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Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.


Metti che una persona abbia aperto un dialogo con la propria estetista su dinamiche di coppia tossiche, narcisismo, privilegio e femminismo.

Metti che l'estetista si dimostri interessata e volesse leggere di piú.

Alla persona piacerebbe trovare risorse che siano sia accessibili all'estetista (e in italiano), che magari anche legate a un gruppo che poi possa essere un buon riferimento per l'estetista per continuare le sue ricerche e il suo percorso.

Aiutatemi. Cosa c'è di valido in giro?

(gradite risposte se conoscete, e boost se conoscete altre persone che conoscono)

#femminismo #coscienzadiclasse #materiale

in reply to Enrico Zini

Piú lato aborto e autodeterminazione c'è anche prochoice.it/

Parlando con attiviste di prochoice mi era anche venuto in mente di redigere un quadernino di numeri di emergenza da tenere nelle varie collettive con riferimenti da chiamare in caso qualcuno abbia bisogno di aiuto in merito a situazioni di violenza, difficoltà ad abortire, abusi in famiglia, difficoltà legate al genere o alla neurodiversità, immigrazione, eccetera


rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.


intanto col parlare in questi giorni di cittadinanza e relativi requisiti mi è venuto un dubbio: ma Vittorio Emanuele II, primo re d'Italia, aveva le competenze linguistiche italiane equivalenti ad un B2?
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

semmai erano i sudditi a dover saper parlare come il re, per aver la cittadinanza.
un po' come l'altezza per i maschi per fare il militare.
in reply to severino

@severino ma all'epoca si era regnicoli (non cittadini!) senza troppi problemi

diritto di voto. adesso, calma. il diritto di voto solo per gli uomini e solo se soddisfano i requisiti economici, mica si voleva che votassero *tutti*

in reply to severino

@severino comunque quel re in particolare era significativo perché essendo di *quella* Torino la sua lingua natale era il francese

non ho idea se parlasse anche piemontese, e di sicuro ci sono le lettere private in cui scriveva in italiano, ma un po' sgrammaticato, perché l'aveva imparato come seconda lingua



Filed under: maybe not the best idea ever, but it worked

I was wearing a cartridge pleated skirt with 4+ m of hem, of course over a corded petticoat, and heeled boots

of course the car was parked in such a way that the driver's side wasn't accessible, so I had to get on it from the passenger's side

and when I finally managed to get myself and all of my skirts in the driver's seat, I realized I had forgotten my glasses, and had to get out and in again.

(but it was easier than I expected when I found myself in front of the car and had a uh-oh moment)

#historyBounding #costumingPeopleProblems

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

do the two of you know each other? @sinituulia I think you might enjoy your respective posts on historical costumes
in reply to Luigi

@Luigi I follow her and indeed I do enjoy her posts!


I may have done a new #hexagon?

it's not very legible (but better than the previous attempts), but the font I've used is appropriate to the topic, so I'm not 100% sure

#StickerStandard


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Fellow sewists - A weekend retreat where I can learn the basics of pattern making, ideally located in Northern Europe. Does that exist? @sewing #sewing

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Is everyone clear on the fact that consumer LLMs aren't making medical or engineering breakthroughs? Scientists might make real discoveries using machine learning, but it's machine learning that's trained on smaller, purpose-built models containing specialized data assembled by teams of professionals, not by indiscriminately scraping DeviantArt, LiveJournal and Reddit.
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And after years and years of on-and-off playing it

I

have

finished

the Empirean Campaign in #Flare.

#FreeSoftwareGaming

(with just a tiiiiiny bit of cheating with certain spike traps)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

E dopo anni e anni in cui di tanto in tanto ci giocavo

ho

finito

Empirean Campaign in #Flare

#VideogiochiLiberi

(barando solo un pochettino su delle certe trappole a spuntoni)


Ashley Reynolds ha ricondiviso questo.


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.

katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…

Current stage: hemming all of the top edge.

#sewing #handsewing #historyBounding

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

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.

katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…

Status attuale: fare tutto l'orlo superiore.

#cucito #cucitoAMano

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in reply to Rapita dagli alieni rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

@Rapita dagli alieni il thread dove posto aggiornamenti sullo zaino è social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… e al momento fondamentalmente è ancora così social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… tranne il fatto che al posto della maggior parte dei segni a matita ci sono delle cuciture (mi manca solo la colonna centrale)
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

this afternoon I was too tired to think, so instead of working on the backpack I kept hemming the neck edge, and I'm past the two thirds point.

The next step should be marking the points for the neck gathering, but depending on how the backpack is going I may start to sew the bottom of the side seams so that I can also hem the bottom edge any time my brain wants to remain off.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

oggi pomeriggio ero troppo stanca per pensare, quindi anziché lavorare sullo zaino sono andata avanti a orlare il collo, e ho superato i due terzi.

In teoria il prossimo passo sarebbe segnare i punti per arricciare il collo, ma a seconda di come va con lo zaino potrei iniziare a cucire la parte in basso dei fianchi, in modo da poter fare anche l'orlo in fondo nel caso in cui il mio cervello abbia bisogno di rimanere spento.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

You do know that you are crazy right?
:-)
I love following all the things you do.

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Honeycomb shirt


Posted on May 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear, GNU Terry Pratchett
A woman wearing a purplish blue shirt with very wide sleeves, gathered at the cuffs and shoulder with honeycombing, and also a rectangle of honeycombing in the front between the neckline and just above the bust. The shirt is gathered at the waist with a wide belt, and an almost lilac towel hangs from the belt.

After cartridge pleating, the next fabric manipulation technique I wanted to try was smocking, of the honeycombing variety, on a shirt.

My current go-to pattern for shirts is the 1880 menswear oneI have on my website: I love the fact that most of the fabric is still cut as big rectangles, but the shaped yoke and armscyes make it significantly more comfortable than the earlier style where most of the shaping at the neck was done with gathers into a straight collar.

A woman wearing a shirt in the same fabric; this one has a slit in the front, is gathered into a tall rectangular collar and has dropped shoulders because it's cut from plain rectangles. The sleeves are still huge, and gathered into tall cuffs. It is worn belted (with the same wide white elastic belt used in the previous picture) and the woman is wearing a matching fabric mask, because the picture has been taken in 2021.

In my stash I had a cut of purple-blue hopefully cotton [#cotton] I had bought for a cheap price and used for my first attempt at anhistorically accurate pirate / vampire shirt that has now become by official summer vaccine jab / blood test shirt (because it has the long sleeves I need, but they are pretty easy to roll up to give access to my arm.

That shirt tends to get out of the washing machine pretty wearable even without ironing, which made me think it could be a good fabric for something that may be somewhat hard to iron (but also made me suspicious about the actual composition of the fabric, even if it feels nice enough even when worn in the summer).

A piece of fabric with many rows of honeycombing laid on top of the collar and yoke of the shirt; a metal snap peeks from behind the piece of honeycombed fabric. There are still basting lines for the armscyes.

Of course I wanted some honeycombing on the front, but I was afraid that the slit in the middle of it would interfere with the honeycombing and gape, so I decided to have the shirt open in an horizontal line at the yoke.

I added instructions to the pattern pagefor how I changed the opening in the front, basically it involved finishing the front edge of the yoke, and sewing the honeycombed yoke to a piece of tape with snaps.

Another change from the pattern is that I used plain rectangles for the sleeves, and a square gusset, rather than the new style tapered sleeve , because I wanted to have more fabric to gather at the wrist. I did the side and sleeve seams with a hem + whipstitch method rather than a felled seam, which may have helped, but the sleeves went into the fitted armscyes with no issue.

I think that if (yeah, right. when) I’ll make another sleeve in this style I’ll sew it into the side seam starting 2-3 cm lower than the place I’ve marked on the pattern for the original sleeve.

The back of the unbelted shirt: it has a fitted yoke, and then it is quite wide and unfitted, with the fabric gathered into the yoke with a row of honeycombing and some pleating on top.

I also used a row of honeycombing on the back and two on the upper part of the sleeves, instead of the gathering, and of course some rows to gather the cuffs.

The honeycombing on the back was a bit too far away from the edge, so it’s a bit of an odd combination of honeycombing and pleating that I don’t hate, but don’t love either. It’s on the back, so I don’t mind. On the sleeves I’ve done the honeycombing closer to the edge and I’ve decided to sew the sleeve as if it was a cartridge pleated sleeve, and that worked better.

Because circumstances are still making access to my sewing machine more of a hassle than I’d want it to be, this was completely sewn by hand, and at a bit more than a month I have to admit that near the end it felt like it had been taken forever. I’m not sure whether it was the actual sewing being slow, some interruptions that happened when I had little time to work on it, or the fact that I’ve just gone through a time when my brain kept throwing new projects at me, and I kept thinking of how to make those. Thanks brain.

Even when on a hurry to finish it, however, it was still enjoyable sewing, and I think I’ll want to do more honeycombing in the future.

The same woman with arms wide to show the big sleeves and the shirt unbelted to show that it is pretty wide also from the front, below the yoke and the honeycombing. The back can be seen as about 10 cm longer than the front.

Anyway, it’s done! And it’s going straight into my daily garment rotation, because the weather is getting hot, and that means it’s definitely shirt time.


blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/0…



@Matteo Zenatti intanto oggi ero in giro ad un evento all'aperto, ho visto gente trasportare quella che sembrava un arpa or something (se ne infravedeva un angolo, tutto il resto era coperto) e non so come mai mi sei venuto in mente :D


anyway, 2019 journal from the CGIL/FISAC union (workers of insurance companies) 1, fancy moleskine notebook from the insurance company 0

no feathering, almost no see-through (and the paper isn't too thick), nice to write on

compared to “lol, use a pencil, ok”

#fountainPen #fountainPenPeoplePriorities

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

comunque, agenda 2019 CGIL/FISAC (assicurativi) 1, quaderno fighetto moleskine dell'assicurazione 0

niente spiumaggio, sul retro non si vede quasi niente (e la carta non è troppo spessa), piacevole scriverci

confrontato a “lol, usa una matita, ok”

#stilografiche #PrioritàDegliStilografari

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It's that time again! The systemd v258 release is coming closer. Let's restart the "what's new" series of posts for this iteration! Hence:

1️⃣ Here's the 1st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v258 release of systemd. #systemd258

As most of you probably know "systemctl start" is how you manually start a systemd unit. Starting a unit can fail, and systemd tracks that for you and tells you this. When you encounter such a failure the next thing you'd typically do…

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I think I'm officially insane, but

new project started: a new backpack, completely sewn by hand,

because I have the fabric (off white coated cotton canvas), and I do have some thread suitable for sewing backpacks by machine, but it's black (and afaik they don't make it in any other colour), or I have some sturdy linen thread in the right colour, but it doesn't go in the machine.

Fabric has been cut, I'll finish this herbal tea and then I'll try to sew it and see how it will work.

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@Kermode I don't think I've ever seen how that would look like, but for a backpack it may also be a reasonable look?

I guess it's pretty sturdy, right?

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@Kermode usually it's considered quite important to match the strength of the thread to the strength of the fabric, and if a precise match isn't possible to have thread that is *weaker* than the fabric, so that it won't tear it (resewing when thread breaks is always easier than having to mend / patch the fabric *and* resewing it)

of course if the fabric is some kind of abrasion resistant work-clothing synthetic, I see no reason not to use fishing line (other than possibly hand health issues for the seamstress)



earworm in italiano

e durante la cena è stata citata la parola intorno (in contesto generico)

e @Diego Roversi ha pronunciato le parole “per ogni”

e adesso una voce nella mia mente sta canticchiando

“per ogni epsilon, esiste un delta
per ogni ypsilon¹, minor di delta
eeeeffffeee di ypsilon minor di eepsiiilon”

(sapete su che musica, vero?)

(e adesso ce l'avete in testa anche voi, vero?)

¹ y anziché x per ragioni di metrica


rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.


food, meat, but the real point is the bread

Dinner this evening was chicken breast with yogurt sauce in pita bread

followed by cleaning every leftover of yogurt sauce with another piece of pita bread

followed by “I still had some pita bread, I could put some raspberry jam on it, right?”

I may have eaten too much pita bread

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food, meat, but the real point is the bread
@Kermode sounds delicious
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cibo, contiene carne, ma ciò di cui si parla veramente è il pane

@LaVi potrei

ma tutto sommato dopo aver fatto quattro passi (40 minuti :D ) non mi sentivo neanche troppo appesantita :D

@LaVi

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I may have done another hexagon

source svg at git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s…
clipart of the pattern at openclipart.org/detail/351608/…
font used: Latin Modern Mono (of course)

#FreeSoftWear #StickerStandard

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Today I have been wondering whether there are mechanical pencils (for 2 mm leads) in the shape of a carpenter pencil, and apparently if they exist they aren't easy to find online.

And now I wonder how hard it would be to take something cheap like eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , take the mechanism out (that's the easy part, I've just checked on mine and it's easy), and then either 3d-print or machine a carpenter pencil-shaped case for it.

(Not that I'd *need* it. I probably would have no use for it. But it would be cool if somebody did it :D )

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

Oggi mi son chiesta se esistano dei portamine (per le mine da 2 mm) a forma di matita da muratore / falegname, e a quanto pare se anche esistono non si trovano facilmente online.

E adesso mi sto chiedendo quanto complicato sia prendere qualcosa di economico tipo eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , tirar fuori il meccanismo (questa è la parte facile, ci ho appena provato con la mia ed è banale) e poi stampare 3d o lavorare nel metallo un nuovo corpo di forma piatta.

(Non che mi serva. Non me ne farei niente. Ma sarebbe bello se qualcuno lo facesse :D )


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My mother: “we could go to the plant nursery and buy a few flowers”

The flowers @Diego Roversi and I choose: strawberry, raspberry, and they were out of blueberries but they'll probably be there next week

I mean, they *are* flowering plants, aren't they?

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@Kermode yeah, from what I've heard @Diego Roversi wasn't abusive or anything, just firm.

But I didn't stop and listen to even his side of the call, I was busy doing *all of the hard work myself* (I may be exaggerating a bit)

(Or rather, the was the hard work was split is accurate, it's just that it was just maybe 10 minutes of hard work :D )


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TIL: overpass-turbo


Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.

E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?

Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?

Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:

(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy

e la query generata è:

[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;

Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).

A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.


Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.

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Quando ti pagano a byte di codice è imprescindibile inserire nel sorgente l'elenco completo di TUTTI i comuni italiani, con provincia, regione, CAP, prefisso telefonico e coordinate: potrebbe sempre servire.
in reply to Diego Roversi

Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:

cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json

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I may have done it again

my mother invited 3 people for tomorrow. 4 people with her, and 6 people with us (we may or may not spend most of the time with them, but we do plan to eat our share of the food :D )

I may have already prepared 1 kg of rye flour and 0.5 kg of white flour, and have plans for a dough with 1 kg of durum flour this evening. Plus there is a 0.5 kg of white flour dough that will be cooked for dinner this evening.

0.5 kg of flour per person is reasonable, right? :D

#bakingBread

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@Marcos Dione in my defense I have to say that most of this can be easily frozen, or will keep well for a enough days to give us plenty of time to finish the leftovers, I'm way more strict with stuff that is harder to deal with.

I have no idea where empanadas lie on that scale.

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

frozen: I guess. Kept for a few days: a) almost never happened to have leftovers of that; and b) the only time I remember is because we lost them to fungus a couple of days later (but only becaiae they were the raw meat variant). Another over cooking, this time by my ex.

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PSA: you're allowed to play and enjoy games on the easiest settings. This is your free time and you're not less of a gamer for playing games the way they are the most enjoyable for you.

Brought to you by me who has gotten back into Raft on the "peaceful" setting. I don't want to fight sharks, I just want to fish for resources and build. 🤷‍♀️ So that's what I'm doing.

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I used to play The Forest on no-enemies mode because at the time it was about as close as anyone was ever getting to a survival/crafting game with a photorealistic style. (Unfortunately and annoyingly, couldn't really progress much without enemies for resources. I haven't looked into whether Sons of the Forest has a similar mode, mostly because I know my PC won't be able to handle it.)

Some games also just have extremely annoying difficulty settings where 'more difficult' just equates to 'enemies have more health and you have less resources'. Or where the difficulty setting is for everything - I appreciate games where combat difficulty can be separated from puzzles and/or resource gathering, because I don't mind if the puzzles make me work for it a bit.

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aaaah scusa scusa sabato prossimo! Il 24!
Questo sabato ci sono i mercatini dei bambini proprio su quella via 🥲

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I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it

I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering

I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges

I have no idea what temperature to use

I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?

#MYOG

(the adult will be here in a few hours)

#MYOG
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Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi

Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare

Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili

Non ho idea di che temperatura usare

Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?

(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)

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Non ho avuto bisogno della coperta antincendio

e 200°C sembrano aver funzionato


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dream

It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up

halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.

I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.

¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D

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sogno

erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata

a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.

Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.

¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D

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sogno

@Alessandro la sveglia vera è una specie di musichetta da videgioco molto vintage composta e programmata da @Diego Roversi per arduino + lo speaker di un vecchio pc :)

++ con lo svegliarsi con il piede giusto con Painkiller però :)

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sogno
@filobus @Alessandro @Diego Roversi credo più comincia la vita a muoversi su uno sfondo che si sposta verticalmente, sparando a quasi tutto quello che si muove :D
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Dammit I mentioned FPGA and now I’m singing the initialism to the tune of “YMCA”
in reply to calcifer :nes_fire: maco ha ricondiviso questo.

Young man, there's no need to have RAM
I said young man, you can simply program
I said young man, logic gates are my jam
There's no need for a CPU

It's fun to program the FPGA
It's fun to program the FPGA
It has everything
For a Turing machine
You can write out all your routines

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Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.

The call went something like:

me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time

luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.

Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!

Should I worry?

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@Kermode @Diego Roversi I have a pope card (actually, a few), I can give it to somebody who is already nearby and ask them to do the exorcism, it sounds more practical :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode @Diego Roversi

this one enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto… which is indeed a slightly modified version of that one

it comes from Principia Discordiae

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How many sides are there in a bestagon?

  • 5 (12%, 1 vote)
  • 6 (12%, 1 vote)
  • 7 (37%, 3 votes)
  • other (in the comments) (37%, 3 votes)
8 voters. Poll end: 1 mese fa

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@valhalla I see people being wrong (and/or not tessellating things :D )

worse than wrong! wrong on the internet¹!

¹ xkcd.com/386/

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@valhalla vedo gente che si sbaglia (e/o che non tessella le superfici)

anzi, peggio che “si sbaglia”, si sbaglia su internet¹!

¹ xkcd.com/386/


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L'8 e 9 giugno si vota per il #ReferendumCittadinanza
per ridurre da 10 a 5 gli anni di residenza legale in Italia richiesti per poter avanzare la domanda di cittadinanza italiana.
Questi miei disegni compaiono sul numero di Aprile di Ossigeno, interamente dedicato al referendum sulla cittadinanza del prossimo 8 e 9 giugno, in quello che per noi è l’appuntamento politico più rilevante del 2025. (continua nel commento⬇️ )
People #diritti #politichesociali


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#bookbinding #diy

Does anyone know of an online library of open license, interposed, print-ready books?

I've been bookbinding copies of copyleft books you can only get as PDFs, and helping some authors and a game dev group I know make their books available as binding-ready files.

Is there already a site for them somewhere? If not, it's something I'll try to do, eventually

I know prepping the files is part of the fun but if it lowers the barrier for entry for bookbinding I think it's worth it

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fwiw, here's the open source tool that I use that makes the prepping very easy: momijizukamori.github.io/bookb…

No need to install anything, it does the PDF processing right inside your browser. No servers involved either, works offline.

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@foosel that's funny, that's exactly the one I use! (It's nice to know that part matches even if I have a ton to learn elsewhere) I was amazed at how easy it made things.

I've only done one TTRPG in the past (they published my interposed files and someone made one!) I've been binding my softcover books as if they're hardcovers, signatures and all, and gluing them into canvas printed with a plotter printer. How did you do the cover for yours? The glossy paper/cardstock looks very professional!

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Oh, softcover binding with signatures that way is something I still need to try 😀

The cover on my core of The Perilous Void was just some 200gsm card stock I have here, originally bought for printing photos on. It has a bit of a matte finish. I printed it and the text block (which I used basic 80gsm paper for) on my colour laser.

Most of the books I so far case-bound as hard covers with cloth, and then used the vinyl cutter to put the title on cover and spine.

in reply to Gina Häußge

I have some larger books full of random tables (Starsmith and Ancient Wonders) that are too thick to ring bind, so I'm looking into binding options that lay almost as flat as ring binding for them - nicer to look up things on a D100 table that way imho.

Want to try Coptic and Sewn Board for that.

in reply to Gina Häußge

that's really cool! The Vinyl looks so good! Most of my hardcover books are covered in that plotter-printed canvas (which is nice because I can make full color/art covers) but I did do one with home-dyed bookcloth etched with a laser cutter!
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@foosel Prepping the files is a barrier - I wasn't aware of that Bookbinder tool, that looks pretty neat.

I wrote up the steps I used of prepping an epub file for print, some it it may be of interest for this exercise, I used command line tools:
hotelexistence.ca/printing-and…

If I were to do it again, I'd definitely check out that Bookbinder, it looks like it would get around all the command line steps.



@Matthew Dockrey

yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)

and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cu…

And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…

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The words 'fiction' and 'dough' derive from the same root.

They stem from a Proto-Indo-European root that meant "to shape" and "to mould".

'Fiction' came to English through Latin and French. Its meaning now denotes something that's shaped by the mind.

'Dough', something that's kneaded, was inherited from Germanic.

Click the graphic to see the journeys these words took.

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10 minutes ago the sun had not set yet, so I started to solder the few bits left so that we could finish the project we had been working on in the afternoon (after buying the last bits we needed this morning).

it is now 21:40, and I've finished soldering 10 minutes ago. It's definitely too dark to do any outside work.

I haven't tested anything, and I've already covered everything in heatshrink (it's all cables and pin headers, nothing expensive in case I have to redo everything from scratch).

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10 minuti fa il sole non era ancora tramontato, quindi ho iniziato a saldare le ultime cose in modo da poter finire il progetto su cui abbiamo lavorato nel corso del pomeriggio (dopo aver comprato le ultime cose che ci servivano stamattina).

sono le 21:40, ho finito di saldare 10 minuti fa. là fuori fa decisamente troppo buio per lavorare.

Non ho ancora testato niente, e ho già ricoperto tutto di termorestringente (sono solo cavi e pin headers, niente di costoso nel caso in cui debba rifare tutto da capo)

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Anyway, this is what we had been doing during the afternoon, while there was still ligth:

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Comunque, questo è quello che abbiamo fatto ieri pomeriggio, mentre c'era ancora luce:

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As for the things I soldered yesterday night, half of them aren't in use because the waterproof box we wanted to use is too small :(

We may find another box, or buy one in the next few weeks.

For the time being, we've used some dupont cables to connect the main sensor to the ESP32C3 board, and got an *interesting* behaviour: the board was sending data from the sensor, but it was *always the same value*. Data for the internal battery level sensor was changing at every measurement, as expected.

We opened the stevenson box, changed the sensor with another identical one. same behaviour.

We opened the waterproof box to bring the board inside and do more tests, and found that the dupont cable for the sensor ground was disconnected. But it was still managing to send data, only it was the *wrong* data.

Reconnected the ground, it seems to be working.

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Quanto alle cose saldate ieri sera, metà non sono in uso perché la scatoletta stagna che volevamo usare è troppo piccola :(

Forse ne troveremo un'altra, o al massimo ne compreremo una tra qualche settimana.

Per ora abbiamo usato dei cavi dupont per collegare il sensore pricipale alla schedina con ESP32C3, e abbiamo avuto un comportamento *interessante*: la schedina stava inviando i dati presi dal sensore, ma era *sempre lo stesso valore*. I dati del sensore di carica della batteria (interno) cambiavano leggermente ad ogni misura, come atteso.

Abbiamo aperto lo schermo di stevenson, cambiato il sensore con un altro uguale. stesso comportamento.

Abbiamo aperto la scatoletta stagna per portare in casa la schedina e fare ulteriori test, e scoperto che il cavo dupont del ground verso il sensore era scollegato. Ma riusciva comunque a mandare dei dati, solo dati *sbagliati*.

Ricollegato il ground, sembra funzionare.



consumerism, national stereotypes (unconventional)

Leroy Merlin is French. The French are Elves. That explains why we entered the shop mid morning (before 10, I think), and after spending half an hour, surely no more than an hour in there, we left at half past midday.

And also why when we go there we always leave being exhausted, as if our soul had been nibbled upon.

@Diego Roversi had to eat some food while we were in, but it was food we had brought from outside, and never left unattended, so we should be fine, right?

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consumismo, acquisti non necessari, riferimenti biblici

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consumismo, acquisti non necessari, riferimenti biblici
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi e metti che qualcuno qui in zona vada in Canada in ferie e si porti a casa qualche souvenir, e poi abbia bisogno di aprirlo!

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Io penso che Altbot sia una delle più grandi cagate che gira sul fediverso tutto.
Usare una AI (locale o remota che sia) che spreca una quantità di energia risparmiabile semplicemente usando le manine 10 secondi per una descrizione.
Posto che le descrizioni che genera sono per il 99% inutili ai fini di quello che realmente serve

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tempo fa con qualcuno parlavo (livellosegreto.it/@mannivu/114…) di come su reddit ci fosse una comunità dedicata a spiegare post grafici, tutto fatto dall'utenza. Secondo me se ci impegniamo tutti possiamo seguire un hashtag dedicato (tipo #ALT4me o anche un italianissimo #AltXMe) e smettere, o almeno ridurre, di usare AltBot


@alsivx su reddit c'era una comunità (r/TranscribersForReddit) il cui scopo era descrivere i post per i non vedenti, il tutto fatto a mano da volontari. Secondo me si potrebbe tranquillamente fare anche qui nel fediverso: un bot segnala il post senza test alternativo rispondendo con un Hashtag dedicato e chi segue l'hashtag può rispondere al Bot con un alt-text e poi sta a chi ha creato il post inserirlo nel suo post originario

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Filed under: a well done, professional job, right?

not pictured: the battery, that is currently being recharged.

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@Beko Pharm I don't see any duct tape on your case, so it's a much better case than mine :D

(mine is temporary. I will probably use it for years, but it is temporary)


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Yesterday and today, the whole of Spain, Portugal and parts of France, and possibly as per some reports, parts of Italy and Belgium lost their power inexplicably. Italy and Belgium reports might have been spurious. This happened about 12:30 local time here in Spain.

The power was out for about 14 hours here, a bit less for some areas as they brought up the grid piece by piece.

The mobile base stations were the first to go.

We have solar panels and batteries which carry over the night, and it was a sunny day, so we maintained power here in the house over the event.

This Mastodon instance was inaccessible for 11 hours, because apparently the fiber optic substations lost their emergency battery power after 6 hours or so, and the final internet connection we had was cut.

There is still no conclusive determination for what happened or why. It seems the most likely explanation currently is some sort of an atmospheric event causing resonance in the electric grid.

elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28…

At night, our house was pretty much the only one with power. The other lights visible in the photo are largely cars and flashlights. We still have our Christmas lights in the yard...

The stars were well visible in the sky.

So, lessons learned:
1. Apocalypses (or pseudo-apocalypses) don't necessarily come with a bang. They come with an eery silence and darkness, and no one knows what is happening.
2. I am still unable to play my local Plex series with the good TV, because everything seems to require internet connectivity for no good reasons. I can play them with my phone and on laptop (but with proprietary codecs and without hardware accelerations it's in practice impossible). Playstation Plex simply refuses to function without internet.
3. Don't run multiple high power cooking appliances at once because it overloads the inverter.
4. The house water pump isn't in the emergency power circuit, which is inconvenient and needs fixing.
5. Need to have physical keys for things easily available, and not hidden in places you'd look in the last.
6. Even if the local internet networks would still work, if the global networks aren't available the ISPs happily just cut off all the networks and don't even try to maintain just local networks for convenient local emergency communications purposes. Ditto for electricity.

#SelfHosting #RukiiNet #apocalypse #resilience #blackout #Spain

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> The power was out for about 26 hours here, ...

How come? As I write this reply, it is still slightly less than 24 hours sine the outrage started.

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