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This morning we went out to see whether there was a cat, there wasn't (he was at the neighbors), but there was a package that had evidently been delivered with the cat's signature.

There were very little indication on who the seller was, which meant I knew who the seller was, so, #unboxing time?

a white box, unmarked except for some recycling instructions, with the label covered by a piece of black felt

Contrary to what people here may expect from the unmarked box it's not an adult toy, but it's definitely a toy for adults, or at least it requires adult supervision for assembly and contains small pieces not suitable for children under 3 :D

#unboxing

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@s1m0n4 potenzialmente tutte quante, con dei limiti e a seconda di quanto ci si voglia sbattere.

L'esp32-c3 è un microcontrollore, non un computer su cui gira linux, ma ci girano micropython e circuitpython, per cui programmarlo è facile, e ha una radio che fornisce connettività wifi e bluetooth (BLE).

La cosa più semplice di tutte è giocare coi LED e col bottone, ed è la prima cosa che farò, autocontenuto, di sicuro effetto :D

Un'altra cosa abbastanza semplice è farlo parlare con un server, mandare cose e ricevere comandi. Qui la difficoltà è decidere cosa fargli mandare e che comandi ricevere :)

Potenzialmente si dovrebbe poter anche comunicare in modo mesh tra i vari badge, ed è una cosa che sul lungo termine vorrei fare, ma lì devo avere tempo di vedere un po' di cose che non ho mai visto, quindi non ci sarà niente di pronto a breve termine, ecco.

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ed eccolo qui! (o almeno ecco qui i primi due)

Il badge popolato, con dei LED neopixel ai vertici del logo, un pulsante al centro, e sul retro uno XIAO esp32-c3 a testa in giù con una porta usb c verso il basso per alimentazione e programmazione. L'altro connettore sul retro non è ancora popolato, ma è per qwiix / easyC / stemma QT / come diavolo si chiama oggi quello standard per comunicazione I2C. Le saldature SMD non sono sto gran che.

Il pomeriggio è stato passato saldando (male), e posso confermare che dopo un paio di pezze funziona!

E adesso, è ora di scrivere il software!

(e anche di popolare qualche altro badge per degli amici al LUG, ma quello può aspettare la prossima volta in cui li si vede di persona)

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btw, does anybody here on fedi have any experience with soldering bare #WS2812 / #SK6812 / #neopixels with a soldering iron?

the packaging was pretty scary on expiration dates, saying that once the seal had been opened everything had to be used in 24 hours, or go through a baking process, because of moisture sensitivity.

However, it also mentioned “reflow solder or other high temperature process”: does anybody know whether would it be safe to solder them with a soldering iron after some time in non-actively-dried storage?

#electronics #SMD

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qualcuno qui sul fediverso per caso ha esperienza nel saldare WS2812 / SK6812 / neopixels conn un saldatore?

il pacchetto faceva abbastanza terrorismo sul fatto che una volta aperto il sigillo andavano usati tutti entro 24 ore o sottoposti ad un processo di asciugatura prima di usarli.

Però parlava anche di “reflow solder or other high temperature process”: qualcuno sa se i problemi ci sono anche se li si salda col saldatore dopo che sono stati conservati in un ambiente non attivamente deumificato?

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@Beko Pharm I don't have condensation dropping down from the ceiling, but I don't have the < 10% humidity mentioned on the package either.

At the moment I have used 10 LEDs out of a package of 20, and I'm going to try storing the 10 remaining ones and then try to solder them later, maybe at two different times.

I'm a bit more hesitant to open the 50 LED package, however :)

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keep them in an airtight bag with desiccant and they will be fine to hand-solder whenever you get to them in future.

In short, yes MSL is definitely a thing, and good* vendors will pop a humidity indicator card into the pack so you know if they are ready to go as soon as you receive them or not. The issue is that many plastics are hydrophilic (they like to absorb moisture from the air), especially the plastics used in LEDs. When “wet” plastic is exposed to the 260°C ambient temperature of a reflow oven, the moisture can’t evaporate quickly enough so it turns to steam and builds pressure inside plastic packages which can make them explode.

Hand-soldering is usually fine because you don’t heat the entire package, only the leads, and you should only need a couple of seconds of heating to solder the joint instead of a typical 5 minute reflow cycle

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@I love this, so I thanks! that's what was felt plausible, but also I was afraid to hope :)

There was indeed an indicator card (and dessicant) in the bag, and the leftover LEDs have been put back into it, and closed with some tape, I guess put the bag into a zip bag with some extra dessicant just to be sure. I assume that the indicator bag will say that they have been exposed to humidity the next time I'll open the bag, but then I don't have a reflow oven (and I'll avoid using the hot air station just to be sure) :D

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E si sa già cosa è successo al passante ieri:

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#trenord , anche se stavolta non è stata colpa loro

I due stop nel Passante ferroviario di Milano sono stati causati dai lavori dentro a un condominio

Mercoledì pomeriggio e giovedì mattina i lavori in superficie in un cantiere privato hanno "toccato" la galleria che passa sotto Milano. Un (doppio) errore che ha causato grandi ritardi, soppressioni e anche l'evacuazione di un treno nel tunnel
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Se vi piace l'idea di una piccola istanza antifascista locale, se siete di Genova o dintorni o vi piace il nome (spiego meglio sotto), se usate già Mastodon ma pensate che sia meglio far girare anche Gotosocial, questa istanza è aperta su richiesta a chi ne voglia far parte, in modo conviviale

Genova dal basso per me è un incrocio di parole e vite, dal basso come la resistenza quotidiana fatta dalle persone, dal basso come l'archeologia che faccio, dal basso nelle grotte da esplorare, dal basso con rabbia e amore

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@LaVi mi segnalano che c'è stato un furto di cavi di rame tra saronno e fino mornasco

“03 set 2026 - 06:19
La circolazione della direttrice è sospesa tra le stazioni di SARONNO e FINO MORNASCO per un furto di cavi di rame. E' necessario effettuare delle modifiche al servizio. Nella tratta interrotta previsto servizio bus; primo bus in partenza alle 6:35 da SARONNO diretto a FINO MORNASCO. I treni viaggiano tra le stazioni di COMO NORD LAGO e FINO MORNASCO. Si invitano i viaggiatori diretti a MILANO di utilizzare i treni della linea S11. Info sull'andamento del treno in APP e Sito nella sezione "Real time | Linee e orari - ricerca treno".”
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A Corset Cover
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Posted on September 2, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, period:edwardian, FreeSoftWear
A woman wearing a sleeveless blouse in white fabric with a big band of whitework embroidery gathered over a light blue ribbon at the neckline, a box pleat at the front, another, smaller, band of whitework embroidery at the waist, without a ribbon, and a short peplum that doesn't reach the center front. Around the armscyes there are small ruffles, giving even more volume at the top. A bit of a grey corset peeks out from the center front, below the waist.

Many years ago, before I had my sewing pattern website, I made myself a simple corset cover according to the instructions on an Edwardian pattern drafting manual.

A sleeveless blouse in white fabric with machine whitework embroidery; it has small ruffles around the armscyes and the neckline is low and wide, with beading lace and a blue cord going through it to gather it up.

It worked, I wore it. Years later I saw a blog post on Pour La Victoireon making a corset cover based on the same book, but with completely different results, and thought that it would have been nice to make another one to publish instructions for my take on it.

However, I didn’t have any embroidery flouncing on hand, nor did I have a need for a new corset cover, and the project remained on the list, on low priority (although I did buy some beading lace for it, when I stumbled on it).

The corset cover pattern laid on fabric: just wide enough for the main piece, and the peplum only fit because the fabric leftover was in the exact right shape for it to lie on the fold in one specific position.

Then, after finishing my vampire shirt, I noticed that I had just enough fabric left for a corset cover, and by just enough I really mean just enough, as I discovered when laying the pattern on the fabric.

So I dug in my files to get the original pattern I used, brought it up to date, and added the missing details such as the pleating guides that I had skipped when making the pattern just for myself. Doing so I realized that on my old cover I had done the fake pleat in the front wrong, making just a single pleat instead of a box pleat. Also, I originally directly gathered the sleeves in the armscyes, but watching the book again I realized that the sleeves were made up of a gathered ruffle plus a straight band.

Both issues were fixed and I could cut the fabric and start sewing. By machine, including using a narrow hem foot instead of sewing rolled hems by hand as my instinct kept reminding me would have looked neater.

But this is a garment from a sewing machine time, and probably one that in many cases would have been bought from a mass producer, and it’s underwear, so there is no real need for the hems to be perfect, as it’s going to be hidden anyway. But most importantly, I wanted to write instructions for machine sewing, for a change, and so I had to machine sew all steps that I had to take pictures of.

I did do the buttonholes by hand, because I hate the buttonhole attachment on my machine, and the buttonhole attachment hates me.

I used a lighter weight fabric for the sleeve ruffles, both because I didn’t have a big enough piece of main fabric not to have to piece them, and because I felt that it looks better, as it’s the same voile I used for the ruffles on the vampire shirt.

Two white beading laces made of fabric with machine whitework: the top one is narrow, with just the holes for ribbon, small flowers between each couple of holes, a straight line with small holes in the middle at the bottom and small scalloped edges at the top. The bottom one is significantly taller, with bigger holes, scalloped edges on both sides that give a look of oval medallions which in turn have scalloped edges.

When it came to the beading lace, I had two that I had bought more or less thinking about this project: the earlier one was narrow and suitable to do its job, but the one I had bought more recently was taller, with an edge that made it suitable to give more fullness to the bust when gathered up.

I contemplated for a short while, and then decided to go for fullness and use the taller border for the top edge, but the smaller one at the waist, where fullness is not wanted.

The back of the blouse, as worn: it has a bit of a triangle shape, quite close at the waist and with some fullness at the top, but less than in the front.

The book claimed that this pattern required little labour, and indeed it did: even when taking step by step pictures it only took a few hours spread over a week, plus the time to make buttonholes by hand over the next week.

And then the reason for the whole project: I published my pattern and instructions under a free license.

I still haven’t worn the corset cover, except for these pictures, but I hope to do so later in the year when the weather becomes more reasonable.

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I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

#Linux #Zoom
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Wish the sun to stand still 🌞

FWIW, this is why operating systems like Qubes put restrictions on clipboard access. There is literally no way for an app in VM1 to access clipboard data from the main desktop or any other VM unless the user hits an extra key sequence to initiate pasting into the target VM.

The only way around that would be a VM breakout exploit, which is exceptionally difficult in Qubes.

This makes having a "vault" VM a great way to use a simple password manager for secure authentication without resorting to special hardware dongles, trezors, etc. It works for GPG keys as well, as VMs can request operations from a vault-protected key.

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Announcing keepitfree.ai

Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning.

We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses.

Read the full announcement on keepitfree.ai/announcements/an…

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Keep the Internet free

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cavallette

Presentiamo keepitfree.ai

Dal 26 agosto, quando il Dipartimento del Tesoro statunitense, tramite OFAC, ci ha sanzionato come “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” (SDGT), sono successe tante cose, tanto si è mosso. Ed è solo l’inizio.

Abbiamo deciso di creare uno spazio unico per raccogliere quello che sta avvenendo dopo il 26 agosto, per permettere a tutta quella imprevedibile, caotica, magnifica comunità solidale di restare aggiornata più facilmente sulle conseguenze della decisione del governo USA e su quello che stiamo facendo.

Leggi l'annuncio completo su keepitfree.ai/it/announcements…

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Granddaughter Clock
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Posted on September 1, 2026
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a paper maché object in the shape of a cartoony grandfather clock with a somewhat irregular shape, painted reddish brown except for the white face.

Remember the Conference Talk Timeout Ring? Well, things may have escalated a bit.

The first thing that happened is that I may have accidentally addedmore RGB LED rings, one for each size to an order of things that we actually needed, because they were cheap and potentially shiny (and I may have ideas that involve the big ones, but they are still just vague ideas).

When they arrived, I played a bit with them to check that they were working, and one was used in a pinch as a light while soldering, and worked nicely.

In the same order there was also a Raspberry Pico2 W and I decided to use it instead of the ESP32-C3-DevKit-LipoI’ve used a lot lately because it has better support1 inCircuitPython.

So, I have an RGB LED ring with a multiple of 12 LEDs and a microcontroller board with a lot of memory and wifi, what I’m going to do? a grandfather clock, obviously. Except our grandfathers didn’t exactly have LEDs, so it’s going to be a granddaughter clock.

Have I mentioned that things escalated? well, of course I wanted the clock to show the time, but I also wanted it to be able to turn into a flashlight, and to run a countdown for conference talks and any other need, and to tell me if there are things that need to be taken care of around the house, and…

And I have an MQTT server and a number of sensors around the house that provide environmental data, and I decided I might as well use it for other things.

So I designed this to listen to an MQTT topic for commands, another MQTT topic for data, and to switch between modes when instructed to do so by a command.

Other considerations included the fact that this is keeping a number of LEDs on, so I didn’t even try to reduce power usage to run it on battery power for significant amounts (weeks) of time (although running it from a power bank seems to work for shorter durations — I’m thinking a day or two).

And then it was time to fix the part where recognising the first LED on a ring is hard, and I decided to grab my Art Attack supplies and make a case in the shape of a grandfather clock, scaled down to a suitable size for keeping on a desk or bookcase.

I used some IKEA box to make a structure, glued it with hot glue, and then wrapped everything with paper napkins and PVA for added strength, plus a bit of tarlatan for the door hinge.

I opted for a very cartoonish look (and yes, if you are old enough that it resembles something, there was a vague source of inspiration in a cultural artefact of the early 1990) with just a clock face that fits in by friction, a hinged door to access the electronics and a bit of decorative trimming at the top.

a structure made of circles of cardboard in various sizes glued together and strengthened with tissue paper, with a LED ring fitting snugly on top. The ring is marked WCMCU-2812B-12.

For the face I decided to make holes in the cardboard and fill them with hot glue to make a sort of light pipe, with the LEDs pressed against them on the inside. It’s not perfect, but it mostly works.

And then everything stopped: while I waited for the PVA to dry I started doing something else, and then there were other projects, and other, and the clock lingered in the Pile. There was a brief interruption as I started to paint the first coat of brown, and then I moved back to the other projects.

Until, months later, I decided it was time to finish using the brown and white tubes of paint that I had on my desktop, so I could put them away2, and in a reasonable time I finished painting the clock, including a second coat of brown, and black contour lines to add a bit of depth in a way consistent with the cartoonish look.

And then it was time to go back to the internals: I got the LED ring and raspberry pico back from their respective drawers, connected them with dupont cables and fit them in the case for a test: it worked.

a LED ring mounted on the back of structure made out of circles of cardboard in different sizes, glued together; it's connected with wires kept together with heat shrink to a perfboard with a couple of connectors, two buttons and a small microcontroller board (details on which are in the next paragraph).

However, the raspberry had quite a lot of pins, and it felt wasteful to use it on something that basically needs one. On the other hand, I had recently bought a few Seed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 for another project3, and those are quite smaller, and also slightly cheaper, and I could spare one out of the 13 I had.

Up to now on the XIAO boards I had been using MicroPython: I had started to use it on the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo because, contrary to CircuitPython, the generic ESP32-C3 image worked on it, and on the ESP32 boards there is no CIRCUITPYTHON partition, which in my opinion is one of the advantages that make CircuitPython more convenient to use than MicroPython.

However, the code I had already written for the clock used CircuitPython, so I flashed one of the XIAOs with the other interpreter, and after changing just one pin definition the software I had worked.

Going back and forwards between the two interpreters will be interesting, especially since I have already started to write some code for the other project in MicroPython, and they are supposed to interoperate. I may end up rewriting one of them, if I start getting hindered by the subtle differences.

A rat nest of mostly colour-coded wire that cross each other. badly soldered to the back of a bit of perfboard, with heat damage on the wire insulation.

The next step involved dealing with the temporary connections to make them a bit more permanent: I have been using LibrePCB for that other project, so of course what I did was… grabbing a bit of perfboard and YOLO a growing rat nest of cables over it, without bothering with drawing any kind of schematics in advance. And having to desolder stuff and solder it again a couple of times, because I had issues with the difference between left and right, and with the concept of rotations in 3D space.

the clock turned 90°, with the door open showing the board inside, plus a hint of a round plastic container that housed the microcontroller board. A rectangular hole about the size of an USB cable is visible in the back of the clock.

Everything was brought back into the case, in a mostly stable configuration with an usb cable coming out of a hole in the back for power and surprisingly it works.

Or at least, 95% of the issues it still has are software, plus I still need to add a few features, so right now it lives above my desktop, with the cable dangling close to an USB port, so that I can continue working on that in the next few weeks.

The external look is not going to change, so there will be changes onthe git repository, and there may or not be a third post here in the future, depending on whether there will be something funny or interesting, or it will just be small incremental improvements.

  1. I think that CircuitPython on the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo only requires fixing two PIN definitions in the files for a very similar board and a recompile, but the latter part looks like a PITA and I haven’t committed to it.↩︎
  2. to make room for other crafting supplies for other projects, of course.↩︎
  3. yes, it will be blogged! unless it fails in a catastrophic way and gets buried under a layer of litter to forget about it. :D↩︎

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Autistici/Inventati: Banca Etica condanna con forza l’uso degli strumenti di contrasto al terrorismo per colpire gli oppositori politici. In corso valutazioni per scongiurare la chiusura del conto corrente dopo l'inserimento di A/I nelle liste USA delle

Venerdì 28 agosto 2026 è stata diffusa la notizia della decisione dell’amministrazione statunitense di inserire il collettivo italiano Autistici/Inventati nelle cosiddette liste OFAC, nell’ambito di azioni mirate a “contrastare la crescente minaccia …
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3D Models
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Posted on August 31, 2026
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A lucet fork: a two pronged device with a handle with yarn wrapped once around each fork and a knot forming in the middle, out of which a piece of cord is growing. The working yarn is in a ball nearby.

Note

this article had been almost completely written before the weekend, and I decided I might as well focus on stuff I’m creating, finish and publish this.

For many years, I’ve been sporadically dabbling in creating 3D models; for reasons that are probably obvious to anybody who knows me I usedOpenSCAD and saved my projects in git, which made them at least somewhat public.

However, SCAD sources in a git repository aren’t the most convenient way to get a 3D model, and for a long time I never had a consistent way to publish “binaries” for my models: some have been added to my old website, some to my craft patterns site, but it was always an ad-hoc thing.

Then two things happened more or less at the same time.

One was me finding out that slic3r had been definitely removed from Debian. I know it was going to happen, and I postponed thinking about it as long as I could, but eventually I had to move over to PrusaSlicer, whose packaging is in better shape.

The other was that lately I’ve been doing a bit of lucet, and talking about it online, and I’m really happy with the shape of the lucet I’ve designed and printed, the one in the picture at the beginning of this post, and while there are other models available, I wanted to make it more convenient for people to also get mine.

Since PrusaSlicer did look still maintained upstream in a way that doesn’t feel like at danger of immediate enshittification, I considered making an account on Printables, and asked on the Fediverse if somebody knew something bad about the company behind it, as it’s getting more an more common these days.

Apparently nobody did, but in the thread somebody mentioned that there is a federated platform for publishing 3D models, called manyfold !

I didn’t want to add “self host a(nother) web thing”, especially not one that is not in Debian, to my list of projects, but I did create an account on a public instance: @Elena ``of Valhalla'' <3dprint.social/creators/valhal… and started publishing models, both a selection of old ones and a few new ones I designed in the last few days, since I was in a 3D printing mindset.

Then I decided that since nobody had serious objections to it, I could also create an account on printables, as that’s probably more easily accessible to the general public.

I have been somewhat slower at publishing models on the latter, but I expect that eventually most of what I design will end up on both platforms; I still have a few older models I want to add, and a few ideas for new models to make, then I guess stuff will slow down, and only get new ones now and then, as that’s how I usually approach hobbies.

Of course, the self-hosted git repository is not going away: that’s still the canonical location for my models, with all of the non-self-hosted options as a convenience option.

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I see increasing number of cases where people say "I asked an LLM to explain this to me". Whenever they're about a topic I actually know about, I see errors. I have stopped engaging in those discussions.

If you want to understand something, I'm usually happy to share what I know. I will not, however, spend time and effort to first disentangle what a machine has produced.

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Un breve press kit per capire chi siamo, cosa facciamo, cosa è successo e cosa sta succedendo dopo la nostra designazione come organizzazione terrorista globale da parte degli Stati Uniti (Diffondete!)|| A short press kit: who we are, what happened, what is happening with our designation as global terrorist organization by the US (pls spread it!) inventati.org/campaign/press

autistici.org - Press Release – August 28, 2026

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first world problems

today has been. today.

I was doomscrolling the fediverse reading about the two bad news of today

and then my mother offered me a slice of cake. I went there with plates, and we found out we had already finished it yesterday. and there was an idea of another dessert, but we were out of one critical ingredient. and this happened ten minutes after the supermarkets I can reach by foot had closed.

I'm going to drown my sorrows in chamomile and fennel herbal tea, see you tomorrow

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problemi del primo mondo

oggi.

stavo doomscrollando il fediverso leggendo a proposito delle due brutte notizie di oggi

e poi mia madre mi ha offerto una fetta di torta. mi sono presentata da lei coi piatti, e abbiamo scoperto che l'avevamo già finita ieri. e poi c'è stata l'idea di un altro dolce, ma avevamo finito un ingrediente fondamentale. e tutto questo è successo dieci minuti dopo l'orario di chiusura dei supermercati che riesco a raggiungere a piedi.

Vado ad annegare i dispiaceri in una tisana camomilla e finocchio, a domani

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AI, spam, LOL
“<p>Hi, I’m from [redacted]. We are an LLM API Gateway and
+OpenAI-compatible router. We help developers cut costs via semantic cache,
+prompt caching, and multi-model routing.</p>
<p>I noticed your post about Pizza! on Valhalla's Things. We are building a
+shared compute market and want to partner with sites like yours to explore AI
+API collaborations.</p>
<p>Reply if interested for details. No pressure if not. Thanks!</p>
<p>P.S. I am a real person, not an AI.</p>
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I can't even.

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I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle.

So I tried NeoVim when it was quite new. Vim that you are familiar with, but better? Great!

Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim (introduced a few years after I started using it). My .vimrc includes a couple of lines related to this. One sets the path to be under ~/.cache so the undo files do not clutter the rest of the filesystem (I do the same for the swap files). The other sets the undo limit to something large (10,000, I think) because disk space is enormous relative to pretty much anything involving human-readable quantities of plain text.

I don’t often need the persistent undo. But on the few occasions when I have needed it, it’s been invaluable: ooops, I deleted something from this file, maybe last week and one reboot ago, what was it? Undo until I find it, copy it, paste it into the current version. Or, a bit more commonly: I had this working, then I tidied it up ready to commit, now it isn’t working, what did I do?

Vim has kept this working across major version upgrades over a period of about 20 years. I don’t even think about it, it’s just part of Raskin’s First Law: A program may not harm a user’s data or, through inaction, allow a user’s data to come to harm. If vim or the computer crash, or if I close a file and come back to it six months later, my undo history is still there.

The first thing I noticed in NeoVim was that undo didn’t work. I tried opening the file in vim and undo didn’t work there either.

Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn’t upgraded the old one. It hadn’t used a different name for its undo files. It had just noticed the existence of a vim undo file, deleted it (losing all of the data in it) and replaced it with one that vim couldn’t read.

I raised an issue about this and was told that the persistent undo format was unstable and users should not rely on data being preserved in a feature explicitly called persistent undo. It had changed once and would probably change again.

And that ended my experience with NeoVim. The authors showed immediately that they absolutely could not be trusted with any of my data. Breaking persistent undo is something I could forgive as a bug, but the attitude that just because something is a persistent file on your filesystem that contains data that you might want is no reason for their program not to delete it meant they had no concept of a duty of care to their users.

Apparently now they’re platforming white supremacists. I am completely unsurprised. Different facets of the same underlying attitude.

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Relazione della prima ascensione invernale al monte Legnone

Nel febbraio del 1891, la sezione C.A.I. di Como organizzò la prima ascesa invernale al monte Legnone. Al rifugio Roccoli Lorla è in mostra la relazione di quella escursione.

Relazione della prima ascensione invernale al monte Legnone

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@Fabio ma anche

“Quantunque privi di lanterna, la guida Buzzella, pratica fin da fanciullo di quelle località, ci portò in salvamento.”

è febbraio, non c'è luna piena o quasi, stai facendo un escursione che non era stata fatta prima, e non ti porti neanche un lanternino per fare luce quando (non se) cala il buio a metà pomeriggio?

@Fabio

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jkr-free harry potter, canon? what canon? unexpected crossover, dream

post-war, Hermione had been attacked by a big group of escaped death eaters and died, but thanks to time travel there was a second chance and this time with her there were Harry Potter, Sirius and most importantly Mangus from Brütal Legend, who had all of the death eaters trapped somehow.

because magic is fine and everything, but it's nothing against the *Power* of *Metal*

I guess :D

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A famous southern 80-year-old country-singing Christian woman died today, and none of the rather lefty people I know are insulting her, making fun of her death or faith, or calling her a nazi. They are posting positive messages about her. People on "the left" don't hate religious people. They hate bigotted assholes.
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did you know that Fibonacci numbers (where each number is the sum of the previous two) can convert miles to kilometres?

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...

pick any number in the sequence as your miles, and the next number in the sequence approximates the number of kilometres

this works because the ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers converges to 1.6180334 (the golden ratio φ), while the number of kilometres in a mile is 1.609344

to see how close this is, consider the approximation compared to the actual kilometres

miles km actual km

1 2 1.61
2 3 3.22
3 5 4.83
5 8 8.05
8 13 12.87
13 21 20.92
21 34 33.79
34 55 54.71
55 89 88.50
89 144 143.20

#math

#Math
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I wrote a blog post on Jabber/XMPP and 25 years of digital independence.

gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-d…

It shares a title with my upcoming talk and touches on similar themes around open standards, collective ownership, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, it is an independent essay rather than a written version of the talk.

#XMPP #Jabber #DigitalSovereignty

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure.
Daniel Gultsch
#xmpp #jabber #DigitalSovereignty

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Ciao bella gente ❤
Non so quanta gente lombarda ci sia, ma... attorno a ottobre faccio una mini-campagna di DnD (5ed, 2014) basata sulla Maledizione di Strahd, ma dove i PG sono creature fortissime di livello venti e vengono mandate in quel di Barovia per una semplicissima missione di "vado, uccido, torno". Spoiler: non sarà proprio così.

Dieci sessioni di gente OP in un'ambientazione gotica leggermente ostile.

Se foste in zona Cremona e voleste partecipare > tally.so/r/eqGMRx

L'eredità di Ravenloft - Form di iscrizione

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
Tally Forms

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LaVi

in pratica, il solo e unico requisito che possiedo è l'essere lombarda! Mi incuriosisce tantissimo sta roba, ma non avendo mai giocato un DnD in vita mia ho il sospetto che un livello 20 sarebbe *un filo* sopra le mie possibilità e vi trascinerei tuttə in un baratro di sconfitta e scoramento.

Facciamo che mi limito a boostare, va.

E a dire che, casomai qualcunə volesse organizzare una giocata per princiantissimə...

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vaccini, PSA

voi vi ricordate vero che la protezione data dal vaccino contro la difterite non dura tutta la vita, ma si deve fare un richiamo ogni 10 anni¹?

(io no, non mi ricordavo, di solito penso all'antitetanica, e so che di solito fanno un vaccino per il tetano e quello per qualcos'altro, ma non mi ricordo mai cosa sia quel qualcos'altro)

¹ in Italia. forse in Svizzera lo fanno ogni 20, ma non sono sicura sull'affidabilità della fonte; comunque è da ripetere periodicamente.

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re: vaccini, PSA

@vanblessed @guerrilla stickers ステッカー禁止 (backup) esatto, non si ricevono inviti per il rinnovo

in Lombardia si deve andare presso i centri vaccinali (quest'anno bastava presentarsi senza prenotazione né niente, nei centri che lo offrono, ma sempre meglio controllare se hanno cambiato indirizzi e metodo)

@vanblessed @guerrilla stickers ステッカー禁止 (backup)
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I have been ordering from DigiKey and they've always shipped from the United States (apparently when ordering from the Canadian site it's perfectly normal that they would ship from the United States, at least that seems like their attitude). My understanding about why they are doing this, is they don't have to deal with taxes and duty this way.

Previous orders, this has been "not a big deal, a bit of a pain, but not really a big deal". This time (split order) it's been a really very significant difference. The first part of the order was something like 36% border fees.

I've tried to find a Canadian place, and probably have found a couple of reasonable alternatives, but I'd really like to ask if anyone has some good electronics shipping from Canada.

I get to some degree, it just doesn't really make sense to try to do that, as most of the manufactures are based in the United States. Even Canadian electronics companies, that are "manufacturers" are to some degree dealing with having to get stuff from the United States.

Anyway, if you have a place to look at I'd love to hear. Thanks. #AskingFediverse #AskingFedi

#askingfediverse #askingfedi
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Jigme Datse

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Kermode 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Look it up :-) It was originally written by a woman in love with a socialist type and she called it 'the landlord's game'.
but yeah, it only ends one way: winner take all (I wasn't familiar with the throwing the board ending). Or everyone just gives up out of boredom.
How many telcos do we have? CPU makers? Hard drive companies? and on and on. Grocery stores? Banks? Everything dwindles and the big ones expand.
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IMPORTANTE:
messaggio per chi usa XMPP con l'istanza: cazzinostri.kenobit.it

Riporto @FDA, admin dell'istanza:

"Stasera il server ha subito un attacco che ha dato all'aggressore accesso temporaneo da amministratore. Le password di tutti gli account vanno considerate compromesse.

Cambiate la password del vostro account XMPP.
Se usate la stessa password altrove (email in primis), cambiatela anche lì, è la cosa più urgente.
->

@FDA

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I guess now it's a bit late to warn people not to update the firmware on their #framework laptops, but here is what somebody did to fix them, when the company didn't help. at all.

quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-…

spoiler: it ends well, but not thanks to framework

also, the ending of the article is *epic*.

Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools

My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
Quantum
#framework
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deepfryed

Remember when a certain company removed "don't be evil" from their motto ?

Never trust or rather trust but hold them accountable, very loudly until it hits their bottom line.

Never let a company monopolise an industry or idea.

Framework showed its colours when it supported DHH under the pretense of larger / wider tent. I pretty much wrote them off after that.

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@deepfryed yeah, it's just that if you're using an online service like the ones provided by google migrating away may be easy or hard, but once it's done it's done

if you buy an expensive laptop, even if you stop giving money to the company, recommending it to people etc., you still have an expensive laptop, and it would be nice for it not to become an expensive brick :(

@deepfryed
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Ho fatto un minitutorial su come (e perché) fare una semplice zine.

Vorrei vedere tantissime zine che parlano di fediverso, in giro per il mondo.

Ovviamente è su peertube:
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/xt9R6aE…

xt9R6aEyzPkZ1S5eWNjhhJ

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maraMAU

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ho fatto i compiti, mi hai aperto un mondo e costretto a ripensare all'architettura del mio sito.
Puoi piegarlo come vuoi, la prima pagina può essere qualsiasi, puoi ricominciare dall'inizio una volta finito, le pagine "appariranno diverse"
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While on the last steep-ish descent before getting back home from a walk

me> ouch. stop a second, there is a union agitating in my knee
@Diego Roversi > have they started banging pots and stuff to make noise
me> yes, and it's just on one knee, not both
diego> left or right?
me> left
diego> of course. leftist agitators

(management offered moving a bit more weight to the arms (through an hiking stick), the union was ok with the proposal and I got back home with no more issues)

@Diego Roversi

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sull'ultima discesa relativamente ripida prima di rientrare a casa da una camminata

io> ahia. stop un attimo, c'è un agitazione sindacale nel mio ginocchio
@diegor@social.gl-como.it> hanno iniziato a far rumore con pentole e simili?
io> sì, ma è solo una delle due ginocchia
diego> destra o sinistra
io> sinistra
diego> ovviamente. agitatori comunisti

(la dirigenza ha offerto di spostare un po' più di peso sulle braccia, tramite i bastoncini, il sindacato ha accettato la proposta e sono tornata a casa senza problemi)

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The FFS Project: Poll for native / fluent Italian speakers about a rude phrase

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#italian #theffsproject

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@Manyfold I've just uploaded 3dprint.social/models/8s370gp9… and realized: is there a standard compliant sticker for your project?

or is there an SVG of the logo so that I can make it myself (and have it printed for our Linux Day in October)?

Hexagonal stickers tray

A tray to store and display standard¹ hexagonal stickers, sorted by type (or ...
3dprint.social
@Manyfold

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Forgive me, but this is actually a good joke -

Pay attention to the punctuation!

#Math #Maths #Mathematics

#mathematics #Math #maths

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If you see an em-dash ("—") online, it means you're reading

  1. a post from someone who cares deeply about typography and effective communication;
  2. copy that went through an editorial-review process at a publisher; or
  3. text generated by an AI-model that was instructed to recognise an em-dash in its training material as a sign of more dependable, authoritative writing.

It's a shame that no.3 has drowned out the others in ignorant "How to spot AI !!!" influencer posts—the em-dash is a useful bit of punctuation.

#punctuation #AI #emDash

#AI #punctuation #emdash
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Everyone thinks everything has gotten worse

Here’s some things that actually haven’t:

  • Weather forecasting: it’s better than ever (outside of the US)
  • Solar: cheaper than natural gas
  • Coal: essentially dying from not being cheaper than natgas or solar
  • Timekeeping: now accurate over galactic timescales
  • Flash storage: surpassing spinning rust
  • Public transit ridership in the US: Amtrak is posting the best numbers ever
  • Union membership in the US: rising
  • Murder rates: falling in the US and worldwide on average, believe it or not
  • CFC’s: essentially abolished and gone, the biggest environmental win of our lifetimes
  • Acid rain: increasingly a nearly-solved issue
  • Electrical access: still rising worldwide
  • Internet access: most people are now connected everywhere
  • China is leading the way in green tech and actively working to get off fossil fuels
  • You can charge an EV from 0 to 80% in 15 minutes with the newest chargers and tech, and it’s still getting faster

And so much more. Lots of quiet wins that people never hear about because all they do is doomscroll.

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help wanted

lake.computer/blog/help-wanted…

«
I am very sorry that the software that I created & put online for free, without any warranty, explicit or implied, has not met your expectations. You are entitled to a full refund. I have taken the liberty to initiate it. You should already have it.
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help wanted - lake hope

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