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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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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what is infuriating is not your blatant disrespectful provocation but how detached you are from reality:
realize f-droid is a SMALL techie niche
you want to count numbers? just in google play alone #DeltaChat has +1 MILLION downloads while your app is only +100k downloads
this is without counting downloads for iOS and desktop versions
the irony of you saying "perspective on loudness on social media vs reality" is so big that it is laughable, go out and touch some grass bro
Pah, who cares about Android? 😉
The ONLY important number is #Debian-#PopCon. Of course 🙂
Last year, when I checked, there were 1053 installations of Matrix clients (most of them nheko) and 3124 of #Jabber clients (top 3: #Gajim, #Psi, and #Dino).
Also, 119 Matrix server installs (synapse) and 904 #XMPP servers (most were #prosody, then #ejabberd).
OTOH, I'm using Gajim as my Matrix client via #slidge 🤔
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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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È ora di un aggiornamento sul #cucito?
Il progetto “corsetto in preda all'ira” procede lentamente: ho sistemato il cartamodello, segnato e tagliato 5 pannelli su 12 in coutil spigato grigio.
Devo ancora decidere che stecche usare e come fare le relative canaline: magari oggi pomeriggio mi arrampicherò¹ a prendere i materiali per corsetti per decidere.
E questo verrà cucito a macchina. Inaudito, lo so :D
Settimana scorsa è stata abbastanza produttiva per la camicia da vampiro vittoriano, e avevo quasi finito davanti, dietro e sprone, mancava finire di attaccare il colletto. E stamattina mi sono svegliata rendendomi conto di aver attaccato il davanti allo sprone nel modo sbagliato, e che l'apertura sul davanti sarebbe rimasta aperta. Un lato è già stato scucito e ricucito nel modo giusto, e l'altro è pronto per subire lo stesso trattamento. E poi dovrò iniziare a lavorare alle maniche (contrapposto a fare l'orlo ai volant da mettere sui polsini, perché non avevo voglia di pensare, ma solo di cucire).
E poi ci sono le pantofole. O meglio il secondo paio di suole che volevo fare *ora*, per riparare quelle vecchie, in modo che la prossima volta che si rompono quelle che ho in uso io ne abbia subito un paio di scorta. Quelle. Ecco, sto pensando intensamente a lavorarci. (e anche al secondo paio di pantofole da trekking che prima o poi mi servirà, non so ancora quando, ma il quando potrebbe saltarmi addosso con poco preavviso, e sarebbe utile farsi trovare pronti.)
E poi questa settimana ho anche riesumato il cartamodello per il copricorsetto che avevo fatto secoli fa e ho iniziato ad aggiornarlo in modo da farne uno nuovo e pubblicarlo sul mio sito. Anche questo sta andando abbastanza bene (ma non credo che inizierò a cucirlo fino a che non sarà finito il corsetto).
¹ *ovviamente* la scatola pesante piena di acciaio è “temporaneamente“ sul ripiano più alto dell'armadio
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Cosa usi per le stecche del corsetto, acciaio armonico?
/me immagina Valhalla che affianca una saldatrice TIG alla macchina per cucire.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ecco, non so specificatamente che acciaio sia (e soprattutto, come si dica acciaio armonico in inglese, per caso è spring steel? nel qual caso “anche” :D ), sono questi due tipi:
sartorbohemia.com/sewing-notio…
sartorbohemia.com/sewing-notio…
e no, non serve saldare, basta tagliare con la cosa per tagliare filo di metallo di cui non so il nome italiano O:-) e/o con il dremel, dare una limatina e crimparci le protezioni con due paia di pinze. ammetto che una levigatrice a nastro (quelle fisse, verticali) farebbe comodo (e un vedo video di gente che fa corsetti in modo professionale che la usa, ma a me non serve così spesso)
non che una saldatrice non sarebbe utile in questa casa, ma per fare altro :D
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Ah quelle sono molle piatte, pensavo fossero lamine.
Quando esce di nuovo al Lidl la levigatrice a batteria con il nastro da 9 mm la segnalo (la Milwaukee costa sui 300 €…).
Altrimenti tempo fa presi una Einhell TH-US 240 (qualità tipo Lidl) che si trova a prezzi ragionevoli nei brichi, con mola a sinistra e nastro dall'altra parte, e per usi non gravosi direi che va bene.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua le lamine si usano dove serve qualcosa che rimanga il più possibile dritto¹, quindi tipicamente accanto alle aperture davanti (tecnicamente una lamina con già saldata sopra la chiusura, si compra già fatta) e dietro (accanto agli occhielli in cui si fanno passare i lacci)
mentre sul resto si mettono le molle piatte, che seguono meglio le curve.
¹ tecnicamente segue la curva del corpo, ma deve rimanere perfettamente dritto sugli altri due assi
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua quella della Einhell (credo, non so se fosse quel modello) ogni tanto la vediamo al brico e ci pensiamo, ma son quelle cose che probabilmente non useremmo abbastanza per giustificare lo spazio occupato. almeno per ora :)
(devo dire che di power tools Einhell ne abbiamo qualcuno, e per il nostro uso molto poco professionale in cui non li si usa tutto il giorno, ma più magari una volta al mese ci troviamo decisamente bene)
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@LaVi temo di doverti dire una cosa che non ti piacerà O:-)
fiber-patterns.trueelena.org/f…
è in inglese
ma magari bastano le foto?
(per altre cose ho usato della suola da scarpe in fogli, ma quella va incollata, e le considerazioni sulla riparabilità sono diverse)
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@LaVi devo dire poi che guardando youtube.com/watch?v=CbAHMw8tpe… (Baking Vegan Slippers, dei sandali fatti di agar e sughero mi sono venute voglie di provare qualcosa del genere (ma non sembrano funzionare benissimo, e rimane il problema dell'attaccarle).
altrimenti trovando del feltro di lana *spesso* credo che qualcosa di buono si possa fare anche con quello, però temo che costicchi. (non ho fonti sottomano per del feltro di lana)
e ora che ci penso, per delle pantofole magari potrebbe bastare anche solo qualche strato di ritagli di stoffa per isolare, e una suola fatta con la pelle di daino che vendono per pulire i vetri delle auto. mumble.
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@LaVi ah, poi stavo riguardando le mie pantofole fatte ai ferri e infeltrite, e in quelle avevo solo cucito sopra un pezzo di vecchio jeans come suola, da cambiare periodicamente man mano che si distrugge.
però la parte sotto della pantofola con l'uso si è bucata ed è stata rammendata, e poi ho infeltrito ad ago il rammendo per rendere la cosa uniforme.
quasi quasi potrei provare la pelle di daino su quelle, la prossima volta che devo ripararle.
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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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filed under: phrases I had never expected to utter “I'm opening my computer for gynecological reasons”
I currently only have one corset that almost, but not quite fits: it's a couple cm too low on the bust level, and after a few hours it starts to hurt. On the other hand, when I start feeling bloated on my first day of the cycle, wearing a corset helps *a lot*.
So yesterday I decided “tomorrow I'm going to work on making myself a new corset”
so I headed to the directory where I expected to find my corset pattern. and it's not there.
I could find a preliminary version of the file I was working on, which I think (hope!) has all the points, but not the actual pieces. And I don't want to have to re-draw those.
And I think I've found the latest revision of the measurement files, hopefully.
And then I remembered that inside my computer there was the previous hard disk, disconnected. So today I turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, opened the computer, connected the old hard disk, reconnected most cables, turned the pc on, checked that it was actually starting the right system (it was), turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, closed it, reconnected all cables, turned the pc on, mounted the old hard disk.
And found that that hard disk was too old. and didn't have the repo I was looking for.
Then I realized in my home I had the files from my old, but not so old laptop. I found one more commit to the corset pattern. it's still not complete.
I'm still searching. there are various hard disk around the house.
(I also have at least two, dated, copies of the paper pattern, so at least I know what date I'm looking for. but they are not very useful if I want to fix the issues and publish the pattern on my website)
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@Diego Roversi and of course. it doesn't work.
back to plan A: doing something useful with my time this evening :(
Okay, well, this is why we can’t have nice things. Time for a letter to Moleskine explaining why I won’t be buying from them again and why marketing AI art to artists and writers is bad, and a letter to Leuchtturm explaining why I’m no longer buying from Moleskine and how I’m fully prepared to stop buying from them if they ever do this.
But also?? This is a legitimate collaboration with “Lord of the Rings”! I will have to investigate this too. WTF, people??
(FYI, because I’m an unapologetic blank paper hoarder I still have several blank Moleskines and several more in progress, so if you see me using them in my photos, that’s why)
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#Analog #AnalogTools #Notebooks #Moleskine #Journaling #LoTR
As a pencil user, I find Moleskine notebooks to work well. But as a human being, I'm happy to announce that my next, still plastic wrapped notebook is a Leuctturm. https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/The Dodologist (beige.party)
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Una domanda per chi fa masto #giardinaggio o masto #orto
noi abbiamo delle cassette (se non ricordo male lunghe 80 cm) sul terrazzo con dentro piante (mirtillo e in minor misura succede alle cassette coi pomodori): da qualche giorno abbiamo iniziato a trovare delle voragini (buchi di ~10 cm di diametro) scavate nel terreno, e oggi abbiamo individuato un merlo come colpevole.
Ipotizziamo che abbia trovato qualcosa di buono e vermiforme / larviforme da mangiare
ora, la prima domanda è: fa male alle piante? oppure se rimettiamo a posto la terra quando è stata spostata possiamo stare tranquilli?
e se invece per le piante è un problema, consigli su come fermarli?
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Filed under: #selfInducedProblems.
I quite like my new fancy #fountainPen, I've loaded it with my go-to ink, and I've been using it semi-regularly.
But then last week I had to fill a couple of forms, in public, and when I got my pen from the beg I started to feel self-conscious and start to worry that maybe normal people aren't going to realize that it's a 16 € pen and not an expensive one, while the transparent plastic of the Preppy should show its price point quite more.
And I very much don't mind being seen as *that* person (the pen snob that won't lower themselves to write with a tool that isn't perfectly selected for their tastes), but I really don't want to be seen as *that other* persn (the pen snob that won't lover themselves to write with a tool that didn't cost at least a few hundred EUR).
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retrorepro.wiki — a catalogue of modern reproduction parts for vintage computers. Reloaded logic boards, 3D-printable brackets, replacement chips, analog board recreations and more.
Mac-heavy right now (that's what my bookmarks look like), but Commodore and IBM PC sections are coming.
Missing something? Account requests are open.
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#vintagemac #vintagecomputers #vintageapple #retrocomputing
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Posted on April 18, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking
This post contains a bit of consumerism and is full of references to commercial products, none of which caused me to receive any money nor non-monetary compensation.
This post has also been written after eating in one meal the amount of bread-like stuff that we usually have in more than 24 hours.
I’ve been baking bread since a long time ago. I don’t know exactly when, but probably it was the early 2000s or so, and remained a regular-ish thing until 2020, when it became an extremely regular thing, as in I believe I bake bread on average every other day.
In the before times, I’ve had a chance to bake pizza in a wood fired oven a few times: a friend had one and would offer the house, my partner would mind the fire, and I would get there with the dough and prepare the pizza.
Now that we have moved to a new house, we don’t have a good and convenient place for a proper wood fired oven in masonry, but we can use one of the portable ones, and having dealt with more urgent expenses, I decided that just before the potential collapse of the global economy was a good time as any to buy the oven I had been looking at since we found this house.
I decided to get an Ooni Karu 2, having heard good things about the brand, and since it looked like a good balance between size and portability. I also didn’t consider their gas fired ovens (nor did I buy the gas burner) because I’m trying to get rid of gas, not add stuff that uses it, and I didn’t get an electric one because I’m not at all unhappy with the bakery-style pizza we make in our regular oven, and I have to admit we also wanted to play with fire1.
We also needed an outdoor table suitable to use the oven on and store it. Here I looked for inspiration at the Ooni tables (and for cheaper alternatives in the same style), but my mother who shares the outdoor area with us wasn’t happy with the idea of steel2. And then I was browsing the modern viking shores, and found that there was a new piece in the NÄMMARÖ series my mother likes (and of which we already have some reclining chairs): a kitchen unit in wood with a steel top.
At first I expected to just skip the back panel, since it would be in the way when using the oven, but then I realized that it could probably be assembled upside down, down from the top between the table legs, and we decided to try that option.
This week everything had arrived, and we could try it.
Yesterday evening, after dinner (around 21, I think) I prepared the dough with the flour I usually use for bakery-style pizza: Farina di Grano Tenero Tipo 0 PANE (320 - 340 W); since I wanted to make things easier for myself I only used 55% hydration, so the recipe was:
The next time I think I’ll try with one of my other staples: Molino Bogetto etichetta blu (260/280 W)
Then this morning we assembled the NÄMMARÖ, then I divided the dough in eight balls, put them in a covered — but not sealed — container3, well floured with rice flour and then we fired the oven (as in: my partner did, I looked for a short while and then set the table and stuff), using charcoal, because we already had some, and could conveniently get more at the supermarket.
When the oven had reached temperatures in the orange range4 I stretched the smallest ball out, working on my wooden peel, sprayed it with water5, sprinkled it with coarse salt and put it in the oven.
After 30 seconds I turned it around with the new metal peel, then again after 30 seconds, and then I lost count of how many times I repeated this6, but it was probably 2 or 3 minutes until it looked good.
And it was good. The kind of pizza that is quite soft, especially near the borders.
We ate it with fresh mozzarella and tomatoes, and then made another one the same way, to finish the mozzarella.
This was supposed to be our lunch, but we decided to try one with some leftover cooked radicchio, and that also worked quite nicely.
And finally, we decided we needed to try a more classical pizza, with tomato sauce and cured meat, of which we forgot to take pictures.
Up to here we had eaten about half of the dough, and we were getting full: I had prepared significantly more than what I expected to eat, to be able to accidentally burn some, but also with the idea to bake something else to be eaten later.
So I made two more focaccias with just water and salt, and then I tried to cook some bread with what I expected to be residual heat.
Except that the oven was getting a bit too cold, so my partner added some charcoal, and when I put the last two unflattened balls right at the back of the oven where it was still warmer, that side carbonized. After 5 minutes I moved them to the middle of the oven, and turned them, and then after another turn and 5 more minutes they were ready. And other than the burnt crust, they were pretty edible.
So, the thoughts after our first experience. Everybody around the table (my SO, my mother and me) was quite happy with the results, and they are different enough from the ones I could get with the regular oven.
As I should have expected, it’s much faster than a masonry oven, both in getting to temperature and in cooling down: my plan for residual heat bread cooking will have to be adjusted with experience.
We were able to get it hot enough, but not as hot as it’s supposed to be able to get: we suspect that using just charcoal may have influenced it, and next week we’ll try to get some wood, and try with a mix.
As for the recipe, dividing the dough in eight parts worked quite well: maybe the pizzas are a bit on the smaller side, but since they come one at a time it’s more convenient to cut and share them, and maybe make a couple more at the end.
Of course, I’ll want to try different recipes, for different styles of pizzas (including some almost-trademark-violating ones) and for other types of flatbread.
I expect it won’t be hard to find volunteers to help us with the experiments. :D
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua nel forno nuovo :)
nel forno nuovo e non più luccicante, soprattutto dentro dove si è ricoperto di fuliggine :D
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
Alerts on facebook and X.
When will EU Commision wake up the sleeping institutions..
Attn: DOS PC users using EtherSlip for networking:
I have a new version of EtherSlip available that fixes two bugs:
* The incorrect MAC address was being set in the simulated Ethernet header. This broke mTCP NetDrive and possibly other programs.
* The code in EtherSlip that simulates ARP responses has a pointer bug in it. This can cause data corruption or crash your program any time it tries to send an ARP request.
A fixed version can be found at brutman.com/Device_Drivers/pac… .
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Also, please boost the original post ... this is something I want to spread the word about given the possibility of crashes.
If you've ever been frustrated by old DOS code randomly crashing before, well, this is one of those bugs that causes that. I'm on a mission to make DOS as stable as possible, one ancient bug fix at a time. ;-0
Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)
Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.
Thanks!
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@Szescstopni My only problem with CW’s is people don’t use them enough. If you think something you are about to toot will be triggering, put it behind a CW.
I don’t know every triggering issue for everybody but I know what things trigger me so I will put those behind a CW. Although it’s much more likely I won’t toot about those subjects.
If I’m unsure what triggers other people, seeing what others put behind a CW helps to educate me.
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Conversazione di ieri sera a tavola, non ricordo chi abbia detto esattamente chi, ma lo considero opera collettiva.
riferendo opinioni di un'altra persona molto anziana> quando c'era Lui le banane erano più buone
> tecnicamente…
> certo, la causa e effetto…
facendo il verso a opinioni ecc.> ma quando le banane erano buone l'Africa era nostra!
> è colpa dei fascisti! i fascisti hanno fatto estinguere le banane Gros Michel!
(e basta. questo d'ora in poi sarà parte del mio brain canon)
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I've just been handsewing while sitting with one leg under my body, then I've finished the slipper I was working on and tried to try it on the foot of that leg.
Which, at that point, was ready to get pins and needles as soon as I moved it.
It wasn't easy.
(I managed to write most of this before I could try the slipper on)
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Stavo cucendo a mano, seduta con una gamba sotto al resto del corpo, ho finito la pantofola che stavo cucendo e ho provato a provarla sul piede di quella gamba
Che a quel punto era pronto per informicarsi nell'istante in cui l'ho mosso
Non è stato facile.
(Ho scritto quasi tutto il post in inglese prima di riuscire a provare la pantofola)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua mah, in realtà la parte di stoffa non è un gran lavoro, è il tipico progettino veloce da infilare tra un progetto impegnativo e l'altro per avere soddisfazione immediata :)
la suola è un po' più rognosa, perché cucire attraverso lo spago è più faticoso, ma stavolta ho riusato la suola del primo paio che avevo fatto, che dopo un giro in lavatrice era ancora abbastanza in ordine.
(si vede che odio andare a comprare scarpe?)
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Prossimo step: piantare in giardino qualche Hevea brasiliensis¹ per poter fare le suole gommate "plastic-free".
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua per fortuna le prealpi lombarde non sono ancora adatte alla coltivazione delle piante tropicali :D
certo, adesso che sono partita con il backlog del canale di Sally Pointer (youtube.com/c/SallyPointer/vid…) potrebbero venirmi molte idee su materiali più locali¹ per fare le suole di corda :D (ma considerando che temo di dovermi fare un paio nuovo all'anno, non so se voglio aggiungere anche tutto il lavoro che serve per produrre lo spago dalle piante)
¹ tecnicamente lei infastidisce le siepi dell'inghilterra e non quelle delle prealpi, ma di piante in comune ce ne sono comunque a sufficienza
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Si può usare anche il tarassaco: forse un paio di suole l'anno ti ci esce…
In più il sottoprodotto della gomma di tarassaco è costituito da… ottime insalate 😋
E non dimentichiamo il miele…
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@David de Groot true. but the ones I'm currently wearing are a tripping hazard even (especially) when they are on my feet :D
(yes, I'm not wearing the new ones yet, I want to take a picture tomorrow morning before I start to use them :) )
And like the lazy bourgeois we are, this morning we have bought tomato and strawberries and lavender plants instead of growing them from seeds
and accidentally also a bilberry one. and a couple of violets (none of which are blue)
the strawberries have been put in pots on the balcony, higher and closer to the home, rather than on the ground outside. will we manage to eat more than one this year, or will the lizards invade our home to eat them too?
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e da bravi borghesi pigri stamattina siamo andati a comprare piantine di pomodori, fragole e lavanda, anziché farli crescere dai semi
e accidentamente anche un mirtillo e un paio di violette (nessuna delle quali è blu)
le fragole sono state messe in vasi sul balcone, in alto e più vicine alla casa, anziché per terra fuori. riusciremo a mangiarne più di una quest'anno, o le lucertole ci invaderanno casa per mangiare anche queste?
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oh, cazzo, il #Molise (sempre che esista) è spacciato
“A mezzogiorno del 9 aprile è arrivato anche il ministro dei Trasporti Matteo Salvini. È salito sul viadotto crollato promettendo un nuovo ponte «entro l’anno».”
ilpost.it/2026/04/09/frana-pet…
Si può osservare bene dal belvedere sulla costa molisana e abruzzese: gli abitanti sono costretti a conviverci da decenniIl Post
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If your old kindle has been killed by Amazon and you can't be arsed to jailbreak it, I'm hoping to adopt a small number of these to learn how to do the jaikbreaking process.
Assuming the process works, your kindle can be returned to you afterwards if you wish.
DM me if you'd like to post me a kindle or would like me to collect it from you in London
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in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •I use "not only this - but also" for dramatic effect when I want to grab the audience's attention. The pause and the anticipation refocuses listeners.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
When I write, I like to bring the stories alive as if I'm telling them. A lot of storytellers do this in their books. And now people are like "don't do this if you don't want to be flagged as AI"???
We were here first, dammit.
2/2
#storytelling #StorytellingPSA #AI #writing
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in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •D. G. Marshall
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •We were here first.
And if they didn't want their slop machines to regurgitate a sloppy semblance of human storytelling, maybe they shouldn't have stolen every last bit of human storytelling, and fed it into their slop machines.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •Scott Murray
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •The Em Dash - 99% Invisible
99% InvisibleSimon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •Anselm Bühling
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •A Matt with a Dog
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •* the major AI companies will run out of other people's money and stop offering free slop dispensers to everyone. AI writing will decline
* the tells of actual AI slop will be more widely known and random accusations will decline
* something else will be fashionable to advise people to avoid in writing: ignore that too.
Ján Bogár
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •I don't worry about that. In my experience, LLMs overuse it, because they lack a clear idea of what they want to say and because they don't have a feel for pacing and tension. I think it is a major reason for why LLM text can feel soulless.
Basically, when LLM uses it, it's usually a cliché, used because it likes that phrase, not because it fits.
Maybe careful prompting can make that less of a problem, but that has not been my experience.
the roamer
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •I use em dashes freely and joyfully --- AI or not!
#StopTheAICorruption #LoveTheEmDash
burly
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •That sounds like a really tough situation to be in. I actually was reading a pretty good article the other day and stopped reading because it used the "not only this - but also " technique about 2/3rds of the way down the page, because I figured it was ai! Now I wonder if I did the author, and myself, a disservice.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's as if the models are so sycophantic that it's made that particular technique feel like a literary accosting of my intelligence and time.
This is what I mean when I tell people there is going to be a market again for human proofed repositories of various media and information. If I could have complete trust in the website or author it wouldn't be a big deal, but how we even build that trust? Especially in America, where sadly, if there isn't profit it seemingly is not worth doing, and a cynical nature is a fundamental part of ones daily defense against the onslot of low quality media we have to deal with in our lives every day.
Lyall
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •Ray McCarthy
in reply to Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD • • •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!