TIL: overpass-turbo


Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.

E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?

Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?

Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:

(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy

e la query generata è:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;

Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).

A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.


Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.

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I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it

I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering

I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges

I have no idea what temperature to use

I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?

#MYOG

(the adult will be here in a few hours)

#MYOG
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi

Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare

Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili

Non ho idea di che temperatura usare

Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?

(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)

dream

It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up

halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.

I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.

¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D

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sogno

erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata

a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.

Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.

¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D

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sogno

Sensitive content

Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.

The call went something like:

me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time

luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.

Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!

Should I worry?

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@Matthew Dockrey

yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)

and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cu…

And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…

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10 minutes ago the sun had not set yet, so I started to solder the few bits left so that we could finish the project we had been working on in the afternoon (after buying the last bits we needed this morning).

it is now 21:40, and I've finished soldering 10 minutes ago. It's definitely too dark to do any outside work.

I haven't tested anything, and I've already covered everything in heatshrink (it's all cables and pin headers, nothing expensive in case I have to redo everything from scratch).

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

10 minuti fa il sole non era ancora tramontato, quindi ho iniziato a saldare le ultime cose in modo da poter finire il progetto su cui abbiamo lavorato nel corso del pomeriggio (dopo aver comprato le ultime cose che ci servivano stamattina).

sono le 21:40, ho finito di saldare 10 minuti fa. là fuori fa decisamente troppo buio per lavorare.

Non ho ancora testato niente, e ho già ricoperto tutto di termorestringente (sono solo cavi e pin headers, niente di costoso nel caso in cui debba rifare tutto da capo)

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As for the things I soldered yesterday night, half of them aren't in use because the waterproof box we wanted to use is too small :(

We may find another box, or buy one in the next few weeks.

For the time being, we've used some dupont cables to connect the main sensor to the ESP32C3 board, and got an *interesting* behaviour: the board was sending data from the sensor, but it was *always the same value*. Data for the internal battery level sensor was changing at every measurement, as expected.

We opened the stevenson box, changed the sensor with another identical one. same behaviour.

We opened the waterproof box to bring the board inside and do more tests, and found that the dupont cable for the sensor ground was disconnected. But it was still managing to send data, only it was the *wrong* data.

Reconnected the ground, it seems to be working.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Quanto alle cose saldate ieri sera, metà non sono in uso perché la scatoletta stagna che volevamo usare è troppo piccola :(

Forse ne troveremo un'altra, o al massimo ne compreremo una tra qualche settimana.

Per ora abbiamo usato dei cavi dupont per collegare il sensore pricipale alla schedina con ESP32C3, e abbiamo avuto un comportamento *interessante*: la schedina stava inviando i dati presi dal sensore, ma era *sempre lo stesso valore*. I dati del sensore di carica della batteria (interno) cambiavano leggermente ad ogni misura, come atteso.

Abbiamo aperto lo schermo di stevenson, cambiato il sensore con un altro uguale. stesso comportamento.

Abbiamo aperto la scatoletta stagna per portare in casa la schedina e fare ulteriori test, e scoperto che il cavo dupont del ground verso il sensore era scollegato. Ma riusciva comunque a mandare dei dati, solo dati *sbagliati*.

Ricollegato il ground, sembra funzionare.

consumerism, national stereotypes (unconventional)

Leroy Merlin is French. The French are Elves. That explains why we entered the shop mid morning (before 10, I think), and after spending half an hour, surely no more than an hour in there, we left at half past midday.

And also why when we go there we always leave being exhausted, as if our soul had been nibbled upon.

@Diego Roversi had to eat some food while we were in, but it was food we had brought from outside, and never left unattended, so we should be fine, right?

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@Zand :arch: :terminal: @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @BB @Gecco in questo caso la scatola era necessaria per infilarlo nella tasca davanti dello zaino, quindi *qualcosa* serviva

poi ho delle idee vaghe ma grandiose su come farli una scatola più permanente. non credo che succederà a breve :D

POLARVIDE modular jacket


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Posted on April 28, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing
A woman with early morning hair wearing a knee-length grey polar fleece jacket; it is closed at the waist with a twine belt that makes the bound front edge go in a smooth curve between the one side of the neck to the other side of the waist and then flare back outwards on the hips. The sleeves are long enough to go over the hands, and both them and the hem are cut

Years ago I made myself a quick dressing gown from a white fleece IKEA throw and often wore it in the morning between waking up and changing into day clothes.

One day I want to make myself a fancy victorian wrapper, to use in its place, but that’s still in the early planning stage, and will require quite some work.

a free cat sitting half asleep on an old couch, with a formerly white piece of fabric draped between the armrest and the seat. A piece of cardboard between two seat pillows provides additional protection from the wind.

Then last autumn I discovered that the taxes I owed to the local lord (who provides protection from mice and other small animals) included not just a certain amount of kibbles, but also some warm textiles, and the dressing gown (which at this time was definitely no longer pristine) had to go.

For a while I had to do without a dressing gown, but then in the second half of this winter I had some time for a quick machine sewing project. I could not tackle the big victorian thing, but I still had a second POLARVIDE throw from IKEA (this time in a more sensible dark grey) I had bought with sewing intents.

The fabric in a throw isn’t that much, so I needed something pretty efficient, and rather than winging it as I had done the first time I decided I wanted to try the Modular Jacket from A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (which I had bought in the zine instalments: the jacket is in the March issue).

After some measuring and decision taking, I found that I could fit most of the pieces and get a decent length, but I had no room for the collar, and probably not for the belt nor the pockets, but I cut all of the main pieces. I had a possible idea for a contrasting collar, but I decided to start sewing the main pieces and decide later, before committing to cutting the other fabric.

As I was assembling the jacket I decided that as a dressing gown I could do without the collar, and noticed that with the fraying-free plastic fleece I didn’t really need the front facings, so I cut those in half lengthwise, pieced them together, and used them as binding to finish the front end.

the back of the worn jacket, other than being clinched in by the belt it is pretty straight.

Since I didn’t have enough fabric for the belt I also skipped the belt loops, but I have been wearing this with random belts and I don’t feel the need for them anyway. I’ve also been thinking about adding a button just above the bust and use that to keep it closed, but I’m still not 100% sure about it.

Another thing I still need to do is to go through the few scraps of fleece that are left and see if I can piece together a serviceable pocket or two.

folding the sleeves back by a good 10 cm to show the hands.

Because of the size of the fabric, I ended up having quite long sleeves: I’m happy with them because they mean that I can cover my hands when it’s cold, or fold them back to make a nice cuff.

If I’ll make a real jacket with this patter I’ll have to take this in consideration, and either make the sleeves shorter or finish the seam in a way that looks nice when folded back.

Will I make a real jacket? I’m not sure, it’s not really my style of outer garment, but as a dressing gown it has already been used quite a bit (as in, almost every morning since I’ve made it :) ) and will continue to be used until too worn to be useful, and that’s a good thing.


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@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?

@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?

Are there additional term of use on the logo?

Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this :D

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@Elena ``of Valhalla''

Sry no SVG.
JPG-PNG are available in all sizes up to 256px I believe.
I even ulpoaded this to git friendica I think, not sure witch versions, every once in a while I retouch something.
Terms of use are CC0 (actually NC) but in the case of friendica anything goes.

The colored circular image is a svg "permafluer", published creative commons by someone else in some CC svg catalogue site. The copy left is from a SVG creative commons site. The friendica base is from a friendica logo itself.
Gimme a day and I look up all the info with links if I can.

Versions of this have been used as canvas for forum profiles, see here to get an idea:
tupambae.org/directory

btw
The image I posted is the background image of this friendica server as you may find if you visite this comment or for example our TOS page:
tupambae.org/tos
:)

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Stickerses


Posted on April 27, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:graphics, topic:stickers
After just a few years of procrastination, I’ve given a wash ofgit-filter-repo to the repository where I keep my hexagonal sticker designs, removed a few failed experiments and stuff with dubious licensing and was able to finally publish it among my public git repositories

This repo includes the template I’m using, most of the stickers I’ve had printed, some that have been published elsewhere and have been printed by other people, as well as some that have never been printed and I may or may not print in the future.

The licensing details are in the metadata of each file, and mostly depend on the logos or cliparts used. Most, but not all, are under a free culture license.

My server is not setup to correctly serve the SVG files, yet: downloading them (from the “plain” links) should work, but I need to fix the content type that is provided. I will probably procrastinate doing it for quite some time, but eventually it will be done. Of course cloning the repository from the public https URL also works.

BRB, need to add MOAR stickerses.


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TIL: in 1846 in Lombardy the mountain provinces had a significantly higher rate of school attendance (93% for Bergamo, 87% for Como, Sondrio and Brescia) than the lowland ones (with a minimum of 50% in Mantova and Pavia).

(I'm not sure whether this is about 1 or 3 years, but either way we're talking very basic elementary schooling: reading, writing and arithmetic)

source: G. Sacchi, Relazione sullo stato dell'istruzione elementare e tecnica in Lombardia durante l'anno 1846, «Annali Universali di Statistica» 1847, vol 13, 180-196, quoted in a 1979 article that I'm too lazy to properly quote O:-)

TFW you're reading a *fantasy* fanfiction, even if it feels vaguely early modern, and the characters are undressing because it's *that* kind of fanfiction, and — coherent with the original work — a male character has removed his shirt before his trousers, and after removing those too they still have their smallclothes on and your mind goes “wait a second, are you *sure* that's accurate for the way the rest of the clothes are depicted???”

If 8 people are coming for a festive lunch, almost 5 kg is a perfectly reasonable amount of flour to bake into bread-like substances, right?

(I have reasons. some of it is omnivore¹ kibble, i.e. knackebrot, that I'm making mostly for myself for the next month or so. some I expect to be taken away together with the leftovers, and some freezes just nicely.)

¹ as opposed to obligate carnivores

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

otto (8) teglie di knackebrot sono state stese con la macchinetta della pasta¹, cotte e stanno asciugando nel forno a bassa temperatura.

ci sono volute due persone² e siamo entrambi morti :D

¹ This. Is. ITALY. :D
² non sono capace di usare la macchinetta della pasta da sola, senza aver bisogno come minimo di tre mani (a meno di usare il motore elettrico)

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the cartridge pleated skirt is almost done, only requires a patch on a small tear I couldn't cut around, but I need some sewing thread in a different colour from what I already have.

the bodice is done, I've worn it today, it's good (other than a small change I want to make to the pattern for the next time).

When I'll have some time with no rain at a time when I can take pictures I will, and then there will be a blog post.

So, now, I suddenly found myself with no #handsewing project in progress¹, and that can't do!

¹ ok, there is one. I don't want to pick that one up right now

and then one browses through fashion plates, and finds *this*

libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digi…

(German fashion plate with three fancy dresses from the second bustle era, one has a Grecian Artemis theme, one a music theme and another one has a green military themed jacket, a skirt with a green / white / red band at the hem, and a round hat with a big plume)

and. is that an *Italian alpini* costume? that's straight into *so bad it's good* area. except for the fact that the 1880s are too late to go patriotic (stuff had already started to go downhill fast)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode I could, but I'm not going to do anything Italian-military themed past the second war of independence (1859), that's when the Italian army started to be the thing that is sent to crush peaceful popular protest rather than, well, something that didn't exist (because no Italy) and thus may be pictured in a positive way by the people interacting as allies with the Sardinian army (out of which the Italian army was born) :D

@Yaku 🐗 Yaku! Yaku!

la lettera da Nanni a Ea-Nasir!!!

gts.amd.im/@amd/statuses/01JRK…
sketchfab.com/3d-models/clay-t…

(però è sotto licenza NC, non so se potete. uff. )

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uspol per vie traverse, pensare all'impero romano(TM)

@🧊 freezr 🥶 stavo pensando più alla pessima fama dell'ultimo re di roma, e agli imperatori (che a causa di quella pessima fama si sono sempre assicurati di far sapere a tutti che loro *non erano assolutamente* dei re — ma di fatto avevano riaccentrato tutti i poteri rilevanti), e a quanto un cattivo imperatore riuscisse a causare disastri

poi non so come fosse l'equilibrio dei poteri nell'impero romano d'oriente, durante il medioevo, credo più accentrato rispetto a molti stati dell'europa occidentale

(ah, e ovviamente le monarchie europee attuali, al massimo con una rilevante eccezione, rientrano pienamente nel caso di poteri opportunamente suddivisi)

Have I finished the cartridge pleated skirt? of course not (it's getting closer, however)

Have I started to cut the lining fabric for the next project? maaaaaybe :D

I need a bodice to go with that skirt, and this morning I had some time when I could cut some fabric and quickly sew a mockup by machine.

I'm not 100% sure about the result, I may need to remove a bit of ease, but the fabric I'm going to use for the bodice was cheap enough¹ that I think I will cut it and I can always take it in later.

¹ a mystery fabric that was listed as something like 100% cotton, but had “lana” (wool) in the name, smells like wet sheep when wet, and looks and feels as if it has a cotton (or other plant fiber) in the weft and wool in the warp.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho finito la gonna arricciata? ovviamente no (ci sono quasi però)

Ho iniziato a tagliare la fodera per il prossimo progetto? potrei :D

Con quella gonna ci vuole un corpetto, e stamattina avevo del tempo in cui potevo tagliare della stoffa e cucire al volo a macchina un provino.

Non sono sicura al 100% del risultato, forse dovrò togliere un po' di agio, ma la stoffa che userò era abbastanza economica¹ che credo che alla prossima occasione la taglierò, e al massimo sono sempre in tempo a stringerlo poi.

¹ una stoffa a sorpresa che era venduta come 100% cotone, aveva la parola lana nel nome, odora di pecora bagnata quando è bagnata e da l'impressione di avere l'ordito di cotone (o altre fibre vegetali) e la trama di lana.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Filed under #sewingPersonProblems and #selfInducedProblems

three out of four panels of the bodice have been lined, and I could now start assembling them and try it on.

except for the fact that I suspect that a better way to do it would be to finish the lacing eyelets before assembling the bodice. it's probably not that much of a difference, but I'm also writing down instructions, and I want to do things right.

and this means that I have to wait MOAR time to see how the bodice will look like!

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Nelle categorie #problemiDiChiCuce e #ProblemiAutoindotti

tre pezzi su quattro del corpetto sono stati foderati, e potrei iniziare a cucirli assieme e provarlo.

se non fosse che sospetto che sia meglio rifinire gli occhielli sui pezzi separati, prima di avere tutto il corpetto assemblato. non credo che sia una differenza enorme, ma sto anche scrivendo delle istruzioni, e quindi preferisco fare le cose fatte bene.

ma questo significa che devo aspettare PIÙ tempo prima di vedere come sta venendo il corpetto!

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@Vi 💙 ma sai che l'idea di imbastire non mi era neanche venuta in mente?

avevo imbastito (a macchina) la fodera, quindi un'idea che la taglia non sia completamente sbagliata ce l'ho, ma adesso che sono ad un punto in cui si può assemblare solo a mano non mi ero neanche posta il problema di poterlo fare in modo temporaneo :)

però è anche vero che per quanto poco tempo, è tutto tempo non passato facendo disperatamente occhielli :D

minor pain, overcomplaining

on Monday I knew I had to expect running to catch a couple of trains. I wasn't sure, but couldn't rule out being able running from the train to another place (including up and down some stairs) to be able to do one extra thing other than what I had to do.

*Why* did I decide to wear my highest heels¹?

Now, on *Wednesday* my right thigh is still hurting!

(Also, I love being in this kind of pain, because it gives me an excuse to complain :D )

¹ they aren't that high, and they are pretty comfortable as far as high heel shoes go, but I haven't been wearing them for a while, and I need to get back to being used to them.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

dolorini, lamentele eccessive

Lunedì sapevo di dover correre per prendere un paio di treni. Non ero sicura di farcela, ma avevo la possibilità di correre dal treno ad un altro posto (compreso fare su e giù da delle scale) per riuscire ad infilare un'altra cosa oltre a quello che dovevo fare.

*Perché* ho deciso di mettere le scarpe col tacco più alto¹ che ho?

Oggi è *mercoledì*, e la mia coscia destra fa ancora male!

(Inoltre, adoro questo genere di dolori, perché mi da una scusa per lamentarmi :D )

¹ non sono così alti, e come scarpe col tacco sono decisamente comode, ma non le ho messe per un po' di tempo e devo riabituarmici

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

tastinghistory.com/recipes/rom… girellando per l'internet l'altro giorno mi è stato detto che datteri simili a questi venivano venduti come snack agli incontri di gladiatori. ora, non ho fatto fact checking, ma la ricetta sembra estremamente buona anche se non sono romani
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@Vi 💙 om. nom. nom!

io sono arrivata fino a

la.wikisource.org/wiki/De_re_c… XI.1

“Dulcia domestica: palmulas vel dactilos excepto semine, nuce vel nucleis vel piper tritum infercies. sales foris contingis, frigis in melle cocto, et inferes. ”

che così ad occhio sembra la ricetta che citano su quella pagina, e direi “good enough” per chiamarli romani :D

(non ho fatto fact checking sul fatto che li vendessero veramente al colosseo, ma ho finito di fare colazione e dovrei mettermi a fare cose sensate :D )

Periodic reminder that #sewing a 18th century style shirt completely by hand:

* doesn't require any expensive equipment;
* doesn't require any particular space;
* can be done with cheap materials;
* is easy enough that a (18th century) child can do it;
* probably takes less time than you think.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Jonobie and I wasn't sure about actually publishing them, but the way I kept those notes was as a potential article for my old site, and, well

eoval.org/77M6LfPY#
eoval.org/yaJzMQyJ#cutting_lay…

these two links will self-destruct in a week, and I haven't re-read that text, so they may be missing bits (and they *are* full of typos), but maybe together with the videos they can be useful

yesterday evening we had one of those wild nights where you have to turn on the air purifier afterwards

i.e., we had friends over, and one of them mentioned that he would have enjoyed learning how to solder, and suddenly on a low table (yeah, not ideal) there was a soldering iron, with all the accessories, perfboard, a box of resistors (and some LEDs that didn't get used)

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