It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own instance. I have just finished migrating my account so I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so our little instance gets noticed by a bunch of servers. Here's a picture of my cats Huginn and Muninn so I am at least adding something to the fediverse instead of just asking for something.
#cats
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on Monday I knew I had to expect running to catch a couple of trains. I wasn't sure, but couldn't rule out being able running from the train to another place (including up and down some stairs) to be able to do one extra thing other than what I had to do.
*Why* did I decide to wear my highest heels¹?
Now, on *Wednesday* my right thigh is still hurting!
(Also, I love being in this kind of pain, because it gives me an excuse to complain :D )
¹ they aren't that high, and they are pretty comfortable as far as high heel shoes go, but I haven't been wearing them for a while, and I need to get back to being used to them.
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Whenever something doesn't work, it's generally the DNS. That's why we (re)introduce The Phone Book of The Internet.
You can read more and download your own copy here: nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Apr/01/…
News - The Phone Book of the Internet
A handy booklet with the domain names and IP addresses you need, to keep everything working even when the DNS doesn't.NLnet Labs
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@Koen van Hove the phrase “Think of it as a bound version of Unbound.”
am. dead. :D
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current status: thinking of *multiple empires*
or in other words, drinking black tea (british empire) while eating einkorn bread with honey (roman empire)
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@Vi 💙 om. nom. nom!
io sono arrivata fino a
la.wikisource.org/wiki/De_re_c… XI.1
“Dulcia domestica: palmulas vel dactilos excepto semine, nuce vel nucleis vel piper tritum infercies. sales foris contingis, frigis in melle cocto, et inferes. ”
che così ad occhio sembra la ricetta che citano su quella pagina, e direi “good enough” per chiamarli romani :D
(non ho fatto fact checking sul fatto che li vendessero veramente al colosseo, ma ho finito di fare colazione e dovrei mettermi a fare cose sensate :D )
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@Vi non vorrei dire un'eresia e venir lapidata sulla pubblica piazza dagli angelisti¹, ma mi pare di ricordare che Alberto, in un suo video per la tivù, una volta avesse parlato degli spuntini del pubblico che assisteva agli spettacoli nel Colosseo.
¹ Coloro che venerano Piero e Alberto Angela
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Today - 31 March - is World Backup Day.
The spare World Backup Day is tomorrow.
(Don’t forget to test restoration :))
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A new project has started
or maybe an existing project is progressing? the electronics bits have been started a few weeks ago (and have been mostly working for some time)
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È iniziato un nuovo progetto
o forse ho fatto progressi su un progetto esistente? la parte elettronica è stata iniziata qualche settimana fa (e sta bene o male funzionando da un po')
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“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”
80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor
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Periodic reminder that #sewing a 18th century style shirt completely by hand:
* doesn't require any expensive equipment;
* doesn't require any particular space;
* can be done with cheap materials;
* is easy enough that a (18th century) child can do it;
* probably takes less time than you think.
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@Jonobie I've followed Bernadette Banner's pirate shirt video (or rather, the notes I took from her video, pausing and resuming and fast forwarding as needed while cursing video as a tutorial format :D ), except for the fact that I added two small triangular gussets at the neck taken from some blog post (I don't remember where).
And if you are a terrible hand sewer, you are definitely not going to finish it in one day :D and you're pretty likely to be a less terrible sewer when the shirt is done :D
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@Jonobie and I wasn't sure about actually publishing them, but the way I kept those notes was as a potential article for my old site, and, well
eoval.org/77M6LfPY#
eoval.org/yaJzMQyJ#cutting_lay…
these two links will self-destruct in a week, and I haven't re-read that text, so they may be missing bits (and they *are* full of typos), but maybe together with the videos they can be useful
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@Jonobie I've found some of those notes, the neck gusset idea came from another video: youtube.com/watch?v=2SNdQYg4Xa…
(and the link to the video I mentioned before is youtube.com/watch?v=Ql9r8UKIvZ… )
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Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.
My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃
cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re…
Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time
Mills created the Network Time Protocol, which enables any device online to know precisely what time it is.Computer Science and Engineering
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yesterday evening we had one of those wild nights where you have to turn on the air purifier afterwards
i.e., we had friends over, and one of them mentioned that he would have enjoyed learning how to solder, and suddenly on a low table (yeah, not ideal) there was a soldering iron, with all the accessories, perfboard, a box of resistors (and some LEDs that didn't get used)
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ieri sera c'è stata una di quelle seratone campali in cui c'è bisogno di accendere i filtri per l'aria
ovvero, c'erano degli amici, uno ha detto che gli sarebbe piaciuto imparare a saldare, e all'improvviso su un tavolino (un po' troppo basso) sono apparsi un saldatore con tutti gli accessori, della millefori, una scatola di resistenze (e qualche LED che non è stato usato)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua per quello sarebbe cascato male, non siamo capaci :D
(posso però lamentarmi del fatto che l'italiano usi la stessa parola per solder e weld?)
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"una di quelle seratone campali in cui c'è bisogno di chiamare i vigili del fuoco"
... si, meno male..
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@fabrixxm
Soprattutto quando c'è da spiegare in pratica la differenza tra una saldatura¹ e una brasatura²!
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@Fabio @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua no, dai
mi risulta che si sia riusciti pure a non scottarsi!
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questo è stato il traguardo più importante, poi che sia riuscito a fare una saldatura decente è un plus non indifferente, tutto grazie al tutor @diegor ❤️
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aaaaargh, what do you mean ls: cannot access '/mnt/usbc1/DCIM': Input/output error
yes, I have been having issues reading from that SD for some time now, but surely it was the reader, not the SD itself, since trying it again worked the second or third time.
RIGHT?
(recovery attempts will happen later on, and thankfully it's just a few pictures from the skirt I'm making (which means that there won't be step-by-step pictures in the instructions I'm writing, but I can always make a second skirt later on) and not pictures taken during an unique trip / meeting of friends)
aaaaargh, cosa intendi dire con ls: cannot access '/mnt/usbc1/DCIM': Input/output error
sì, ultimamente quell'SD stava dando un po' di problemi, ma sicuramente era il lettore, non l'SD, dato che a riprovare a leggere alla seconda o terza volta funzionava sempre.
VERO?
(più tardi proverò a fare qualche tentativo di recovery, e per fortuna sono solo un po' di foto della gonna che sto facendo (quindi nelle istruzioni non ci saranno le foto passo-passo, ma posso sempre fare una seconda gonna simile più avanti), e non foto scattate durante qualcosa di unico come un viaggio o un incontro con amici)
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Seeing some folks complain about an influx of Only Fans accounts here.
Reminder that sex work is real work and sex workers should be respected!
I get if folks don't want to see that kind of content, but shaming them off fedi ain't it. Graciously teaching them about hashtags and content warnings (and learning to use your own content filtering tools) is the community way.
Eta. Spam bot accounts are not the same thing. So don't call them the same thing!
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Expanding: if you want to complain about accounts that are clearly spam bots masquerading as only fans accounts... Do that. Complain about the scam, and the bots.
Just blanket calling those accounts Only Fans accounts suggests a disrespect for actual sex workers trying to make a living imho.
The language we use when we talk about things is important and can subconsciously have impact on thinking, both for ourselves and for society as a whole.
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New #sewing project started!
I'm making a folky-style cartridge-pleated skirt, from two (unmatched) curtains that have been probably sewn by my grandmother or her sister from what look like fabric remnants or something (they were pieced from multiple panels)
no pictures yet because I'm lazy and it's dark
also, the cartridge pleating needs to be done by hand, so of course I'm also sewing by hand all of the straight seams that could have easily be done by machine :D
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Iniziato un nuovo progetto di #cucito!
Sto facendo una gonna arricciata¹ in stile vagamente folk, partendo da due tendine che probabilmente erano state cucite da mia nonna o da sua sorella usando degli avanzi di stoffa, dato che erano formate da pannelli cuciti assieme.
non ci sono foto perché sono pigra ed è già buio
ah, e la tecnica di arricciatura che uso si può fare solo a mano, quindi ovviamente sto cucendo a mano anche le cuciture dritte che si sarebbero potute tranquillamente fare a macchina.
¹ non ho idea di come si chiami in italiano la tecnica, “cartridge pleating” in inglese, che sto usando per arricciare, e internet non mi sta aiutando
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The fabric has a bit of musty smell, but it's the smell of the house¹ it came from, so it feels almost nice. (and it's not *too much*, and I hope that by wearing and washing it multiple times it will go away)
also, as soon as I'll have finished sewing I'll have to patch a couple of tears in the fabric that I couldn't cut around, so basically pre-distressed clothing! how fashionable! :D (I'm waiting to do it afterwards to use whatever bits of fabric I'm left with. and also because I want to start sewing first :D )
¹ for values of “house” with a roof, walls and even floors. and rain water from a cistern with a hand pump that comes out of a convenient tap, and even a toilet! and not much else :D it has not been inhabited for quite a few decades :D
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La stoffa ha un leggero odore di umido, ma è l'odore della casa¹ da cui arriva, per qui fa quasi piacere. (e non è *troppo* intenso, e spero che indossandola e lavandola più volte vada via)
e tra l'altro, appena finito di cucire dovrò mettere delle toppe su un paio di strappi nella stoffa che non sono riuscita ad evitare, quindi fondamentalmente è abbigliamento pre-rovinato! così alla moda! (ho deciso di mettere le toppe alla fine perché così posso usare gli avanzi di stoffa,ma anche perché adesso volevo mettermi subito a cucire :D )
¹ per valori di “casa” che hanno un tetto, dei muri e perfino dei pavimenti. e acqua piovana in una cisterna con una pompa a mano, che esce da un comodo rubinetto, e persino un WC! e non molto altro :D non è più abitata da svariati decenni :D
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@Wynke wiktionary says that it comes from Frankish (via Old French), which probably explains it :) en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stoffa
(we have the adjective “tessile”, “related to textiles” that I believe come from the Latin word for fabric)
(but basically, yeah, plenty of crossover :) )
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Also, why have I decided to neaten the edges of the side seams with a prick stitch instead of a much faster hemstitch? The look from the right side is different, but not *that* different.
(and yes, I'm not using matching thread, because I didn't have any and I want to do this *completely* from the stash, rather than my recent rule of “main fabric from the stash, everything else is fair game”)
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E tra l'altro, perché ho deciso di rifinire i margini di cucitura con un punto indietro spaziato anziché con il solito punto da orlo che è molto più veloce? Dal dritto l'aspetto è diverso, ma non *così* diverso.
(e sì, non sto usando filo in tinta, perché non ne avevo, e per questo progetto voglio usare solo cose che ho già, anziché la regola che sto usando di recente in cui devo già avere la stoffa principale, ma tutto il resto può essere acquistato)
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I have finished adding a facing to the hem, and one to the top, since I'm short of fabric, and I was almost ready to start the cartridge pleating
the facing at the top:
(I think I will just unpick the bit over the joins in the facing, sew it back the other way around, and sew it back to the skirt.)
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Ho finito di cucire un risguardo all'orlo, e uno in cima perché sono a corto di stoffa, quindi pensavo di essere praticamente pronta per iniziare l'arricciatura.
Il risguardo in cima:
(credo che scucirò solo il pezzetto sopra alle giunte e ricucirò quelle nell'altro senso, e poi riattaccherò il tutto alla gonna)
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attenzione per chi abita a #Varese: sono state confermate le date delle piogge continue ed ininterrotte dal 29 marzo al 4 maggio
LUNA PARK - VARESE 2025 - LUNAPARKITALY
LUNA PARKVARESELOCALITA’ SCHIRANNADAL 29 MARZO AL 04 MAGGIO 2025 Attenzione:Il programma della manifestazione viene fornito dagli organizzatori.DrXXL (Lunaparkitaly)
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TFW: unpicking a topstitch seam at just about 1 mm from a fold in the fabric, done by somebody¹ who had learned to set the length of the machine stitches from somebody who had probably learned in the Victorian era or something, because they are like 1.6 mm long.
OTOH, I'm happy that they folded the excess fabric in this curtain instead of cutting it away, because it means I have MOAR fabric to reuse.
¹ either a direct ancestor of mine, or the sister of one
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TFW stai disfando un'impuntura a circa 1 mm dalla piegatura della stoffa, fatta da qualcuno¹ che aveva imparato ad impostare la lunghezza dei punti della macchina da qualcuno che aveva imparato a farlo nell'ottocento o giù di lì, perché sono lunghi 1.6 mm
d'altra parte, sono contenta che abbiano piegato la stoffa che avanzava in questa tendina anziché tagliarla, perché così ho PIÙ stoffa da riusare.
¹ o una mia diretta antenata, o una sorella di
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Imagine being a wealthy CEO who spends his time claiming women belong in the kitchen and should not have control of their own bodies. Or that same CEO claiming black lives do not matter. That same CEO claiming love is only love between a man and woman. That same CEO saying, both LGBTQ+ and trans folk suffer from mental illness. Furthermore, claiming that COVID was a hoax, vaccines kill people, and is a firm, Donald Trump supporter.
You probably think, I am talking about Elon Musk, and you likely support the idea of Tesla going bankrupt, as not to support a Nazi. But who I am actually describing is Brendan Eich, the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, but when you tell people that is the case, people will argue "that is different". 🙄
#ElonMusk #Musk #BrendanEich #Eich #Brave #BraveBrowser #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ #Trans #WomensRights #BlackLivesMatter
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A Collection of Book Plate Designs—Title | Old Book Illustrations
Illustrated title page framed by an elaborate decorative border, featuring a hieratic female figure, likely painting or drawing against a background of foliageOld Book Illustrations
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A collection of book plate designs : Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Special Collections copy has author's autographInternet Archive
this was my first experiment to use up tiny fabric scraps. i stuck the pieces together with water soluble fabric glue then sewed a grid over the fabric to secure, before washing off the glue. it’s since survived several wears and washes!
the process was tedious but on the upside it didn’t require a base fabric to sew on to. i would like to try other methods in future, could a flour paste replace the synthetic glue?
#zerowaste #sewing #fiberart #fabricscraps
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The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.
IT IS TIME
"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."
COME
"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"
YES
"Fondly?"
I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE
"No, but you spend some time with them after, like now."
1/2
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today's dinner involved, among other things, Swedish crispbread¹ made from rye flour from Piedmont, Genoese Prescinsêua² and smoked herring from Norway.
¹ The recipe I used for the crispbread came from nordickitchenstories.co.uk/201… , but the recipe on the website isn't the same as the one that they had in March 2021: it had water instead of milk and no oil
² a dairy product similar to ricotta, a bit more sour
edit: typo
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Nella cena di stasera, tra le altre cose, c'è stato del knäckebröd¹ fatto con farina di segale del Piemonte, Prescinsêua² genovese e aringa affumicata norvegese.
¹ la ricetta che uso per il knäckebröd arriva da nordickitchenstories.co.uk/201… , ma rispetto a Marzo 2021 l'hanno cambiata, una volta c'era acqua al posto del latte e niente olio
² un latticino simile alla ricotta, un pelo più acido
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@Sini Tuulia Speaking of linking a video before having watched it completely:
Bernadette Banner ha scritto:
“Lighting things on fire is so rarely the solution to a problem, except when it is
youtube.com/watch?v=qtJ5ukWund…
(yes, it's the opening line)
(I don't think anything else needs to be said :D )
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E bisogna ammettere che come rapporto volume del sabotatore / effetto del sabotaggio non c'è male
varesenews.it/2025/03/un-serpe…
(consiglio l'apertura del link con preservativo)
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La butto qui.
A causa di nuovo contratto e rinnovamento macchina, vorremmo vendere la nostra vecchia stampante da ufficio multifunzione.
Ha qualche anno ma è ancora in ottima forma e con molti pezzi già cambiati/revisionati.
L'abbiamo trattata come una figlia ed è ancora in forma smagliante anche se ha molte copie sul groppone.
Si tratta di una Ricoh MP C2003, con due cassetti (A4/A3) interni e un by-pass.
Sarebbe meglio un ritiro in loco, ma se serve possiamo provvedere anche alla spedizione (costi da definire a parte perché è grossa e pesante).
Ho pure provato a iscrivermi a @fedimercatino ma non ci sono riuscito
Le specifiche tecniche le trovate online, tipo qui:
multifunzioni.com/ricoh-mp-c20…
Boost graditi 
Per qualsiasi info potete contattarmi come vi pare.
#Stampante #Multifunzione #Ricoh #Fedimercatino #Vendo
RICOH MP C2003 | MULTIFUNZIONI A COLORI A3 veloce ed economica
Scegliere la qualità RICOH al prezzo delle MULTIFUNZIONI economicheANDREA C. (multifunzioni.com)
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A #debian cry for help: I need to update the packaging for #vcsh to modern standards before the freeze hits. It's trivially easy in theory, but I just lack the spoons.
I keep being laughably busy with really meaningful work, but I can't make the time to sit down a few hours and read.
Three major projects will conclude soon, but then it's likely too late.
Any help or co-maintainers appreciated.
Retoots OK; being vulnerable in public is Good Actually(TM).
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MOAR Slippers
Posted on March 7, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
A couple of years ago, I made myself a pair of slippers in linen with a braided twine soleand then another pair of hiking slippers: I am happy to report that they have been mostly a success.
Now, as I feared, the white linen fabric wasn’t a great choice: not only it became dirt-grey linen fabric in a very short time, the area under the ball of the foot was quickly consumed by friction, just as it usually happens with bought slippers.
I have no pictures for a number of reasons, but trust me when I say that they look pretty bad.
However, the sole is still going strong, and the general concept has proved valid, so when I needed a second pair of slippers I used the same pattern, with a sole made from the same twinebut this time with denim taken from the legs of an old pair of jeans.
To make them a bit nicer, and to test the technique, I also added a design with a stencil and iridescent black acrylic paint (with fabric medium): I like the tone-on-tone effect, as it’s both (relatively) subtle and shiny.
Then, my partner also needed new slippers, and I wanted to make his too.
His preference, however, is for open heeled slippers, so I adjusted the pattern into a new one, making it from an old pair of blue jeans, rather than black as mine.
He also finds completely flat soles a bit uncomfortable, so I made an heel with the same braided twine technique: this also seems to be working fine, and I’ve also added these instructions to the braided soles ones
Both of these have now been work for a few months: the jeans is working much better than the linen (which isn’t a complete surprise) and we’re both finding them comfortable, so if we’ll ever need new slippers I think I’ll keep using this pattern.
Now the plan is to wash the linen slippers, and then look into repairing them, either with just a new fabric inner sole + padding, or if washing isn’t as successful as I’d like by making a new fabric part in a different material and reusing just the twine sole. Either way they are going back into use.
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Finalmente @bancaetica è qui!
Che io sappia, la prima banca italiana ad essere nel #Fediverso! 🤩
EDIT: mi hanno fatto notare che non è la prima al mondo, scusate 🫣
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is the first Italian bank in the world to join the #Fediverse! 🤩
EDIT: I got it wrong, not the first in the world, there are others. Sorry 🫣
Thanks for putting it this way ^_^
Intercultural happiness with me German being too strict once more ;)
@glsbank @bancaetica
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On my quasi-blog: "Git without a forge"
chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…
Most of my projects are hosted in bare git repositories on the web, and not on a forge site. I talk a bit about this: ways to send patches to a project like that (and which I personally prefer), and reasons why I haven't (yet?) changed my arrangements.
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Have you heard of and/or tried @reviewboard ? For me the workflow is much more pleasant than the traditional forge workflow. But I don't know if it allows account-less contributions.
@ivanhoe as it happens, I've been using an instance of Review Board at work very recently! But it wasn't me who set it up, so I don't know either what its account-creation options are.
I haven't really got used to it yet. One thing I keep getting caught out by is the way almost everything I do with it is entered as "draft" status, and I have to press "Publish" to let anyone else see it. I've had several code reviews delayed for a week recently when I thought I was waiting for the reviewer to respond to my comment and/or patch update, and it turned out they were waiting for me to press the green button I'd forgotten!
your patches ve refs , which translates to git commits
You have non 0 worktrees , which is and alternative to git branch
You push to publish , thats ci - automation ( with automation with easier for me to pull the set of changes in your changes till the next tag of ypur repo and i can contend does that tag , stable / release etc work on my machine , if i collaborate and raide an issue )
Not the slight difference from regular workflow
is , git Format:
git-format-patch adds data about a commit (date, author, commit message , but you do get that with git reflog) and bundles it up into a format that is suitable for sending as a Unix mail message (although these are just files, so they can be sent to other methods and still applied by git-am).
Also git-format-patch generates a patch file for each commit in the range that you specify. These changes will be added as commits to your repository with git-am.
Can you tell me how traversing files to track changes is simpler than traversing a graph for changes ?
Same question for traversing issues
If you're ever taking trains in Europe, please checkout Chuuchuu:
chuuchuu.com
It's a great site that uses historical train delay data to better estimate good train rates and realistic transfer windows between trains and such.
It seems like a must have to me but doesn't seem to be that popular yet
EDIT: they're on fedi now! Go follow: @chuuchuu
chuuchuu - find reliable train journeys
Train delay, cancellation and missed transfer statisticswww.chuuchuu.com
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And today I have been reminded of the existence of a daily suburban #train that runs from just into the Po Valley (Malpensa Airport) to the last sizable village before the Gotthard pass / old rail tunnel (Airolo)
For some value of suburban, I guess :D
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Oggi l'universo mi ha fatto ricordare l'esistenza di un #treno suburbano quotidiano che viaggia da subito dentro la pianura Padana (Malpensa) all'ultimo paese significativo prima del passo / vecchio tunnel ferroviario del Gottardo (Airolo)
Per qualche valore di suburbano :D
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roman concrete being "rediscovered" for the 17th time is beginning to become a pet peeve for me, especially now that I've actually learned about the real history of roman concrete and how at literally no point in history between then and now has the recipe ever actually been lost. like we've known the recipe for it all along. we didn't always understand the mechanism behind its strength, but we already figured the fundamentals of it out decades ago, not like last year
[edit: I should also have mentioned the "self-healing" thing; roman concrete can withstand minor cracking and recover some of its strength over time, in the presence of water. it basically redissolves slightly and then fuses together due to having, essentially, what function as unactivated cement inclusions. it's not just that it's strong enough to last 2000 years, it has other significant properties that give it longevity. still, I first heard about the quicklime thing years ago, and afaik it wasn't actually a properly new discovery even then. and you can't combine the self-healing with rebar, so it has to be unreinforced]
roman concrete is just expensive and requires specific materials only found on the italian peninsula, and basically nobody is building roman-style permanent monumental structures (and most failures in concrete buildings are actually caused by rust, the concrete could last much longer if used by itself and in compression-only strain) so people use portland cement instead.
portland cement is extremely cheap and works well enough and usually already lasts longer than the rest of the building, and its properties are easily controlled with additives. also, roman concrete takes way longer to cure and become fully load-bearing than portland cement, and unreinforced concrete structures are massive and heavy. plus we can drain an area for underwater construction nowadays, the romans didn't have that option and needed concrete that could cure underwater
of course portland cement is also one of the biggest CO2 emitters so we can't just carry on like this forever, so it's a bit like plastic in that respect: it's a wonder material that we're highly dependent on that if we keep on using will destroy our ecosystem. but tbh I just don't think roman concrete is the solution, at least for 95%+ of our current concrete use
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It's not that. The volumes involved are staggering. Fibreglass rebars suck, also: not very stiff, and brittle.
You can have stainless steel rebars, and they're not used partly because it's 4x the cost, but also because they're super painful to form. They are used in marine applications.
In reality, with a thick enough concrete cover (as per the norms) rebars never rust (out of the sea).
The fact that the Romans built in a way that used gravity to keep concrete in tension while we often use steel under tension is a huge, massive engineering difference.
That said, we aren't even 150 years into our experience with concrete construction. We are just now learning the cost of failure from cheaply built construction.
Given the suddenness of these failures and consequences, as well as the difficulties in inspection, I'd not be suprised if we start seeing radical changes in design philosophies in the medium term.
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Dear craftingverse,
does anybody have an *EU* source for #wearableElectronic materials such as conductive thread? up to now I've bought it from the Italian branch of an US distributor, which took care of not having to pay VAT to the postman, but still counts as buying from the US for, let's call them other reasons.
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I am a candidate for the “Affiliate” seat in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election.
I am running on a Shared Platform for OSI Reform with @richardfontana
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I will post news and updates about the campaign here and on this blog post (that will be updated regularly until the voting closes):
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Hey, Bradley, we already started a review of old licenses a year ago. It's been taking some time since there are a LOT of old licenses. I take it this is something you'd want to be involved in?
Catch: we're using proprietary software to track the review.
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> this is something you'd want to be involved in?
I'd like to take a step back & design the right structure. I'd prefer a non-partisan “Appeals Court” model for this, triggered by written appeal requests, rather than blanket review done in same manner as the original license approvals.
IOW, I hope OSI'll establish a check-and-balance procedure on the entire existing license review process.
But I'm open minded on the methods & means: Glad to discuss more if I'm elected!
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> [OSI is] using proprietary software to track the [license] review.
I'm flabbergasted at how many important volunteer opportunities at #OSI mandate proprietary software use.
It's hard to avoid proprietary software in nonprofit management but FOSS nonprofits should make accommodations for staff & volunteers who refuse on ethical grounds. FOSS orgs mandating proprietary software is akin to an animal rights org requiring staff to eat meat for lunch.
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I want to eventually share some of my blackwork embroidery designs on my website, which has got me wondering...
Are there any accessible, text-only notation methods for counted-stitch embroidery, like there are for knitting and crochet?
I have a lot of ideas for how I could approach it, like including both narrative and shorthand directions with an introductory description. But I don't want to re-invent the wheel!
#embroidery #BlackworkEmbroidery #accessibility #blind #lowVision #screenReader
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Intanto, ho appena ricevuto una telefonata che si spacciava per la segreteria del mio medico di base dandomi come fatto compiuto, e alla quale il medico tiene particolarmente l'adesione ad una cosa di regione lombardia alla quale invece avrei dovuto scegliere io se aderire o meno (e mi viene da pensare male che abbiano avuto meno adesioni di quante ne avrebbero volute)
e ci sono cascata miseramente
se vi capita, chiedete se potete richiamarli voi, magari
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Lunedì sapevo di dover correre per prendere un paio di treni. Non ero sicura di farcela, ma avevo la possibilità di correre dal treno ad un altro posto (compreso fare su e giù da delle scale) per riuscire ad infilare un'altra cosa oltre a quello che dovevo fare.
*Perché* ho deciso di mettere le scarpe col tacco più alto¹ che ho?
Oggi è *mercoledì*, e la mia coscia destra fa ancora male!
(Inoltre, adoro questo genere di dolori, perché mi da una scusa per lamentarmi :D )
¹ non sono così alti, e come scarpe col tacco sono decisamente comode, ma non le ho messe per un po' di tempo e devo riabituarmici
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