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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.

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

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

#IMGoingToRegretThis #WhatCanPossiblyGoWrong

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

foto venuta male di un pannello delle partenze in stazione a Varese, non si vede niente di quello che c'era scritto

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

#trenò

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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…

Rammendare e meglio che buttare, l’iniziativa a Saronno contro lo spreco degli indumenti

Ogni anno, nel mese di maggio, il movimento lancia il “Mend It May”: un mese dedicato alla buona pratica del rammendo, un’azione concreta per contrastare le logiche del fast fashion
Andrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)
#saronno

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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 !

@Diego Roversi

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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 !

@Diego Roversi

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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.

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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

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

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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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@(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)

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

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

@Diego Roversi

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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!

a boxy drawer made of cardboard, with 16 slots for ink vials of which 15 are used, with the lids stained in a variety of colours

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

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

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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Roberto Resoli

@mattj fosstodon.org/@snikket_im/1122…

Snikket

2024-04-19 09:57:14


@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.


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@MattJ

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale
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!

#comic

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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!

#fumetto

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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 :)

#tea @Naomi P

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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.
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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.)

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

#sewing update

The cording on the petticoat has been completed, I'm now doing the vertical seams (hopefully today), and then I have to gather or pleat or something the top and it's done.

I'm cutting a second attempt at the pyra case: I've cut almost everything, but I've just misplaced one of the fabrics I want to use. The inventory says it's in the box I've been looking for it.

I've printed almost all of the hexbin Standard Compliant pattern weights, I've cut enough felt for all of them (I think, I didn't exactly *count*), and I've been using the first one and it works nicely. It's a good excuse to buy new washers the next time I'm at the shop, right?

Related: if you have recommendations for places in Europe that print small amounts of hexagonal #stickers and don't require me to provide a multi layer PDF file (or a tutorial on how to make those with inkscape or other Free Software) I'd be happy to hear about them :)

And thanks to a couple of movie nights¹ at my mother's I'm close to the 3 meters of lucet cord I plan to use for the back of my Augusta Stays. That I still need to cut lining for, why do you ask?

¹ 17:30 - 19:30 or so counts as night, if you're watching a movie, right? :D

#stickers #sewing

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Stanotte mi son sognata che, per celebrare un anniversario o qualcosa del genere, #trenord chiedeva ai suoi clienti di inviare foto scattate in stazione o sui treni, purché non si vedessero persone, da mettere in un apposita galleria, e stavo suggerendo a @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 di inviare la sua collezione di foto del cartellone dei ritardi di Saronno
#trenord @LaVi

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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the Pyra¹ that I've just received (YAY!).

Which means working with technical materials.

Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.

¹ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.

#sewing
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua non so, il problema è che abito in collina, non nelle zone da risaia, credo che darò la priorit๠al piantare il mio lino, filarlo e tesserlo, prima di pensare a produrmi il mio amido.

Però potrei fare quello di patate, anche se credo che ingiallisca un po'.

¹ quello richiede “avere un posto dove piantare il lino”, e ancora sono ben lontana dall'averlo. Diciamo che non è in cima alla lista :D

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Asking people who use #screenReaders: what is the best way to add #AltText to a QR-Code? Are the screen readers clever enough to recognise it as such and offer to read the contents or follow the link? Does putting the content of the QR-Code in the alt text help? or would it make it worse, especially if it is an URL?

boosts are welcome

(the whole point of the post that prompted this question was posting a QR-Code, so no, I couldn't have just posted the URL)

#alttext #screenreaders

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#sewing update? sewing update!

I suspect that the body of the shift is a bit too wide at the top, but I haven't tried it on yet to find out. It's only missing a hem at the bottom, and then it's done, however (and I'm sure I can adjust the width so that it is wearable anyway).

I haven't done anything on it (nor on the #AugustaStays), however, because I've spent most of my sewing time on the corded petticoat, because *I want to know* whether it will work and how it will look.

And I'm happy to report that I've just finished the next to last section of cording, only 3 more 3-metre-long seams and then I can finally start on the assembly.

#sewing #AugustaStays
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

aggiornamento sul #cucito? aggiornamento sul cucito!

Sospetto che la sottoveste sia un po' troppo larga sul busto, ma non l'ho ancora provata per esserne sicura. Manca solo l'orlo in basso, e poi sarebbe finita (e ho fiducia del fatto di poter sistemare in qualche modo la circonferenza in modo da poterla indossare comunque).

Però è un po' che la ignoro (così come sto ignorando le Augusta Staus), perché la maggior parte del mio tempo-cucito in questi giorni è stato passato sulla sottogonna cordonata, perché *voglio sapere* se funziona e che aspetto ha.

E sono felice di annunciare che ho appena finito la penultima sezione di cordonature, mi mancano solo 3 cuciture da 3 metri l'una, e poi posso finalmente iniziare la costruzione.

#cucito

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