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Di solito, quando devo chiedere a chi è accanto a me, ma è in confcall, se va bene l'ora di pranzo prendo un foglietto usato poche volte di carta, una stilografica e scrivo la domanda in buon #corsivo.
Oggi mia madre, al telefono, mi ha passato un pezzo di carta e una penna a sfera per capire cosa stessi cercando di chiederle (era “devo andare avanti a mescolare il pranzo mentre tu sei al telefono?”), e mi sono accorta che mi son messa a scrivere in stampatello, facendo molta più fatica.
La soluzione: abolite le penne a sfera. :D
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my mother asked me to buy some fabric on an online shop for her.
I only bought a bit of cord for piping, and NO fabric.
(ok, I was tempted to look for materials to make a couple new towels, but they were out of it, so not even that :D )
BRIAN DI NAZARETH - VOI SIETE TUTT DIVERSI
Un grande e illuminante video tratto dal film Brian di Nazareth.YouTube
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Forgotten Yeast Bread
Posted on March 7, 2023
Yesterday around 13:00 I started my usual ”I’m being lazy” bread recipe:
- 400 g flour
- 250 g water
- 6 g salt
worked for 8 minutes (by machine), left to rise until about 18:00.
For the record, it was a strong flour (310 W), type 1, so white, but somewhat coarsely ground.
And then, when it was time to cook bread for dinner I realized that something was missing. Something critical. See if you can spot it in the list above.
The yeast.
Some bread was taken out of the freezer and defrosted in the oven, but I didn’t want to throw away the flour, so I mixed 2-3 g dried yeast, 10 g flour and 10 g water, and left it to rise until after dinner.
Then I added it to the dought, added some more water (I know. I should have measured it. I didn’t expect having to repeat the thing. It was probably about 20 g), mixed for 5 minutes, covered it to rise.
This afternoon, around 15:30, I took the dought, folded it 5-6 times, formed a round loaf on the lined baking tray and left it in the cold oven until 17:45. Then I removed it from the oven, turned it on at 240°C, scored the top of the loaf and sprinkled it with water.
When the oven was hot I baked the loaf for 10 minutes at 240°C, then turned it down to 160°C for 20 additional minutes.
And then I realized I need to repeat this.
No, there are no pictures (there is some left, but it’s too dark to take pictures).
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The alternative (cold autolyse) is a bit more involved.
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Bits from the Debian XMPP Team
Debian is a free operating system for your computer. XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence.Debian Project
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Uh! the 2023 edition of #ColorOurCollections is out (has been out for a while, now :D ): free (as in price, but often also as in freedom) #colouringBooks based on the images found in the collections of museums around the world.
BRB will be downloading stuff :D
Welcome!
From February 6-10, 2023, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials in their collections. Please download, …#Color Our Collections
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Bookbinding: photo album
Posted on March 6, 2023
When I paint postcards I tend to start with a draft (usually on lightweight (250 g/m²) watercolour paper, then trace1 the drawing on blank postcards and paint it again.
I keep the drafts for a number of reasons; for the views / architectural ones I’m using a landscape photo album that I bought many years ago, but lately I’ve also sent a few cards with my historical outfits to people who like to be kept updated on that, and I wanted a different book for those, both for better organization and to be able to keep them in the portrait direction.
If you know me, you can easily guess that buying one wasn’t considered as an option.
Since I’m not going to be writing on the pages, I decided to use a relatively cheap 200 g / m² linoprint paper with a nice feel, and I’ve settled on a B6 size (before trimming) to hold A6 postcard drafts.
For the binding I’ve decided to use a technique I’ve learned from a craft book ages ago that doesn’t use tapes, and added a full hard cover in dark grey linen-feel2 paper. For the end-papers I’ve used some random sheets of light blue paper (probably around 100-something g / m²), and that’s the thing where I could have done better, but they work.
Up to now there isn’t anything I hadn’t done before, what was new was the fact that this book was meant to hold things between the pages, and I needed to provide space for them.
After looking on the internet for solutions, I settled on adding spacers by making a signature composed of paper - spacer - paper - spacer, with the spacers being 2 cm wide, folded in half.
And then, between finishing binding the book and making the cover I utterly forgot to add the head bands. Argh. It’s not the first time I make this error.
I’m happy enough with the result. There are things that are easy to improve on in the next iteration (endpapers and head bands), and something in me is not 100% happy with the fact that the spacers aren’t placed between every sheet, but there are places with no spacer and places with two of them, but I can’t think of (and couldn’t find) a way to make them otherwise with a sewn book, unless I sew each individual sheet, which sounds way too bulky (the album I’m using for the landscapes was glued, but I didn’t really want to go that way).
The size is smaller than the other one I was using and doesn’t leave a lot of room around the paintings, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it also means less wasted space.
I believe that one of my next project will be another similar book in a landscape format, for those postcard drafts that aren’t landscapes nor clothing related.
And then maybe another? or two? or…
Traceback (most recent call last):
TooManyProjectsError: project queue is full- yes, trace. I can’t draw. I have too many hobbies to spend the required amount of time every day to practice it. I’m going to fake it. 85% of the time I’m tracing from a photo I took myself, so I’m not even going to consider it cheating.↩︎
- the description of which, on the online shop, made it look like fabric, even if the price was suspiciously low, so I bought a sheet to see what it was. It wasn’t fabric. It feels and looks nice, but I’m not sure how sturdy it’s going to be.↩︎
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TFW I'm finally using the 2-ply linen thread on an historically accurate piece of reed rather than modern cardboard¹ spool, and it's when sewing a pair of modern slippers.
#sewingPersonProblems #HistoricalSewing
¹ I don't think I've ever bought linen thread on plastic spools
not that I ever do any kind of sewing where a cardboard spool wouldn't be realistically possible (even if possibly the markings could be too modern, e.g. if there is a barcode)
or at least, not that I'm currently planning to do :D
It's the end of February, and my “score” is: 27 pieces of mail (mostly postcards, some letters) have been written and sent / delivered, one is on my desktop because I've decided at the last minute to paint a postcard and I'm a bit late with it, and will be sent maybe thursday or so.
I'd call it a success, anyway!
#InCoWriMo #MonthOfMail or whatever you want to call this thing :D
Making a pair of slippers in optical white linen is a good idea, right?
What can possibly go wrong?
I mean, it's not like slippers are getting dirty or anything, RIGHT?
(it's what I had in the stash, and I wanted to do it NOW)
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I guess it's unplanned #fiberuary #mending?
This morning I've realized that the socks I had washed yesterday were dangerously thin on the heel, but I've managed to get them when it was still possible to do a duplicate stitch.
No picture because when I did it there was still no sunlight (not that we've had a lot of it today)
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I feel lucky: the laundry is currently outside to hopefully dry and not be drenched by rain. I repeat, the clean laundry is currently at risk of being drenched by rain. :D
Mi sento fortunata: ho steso fuori sperando che asciughi e non ci piova sopra. Ripeto, la biancheria pulita è stesa fuori nonostante un leggero rischio di pioggia. :D
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TFW you have all of the powder / desaturated blue thread colours your haberdashery carries, and realize that the fabric (that you've had since 2019) you are cutting right now is a *saturated* light blue.
A voice tells me that a trip to the haberdashery is going to be in my future.
OMG, the #pockets, the #pocketses!
youtube.com/watch?v=4_2s4s90d8…
at second 44. with cats.
(it also seems to be a good tutorial for a nice but simple skirt suitable for beginner sewists, either with or without a sewing machine. but I can't be sure, I was distracted by the kittens :D)
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aaaaaaaah, the home server with the list of video channels I'm not-following-because-i-don't-have-a-youtube-account is down and I'm not sure whether it's a problem or it's because my SO is working on it, so I can't relax for the next half-hour or so sewing and watching videos while I wait for him.
wait, that list of video channels is saved in a git repo, I can get the next video I want to see from the local copy, even if I can't use the fancy web interface :D
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The idea is fascinating: a pattern that is sold not on paper, but as drawings on a (substantial and fitted) lining, the idea being that the outer fabric will probably be draped on top of it.
I wonder how widespread they were.
“The same difficulty appears when marked waist linings are used. These linings may be purchased by the yard,on which is traced the entire waist and it can soon be cut out and basted together and alterations made in it.”
From Annie E Myers. Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing. Chicago, C.H. Sergel & company, 1892. pag 48
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It sounds almost like a pre-printed version of Trace N Toile (which I'm always tempted by, but I'm not a huge fan of - it's expensive compared to paper, and almost every version I've found is non recyclable). Or if anyone was printing patterns directly on Swedish tracing paper (which you can apparently sew like fabric and is recyclable, but I've struggled to find anyone selling it in a decent width or length for a price I can afford who'll ship it here.)
From skimming a fairly closely dated Sears catalogue (1897) it looks like sellers did differentiate between paper patterns and these, but I can't find if Sears was selling the printed linings to see what they were listed as or the price difference.
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in vetrina dal coltellaio oggi c'era un victorinox con la bandiera italiana e “I love Italy”.
ma.
ma.
ma è fatto da extracomunitari!!!!
Anni fa un'amica di Quito che era qui senza documenti in attesa di sposarsi dovette fare qualcosa all'ASL.
E là le chiesero un documento.
Lei mostrò la patente della California e l'impiegata disse: «Ah, Stati Uniti? Allora non è extracomunitaria!»
ci sono extracomunitari di serie A ed extracomunitari di serie B. Il mio impegno morale è prendere per il culo quelli di serie A, che se lo meritano.
(la prima parte della frase mi era stata detta da uno svizzero che era andato a rinnovare il permesso di soggiorno italiano scaduto, e ovviamente ha avuto molti meno problemi a farlo di quanti ne avrebbero avuti extracomunitari di altre nazioni, anche se era prima che la svizzera entrasse in Schengen, la seconda parte è stata la mia risposta)
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git status Side Effects
Posted on February 17, 2023
TIL, from a conversation with friends1, that git status can indeed have side effects, of some sort.
By default, running git status causes a background refresh of the index to happen, which holds the write lock on the repository.
In theory, if somebody is really unlucky, this could break some script / process that is also trying to work on the repo at the same time, especially on a huge repository where git status takes a significant time, rather than the usual fraction of a second2.
There is a way to prevent this, by running git status --no-optional-locks (git-scm.com/docs/git#Documenta…) or by setting GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS to 0, as writing the updated index is just an optimization and git knows it can be avoided.
I don’t think there are many chances to actually stumble on this in the real life, but I’m writing this down so that if I ever do I have an easy way to remember what happened and find the solution.
- I won’t name name or provide details to protect the innocents (and the guilty), but thanks to all of the people involved in the conversations who helped find the answer.↩︎
- Related, but unrelated TIL: there is a place called Secondo (second), near Venice, but it’s already a frazione (fraction / subdivision of municipality).↩︎
This morning pet peeve is:
fabric weight isn't a weight nor a density, since it's measured in g/m²
(I don't think it will remain a pet peeve for long)
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ditto paper weight!
I looked it up. It's a specific term, "grammage"
(One for next Scrabble game?)
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@Catherine RW I mean, it's a great unit, it's just missing a sensible name
although, the wikipedia page for grammage suggests area density, which is probably what I was looking for
My experience with a PinePhone
Posted on February 15, 2023
I’ve had and used1 a PinePhone for quite some time now, and a shiny new blog sounds like a good time to do a review of my experience.
TL;DL: I love it, but my use cases may not be very typical.
While I’ve had a mobile phone since an early time (my parents made me carry one for emergencies before it was usual for my peers) I’ve never used a typical smartphone (android / iPhone / those other proprietary things) because I can’t trust them not to be designed to work against me (data collection, ads, tricking users into micro payments, and other antipatterns of proprietary software design), and bringing them to sanity as most of the people I know do is too much effort for my tastes.
Instead, as a phone I keep using an old nokia featurephone2 which is reliable, only requires charging once a week, and can easily survive falling from hand height to the ground, even if thrown 3.
And then I’ve been carrying a variety of other devices to do other computer-like tasks; earlier it was just a laptop, or a netbook, a Pandora (all of which used a dongle to connect to mobile network internet) then I tried a phone with FirefoxOS (it could have been better) and now the PinePhone has taken their place, at least when I’m not carrying a laptop anyway.
So, the tasks I use the PinePhone for are mostly:
- sending and receiving xmpp messages, with no need for notifications (when somebody needs to tell me something where urgency is required, they know to use the other phone, either with a call or an sms);
- tethering an internet connection to the laptop;
- reading djvu scans of old books while standing in a queue or something;
- checking something on the internet when I’m not close to a real computer (i.e. one with a keyboard and a big screen);
- running a timer while heat-setting fabric paint with an iron (and reading a djvu book at the same time — yes, this is a very specific task, but it has happened multiple times already :D );
- running a calculator with unit conversions;
- running the odd command line program;
- taking pictures, especially those that I want to send soon (I often also carry a DSLR camera, but I tend to wait a few days before I download them from the card);
- map related things.
3 and 5 work perfectly well, no issues there. 1, 2 and 4 usually work just fine, except for the fact that sometimes while the phone is suspended it forgets about being a phone, and needs to be restarted to turn the modem back on. It’s not a big deal while using the phone, I just need to check before I try to use it after a few hours.
For 1, I also had to take care to install dino-im from experimental, as up to now the features required to fit the interface in a mobile screen aren’t available in the official release, but I believe that this has just been fixed.
Somewhat related to 4, I’ve also installed kiwix and the dumps of wiktionary and wikivoyage, but I haven’t had a chance to travel much, so I’m not really using it.
For 6 I’m quite happy with qalculate, the GUI version of qalc (which is what I use on my laptop), even if it has a few minor interface issues, and 7 of course works as well as it can, given the limitations of a small screen and virtual keyboard.
8 is, let us say, problematic. The camera on the PinePhone is peculiar, only works with a specific software, and even there the quality of the pictures is, well, low-fi, vintagey pictures are a look and that’s a specific artistic choice, right? Thanks to the hard work of the megapixels maintainer the quality has improved a lot, and these days it is usable, but there are still limits (no webcam in the browser, no recording of videos).
9 is really bad. A few times I can remember getting a GPS fix. A few times in many months, and now and then I keep trying, to see if a miracle has happened, but usually I only get a vague position from wifi data (which isn’t great, when walking through less densely populated areas).
I’ve seen another PinePhone running gpsd and getting data from an external GPS receiver via bluetooth, and if I really needed it I may seriously consider that solution.
Also, the apps available in mobian aren’t great either, even when compared to running tangogps on an OpenMoko with pre-downloaded maps (I mean! I don’t think my expectations are too high!).
I’ve heard that PureMaps is quite good as a software, but a bit of a PITA to package for Debian, and I really hope that one day there will be a linux-first mobile device with good GPS hardware, so that people will be encouraged to fix the software side.
Thankfully, I don’t usually need GPS and navigation software; when I’m driving into places I don’t know I usually have a human navigator, and when walking into places I can do with just a static map (either printed on paper or on the PinePhone), maybe some pre-calculated route from the OSM website and looking at street names to find out where I am.
Overall, for my use cases the PinePhone works just fine and is an useful addition to the things I always carry with me, and I don’t feel the pressing need to get an android phone. I don’t think it’s ready as a daily driver for everybody, but I think that depending on one’s needs it’s worth asking around (I’d recommend doing so on the fediverse with a #PinePhone and #mobian hashtag), as there is a non-zero chance that it may be a good fit for you.
- which, if I’m not mistaken, is often not implied by the fact of owning it :D↩︎
- for very low values of feature: it doesn’t have any kind of internet access, and there are only 3 games, one of which is snake.↩︎
- don’t ask.↩︎
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Cernit Sets for the Royal Game of UR
Posted on February 13, 2023
Some months ago I stumbled on the video where Irving Finkel teaches Tom Scott how to play the Royal Game of Ur and my takeout was:
- Irving Finkel is Gandalf or something;
- the game sounded quite fun!;
so I did the almost sensible thing, quickly drew a board with inkscape, printed it on 160 g/m² paper and used my piecepack pieces to try a few games.
I say almost sensible, because rather than drawing the rosettes with inkscape I decided to carve a rubber stamp and use that to print them on the board (which is why the svgs on this page are missing them: if you print them you’ll have to add the rosettes in some way).
And if I had been a sensible person, that’s where I would have stopped, since that’s perfectly enough to play games and find out that it actually is quite a fun game, and one of our staples.
As some of you probably know, I’m not a sensible person.
I also have quite a few blocks and half-blocks of cernit, and one day after I’ve had used some, my hands were still moving and accidentally made some pyramidal dice, and a handful of tokens.
And after baking and trying them I liked them, but they had not been planned in any way, and they were a bit too small for the board, so the next time I was using cernit I tried to make a new set.
And while I was doing that I tried a new shape for the dice, as coins marked with a dot in the middle of one of the sides, because I don’t really like tetrahedral dice.
And now, I realized this wasn’t going to be my last set, and urgently felt the need for some container to keep them in and avoid missing pieces.
(Yes, in the picture above one piece was already missing. While taking it I didn’t realize it, and neither I did when picking up everything to put it away, getting the missing piece and storing it safely together with the rest of the set. It must have been hiding in plain sight nearby, but I will never know where.)
Anyway, back to Inkscape, and to a board printed on scrap paper that I tried to fold up until I came up with a layout that folded up in a small drawer, and then I added a case to wrap around it to keep it closed.
I played around with the case until it was big enough to actually slide around the folded board, and this is the result, ready to be printed out on A4 paper, cut, folded and glued. (This takes most of the sheet, and I’m not sure that the case would still fit around the board/drawer if printed with scaling, so if you want to print it on Letter paper I’d recommend to move the pieces around.)
Now, the only problem left was that green isn’t really my colour, and while I did like the stone effect of this set, I wasn’t exactly pleased by the colour scheme. (why did I do it this way in the first place? probably because I was trying to use up old cernit blocks before opening new ones.)
So, the only possible way out was to make yet another set, right?
I still used stone effect cernit, but this time in a red/grey scheme that knew I would have liked more, and while I was doing it I tried a few improvements on the randomization devices.
The tetrahedral dice are still the same: they work, it’s what they use in the replica sets, so I keep making them even if they’re not my first choice.
I’ve changed the coins to make them almost square for two reasons, however: one is that the round one tended to roll away into inconvenient places when throwing them with emphasis, and the other one is to make it easier to recognise them from the tokens with no need to flip each one around before starting the game.
The lozenges were a bit of a failure, instead. They work fine when thrown, but I don’t think that there is a self-evident way to decide which side should be counted, and the only intuitive way I can think of (count the ones in the player’s colour) would be unbalanced.
Speaking of balance issues: of course the hand-modelled dice and coins aren’t perfectly balanced but:
- they don’t feel obviously unbalanced;
- both players use the same set, so any subtle unbalance isn’t going to affect the chance of winning in an uneven way.
Maybe one day I will find a way to easily roll them a statistically significant number of times, collect data and analyze it to find out how imbalanced they are, but that’s not going to happen with manual data collecting, and I’m not really ready to go down the yak shaving filled road to automatize it.
To wrap up: is it going to be the last set I make for the Royal Game of Ur? lol. Is it going to be the last cernit set I make this month? definitely yes, I now have one I’m happy with, I’m routinely playing with it and I’m currently doing other crafts rather than cernit.
uooops, what happened to the pictures in that post?
(at least it's showing the alt texts, that I'm not sure are correctly working on the blog itself)
(it seems I still have to fix a few things on that blog :) )
@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua this is interesting. friendica isn't showing them.
the src in the feed point to /path/to/image.jpg, without the site url, which I'm not sure is the right thing to do
but a planet that shows my blog correctly shows the images.
oh, well.
In the source I see
<img src="../../../../blog/2023/02/13-royal-game-of-ur-cernit-sets/full_set-red_grey.jpg"
@David de Groot uh, I've seen a video of him talking about ghosts, but it was much shorter!
this is going in the list of things to listen to!
(I can also recommend the video about the replica of the Ark, and all of the other ones I did, really :D )
Comunque, la cosa più faticosa dell'andare a votare è far passare tutte le tasche dei vestiti alla ricerca di cose che ecco, magari non è il caso di portarsi al seggio, dai telefoni ai coltellini svizzeri al calibro (sì, avevo un calibro in tasca, è normale, no?)
Anyway, the biggest hurdle when voting is going through all the pockets in your clothing looking for things that one shouldn't bring with themself to the pooling booth, such as phones, swiss knives, calipers (yes, I had a caliper in one of my pockets, that's perfectly common, right?)
(not exactly FirstWorld Problems, but, yes, FirstWorldProblems)
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@albertux anything can be used as a weapon with the right amount of ingenuity.
I wouldn't use the expensive metal caliper I inherited from my grandfather for that :)
(also, the one I'm always carrying in my handbag, and had in my pockets this morning, is a simpler and less precise one in mostly plastic with a more compact design. It's also from my grandfather, so I wouldn't use it as a weapon either :) )
@Abi Sutherland well, of course the top bar has split while I was carving the cutout, the biggest dowel I have for the alternative spool is 10 mm, and I've just barely been able to cut the 6 mm holes in it on my second try, and when all of this was happening I realized I've cut one of the holes for the spool in the wrong position.
The sun is setting, I've decided I'm done for today, and will try to see whether I'll be able to fix everything tomorrow.
But it's all caused by my lack of woodworking practice (even for these simple values of woodworking), the instructions have been quite clear so far.
Also, not seen in the picture above, there is another BEKVÄM still in its package waiting for me to finish doing mistakes on this one, because I know my limits and decided to plan in advance :D
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I've noticing that lately on Fridays I've tended to gravitate towards working on documentation, mostly because I'm tired and checking that some docs are up to date is easier than, say, debugging stuff that is not working.
However, the more I think about it the more I start to believe that it's actually a good thing, so the only thing that is missing before this can become A Thing is a fancy alliterative name: anybody has ideas? :D
FriDocs?
(I'm almost too embarrassed to post that (and I know it only works in English really and it lacks alliteration), but I'll just let my embarrassment ride...)
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' di sicuro fa viceversa..
arrivo all'imbarcadero a Torno ore 14.11. la corsa passa alle 14.09. prossima corsa 14.44, che arriva alle 14.57. ora che sbarca e imbarca partiamo che son da poco passate le 15.00. arrivo a Como ore 15.30, pontile di fronte alla stazione Nord. Il treno è partito alle 15.16, prossima corsa 16.16... ortomio!
Se tornavo a piedi probabilmente arrivavo prima.
@Fabio ma sta sicuro che l'ora di arrivo prevista per il battello sarebbero state le 15:15 precise, così fai in tempo a scendere dal battello, arrivare tutto trafelato in stazione e vedere i fari rossi del treno che si allontanano.
mica questa cosa che arrivi un quarto d'ora dopo, che quasi quasi uno se ne fa una ragione!
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filed under FirstWorldCatastrophe: yesterday evening I've found that the only tobacco shop that sells international stamps in my area is closed until sunday, I only have two stamps for European destinations, and it's the middle of #InCoWriMo :D
yes, there is the post. Do I really want to spend my time waiting for them to go down to the dungeon, feed the crocodiles, disable the killer robots, get some random ugly stamp, come back up, realize they have got the wrong stamps, go back, repeat the procedure, come back up with even more ugly stamps?
Something tells me that this weekend I will send the few postcards I have planned for Italian destinations :D
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It's everything listed in the CW (“rainbow washing, retail chain” for people who don't see them), but I have to admit that the rainbow cover for a device whose name I. always. read. as. enby. looks appropriate.
TIL: if you put water in the kettle, turn the kettle on, put tea leaves in the cup (in a filter) and then leave the kitchen without pouring the water in the cup, you don't get a cup of #tea
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How To Verify Debian's ARM Installer Images
Posted on February 2, 2023
Thanks to Vagrant on the debian-arm mailing list I’ve found that there is a chain of verifiability for the images usually used to install Debian on ARM devices.
It’s not trivial, so I’m writing it down for future reference when I’ll need it again.
- Download the images from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu… (choose either hd-media or netboot, then SD-card-images and download the
firmware.*file for your board as well aspartition.img.gz). - Download the checksums file ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu…
- Download the Release file from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu… ; for convenience the InRelease
- Verify the Release file:
gpg --no-default-keyring \ --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-bullseye-stable.gpg \ --verify InRelease - Verify the checksums file:
awk '/installer-armhf\/current\/images\/SHA256SUMS/ {print $1 " SHA256SUMS"}' InRelease | tail -n 1 | sha256sum -c
(I know, I probably can use awk instead of that tail, but it’s getting late and I want to publish this). - Verify the actual files, for
hd-media:grep hd-media SHA256SUMS \ | sed 's#hd-media/SD-card-images/##' \ | sha256sum -c \ | grep -v "No such file or directory" \ | grep -v "FAILED open or read" 2> /dev/null
and fornetboot:grep netboot SHA256SUMS \ | sed 's#netboot/SD-card-images/##' \ | sha256sum -c \ | grep -v "No such file or directory" \ | grep -v "FAILED open or read" 2> /dev/null
and check that all of the files you wanted are there with an OK; of course changehd-mediawithnetbootas needed.
And I fully agree that fewer steps would be nice, but this is definitely better than nothing!
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First #InCoWriMo postcard: delivered!
the recipient complained about my fancy insular D that I used becaused this postcard was delivered by hand, rather than having to be readable by the post office machines :D
he's lucky his name doesn't have a W, or as I would write, a Ƿ! :D
(I'm not complaining, it was a *fun* complaint. )
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Usually, when I have to ask somebody who is near me, but in a confcall, about the time they're free for lunch I grab a bit not-very-used paper, a fountain pen, and write the question in good #cursive.
Today my mother was on the phone and gave me a bit of paper and a ballpoint pen to write the question I was trying to ask her (it was “should I keep stirring the lunch while you're at the phone?”) and I realized I started to write print, and had a hard time doing it.
The solution: ban ballpoint pens :D
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Marta 🌿🍃
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Here nobody is writing printed letters by hand until they have a specific reason to, with any pen.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Marta 🌿🍃 • •@Marta 🌿🐸 good question: I rarely write with a ballpoint pen, and when I do it's usually just a signature.
With fountain pens usually I write cursive, unless I'm filling some form that requires print (most of them, but then most of the forms I fill are on PDF, so I'm not using a real pen, but a cheap drawing tablet, anyway).
Marta 🌿🍃
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •The pen they gave me was terrible though! The point would dip a little constantly :( And the one I had with me is heat erasable so not good for documents.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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