We (my SO and me) made a first attempt at firing some #clay objects in a fireplace.
To reach the fireplace they had to be carried for a bit of a walk, so for the first attempt we only brought 3 different whorls, one tiny vase and a round sample bit; one of the whorls (the thickest one) broke near the beginning (and we could only find one piece), but the rest came out decently, even if we accidentally let the fire slow down earlier than planned (they remained at temperature for something like a hour and a half).
The mini-vase is currently sitting on my kitchen sink, half-full of water and at 5 °C less than its surroundings. Before the next summer I want to make one of those refrigerating flasks…
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whooops, you're right
(I still don't understand when friendica uses the iframe preview and when it uses the snippet of text from the description in the editing window, but it's not like I've ever made an effort to understand it).
it depends on what the site offer as data. It this case the oembed endpoint offer html code to use as embed which contains the iframe (see here). Note that the blockquote with title and link is also in oembed reply.
If the site don't support oembed, friendica tries other systems: opengraph meta tags, "description" meta and title tag. As a fallback, it tries to extract first lines of body text... (I'm describing this from memory.. I could be wrong)
github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/… ... in any case, homework for both deblanc.net and wp.libpf.com: install WP opengraph plugin
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uh, my edit didn't appear on mastodon? when I realized that the preview looked pretty empty I added a short description.
ouch
The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom. Our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. RMS does not speak for these values.
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TFW you are on a commuter train between Varese (Italy) and Como (Italy) and an announcement warns you that you are now leaving the European Union!!1ONE!!! (and if you are carrying about a truckload of money or valuables you should leave the train at the next station to declare them)
(I knew I was going to leave Italy for part of the trip, I just didn't expect the EU bit)
tilo.ch/en/Collegamenti/Colleg… ---> this is the line, going through Switzerland.
Filed under: reality oversteampunking fiction.
Today I saw a flogo-pneumatic gun (wikipedia article in italian only, but it has a picture) built by Volta in 1776. The museum guidebook mentions that he commented “feel free to laugh, but don't be afraid of that word”. There is no mention whether the phrase continued with “you fools! BUAHAHAHAH”.
Oh, and it was inside the Volta Temple, which was designed to be a (small) museum, but it's in the shape of a temple, inspired by the Pantheon (so, if this was the discworld, there would now be a god called Volta)
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I think it is worth visiting, but you should either read up on Volta's activities (beyond the battery) in advance the visit or buy the guide when you get there and plan to have time to read it while you visit the museum.
It's full of interesting-looking devices, but the descriptions in the museum only give you their names, with very little hints on what they do. You can probably guess a lot (we did), but deeper explanations would be better.
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Vanilla @debian is installed/running on my @olimex TERES-I laptop via debian-installer. If you experience a black screen upon bootup, there is a workaround: remove the installation media at the debian-installer boot select menu. What does this mean? You can easily create your own installer media (a ~90MB image) to install the operating system the way it was designed to be installed. You don't need a custom image sourced from a vendor.
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He does grow enough basil for all of our pesto needs
So the basic needs are covered, I would say...
We only grow the basil, we don't have the trees (pine and olive) nor the right weather to grow them. We're not growing the garlic either, but that we could probably do.
Plenty of things missing from the basic needs :D
Coucou! C’est la rentrée et donc voici l’épisode qui m’a tenu compagnie cette été:peppercarrot.com/fr/article463…
Étant l’épisode 30, c’est un épisode silencieux (comme tous les épisodes multiples de cinq, comme le 5,10,15,20 et 25…une tradition et une contrainte artistique). C’est aussi un épisode qui zoom un peu sur les préoccupations de Carrot et fait un tour sur la vie studieuse à présent de tous les jours dans la maison de Pepper. J’espère que ça vous plaira! Merci encore!
For some reasons, when I saw this at the egyptian museum in Turin I thought about mastodon :D
It's the report of a strike by the (relatively elite) workers from Deir el-Medina who were building the current pharaoh's tomb, when they stopped receiving payments/food rations.
bad picture is bad, but this is the first result I found with a quick search and it has another picture and a lot of information dianabuja.wordpress.com/2012/0…
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people please host your webfonts. Don't use Google (or other proprietary, non-free, #privacy-violating) services.
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Primo incontro Rizoma
tempo libero.
I partiti non ti attirano, parlano di problemi di 20 anni fa proponendo soluzioni di 50 anni
prima.
Se sommi tutto il tempo che passi sui social ( Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook ), a guardare,
leggere e scrivere cose che dimenticherai dopo tre giorni, e pensi che avresti potuto impiegarlo
meglio organizzando una rivoluzione, allora sei nelle vicinanze del Rizoma.
Il rizoma non è unico, ce ne sono molti ma sono difficili da trovare perché sono radici
sotterranee. Spesso pensi di non averne bisogno, hai cose più urgenti da fare. Per esempio
sopravvivere.
Oltre alla sopravvivenza, per chi può, c'è l'azione. Rizoma è una unità minima dell'azione, una
organizzazione senza struttura, in comunicazione con le altre organizzazioni in un ecosistema.
Hai dei desideri? A chi li affidi?
Nel Rizoma puoi attivarti per realizzarli assieme a con chi respira assieme a te. Usando la
tecnologia a tuo vantaggio, per produrre valore sociale nella comunità senza diventare una
appendice della macchina e una merce in vendita.
Andremo a formare una delle componenti dell'ecosistema di organizzazioni, una soluzione
frammentaria ai desideri di appartenenza a comunità aperte, accoglienti e solidali.
Le caratteristiche minime saranno l'assenza di delega, il confronto dialettico, l'apertura a
molteplici identità, l'interesse per le tematiche legate alla tecnologia e alla trasformazione
sociale.
Ci vediamo a Spin Time Labs alle h 10:00 sala X - Domenica 13 ottobre 2019.
Via S. Croce in Gerusalemme, 55, Roma.
Programma:
Domenica 13 Ottobre.
H 10:00 Benvenuto di Spin Time Labs - Introduzione a Rizoma
H 11:00 Discussione delle proposte costituenti.
H 12:00 Proposte di azione dai partecipanti.
H 13:30 Pranzo sociale 15€
H 14:30 Il social network federato come ambiente per l'ecosistema di organizzazioni.
H 16:00 Crowdfounding e bandi per finanziare le infrastrutture emancipative. La campagna
#facciamoluce come esempio di ecosistema.
H 18:00 Saluti - workshop social federati (Friendica e Matrix). Scambio contatti.
friendica.feneas.org/profile/r… rizoma@tuta.io
#fediverso #politica #roma #friendica #rizoma #facciamoluce #spintimelabs
!Rizoma !Gruppo Linux Como
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this. this. this.
A step in the wrong direction is "locking firmware", where a loadable firmware is made read-only by storing it to a ROM. (…) This is madness that needs to stop.
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Back in 2012 Raspberry Pi announced that they were the first arm board with FLOSS GPU drivers, when they in fact only had a shim that called the real drivers from the proprietary GPU firmware. Since then their situation has afaik improved a lot.
I don't know if the FSF ever dealt with Raspberry Pi, but they have suggested multiple times that putting a proprietary firmware on a ROM would make it part of the hardware and thus not a/their problem; I know it has happened with the GTA04 and with wifi card.
IMHO this policy is horribly misguided, does not improve the practical freedom of the user and reduces their potential freedom.
Make free calls with ESP32 SIP phone based on ESP32-ADF and MOD-LCD2.8RTP olimex.wordpress.com/2019/08/2…
I've tried to make an oil lamp with a small jar, a slice of cork covered with foil and a wick made with thread plied a few times.
The bottom of the jar is filled with water, with rice oil (i.e. an old and slightely rancid oil I had around the house) on top.
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btw, the jar of course had some food products in it, the wick is made from used basting thread, the cork came from a bottle of wine and the foil is a leftover from a solar panel.
I guess that the only “new” thing is the tap water at the bottom :)
apparently, coming with superior numbers and conquering their cities is not something you're supposed to do to your SO.
I don't really understand why :D
Thank you, thank you for sharing this. There is so much I'd like to express about this...
But won't be able to state that clearly in a comment - this needs a proper post.
For now I just say this - I think we really need to keep the web more KISS, really. There is a lot of trendy stuff happening and it is dangerous when we start treating these trendy things as "best-practice" and copying them everywhere, when in fact they are counter-productive and even toxic at times. A great example of this is infinite scroll (diaspora's frontend has this same antipattern) - no way to link to a specific point in the list of items, no way to know what is the total number of them, and the back button is (usually) broken.
I'm trying to treat JS as an optional add-on with the stuff that I build, as much as I can. In one of my projects I did implement a page that would load parts of it via JS when the user selects an item in a list, but if the user did just visit the url directly, the server sends full HTML instead. I don't think this would be a performance difference, but rather a way to avoid full page reload when only part of it actually changes.
AMP's rewriting of stuff to be hosted by Google specifically in a way that increases their surveillance, with *pressure* to do so in exchange for a boost in traffic that will absolutely go away anyway once they've forced the entire ecosystem to move over to it, is a sure sign of monopolistic behavior that Google deserves to get hit with an antitrust lawsuit for more than anything else I've seen so far.
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Nuovo gruppo rizoma di attivisti orizzontali.
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Vi in vitiamo ad iscrivervi..
DebianDay/2019 - Debian Wiki
wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2019#Debian Day will be on Friday, August 16th in 2019. It is celebrated each year on August 16th.
“We are death,” the first of the three dragon heads said.
“And destruction,” said the second.
I turned to the third.
“And we like cookies!” It said with a grin. “Have you brought us any?”
I held up a basket filled with all sorts of snacks.
The first head spoke. “You shall be spared.”
“For now,” the second added.
“See you tomorrow!” Chirped the third as clawed hands snatched the basket away from me.
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L'estensione #Unpaywall per trovare #ricerca ad #AccessoAperto da Firefox/Chromium è #SoftwareLibero gratis.Ha oltre 200mila utenti e un milione di usi al giorno. Riesce in 50+ % dei casi, precisione 98+ %.
Quanti #ricercatori la conoscono in Italia?
unipa.it/Unpaywall/
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This rules. DIY computer-controlled loom. (And it's open source!) retrotechjournal.com/2019/06/1…
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Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision. The proof-of-concept, dubbed “Project Sistine” after our recreation of the famous painting in the Sistine Chapel, was prototyped by me, Kevin, Guillermo, and Logan in about 16 hours.
https://www.anishathalye.com/2018/04/03/macbook-touchscreen/
I might have accidentally bought some new #ink...
Text reads:
I wonder if being in love with the blood-red ink I've recently bough is yet another sign of the fact that I can't prove I'm not a vampyre(sic).
I should start wearing the black ribbon whose precepts I've always followed (with no plans to stop).
At least this looks like fresh blood and not something used to sign a pact with the devil.
The ink is Rohrer & Klingner writing ink, merinda.
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It wasn't my fault! it just happened!
(the fact that I visited two brick and mortar shops, opened a forum thread asking for more shops to try and then browsed through the online reseller list on the producer's website until I found one I liked doesn't mean I can't claim it was something like the devil forcing me to act, right?)
waaaay overdue #tourDeFleece update: on day 13 I did indeed spin some wool I carded myself (forgot to take a picture while still on the spindle, but here it is before being lightly blocked: 
I think that for the rest of the fleece I want to try combing it, but with this bit I also want to try some naalbinding.
Then I finished some generic black roving from the yarn shop (that I had started before #TdF19 and kept as my to-go "spin for 5 minutes" project), spun worsted, and then, instead of being able to write this post life happened again, badly, and I just didn't have the energies for it.
In the next few days I also spun another bit of generic blue roving from the yarn shop, this time woolen, and that was it for my spinning this month.
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I'm definitely happy with the amount of spinning I did: I completed everything that I had planned (and didn't hurt my hands) and by the time I had the forced stop I was already thinking about stopping for a while and using some spun yarn in order to decide what kind I needed more: I'm weaving a scarf on the backstrap yarn and winging it without real plans, so I'm not sure if I'll have enough weft, but I also want to try some tablet weaving with the same fiber, spun thinner, so I want to leave some of the roving for the project that will need it most.
I think my spinning has improved a bit, and trying to card was also something I wanted to do: I'm definitely not proficient at it, but I have plenty of materials to learn (today I washed a bit more of the fleeces)
I also learned that whorls made in salt dough will. break., but then it is quite easy to “glue” them back with a few drops of water and some time.
Joost van Baal-Ilić
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