/me at the supermarket: oh, they have candied chestnuts for sale, shall we buy some for the holidays¹?
@Diego Roversi : will they survive until the holidays? wait, what do you mean by “holidays? thursday?
/me: no, no, the holidays. well, before christmas there is also the Linux Day, that counts as a holiday, right?. and Halloween. and…
¹ around here in this season “the holidays” usually refers to Christmas time
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Once again - like so many people who host their own services or run their own tiny home servers - I find myself writing up the defensive measures I've had to stand up to keep the AI industry's crawlers from destroying the tiny human-scale machine I call $HOME.
It's incessant. My very modest tools are banning thousands of scanners from hundreds of address ranges every day.
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In natura ci sono i maschi che fanno i maschi, le femmine che fanno le femmine, le mammemamme e i papàpapà! (balle)
...e poi c'è Teodoro Batuffolo detto Tuffolo che più volte al giorno "allatta" sua sorella con tutta la pazienza di una mamma gatta...
Che comportamento deviato e innaturale!
Sarà colpa mia che ho contagiato i gatti e sono diventati strani pure loro? 😂
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Linux Day 2025
Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.
In questa edizione il GL-Como si unisce a ILS Casorate Sempione, sabato 25 ottobre presso la biblioteca comunale Alda Merini .
Il programma è in via di finalizzazione, vi invitiamo a seguire il sito di ILS Casorate Sempione per aggiornamenti!
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GitHub - Kelsidavis/System7
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Ho metà dei miei segnalibri inutilizzabili!
#Mannaggia.
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I think it's fun that I often feel like several people on fedi are like my neighbors.
We don't follow each other, but we follow the same people, so we occasionally boost each other and like each other's stuff, but there's no real interest for more on either side, and like, that's great. I love that for us.
I love being friendly acquaintances on the internet.
If you're a friendly acquaintance, I hope you're having a nice morning, afternoon, or evening.
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I need to do something quick and easy, and to clear up the sewing room a bit: I'll just do this cap for which I've cut the fabric more than one year ago, should only require a couple hours.
proceeds to do some finishing by hand over each seam.
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Ho bisogno di fare qualcosa di facile e veloce, e riordinare un po' il laboratorio di cucito: vedo di finire questo cappellino per cui ho tagliato la stoffa più di un anno fa, dovrebbero bastare un paio di ore.
si mette ad aggiungere una rifinitura a mano su ciascuna cucitura.
@Antonio no, è che stirare bene delle cuciture molto curve su della lana non è così facile, quindi ci stava bene un'impuntura per tenerle piatte, ma non mi piaceva l'idea di un'impuntura a macchina in filo di colore contrastante¹, e quindi mi son messa a farla a mano in modo quasi invisibile.
¹ la stoffa è verde, variegata, con delle leggere sfumature tendenti all'oro. il filo con cui sto cucendo è quasi color oro (un po' più scuro): un punto molto breve ad una certa distanza dal successivo sparisce nella stoffa, una fila di punti a macchina si vedrebbe bene.
@Antonio comunque cucire a mano non funziona per niente per distrarre da pensieri, anzi, è ottimo per avere tempo per pensare
(a meno che mentre su cuce non si faccia altro tipo guardare video, ovviamente, ma a quel punto quello che impedisce di pensare è l'altra attività)
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anyway, unexpected hand-finishing done, machine seams all done, now the only thing that is missing is a final pressing and then attaching the lining by hand (as I always expected to do).
And then I'll have a second choice of hat to go with my autumn outfit, for when for some inexplicable reason I may not want to wear a witch hat with ear flaps.
comunque, cucito a mano non pianificato fatto, cuciture a macchina fatte tutte, adesso manca solo una stirata finale e attaccare la fodera a mano (cosa che avevo già intenzione di fare)
E poi avrò un secondo cappello per il mio completo autunnale, per quando per ragioni incomprensibili può non essere il caso di indossare un cappello da strega con i paraorecchie.
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and the button on top. I almost forgot about the button on top.
And back when I had cut the fabric I had forgotten about it too, so tomorrow I'll have to dig through the stash until I get to the remains of this fabric, but I know I still have it.
e il bottone in cima. mi stavo dimenticando del bottone in cima.
E me ne ero dimenticata anche quando ho tagliato la stoffa, quindi domani dovrò scavare nello stash fino a che non trovo i residui di questa stoffa, ma so di averne ancora.
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@matematica - Algoritmi spiegati come fossero manuali IKEA
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How to Sew in Bed - The Craft of Clothes
Presenting my four best tips for hand sewing in bed, for anyone bedbound, disabled or needing to conserve energy.lizhaywood (The Craft of Clothes)
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TFW you're walking around the house carefully holding a syringe¹ and they ring at the door.
thankfully it was for a somewhat spammy catalogue of frozen food delivered at home, and I didn't have to actually *open* the door while holding said syringe.
¹ empty, but still dirty with waterproof, document #fountainPen ink
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If you're helping people sign up on here, that's great! 👏
However, I'd strongly suggest not signing up on the mastodon.social server. It's way way too large and that's dangerous (here's why fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…).
I know some find choice overwhelming, so if you just want one general long-established very busy server mas.to is a better option for example.
There are also lots of other good servers listed at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers
Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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FWIW I'm reasonably sure Facebook never supported XMPP federation. They supported logging in via XMPP with a regular XMPP client (c2s) but they didn't support s2s. Meaning you could only chat with other Facebook users.
GTalk had federation and it was somewhat bad when they shut that down. But I don't remember Facebook's XMPP access being very relevant for the larger ecosystem.
@daniel I agree that it would be a better example. Wikipedia has decent references if you'd like to update the article: support.google.com/talk/?hl=en…
This is not a drill either.
Chestnut season has started! I repeat, chestnut season has started!
Yesterday we bought 1 kg of chestnuts from the supermarket. This morning we noticed a few chestnuts while walking, decided to pick some up and mix them with those from the supermarket and *without going out of our way or anything* we accidentally found ourselves with almost another kg of chestnuts.
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Just tested using Phosh and the presentation window opens on the correct display but is not fullscreened (window decorations are shown).
In sway it properly fullscreened, but did both windows were opened on the monitor of the terminal I started it in (but of course you can easily move it to the workspace of the desired monitor).
(Not sure applications have much say on which monitor they get attached to in swaywm ?)
this is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.
polenta season has started!
rejoice!
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questa non è un'esercitazione!
è iniziata la stagione della polenta!
rallegratevi!
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@Rapita dagli alieni @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
passate di qui che ne metto su un'altra pentola :D
(potrebbe essere quella istantanea che in 20 minuti è pronta. la confezione dice 5, ma mente :D )
(potrebbe volerci un po' più tempo a far cuocere dei condimenti decenti però :D )
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@Rapita dagli alieni stavo giusto avvisando diego che domani mattina sul molto presto rischiavamo di essere svegliati in modo traumatico dal citofono :D
(o stanotte appena andati a dormire, da @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua che invece ha meno strada)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Rapita dagli alieni @Panormus giusto ieri sera era avanzato del sugo che era stato preparato per la polenta, e ho proposto di finirlo oggi a pranzo con del cous cous :)
(alla fine verrà ripassato in forno a cena con degli altri avanzi, veniva più comodo)
però la polenta scalda di più del cous cous, e quando le giornate iniziano ad accorciarsi e la sera scende l'arietta fresca… :D
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Friendly reminder to watch out for AI pattern scams! Lazy pattern makers will do AI patterns (or just be lazy) and instructions that don't math or fit together
A friend just reached out to me regarding a quilt block. The pattern was advertised at 12 inch block when it was 14 inches using the pattern. The pictured design wasn't possible!. The math didn't math.
She had already painstakingly color coordinated 8 colors for the design, to coordinate with a 12 inch pre-printed block.
So I helped her tweak the block design to keep her 8 fabric choices, to get the math to math.
What is worse: she blamed herself! The pattern was garbage, it wasn't her fault at all.
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#Debian #armel has reached end of life with the release of #trixie and will not be included in #forky (already being removed from sid).
Unfortunately, that means e-waste for the affected devices, such as several older #RPi editions (unless switching to Raspian, which may or may not even work or support them for longer and is effort anyway).
armel has not been part of #LTS and #ELTS for a while, but this was not a problem as it’s a minority architecture and users could always upgrade (btw, if your armel box is still running bookworm, you’ll want to be on trixie by 2026-06-10).
I asked for it to be included in trixie LTS and ELTS, so that the old hardware can be used mostly securely until about 2035 instead of 2028, and the limiting factor for this is not will or infrastructure but funding. (While most security fixes aren’t specific to one of the architectures in question, there’s still some overhead, and armel is often slower to build and may need some more hand-holding than the newer armhf and arm64, so I believe that funding is actually needed.)
I’m just a private individual running one box with it I got as a gift, so I cannot offer much, but if you care about Debian and can offer funding, please approach @freexian (who organise LTS and offer ELTS as a separate-from-Debian offer) about this (and specifically mention armel).
If someone has connections to organisations involved in devices that cannot run armv7 hardfloat Debian or better, such as the #Raspberry Pi foundation, please ask them to contribute to #Freexian in the same way, so we can have proper Debian on these devices for seven years longer than planned.
Thanks in advance.
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tonight while half-asleep I thought of a possible set of rules for a card game using the cards in use in a #conworld
I've just realized that the potential maximum score is 20724, and that the game involves counting points at the end to see whether the game¹ has been won.
To be fair, in context card games are usually played mostly by school-age children and are supposed to be at a somewhat useful learning exercise.
But maybe it's a bit too much?
¹ it is a cooperative game, in that place and time they don't do competition if they can avoid it
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Good news, we have a new website on EU soil 🎉
And a Git web frontend (cgit) that works well with #Dillo:
If all goes well, we will be moving the rest of the components away from GitHub.
Many thanks to all the donors that have made this posible, hopefully we can keep the lights on for some more years:
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Ieri sono stata a fare un po' di turismo architettonico¹ a Milano, e avrei un favore da chiedervi: quando fate la rivoluzione potreste cercare di non rompere troppo piazza Gae Aulenti?
No, perché così com'è è un tempio al consumismo che fa impressione, ma a metterci dentro qualcosa tipo una biblioteca e altri spazi sociali deve venir fuori una figata pazzesca
¹ altrimenti detto “un'ora e venti di coincidenza tra due treni, ho avuto tempo di guardarmi attorno
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TIL that in Milan you can pay your metrò fare by tapping a debit (or credit, I guess) card when entering and when leaving.
which is pretty convenient when the high speed train you're on, that you've chosen precisely because it stopped at the same station as your next train, announces that they are stopping at another train station in a different part of Milan (~15 minutes by metro from the right station) and they tell you you can continue your journey “with the first useful train” (if you can find one)
thankfully the disruption had affected most trains, and my second one was also late, so I could catch it easily :D
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TIL che a Milano si può pagare il metrò passando il bancomat (o una carta di credito, immagino) sui tornelli in entrata e uscita.
che è comodo quando l'alta velocità su cui sei, che hai scelto apposta perché fermava alla stessa stazione del treno successivo che devi prendere, annuncia che stavolta fermeranno ad una fermata diversa (a ~15 minuti di metrò da quella giusta) e che puoi continuare il tuo viaggio “a bordo dei primi treni utili” (se riesci a trovarne)
per fortuna i problemi coinvolgevano anche gli altri treni, anche il secondo era in ritardo e son riuscita a prenderlo facilmente :D
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Idea: Webstamps.
Little logos, like eki stamps: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eki_st… but for personal sites. The idea being that each person would design their own and put it someplace on their site, and anyone who visited the site could print it out and paste it into their stamp book.
Different from blog buttons in that they're meant to be displayed physically, with digital display an afterthought. With that in mind, they should probably:
• be monochrome
• not move (no animation)
• fit on a passport book page (5 x 3.5 in.)
• express something about the site
• include the home url
No real utility, but it could be fun.
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Webstamps now have an explainer page on my website: lrhodes.net/webstamps
(I haven't added a webstamp yet, though. This is just so the idea has a less ephemeral home.)
I've just received my shiny new tarot deck¹
i mixed it and picked a card
it was the knight of coins, W026 – Battery charging
I realized I had forgotten about putting a battery under charge this morning
is this the tarot actually working as designed?
¹ organical-mechanical.itch.io/i… of course
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@ragazza senza grazie più che altro il mio approccio a tutto ciò che può avere aspetti spirituali è molto discordiano, e l'approccio discordiano può essere offensivo per chi approccia quelle cose in altri modi.
e le cose offensive, insegna Eris, si fanno, ma senza ostentarle :)
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Sophie [predator tag] [petting zoo tag]
Size 165 enclosure
Immediate effect: Shuffle your action cards and then try to put them back in the same order.
Ongoing effect: if Released Into the Wild, returns to your zoo within two turns.
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When I was first getting into home computers, one of the first programs I played with on the TRS-80 Model 1 was "Eliza" (we also had a version of "Space Invaders").
It really depended on the way we naturally project agency on things for the illusion. But it wasn't hard to see through after a few minutes.
LLMs are better. It takes longer to see through them. But it's still basically the same thing, and getting LLM chatbots to do your homework isn't going to fare much better.
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Having a peer tube instance where all the vod's go on, sure. But yeah, if the current live stream system doesn't have any problems, I don't really see the advantage of switching to peer tube live streaming
I was talking about for the VOD recordings rather than the livestreams. Good distinction, though!
I would like to remind two things I did around FOSDEM.
The "how to survive FOSDEM" blog post with a bunch of hints on how to prepare and get most of FOSDEM:
marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019…
And the "FOSDEM videos" page with alternative view of schedule. There is search option, a way to check each year (or all at once), direct links to slides and videos.
gpages.juszkiewicz.com.pl/fosd…
How to survive FOSDEM – Marcin Juszkiewicz
FOSDEM is 2 weeks conference in 2 days. Can be tough to survive.marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl
Let it be officially known: I've just opened a drawer and said “I don't need any other notebook¹”
¹ for a while
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Quit optimizing for time and cost. That's the capitalism talking.
Learn to optimize for joy and delight.
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Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.aria.dog
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anwet-e-lt-ar ye-r illeng-il Hildegard-uz mall-uz
enjoy-2-IMP-P 2-P feast-PROX Hildegard-GEN holy-GEN
Happy St Hildegard's Day!
#conlang
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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?
Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links
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This is amazing! @albertgui have been able to draw around 2,547 stations from different European cities, all accessible on stations.albertguillaumes.cat
#Metro #Station #EuropeanMetro #European
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.stations.albertguillaumes.cat
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Intanto treni per Malpensa con seri problemi, e per una volta non è colpa di #trenord
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Danni alla ferrovia di Castellenza, cancellati almeno per un giorno i Malpensa Express da Milano Cadorna
Il danneggiamento causato dal cantiere autostradale costringe lo stop del collegamento tra l'aeroporto e la stazione di Cadorna. Restano attivi quelli in partenza e arrivo da Milano CentraleDamiano Franzetti (Vareseweb Srl)
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Lots of people on Mastodon use CWs and I like to use them too. I use them to filter content and to help others filter content. It doesn’t matter why someone is filtering content.
The CWs I try to remember to use are photos with eye contact, politics, food, alcohol, mental health, physical health, violence, and NSFW.
Sometimes I forget to apply a CW to something I toot. But every time I remember to CW a toot, it helps someone, so I keep trying.
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/me: no, no, le feste. beh, prima di Natale c'è il Linux Day, quello conta come festa, vero? e poi Halloween. e poi…
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in reply to Lysander il breve • • •@Lysander il breve @Diego Roversi stasera era già prevista della torta di pane (e ho assaggiato della marmellata di castagne che era da aprire per altre ragioni), i maron glacé possono aspettare anche fino a domani, tutto sommato :D
(tra l'altro abbiamo ancora il secondo pacchetto preso settimana scorsa di una marca diversa, da assaggiare)
(il primo era stato assaggiato mi pare il giorno stesso in cui è stato comprato, o al più il giorno dopo)
(ma ci stiamo trattenendo perché comunque adesso stiamo anche mangiando caldarroste un paio di volte alla settimana, i maron glacé tutto sommato si conservano più a lungo)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •L'anno scorso ho provato a farli. Ogni giorno a scaldarli in sciroppo. All'ultimo giorno mi arriva una telefonata importante mentre li stavo scaldando e si sono bruciati.
Non ti dico le bestemmie.
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