Meanwhile, it's been a while since my last thread on crafting.
I've picked back up #knitting a shawl from *very fine* yarn that I started in 2022, when it looked like this:
and now looks exactly the same, but *a lot more*.
Now I have written down a plan and I think I can finish it by the end of September: it's longer than the usual time before I get bored with it and move to something else, but now that I can actually see the end I really want to do it!
(right now I have picked up a 8 days buffer, so there is hope)
Also, I've kept going on with the 16th century hemd inspired shirt I started (check notes 3 months ago: it's structurally done, I need to finish the bottom hem and the smocking at the sleeves, and then sort out buttons, so I hope that one too will be finished by the end of September, and then I can start some other project I have in the queue!
I've just started handsewing a backpack, so I don't really need another handsewing project, right?
well…
the backpack is at a stage where I have to think, and today I'm not really able to think, and also it's somewhat heavy sewing, and sometimes I'd prefer to do something lighter, so my plan was to have a second project to alternate it with.
something quick and easy, right? of course not :D
what about dealing with 4.5 meters of lightweight fabric, hemming all of it and then bringing it down to 36ish cm? That's more like it :D
I've decided to make a shirt by following the instructions for a 16th century hemd, except in cotton voile, and a bit shorter so that I can tuck it into my jeans if I want.
So I have spoken about my new 16th century German chemise/shirt, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of …
E mi sono accorta che è un po' che non aggiorno sullo stato dei progetti craftosi.
Ho ripreso in mano uno scialle ai ferri con un filato *molto* sottile che avevo iniziato nel 2022, quando aveva questa faccia:
e adesso ha lo stesso aspetto, ma *di più*.
Ho provato a mettere giù un piano e credo di riuscire a finirlo per la fine di settembre: le altre volte mi sono stancata prima e sono passata ad altro, ma stavolta vedo la fine, e vorrei davvero arrivarci!
(al momento sono anche riuscita a portarmi avanti di 8 giorni rispetto al piano, quindi c'è speranza)
Sono anche andata avanti con la camicia ispirata allo hemd del XVI secolo che ho iniziato (controlla gli appunti) 3 mesi fa: è interamente assemblata, devo finire l'orlo in basso e lo smocking sulle maniche, e poi decidere cosa fare per i bottoni, quindi spero di riuscire a finire anche quella entro la fine di settembre, e poi posso iniziare uno degli altri progetti che ho in coda!
Ho appena iniziato a cucire a mano uno zaino, quindi non ho bisogno di un altro progetto di cucito a mano, vero?
Ecco…
Con lo zaino sono ad un punto in cui ho bisogno di pensare, ed oggi non è cosa, e poi è un tipo di cucito abbastanza fisicamente impegnativo, per cul il piano era di avere qualcosa di meno faticoso con cui alternarlo.
Avrei potuto fare qualcosa di facile e veloce? ovviamente no :D
E invece avere a che fare con quattro metri e mezzo di stoffa, orlarla e raccoglierla tutta in qualcosa come 36 cm? Più nel mio stile :D
Quindi ho deciso di farmi una camicia seguendo le istruzioni per una camicia tedesca del XVI secolo, usando però del voile di cotone e accorciandola leggermente in modo da poterla infilare nei jeans alla bisogna.
A bit more than a year ago, I had been thinking about making myself a cartridge pleated skirt. For a number of reasons, one of which is the historybounding potential, I’ve been thinking pre-crinoline, so somewhere around the 1840s, and that’s a completely new era for me, which means: new underwear.
Also, the 1840s are pre-sewing machine, and I was already in a position where I had more chances to handsew than to machine sew, so I decided to embrace the slowness and sew 100% by hand, not even using the machine for straight seams.
If I remember correctly, I started with the corded petticoat, looking around the internet for instructions, and then designing my own based on the practicality of using modern wide fabric from my stash (and specifically some DITTE from costumers’ favourite source of dirty cheap cotton IKEA).
Around the same time I had also acquired a sashiko kit, and I used the Japanese technique for sewing running stitches pushing the needle with a thimble that covers the base of the middle finger, and I can confirm that for this kind of things it’s great!
I’ve since worn the petticoat a few times for casual / historyBounding / folkwearBounding reasons, during the summer, and I can confirm it’s comfortable to use; I guess that during the winter it could be nice to add a flannel layer below it.
Then I proceeded with the base layers: I had been browsing throughThe workwoman's guide and that provided plenty of examples, and I selected the basic ankle-length drawers from page 53 and the alternative shift on page 47.
As for fabric, I had (and still have) a significant lack of underwear linen in my stash, but I had plenty of cotton voile that I had not used in a while: not very historically accurate for plain underwear, but quite suitable for a wearable mockup.
Working with a 1830s source had an interesting aspect: other of the usual, mildly annoying, imperial units, it also used a lot a few obsolete units, especially nails, that my qalc, my usual calculator and converter, doesn’t support. Not a big deal, because GNU units came to the rescue, and that one knows a lot of obscure and niche units, and it’s quite easy to add those that are missing1
Working on this project also made me freshly aware of something I had already noticed: converting instructions for machine sewing garments into instructions for hand sewing them is usually straightforward, but the reverse is not always true.
Starting from machine stitching, you can usually convert straight stitches into backstitches (or running backstitches), zigzag and overlocking into overcasting and get good results. In some cases you may want to use specialist hand stitches that don’t really have a machine equivalent, such as buttonhole stitches instead of simply overcasting the buttonhole, but that’s it.
Starting from hand stitching, instead, there are a number of techniques that could be converted to machine stitching, but involve a lot of visible topstitching that wasn’t there in the original instructions, or at times are almost impossible to do by machine, if they involve whipstitching together finished panels on seams that are subject to strong tension.
Anyway, halfway through working with the petticoat I cut both the petticoat and the drawers at the same time, for efficiency in fabric use, and then started sewing the drawers.
The book only provided measurements for one size (moderate), and my fabric was a bit too narrow to make them that size (not that I have any idea what hip circumference a person of moderate size was supposed to have), so the result is just wide enough to be comfortably worn, but I think that when I’ll make another pair I’ll try to make them a bit wider. On the other hand they are a bit too long, but I think that I’ll fix it by adding a tuck or two. Not a big deal, anyway.
The shift gave me a bit more issues: I used the recommended gusset size, and ended up with a shift that was way too wide at the top, so I had to take a box pleat in the center front and back, which changed the look and wear of the garment. I have adjusted the instructions to make gussets wider, and in the future I’ll make another shift following those.
Even with the pleat, the narrow shoulder straps are set quite far to the sides, and they tend to droop, and I suspect that this is to be expected from the way this garment is made. The fact that there are buttonholes on the shoulder straps to attach to the corset straps and prevent the issue is probably a hint that this behaviour was to be expected.
I’ve also updated the instructions so that they shoulder straps are a bit wider, to look more like the ones in the drawing from the book.
Making a corset suitable for the time period is something that I will probably do, but not in the immediate future, but even just wearing the shift under a later midbust corset with no shoulder strap helps.
I’m also not sure what the point of the bosom gores is, as they don’t really give more room to the bust where it’s needed, but to the high bust where it’s counterproductive. I also couldn’t find images of original examples made from this pattern to see if they were actually used, so in my next make I may just skip them.
On the other hand, I’m really happy with how cute the short sleeves look, and if2 I’ll ever make the other cut of shift from the same book, with the front flaps, I’ll definitely use these pleated sleeves rather than the straight ones that were also used at the time.
As usual, all of the patterns have been published on my website under a Free license:
I was in a B&B in Tuscany and there was a 1.5 l bottle of a soft drink with the label in English and German; it looked like the Swiss rivella, and the flavour was *mushrooms*.
Ero in un B&B in Toscana, c'era una bottiglia di soft drink da 1.5 l con l'etichetta in inglese e tedesco, aveva l'aspetto della rivella svizzera e il gusto era *funghi*.
@LaVi @oKolobos quando pioveva mi mettevo all'imbarcadero della chiatta e vedevo il Lago sul marciapiedi, e le cascate giù dagli orridi ... non riuscivo a sentirmi asciutto nemmeno davanti al camino a palla, con lo scialle e Romeo in grembo 🤭
Hey pals: Someone I like made a tool that extracts still images from youtube tutorials so we can follow them step by step with screenshots as God intended instead of having to constantly be pausing and seeking back and forth. I have LOST this precious resource.
Was it you? Will you give me the link? I will bookmark it this time.
at one point I thought about and actually prototyped a desktop version, but it started to feel a little too much like an end run around monetization for YouTube creators, which felt a bit icky.
@jesse I hate ads but am actually happy to directly pay creators of instructional material I find useful, via patreon or their own websites.
But man if any of the really good unreal tutorial makers made a habit of actually writing tutorials instead of doing screencasts I'd subscribe so hard I'd pay their phone bill
The other thought was a tool for creators to turn their video content into gorgeous tutorial webpages. But doing it well would take actual work and care.
And yeah, I go to great lengths to avoid seeing ads. It was just the idea of building (and possibly profiting from) the ad circumvention technology didn’t sit right.
And I think you're right that tooling is half of the problem. Videos may be easier to monetize but screencasts are just plain easier to *make,* which is why it's so hard to find traditional illustrated instructions.
I actually think the main challenge is that speaking for dictation is different than speaking for video - tutorial makers would have to learn to do the former to make the posts work
I don't know what that tool was, but I can think of tools that will download the youtube video and then convert it to a series of pictures.
I just need to know, on a scale from "I am Neo." to "Hannah Montana Linux," what's your level of terminal-aversion? Are you cool typing out commands, and can you do basic stuff in the terminal ok?
yt-dlp for downloading it, and ffmpeg for the conversion. You just need to supply the video URL, then then give ffmpeg the file name along with the options I supply.
And bless you for actually asking instead of assuming a certain level of comfort - I do a lot more managing than coding these days but I know my way around the terminal*
*For values of "know my way around" that include "my keyboard shortcut aversion pains pairing partners" but I get by
Good news: the offline version of Wikipedia is back! Bad news: so many people are currently trying to download it that our mirrors got crowded out and can't download the update!
Download it, open it via your favourite client (we use Transmissionbt.com but that's a matter of personal taste mostly) and get started with downloading.
It is that simple.
Do not forget to keep seeding after you are done downloading so as to help spread the load!
(Quick note on torrenting if you are not familiar: it is a peer-to-peer technology that, instead of relying on a central server, makes user share back what they have already downloaded.
Torrents break down your file into as many chunks as it can, so that the load is distributed among many sources. If one person goes offline, anyone else from the seeding community can provide with the missing chunks. Super resilient)
I really wanted to use your app but it request whole disk access which is not a necessety for it to work properly. It would be just sufficient to grant read and write access to one designated folder. Such programming would build up trust.
@Laurenz0071 Are you sure? Then I can only recommend to you to open an issue for the devs at github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android. Detailed and articulated feedback are always welcome by the devs and we do our best to treat them well.
Might be a good idea if the app was able to download from torrent sources, or if the app could access (torrent)-downloaded files from a local desktop pc, without the need to configure a local directory on the android device and manually copy from pc to android.
@Life_is It is also stupid as hell to have the Android app require that it move a .zim file to the app's special libraries directory to open it. Can't even manually move the file yourself. Need to have the app do it. Extremely problematic when dealing with a 100+ GB .zim file as is the case with English-All-Maxi.
@Life_is It should work. If it still does not work (servers were overloaded these last two days), then please report the problem to the dev so it can be investigated why at github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.
Hey, you could consider adding http redirects from the main source to the mirrors? That way it won't break downloads, except of course they might be a bit stale if mirrors can't update.
Our mirror (mirror.accum.se) has plenty of capacity for http downloads in case you want to point redirects here.
@maswan We have a functioning mirror manager and always welcome new mirrors! Please contact us if you have storage AND bandwidth. Detailed instructions at master.download.kiwix.org/READ…
@maswan Indeed you are already listed as an official mirror! My bad! Sorry! But the key file is not mirrored (yet!?), see download.kiwix.org/zim/wikiped…. This is the reason.
The sync that started in the morning of the 25th failed with "connection unexpectedly closed " just a few hours ago today, so the upstream has been slow.
I manually started it again, hopefully it'll be a bit faster now if things are sorted out on your side.
Dear people/sites that publish HOWTOs. For the love of $DEITY *always* add the original publishing date and the last edited date at the very top, in a visible way. The amount of HOWTOs I sifted through only to find out they are totally outdated and simply can't work anymore is staggering. Sites that fake the publishing date to a more recent one for "SEO optimisation", I am especially looking at you. You act evil. /rant (Yes, I need to update some of my gists to be compliant, working on it :)
Also kind of the reverse is also true as having a publishing date before this whole AI nightmare happened is giving me confidence in that I’m not just about to read a bunch of slop.
Vendo a offerta libera rilegatrice manuale a spirale Rexel CB205.
C'è anche un discreto numero di spirali di plastica nera, ma devo ancora recuperarle per sapere quante e precisamente di che misure.
Vendo perché sono passata ad un sistema di rilegatura diverso (ma anche il fatto di non essere più all'università e/o in altri ambienti dove girano dispense stampate in copisteria aiuta :D )
I've just put a debian live on an usb key, put it on the pegboard close to the home servers¹ and told my partner it was there in case he needed an emergency debian live.
And then asked him if I should put it on a cord with a fast release buckle, so that the emergency debian live could be pulled down quickly in case of emergency.
And… I need to do it, right?
¹ for which it is completely useless, because arch mismatch, but it was a convenient place
Ho appena messo una debian live su una chiavetta, l'ho appesa al pannello portaoggetti che c'è accanto ai server casalinghi¹ e detto al mio compagno che era lì, nel caso gli servisse una live di emergenza.
E poi gli ho chiesto se dovevo attaccarla ad un cordino con sgancio rapido, in modo da poterla strappare via in fretta in caso di emergenza.
E… adesso lo devo fare, vero?
¹ per cui è totalmente inutile, dato che l'architettura è diversa, ma era un posto comodo
Tonight I dreamed that the rain and wind had thrown down a fence around our house, a couple of goats were ready to jump in and we were afraid for out tomatoes¹.
This morning I got on the fediverse and found a thread (in Italian) about heavy rains in the center of Italy and then this:
Stanotte mi son sognata che pioggia e vento avevano abbattuto una staccionata attorno a casa nostra, un paio di capre erano pronte a saltare dentro, e avevamo paura per i nostri pomodori¹.
@Madeleine Morris out of curiosity, if you want to answer: when you sew japanese garments are you using a western style position pushing the needle with the thimble on the middle finger, or the method I've learned from shashiko instructions with the thimble at the base of the middle finger?
(this question prompted by me thinking about the cording I've done by hand in the japanese style, and how fast it it)
Sto cercando un' app o una qualsiasi cosa dove posso segnare i miei interessi e vedere articoli o notizie riguardanti solo quelli.
Ho capito che per il lavoro sarebbe utile tenermi aggiornata sulle tendenze e le mode delle stagioni, ma siccome metà del mio armadio sono vestiti neri.. beh non sono molto ferrata.
@cretinodicrescenzago @Claudi 🧶 eh, ma per quelli devi trovare i feed giusti che parlino solo di quell'argomento (o almeno che parlino anche di quell'argomento e taggino i contenuti in modo che permetta al client di filtrarli).
Io al massimo posso dire che credo che si possa fare un abbonamento a Le Follet e a La Mode Illustrée anche nel Lombardo Veneto, e poi nel regno d'Italia ma se mi chiedi cose che pubblichino ai tempi della Repubblica (la *seconda* repubblica, persino!) posso solo boostare e sperare che qualcun'altro legga :)
(l'ultima volta che sono stata dal vecchio dentista aveva la rivista D in sala d'attesa che così a memoria poteva essere rilevante, magari quei contenuti ci sono anche sul sito del giornale repubblica? o magari per i tuoi scopi è più utile qualcosa tipo Burda, che ha come target chi viene a comprare i materiali?)
@valhalla @cretinodicrescenzago grazie ✨️ Sì mi servirebbe qualcosa che mi dica "oi va di moda questo adesso". Tipo la figlia di una mia cliente mi ha detto che ora vanno di moda i cappelli a retina all'uncinetto. Mi dice che c'era l'hanno tutto e io ero tipo "ah.. si? 👁👄👁"
mia mamma quando aveva la merceria usava molto burda per i suoi lavori. Non so se però è quello che intendi. Per nuove idee/moda guardava spesso pinterest e Ultimamente ha fatto anche questo che va molto di moda per la mia compagna (sempre all’uncinetto) it.mc2saintbarth.com/cdn/shop/…
I don't even remember where I first learned this method to shorten pants and keep the original hem. It's much easier than finding matching thread and cutting the pants and trying to make a new hem that looks as good as the original. So anyway, these pants are now 3.5 inches shorter. And I wore them this morning and remembered that corduroy pants make a swick-swick sound when you walk 😂 #sewing hellosewing.com/how-to-hem-jea…
@dillyd that's a pretty neat method, especially if you don't cut the excess, as then you can use it later to remake a new hem when the original one has frayed!
(probably works best with legs that are as straight as possible, however)
OK, slowly for those who aren't following. What is this technique? My wife constantly gets pants too long because, well they make them for 5'10" women and come on!
@RegGuy My post included a link to a page that gives instructions. But basically, like you see in the photo, fold up the leg so that the length between the fold and the top edge of the hem is half of the length you want to remove. Sew right next to the edge of the hem like in my photo. Then trim if needed, turn inside, and press.
- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories) - you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse - become powered by cake
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
of course depends on what's intuitive and what's not. if you've seen joules in food packages your whole life, there's nothing particularly unintuitive in them in comparison to calories.
A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery's entire charge in one go.
A Big Mac slightly tops that with about 650Wh. A slice of pizza is about half that with 340Wh.
Meanwhile, fruits like apples/bananas are in the ~100-130 watt-hour oversized twice laptop battery ballpark, and a cup of greek yogurt is about the same, so a big cup of fruit-filled yogurt is still less calories than a big mac or snickers!
A full english breakfast can be over 1kWh! Quickcharge ⚡⚡
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
@cinebox maybe, but I unironically can relate more to an egg or slice of bread being about a large laptop battery worth energy (90wh), than whatever '78kcal' is
@cinebox maybe, but I unironically can relate more to an egg or slice of bread being about a large laptop battery worth energy (90wh), than whatever '78kcal' is
@xerge @venite - I like this post but I hate measuring energy in units of 3600 joules... it's like the revenge of the Babylonians... and then, yes, people talk about gigawatt-hours per year. 😒
@johncarlosbaez @xerge I’ve been feeling a bit fractious. Might be remedied by going around the neighbourhood putting up stickers saying THE BABYLONIANS WERE RIGHT.
@johncarlosbaez @venite @xerge yea exactly, as mentioned in mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115… I'd say generally speaking scientists are perfectly capable of picking the appropriate meaningful SI units for their papers and daily usages.
Watt-hours is just practical when you want to visualize how long an electrical device would run on a certain amount of energy, even if that of course is very different energy than burning fuel/food. The fact it's almost the same as calories makes it easy to draw analogies✨
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
- yes, being a scientist I'm perfectly capable of choosing the units I want, and thus have spent a lot of time converting publicly available power data in gigawatt-hours / year into SI units. It's tiresome, so it's nice to have a chance to complain about it, but it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things.
Qualche giorno fa parlavo, non ricordo con chi, di #libriScolastici sotto licenza libera, e dicevo di conoscere dei progetti, ma tutti abbastanza fermi
ecco, ho ritrovato in giro un elenco *quasi* aggiornato (ultima modifica nel 2022):
BCC - a "barely ANSI" C compiler, but generates small binaries (64+64 com). Great if I'm making something small, like a retro implementation of something.
Edlin - great no frills editor that I use without irony to edit files like batch files and makefiles. I've sometimes written entire readme files in it.
OpenWatcom FORTRAN 77 - I sometimes write a little FORTRAN, and this goes a long way.
May I humbly suggest adding MartyPC to the list of emulators? Its got a lot of useful features for DOS development, assuming you're targeting an 808X class CPU.
#FreeGEOS source codes. The offical home of the PC/GEOS operating system technology. For personal computing fans. For all developers and assembly lovers. For YOU! - bluewaysw/pcgeos
oh, I didn't know of that Allegro 4 fork. I should dig out the double-free bug during error handling I found somewhere and see if they're interested in a patch
github.com/msikma/allegro-4.2.… , because that was the easiest way to convey it, but yeah the project doesn't look super-alive. (I've debug-tracked this down to the problem, and checked it's still present in the source of this fork, but *haven't* built and tested it since I've been depending on upstream Allegro's prebuilt binaries.)
unload_datafile() already frees the datafile itself, so calling _AL_FREE() on it again is a double-free. This causes custom data loaders returning errors to abruptly abort the program before any er...
oh hunh, I poked the upstream website to check they indeed weren't interested in patches against 4, and what do you know, most recent news post from a few months ago is they split off github.com/liballeg/allegro4
...and still aren't interested in patches. Don't they know all the millennials are having a huge wave of midlife DOS nostalgia?
Meanwhile, yesterday evening I died. Or rather, they let me die. And by “let” I mean “piled monsters on me until I died, and then looted my dead body”.
And then on the next turn, with the new cards I had just picked I won.
I am thankful to @Diego Roversi for getting the cat companion when looting, however. It was just a +2, but it was a cat, and I didn't want him to go into the discard pile!
Intanto ieri sera sono morta. O meglio, mi hanno lasciata morire. E con “lasciata” intendo “mi hanno buttato addosso mostri fino a che non sono morta, e hanno saccheggiato il cadavere”.
E poi al turno dopo, con le carte nuove appena pescate, ho vinto.
Sono grata a @Diego Roversi per essersi preso il compagno gatto durante il saccheggio. Era solo un +2, ma era un gatto, e non volevo che finisse nel mazzo degli scarti!
Posted on August 17, 2025 Tags: madeof:bits TL;DL: if you’re using rrdtool on a 32 bit architecture like armhf make an XML dump of your RRD files just before upgrading to Debian Trixie.
I am an old person at heart, so the sensor data from my home monitoring system1 doesn’t go to one of those newfangled javascript-heavy data visualization platforms, but into good old RRD files, using rrdtool to generate various graphs.
This happens on the home server, which is an armhf single board computer2, hosting a few containers3.
So, yesterday I started upgrading one of the containers to Trixie, and luckily I started from the one with the RRD, because when I rebooted into the fresh system and checked the relevant service I found it stopped on ERROR: '<file>' is too small (should be <size> bytes).
Some searxing later, I’ve4 found this was caused by the 64-bit time_t transition, which changed the format of the files, and that (somewhat unexpectedly) there was no way to fix it on the machine itself.
What needed to be doneinstead was to export the data on an XML dump before the upgrade, and then import it back afterwards.
Easy enough, right? If you know about it, which is why I’m blogging this, so that other people will know in advance :)
Anyway, luckily I still had the other containers on bookworm, so I copied the files over there, did the upgrade, and my home monitoring system is happily running as before.
of course one has a self-built home monitoring system, right?↩︎
Caro Direttore, ho letto il suo editoriale sui bambini rom che hanno rubato una macchina e hanno investito e ucciso una signora. Ho sentito la sua sincera indignazione.
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
I'd just like to say thank-you for creating and maintaining putty for all these years! It undoubtedly makes the world a slightly better place for anyone on windows with need of a ssh connection or serial line or otherwise.
The current URL exists all over the place – in particular, it's baked into every current release of PuTTY itself. So it's really important that people going to that URL will still end up somewhere useful.
Most likely it'll end up as a 301 redirect to the new site, once the move has happened.
@Purple @30p87 someone mailed me a day or two ago to say that the chiark PuTTY site had now got ahead of putty.org on the Google rankings. What changed? Only that he pivoted to antivax. He's already working on obliterating his own pagerank!
This is an excellent start, though y'all somehow you forgot the cookie warning, news letter popup and the "please disable your adblocker" messages though
Thanks for finally getting a more officially-looking domain. Let's hope the .org drops from Google cache soon, now that the owner has started pushing antivax bullshit on it...
@durandal or perhaps because PuTTY landing pages are now considered suspicious after putty.org went rogue, so a new one is automatically suspect?
The real PuTTY website at chiark has a news item on the front page linking to putty.software and confirming that it's really ours. So if you need to raise an unblocking request with anyone, that might be a way to convince them that this isn't another putty.org, without them having to trust the text saying so on putty.software _itself_.
Made me want to check if my local version had been claimed, and yes of course, also a squatter but they seem quite well-behaved with a direct link and no faff except a fake logo and two unobtrusive links to their own commercial shit. But I do use an adblocker so maybe it's worse without. No need to promote them with a clickable link, so: putty dot nl.
I've commented for like a decade that it doesn't matter where the Putty web site is, it was the most reliable Google search in the world that searching for "putty" would lead to pages of hits that would get you there (and if you ever wanted to search for putty as a form of cement, you were out of luck).
@richpuchalsky someone sent me a screenshot just recently showing the chiark web site above putty.org in the Google search results. Apparently putty.org's "pivot to antivax" stunt burned a lot of its ill-gotten pagerank.
If you search in various ways for "putty wiki" it's wiki's preferred meaning of putty as well. The stuff that people use to fix window panes is relegated to a disambiguation page.
I've mostly eliminated (directly using) Windows from my computing life. But if you find yourself there, PuTTY is one of the best pieces of software for the platform.
On my quasi-blog: "Iconography of the PuTTY tools"
The icons used by the PuTTY tool suite; some discussion of the design, the technical constraints, and the progression from hand-drawn to script-generated. Inspired by a user sending me email asking about it recently.
Hey, people who make PUTTY terminal... how about a nice way to enumerate com ports rather than making me open device manager to see what random com port my usb-serial adapter was given
@DevWouter @schmidt_fu for extra verification, there's a news item on the front page of the current main PuTTY website acknowledging that putty.software is ours.
I totally understand people being distrustful, given things that have already happened!
Maybe it would be useful to also mention the new domain in the FAQ - A.9.1-A.9.3? The answers seem to be confusing to some people on Hacker News, at least
@asjo @DevWouter @schmidt_fu yes, I've just been editing the FAQ this morning. The revised version should go up tonight, as part of the build that also bakes a copy of it into a signed PuTTY help file.
Honestly I think that the Chiark link is well-known enough, so much that many of us who have been using your software for many many years will be suspicious of *any* other page, even if it *says* "oh trust me".
Having `putty.software` doesn't help with disambiguating from `putty.org` ... perhaps it should just be a redirect to Chiark, rather than it's own site?
If there is one thing I wish I could take from Perl and give to the current hot languages, it's the importance of not breaking shit when you release new versions of stuff. If someone's code worked yesterday with your library, it should also work today after you add a new feature.
Yet, apparently, this is not the way we do code. We expect every developer to be so devoted to a random library that they keep track of all the breaking changes and are excited about them.
I've just realized that on my first #DebConf, in 2015, some people was using their (thinkpad) laptops as a tray to carry their meals. on my second DebConf, 2025, I didn't see anybody doing that.
I'd say that laptop design has gone really wrong somewhere in the process.
mi sono appena resa conto che alla mia prima DebConf, nel 2015, c'erano un po' di persone che usavano i loro thinkpad come vassoio per i pasti. alla mia seconda DebConf (2025) non l'ho visto fare.
direi che da qualche parte nel frattempo il design dei laptop ha preso una piega profondamente sbagliata
In my first or second Chaos Congress I carried sweet, sugary coffee on top of my closed thinkpad and spilled it. Nothing particularly bad happened, those were the good times.
@Lauma Pret 🕸️ this year at DebConf there was an accident involving a modern thinkpad and some plain water (the thinkpad survived, after being opened and dried) and that's when I discovered that modern thinkpads no longer have the water drainage holes under the keyboard.
I wonder, how Framework laptops are in this department... I keep fingers crossed that until I'll need next laptop, there will be at least third party keyboard with trackpoint for them, and then I'll probably switch. I've had TPs all my adult life, and they have seriously degraded in being suited for my autistic taste/needs.
I'm new to the @debian game. I just saw in the documentation "Upgrades to Debian 13 "trixie" from the previous release, Debian 12 "bookworm", are automatically handled by the APT package management tool for most configurations. "
However, my debian didn't offer me upgrade in any way. Do I have to install a specific upgrade package?
Currently I'm using a standard installation based on KDE. Or is upgrade only supported in gnome stock software packages?
Debian Pure Blends are a solution for groups of people with specific needs: a handy collection of specific packages, easier installation and configuration for the intended purpose. Now with Debian 13 trixie, a selection of Debian Pure Blends, such as Debian Junior, Debian Science, or Debian FreedomBox, can now be be installed directly from within the Debian installer! debian.org/blends/ #debian #debian13 #trixie #debianpureblends #ReleasingDebianTrixie
If you are using the debian-installer-netboot-images somewhere: There is an errata entry for it. That package wasn't correctly updated and will be fixed soon after #Debian #trixie #debian13 is done.
(If you are a normal user, you aren't affected. Only if you build your PXE boot server using it you may notice this).
Meanwhile Image building and testing goes on, they are busy over there!
Update: Binary packages named debian-installer-13-netboot-<arch>
While we all wait for the images to build and be tested and while the archive continues to be prepared so work on #forky can start (and #backports for #trixie can be done), how about some statistics?
Not the usual boring stuff like #package #numbers (MANY - 70753 binary packages from 34735 #source packages) or architecture space (lots, multiple hundred gigabytes per architecture), can find that in enough places.
How about this? The main #archive now has 54 suites (stable, testing, stable-backports, unstable but also the NEW queue are all suites). They all have 3 or 4 components (main, contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware) and can contain up to 19 different architectures (#trixie has 9 of them). Those suites are split over 9 archives - the public ones are those you see in the #Debian mirrors as different parts of them, others are purely internal functionality (NEW queue, buildd for example).
Curious for the #security archive? That has 17 suites in 5 archives.
Some went on my laptop, of course, but some were selected for another tool I use relatively often: more pattern weights like the ones I blogged about in February.
I couldn’t find the sources for the blue mobian sticker, only for other variants.
I have enough washers to make two more weights, and even more stickers, but the printer is currently not in use, so I guess they will happen a few months or so in the future.
@Oblomov I'm not going to change laptop, this one is still pretty new (to me)!
other than that, probably make more pattern weights, as I can always print more? :D (I'd need to get a new box to keep them in, as the current one is full, too :D )
The laptop lid is covered by a vinyl sheet, so in theory I could remove it, put a new one on and start again, but I don't think I want to do anything like that (the vinyl sheet was put in place by the shop that I've bought the — reconditioned — laptop from)
Also, saving stickers for a future laptop is of course an option.
@Oblomov also, If I knew how to design board games, I would definitely design a game that uses Standard Compliant stickers as tiles (attached to something lighter than the pattern weights, but still with some thickness) and various Piecepack pieces.
@Oblomov AFAIK because of the way copyright works a game with the mechanics heavily inspired by Settlers of Catan but a different setting, different text, different graphics etc. would be fine.
@Oblomov coincidentally, if anybody has an European source for fridge magnet bases in the shape of an hexagon 5.08 cm tall, I'd be happy to hear about it :D
(I think I can get sheet and cut them, but if pre-cut existed it would be easier)
quella che ho in casa aveva tipo il 2% di wasabi negli ingredienti (erano sulla scatola, non sul tubetto, e temo di averla buttata, per cui non posso controllare)
(non conosco il sito, io l'ho comprata in un supermercato etnico)
lì il wasabi è elencato negli ingredienti ma senza percentuale (però è bello in fondo, compatibile con i numeri citati prima)
onestamente non ho idea se in quelle quantià faccia veramente differenza, il grosso degli ingredienti alla fin fine sono gli stessi della pasta che non hai visto il wasabi neanche in foto
@valhalla@social.gl-como.ita Ma sai che, pensandoci, ha senso? Alla fine anche il cetriolo ha un retrogusto "pescioso", e infatti la salsa tzatziki è la morte sua! Mi hai mooolto incuriosito!
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.
ma infatti ne ho avuta l'impressione che senza la spiega di alcuni manco ce ne si accorge... E i giornali van dietro a ste cacate dando pubblicità (spero) gratis
@talksina ultimamente cito questa notizia in cui UN genitore in una città di più di un milione di abitanti è riuscito a far togliere una installazione artistica perché, non voglia jesoo, due uomini si baciano. Una persona. Una sola lamentela. gcn.ie/irish-museum-responds-r…
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
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..."
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •E mi sono accorta che è un po' che non aggiorno sullo stato dei progetti craftosi.
Ho ripreso in mano uno scialle ai ferri con un filato *molto* sottile che avevo iniziato nel 2022, quando aveva questa faccia:
e adesso ha lo stesso aspetto, ma *di più*.
Ho provato a mettere giù un piano e credo di riuscire a finirlo per la fine di settembre: le altre volte mi sono stancata prima e sono passata ad altro, ma stavolta vedo la fine, e vorrei davvero arrivarci!
(al momento sono anche riuscita a portarmi avanti di 8 giorni rispetto al piano, quindi c'è speranza)
Sono anche andata avanti con la camicia ispirata allo hemd del XVI secolo che ho iniziato (controlla gli appunti) 3 mesi fa: è interamente assemblata, devo finire l'orlo in basso e lo smocking sulle maniche, e poi decidere cosa fare per i bottoni, quindi spero di riuscire a finire anche quella entro la fine di settembre, e poi posso iniziare uno degli altri progetti che ho in coda!
Elena ``of Valhalla''
2025-05-27 15:50:35
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LaVi, Panormus, SaverioPhoto, evolveBushido e Gert :debian: :gnu: :linux: like this.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ma quello non riesco a farlo alla sera mentre guardo video su youtube prima di andare a dormire
e non sempre riesco a guardare video su youtube prima di dormire senza muovere le mani per fare qualcosa :D
(credo che le macchine da maglieria lo farebbero senza il minimo problema, ma in quel modo finisce lo scopo)
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •È un po' come il guilloché sui quadranti degli orologi…
inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aTo3ff9…
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Comandante Virgola :snwfn:
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consumableJoy
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