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Ieri sera in negozio sono entrati Sandra e Raimondo versione musulmana. Mezza età avanzata, lei vanesia, lui che la punzecchiava divertito e la prendeva in giro per la quantità assurda di veli che aveva nell'armadio. Musulmani, Protestanti, Cattolici. Siamo tutti uguali. Le cose cambiano dove c'è un minimo di cultura e testa, poi la religione diventa spirituale e cessa di essere un'arma di controllo.
Vedi alla voce fasci = ignoranti.

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I grandi dibattiti di Internet non sono grandi e non sono dibattiti


Not debates, but discussions.
More of a dialectic/dialettica(?).
Because of the friendly mood of the fediverse, I have entered into discussions over volatile topics with people I would not normally associate with. I have learned things and I have changed my mind on some things regarding politics, economics and even philosophy and religion!
Debates are about winners and losers. Discussions that are a search for truth are always about winners.


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SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose

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Share your own #curl story here: github.com/curl/curl/discussio… ... in celebration of c10kday tomorrow.
#curl

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It's not big enough to put it on github...

I was a wget(ter)... and then there was this debugging thing where local files instead of web files would be cool for speeding up debugging without the need to install a local web server...

And this guy said: "curl can do this - the syntax is just file instead of http and some more slashes..."

I never used wget again...🤷‍♂️


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#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons


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It's 3AM, I'm on-call, and my phone is ringing.

There's a burst of violet light from next to me. It arcs over me, and impacts against the magic circle around my phone.

I pick up the phone and answer "Hang on a tick." I give my sleeping wife a small nudge, and she mutters something in Latin, and rolls over.

"Toby here. What's broken?" I resume on the phone.
"Hi Toby, Anthea from the call centre. We've got an alert on Sirius12 - system load above predicted limits for over two hours."
"Hi Anthea. That should be OK, we set up some new processing rules, and it will take a couple of nights for the system to recognise the change. If you get the alert tomorrow, don't call, but if it happens after Wednesday, do call."
"OK, Toby. I'll make a note in the Tzzbrzzhgga Nil hzzthrg Grrzght!"
I roll back, and nudge my wife again. When she's asleep her magics sometimes get a bit feisty, and they interfere with the 4G signal. She turns over again.
"Are you still there Anthea?"
"Yes, what happened, I started hearing the strangest voices."
"You were probably hearing Charlotte's dream. Don't listen, and don't worry about it."
"Charlotte? Dream?"
"Yeah, look up the wiki entry about calling me. It's all in there."
I should know, after I cleared it with Charlie, I put it in there. There was a pause, presumably while she read the entry. "A witch??"
"Yep, and if the mobile gets too close when she's dreaming it picks up bits of it. Only her dreams are more like astral interventions, and you really don't want to listen in to those. There can be unpleasant side effects - for you."
"Are you having me on?"
"No, you can check in with my boss and HR. They know."
"..."
"Give me a call if there are any other problems. Good night Anthea."
I hung up, and cuddled in to Charlie, and tried to go back to sleep.

I'm a sysadmin. I manage a corporation's servers along with a team of eight. And my wife is a powerful witch. Really powerful. So all the electronics around the house are in magic circles to protect them from when she's asleep. I went through five phones (three mobile and two landline) before we got that sorted.

She's sort of a magical troubleshooter. That's how we met. She was dealing with a haunted server room. I was managing the servers. I really did have a ghost in my machine. She laughed at my jokes, and I didn't laugh at her work.

#SF #SFF #UrbanFantasy #microfiction #Tootfic #IAmWriting #CharlieAndToby

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The Finnish expression for "it hurts" is "AI". I hereby petition everyone using English to shorten "artificial intelligence" as "OW". Or "OUCH" in a more formal context.

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Buongiorno ✨️
Volevo farvi vedere le borse che ho fatto in questo mese!
Ovviamente sono fatte a mano e in vendita e se vi va di aiutarmi a far conoscere la mia attività, vi ringrazio di cuore ❤️✨️

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Windows has betrayed me one too many times. I'm raising money to buy a Mac for my publishing business.

Coupon code MWL gets you 10% off at my bookstore.

tiltedwindmillpress.com

(and before you shout "Linux/BSD/Inferno/whatever:" mwl.io/faq#tools )

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@sng @cstross @sungo @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla
Well, as long as no one takes it as suggesting/implying a competition, everything should be fine!
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to double-check my bugout bag. No reason.

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Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted the initial post of this thread! I got 1082 boosts within somewhat more than one week!

And still any help is welcome and please continue boosting (the initial post)!

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #GetFediHired


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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain

so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out…
it’s free.

he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

bsky.app/profile/silencedrowns…

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Yesterday I had been reading yet another late Victorian tailoring manual, and this morning I was telling @Diego Roversi about the part when the author claims that there are some measurements that would be useful do draft certain garments, but a (male, of course) tailor can't take them on a female customer, and there are ways to guess them. But at least in one case, he suggested doing the obvious thing, and just ask the customer to have her husband or maid take the measure.

And I commented that everybody who was buying cycling or riding trousers from a tailor was living with a husband, or a mother, or a sister, beside having a maid.

Unless she was unmarried, and only had brothers, and her mother had died (while giving birth, of course) and she was running her father's house because he had not remarried yet.

Or even, she was unmarried, only had brothers, she was running her father's house because he didn't want to remarry and she was quite happy with the situation because she didn't want to marry herself but wanted to keep living with that very close friend (but just a friend!) who had been living in their house for quite some time now. But then, her not-a-lover could very well take her inseam measurements.

Things escalate quickly, right?

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@Vi 💙 and now I need to read the steamy romance short story involving those two and the inseam measurement.

for

reasons

scientific reasons

purely scientific reasons


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4th day using Linux. I've not yet connected my printer, but pretty much everything else I've got... And I'm just doing my usual things without issue, and that's with some slightly niche requirements from my computer.

If I was just browsing, listening to music, doing emails and instant messaging I'd barely notice the difference. If you mostly do only that and are still hesitant, don't be! Sure, have someone help install it for you, but after that you're golden.

#Linux #LinuxMint

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@richardinsandy (My PC parts and computer repair shop (the one where I shop, not which I run) has also been offering it as one of the options installed on their refurbished PCs and laptops for a couple of years because it runs so much lighter than Windows, but is familiar enough to know how to use out of the box, and thus is better for older computers it seems...)

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Roll Top Backpack, Handsewn


Posted on July 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
a backpack in a cream fabric with a short dark brown bottom; it closes by rolling down the top and is kept closed by a strap that feeds through two D-rings.

I might be slightly insane? Or am I going to prove something about the nature and accessibility of sewing and MYOG1 as a hobby?

I love my modular backpack, but it has a very modern look that is maybe not the best thing when otherwise dressed in historybounding dress, and it’s also a bit bigger than I planned or needed it to be.

So, when one of the shops I buy from had some waterproof cotton canvas on sale I failed my saving throw against temptations and bought a few meters, with the intent to make myself a backpack in a different style.

It needs to be a backpack, because my back doesn’t like asymmetrical bags2, and as far as I know 19th century backpacks weren’t the most comfortable things, so I decided to go for a vaguely timeless roll top model that has the added advantage not to require a lot of hardware for the closure, just a few D-rings.

Leather straps would look cool, but also require some tools that I still don’t have, so I decided to look for some cotton webbing, and when I finally found some in 25 mm and 50 mm width I could finally start on the project.

Except for one thing: thread. As much as I believe that regular n°50 cotton thread got a bad reputation from sellers who decided to cut quality in favour of profit, it is not up to the task of sewing a backpack. Nor that I’d use regular sew-all poly thread either.

I do have some of the thread I used for my other backpack, which would have been strong enough, but it’s also in black, which isn’t exactly the look I was aiming for on the natural / ecru colour of both the canvas and the webbing. I also misremembered it as only being available in that colour (it isn’t), so I wasn’t tempted into doing a full online order of technical materials just for that.

On the other hand, I did have in my stash some strong thread I could trust for this job, in natural / ecru. There was only one problem: it was 33×2 Tex linen, and not suitable for the sewing machine. You can’t handsew a backpack.

Or can you? Of course it’s going to be much slower, but I’m still in a situation where I have more time and space for handsewing than I have for machine sewing. And as for strength, my perception is that for the same stitch length an handsewn backstitch is stronger than a machine lockstitch, or at least it is more effort to unpick (and thus harder to accidentally unravel if the thread breaks).

And so I tried.

And it worked.

a needle coming straight up through layers of fabric and webbing, in the motion called stabbing.

Having to backstitch everything instead of being able to use a running backstitch of course meant that it was slower than other sewing projects, and any time there were more than two layers of fabric I had to use the stabbing motion rather than the sewing one, which is even slower, but other than a few places with many layers of both fabric and webbing it wasn’t hard.

And to be fair, the seams were fewer and shorter than other sewing projects, and with the usual interruptions and uneven time availability it was done in less than a month, which is somewhat typical for one of my handsewn projects.

the layers of the base pinned into the sides, trying to keep everything properly aligned especially on the corners in a way that would be very messy if fed as-is to a sewing machine.

It may have been because of the pattern, but I think it’s relevant that it was also easier than other backpacks I’ve made, with significantly less cursing, even when doing seams that would have been quite fiddly when sewn by machine.

I have to admit that now I’m tempted to plan another backpack using the same pattern or a slight variation, sewn by machine in a different fabric, to see the difference in the time it takes and to check if the changes I think would make it easier to sew by machine are actually the right thing to do. But maybe I’ll wait a bit, other projects are in the queue.

The pattern is as usual online, released as #FreeSoftWear.

Having used it for a while, I have to say that it is just the right size to fit all the things I usually carry,

The fact that it only opens from the top means that finding things that have fallen to the very bottom involves a bit of rummaging, but not having to change a zipper every few years when (not if) it breaks is also very nice, so I’m not sure which shape of backpack I prefer.

the back of the backpack, showing the shoulder straps made with wide webbing that end in two D-rings, and a pattern of horizontal webbing sewn at 4 cm intervals to attach accessories.

The soft back of course is an issue when the backpack is filled with small items, but the molle webbing is there exactly because I have plans to solve it, beside the trivial “put something flat towards the back”.

As an object, I’m happy with the result. As a project, it was way more than successful, exceeding all expectations, especially for something somewhat experimental like this one was.


  1. Make Your Own Gear, i.e. sewing or otherwise constructing outdoorish equipment.↩︎
  2. at least not if I fill them with stuff as I usually do with my backpack :D↩︎

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You can’t handsew a backpack.
Or can you?


Look at leather sewing and the tools they use.

Thanks @Elena ``of Valhalla'' - I love reading about sewing by hand.



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/me, this morning:

and they are going to close the underground between Cadorna and Garibaldi. the stations, not the generals.

and now I'm thinking about a machine that turns a proverbially bad general into a competent and ideals-led one.

(note for people who will be in Milan next month: check the actual closures, that was just the bit of interest to me, but there will be disruptions everywhere)

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io il mese prossimo devo farmi il solito Como San Giovanni - Milano Centrale - Genova per trovare parenti e andare a un matrimonio, ma inizio a pensare che la soluzione più sicura sia mettermi in cammino verso Pavia tipo Frodo
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@Xab ecco, non ho visto se han chiuso qualcosa anche su quelle linee

ma tutto sommato Como - Milano a piedi non è così lunga, dovrebbero essere un paio di giorni, no? :D

(OSM mi dice 47 ore per fare Como - Genova, 26 per fare Como - Pavia e 14 ore per fare Como - Milano; soprattutto per la tratta Pavia - Genova non ho idea se tenga conto delle pendenze però)

@Xab

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Multilingual *map* support is now live on OpenStreetMap.org
A new vector tile layer from maptiler.com has been added, supporting multiple languages.
Try it out by selecting that layer and then switch between different languages using the language selector. #OpenStreetMap #OSM #i18n 🗺️ 🌐
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Things I Have Learnt At DebConf


Posted on July 24, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits
An unsorted list, including some I already knew, but was reminded of.

  • dpkg-mergechangelogs exists.
  • Sewing your own shirt, posting it on planet and wearing it on the first day of DebConf, is more effective than a badge for making people recognise you.
  • I need to look into a number of tools for testings things (and try to start using some of those at $DAYJOB).
  • Masks are good. masks protect you from debbugs. masks protect you from ring cameras in the hotel you’re staying on the day after debconf.
  • It’s really nice to be chatting of random topics during lunch and discover that you are talking to the maintainer of a package of which you are one of the very few users! (the latter bit needs to be changed :) ).
  • I need to look into sequoia and all of the modern OpenPGP stuff.
  • Even if I don’t have a lot of money, apparently I have even less sense (there will be blog posts on the topic in the mid-term future).
  • I can go to a talk about AIand not hate the speaker (yeah, the bar is pretty low there :D ). The automatic subtitles still failed in the same way as automatic subtitles always fail.
  • Debian gets used in really cool places.
  • At times it is a bit — or a lot — dysfunctional, but Debian still feels like a family.

And I still haven’t watched the recordings of those talks that I couldn’t (or decided not to, because the hallway track was more interesting) attend.


blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/0…

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Y'all, Brutal Legend is free for the next few hours. Go get it.
doublefine.itch.io/brutal-lege…

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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua credo di averne viste una volta soltanto

(erano intente a cercare di scavare un tunnel scappare da un campo di lavoro dove probabilmente le costringevano a impacchettare la cioccolata, dato che erano in svizzera)


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I had this idea of the video an year back, finally got the time and people ( @debianindia ❤ ) to do it :)

The og reference: youtu.be/GzeAQlSxVvc

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I have never seen a rm -rf / in real conditions !

Does the universe collapse after ?

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that was for real and Subin lost all data it seems! He wanted to reshoot that part and actually pressed enter! :firefox:
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@praveen @sebbaz
BTS story: Not once, but twice!! When we shot the retake(s), it was on a train which was about to reach the station and @subins2000 was in a hurry to finish.

His 'CTRL+C' skills saved most of his home directory.


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Qualcunə ha mai usato o usa il Bangle.js watch? Pensavo di prenderlo

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@peaceful aggro 🍉🌻 @Alessandro non mi pare una grande premessa in favore del comprarsi uno smartwatch :D

a meno che si riesca a riadattarlo per usarlo da taschino, ovviamente :)

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@valhalla

Esattamente, ho pensato che male che andava potevo farne un elegante orologio da mettere nel taschino del panciotto

@alorenzi


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/me, a person with an EU phone, currently in the EU, but living near the Swiss border> WHY is internet not working on this phone? we are in the EU!

/me, a day later, checks the mobile settings

Data Roaming. off.

sometimes, when things don't work it's not the #PinePhone's fault (actually, most of the time with internet not working it isn't, it's me not having remembered to pay for it)

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but most of the time for me it was the pine phone's fault. So I sold mine. My previous phones worked fine. My current phone works fine. I'll get a Linux phone some day. But not that one.

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#DebConf out of context

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FreeSoftWear


Posted on July 18, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits, topic:debian, FreeSoftWear
There may have been a lightning talk.

Things similar to the rest of this article may have been said.

I think that most people in this room care about running Freely licensed software on their computers.

Some probably would also like, when possible, to use Freely licensed hardware, or to enjoy Freely licensed art.

And then there are very few people who decided that they’d prefer to wear DFSG-Free clothing.

If you make your own, it’s not that different from software: you get a pattern, the source code, and compilation instructions. The compilation process is a bit manual, but there are a lot of people who enjoy that.

It doesn’t have to be sewing, it can be knitting, crochet, any craft that can be used to build something that you wear and has patterns or other kinds of source code. I’d say that a certain tartan also qualifies.

If you’re interested in the idea, these are the places I know of that do FreeSoftWear: two are personal websites, included mine, freesewing is a community and an online platform to design patterns.

And debian has some useful software, including valentina, for sewing patterns, and kxstitch for cross-stitch and other counted thread embroidery.


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Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized


Posted on July 15, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits, topic:xmpp, topic:debian
This is an approximation of what I told at my talk Federated instant messaging, 100% debianizedat DebConf 25, for people who prefer reading text. There will also be a video recording, as soon as it’s ready :) at the link above.

Communicating is a basic human need, and today some kind of computer-mediated communication is a requirement for most people, especially those in this room.

With everything that is happening, it’s now more important than ever that these means of communication aren’t controlled by entities that can’t be trusted, whether because they can stop providing the service at any given time or worse because they are going to abuse it in order to extract more profit.

If only there was a well established chat system based on some standard developed in an open way, with all of the features one expects from a chat system but federated so that one can choose between many different and independent providers, or even self-hosting.

But wait, it does exist!

I’m not talking about IRC, I’m talking about XMPP!

While it has been around since the last millennium, it has not remained still, with hundred of XMPP Extension Protocols, or XEPs that have been developed to add all of the features that nobody in 1999 imagined we could need in Instant Messaging today, and more, such as IoT devices or even social networks.

There is a myth that this makes XMPP a mess of incompatible software, but there is an XEP for that: XEP-0479: XMPP Compliance Suites 2023, which is a list of XEPs that needs to be supported by Instant Messaging servers and clients, including mobile ones, and all of the recommended ones will mostly just work.

These include conversations.im on android, dino on linux, which also works pretty nicely on linux phones, gajim for a more fully featured option that includes the kitchen sink, profanity for text interface fanatics like me, and I’ve heard that monal works decently enough on the iThings.

One thing that sets XMPP apart from other federated protocols, is that it has already gone through the phase where everybody was on one verybig server, which then cut out federation, and we’ve learned from the experience. These days there are still a few places that cater to newcomers, like account.conversations.im/, snikket.org/(which also includes tools to make it easier to host your own instance) and quicksy.im/, but most people are actually on servers of a manageable size.

My strong recommendation is for community hosting: not just self-hosting for yourself, but finding a community you feel part of and trust, and share a server with them, whether managed by volunteers from the community itself, or by a paid provider.

If you are a Debian Developer, you already have one: you can go todb.debian.org/ , select “Change rtc password” to set your own password, wait an hour or so and you’re good to go, as described at the bottom of wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSo….

A few years ago it had remained a bit behind, but these days it’s managed by an active team, and if you’re missing some features, or just want to know what’s happening with it, you can join their BoF on Friday afternoon (and also thank them for their work).

But for most people in this room, I’d also recommend finding a friend or two who can help as a backup, and run a server for your own families or community: as a certified lazy person who doesn’t like doing sysadmin jobs, I can guarantee it’s perfectly feasible, about in the same range of difficulty as running your own web server for a static site.

The two most popular servers for this, prosody and ejabberd, are well maintained in Debian, and these days there isn’t a lot more to do than installing them, telling them your hostname, setting up a few DNS entries, and then you mostly need to keep the machine updated and very little else.

After that, it’s just applying system security updates, upgrading everything every couple years (some configuration updates may be needed, but nothing major) and maybe helping some non-technical users, if you are hosting your non-technical friends (the kind who would need support on any other platform).


Question time (including IRC questions) included which server would be recommended for very few users (I use prosody and I’m very happy with it, but I believe ejabberd works also just fine), then somebody reminded me that I had forgotten to mention chatons.org/ , which lists free, ethical and decentralized services, including xmpp ones.

I was also asked a comparison with matrix, which does cover a very similar target as XMPP, but I am quite biased against it, and I’d prefer to talk well of my favourite platform than badly of its competitor.


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DebConf25 starts today at Brest, France! Most of the talks are streamed online. Watch out this space for our schedule: debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… . Live talks can be watched by clicking on the venue links on the DebConf25 homepage. #debian #debconf25 #brest

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museomils.it/inagibilita-dei-l…

#saronno

NUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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I was baking knäckebröt, I have a bag full of freselle and started to think, as one does, of empires

in southern Italy they have freselle, and they taste good. in Sweden they have crispbread, and it tastes good. The British had hardtack, and they had to keep conquering places to be able to eat.

and going back to the Roman empire, as one does, the Greeks had good bread, the Romans were quite good at the logistics of processing wheat on the march, but they were known for making bad bread.

and now the USA (other than some privileged parts of the population) have ultraprocessed bread.

I think that a pattern starts to form.

(this probably only applies to parts of the world that are wheat-based, rather than maize- or rice-based)

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stavo preparando del knäckebröt, ho un sacchetto pieno di freselle, e come di tanto in tanto succede mi son messa a pensare agli imperi

in sud Italia hanno le freselle, e sono buone. in Svezia hanno il knäckebröt, ed è buono. nell'impero britannico avevano le gallette, e dovevano continuare a conquistare nuovi posti per riuscire a mangiare.

il passaggio successivo, ovviamente, è l'impero romano, e all'epoca i greci avevano del pane buono, i romani erano efficienti nel lavorare il grano mentre erano in marcia, ma erano anche noti per non saper fare pane decente.

e adesso negli stati uniti (ad eccezione di qualche fascia priviliegiata della popolazione) hanno il pane industriale.

Inizio a vedere un pattern.

(probabilmente si applica solo alle parti del mondo basate sul grano e non sul mais o sul riso)

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(lack of) minor injuries? kink? I don't even know

My attempts to burn myself with hot (bees)wax failed!

Also, my attempts to melt beeswax in the solar oven were successful and much faster than I expected, and pouring it into an old ikea chocolates mold also seems to have worked (I'm waiting until it has completely cooled down before taking it out of the mold)

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it worked!

they came out of the mold pretty easily, they are a good size for waxing thread, and they look nicer than the crumbly lump worked together with my hands that I've been using for years :D

yes, it's dark, but I've been using this wax for ages even on white thread for sewing white fabric and I've never had discoloration problems. I hope I haven't just cursed myself :D

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(lack of) minor injuries? kink? I don't even know
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua the ones from ikea had the big advantage that I already had them :D
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(lack of) minor injuries? kink? I don't even know

@Bomkatt when sewing by hand I wax the thread by running it over a small lump of wax to help prevent breakages and make it easier to untangle any tangle. It's especially important with linen thread, but it also helps with cotton.

years ago I bought a lump of beeswax from a local honey seller, and I've always wanted to melt it into molds, but only actually found the time / had the equipment ready to do it today (I was procrastinating doing other things :D )

(they are also part of my “encouraging people to handsew” kit, and having them in a nice shape looks better than the shapeless thing I used to make)

(they won't remain good looking for long, but making them wasn't a big effort)


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Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

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@Bob Young I hope this ends up getting them sued. I wonder if there are enough grounds here for a class action lawsuit? I imagine you'd need to be able to show concrete evidence of damages rather than just hypotheticals though.
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@fifonetworks
The Spanish Tax Agency still recommends downloading your pdf viewer from this page:
pdfreaders.org/
sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/…
This has already happened before:
reddit.com/r/photoshop/comment…
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i think one of the reasons why i like mastodon so much is that it has all the lovely qualities that oooooold (like 2009 old?) tumblr used to have. ☺️
you're basically talking to your next-door friends and microblogging what you're doing, and everyone is being very appreciative of your weird little quirks and hobbies. 🌺

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/me, avendo a che fare con la stampante> ma pérche?
/me> ma anche un po' perkele

(no, non parlo Finlandese, credo di conoscere tre parole in Finlandese e una è il nome di un cibo)

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Emergency Camisole


Posted on July 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
A camisole of white linen fabric; the sides have two vertical strips of filet cotton lace, about 5 cm wide, the top of the front is finished with another lace with triangular points and the straps are made with another insertion lace, about 2 cm wide.

And this is the time when one realizes that she only has one white camisole left. And it’s summer, so I’m wearing a lot of white shirts, and I always wear a white camisole under a white shirt (unless I’m wearing a full chemise).

Not a problem, I have a good pattern for a well fitting camisolethat I’ve done multiple times, I don’t even need to take my measurements and draft things, I can get some white jersey from the stash and quickly make a few.

From the stash. Where I have a roll of white jersey and one of off-white jersey. It’s in the inventory. With the “position” field set to a place that no longer exists. uooops.

But I have some leftover lightweight (woven) linen fabric. Surely if I cut the pattern as is with 2 cm of allowance and then sew it with just 1 cm of allowance it will work even in a woven fabric, right?

Wrong.

I mean, it would have probably fit, but it was too tight to squeeze into, and would require adding maybe a button closure to the front. feasible, but not something I wanted.

But that’s nothing that can’t be solved with the Power of Insertion Lace, right?

One dig through the Lace Stash1 and some frantic zig-zag sewing later, I had a tube wide enough for me to squiggle in, with lace on the sides not because it was the easiest place for me to put it, but because it was the right place for it to preserve my modesty, of course.

Encouraged by this, I added a bit of lace to the front, for the look of it, and used some more insertion lace for the straps, instead of making them out of fabric.

And, it looks like it can work. I plan to wear it tonight, so that I can find out whether there is something that chafes or anything, but from a quick test it feels reasonable.

a detail of the side of the camisole, showing the full pattern of the filet lace (alternating Xs and Os), the narrow hem on the back (done with an hemming foot) and the fact that the finishing isn't very neat (but should be stable enough for long term use).

At bust level it’s now a bit too wide, and it gapes a bit under the arms, but I don’t think that it’s going to cause significant problems, and (other than everybody on the internet) nobody is going to see it, so it’s not a big deal.

I still have some linen, but I don’t think I’m going to make another one with the same pattern: maybe I’ll try to do something with a front opening, but I’ll see later on, also after I’ve been looking for the missing jersey in a few more potential places.

As for now, the number of white camisoles I have has doubled, and this is progress enough for today.


  1. with many thanks to my mother’s friend who gave me quite a bit of vintage cotton lace.↩︎

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/0…

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this is soooooooooo pretty!!!
I like adding triangular side gussets to expand patterns - they’re more subtle and v comfy- but the lace is so PRETTY
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@soil gremlin here the problem was that even the bit at the bust level was a bit too tight to be able to get into the camisole, even if it was the right size for wearing it, so a triangular side gusset wouldn't have helped a lot; it really needed the elasticity of knits (or some buttons)

and also: lace! all the lace!

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

ohhh yeah that makes sense. I do like knits but a woven cami is so NICE
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@soil gremlin yeah, I'm seriously considering either doing another one with buttons, or making a crochet yoke and then a rectangle for the body basically like this, but much shorter and without sleeves: sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

the latter sounds better, but is not going to be a quick project, because I'm extremely slow at crochet

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and now @Diego Roversi gave me back MY camisole that somehow ended up in his underwear drawer, and compared to this morning the number of white camisoles I have has *tripled*!

(I knew I had another one…)

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Some work in progress in Confy


You know, Confy: the Gnome-based, mobile-friendly Conferences schedule viewer

Some days ago I posted a screenshot about an experiment I was doing with #confy , which atm is on hold.
I'm still looking about the best way to draw a calendar view which can be zoomed in and out fast.

This is using Gtk.Snapshot to draw boxes and Pango.Layout to draw text.
It's still not fast enough with large conferences (mostly because I want to keep the text the same size and just change the boxes...)

Meanwhile I made some other things: some are papercuts, some are to try to have cleaner code, and some are quite big changes:

Actions get enabled/disable correctly per context

"search" action is disabled until an event is opened, and "copy" action is enabled only while a details page is shown.
Small change but prevents some errors.

Update recent list when deleting custom event from menu

Custom event in the "open" window can be removed. Now the entry is also removed from the recent events list.

Navigation sidebar has been updated

Now items does not get out of order after opening an Event with one already opened. Previously, items not needed (eg. 'Traks' where the Event has no tracks) were removed and re-added, which caused them to appear out of order.
Now the items are hidden and shown as needed, thus they do not change order anymore. Plus they are now defined in sidebar widget template. More clear and nice.

Navigation between pages has been revisited.

Originally, every talk details page opened was simply pushed on the stack. This caused some trouble as details page can link to other details pages via overlapping talks, which where pushed on the stack too. But overlapping talks are 'circular' as if Talk A overlaps with Talk B, also Talk B overlaps with Talk A, which can lead to very long stack to navigate back, e.g.:

List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C -> Talk A -> Talk C 

In latest revisions, clicking on an overlapping talk was simply updating the page in place, losing navigation (and a nice transition between pages):
List -> Talk A
  user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk B

Now, we are back to pushing pages on the stack, but if an event has ben already pushed to the stack, we pop back to that page:
List -> Talk A
  user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
  user clicks on overlapping Talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C
  user clicks on overlapping Talk A
List -> Talk A

From my esaustive user testing (me while developing) looks like this could be a nice solution. The animation on page push/pop helps the user to keep track on where is going. At least, it helps me. Get used to it. :)

This is also relevant for the new Search page navigation.

Search can be toggled

Search action now is toggleable (is this a word?), the "search" button in the headerbar is now a togglebutton. One click opens the search, another click closes the search (as does ctrl-f).
When search is opened, the search page is pushed on the stack. Closing the search pop the page (and popping the page closes the search).

From the search page, talk details pages follow the same logic as before, but in a separate 'group'. That is, if the search page is opened from a detail page, and from the search page the same talk is clicked, we don't pop back to the already pushed page (which closes the search) but a new detail page is pushed on the stack:

List -> Talk A -> Talk B
  user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search
  user clicks talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C
  user clicks overlapping talk A
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C -> Talk A
  user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B

I hope this make sense and it's usable :)

( btw: the search entry still get focused when the search page pops in. I'm quite proud I managed to keep that :) )

Updated Preference dialog

The design has been moved to template, with a simple custom widget to set caches duration.
Option to clear the recent opened events list has been added.

Everything is in git if anyone want to test it, maybe on some mobile devices, maybe during one of the upcoming conferences...



ma che è oggi a roma???(oltre all'incendio del distributore, che è da un'altra parte)


IMPORTANTE AGGIORNAMENTO ZONA WARPA

C'è stato un incendio nel parchetto fuori dal Forte Prenestino. La situazione è sotto controllo, ma NON venite ora al Forte.

Zona Warpa non inizierà come previsto alle 15:00.

Dovremmo iniziare più tardi, ma al momento non abbiamo certezze. Seguiteci qui e su Telegram per aggiornamenti!


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IMPORTANTE AGGIORNAMENTO ZONA WARPA

C'è stato un incendio nel parchetto fuori dal Forte Prenestino. La situazione è sotto controllo, ma NON venite ora al Forte.

Zona Warpa non inizierà come previsto alle 15:00.

Dovremmo iniziare più tardi, ma al momento non abbiamo certezze. Seguiteci qui e su Telegram per aggiornamenti!

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itpol

ilpost.it/2025/07/03/alta-velo…

ma chiamare una linea ferroviaria Salerno - Reggio Calabria (e soprattutto una che a Reggio Calabria per ora non arriva) è portare sfiga o è una dichiarazione di intenti?

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an hot herbal #tea called north star (in Italian, which is literally polar star) must be cool and refreshing, right?
#tea
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

una #tisana bollente che si chiama stella polare non può che essere fresca e rinfrescante, vero?
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

La stella polare (α Ursae Minoris) è una stella supergigante gialla variabile cefeide con una temperatura alla superficie di qualche decina di migliaia di °K.

Quindi, rispetto a stelle più calde, è rinfrescante.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

non se lo fai con l'acqua fredda.
Per le tisane non saprei, ma il tè basta lasciarlo in infusione in acqua fredda qualche ora. E per quelli fruttati o delicati è persino più buono 😀 🍵
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@Paolo Redaelli ricordandosi di farlo per tempo funzionerebbe anche con molte delle tisane che bevo

ma tutto sommato mi fa piacere anche berle calde

oltre al fatto che non mi ricordo mai di farlo per tempo :D

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Io con questo caldo ho sempre almeno una brocca in infusione. Sono arrivato a bere 1½l di Irish Breakfast al giorno settimana scorsa… 😅
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

te e tisane bollenti aiutano contro il caldo. Persino nel deserto bevono il te caldo per aiutare contro la calura. Siamo solo noi occidentali ad essere fissati con le bibite ghiacciate (e ogni tanto qualcuno ci lascia pure le penne)
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@Edo ⁂ c'è da dire che il modo in cui funzionano è facendo sudare, e quindi funzionano meglio nel deserto che non nei posti dove il caldo è umido

però sì, molto meglio bevande calde o a temperatura ambiente che non bevande fredde che fanno sì che il corpo decida di produrre più calore per combattere il freddo

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

se l'umidità è significativa preferisco bere a temperatura ambiente. Anche perché bevendo freddo il corpo, come hai detto anche tu, produce più calore e quindi sudi comunque ma col rischio di una congestione
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@Edo ⁂ già, e per lo stesso motivo meglio una doccia tiepida che non una fredda

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