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very minor injury, whining, no pictures

Today I need to do things that require quite a bit of washing of hands.

I have a big papercut on the base of my thumb.

The. Pain.

(and I don't even remember how it happened)



occheculo, RFI / #trenord sui quotidiani nazionali

ilpost.it/2024/06/10/milano-gu…

no, non è perché hanno annunciato un importante investimento nella qualità del servizio



What's up at the Department of Unnecessary Projects #DepUnPr lately?

Here is Oliver ( #vala / #gtk4 / #libadwaita ) running on #osx (12.4, x86_64)

theme is WhiteSur; decoration layout forced in app (both just to make it blend a little more in osx); bundler script adapted from System76 Keyboard Configurator; #gtk4, #libadwaita via homebrew.

(I know: adwaita is a GNOME thing, custom themes are bad, it should be pure gtk etc etc ... , but I had it around and it was small enough for a test)

On a more useful note, while playing with this I've update Oliver interface and added some features and fixed some bugs. I could publish a new version soon.

I would like to release it as a #flatpak, but I'm not sure how to handle running php as as subprocess...

in reply to Fabio

Very cool to see #Vala projects on different operating systems!
How did you find the development experience and do you have important things to note, for helping other people developing #Vala apps for #osx ?
#OSX #vala
in reply to Vala

@Vala It was boring in a good way :) all what I need was available via homebrew. Meson, ninja, valac and everything else just worked. I've added blueprint as a meson subproject, no issues.
As editor I've used VSCode which has plugins for vala, blueprint and meson language support, very nice.
As I said, I've adapted the script to bundle everything in a osx app from @System76 :popos: :ubuntu: repo (thank you :D). It supports also signing, but I don't have this need.
It was really a smooth experience. 👍



Dear #sindarin speaking fediverse

I don't speak Sindarin, but I found myself with an urgent need to know how one would say something like “Say meow and enter”, and some googling¹ and reading of web pages lead me to think it could be something like “Pedo muio a minno”, would it be correct?

Or maybe something like “Say, cat, and enter” would be better, and that, if I'm not mistaken, would be “Pedo muig a minno”?

If I understand correctly they are both neosindarin words, which makes me question Tolkien's priorities, but isn't necessarily an issue for my needs.

Did I get something horribly wrong? Would something else be better?

Thanks!

¹ on searx :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Hey there. My Sindarin knowledge is quite crusty by now but I'll throw in my two cents anyway.

I haven't been able to find a word for "meow" and I doubt it exists. The Sindarin for "cat" is indeed "muig", apparently. So "Pedo muig a minno" would seem correct.

However, in Sindarin there is the topic of lenition (softening) of consonants (see here: elvish.org/gwaith/sindarin_pho…) under certain circumstances. There doesn't seem to be a precise consensus on when this happens, though. A good article on this particular subject is this: fa-kuan.muc.de/SINDARIN.RXML (see section about the inscription on the doors of Moria) which seems plausible to me. It explains how "mellon" should actually have been lenited (to "vellon") but wasn't because it was, in fact, the password and needed to be spoken in its original form. This apparently threw Gandalf off track at first because he, of course, knew Sindarin perfectly well, as did the creators of the inscription.

Long story short: depending on the context you wish to use this in, "Pedo muig a minno" would be correct but if you wish to adhere to lenition rules it would become "Pedo vuig a minno".

I hope this is of help to you.

in reply to thedoctor

@thedoctor thanks! very helpful! (also in providing something that looks interesting to read even if I don't really need it for a silly project :) )


I went to the bathroom to retrieve the palette knife I had washed previously, the window was open, noticed the colour of the sky, decided to check whether some of the laundry was already dry and bring it inside.

By the time I had gone from the bathroom to the balcony via the kitchen it was just starting to rain (but everything was dry, so I hurriedly brought everything inside.

Then I run one flight of stairs to my mother, to help her retrieve *her* laundry, and by the time I reached her and we were half-way through her laundry it had started to *pour*

(most of her laundry was saved by the awning)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Sono andata in bagno a riprendere una spatola che avevo lavato, c'era la finestra aperta, ho notato il colore del cielo, deciso di controllare se c'era della biancheria già asciutta e iniziare a ritirare.

Ora che ho fatto il giro bagno -> cucina -> balcone stava iniziando a piovere (tutta la biancheria era asciutta, l'ho ritirata in fretta e furia).

Poi ho corso un piano di scale per andare ad aiutare mia madre a ritirare la *sua* biancheria, e ora che l'ho raggiunta ed eravamo a metà lavoro si è messo a *diluviare*.

(la maggiorparte del suo bucato è stata salvata dalle tende da sole)

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Yesterday I believe we met one of these

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_wh…

it was quite long, shiny, black and quite beautiful, and I told @Diego Roversi “I believe that's a “scurzun””

Then I opened the Italian page on wikipedia, specifically the section it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierophi… and found that, because of a ~20 km difference, it was a “ratera” instead. And both places are supposed to be speaking the same language! :D

in reply to Guido Dotti

@Guido Dotti @Contessina Serbelloni Mazzanti @Diego Roversi la val d'Intelvi è esattamente il posto dove ho imparato il nome, e mi dicono che se ne vedono ancora (forse meno di 50 anni fa?)
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@LaVi parlavo di una cinquantina d'anni perche è il tempo della mia assenza da quei posti, salvo rare toccate e fughe
@LaVi


Prima legge dei sistemi operativi

  • se è windows e funziona, è merito di windows
  • se è windows e non funziona, è colpa del produttore hardware che non sa fare i driver
  • se è linux e non funziona, è colpa di linux
  • se è linux e funziona, no guarda, è un caso, una anomalia statistica, probabilmente sei un nerd che non ha una vita

Seconda legge dei sistemi operativi

  • se è windows e si rompe, lo risolvi tranquillamente con un formattone riparatore
  • se è linux e si rompe, è complicato, non è stabile e sinceramente non posso vivere così.
in reply to Fabio

tra le varie ho letto (più o meno) "eh, con linux devi comprare hardware che sia risaputo che funziona con linux, altrimenti eh... meglio apple"
in reply to Fabio

quello è vero fino a un certo punto, è più probabile che succeda con certi portatili o con periferiche particolari, ma la situazione è lontana dall'essere tragica come vogliono farti credere questi bravi signori che io chiamo molto affettuosamente "wincucks".



@Yaku 🐗 non so perché, ma leggendo questo articolo mi è venuto in mente un tuo post di qualche giorno fa :D

ilpost.it/2024/05/28/sandalo-c…

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Yaku 🐗 il sandalo SENZA calzino è tortura, a meno che non lo si usi per stare seduti. Chiunque voglia camminarci dentro sa che dolore e che vesciche provochi.
Calza Forever!


(Vivo in Germania, si capisce? 😂)



Filed under: #IMGoingToRegretThis

Up to know, everything I've ever painted¹ was on a format between A6 and B8. The acrylic paint I have is in 20 ml tubes, other than 120 ml of titanium white that is lasting me forever.

Then during the weekend I had an overambitious idea that I don't even mention, because it will end in nothing, and I decided I wanted to do at least a couple things on a slightly bigger format, before committing to anything else.

Of course, I also never bought any mounted canvas: I paint mostly on watercolour (postcard) paper, as that sturdy enough for such small formats, and I have a couple pieces of canvas mounted on cardboard, also in A6, that I haven't used yet.

And it was the weekend, and a weekend when I was too busy to visit a shop, but I had a couple one-hour slots and I was feeling the Urge.

So I took the biggest pad of watercolour paper I have (A3-ish, spiral bound at the top, not even glued on the sides) and started to paint with acrylic on it.

#WhatCanPossiblyGoWrong?

¹ badly

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oh, and in this house there is a round paintbrush in size 16 or something, and everything else seems to be size 3 and smaller.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ah, e in questa casa c'è un pennello tondo del 16 o giù di lì, e tutti gli altri sono del 3 o più piccoli.

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TID (Tonight I Dreamed): Sir Beton, the knight with an armour made of concrete.

I have no idea either.

#dream

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

(you write too much about textiles, your autocorrect went for knit instead of knight)
in reply to Oblomov

@Oblomov uooops, lol, my mental autocorrect, I'm typing from a computer

I'm editing the post :)



Ora, io ci ho provato a raccogliere documentazione fotografica, ma il pinofono mi ha tradita

ma vi assicuro che lì sopra c'erano *tutti* i treni in orario (erano all'incirca le 14:15 o giù di lì, orario studenti, ma treni non particolarmente pieni)

comunque darò la colpa per la foto ad un gomblotto di #trenò

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am I the only person that every time somebody mentions Microsoft Recall things “wait, they had to recall Windows like a car with a deadly malfunction or something”?

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ma sono l'unica che tutte le volte che legge Microsoft Recall pensa “un momento, ma han dovuto fare un richiamo di Windows come se fosse un'auto con un guasto letale o qualcosa del genere”?

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Not the only person - I eventually had to look it up because I wanted more detail, and went "Oh; so Microsoft Recall isn't a recall, but is the sort of thing that could lead to a recall.".


Non ho idea di chi siano i gruppi organizzatori (non ho visto loghi della compagnia delle opere sul sito, ma mi son fermata a quel genere di controllo), ma l'evento potrebbe essere interessante per chi è di #saronno

varesenews.it/2024/05/rammenda…



This morning I woke up and the corner of my pillowcase was doing this, should I worry?

(yes, I have a pencil and a sketchbook (that I almost never use) close to the bed, but not a phone with a camera. ok, actually I did have a phone with a camera, but its battery had been flat for a few days, as usual)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Stamattina mi sono svegliata e l'angolo della federa del cuscino era così: devo preoccuparmi?

(sì, di fianco al letto ho una matita e un quaderno da schizzi (che non uso quasi mai), ma non un telefono con macchina fotografica. ok, tecnicamente un telefono con macchina fotografica c'era, ma scarico da qualche giorno, come al solito)



TFW you partially pull your drying rack out of the wall (it's attached with six screws that go into wall plugs, one of the plugs came out of the wall) in the morning, and then in the evening you see that it has been removed from the wall, *and* the wall has already been repaired so that it can be reattached soon.

Thanks @Diego Roversi !

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

TFW alla mattina strappi parzialmente dal muro lo stendibiancheria (è attaccato con sei viti/tasselli e uno dei tasselli è uscito dal muro), e alla sera scopri che è stato staccato completamente e il muro è già stato riparato per poterlo riappendere a breve.

Grazie @Diego Roversi !

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Nella categoria “e se non lo sapete voi”

“Il treno 24567 (VARESE 18:13 - TREVIGLIO 20:20) non è ancora partito. Seguiranno aggiornamenti sulle cause, ancora in fase di accertamento, non appena saranno disponibili.”

#trenò



This morning #tea failure was forgetting to set the timer while it was brewing.

luckily I wondered about it after a reasonable amount of time and it is still drinkable (and the bread didn't burn).

#YouNeedTeaToMakeTea

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Il fail nel preparare il # di stamattina è stato dimenticarmi di impostare il timer mentre era in infusione.

Per fortuna me ne sono accorta dopo un tempo ragionevole ed è ancora più o meno bevibile (e il pane non è bruciato).

#ServeIlTePerPreparareIlTe

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

capitano molto spesso anche a me quelle mattine in cui ho bisogno della colazione per svegliarmi e di svegliarmi per preparare la colazione

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈
No, fortunatamente avevo deciso alla cieca di venire in ufficio a piedi.
La foto è stata fatta passando alla stazione di arrivo.


bad kerning, described, no pictures

I've just bought a product from a company with headquarters in Viale Bom, Varese.

I'm quite sure those headquarters are in Viale Borri

Oh, and the address is written between two horizontal lines, and it goes beyond the line.

I guess that the “Design and Quality by <brand name>” doesn't extend to the packaging :D

Ok, tomorrow I'll take and post pictures.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

bad kerning, descritto, senza foto

Ho appena comprato un prodotto di un'azienda con sede in Viale Bom a Varese.

Sono abbastanza sicura che quella sede sia in Viale Borri.

Oh, e l'indirizzo è scritto tra due righe orizzontali, e sfora oltre la fine delle righe.

Ne deduco che “Design and Quality by <nome dell'azienda>” non si estenda alla stampa sulla confezione :D

Ok, domani faccio e posto una foto, che merita



Today I've had a chance to notice that we (western societies) are sending off our textile waste to another continent, where at least some of it gets probably¹ shipped to China to be processed into felt to protect the floor when painting the walls, and then shipped back to us.

Why aren't we doing this anymore in Prato²? It could even be done by Chinese nationals, there, but at least it wouldn't travel halfway around the world and back!

¹ I have no idea whether that's the origin of that textile waste, maybe that felt was using textile waste from China itself, but still.
² an Italian town with a long tradition of textile industry, historically including textile recycling. These days it also has the second biggest community of Chinese nationals in Italy, most of them working in textile workshops, not always up to even Italian standards of workplace conditions.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi ho avuto occasione di notare che noi (società occidentali) stiamo mandando i nostri scarti tessili in un altro continente, e almeno una parte di questi probabilmente¹ finisce in Cina dove ne fanno feltro per proteggere i pavimenti quando si imbiancano le pareti, e ce lo rispediscono indietro.

Perché non lo stiamo facendo più a Prato? Potrebbero pure farlo dei Cinesi a Prato, ma almeno non si fa mezzo giro del mondo e ritorno!

¹ non ho idea di quale sia l'origine di quegli specifici scarti, magari arrivavano dal mercato interno cinese, ma non cambia molto.

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in reply to (zerouno)

@(zerouno) sì, se ne riparla periodicamente, e tra chi si fa i vestiti si tende a parlarne ancora di più.

Ma è difficile fare qualcosa che abbia veramente un effetto, come individui.

(Rammendarsi i vestiti ha tanti buoni effetti ed è un'ottima pratica da consigliarsi a prescindere, anche se difficilmente ha un vero impatto sul problema)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Io tendo a consumarli fino alla fine e spesso li faccio rammendare (cosa che da solo non sarei mai in grado di fare 😅); ma sono d'accordo con te che le scelte di pochi non abbiano impatto su fenomeni di questa portata.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode definitely

I'd expect not enough people are painting their walls to use all of the textile waste that gets produced.

Even if those felts were made of a polyester and cotton mix that probably comes from some of the worst garments for recycling (at least if one considers both the ease of recycling and the mass)



meanwhile

valhalla> @Diego Roversi, do you want black tea or green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> do you want black tea and green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> ok

so right now I have a pot of “segreto tibetano” brewing, which is a mix of black tea, green tea, bergamot, jasmine and vanilla, and Diego's trolling was unsuccessful :D

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in reply to Harald Eilertsen

@Harald Eilertsen nope, it's one I've bought from a shop, and while it's not my favourite tea I can't survive without it's surprisingly nice


It is *evident* that the fact that the living room table is covered in bits of cardboard and bookbinding paper means that I'm cleaning up my desktop, right?

As in “making a small chest of drawers to store some of the samplers and small containers of ink that I currently have in a mess on the desktop” :D

The current status is that 3 out of 4 drawers are done, one is nearly done, and the structure to put them in needs to be redone from scratch, because my measurements have been way too optimistic and the drawers don't fit :(

But I've started to put some of the ink samplers in one of the drawers, and those are fitting just fine. Also, *all¹* the colours!

¹ actually just above half of the colours available in that line of ink

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Io sono pieno di pezzi di compensato, barre di ferro e simili ma la situa è analoga.



Dear lazyverse, I've just read blog.prosody.im/great-invitati… and prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_inv… and I don't understand one thing: can this be used to generate an invite for an user that already exists and has been using the account for a while, but needs to reconfigure an xmpp client on a new phone?

of course they don't know their password, but I would have to reset it from prosodyctl anyway.

#xmpp

#xmpp

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Adding a new device via invitation is not currently a thing. Password resets links (which work almost the same as invitations) are.

Generate a password reset link with this command:

'prosodyctl mod_invites example.com --reset username'

I haven't extensively tested it with clients or invite UIs beyond Snikket, though. Feedback welcome 🙂

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

I add to the excellent @mattj explanation that both invitation things are very familiar to @snikket_im admins ...
in reply to Roberto Resoli

@mattj fosstodon.org/@snikket_im/1122…


@shuro Snikket is XMPP for people who don't know what #XMPP is 🙂

If you're happy with Conversations, continue using it! Snikket is more limited because it focuses on a specific use case.

If you want an easy-to-use messaging solution for a group of people (e.g. family, friends, clubs), plus companion apps and easy onboarding without forcing people to learn what a "XEP" is, then Snikket is here for you: snikket.org/start/

We just want XMPP to reach beyond the tech crowd.


in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

No, but there is also a module where the admin can generate a password reset link for that user. Don't have the name in my mind ATM and can't comfortably research as I'm AFK.


Calibro 35 - Traitors

youtu.be/Unw6JRCjmsM

#mastoradio #fediradio



kickstarter for a (famous) webcomic

Girl Genius has a new kickstarter out, to print the next volume

kickstarter.com/projects/girlg…

for those few who don't know, it's a great steampunkish #comic that has been running for years and is published online at girlgeniusonline.com/ and then on paper, funded via kickstarter one volume at a time.

And usually there would be no need to promote them or anything, they have enough devoted followers that they fund on first day, but this time they have a pretty high stretch goal to be able to print *two* volumes at the same time, and it would be really, really nice if they did manage it!

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

kickstarter per un webcomic (famoso) in inglese

È aperto il nuovo kickstarter di Girl Genius, per stampare il prossimo volume

kickstarter.com/projects/girlg…

per quei pochi che non lo conoscono, è un #fumetto steampunk che va avanti da anni, pubblicato online su girlgeniusonline.com/ e poi su carta, un volume per volta finanziato su kickstarter.

Di solito non ci sarebbe il minimo bisogno di fargli pubblicità: hanno abbastanza lettori fedeli da riuscire a finanziare la stampa il primo giorno, ma stavolta hanno aggiunto uno stretch goal per riuscire a stampare *due* volumi allo stesso giro, e non sarebbe per niente male se ce la facessero!



The case for #Pyra. is. done.

It could have been neater, and maybe tomorrow or next week I'll unpick the binding on the raw edges and sew it again, because it's ugly, but the size is just right and it works.

Only took 3 attempts to get to the right amount of ease :)

There will be pictures (and a blog post). Not today :D

#sewing #MYOG

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

OTOH, there are pictures of one of the things that I used to postpone the third attempt at the case.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

In compenso, ci sono foto di una delle cose che ho fatto nella settimana anziché cucire il terzo tentativo della custodia.


mastodon.online/@annaghughes/1…

io ho deciso per #sculo


tired: it's pronounced S Q L

wired: it's pronounced sequel

inspired: it's pronounced squirrel




It's time for a new #pizza post!

Right out of the oven!

in reply to Fabio

@Fabio @albertuxone e io ho invitato questo pisano qui per una pizza a casa mia questa primavera. ma non se lo merita!

(explanation for people who don't speak italian: I invited albertuxone for homemade pizza this spring, but I'm having second thoughts on whether he deserves it)





I've found out what the issue with the #tea shop was: they had to restore the website from backups and some user got stuck in the process.

I've now procured more tea (by preparing a list on the website, printing it out and going to the shop. yes, it's close enough that I could just go there without visiting the website. I could.)

@Naomi P do you want some tea? I'm making an herbal one, since here it's evening, but it can turn into whatever you want during the internet trip :)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ho scoperto qual'era il problema col sito del negozio di té: hanno dovuto recuperare il sito da backup e qualche utente è rimasto incastrato nel processo.

Ho procurato del té (preparando un elenco sul sito, stampandolo e andando al negozio. sì, è abbastanza vicino da poterci andare anche senza visitare il sito. volendo.)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oh, thank you! But I have an oversufficiency at the moment, so will have to pass.


#sewing update

the corded petticoat is done! And today I expect to finish the hem on the chemise (I'm almost halfway through it), so there will be some cutting fabric time this afternoon, and that may be either the lining for the #AugustaStays or the cartridge pleated skirt.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

aaand the chemise is also finished!

and then I just didn't have the energy to do anything that required concentration like cutting fabric, so I just did a bit of lucet

(the 3 metre piece has been finished yesterday, now I've started a 1 metre piece for the front lacing)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

e ho finito anche la sottogonna!

e poi non avevo le forze per fare qualunque cosa che richiedesse attenzione come tagliare stoffa, quindi ho fatto solo un po' di cordino a lucet.

(il pezzo da tre metri è stato finito ieri, adesso ne ho iniziato uno da un metro per l'allacciatura davanti)



body functionality, politics (Italian), silly, gross
Thanks to a conversation at the dinner table, I now have a mental image of a character in the style of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upo… with the face of Salvini (Italian racist politician) that looks for alien bacteria in the gut and, if he finds any, orders an immediate, human rights violating, expulsion that manifests as travelers' diarrhoea.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

funzioni corporee, politica, stupido e schifoso
Grazie ad una conversazione a tavola, adesso ho un'immagine mentale di un personaggio stile Siamo fatti così con la faccia di Salvini che controlla se ci sono batteri stranieri nell'apparato digerente e se ne trova ordina un espulsione immediata in violazione dei diritti umani, che si manifesta come cagotto del viaggiatore.

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Getting to the laundry place 5 minutes before it closed on Saturday morning to give them 4 heavy-ish carpets to wash (while they were still on the car rather than having to walk there while carrying them later). done.

(we called when we got on the car, to ask whether it was ok, and the owner of the place knows us well enough that there wasn't any time consuming procedure, we just dumped everything in there and then she will deal with them when she opens next week. but still, it felt wrong.)

in reply to Yaku 🐗

@Yaku @rapitadaglialieni

Come alla posta il primo del mese (qui a giugno arrivano un po' prima delle 6 che è già chiaro).


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