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Some (not all) of the red pieces on my 3d-printed (and hand-painted) #piecepack have turned almost white. Every time I've used in the last year or so I planned to repaint them. Today it has happened :D

Qualcuno (non tutti) dei pezzi rossi del mio piecepack stampato 3d (e colorato a mano) è diventato praticamente bianco. Tutte le volte che l'ho usato nell'ultimo anno o giù di lì mi son ripromessa di ridipingerli. È successo oggi :D



TIL that the name Cedric has been invented in 1819 by Walter Scott.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric

The original name was Cerdic



almost ec if you get previews for external links

out of the thread because it's not really relevant

@göktuğ, of the orien't out of interested curiosity: the head covering in weirder.earth/@cadxdr/10893700… is the same as the one in e.g. live.staticflickr.com/3073/273… ?

(i.e. the style my mother doesn't want me to wear because it makes me look like a grandmother :D )

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@göktuğ, of the orien't apparently, making the knot at the back at the head instead of the front is perfectly fine for a young person (or a not-so-young, but still not grandmother age like me), instead :D

(this is a town in the north of Italy, and my mother is born in the 1950s, btw, if somebody was wondering)

(not that it's common to see people wearing those head coverings, these days, even if the fancy silk ones are still being sold)



I've written my name in blood on the book of the dead.

This means it's time to turn off the PC and go to sleep, right?

#flarerpg





Speaking of #BannerFangirls: I've been wondering whether there is anybody else here in the fediverse who has suffered from an irresistible urge to have a witch hat with ear flaps.

A proposito di #BannerFangirls: mi stavo chiedendo se ci fosse qualcun'altro qui nel fediverso che ha avuto un desiderio irresistibile di possedere un cappello da strega coi paraorecchie.

boosts welcome :D



in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I'm really happy with it because I've had quite a hard time finding detailed instructions for this time period: for the earlier pirate-style shirt there are plenty of articles (and a certain video), but this doesn't seem to be as common.

(cue lots of people providing me with links to patterns and articles about this style of shirt :D )

@FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #HistoricalSewing

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

And when I end the instructions by saying “start making the rest of the half dozen” I really mean it :D

I'm not going to actually make myself half a dozen shirts, because I don't dress like a victorian gentleman every day :D , but I already have a cut of thin, red wool fabric waiting for me to turn it into a shirt :D

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TIL: the blue laces on my summer corset BLEED

of course, I was wearing my best white shirt, why do you ask?

(luckily, some bleach later, it seems that it is back to being white)



online ads, antifeatures

Meanwhile, an ad online for the iThing, featuring their *exclusive* ability to play a game with *two* players on the same device.

With a split screen.

And you need an in-app purchase to make it work.

D: “the 90s are back”
me: “in the 90s you didn't need the in-app purchase”

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Status update on the 1880 gentleman's shirt.

After discovering that I had cut the sleeves wrong and keeping the project on hold for a while, I've resumed working on it, re-cutting and re-sewing the sleeves.

I've finished one of the sleeves and it's ready to be attached to the body.

The other sleeve is almost completely done, except for the fact that I maaaay have lost one of the cuffs. Tomorrow I'll try to look for it again, or I'll surrender and cut another one :(

At least one sleeve is enough to take the remaining pictures , so that when I'm not sewing I can keep working on the pattern and hopefully publish it in the near future.

Work in progress picture from an hour or so ago:

#sewing #victorian @sewing group @FreeSoftWear group

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

And this was the last step-by-step picture, now I only need to press the shirt and take some finished object pictures (weather permitting) and then I can publish the instructions!

#sewing

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Sikitikis - Metti un Tigre nel Doppio Brodo (2005)

#mastoradio


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Fabio
io no, giuro.
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Fabio
@Art of Stimart doppio carpiato con avvitamento. mi piace.




The pattern for the rain-inducing shorts has finally been

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

ok, published. sort of. without a finished object picture.

because when I cut that pair, I cut one of the legs wrong, and it's shorter than the other one :( (they are fine for wearing, since they aren't visible anyway)

I will add more pictures when I'll make a new pair, but right now I don't think I'll need them short term.

@FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #sewing #FreeSoftWear

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Managed to spend some time on this.

#gtk4 #libadwaita #vala #pixelfed

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@Kiwix

I've searched and couldn't find anything: do you happen to know whether there is an easy way to generate a #zim archive out of a #sphinx site? maybe a sphinx extension?

Or maybe it isn't really needed because most sphinx sites can be exported to a single pdf file, and that's convenient enough for #offline use?

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

This reminds me I planned to make my own copy of Italian #wikipedia
You know, in case everything collapses I've my own #knowlegde #vault 😁
@kiwix

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My SO is sleeping (siesta time), so for about one hour his chair is free.

What I want to have done in this hour is to continue my inventory of fabric (using his chair as a convenient place to hold it).

What I want do *do* in this hour is playing flare.

#RealProblems

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

SELECT * FROM fabric WHERE color LIKE '%brown%' AND length > 120 AND width > 180
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@Bevilacqua Gustavino

quello si può all'incirca fare: la query diventa qualcosa tipo ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, purché si siano configurato i campi length e width come sortable (che non è il default perché avere troppi campi sortable influenza le prestazioni)

che io sappia non si può fare una query tipo ```lenght = null``` (di solito per quelli finisco per usare grep :D )

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Bevilacqua Gustavino uops, I didn't realize you wrote in en...

that can be done, the query becomes something like ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, as long as the length and width have been configured as sortable (which is not the default because too many sortable fields influence performance).

afaik it isn't possible to have a query like ```length = null``` (usually when I need something like that I use grep :D )

in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@Bevilacqua Gustavino I've found that for this kind of applications in most cases, having free text search with stemming is more useful than querying for none, so I think that the tradeoff is worth.

In theory, I could probably write an additional backend to index the data also in an sqlite database for that kind of queries, but I've never felt enough of a need for it to actually *do* it :D



“The washing machine, I maintain, is one of the most significant inventions in human history”

fully concur.

(I'd recommend using your favourite downloader or the like)

youtube.com/watch?v=88Wv0xZBST…



valhalla vs the gentleman's shirt round 2

the sleeves that were too small and made me stop working on the shirt for a while weren't a failed experiment in how narrow I could cut them, they were cut wrong as compared to the size I had planned to cut on the notes.

a second pair of sleeves has been cut.

the first pair is just too narrow at the cuff, but I believe can work on the arm; I will probably be able to use them on a chemise or something, I'm not sure if I want to cut them so that they are 3/4, or leave them long and use a closure that doesn't need any overlap.

#sewing #victorian

@FreeSoftWear group @sewing group

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#lifeHack

removing the cap from the bottle will make it much easier to pour some oil on your pappa al pomodoro.

togliere il tappo dalla bottiglia rende molto più facile versare dell'olio sulla tua pappa al pomodoro.



TIL: the best setting on my #printer to print on (relatively lightweight) #watercolour paper is simply “heavyweight paper”.

No fancier setting required.



The devil made me do it, ok?

(ok, technically it was watching the picture of an amigurumi devil that gave me the idea)

| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
|
| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
|
| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Oh knits of Babylon
|
| You can count but you're blind
| Someone dropped the stitches down
| But you can see in your mind
| The knits of Babylon
|
| You're knitting the endless second sleeve
| Bonded and sold as a slave
| A needle dance building up a veil
| Getting as good as you gave
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
|
| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
|
| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
|
| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Black knits of Babylon
|
| The devil is me
| And I'm holding the chart
| To the knits of sweet hell
| Babylon



Looks like people are still using my SailfishOS Friendica client.

As my Jolla1 died some time ago, I've stopped developing it, but I thought I could check how it works on newer sfos with the emulator.

But I can't find the code. I'm quite sure there is a git repo somewhere but I can't find it 🤦

in reply to Fabio

Other half found!
git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/friendly-c…

Still didn't tried to build it..
The disk where I found first-half had newer code for front-end, but was missing the backend. The disk where I found the backend had an older code, but with divergent history (because, why push code on remote...).
So I'm not sure backend code is up-to-date with latest frontend...



e piove!

e ho appena visto la temperatura scendere di tipo 3 gradi in mezz'ora

/me felice



I had a version 1 #Solo key (solokeys.com/) from the first crowdfunding that I've never managed to use, and lately every attempt to talk to it failed with ValueError: Non-canonical CBOR from Authenticator, including when trying to update its firmware to try and get it to work.

This evening I've found the solution on fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_S… : that old version of the key can't be turned into bootloader mode via software, but it needs to be connected to the pc while holding down the button until the led starts blinking.

And now I could update it, and it's working! YAY for a non-bricked key!

#2fa

#2fa #Solo
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

And yes, the solution was trivial.

But finding it took me multiple attempts, and even the arch linux wiki didn't have it :(

gesticulates wildly with a walking stick.



ho dovuto farlo.

da github.com/Tuxemon/Tuxemon



I may have been tempted to buy some more art supplies (mostly paper, this time).

And while I was browsing the new products section of the website, they had poster paper, which I hadn't seen before.

And I remembered that some time ago I saw this tutorial twinsnneedles.com/2020/12/14/m… to make a tool to help pleat fabric.

And I may have accidentally added some poster paper to my shopping cart :D

This is a quick test I did to check whether it would survive being pressed with steam (it does) and which backing to use between more of the same paper and thin cardboard (the latter seems to be working nicely).

I've already glued a bigger pleater, about 30 cm × 30 cm with 1 cm pleats, it's currently drying.

And now I only have to decide what I want to pleat next :D

@sewing group #sewing #sewingTools

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Bad sleep, too hot, idea of the morning: I wonder whether pass(1) (the command line password manager) would be a good tool to keep an address book of the people with whom I regularly exchange #snailMail.

Up to now I've used paper (no man page, the physical thing :D), but that usually remains at home when I'm traveling, and I'm not in the habit to send postcards, but sometimes the sudden need for a letter happens (and paper is harder to backup and harder to encrypt in case it's lost).

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Luca Sironi @Enrico Rossi I wouldn't store physical addresses on a smartphone, and especially not unencrypted: it would be fine if they were businesses, of course, but the combination of real name + surname and home address of people, often even associated with their nickname is something that I wouldn't want to have on something that is easily lost or stolen.

And I'm quite sure that most of them wouldn't consider it ok if I just appeared at their door unannounced. :)

otoh, if it is at home and only accessible via a vpn it's safer, but then one needs the internet connection to get the data, which may or may not be available while traveling.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Osmo PIM has easy encryption, and is intended for offline contacts and such. Ive used it for over a decade. But of course nothing beats the elegance of paper ;) @valhalla


Apparently, for some *inexplicable* reason, talking on the phone with your father is not conductive to successfully counting the cards you're turning to improvise a double faced #tabletWeaving design :D

@FiberArts group

But it's fine, this band is meant to be a sort of sandbox to learn the tecnique, anyway (and I'm using one of my first spun yarns, which isn't of high quality either).

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

A quanto pare, per ragioni *incomprensibili*, parlare al telefono con tuo padre non è un buon metodo per contare con successo quali tavolette manipolare quando stai improvvisando un disegno nella #tessitura con le tavolette. :D

@FiberArts group

Ma va bene così, sto facendo questo nastro come prova per imparare la tecnica (e sto usando uno dei primi filati che ho filato, e non è di gran qualità, comunque).

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abbiamo sbagliato tutto!

dovevamo fare una raccolta di firme per chiedere di non far cadere il governo, qualunque governo, purché fosse un governo ladro (che è intrinseco nel concetto di governo) e quindi far piovere!

in reply to Paolo Redaelli

@Paolo Redaelli e infatti, oggi pomeriggio le previsioni svizzere prevedevano qualche temporale sul nord della lombardia per stanotte, e adesso che c'è crisi di governo è sparito tutto :(
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

quindi non ero l'unica a credere in meteoswiss e la sua iconcina variabile/temporale su chiasso...che dolore...


possible disrespect for the dead / possibile mancanza di rispetto per i morti

how do we get the local crematory to run the bodies through a fremen deathstill to reclaim their water before they incinerate the rest? I mean, it's not like they are going to use it, are they?

come si fa a convincere il crematorio locale a far passare i corpi da un deathstill¹ fremen per reclamare la loro acqua prima di cremare il resto? Intendo, non è che se ne fanno più niente, no?

¹ non ho idea di come sia stato tradotto in italiano, sorry

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Rebbbecca
re: possibile mancanza di rispetto per i morti
da quello che ho capito si usa il gas per bruciare il corpo, e se ne brucia solo 1 per volta, mettendoci un'oretta


TIL: la cedrata tassoni con dentro un pizzico di sale è buona.

(oppure sono disidratata e ne avevo bisogno :D )

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@Luca Sironi c'era un dito di sciroppo già diluito nel bicchiere e ho dato due colpetti al salino, direi che la risposta è *poco* :D


food, sweet

Today's #solarOven experiment was an apple *thing* (too much sugar for a sauce, probably too little to make it keep like a preserve): 130 g pureed apples and 40 g sugar, white in one jar, muscovado in the other.

In theory, I believe that if I heated the jars in the solar oven the day before, filled them to the top instead of just halfway, and fully closed the lid (maybe for the last hour or so of cooking) it should be safe for preserving (maybe also with a bit more sugar), since everything has been at pasteurization temperatures for hours. In practice, this one is going in the fridge, and I don't think it's going to survive much more than two days :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

cibo, dolce

L'esperimento di oggi con il #fornoSolare è stata una *cosa* di mele (troppo zucchero per essere una composta, troppo poco per essere una marmellata): 130 g di mele tritate e 40 g di zucchero, bianco e in un barattolo e mascobado nell'altro.

In teoria credo che scaldando i barattoli nel forno solare il giorno prima, riempiendoli fino all'orlo anziché solo a metà e chiudendo del tutto il tappo (magari solo per l'ultima oretta di cottura) dovrebbe essere conservabile (magari mettendo anche un po' più di zucchero), dato che è stato tutto a temperature di pastorizzazione per ore. In pratica, questo finisce nel frigo, e non credo che sopravviverà molto più di due giorni :D

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food, accidentally no animal products

Will I be able to have pasta with a warm sauce either this evening or tomorrow evening?

a badly taken picture of a pot of tomato sauce inside a solar oven

I don't have a good place to use the #solarOven in the middle of the day (I get direct sun from around 13:30 daylight saving time), and today it's a bit overcast, but the temperature probe below the pot has been above 65°C for a few hours now.

the display unit for a temperature probe showing 69.6°C



TIL: you can drive from Cape Town to Kosovo. it will just take a month or so :D


Filed under: yakshaving, I guess?

Today I decided I wanted to resume working on a #python script to generate an svg file for a piecepack set from a template and svgs of the suites, which is something I've been working on and (mostly) off for ages.

What I did today:

* did a bit of cleanup in the directory where I thought the script was (it wasn't)
* moved an unrelated script (to generate a template for telescoping boxes) which *was* in the above directory to the repository where I was actually working on the piecepack script
* did the initial release on pypy of my library to write command line commands (which at the moment is basically just what I had in lesana, extracted in a way that is general purpose).

Not sure whether I should have a feeling of accomplishment (I *did* things that were in the queue for months) or lack of :D



New #felted #fauxdori

I'm not 100% happy with it: it is quite heavy, so it's probably not really confortable to use (or at least to carry around), but using a thinner wool probably wouldn't be sturdy enough. Also, the felting isn't very regular.

However, it is usable, so I'm calling it done, and will use it at home.

And move on to the next attempt at making AllTheFauxdori. because I'm absolutely not obsessed with those, right?

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Samuele I tend to write *small*: sometimes I even use a preppy 02 upside down to get a smaller line, afaik german nibs tend to be significantly bigger than japanese ones.

Also, everybody I've heard talking about Lamy's nibs says that they are all great, except for the EF ones

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