Some weeks ago I bought a spindle stick + whorl from pallia.net to try #spinning with a more european medieval technique (as opposed to the american one that I had learned from “the internet”).
I think I'd prefer to have a notch on the stick, but I didn't want to ruin the one I've bought, so I decided to carve one of the ones I had (made from a dowel) to resemble the shape, and added the notch to this latter one.
And then of course I really want to make my own whorls, but I still don't have a way to fire clay, so I had to limit myself to plastic (polymer clay), which is probably not a good choice for a number of reason, but should work for a whorl or two...
The cernit whorl weights about the same as the clay one, and is bigger, but not as bigger as I feared.
If you want to use the Fediverse through a Facebook-style interface, you may want to try Friendica.
Some good instances to sign up at:
social.isurf.ca/
nerdica.net/
libranet.de/
You can use Friendica through the @[url=https://framapiaf.org/users/fedilab]Fedilab[/url] app.
It federates through ActivityPub with Mastodon etc and it also lets you follow RSS feeds as if they were users.
The developers are very active with regular new releases.
#Friendica #Facebook #Alternatives #DeleteFacebook #ReplaceFacebook
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I have to admit that the main reason why I use Friendica is that I have a friend who is hosting an instance :)
From what I understand, diaspora* isn't able to federate with ActivityPub, and I believe that almost half of my contacts are on mastodon, so I would need two different accounts on the two networks.
Anyway, as long as a social network federates, and the instance isn't owned by a megacorp, that's very likely to be good.
White Rabbit is fed up with being late, so he is willing to contribute to #joinmobilizon
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The #FediWAN #Gaming Party is a group of peeps from the #Fediverse that get together and play some multiplayer gamespad.disroot.org/p/FediWAN_Part…
We've got a few FLOSS options, some free but proprietary listings, and a bunch of paid games so there's something for everyone
If you don't see one you want to play, feel free to add it in alphabetical order and list yourself under it!
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Your cranky completely random reminder to back up your important files regardless of where you keep them. 'It's on an external drive, not the computer' doesn't mean it's immune to failure, damage, or loss.you don't need to back up everything ever but if losing it would be Bad, back it up.
ONE COPY IS ZERO COPIES.
BACK UP THAT RANDOM USB DRIVE YOU KEEP IMPORTANT STUFF ON.
We see more and more project and organisations working on privacy focused apps, services, … great!But sadly this is more and more just marketing. The most famous line "We value your privacy" is telling almost the exact opposite these days.
So let's do a first step: Everyone who really values privacy, get rid of trackers from your websites. All of them. GA as well as Matomo.
If you want to know how to optimize your websites, analyse your logs or do surveys.
Getting rid of third-party trackers is nice.
I don't see what is the ethical difference between analyzing logs and using a self-hosted tracker like matomo?
#Framadate is a free open alternative to Doodle:Like Doodle, Framadate lets you make quick, simple calendars and polls for finding out the opinions of your friends or colleagues without needing to register.
Unlike Doodle, Framadate respects privacy and doesn't show ads or track you.
It's made by @Framasoft and the source code is at framagit.org/framasoft/framada…
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Tonight I've been told in a vision that if you put salt (in the dream it was just a grain of coarse kitchen salt) on the skin of a spellcaster while they are actively casting spells, their skin feels burning. Not enought to actually hurt, and when the casting ends the feeling ceases immediately, but enough to distract a bit.
Should I start carrying salt in my backpack (IRL) in case I meet hostile spellcasters? Or should I start worrying about salt in case I suddenly become able to cast spells?
Should I read less fantasy stuff before going to sleep?
Should I read less fantasy stuff before going to sleep?
Quite on the contrary, I would say :)
For the rest, I'd advice start carrying a bit of salt in your backpack. You never know when it will become handy, and if you so happen to acquire the fine art of spellcasting, a grain or five of salt may still come in handy if you end up in a spellcasting battle. (Or was that "spelling battle"?)
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spelling battles are the martial art version of spelling bees? This sounds very Ranma 1/2, I like it :)
(not that I have any experience with spelling bees, not being a native english speaker, they are just something I've read about)
How about bricks made of salt to just cast at them?
(Sorry, the link is to a Hebrew-only story and probably requires subscription. But basically it is about a group of researchers who developed a process to convert excess salt to bricks, that seem to have useful properties).
Mobilizon : let’s finance a software to free our events from Facebook !framablog.org/2019/05/14/mobil… #Framablog #TootOuRien
We have less than 60 days to finance Mobilizon. Less than 60 days to promote our project of a free and federated alternative to Facebook events ; and to know how much we need to invest ourselves in it.
Change the software of the people who change the world?
From climate walks on …
I received my new spindle + whorl + wool kit, made myself a distaff from a dowel and a band of fabric from my bag of odd pieces, and decided to start trying with some of the modern top I was already used to.
Between the different technique and the lack of a hook it feels a lot like starting again from scratch, but I'm starting to get back a tiny bit of consistency and the yarn is no longer breaking every other metre or so. I'm happy I kept the nice wool for later, however.
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Dying @ this anecdote from Andrew Thaler on birbsite:“Six years ago today, I walked into the techiest tech-bro bar in San Fransisco, positioned myself obnoxiously into a group of Dudes Wearing Google Glass, and loudly said "Ok Google, Call Mom."
It was magical.
How were you radicalized against pervasive technology?”
Dal sito programminghistorian.org/ ho ripreso e tradotto l’articolo
Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using #Pandoc and #Markdown. Presenta un modello di #scrittura "sostenibile" che usa il plain text e strumenti da riga di comando (#Pandoc e un briciolo di #Latex) Mi è sembrato molto interessante. La versione italiana si può leggere qui: frama.link/8ax800Fc
#softwarelibero @maupao @paolo @Ca_Gi @steko @wikimediaitalia
i don't always use fountain pens…
but when I do, i build them myself :D
Since I stumbled on sites.google.com/site/cartedar… I've been wanting to try and make one, and I've finally found half an hour to do so.
This includes discovering that the cartridges I still had from my school years (last millennium) were dry, refilling one of them, discovering that I don't know how to refill an ink cartridge without spilling ink (luckily just on my hands and on some paper ads that were there to protect the desktop) and finally trying the pen.
For something made out of a soft drink can, it writes pretty well.
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FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
No, it doesn't (afaik, at least it didn't last time I checked).
Friendica supports the diaspora protocol, because friendica supports *everything* :D
Olimex freedombox home server kit is available:
FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
Cool. Stoicism is close to my heart, and expresses a lot of what I have discovered for myself.
But it definitely carries with it the danger of an interpretation where person A might tell person B that person A's actions were justified and person B's distress is entirely internal, therefore there is no reason for person A to change their behavior, B should just be better at accepting their fate.
We can do both. This is where I refer to the Serenity Prayer. It's one of the best pieces of Christianity, and it is pure Stoicism.
Grant me the wine to accept the things I cannot change,
The coffee to change the things I can,
And the shrooms to know the difference.
Mother Goose had it centuries before Reinhold Niebuhr, apparently:
> For every ailment under the sun
> There is a remedy, or there is none;
> If there be one, try to find it;
> If there be none, never mind it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity…
(and of course various Stoics and Buddhists a millennium or two before her, but her version is pretty much exactly the Serenity Prayer in content, just with different phrasing)
On Sunday, March 24th at the @fsf's annual #LibrePlanet conference, the FreedomBox Foundation announced that it has partnered with @olimex to sell Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kits.We chose to announce at #LibrePlanet for a reason. #BeAPioneer
SiFive updated their #HiFive1 #RISCV development board, in case you missed the first round.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1…
Now it includes onboard WiFi and Bluetooth, among other updates like support for more peripherals.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •and this is the knife I've used to cut the spindle stick (followed by sandpaper, not in the picture).