TFW you have finally repaired the battery compartment door on your camera, using a hair pin, and you can't take a picture of the repair to share on the fediverse…
I did manage to take a picture of the broken bit and of the sacrificial hairpin, however.
(also, I should have used a tripod instead of going with high iso, but the tripod was in the other room, and...)
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Debian Buster Release Party sabato 2019-07-06
Sabato 6 luglio è previsto il rilascio di #Debian Buster, e come ormai da tradizione, il LIFO, nella sua incarnazione di Debian Local Group, organizza un party per celebrare.
Il programma prevede un pomeriggio con computer e merenda presso il FaberlLab a Tradate, indicativamente tra le 15:30 e le 18:30 e una cena a Varese presso Hambù in via Vetera alle 19:30.
La partecipazione al pomeriggio è libera, per la cena è necessario
aggiungersi al framasondaggio entro sabato 29 giugno per permettere la prenotazione (aggiungere una riga per partecipante, anche per eventuali +1)
Il ristorante per la cena è un hamburgeria, ma hanno anche hamburger vegetariani e pinsa romana ed altri piatti per chi non volesse mangiare hamburger.
Attenzione: in caso di problemi con le sedi e/o aggiustamenti dell'orario verrà aggiornata la pagina del party sulla wiki debian: controllate qualche giorno prima per avere certezza di avere le informazioni aggiornate.
/read isn't a profile that you could add as contact. Try a link to a profile, like for example people.kernel.org/monsieuricon… or people.kernel.org/gregkh/ or so.
Dowels from the hardware store are nice, straight and regular, conveniently available… and made from wood that has traveled quite a lot :(
Yesterday I had a chance to collect a few hazel sticks and made sure not to miss it: one is going to become a distaff, another has been cut into two #spindle stick size bits
The one that has been already carved into shape look pretty irregular, but I've tried it with one of the salt dough whorls I've made last week and it is surprisingly well balanced. With the other one I'm going to try to let it cure a bit before carving.
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.
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.
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?
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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).
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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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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