Debian celebrates 26 years, Happy DebianDay!
26 years ago today in a single post to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup, Ian Murdock announced the completion of a brand new Linux release named #Debian.bits.debian.org
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DebianDay/2019 - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2019
#Debian Day will be on Friday, August 16th in 2019. It is celebrated each year on August 16th.
The state of the XMPP Community
Let’s begin by asking ourselves who uses XMPP? Obviously in a federated system we have no way of knowing who uses XMPP and that is a good thing. Most XMPP providers make a point in storing as little data as possible. And even if some public servers would publish that information we don’t account for the countless of personal and small-office servers that fly entirely under the rader. However if we knew that XMPP was over- or under represented in a certain country for example we could learn from that and repeat what we do in the succesful countries in the less succesful ones in an attempt to grow the community.github.com
“We are death,” the first of the three dragon heads said.
“And destruction,” said the second.
I turned to the third.
“And we like cookies!” It said with a grin. “Have you brought us any?”
I held up a basket filled with all sorts of snacks.
The first head spoke. “You shall be spared.”
“For now,” the second added.
“See you tomorrow!” Chirped the third as clawed hands snatched the basket away from me.
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L'estensione #Unpaywall per trovare #ricerca ad #AccessoAperto da Firefox/Chromium è #SoftwareLibero gratis.
Ha oltre 200mila utenti e un milione di usi al giorno. Riesce in 50+ % dei casi, precisione 98+ %.
Quanti #ricercatori la conoscono in Italia?
http://www.unipa.it/Unpaywall/
Debian Day 2019Inizia: Sabato 17 Agosto 2019 @ 20:00Finisce: Sabato 17 Agosto 2019 @ 23:59Posizione: Birrificio di Como, Camerlata
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This rules. DIY computer-controlled loom. (And it's open source!) https://retrotechjournal.com/2019/06/17/making-a-diy-computer-controlled-loom/
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"I assure you, medieval people bathed"
https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
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I wonder if being in love with the blood-red ink I've recently bough is yet another sign of the fact that I can't prove I'm not a vampyre(sic).
I should start wearing the black ribbon whose precepts I've always followed (with no plans to stop).
At least this looks like fresh blood and not something used to sign a pact with the devil.
The ink is Rohrer & Klingner writing ink, merinda.
#calligraphy #dipPen
I think that for the rest of the fleece I want to try combing it, but with this bit I also want to try some naalbinding.
Then I finished some generic black roving from the yarn shop (that I had started before #TdF19 and kept as my to-go "spin for 5 minutes" project), spun worsted, and then, instead of being able to write this post life happened again, badly, and I just didn't have the energies for it.
In the next few days I also spun another bit of generic blue roving from the yarn shop, this time woolen, and that was it for my spinning this month.
#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners
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I think my spinning has improved a bit, and trying to card was also something I wanted to do: I'm definitely not proficient at it, but I have plenty of materials to learn (today I washed a bit more of the fleeces)
I also learned that whorls made in salt dough will. break., but then it is quite easy to “glue” them back with a few drops of water and some time.
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My take on OpenPGP best practices
After having seen a few talks at DebConf on GnuPG and related things, I would like to document here how I currently manage my OpenPGP keys, in the hope they can be useful for other people or for discussion. This is not a tutorial, meaning that I do not give …www.giovannimascellani.eu
Hijabs, for instance, are banned (when banned) as religious symbols (and where similar religious symbols are banned). You'd have to be quite naive to think that those have no impact (whether you agree with those bans or not).
Saying that "all religious symbols are banned in the same way" however is misleading: in an area where the religious people are mostly part of either a dominant religion that does not mandate wearing any visible symbol (and if they do want to wear one, it's usually something small and easy to hide like a cross pendant) and one that is discriminated against that mandates that its followers must always show visibly their religion, such a law will not impact the followers of the former, but only the followers of the latter.
Also, there are laws that are not against religious symbols in general, but just against specific kinds of dress (especially the burkini, afaik) under the excuse that they are a symbol of the oppression of women and those are even worse: if a woman is being forced to wear a burkini when going to the pool, and the pool forbids that woman from entering while wearing a burkini, it's not like magically she can wear a swimsuit, they have just forbidden her from going to the pool.
So, yes, these things do have an impact, one that adds more burdens and discrimination to the weakest parts of society.
(disclaimer: I'm talking about the laws and proposed laws in Europe, mostly Italy and to a lesser extend France, I don't know what the situation is elsewhere well enough to have an idea )
(disclaimer2: I know that not everybody who is religious in Europe is either christian or muslim, but at the moment the political debate is on those, everybody else I'm afraid is going to end up as collateral damage)
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Last Friday of July! Today is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. In Debian we're very proud and thankful to the DSA Team https://dsa.debian.org/ You rock! #SysAdminDay
Thanks Aigars Mahinovs, the #DebConf19 group photo is already available https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/19/Photos
#DebConf19 has started and as usual the video team needs MOAR volunteers to provide full streaming and recordings coverage at the quality we're used to: if you are attending please attend one of the training sessions (they are announced in the [url=https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2019/07/msg00009.html]daily announcement emails like this one): some of the tasks are pretty easy and you can sign-up for shifts during talks you wanted to attend anyway (they will not prevent you from following the talk, and in some case they may even help you do so).
If you are remoting (like me :( ) you can still help: hop on #debconf-video@OFTC to help with reviewing the recordings before they get published. If there are enough of us we can aim to release most¹ of the recordings before the conference is done! This is really helpful for people in different timezones or those who would like to attend two talks at the same time, but mostly, it's fun.
¹ except for the very last batch, of course.
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Today is the #DebConf19 Open Day! See the schedule and follow the live streaming https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule/?day=2019-07-20
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Then on sunday (day 9) instead of spinning I washed a bit of the “distraction” I posted earlier, on monday life happened and I had a forced day of rest; on tuesday I mostly respected the day of rest (but I started a bit on the Coburg Fox sample) and today I finished them both.
And that's it for my basic plan for #TdF19 , which has been completed way early thanks to the power of lowered expectations!
But... tomorrow it's challenge day, when I want to try and spin some wool that I've (badly) carded myself (with dog brushes), so this evening I've done that
And then I must confess I couldn't resist starting to spin a bit of it, to see how it would be
(this one is going to be spun woolen, and then one day I think I'll buy or make a pair of combs, as for most of the things I want to do with the yarn worsted would be more appropriate)
#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners
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and then, instead of killing zombies I got distracted by a sack of unknown sheep fleece, received the evening before:
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and the smaller (about 5g) sample of Valais Blacknose:
And then in the evening my friendica instance was down, so I couldn't post this.
Today I started on a sample of Gotland, but was busy most of the day visiting a museum and didn't finish it (I will probably do it tomorrow).
#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners
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Then I had… issues… as I discovered that the floss game flare now has a shiny new campaign and… let us just say that a) I didn't post any update and b) I'm very surprised that today I still managed to spin all of the mixed brown top I planned to spin :D
Tomorrow I have a carded band of Rhoen shep waiting for me (and/or zombies and skeletons to kill, choices, choices…)
#TeamFediSpinners #FediSpinners
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Elena ``of Valhalla'' 3 weeks ago
(the fact that I visited two brick and mortar shops, opened a forum thread asking for more shops to try and then browsed through the online reseller list on the producer's website until I found one I liked doesn't mean I can't claim it was something like the devil forcing me to act, right?)
@Fabio
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