If somebody else is stuck cursing the syntax change in .screenrc, this is a guide to the new colours:
pingle.org/2026/04/26/screen-5…
Updating GNU Screen 5.x configuration for hardstatus color syntax changespingle.org
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SFC announced today a multi-pronged, comprehensive initiative to deal with Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 copyleft violations, and with software right to repair for 3D printer users generally.
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The initial plan includes forks, reverse engineering, and further investigation. As always, litigation remains a last resort.
Donate now to help SFC continue this work: sfconservancy.org/sustainer
#SFC #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Bambu #BambuLab #BambuStudio #AGPLv3 #AGPL #copyleft
Software Freedom Conservancy (“SFC”) announces a new initiative regarding the software right to repair for users and consumers of 3D printers manufactured by Bambu Lab.Software Freedom Conservancy
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This kickstarter may be of interest to a few on fedi. Youtube poledancing archer who makes videos about historical archery, fantasy combat, & um... pole dancing, is doing a crowd funder to get hold of a properly fitting set of plate armour to do experiments in what it's possible to do in full armour. Is about 70% funded with 10 days to go.
If the project is funded we can finally answer the important historical question. Is it possible to pole dance in full plate armour?
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e oggi #hoVistoCose!
ho visto passare alle obliteratrici #trenord una tessera con un abbonamento comprato poche ore prima, e l'ha riconosciuto e attivato!
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His Grace (#notOurCat) was inside our home, on the couch with us, and we had a window open so he was joined by the Lady (who in reality is quite afraid of us).
Outside we could see a few wild mid-sized big cats, and then one of them got close to the window and he wanted to enter too. I closed the window, and he remained outside, looking at us with an Innocent Cat Look, asking us why we were so cruel and we didn't allow him on the couch too!
(they were *wild*. not domestic. not even feral (or somewhat feral, like his Grace and the Lady). *wild*)
/me, trying to draw a pcb and having to mix mm and mils.
if I ever build a time machine I'm not going back to kill Hitler. what I'm doing is going back to 1793 to save the ship with Joseph Dombey and the sample of the meter!
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Intanto: piano segreto di corrompere l'Italia al consumo di cenovis:
una nuova vittima
BUAHAHAHAHAH
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@Alessandro e te l'avevo detto che dovevi prendertene un tubetto prima di andare via!
(ma se si organizza per andare in isvizzera a prendere il cenovis passando dai boschi con una gerla (forse :D ) ci vieni anche tu? :D )
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
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Almost a year ago I made myself a few new white camisoles in a hurry.
Now I need a couple black camisoles, and they are starting to be quite urgent.
*Where* did I leave the printed pattern???
(I could print it again, I still have everything I need, but it feels wasteful)
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Circa un'anno fa mi sono fatta delle canottiere bianche nuove, in fretta e furia
Adesso ho bisogno di un paio di canottiere nere, e stanno iniziando ad essere abbastanza urgenti.
*Dove* ho infognato il cartamodello stampato???
(potrei stamparlo ancora, ho tutto ciò che mi serve, ma sarebbe uno spreco)
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I totally agree.
The most important institutional websites I'm using have hours - or even days! - of planned downtimes.
Some customers, having a small institutional website visited by 3 persons (and 300 bots) per day: "We've been down for 20 seconds!!! We've been OFFLINE!!!"
I'd love to know why technologists are so obsessed with the N 9-nines of uptime when major institutions in my life have hour-long or even day-long outages regularly.My bank (~$88b market cap)? I'm sorry, you can't log in to move money between your accounts because our system is down for the weekend.
My insurance company (~$65b market cap)? Yeah, you'd like to pay your bill, but it's Memorial Day weekend, so we'll accept your money on Tuesday when we're back online.
Both are already treading right around 99% (a mere two nines of) uptime without taking any of the other outages (past or future this year) into consideration.
While it would be nice if such businesses strived it's not particularly uncommon for such "professional" sites. The bar is set astoundingly low. 🤷
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I'd propose a coordinated, monthly maintenance window. That sends a combined signal "We are all down today because we make things better for you". With an online community of helpful admins helping their online neighbours to fix issues without being pressured to reduce downtime to absurd minimums. Would also give users a day to do other things, like going out and meet people :)
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Hey, on saturday/sunday of this week (May 30th to 31th), I'll be at the "Torino Comics" festival in Italy, meeting the "Silly Studios" publisher on their booth (Zona Chiostro, Pagoda P10). If you are around, come to say a hello and get a signed and sketched copy of the paperback volumes of "Pepper & Carrot"!
See you in Turin!
official website: torinocomics.it/
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@LaVi LaVi! guarda! a furia di leggere cose in inglese¹ scritte da tedeschi ho trovato una cosa in italiano!
“Il progetto FLATIF – Linguaggi e Terminologie della Moda tra Italiano e Francese: costruzione e disseminazione delle risorse nasce come un’iniziativa di ricerca multidisciplinare, interdisciplinare e plurilingue volta a indagare i linguaggi e le terminologie della moda nel periodo compreso tra il 1880 e il 1980.”
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@Giorgia Mecojoni signora Presidente del Consiglio, volevo porre alla sua attenzione una conseguenza forse inaspettata delle continue proroghe degli sconti sulle accise, ovvero l'affollamento dei nostri distributori di benzina da parte di extracomunitari¹ con auto di grossa cilindrata che fanno rifornimento coi nostri carburanti.
Cosa che tra l'altro risulta essere un comportamento ancora più contro natura di una relazione amorosa omosessuale: da tempo immemore la tradizione era che fossimo noi a recarci da loro ad acquistare carburanti economici.
¹ residenti della Confederazione Elvetica, ovviamente
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@sans_serif_girl ebbasta co sto femminile che è come una nelle ferrovie che se fà chiamare capatrena
"Er presidento"
Daje che ce tengo ar punto de spiegarlo in parlamento!
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Vista Agenzia Televisiva Nazionale (YouTube)
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I keep seeing a lot of advice for writers saying "don't use this, don't use that" because it will show up as AI written.
I hate it. It makes me worried. A lot of the "AI" traits in writing overlap with storytelling language. Spoken language.
When I write, as a storyteller, I use em dash when I would take a breath or a pause on stage, instead of finishing a thought. I use triple adjectives because in spoken word they add to the rhythm.
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Ignore the stupidity and save every draft.
Backups.
But you know all this really.
There has always been stupid advice for writers. School was the worst for me!
Colgo l'occasione per ricordarvi che ci sono sempre più libri audio che potete ascoltare fuori dalle piattaforme come Audible e dalle gabbie come Spotify.
Ci sono le mie letture (Assalto alle piattaforme, Liberare il mio smartphone, etc): podcast.kenobit.it/@assaltoall…
E le letture di @savohead:
scalpocast.savohead.com/@SCALP…
Credo che tutto cambierà quando inizieremo a mettere le cose belle che facciamo direttamente sul Fediverso. E penso che i podcast siano un grande antidoto al doomscrolling.
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#Conversations_im is currently in the Top 50 most download apps on @fdroidorg.
In the messaging category it ranks fairly close to #Element X and has almost 3x the downloads of #DeltaChat. Just to give you a perspective on loudness on social media vs reality.
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@Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo , per caso vi è arrivato un pacco per me? da DHL? (visto? so persino da che corriere arriva!)
qui dicono di essere passati a consegnare mercoledì scorso senza trovare nessuno (in un orario in cui c'erano tre persone in casa), per cui sto cercando il pacco nei punti di consegna, e sicuramente potrebbe essere arrivato da voi :D
(non è vero, l'assistenza del negozio da cui ho ordinato è riuscita a dirmi in che punto ritiro era finito, all'ultimo giorno prima che il pacco tornasse indietro. grumble. grumble.)
(però ho ritirato, e tutto è bene quel che finisce bene)
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@Whiskey a gogo @Vespa cartolaia ma come? avete tutti gli altri e non DHL?
siete *razzisti* contro i tedeschi? eh? eh? eh? :D
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@Whiskey a gogo @Vespa cartolaia in questi giorni mi è venuta una curiosità (se potete dirlo senza violare NDA o simili): i punti di ritiro dei vari corrieri in generale sono pagati un fisso, oppure c'è (anche) un tot per ogni pacco gestito?
(me lo stavo chiedendo pensando a quanti incentivi hanno le aziende per far scaricare i pacchi al punto ritiro e fregarsene anziché fare il servizio per cui vengono pagati)
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First of all, *most* of FOSS security reports nowadays (that I see in #curl and #apache httpd) are non-threatening.
They are edge cases under highly constructed preconditions. Yes, not impossible, but unlikely to be ever encountered.
Before LLMs, no researcher would have invested the time to explore those scenarios. my guess.
Yes, we fix them. But, they could also have been a bug report.💁🏻♂️
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I wrote something: blog.sergiodj.net/posts/fixing…
This was a nice problem to investigate, study and solve. Involves symbol versioning and Debian packaging decisions from two decades ago.
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# Even if today the weather has been cloudy for most of the day, we still produced more energy than we used, even with two washing machines (a lighter program for cushions, but still), three dishwasher loads (one is still running) and a long shower with hot water from the resistive heater. Batteries are 99% full and we still have one hour of production.
# Some of the kitchen things I brought here yesterday from the old home have been washed and are ready for me to find a place for them
# dinner for tomorrow is almost ready (and that's more electricity used today that won't need to be used tomorrow)
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Uhm… scommetto che ti divertiresti un sacco con una piccola fornace a induzione.
E mi immagino già i tutorial per fare un'armatura 😄
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua no! no! no! non ho tempo per mettermi a fare anche quello!
voglia? sì
tempo? no
spazio? non in modo semplice
posso avere la babypensione? :D
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@pikario identi.ca was first
stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…
Happy 18th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, courtesy of @evan!web.archive.org/web/2008061816…
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#fediverse #identica #anniversary #FirstPost
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Il Corriere delle Sera pensa che la canzone che gli inglesi hanno portato a EuroVision sia a favore della Brexit.
Un estratto del testo della canzone:
Countin' in English doesn't cut the mustard
So sick of munching roly-poly with custard
I'm so bored with it, bored with it
Oh, what's the point of it, point of it? (Oh, ja, ja, ja)
I've always been a fan of aviation
I'm jumpin' on a plane to another nation
And all my pounds, they feel counterfeit
I need some euros to counter it
Cioè uno che canta che vuole lasciare l'Inghilterra e trasferirsi in Europa e convertire le sterline in euro, sarebbe a favore della Brexit. Complimenti al giornalista.
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Thunder in the distance
the wind was picking up, moving the grass
two warriors, the Marquess and the Black Knight, facing each other, perfectly still
two silly humans, looking at them from behind a window, being tempted to play some western movie music in the background :D
(the standstill was broken by some heavy rain starting, and the Marquess deciding that the Black Knight had (slowly) moved away enough, and he could go back to a dryer place :D )
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Tuoni in lontananza
il vento si alza, facendo muovere l'erba
due guerrieri, il Marchese e il Cavaliere Nero uno di fronte all'altro, perfettamente immobili
due stupidi umani che li guardano da dietro la finestra, tentati di mettere su della musica da film western di sottofondo :D
(la situazione è stata risolta dalla pioggia intensa che ha cercato di iniziare, e il Marchese ha deciso che il Cavaliere Nero si era (lentamente) spostato a sufficienza, e quindi lui poteva tornarsene all'asciutto :D )
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The term 'AI' has become so overloaded,I have no idea what people are even talking about.
Say what you mean. Is this 'gesture recognition' or 'parameter reduction' or 'slop'?
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I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art, but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).
Pass it on.
😉
#AISlop
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Dear people who make #corsets
I'm making myself a pair of lacing strips to use when fitting in-progress corsets: the corsets themselves will usually have eyelets every 2 cm, should I also put eyelets at the same distance on the lacing strips for accuracy, or do you usually make them with less eyelets?
boosts welcome, of course
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I am open-sourcing the @freesewing infrastructure. The configuration of various servers and the services running on them, how the systems are set up, Ansible playbooks to manage them, ...
As people are actively closing up because of the threat of vulnerability discoveries by AI models, this is perhaps counter-intuitive, if not ill-advised.
However, I really want to try to get more people actively involved, including those who are interested in learning by doing.
codeberg.org/freesewing/freese…
As I wrote in [our most recent newsletter](https://freesewing.eu/newsletter/2026q2#-freesewing-backend-security-audit-lessons-learned): > _Our main take-away is that we are spread too thin.Codeberg.org
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"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?"
I feel Finna flinch beside me.
"There's no point telling them," I say.
"Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake."
"Saving the world includes the jerks."
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#LPE — Local Privilege Escalation. A class of vulnerabilities that need a local user account on the target machine to reach higher levels of privilege, up to superuser/root
#RCE — Remote Code Execution. A class of vulnerabilities that can be exploited over unprivileged network connections, giving the attacker privileged access to the target machine.
#CopyFail, #DirtyFrag are LPEs that affect Linux systems. LPEs are typically harder to exploit than RCEs.
Hope this helps to avoid Clickbait.
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Today is a great day to learn about Debian.
It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:
apt, so deb packages still probably workIf Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.
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This is amazing!
(Possiamo farlo anche in italiano?)
Fediverse Skillshare
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> Skillshare listings for the Fediverse
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“”
letteralmente. #page42 è una pagina vuota.
a pagina 43 invece
“Condimenti caldi a base di cipolla, aglio, erbe aromatiche, pinoli, noci, acciughe e altre varietà di pesce.”
Gaspare Dellepiane, La cucina di strettissimo magro 1880, nuova edizione 1990 a cura di Giulia Fulghesu
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Sono nella mia stanza-libreria, gli scaffali dei libri sono su tutti i lati, fino a un altezza di fin dove arrivo a metterli.
Mi trovo seduto nel perfetto baricentro della stanza.
Qual è il libro a me più vicino?
p.s. dopo un weekend come quello che ho passato, ora credo che me ne farò una terza.
I guess it's time for a bit of a #sewing update
project “making a corset in anger” is very slowly proceeding: I've adjusted and printed the pattern, and marked and cut 5 panels out of 12 in a grey herringbone coutil.
I still have to decide which boning I want to use, and how to make the boning channels: maybe later this afternoon I'll climb¹ to where I keep the corsetry materials and decide.
Oh, and this one is going to be sewn by machine. Shocking, I know :D
The week before this one was quite productive on the victorian vampire shirt, and the front, yoke and back were almost done, except for adding the collar. And then this morning I woke up realizing that I had attached the front wrong, and the front slit would have gaped open. One side has already been unpicked and resewn correctly, the other side is ready to be done as well. And then I should start working on the sleeves (as opposed to hemming the wrist ruffles, because I didn't want to have to think, only sew).
And then there are the slippers. Or rather the second pair of soles I wanted to do *now*, to repair the old ones, so that the next time the ones in use break down I already have a new pair ready. Those. Yeah, I'm thinking about working on them. (and also on the second pair of hiking slippers I'll probably need, but don't have a real deadline for. but a deadline may spring on myself with little advance warning, and I should be ready for it)
And then this week I've also dug up the pattern for the corset cover I made ages ago, and started to bring it up to date so that I can make a new one and publish the pattern on my website, that's also going well (but I probably won't start sewing it until I've finished the corset).
¹ because of course the *heavy* box full of steel is “temporarily” on the top shelf
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And then yesterday I realized a thing.
Most of the coutil I have is either black or white (actually, I'm out of white, but bear with me). Of course I always have a big spool sewing thread in both black and white.
But this time I used the *grey* coutil.
It's easy to see where this is going, right?
(some grey sewing thread has been ordered during the weekend, and should have been shipped today)
E poi ieri mi sono resa conto di una cosa.
La maggior parte del coutil che ho in casa è o bianco o nero (in realtà ho finito quello bianco, ma non ha importanza). Ovviamente ho sempre delle spolette grosse di filo per cucire sia bianche che nere.
Ma questa volta ho usato del coutil *grigio*
Si capisce dove sto andando a parare, vero?
(del filo per cucire grigio è stato ordinato durante il weekend, e dovrebbe essere stato spedito oggi)
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#TIL
Oggi ho appreso dell'esistenza di una cosa chiamata coutil.
Che, essendo una cosa che in officina potrebbe avere un'utilità estremamente marginale, dimenticherò presto.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua sì, è un oggetto vagamente di nicchia :D
e immagino che della stoffa robusta possa avere una qualche utilità anche in officina, ma della stoffa robusta *e costosa* molto meno :D
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sewing thread has arrived yesterday, it's not a 100% match, but good enough.
all panels of the corset have been cut.
quality time has been spent with Sybil and a bottle of oil (it had been a while since we've properly spent time together)
next step: inserting the busk
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il filo per cucire è arrivato ieri, non è del colore identico, ma abbastanza simile.
tutti i pannelli del corsetto sono stati tagliati
ho passato del tempo con Sybil e una bottiglia di olio (era un po' che non passavamo tempo assieme come si deve)
prossimo passo: inserire la chiusura davanti
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this morning I started basting the panels.
a) this coutil is pretty soft, it's pretty easy to sew. And of course my brain is all “why are you wasting time doing this, you could be sewing it by hand and be done with it!“, but I'm resisting
b) I forgot to mark the panels with “forbid flipping” in valentina, and about half of them were flipped and I didn't realize it. Not a big deal for most of the pieces (I had to attach the ones marked left to the right half of the corset and vice versa), and the only one for which it was a problem was the facing, so I could just attach it with the wrong side of the fabric showing and it's not a problem either, since it's on the inside of the corset.
Now I've fixed the pattern file on the website.
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stamattina ho iniziato a imbastire i pannelli.
a) questo coutil è abbastanza morbido e facile da cucire. E ovviamente il mio cervello è partito “perché stai sprecando tempo così? potresti cucire a mano e via!”, ma sto resistendo.
b) mi sono dimenticata di impostare “forbid flipping“ in valentina sui pannelli, e circa metà era stata stampata ribaltata e non me ne ero accorta. Per la maggior parte dei pezzi non è un grosso problema, ho solo dovuto attaccare quelli che avevo segnato come destra sulla parte sinistra del corsetto e viceversa, e l'unico per cui avrebbe potuto essere un problema andava comunque all'interno, quindi anche se si vede il rovescio della stoffa non è un problema.
Intanto però ho sistemato il file sul sito.
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The corset is assembled and boned.
What is left for tomorrow are binding and lacing eyelets, and then it's wearable.
Then I'll start working on the flossing *right now*, instead of postponing it.
There have been quite a bit of handsewing (or rather basting) moments, so the vampire shirt has stalled a bit, but I think that there will be time for it intermixed with the corset flossing.
Next week I may work on the corset cover? I've completely stopped working on it, and the pattern still need a tiny bit of refinement.
As for the slippers, we don't talk about the slippers.
Il corsetto è assemblato e ho messo le stecche.
Domani rimangono ricoprire i bordi e crimpare gli occhielli, e poi è indossabile.
Dopodiché inizierò a fare i ricami funzionali sulle stecche, *subito*, non rimandato alle calende greche.
C'è stato un bel po' di lavoro a mano (imbastitura, soprattutto), quindi la camicia da vampiro è rimasta un po' ferma, ma credo che ci sarà tempo per lavorarci inframezzato ai ricami del corsetto.
Settimana prossima magari prendo in mano il copricorsetto? Non ci ho più guardato e il cartamodello ha bisogno di qualche piccola rifinitura.
Quanto alle pantofole, qui non parliamo delle pantofole.
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Wearable! being worn!
I was worried that it may be a little *too* lightweight, but no, it still feels good. It did show a few wrinkles, but they came from the camisole underneath, and when I pulled that they went away (yes, this coutil is lighter than others I've used).
Before this evening I want to start making the flossing on at least one boning channel, but right now I'm still wearing the corset so I can't do that :D
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Indossabile! indossato!
Ero un po' preoccupata che fosse *troppo* leggero, ma no, la sensazione che da è buona. C'erano un paio di pieghettine, ma alla fine arrivavano dalla canottiera che c'è sotto, quando l'ho tirata un po' sono sparite (sì, questo coutil è più leggero di quelli che ho usato altre volte).
Prima di sera voglio fare i ricami funzionali almeno su una delle canaline, ma adesso sto indossando il corsetto, e quindi non lo posso fare :D
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Apparently, spending the evening in a call, reading each other silly texts generated by a small language model AI, was the right thing to do, since just as we were logging off the patched kernel landed in trixie and we could start upgrading and rebooting servers.
Except for the one we were using for the call :D
(That one too has been upgraded, since then)
e comunque ci tengo a precisare
“debian 9 alle piaghe al debito suo. Hor su, strega, dimmi: che friendica.”
e molto a tema con stasera
“demonio alli philosophi di quella causa fussi impazzato, io x il mio treno non per questo ultimo aggiornamento notturno ”
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@stevewfolds
in reply to Col • • •Carl
in reply to Col • • •Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ
in reply to Col • • •rzeta0
in reply to Col • • •English is my second language and phrases like
"we don't want no education"
always bother me.
EF
in reply to rzeta0 • • •Col
in reply to rzeta0 • • •Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
in reply to rzeta0 • • •The Frog
in reply to rzeta0 • • •@rzeta0
This line is using a children choir and voicing the children's point of view, playing on the double meaning.
They say they don't need education in such a clunky way, confirming that they clearly need education.
(Edit: i assume you're referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall)
C++ Wage Slave
in reply to rzeta0 • • •@rzeta0
I believe that example is quite intentional. It's meant to be wrong.
@kibcol1049
Eggs now in different baskets.
in reply to rzeta0 • • •@rzeta0 It is a dialect form in the bits of the North of England that I grew up in. Maybe other parts of the UK too.
As in:
"We don't need nothing from you."
Which in more standard English would have been:
"We don't need anything from you.".
It has always seemed to me to be the interchangebility of anything/nothing and any/no as a reinforcement of the negative rather than necessarily a use of double negatives as is normally practiced in UK English.
Wolf_Baginski
in reply to Col • • •Eleder Únelegeb
in reply to Wolf_Baginski • • •What happens is here irony acts, and that's why the meaning changes; it's not a syntax thing, like the double negative stuff.
jack
in reply to Eleder Únelegeb • • •@eleder @Wolf_Baginski In German, you can express something analogous with "Ja, nee, is' klar" ("Yes, naa, sure"), i.e. yes-no-yes.
What do you make of that? 😉
Eleder Únelegeb
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in reply to Eleder Únelegeb • • •@eleder @jack @Wolf_Baginski
That's opening a totally different can of worm about how to respond to a negative question!!!
"Are you not finishing that?"
Does "yes" means "I will finish it" or "your statement is correct, I will not finish it".
I've learnt recently that French uses "si" (I will finish it) instead of "yes" (your statement is correct, i will not finish it) to answer a negative question. Native French speaker myself, I feel a bit ashamed about not knowing it before.
Wynke
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in reply to The Frog • • •How about the usage in Scottish or Irish English of "Is that you then?", which is asking a completely different question to the literal English words used.
Ben Curthoys
in reply to The Frog • • •@Lily_and_frog @eleder @jack @Wolf_Baginski
English used to have a 4 form system - Yes contradicts a negatively formulated question, No affirms it; Yea affirms a positively formulated question, Nay contradicts it.
Col
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in reply to jack • • •TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦
in reply to jack • • •In Canada we sometimes say "Yeah, No, yeah. "
Maggie Maybe
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in reply to Col • • •"Oh yeah for sure, yes" and more are very typical there. And Bavarian has quadruple negatives that stay negative. "Naa, koane Masern hob I no nia net gehabt!" for example. stays negative, the speaker never has caught the measles. @chillicampari can confirm
KnowAttitude
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Eggs now in different baskets.
in reply to Markus Feilner • • •@mfeilner @chillicampari Then there is "jo" in Norwegian which (among other uses) is a "Yes" that preceeds the other person first affirming and then disagreeing with you in some way.
"Kan jeg ta bussen herfra til Ulleval?"
"Can I get to Ulevall from here by bus?"
"Jo, men de er lettere å ta en taxi"
"Yes, but it is easier to take a taxi".
Andy Linton 🇮🇪
in reply to Col • • •This phrase is part of the language in Aotearoa New Zealand.
theshout.co.nz/db-brings-back-…
DB brings back notorious Tui ‘Yeah right’ billboard - The Shout Magazine (New Zealand)
Charlotte Cowan (The Shout Magazine (New Zealand))lankohr
in reply to Col • • •Reminds me of an old programmer joke:
A wife sends her programmer husband to the grocery store for a loaf of bread...
On his way out she says "and if they have eggs, get a dozen". The programmer husband returns home with 12 loaves of bread and says: "They had eggs."
Col
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Is it purely a programmer joke or also a sexist one?
What about:
A man sends his programmer wife to the grocery store for a loaf of bread...
On her way out he says "and if they have eggs, get a dozen". The programmer wife returns home with 12 loaves of bread and says: "They had eggs."
TheSecondVariation
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in reply to Col • • •Be careful in Germany:
"yes, yes" means "kiss my ass".
("Ja, ja" heißt "leck mich am Arsch".)
lankohr
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in reply to Col • • •Bavarian:
"Bei uns hod no nia ned koana koa Bia ned drunga!"
Petr Blažíček
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