so I tried.
And it worked.
Having to backstitch everything instead of being able to use a running backstitch of course meant that it was slower than other sewing projects, and any time there were more than two layers of fabric I had to use the stabbing motion rather than the sewing one, which is even slower, but other than a few places with many layers of both fabric and webbing it wasn’t hard.
And to be fair, the seams were fewer and shorter than other sewing projects, and with the usual interruptions and uneven time availability it was done in less than a month, which is somewhat typical for one of my handsewn projects.
It may have been because of the pattern, but I think it’s relevant that it was also easier than other backpacks I’ve made, with significantly less cursing, even when doing seams that would have been quite fiddly when sewn by machine.
I have to admit that now I’m tempted to plan another backpack using the same pattern or a slight variation, sewn by machine in a different fabric, to see the difference in the time it takes and to check if the changes I think would make it easier to sew by machine are actually the right thing to do. But maybe I’ll wait a bit, other projects are in the queue.
The pattern is as usual online, released as #FreeSoftWear.
Having used it for a while, I have to say that it is just the right size to fit all the things I usually carry,
The fact that it only opens from the top means that finding things that have fallen to the very bottom involves a bit of rummaging, but not having to change a zipper every few years when (not if) it breaks is also very nice, so I’m not sure which shape of backpack I prefer.
The soft back of course is an issue when the backpack is filled with small items, but the molle webbing is there exactly because I have plans to solve it, beside the trivial “put something flat towards the back”.
As an object, I’m happy with the result. As a project, it was way more than successful, exceeding all expectations, especially for something somewhat experimental like this one was.
- Make Your Own Gear, i.e. sewing or otherwise constructing outdoorish equipment.↩︎
- at least not if I fill them with stuff as I usually do with my backpack :D↩︎
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You can’t handsew a backpack.
Or can you?
Look at leather sewing and the tools they use.
Thanks @Elena ``of Valhalla'' - I love reading about sewing by hand.
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working on #confy while attending #guadec2025 :
Until now, schedule data was updated when opening a conference, if the cache was expired and the device was online. This means that if you keep confy opened and schedule changes, you'll never get any update.
Latest code update automatically the current open conference schedule when cache expires (if online)... thinking about it, maybe there could be some sort of "diff" when something changes...
The update process now also should delete removed events from cache, hopefully (like the duplicated talks in that video...)
A small bug introduced recently that prevented to correctly open talk detail page from "next up" notification has been also fixed.
Meanwhile I was thinking that this thing needs a full rewrite on how data is stored. Right now every conferences gets its sqlite db in user's ".cache" folder. The db store schedule data and user stared talks. This means that if you clear cache, you lose you stars.
This data should be saved in another place, be another db in ".local/state" or maybe in dconf... 🤔
/me, this morning:
and they are going to close the underground between Cadorna and Garibaldi. the stations, not the generals.
and now I'm thinking about a machine that turns a proverbially bad general into a competent and ideals-led one.
(note for people who will be in Milan next month: check the actual closures, that was just the bit of interest to me, but there will be disruptions everywhere)
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@Xab ecco, non ho visto se han chiuso qualcosa anche su quelle linee
ma tutto sommato Como - Milano a piedi non è così lunga, dovrebbero essere un paio di giorni, no? :D
(OSM mi dice 47 ore per fare Como - Genova, 26 per fare Como - Pavia e 14 ore per fare Como - Milano; soprattutto per la tratta Pavia - Genova non ho idea se tenga conto delle pendenze però)
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Things I Have Learnt At DebConf
Posted on July 24, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits
An unsorted list, including some I already knew, but was reminded of.
dpkg-mergechangelogsexists.- Sewing your own shirt, posting it on planet and wearing it on the first day of DebConf, is more effective than a badge for making people recognise you.
- I need to look into a number of tools for testings things (and try to start using some of those at $DAYJOB).
- Masks are good. masks protect you from debbugs. masks protect you from ring cameras in the hotel you’re staying on the day after debconf.
- It’s really nice to be chatting of random topics during lunch and discover that you are talking to the maintainer of a package of which you are one of the very few users! (the latter bit needs to be changed :) ).
- I need to look into sequoia and all of the modern OpenPGP stuff.
- Even if I don’t have a lot of money, apparently I have even less sense (there will be blog posts on the topic in the mid-term future).
- I can go to a talk about AIand not hate the speaker (yeah, the bar is pretty low there :D ). The automatic subtitles still failed in the same way as automatic subtitles always fail.
- Debian gets used in really cool places.
- At times it is a bit — or a lot — dysfunctional, but Debian still feels like a family.
And I still haven’t watched the recordings of those talks that I couldn’t (or decided not to, because the hallway track was more interesting) attend.
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/me, a person with an EU phone, currently in the EU, but living near the Swiss border> WHY is internet not working on this phone? we are in the EU!
/me, a day later, checks the mobile settings
Data Roaming. off.
sometimes, when things don't work it's not the #PinePhone's fault (actually, most of the time with internet not working it isn't, it's me not having remembered to pay for it)
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FreeSoftWear
Posted on July 18, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits, topic:debian, FreeSoftWear
There may have been a lightning talk.
Things similar to the rest of this article may have been said.
I think that most people in this room care about running Freely licensed software on their computers.
Some probably would also like, when possible, to use Freely licensed hardware, or to enjoy Freely licensed art.
And then there are very few people who decided that they’d prefer to wear DFSG-Free clothing.
If you make your own, it’s not that different from software: you get a pattern, the source code, and compilation instructions. The compilation process is a bit manual, but there are a lot of people who enjoy that.
It doesn’t have to be sewing, it can be knitting, crochet, any craft that can be used to build something that you wear and has patterns or other kinds of source code. I’d say that a certain tartan also qualifies.
If you’re interested in the idea, these are the places I know of that do FreeSoftWear: two are personal websites, included mine, freesewing is a community and an online platform to design patterns.
And debian has some useful software, including valentina, for sewing patterns, and kxstitch for cross-stitch and other counted thread embroidery.
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Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized
Posted on July 15, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits, topic:xmpp, topic:debian
This is an approximation of what I told at my talk Federated instant messaging, 100% debianizedat DebConf 25, for people who prefer reading text. There will also be a video recording, as soon as it’s ready :) at the link above.
Communicating is a basic human need, and today some kind of computer-mediated communication is a requirement for most people, especially those in this room.
With everything that is happening, it’s now more important than ever that these means of communication aren’t controlled by entities that can’t be trusted, whether because they can stop providing the service at any given time or worse because they are going to abuse it in order to extract more profit.
If only there was a well established chat system based on some standard developed in an open way, with all of the features one expects from a chat system but federated so that one can choose between many different and independent providers, or even self-hosting.
But wait, it does exist!
I’m not talking about IRC, I’m talking about XMPP!
While it has been around since the last millennium, it has not remained still, with hundred of XMPP Extension Protocols, or XEPs that have been developed to add all of the features that nobody in 1999 imagined we could need in Instant Messaging today, and more, such as IoT devices or even social networks.
There is a myth that this makes XMPP a mess of incompatible software, but there is an XEP for that: XEP-0479: XMPP Compliance Suites 2023, which is a list of XEPs that needs to be supported by Instant Messaging servers and clients, including mobile ones, and all of the recommended ones will mostly just work.
These include conversations.im on android, dino on linux, which also works pretty nicely on linux phones, gajim for a more fully featured option that includes the kitchen sink, profanity for text interface fanatics like me, and I’ve heard that monal works decently enough on the iThings.
One thing that sets XMPP apart from other federated protocols, is that it has already gone through the phase where everybody was on one verybig server, which then cut out federation, and we’ve learned from the experience. These days there are still a few places that cater to newcomers, like account.conversations.im/, snikket.org/(which also includes tools to make it easier to host your own instance) and quicksy.im/, but most people are actually on servers of a manageable size.
My strong recommendation is for community hosting: not just self-hosting for yourself, but finding a community you feel part of and trust, and share a server with them, whether managed by volunteers from the community itself, or by a paid provider.
If you are a Debian Developer, you already have one: you can go todb.debian.org/ , select “Change rtc password” to set your own password, wait an hour or so and you’re good to go, as described at the bottom of wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSo….
A few years ago it had remained a bit behind, but these days it’s managed by an active team, and if you’re missing some features, or just want to know what’s happening with it, you can join their BoF on Friday afternoon (and also thank them for their work).
But for most people in this room, I’d also recommend finding a friend or two who can help as a backup, and run a server for your own families or community: as a certified lazy person who doesn’t like doing sysadmin jobs, I can guarantee it’s perfectly feasible, about in the same range of difficulty as running your own web server for a static site.
The two most popular servers for this, prosody and ejabberd, are well maintained in Debian, and these days there isn’t a lot more to do than installing them, telling them your hostname, setting up a few DNS entries, and then you mostly need to keep the machine updated and very little else.
After that, it’s just applying system security updates, upgrading everything every couple years (some configuration updates may be needed, but nothing major) and maybe helping some non-technical users, if you are hosting your non-technical friends (the kind who would need support on any other platform).
Question time (including IRC questions) included which server would be recommended for very few users (I use prosody and I’m very happy with it, but I believe ejabberd works also just fine), then somebody reminded me that I had forgotten to mention chatons.org/ , which lists free, ethical and decentralized services, including xmpp ones.
I was also asked a comparison with matrix, which does cover a very similar target as XMPP, but I am quite biased against it, and I’d prefer to talk well of my favourite platform than badly of its competitor.
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I was baking knäckebröt, I have a bag full of freselle and started to think, as one does, of empires
in southern Italy they have freselle, and they taste good. in Sweden they have crispbread, and it tastes good. The British had hardtack, and they had to keep conquering places to be able to eat.
and going back to the Roman empire, as one does, the Greeks had good bread, the Romans were quite good at the logistics of processing wheat on the march, but they were known for making bad bread.
and now the USA (other than some privileged parts of the population) have ultraprocessed bread.
I think that a pattern starts to form.
(this probably only applies to parts of the world that are wheat-based, rather than maize- or rice-based)
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stavo preparando del knäckebröt, ho un sacchetto pieno di freselle, e come di tanto in tanto succede mi son messa a pensare agli imperi
in sud Italia hanno le freselle, e sono buone. in Svezia hanno il knäckebröt, ed è buono. nell'impero britannico avevano le gallette, e dovevano continuare a conquistare nuovi posti per riuscire a mangiare.
il passaggio successivo, ovviamente, è l'impero romano, e all'epoca i greci avevano del pane buono, i romani erano efficienti nel lavorare il grano mentre erano in marcia, ma erano anche noti per non saper fare pane decente.
e adesso negli stati uniti (ad eccezione di qualche fascia priviliegiata della popolazione) hanno il pane industriale.
Inizio a vedere un pattern.
(probabilmente si applica solo alle parti del mondo basate sul grano e non sul mais o sul riso)
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My attempts to burn myself with hot (bees)wax failed!
Also, my attempts to melt beeswax in the solar oven were successful and much faster than I expected, and pouring it into an old ikea chocolates mold also seems to have worked (I'm waiting until it has completely cooled down before taking it out of the mold)
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it worked!
they came out of the mold pretty easily, they are a good size for waxing thread, and they look nicer than the crumbly lump worked together with my hands that I've been using for years :D
yes, it's dark, but I've been using this wax for ages even on white thread for sewing white fabric and I've never had discoloration problems. I hope I haven't just cursed myself :D
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@Bomkatt when sewing by hand I wax the thread by running it over a small lump of wax to help prevent breakages and make it easier to untangle any tangle. It's especially important with linen thread, but it also helps with cotton.
years ago I bought a lump of beeswax from a local honey seller, and I've always wanted to melt it into molds, but only actually found the time / had the equipment ready to do it today (I was procrastinating doing other things :D )
(they are also part of my “encouraging people to handsew” kit, and having them in a nice shape looks better than the shapeless thing I used to make)
(they won't remain good looking for long, but making them wasn't a big effort)
/me, avendo a che fare con la stampante> ma pérche?
/me> ma anche un po' perkele
(no, non parlo Finlandese, credo di conoscere tre parole in Finlandese e una è il nome di un cibo)
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Emergency Camisole
Posted on July 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
And this is the time when one realizes that she only has one white camisole left. And it’s summer, so I’m wearing a lot of white shirts, and I always wear a white camisole under a white shirt (unless I’m wearing a full chemise).
Not a problem, I have a good pattern for a well fitting camisolethat I’ve done multiple times, I don’t even need to take my measurements and draft things, I can get some white jersey from the stash and quickly make a few.
From the stash. Where I have a roll of white jersey and one of off-white jersey. It’s in the inventory. With the “position” field set to a place that no longer exists. uooops.
But I have some leftover lightweight (woven) linen fabric. Surely if I cut the pattern as is with 2 cm of allowance and then sew it with just 1 cm of allowance it will work even in a woven fabric, right?
Wrong.
I mean, it would have probably fit, but it was too tight to squeeze into, and would require adding maybe a button closure to the front. feasible, but not something I wanted.
But that’s nothing that can’t be solved with the Power of Insertion Lace, right?
One dig through the Lace Stash1 and some frantic zig-zag sewing later, I had a tube wide enough for me to squiggle in, with lace on the sides not because it was the easiest place for me to put it, but because it was the right place for it to preserve my modesty, of course.
Encouraged by this, I added a bit of lace to the front, for the look of it, and used some more insertion lace for the straps, instead of making them out of fabric.
And, it looks like it can work. I plan to wear it tonight, so that I can find out whether there is something that chafes or anything, but from a quick test it feels reasonable.
At bust level it’s now a bit too wide, and it gapes a bit under the arms, but I don’t think that it’s going to cause significant problems, and (other than everybody on the internet) nobody is going to see it, so it’s not a big deal.
I still have some linen, but I don’t think I’m going to make another one with the same pattern: maybe I’ll try to do something with a front opening, but I’ll see later on, also after I’ve been looking for the missing jersey in a few more potential places.
As for now, the number of white camisoles I have has doubled, and this is progress enough for today.
- with many thanks to my mother’s friend who gave me quite a bit of vintage cotton lace.↩︎
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I like adding triangular side gussets to expand patterns - they’re more subtle and v comfy- but the lace is so PRETTY
@soil gremlin here the problem was that even the bit at the bust level was a bit too tight to be able to get into the camisole, even if it was the right size for wearing it, so a triangular side gusset wouldn't have helped a lot; it really needed the elasticity of knits (or some buttons)
and also: lace! all the lace!
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@soil gremlin yeah, I'm seriously considering either doing another one with buttons, or making a crochet yoke and then a rectangle for the body basically like this, but much shorter and without sleeves: sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
the latter sounds better, but is not going to be a quick project, because I'm extremely slow at crochet
and now @Diego Roversi gave me back MY camisole that somehow ended up in his underwear drawer, and compared to this morning the number of white camisoles I have has *tripled*!
(I knew I had another one…)
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Some work in progress in Confy
You know, Confy: the Gnome-based, mobile-friendly Conferences schedule viewer
Some days ago I posted a screenshot about an experiment I was doing with #confy , which atm is on hold.
I'm still looking about the best way to draw a calendar view which can be zoomed in and out fast.
This is using Gtk.Snapshot to draw boxes and Pango.Layout to draw text.
It's still not fast enough with large conferences (mostly because I want to keep the text the same size and just change the boxes...)
Meanwhile I made some other things: some are papercuts, some are to try to have cleaner code, and some are quite big changes:
Actions get enabled/disable correctly per context
"search" action is disabled until an event is opened, and "copy" action is enabled only while a details page is shown.
Small change but prevents some errors.
Update recent list when deleting custom event from menu
Custom event in the "open" window can be removed. Now the entry is also removed from the recent events list.
Navigation sidebar has been updated
Now items does not get out of order after opening an Event with one already opened. Previously, items not needed (eg. 'Traks' where the Event has no tracks) were removed and re-added, which caused them to appear out of order.
Now the items are hidden and shown as needed, thus they do not change order anymore. Plus they are now defined in sidebar widget template. More clear and nice.
Navigation between pages has been revisited.
Originally, every talk details page opened was simply pushed on the stack. This caused some trouble as details page can link to other details pages via overlapping talks, which where pushed on the stack too. But overlapping talks are 'circular' as if Talk A overlaps with Talk B, also Talk B overlaps with Talk A, which can lead to very long stack to navigate back, e.g.:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C -> Talk A -> Talk C In latest revisions, clicking on an overlapping talk was simply updating the page in place, losing navigation (and a nice transition between pages):
List -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk BNow, we are back to pushing pages on the stack, but if an event has ben already pushed to the stack, we pop back to that page:
List -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks on overlapping Talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C
user clicks on overlapping Talk A
List -> Talk AFrom my esaustive user testing (me while developing) looks like this could be a nice solution. The animation on page push/pop helps the user to keep track on where is going. At least, it helps me. Get used to it. :)
This is also relevant for the new Search page navigation.
Search can be toggled
Search action now is toggleable (is this a word?), the "search" button in the headerbar is now a togglebutton. One click opens the search, another click closes the search (as does ctrl-f).
When search is opened, the search page is pushed on the stack. Closing the search pop the page (and popping the page closes the search).
From the search page, talk details pages follow the same logic as before, but in a separate 'group'. That is, if the search page is opened from a detail page, and from the search page the same talk is clicked, we don't pop back to the already pushed page (which closes the search) but a new detail page is pushed on the stack:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search
user clicks talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C
user clicks overlapping talk A
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C -> Talk A
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk BI hope this make sense and it's usable :)
( btw: the search entry still get focused when the search page pops in. I'm quite proud I managed to keep that :) )
Updated Preference dialog
The design has been moved to template, with a simple custom widget to set caches duration.
Option to clear the recent opened events list has been added.
Everything is in git if anyone want to test it, maybe on some mobile devices, maybe during one of the upcoming conferences...
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ma che è oggi a roma???(oltre all'incendio del distributore, che è da un'altra parte)
IMPORTANTE AGGIORNAMENTO ZONA WARPAC'è stato un incendio nel parchetto fuori dal Forte Prenestino. La situazione è sotto controllo, ma NON venite ora al Forte.
Zona Warpa non inizierà come previsto alle 15:00.
Dovremmo iniziare più tardi, ma al momento non abbiamo certezze. Seguiteci qui e su Telegram per aggiornamenti!
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ilpost.it/2025/07/03/alta-velo…
ma chiamare una linea ferroviaria Salerno - Reggio Calabria (e soprattutto una che a Reggio Calabria per ora non arriva) è portare sfiga o è una dichiarazione di intenti?
L’alta velocità Salerno-Reggio Calabria arriverà a malapena in Calabria
Gli unici progetti esistenti si fermano più di 250 chilometri prima, nonostante i grandi annunci del ministro SalviniIl Post
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La stella polare (α Ursae Minoris) è una stella supergigante gialla variabile cefeide con una temperatura alla superficie di qualche decina di migliaia di °K.
Quindi, rispetto a stelle più calde, è rinfrescante.
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Per le tisane non saprei, ma il tè basta lasciarlo in infusione in acqua fredda qualche ora. E per quelli fruttati o delicati è persino più buono 😀 🍵
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@Paolo Redaelli ricordandosi di farlo per tempo funzionerebbe anche con molte delle tisane che bevo
ma tutto sommato mi fa piacere anche berle calde
oltre al fatto che non mi ricordo mai di farlo per tempo :D
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@Edo ⁂ c'è da dire che il modo in cui funzionano è facendo sudare, e quindi funzionano meglio nel deserto che non nei posti dove il caldo è umido
però sì, molto meglio bevande calde o a temperatura ambiente che non bevande fredde che fanno sì che il corpo decida di produrre più calore per combattere il freddo
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While I still have the strong thread in the machine I can quickly finish #sewing this small pouch and then I'll clean up the sewing room a bit before tackling the next project, should only take an hour or two.
* is missing one of the materials needed to assemble the pouch, and needs to to the cleaning NOW :(
già ché ho il filo resistente nella macchina posso finire al volo questa bustina e poi faccio un po' di ordine nel locale dove cucio prima di partire con il prossimo progetto, dovrebbe volerci giusto un'oretta o due
* è riuscita a perdere uno dei materiali che servono per la bustina, e deve riordinare ORA
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found!
outside of the sewing room!
complaining on the internet was the right thing to do, as it made me remember the general area where I had last seen it :D
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trovato!
fuori dal locale dove cucio!
lamentarmi su internet è stata la cosa giusta da fare, perché mi ha fatto ricordare in che parte della casa l'avevo visto l'ultima volta :D
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one or two hours didn't account for the fact that the fabric I was trying to use is too stiff to be worked into something as small as I wanted it to be, so I may have to call the project a failure and just stop.
It was supposed to be one of these, in the 10 cm × 10 cm size: sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… , in a red cordura fabric bought as a remnant
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una o due ore non teneva conto del fatto che la stoffa che stavo cercando di usare è troppo rigida per funzionare in qualcosa delle dimensioni che volevo fare, quindi probabilmente dovrò dichiarare il progetto un fallimento e fermarmi qui.
Doveva essere uno di questi, nelle dimensioni 10 cm × 10 cm: sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/… e stavo usando uno scampolo di cordura rosso
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I've just received an universal-ish notebook power supply
the package includes the power supply, interchangeable connectors (as expected), a fabric bag to carry everything (nice) and a manual
the manual includes recommendations such as separate recycling waste (ok, there is a paper box that could be recycled), disconnect the plug for inoperative appliances (relevant, too), do an home vegetable garden (waitwhat?)
also, “choose natural fabric”, guess what material the bag is? (I'm not sure whether that's nylon or polyester)
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mi è appena arrivato un carichino universale per il portatile
la confezione contiene il carichino, i connettori sostituibili (come mi aspettavo), un sacchetto di stoffa per tenere tutto quanto (pratico) e un manuale
il manuale tra le altre cose consiglia di fare la raccolta differenziata (ok, c'è una scatola di carta che si potrebbe riciclare), staccare la presa dagli elettrodomestici inattivi (ci sta), fare un orto in giardino / balcone (eh?)
e anche “scegliere tessuti naturali”; indovinate di che materiale è il sacchetto? (non sono sicura se sia nylon o poliestere)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua se hai tempo e voglia di rispondere
l'altro giorno parlavi male delle finiture effetto cera su un tavolino che stavi restaurando, e mi hai fatto venire dei dubbi
ma se io ho una vecchia cassapanchina di pino del brico (=niente di pregiato) e mezzo barattolo di “protettivo completo per legno” per esterni, con scritto sul barattolo “effetto cera”, faccio danni ad usarcelo sopra?
ovvio che su un legno per bene non metterei della roba colorata così, ma quello è appunto pino del brico¹
(che ovviamente è una varietà di conifera che cresce in francia, giusto? :D )
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ah, ma quindi non è necessariamente Il Male?
(la levigatrice ce l'ho e l'uso era già previsto :) )
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A bit of a #sewing update.
The backpack is finished and has been used a few times, and I'm quite happy with it. I'm still writing the instructions to publish on my website, and then I'll post on the blog.
Today it's the patron saint of the city of the place I work for, and in Italy it's a holiday (even if I don't live anywhere near that :) ) so I decided to work on the other backpack.
Yep, because I had already cut the fabric for another backpack, this time to be sewn by machine, and I sort of need it (or rather would like to have it) for a deadline, so having a free day to free up the room for the sewing machine and actually doing some sewing was pretty useful.
This is the front component of my original idea for a two part backpack, inspired by an IKEA model, that started ages ago with the base component documented at sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
The base ended up being big enough on its own, but I still wanted to see if the idea was viable, and I have uses for a small backpack anyway.
The basic aim for today was to sew the sides with the zipper, and that's done.
#MYOG
Un aggiornamento sul mio #cucito
Lo zaino è finito e l'ho usato un po' di volte, e sono decisamente soddisfatta. Devo finire di scrivere le istruzioni da pubblicare sul mio sito e poi il post sul blog.
Oggi è il patrono della città dove ha sede l'azienda per cui lavoro, e quindi ho deciso di lavorare un po' sull'altro zaino.
Già, perché avevo tagliato la stoffa per un altro zaino, questa volta da cucire a macchina, e ne ho più o meno bisogno (o quantomeno mi farebbe molto piacere averlo) entro una scadenza, per cui avere un giorno libero in cui liberare lo spazio per la macchina da cucire e iniziare a fare qualche cucitura è stato decisamente comodo.
È la parte davanti della mia idea originale di zaino a due componenti ispirato ad uno zaino dell'IKEA, iniziato tempo fa quando ho fatto quello documentato su sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
Alla fine la base era venuta grande abbastanza anche da sola, ma volevo comunque vedere se l'idea poteva funzionare, e comunque ho cose che posso fare con uno zaino più piccolo.
L'obiettivo minimo per oggi era cucire i fianchi con la cerniera, e quello è fatto.
#MYOG
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The original idea included trying to make the front panel with the laser cut MOLLE pattern instead of webbing, except for the fact that I don't have a laser cutter and had to use a knife and a hot air soldering station to finish the raw edges.
I tried the technique on a small piece of a different fabric and it looked like it could work. Then I started to cut one panel with the fabric I wanted to use for this backpack and. it. didn't.
Even if in theory this fabric was thicker than the one I had done the test on, it had a different coating that made it softer, and more prone to fraying, the hot air didn't manage to clean the edges properly and it looked like it wasn't going to resist any kind of wear.
Today I sewed down the panel with the slits to the base panel and decided that no, it wasn't going to work.
L'idea originale era di fare il pannello davanti con la struttura MOLLE tagliata al laser anziché quella con il nastro di poliestere, a parte il fatto che non ho una taglierina laser, e quindi avrei dovuto usare un cutter e il saldatore ad aria calda per rifinire i tagli.
Ho provato la tecnica su un pezzo piccolo di una stoffa diversa e sembrava funzionare. Poi ho iniziato a tagliare uno dei pannelli nella stoffa dello zaino. E. no.
In teoria questa stoffa è più robusta di quella con cui ho fatto la prova, ma ha una finitura impermeabile diversa, che la rende più morbida, e più propensa a sfilacciarsi; l'aria calda non rifiniva i tagli nel modo corretto e non aveva la faccia di poter sopravvivere all'uso.
Oggi ho cucito il pannello con le fessure sul pannello base e deciso che non era cosa.
So, webbing it had to be. I looked in my webbing stash.
And found that my webbing stash is dangerously low!
I still have somewhat plenty in a blue that doesn't match the fabric at all, bits of black, just enough white for one panel and a a bit more red, but probably not enough for both panels.
Because of the deadline, ordering more wasn't really an option, so I decided to go for a mix of colours: the panel in the front in white, the one in the back in red (I liked the look of the white more) and black for the shoulder straps.
This wasn't the look I originally intended this backpack to have, at all. But at least now I have the cream handsewn one as a sort-of-dressier option, so making it in the same level of tactical-ish as the base backpack wasn't this big of a deal.
And today I managed to sew the webbing on the front panel (yes, I still have to cut the diagonal bits of thread between the seams)
E nastro di poliestere sia. Ho tirato fuori le mie scorte di nastro di poliestere.
E ho scoperto che sono pericolosamente scarse!
Ne ho ancora una quantità decente in un blu che non c'entra niente con quello della stoffa, un avanzo di nero, appena appena abbastanza bianco per un pannello e un po' più di rosso, ma probabilmente non abbastanza per entrambi i pannelli.
Data la scadenza, ordinarne altro non era un'opzione, quindi ho deciso di usare più di un colore: il pannello davanti in bianco, quello dietro in rosso e nero per gli spallacci.
Decisamente non è l'aspetto che originariamente volevo dare a questo zaino. Però tutto sommato adesso ho lo zaino crema cucito a mano per quando mi serve qualcosa di civile, per cui se anche questo ha lo stesso livello di look tattico della base non è un grosso problema.
Comunque oggi son riuscita anche a cucire il nastro di poliestere sul pannello davanti (e sì, devo ancora tagliare i pezzetti diagonali di filo tra le cuciture)
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one of the two hard seams has been done (back panel to bottom/sides/top)
I *could* try to do the other hard seam today and finish the backpack. or I could lie on the couch with some easy handsewing, some sewing video and a tea.
una delle due cucituri difficili è stata fatta (il pannello dietro ai fianchi/base/cima)
*potrei* provare a fare l'altra cucitura difficile e finire lo zaino. oppure potrei stendermi sul divano con del cucito a mano facile, dei video di cucito e un té.
guess what I did on Friday afternoon :D
but this morning I've done the second hard seam, but not bound it (front panel)
after that there are just small finishing bits, and it's done
indovinate un po' cosa ho fatto venerdì pomeriggio :D
ma stamattina ho cucito la seconda cucitura difficile, ma non ancora rifinita (il pannello davanti)
dopodiché rimangono solo un paio di rifiniture veloci ed è finito
two drops of blood have been offered so that the backpack will remain strong for years to come
(they washed away. now waiting a few minutes to be sure that the thumb that met the pointy end of a pin isn't bleeding anymore before resuming sewing)
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due gocce di sangue sono state offerte affinché lo zaino sia duraturo nel tempo
(sono riuscita a lavarle via. adesso aspetto un paio di minuti per essere sicura che il pollice che ha incontrato il lato appuntito dello spillo non sanguini più, prima di ricominciare a cucire)
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I am reading a book. The last time I've read some pages was this very morning. I didn't leave the house.
Where is it???
ilpost.it/2025/06/21/dellarti-…
uops, esistono corsi per superare gli attacchi di ansia che possono prendere mentre si è alla guida. l'avessi saputo qualche anno fa quando hanno iniziato a venirmi. (nel frattempo ho trovato dei modi di gestirli andando per tentativi)
Paura di guidare
«Ogni anno decido che devo farmela passare e ogni anno succede questo. Programmo un viaggio. Per esempio Roma-Bologna. Tragitto da fare da sola, di giorno. Partenza di mattina per avere il tempo di fermarmi, piangere, calmarmi.Il Post
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my preciousssesssss
(I'm in a hurry, if somebody can describe the individual stickers in a comment I'd be grateful #alt4me )
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@WeirdAlex03 thanks!
(the game icon is Flare, and the item of clothing is a late Victorian vest (just the front part))
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Qui intanto ieri sera scrivendo un messaggio di tutt'altra natura l'autocompletamento mi ha ricordato dell'esistenza dell'hashtag #fuckAldo
stamattina sono uscita a stendere la biancheria, e già si muore (contrariamente ai giorni scorsi in cui si moriva solo nelle ore centrali e pomeridiane della giornata)
(ma sospetto che non sia tanto la temperatura quanto la sua combinazione con l'umidità)
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confermo la caldazza dall'alba quando mi svegliai per farmi la doccia e già volevo APRIRE TUTTO alle 5 ç_ç figuratevi alle 7 quando sono uscita per andare al lavoro a piedi con quanta GIUOIUA ho affrontato il tragitto
arrivata qui ho aperto tutto veramente e sparato gli split a 16°, perchè già quello del nostro ufficio/serra dava TRENTUNO GRADI alle 07.15
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questo secondo me è il miglior sketch del Trio. Lo so a memoria, ma ogni volta che lo guardo rido alle lacrime.
After careful consideration — and some procrastination — I decided I had to do it.
#StickerStandard #mdash #fuckAI
(sources on git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s… )
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I'm a proud n dash user (oh, btw, there's no dash between m or n and dash...), no way I could join
@Walter Tross this is something where the English speakers are wrong and the Continental way is provably superior, and I'm not ready to die on this hill, but I'm definitely ready to suffer very mild discomfort :D
thanks for making me notice the dash bit, I've fixed that part
ten. weeks. of. pink!
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/18t…
(this is the first week)
18th century pinks: the 1700s - The Dreamstress
What shades of pink were worn in the first decade of the 18th century? Let's take a look at portraits and extant textiles from 1700-1709!The Dreamstress
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Somebody(TM) should make #Ansible - branded espresso cups with the tagline “the coffee break generator”
(the tagline is not mine, it's from my sysadmin boss, who drinks espresso coffee instead of tea like a civilized person :D )
/me, browsing my rss feed while drinking my breakfast tea and quietly seeing this
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/rat…
and then there were the lines
It’s so ’70s!And actually ’70s.
no keyboard was harmed. barely.
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un po' come l'altezza per i maschi per fare il militare.
@severino ma all'epoca si era regnicoli (non cittadini!) senza troppi problemi
diritto di voto. adesso, calma. il diritto di voto solo per gli uomini e solo se soddisfano i requisiti economici, mica si voleva che votassero *tutti*
@severino comunque quel re in particolare era significativo perché essendo di *quella* Torino la sua lingua natale era il francese
non ho idea se parlasse anche piemontese, e di sicuro ci sono le lettere private in cui scriveva in italiano, ma un po' sgrammaticato, perché l'aveva imparato come seconda lingua
Kermode
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Not debates, but discussions.
More of a dialectic/dialettica(?).
Because of the friendly mood of the fediverse, I have entered into discussions over volatile topics with people I would not normally associate with. I have learned things and I have changed my mind on some things regarding politics, economics and even philosophy and religion!
Debates are about winners and losers. Discussions that are a search for truth are always about winners.