Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
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Waking up thought of this morning¹:
“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:
“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì
Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter: to which are added, specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages. Forming a compreh
Place of publication within ornamental deviceInternet Archive
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@Fabio non che io l'abbia letta per intero (ancora :D ), ho fatto passare un po' di pagine.
forse qualche affermazione corretta la fa. forse :D
@Fabio e non glie ne si può fare una colpa, eh.
è più una considerazione su come faccia impressione quanto certe cose di linguistica che oggi sembrano universalmente note e scontate siano scoperte relativamente recenti
/me, puts away a pair of linen detachable cuffs, sees her cozy, warm, flannel 1880s shirt.
is it winter yet? and yet? and yet? and…
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* ripone nell'armadio un paio di polsini di lino separati, vede la camicia di flanella morbida e calda in stile 1880.
è arrivato l'inverno? eh? eh? e adesso, è arrivato?
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25.5°C in officina.
Col ventilatore puntato in faccia si sta abbastanza bene.
@Oblomov @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua alla fine di agosto non c'è un'occasione “ufficiale” per andare in giro in costume (non che io abbia piani quest'anno di andare a Lucca, ma se volessi andarci, dovrei preoccuparmi di gestire le temperature col costume, e io non ci andrei col costume da uomo nudo :D )
quindi evidentemente agosto e ottobre non sono la stessa cosa!
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@Kermode that's probably¹ lower than I've ever experienced in my life :D
¹ I've had exactly one experience of -18°C, so maybe on that night I've also met a -19°C, hence the probably
si parlava di treni storici, c'è un viaggio questo weekend (però questo sarà elettrico, non a vapore)
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/me, playing a game of 0ad and looking at the random factions: “oh, it's civil war between Syrians, and my Syrian allies have asked the help of the Roman empire against the yellow Syrians”
@Diego Roversi “fools”
/me, looking and how my ally still has more or less their initial corner of the map, while my territory has been enlarged significantly “you're not wrong”
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Today's fun rabbit hole: there's a mechanical watch feature called a "hack". Why is it called that?
hachyderm.io/@danderson/111136…
as a single page post: apthread.kirgroup.net/t/9b/5c/…
This week I haven't complained about #handsewing with plastic thread yet, right?
well, now I'm complaining about handsewing plastic fabric with plastic thread when there is even a layer of mylar safety blanket under the fabric.
but binding the edges with a machine seam and then handsewing it on the back is so much neater than trying to stitch in the ditch by machine!
@donkey herder a roll for cards (ID, driver license, etc.), the mylar blanket is there to make it harder to read them remotely (it's not perfect, but it should help reducing the distance the reader has to be to work).
I'm using some leftovers of cordura from my backpack lining, and sew-all thread.
Chickpea Crackers
Posted on September 20, 2023
And another half-written article I had in my repo. (Am I doing #FallFinishAlong with blog articles instead of / in addition to craft projects? it feels so).
I was in need of snacks. I wanted something bready, but with a bit less carbs and more proteins. I had a bag of chickpea flour.
Ingredients were:
- 100 g wheat flour
- 100 g chickpea flour
- 100 g water
- 3 g salt
- 1 g dry yeast
Mix everything as usual for bread, leave to rise for 4-6 hours.
Divide in 4 parts, roll them out to a thickness of about 1 – 2 mm, prick them with a fork (or the fancy cracker pricking tool that you don’t really need but I may have bought).
Optionally spray with a bit of water and sprinkle with salt (coarse or flake is best).
Preheat the oven to 240°C and cook for 5 minutes, or preheat the oven to 210°C and cook for 10 minutes for a dryer version.
I’ve tried both cooking temperatures: the 210°C had the big advantage of being the same as the common bread I was already making, so no additional oven time was required (it was summer. this was a consideration.), but I’m not sure which version I like best, so I think in winter I will alternate between the two.
Put it in a cotton (linen?) bag and keep it in a dry place, where it will keep for weeks (assuming you’ve made a bigger batch :D ).
This is now part of my staples.
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@Nathan Lövsund 🐒 🚀 mine aren't extremely crispy (like commercial crackers) either, more like homemade crackers.
Nice idea using sourdough, I should also try it one day!
somebody on tumblr wrote:
“stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblr”
just rockin' and rollin'
‘stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblrmad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
I know, it's a media thing to attract views and stuff, but I can't resist.
Why? don't you all think of the roman empire when spinning wool while walking on the streets of a town that used to be part of the empire (and thus, you're doing something that, I've read somewhere, was considered a thing not done)?
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua wikipedia mi dice di guardare Erodoto - Le storie (Ἱστορίαι), capitolo 71, libro II
Però hypo era ὑπό, mentre cavallo è ῐ̔́ππος, non son così simili, in fondo
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Installing minidlna
Posted on September 19, 2023
I’ve found the draft of this article I almost completely wrote (checks) more than 3 months ago, and I guess it’s time to finish and publish it.
The very first A10 based device that entered our home, before they started to use it for SBCs, was a Chinese media server with a slot for a 3.5" hard disk and a few analogue audio outputs.
Of course from the time it entered our home it has always been running Debian.
Now that we may have a few, more powerful, A20 SBCs available, it has been fully dedicated to music: it is connected to the stereo, the hard disk has a clone of the git-annex repository where I’ve ripped all of my CDs1 and is played by connecting via ssh and running alsaplayer.
It’s simple (for my tastes). it works. Unless you’re in a different room than the one with the stereo.
And then I read this post on the fediverse that suggested installing minidlna on an old Raspberry Pi, and on a whim I decided I needed it.
I installed the package from Debian, set a few easy settings in the configuration file (such as which directories to serve), restarted the service.
And that’s it, it just worked.
The only thing I had to take care about is that to use git-annex repositories as the source of media files either the root of the repository should be used as media-dir, or the wide_links options should be set to yes, otherwise the symbolic links that point outside of the media-dir won’t be served.
As a client I used VLC (note for myself in case I ever forget, it’s under View → Playlist and then Local Network → Universal Plug ‘n’ Play), mostly because I already had it around.
Now that I’ve used it for a few months I have to say that it isn’t a perfect solution: the main format I store my music in is in flac 2, which isn’t supported by dlna; for a significant part of it I’ve also already generated single-song ogg files for convenience 3, and at least it works for those.
I don’t store (yet?) my video collection on the A10 device, but I did a quick test, and no, of course a raw dump of a DVD as generated by dvdbackup isn’t supported, so I would have to convert those too. And there is some support for subtitles as a separate file (which is something else I tend to have around), but only one file, with strict requirements for the name, which is a bit restrictive.
On the other hand, the hassle to set this up was so low that the functionality / hassle ratio is most definitely worth, and I’m quite happy I did and plan to continue using it.
- (yes, I’m still using CDs, I have objections to those newfangled streaming services)↩︎
- full CD rip in a single file, with an embedded cuesheet, to preserve as much as possible of the original disc.↩︎
- in theory the flac was supposed to be future-proof storage, with the ogg files for actual use, but then I always listen to full albums, so the flac just work, and I only tend to bother generating the ogg when I’m already generating mp3 for the car.↩︎
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Inspired by the excellent UI for emergency alerts on smartphones, @Fabio had the idea to write a new phone interface: Launcher Ultima
It's an isometric RPG, to make a call you have to find a phone box, to answer an incoming a call you need to be close to the *right* phone box (and of course there are multiple ones).
The address book is, as the name suggests, a book. Or rather multiple books, spread out around the whole world.
And if you receive an emergency alert a huge red face appears on top of the screen, and *loudly* reads the text of the alert.
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In the spirit of #FallFinishAlong, 3 days ago (3 days??? just 3 days???) i posted about a #YarnChicken victory at the middle of the shawl I'm knitting.
Pictured here, because I'm slow at moving pictures over from the camera to the pc :D
Anyway, the whole shawl is made of 4 balls of yarn, I started it in mid June, finished #knitting the second ball 3 months later. and now I've almost finished working the third ball, and I'm ready to attach the last one.
The last quarter of the work is probably going to go significantly slower, because it's no longer garter stitch, but still. I wasn't sure this would have been ready for December, but now it's starting to look realistic.
I'm #knitting a shawl in two colours, and according to the precision scale I have exactly the amount of yarn I need to knit another two rows with the first colour before moving on to the next one.I've added a lifeline, in case I lose this round of #yarnChicken.
And now, I should really stop knitting and have my breakfast, but that would delay *knowing*.
And I'm more than halfway through the fourth ball of yarn.
The next steps are:
* one row (k all sts)
* inserting a lifeline
* two rows (yo / k2t and k all sts)
* start binding off with a method I've never used
* lose the yarn chicken round
* rip to the lifeline
* bind off, this time for real
E ho più che passato la metà del quarto gomitolo.
I prossimi passi sono:
* un ferro al dritto
* inserire un filo di salvataggio
* due ferri (lanciato / due lavorati assieme, e l'altro tutto al dritto)
* iniziare a chiudere con un metodo che non ho ancora mai usato
* perdere la partita a yarn chicken
* disfare fino al filo
* chiudere, stavolta davvero
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Non-e (Note)Book
Posted on September 18, 2023
Some time ago our LUG bought some things from soldered.com and while browsing around the website my SO and I decided to add a junk box to the order and see what we would get.
Other than a few useful things, there were two mostly unpopulated boards for the inkplate 10 which would have been pretty hard to reuse as electronics.
On the other hand, at 23 cm × 18 cm they are a size that is reasonable for a book, and the slit near a long edge made them look suitable for the cover plates of a coptic bound book.
Since the size isn’t a standard one, I used some paper I already had in big (A1) sheet: Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis Blanc at 120 g/m², and cut 32 sheet 466 mm × 182 mm big, to have room to trim the excess at the end and straighten the edges. This would make 8 signatures of 4 sheet each, for a total of 128 pages.
The paper will make it suitable both as a notebook (where I’ll write with liquid ink, of course, not ballpoints) or as a sketchbook for pencil (but not wet techniques).
I could have added a few more signatures, but this felt already good enough, and the risk to end up with an half-empty notebook was non-trivial (I will already have to force myself to actually use it, rather than keep it for a good topic that will never be).
First we finished depopulating the boards, using it as a desoldering exercise and trying (and not always succeeding) to save as many components as possible, even if most of them were too tiny for our current soldiering skills.
And then I only had to sew the book, which was done mostly while watching the DebConf streams.
And a couple of days later, trim and sand the pages, which as usual I could have done better, but, well, it works.
The next time I do something like this I think I will have to add a couple more mm also to the height, to be able to trim also those edges.
And now of course the Big Question is: what should I dedicate this notebook to? Will I actually use it? This year? This decade?
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@Kermode yeah, it's a know problem.
I willingly got myself into trouble by using a static site generator written in haskell, and now I should learn enough haskell to fix the mangling of image urls for the rss feed (which gets read by friendica and posted here on the fediverse).
And learning haskell was the whole point of it, but it means I need some time to do it, and I keep getting distracted by other projects :D
@devrtz :debian: ,
btw, I think I need a t-shirt with these words. or a patch on my backpack. Yeah, I think a patch for my backpack will happen in the near future. And if anybody wants to print stickers or anything else, I will submit this to the usual places :D
(And until I've submitted it to the right places, the source can be found on eoval.org/YFf9WaTC#debian_phon… , under the same license as the debian logo)
@Fabio , @Diego Roversi and the other locals: if you also want something with these words, we can talk about it :)
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(assuming that the photosensitive thing for screen printing is still working, otherwise it will happen in the somewhat less near future when I buy a new bottle)
@fnord99 mine can't, and I wouldn't want to do that anyway.
Now, I wouldn't mind using a few apps that are in f-droid, but not strongly enough that I have ever bothered looking into how to do it.
Anyway, I posted on my linux mobile experience some months ago, and it's still pretty accurate (but note that some of the big problems are hardware-related and apparently are not a problem with a more expensive phone) blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…
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To be brutally honest:
Don't know, don't care.
I avoid that shit for a reason.
And I have always had enough willpower to resist that shit.
If you must, feel free to feel offended 🦄
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@devrtz :debian: @fnord99 @Fabio @Diego Roversi the biggest temptation for me would be StreetComplete (from f-droid, not from the playstore), but then I have a pinephone, so the GPS is, well, not great, and I'm not sure it would work anyway.
For everything else I'd need I can think of an alternative that is native to linux and packaged in debian.
(a Librem 5 may solve that problem, but that's quite out of my budget)
@fnord99 @Fabio @Diego Roversi @devrtz :debian:
for tickets for public transport I go to a kiosk (or sometimes an actual ticket window with an actual person, because the kiosk is half-broken). If I was using it more often I would probably buy a monthly pass online from the website.
For cashless payments I use the payment card from my bank.
I've had pretty bad experiences with navigation with live traffic information when traveling with friends (being sent on unreasonable detours that probably *increased* travel time), so, meh, that's not really something I feel the need for.
For online banking I use the website, usually from my pc; there is some 2FA happening with a phone call (with a machine, not a person)
I haven't tried those websites from a mobile browser, they may or may not work (I'm sure that the train website is horrible, but that's also true on the pc version, the only way to navigate it is by blocking 3/4 of the javascript, which firefox on the pinephone could do.)
AFAIK some EV charging places in EU have a card that you can use if you don't want to install an app. I really hope that as EVs get more common they will start accepting cash or cards like every other place where you have to buy things, however. (I also don't travel enough to be in the market for an EV, or any kind of new car, at the moment)
Ed è iniziata la stagione delle freselle con sopra il minestrone.
E nel minestrone dei bei pezzi di zucca.
Non serve che dica altro, vero?
@Kermode the south Italian variant of hardtack, except it's actually good in taste and texture :D
This picture is closer to what I'm having
I'm #knitting a shawl in two colours, and according to the precision scale I have exactly the amount of yarn I need to knit another two rows with the first colour before moving on to the next one.
I've added a lifeline, in case I lose this round of #yarnChicken.
And now, I should really stop knitting and have my breakfast, but that would delay *knowing*.
The pattern is basically “repeat until the end of the colour, change colour, repeat until the end of that yarn”, so there would have been no dishonour in changing the colour two rows earlier.
But surely that's wasteful, right?
and I WON! with a full *quarter of a gram* of yarn left!
edit: that's 80 cm!
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The mystery remains: how are they managing the grass in that area?
(it's the outdoor area of a museum, where the public is supposed to walk to reach the planes on display, so they have to keep the grass short enough that it's not a danger)
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Nella categoria: messaggi contradditori.
E rimane il mistero: con quale dei due metodi gestiscono il prato?
(È l'area all'aperto di un museo, dove il pubblico deve camminare per raggiungere gli aeroplani esposti, per cui è necessario tenere l'erba abbastanza corta da non essere un pericolo)
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No English version of the post above, which is mostly for people who travel on the local commuter trains, but the picture is of a model of a rather impressive (in person) 5 arcs railway bridge above a valley with a river and, at the time of the model, a second railway (which only had a relatively short life because of international politics¹ and now at that place is just a path through the woods)
¹ as in: it was an international local line, and then fascism.
Pietro Conti, nel 1896 ha scritto:
“Onore di pianto avrete ed il vostro nome durerà finché i sacrosanti ideali di libertà ed indipendenza batteranno nei petti umani e finché si giudicherà sommo sacrificio versare il sangue per la patria.”
ecco, mi spiace dirtelo, perché ammetto che l'entusiasmo che traspira dal capitolo un po' è contagioso, ma temo che quel “finché” non sia durato molti altri decenni, e per ottime ragioni.
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How I Keep my Life in Git
Posted on September 12, 2023
git secret_cabal greetAfter watching My life in git, after subversion, after CVS. from DebConf, I’ve realized it’s been a while since I talked about the way I keep everything1 I do in git, and I don’t think I’ve ever done it online, so it looked like a good time for a blog post.
Beyond git itself (of course), I use a few git-related programs:
- myrepos (also known as
mr) to manage multiple git repositories with one command; - vcsh to make it easy to keep dot-files under git;
- git annex to store media files (anything that is big and will not change);
- etckeeper to keep an history of the
/etcdirectory; - gitolite and cgit to host my git repositories;
and some programs that don’t use git directly, but easily interact with it:
- ansible to keep track of the system configuration of all machines;
- lesana as a project tracker and journal and to inventory the things made of atoms that are hard 2 to store in git.
All of these programs are installed from Debian packages, on stable (plus rarely backports) or testing, depending on the machine.
I’m also grateful to the vcs-home people, who wrote most of the tools I use, and sometimes hang around their IRC channel.
And now, on to what I’m actually doing.
With the git repositories I’ve decided to err for too much granularity rather than too little3, so of course each project has its own repository, and so do different kinds of media files, dot-files that are related to different programs etc.
Most of the repositories are hosted on two gitolite servers: one runs on the home server, for stuff that should remain private, and the other one is on my VPS for things that are public (or may become public in the future), and also has a web interface with cgit. Of course things where I’m collaborating with other people are sometimes hosted elsewhere, mostly on salsa, sourcehut or on $DAYJOB related gitlab instances.
The .mr directory is where everything is managed: I don’t have a single .mrconfig file but a few different ones, that in turn load all files in a directory with the same name:
collections.mrfor the media file annexes and inventories (split into different files, so that computers with little disk space can only get the inventories);private.mrfor stuff that should only go on my own personal machine, not on shared ones;projects.mrfor the actual projects, with different files for the kinds of projects (software, docs, packaging, crafts, etc.);setup.mrwith all of the vcsh repositories, including the one that tracks the mr files (I’ll talk about the circular dependency later);work.mrfor repositories that are related to $DAYJOB.
Then there are the files in the .mr/machines directory, each one of which has the list of repositories that should be on every specific machine, including a generic workstation, but also specific machines such as e.g. the media center which has a custom set of repositories.
The dot files from my home directory are kept in vcsh, so that it’s easy to split them out into different repositories, and I’m mostly used the simplest configuration described in the 30 Second How-to in its homepage; vcsh gives some commands to work on all vcsh repositories at the same time, but most of the time I work on a single repository, and use mr to act on more than one repo.
The media collections are also pretty straightforward git-annex repositories, one for each kind of media (music, movies and other videos, e-books, pictures, etc.) and I don’t use any auto-syncing features but simply copy and move files around between clones with the git annex copy, git annex move and git annex get commands.
There isn’t much to say about the project repositories (plain git), and I think that the way I use my own program lesana for inventories and project tracking is worth an article of its own, here I’ll just say that the file format used has been designed (of course) to work nicely with git.
On every machine I install etckeeper so that there is a history of the changes in the /etc directory, but that’s only a local repository, not stored anywhere else, and is used mostly in case something breaks with an update or in similar situation. The authoritative source for the configuration of each machine is an ansible playbook (of course saved in git) which can be used to fully reconfigure the machine from a bare Debian installation.
When such a reconfiguration from scratch happens, it will be in two stages: first a run of ansible does the system-wide configuration (including installing packages, creating users etc.), and then I login on the machine and run mr to set up my own home. Of course there is a chicken-and-egg problem in that I need the mr configuration to know where to get the mr configuration, and that is solved by having setup two vcsh repositories from an old tarball export: the one with the ssh configuration to access the repositories and the one with the mr files.
So, after a machine has been configured with ansible what I’ll actually do is to login, use vcsh pull to update those two repositories and then run mr to checkout everything else.
And that’s it, if you have questions on something feel free to ask me on the fediverse or via email (contacts are in the about page)
Update (2023-09-12 17:00ish): The ~/.mr directory is not special for mr, it’s just what I use and then I always run mr -c ~/.mr/some/suitable/file.mr, with the actual file being different whether I’m registering a new repo or checking out / updating them. I could include some appropriate ~/.mr/machines/some_machine.mr in ~/.mrconfig, but I’ve never bothered to do so, since it wouldn’t cover all usecases anyway. Thanks to the person on #vcs-home@OFTC who asked me the question :)
- At least, everything that I made that is made of bits, and a diary and/or inventory of the things made of atoms.↩︎
- until we get a working replicator, I guess :D↩︎
- in time I’ve consolidated a bit some of the repositories, e.g. merging the repositories for music from different sources (CD rips, legal downloads, etc.) into a single repository, but that only happened a few times, and usually I’m fine with the excess of granularity.↩︎
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Banners and Signs
Posted on September 8, 2023
I forgot to write down the details back when it happened, but now that the surprise has been delivered I can write about it.
Some time ago, I decided to make a small banner with the GL-Como penguin for a friend, because reasons.
However, this friend has a big problem, he, well, is from Pisa (no, I’m not from Leghorn, why do you ask?), and I had a screen printing kit, openclipart and no inhibitions.
So, with the encouragement of a few friends who were in the secret, this happened. In two copies, because the first attempt at the print had issues.
And yesterday we finally met that friend again, gave him all of the banners, and no violence happened, but he liked them :D
If somebody is interested, the source image I used is on openclipart, with links to all of the sources I’ve used.
I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but when I was working on the Pisani sign I also stumbled on the “no dogs” sign and decided that the world needed a “mandatory cat” sign, and well, here is the full set (all images are a link to the openclipart page).
The current storybundle includes a few complete trilogies, rather than the usual book 1 (and then you're on your own getting the rest), as long as you pay at least the bonus level, and I'd strongly recommend Machineries of Empires to anybody who loves space opera and/or excellent worldbuilding.
(I'm not involved in any of this, I've just loved reading it)
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Un amico mi scrive quanto segue:
“Ciao,mi devo liberare dei #libri di cui puoi trovare le copertine al seguente link:
data.laboccadellupo.it/index.p…
Li ho rozzamente classificati e non li ho catalogati perche' non trovo che il gioco valga la candela. Voglio provare a salvarli dal loro tristo destino: finire nella stufa, una pagina alla volta, questo inverno. Mi dai una mano?
Sono i vecchi libri miei, di mia madre e di mio padre che abbiamo deciso di non tenere dopo aver venduto la vecchia casa di famiglia. La URL ti permette di accedere ad un gestore di file web: accedi ad una cartella, clicca su un'immagine e comincia a scorrere con i tasti freccia destra e sinistra tra le copertine. Qualcosa so che finira' sicuramente nella bocca della stufa, ma magari qualcosa no (spero la maggior parte!).
Sono quasi tutti in italiano, tranne quelli in un'apposita e chiara cartella. Cosa troverai? Arte e romanzi, saggi sull'Italia repubblicana, qualcosa di filosofia, vecchi manuali liceali, qualcosa di informatico, vecchie riviste e fumetti, pubblicazioni molto locali. Guardati intorno.
Segnati il nome del file che appare sopra l'immagine della copertina e mandamelo per dirmi che vuoi il libro o maggiori informazioni. Passa pure questo messaggio a persone che possono aiutarci a salvarli, pero' io agisco nella sola area di #Varese e dintorni mentre tu ti prendi la responsabilita' per amiche o amici piu' lontani.
Consulta il file "istruzioni.txt" per trovare il modo di contattarmi ed eventuali altre informazioni che potrei aver aggiunto nel tempo rispetto al momento in cui hai ricevuto questo messaggio.”
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Qualcuno qui sul fediverso vuole dargli una mano?
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Consiglio caldamente l'apertura con blocco javascript, e l'articolo probabilmente è stato scritto su calda raccomandazione dell'azienda, ma dice cose interessanti sui TiLo (treni pendolari / locali tra lombardia e ticino), anche se a livello molto poco approfondito.
Come i treni TiLo hanno cambiato i collegamenti tra Lombardia e Canton Ticino
La società ferroviaria italo-svizzera compie vent'anni nel 2024. Anche grazie a nuove linee transfrontaliere, nell'ultimo decennio ha raddoppiato i passeggeri e nel 2023 supererà i 20 milioni di persone trasportate.Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua Però è anche vero che oggi come oggi non è così difficile costruire treni che accettano più tensioni (che io sappia molto più semplice di quanto non fosse una volta).
E se non altro, sui confini italiani mi risulta che lo scartamento sia sempre lo stesso (contrariamente alla Spagna che ha uno scartamento diverso dalla Francia (e dal resto d'Europa))
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TFW you announce “and now I'm driving on a straight and wide road” and 10 seconds later you turn an almost-blind curve and see two big buses overtaking a bike and end up brushing the bushes at the edge of the road with the left rear view mirror to avoid hitting the second bus with the right mirror.
(No significant damage was done to the mirror nor to the bush, it was just a light touch, like a cat using her whiskers to check that she could pass in a narrow opening :D )
TFW annunci “e adesso sto guidando su una strada larga e dritta” e 10 secondi dopo esci da una curva quasi cieca e vedi due pulman che stanno sorpassando una bicicletta e finisci a sfiorare la siepe a bordo strada con lo specchietto di sinistra per evitare di toccare il secondo pulman con lo specchietto di estra.
(Nessuno si è fatto male, né lo specchietto né il cespuglio, è stata una cosa tipo gatto che usa le vibrisse per controllare se ci passa da un pertugio :D )
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@David de Groot it wasn't that bad: when I got out of the curve there was plenty of space for the first bus to finish overtaking, and thus plenty of space for me to react to the second bus who did the same when there *wasn't* plenty of space (because of course it would do that, they were probably traveling together, and my expectations were safely low :D ).
It was just proof that, while definitely *wider* and *straighter* than the road I had been driving just before, well, calling it *wide* and *straight* was still a bit of a stretch :D
A proposito di lingua che evolve:
“Fin verso la metà del volgente secolo oltre due terzi delle tenute boscate erano di proprietà dei comuni i quali in seguito ne cedettero, in gran parte, il possesso ai comunisti”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi, 1896
E avendo letto questo sono andata a vedere treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… e ho scoperto che il significato di uso comune oggi non è una parola italiana, ma che è un adattamento di una parola francese.
(Ovviamente lì sopra lo usano nel significato treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… , pagina che purtroppo non aiuta a capire se siano tutti gli abitanti del comune, o solo un loro sottoinsieme privilegiato, tipo il patriziato svizzero)
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“Quasi a contrasto dell'allegro e spaziante suolo intelvese, da Lanzo discendi nell'orrida *Valmara*. Da quel fondo tetro e lugubre lo spirito rifugge, oppresso e sgomento; lo sguardo incarcerato appena scorge una striscia sottile di cielo, che si allarga alle estremità, frastagliata tra le cornose vette dei due nuclei montuosi, che quasi si accavallano, si confondono e l'eco in quell'angusto tragitto, più che mai sonoro, dal basso all'alto ripercuote tra il fragore dell'acque cascanti, il fischio del pastore, che richiama alla stalla le capre pascentesi tra le erbose sinuosità di quelle eterne rupi. Tuttavia il pensiero anche da quell'orrido aspetto in quell'imo profondo riscontra eloquente il bello, il sublime della natura ed il sentimentalismo , anche il meno fervido, trova ad esuberanza materia, princip ̛i. concetti, idee con cui filosofare, fantasticare, vagare, approfondirsi, innalzarsi, inebriarsi.”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi
@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 è la strada *divertente¹* che citavo oggi pomeriggio, descritta dal libro che accidentalmente mi è capitato di comprare in fiera :D
¹ per qualche valore di divertente che poche persone condividono :D
@Ferdinando Simonetti @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 pendenza del 18%, circa 20 m tra un tornante e l'altro
le velocità che consumano i battistrada cerco di evitarle, che non si arriva al fondo vivi, tutto il resto lo posso confermare :D
Luca Sironi (profilo vecchio)
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in reply to Luca Sironi (profilo vecchio) • •@Luca Sironi it's wool. I'm going to wear it in autumn / winter. there will be trousers (or leggings and thick woolen socks) below :D
Yes, somebody in the late 1800 would be going to have a fit :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Ho ancora circa metà della stoffa che ho usato per la camicia rossa, e credo che possa bastare giusto giusto per farmi un vestito usando il modello della princess petticoat.
Dovrà essere più corto, forse anche solo fino al ginocchio, e sono abbastanza sicura che non ci sia abbastanza stoffa per la balza né per delle maniche (al massimo manichine molto corte), ma potrebbe esserci della frangia che ho accidentalmente comprato tempo fa quando mi ha assalita dal banchetto della merceria.
Mi tocca, vero?
#mastoCucito
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2023-10-28 13:20:57
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •most of the fabric has been cut (I think I still need to cut some facings or small things), all seams lines marked with tailor's tacks.
And then, since this is a modern dress (even if an #historyBounding one), and I have access to a serger, of course I've decided to finish all edges with bias tape, and not pre-made one, since that's too thick, but made from some navy blue cotton voile I had in my stash.
I do have all of the fancy tools to make it easier and faster (bias making devices, and a binding foot for the sewing machine), but today as I was cutting that bias tape I was reconsidering my lifestyle choices a bit :D
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •la maggior parte della stoffa è stata tagliata (credo che mi manchi qualche pezzo piccolo), e ho segnato tutte le linee di cucitura col filo da imbastire (non mi ricordo come si chiamino in italiano i taylor's tacks).
Dopodiché, dato che sto facendo un vestito moderno (anche se con ispirazioni storiche), e ho modo di mettere le mani su una tagliaecuci, ovviamente ho deciso di rifinire i margini con lo sbieco, e non con quello già pronto, che è troppo spesso, ma facendolo con del voile di cotone blu scuro che avevo in giro.
Ho tutti gli aggeggi che servono per rendere la cosa facile e veloce (i cosi per piegare lo sbieco, e il piedino per applicarlo con la macchina da cucire), ma oggi mentre tagliavo striscie di sbieco ho avuto dei dubbi sulle mie scelte di vita :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •oh, and I've been thinking about the front opening, and it's decided: it's going to be (spiral) laced, not buttoned, for a medieval-ish look.
also, if I find out it's too much of a pain to lace up every time, I can unpick one of the side seams and put a zipper in it.
todo.append("* make a suitably long lace with lucet")
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •ah, e stavo meditando sull'apertura davanti, e ho deciso: sarà chiuso con stringa a spirale, non bottoni, per dare un aspetto vagamente medievaleggiante.
e se poi scopro che allacciarlo tutte le volte è una rottura, posso sempre scucire un fianco, e inserire lì una cerniera.
todo.append("* fare un cordino a lucet abbastanza lungo")
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •TFW you load a new¹ silk thread on the machine and really hope that a) it will work with the machine b) you have enough to finish the dress, since it was bought online.
(the one in the picture is a 50 m spool, but I also have another.)
¹ I've used it before for the garibaldi blouse, but that one was completely sewn by hand. I've used silk thread in the machine before, but it was another brand
#sewing
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Quella sensazione di quando carichi del filo per cucire di seta nuovo¹ sulla macchina, sperando a) che funzioni per cucire a macchina e b) di averne abbastanza per cucire tutto il vestito, visto che è stato comprato online.
(il rocchetto nella foto è da 50 metri, ma ne ho un altro.)
¹ Ho usato lo stesso filo per la camicia rossa, ma quella è stata cucina interamente a mano. Ho anche già usato del filo di seta per cucire a macchina, ma era di un'altra marca.
#mastoCucito
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •and it's starting to look like a dress (albeit one covered in a hundred thousand bits of basting thread).
e inizia a sembrare un vestito (anche se coperto da centomila pezzetti di filo per imbastire)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •I'm going to finish the arm with piping and bias tape, and now I'm considering whether to baste everything together with relatively short basting stitches and then sew by machine, or just pin it and sew by hand with backstitches and be done with it.
and I strongly believe that life's too short for basting (unless strictly necessary)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Il piano è di rifinire gli scalfi con (non so come si chiami in italiano il piping) e sbieco, e mi sto chiedendo se imbastire il tutto con punti relativamente corti e poi cucire a macchina o se fissare con gli spilli, cucire a mano in modo definitivo e mortalì.
e sono profondamente convinta che la vita sia troppo corta per imbastire (tranne dove è strettamente necessario)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •eyelets, eyelets everywhere.
occhielli, occhielli per ogni dove
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua sono rifiniti col filo, non con l'occhiello di metallo, e quindi si fanno per forza a mano: contrariamente agli occhielli piatti da bottoni le macchine da cucire base non li possono fare, e non so neanche se ci siano delle macchine da cucire non industriali che li facciano.
Per quelli con l'occhiello di metallo ho le pinze, che sono un passo avanti rispetto a metterli a martellate, ma non la pressa, perché non ho posto in casa per mettercela.
Detto questo, io faccio a mano anche gli occhelli per bottoni, che potrei fare a macchina, per varie ragioni non ultima delle quali il fatto che trovo piacevole farli :)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Io ho una pressetta da banco tipo quella del video, che va bene anche per mettere in sede i cuscinetti, ma devo farci un bel po' di accessori… il che rende obbligatorio l'acquisto di un tornio 😁
invidious.devianze.city/watch?…
Arbor Press For Leather Work
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua e hai ben presente quanto spazio occupa il tornio, poi :D le pinze occupano molto meno spazio! :D
(e alla fin fine gli occhielli in metallo li uso molto meno di quelli rifiniti a mano)
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Vi 💙
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Quanto ci hai messo?
Conta che io personalmente trovo che anche fare le asole dei bottoni a mano sia un'eternità 😁
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in reply to Vi 💙 • •@Vi 💙 per quelli che ho fatto mentre guardavo video (quindi senza distrazioni significative) ho impiegato circa 10 minuti per occhiello, ma molti li ho fatti un po' per volta mentre stavo facendo altro. In tutto sono 48 occhielli sul davanti, e poi dovrò farne altri 6 in cima agli scalfi (ma il vestito è indossabile anche senza quelli, per ora).
li ho iniziati martedì, dandoci dentro abbastanza (anche grazie al pomeriggio passato in sospeso con le telefonate del dentista che mi annullava l'appuntamento per un emergenza perdita d'acqua e poi me lo ridava perché l'idraulico era arrivato in tempo a risolvere :D ) e facendone quasi metà, ieri ne ho fatti ancora un po' e oggi conto di arrivare alla fine.
E sì, se si conta il tempo totale necessario risulta che ci ho impiegato un'eternità, ma la maggior parte è tempo di relax.
Il singolo occhiello comunque è decisamente più veloce di un'asola per bottoni, perché è con un punto semplice, con con il punto occhielli (ed è anche più piccolo).
Non che io mi sia tirata indietro dal fare, se non ricordo male, 31 occhielli a mano (e 31 bottoni ricoperti di stoffa, per buona misura) su una giacca :D
Invece trovo che le asole fatte a macchina siano una fonte di stress, e le evito :)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •it's almost wearable!
it's missing pockets (there are two gaping holes where the pockets will be, which show the detached pockets I'm wearing under it :D ), a lace to close it up (currently being made on the lucet fork) and some trimming around the neck and armscyes (for which I have ideas that involve weaving, so they may arrive later, after I've used the dress for a while).
And I have enough of the fringed trim that I've used on the hem to also make a belt (or two).
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •È quasi indossabile!
Mancano le tasche (ci sono le due fessure dove andranno, che però si aprono e fanno vedere le tasche staccate che sto indossando sotto al vestito :D ), un laccio per chiuderlo (lo sto facendo con il lucet) e delle decorazioni attorno al collo e agli scalfi (per cui ho delle idee, ma coinvolgono la tessitura, per cui è possibile che arrivino più avanti, quando avrò già indossato il vestito un po' di volte).
E dopo aver messo il bordo con la frangia sull'orlo ne è avanzato abbastanza per fare una cintura (o due).
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Elikorokoros non garantisco niente sulla tempestività, ma ci sarà di sicuro un post sul blog (che arriva anche qui sul fediverso) con dovizia di documentazione fotografica :)
se non fossi orrendamente pigra e/o se avessi un cellulare che fa le foto inizierei già a farne qualcuna, ma al momento non si vede ancora molto :)
Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@kamikat I've done the first seam and it didn't react in an horribly bad way.
I'll wait until I've finished all of the machine seams before claiming that it's working, however :D