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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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)
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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 :) )
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”)
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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the cartridge pleating has started!
have i actually finished the hem first?
well, we don't talk about the needle that is stuck in the hem of the skirt and may stab me at any moment while I'm working on the waistband, do we?
ho iniziato l'arricciatura!
ho veramente finito l'orlo?
non vogliamo veramente parlare dell'ago che c'è infilato nell'orlo e potrebbe infilzarmi in qualunque momento mentre sto lavorando sulla vita, vero?
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In theory, the skirt had been almost finished for some time. Then I tried it on
I think I may be able to fix it by just redoing part of the cartridge pleating. And possibly a bit of a placket. I hope.
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In teoria la gonna era quasi finita da un po'. e poi l'ho provata.
Credo che lo si possa sistemare rifacendo solo una parte dell'arricciatura. E al massimo aggiungendo un po' di stoffa sotto. Spero.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua già fatto, in una settimana, 0/10 non consigliato :D
oltre al fatto che se perdo altri 15 kg finisco pericolosamente sottopeso
(e poi a quel punto il cinturino della gonna rimane troppo stretto e non si chiude più, e devo comunque cambiare cose, che mi pare il motivo principale per non farlo, giusto? :D )
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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 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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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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Special Collections copy has author's autographInternet Archive
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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?
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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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Very few people have had so much impact on my life as you did: my family, close friends, some teachers in school. But that’s it. Together with David Weber, you’re the reason I switched my primary reading language from German to English.Literarily Starved
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
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
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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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 🫣
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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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@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
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).
Kiwix Catalog BitTorrent Seeder Companion. Contribute to kiwix/seeder development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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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
You can read that shared platform here: codeberg.org/OSI-Reform-Platfo…
I will post news and updates about the campaign here and on this blog post (that will be updated regularly until the voting closes):
ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/02/28/…
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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.
@fuzzychef wrote:
> 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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Let it be on record.
I drove my mother to do things, but there was no parking available, so I dropped her where she had to be and was faced with a choice of what to do before picking her up again:
* drive back home (feasible, but probably would have meant having to come back as soon as I arrived)
* stop at a nearby small hardware shop and do some shopping for things I didn't need
* visit a cemetery
and exercised self-restraint and choose the latter.
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Che rimanga agli atti.
Ho portato mia madre in auto a fare commissioni, ma non c'era parcheggio, quindi l'ho scaricata dove doveva andare e dovevo scegliere cosa fare prima di tornare a prenderla:
* riportare l'auto a casa (fattibile, ma probabilmente avrei dovuto poi ripartire appena arrivata)
* fermarmi al brico vicino e comprare cose che non mi servono
* visitare un cimitero
e con sforzo di autocontrollo ho scelto l'ultima.
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wasn't the narrative I expected when I saw
I drove my mother to do things
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Posted on February 24, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:3dprint, craft:sewing
For quite a few years, I’ve been using pattern weights instead of pins when cutting fabric, starting with random objects and then mostly using some big washers from the local hardware store.
However, at about 22 g per washer, I needed quite a few of them, and dealing with them tended to get unwieldy; I don’t remember how it happened, but one day I decided to make myself some bigger weights with a few washers each.
I suspect I had seen somebody online with some nice hexagonal pattern weights, and hexagonal of course reminded me of the Stickers Standard, so of course I settled on an hexagon 5 cm tall and I decided I could 3D-print it in a way that could be filled with washers for weight.
Rather than bothering with adding a lid (and fitting it), I decided to close the bottom by gluing a piece of felt, with the added advantage that it would protect whatever the weight was being used on. And of course the top could be decorated with a nerdish sticker, because, well, I am a nerd.
I made a few of these pattern weights, used them for a while, was happy with them, and then a few days ago I received some new hexagonal stickers I had had printed, and realized that while I had taken a picture with all of the steps in assembling them, I had never published any kind of instructions on how to make them — and I had not even pushed the source file on the craft tools git repository.
And yesterday I fixed that: the instructions are now on my craft pattern website, with generated STL files, the git repository has been updated with the current sources, and now I’ve even written this blog post :)
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Posted on February 23, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Many years ago I made myself a vest with lots of pockets1 in a few layers of cheap cotton, and wore the hell out of it, for the added warmth, but most importantly for the convenience provided by the pockets.
Then a few years ago the cheap cotton had started to get worn, and I decided I needed to replace it. I found a second choice (and thus cheaper :) ) version of a water-repellent cottonand made another vest, lined with regular cotton, for a total of just two layers.
This time I skipped a few pockets that I had found I didn’t use that much, and I didn’t add a hood, which didn’t play that well when worn over a hoodie, but I added some detached sleeves, for additional wind protection.
This left about 60 cm and some odd pieces of leftover fabric in my stash, for which I had no plan.
And then February2 came, and I needed a quick simple mindless handsewing projects for the first weekend, I saw the vest (which I’m wearing as much as the old one), the sleeves (which have been used much less, but I’d like to change this) and thought about making a matching hood for it, using my square hood pattern.
Since the etaproof is a bit stiff and not that nice to the touch I decide to line3 it with the same cotton as the vest and sleeves, and in the style of the pattern I did so by finishing each panel with its own lining (with regular cotton thread) and then whipstitching the panels together with the corespun cotton/poly thread recommended by the seller of the fabric. I’m not sure this is the best way to construct something that is supposed to resist the rain, but if I notice issues I can always add some sealing tape afterwards.
I do have a waterproof cape to wear in case of real rain, so this is only supposed to work for light rain anyway, and it may prove not to be an issue.
As something designed to be worn in light rain, this is also something likely to be worn in low light conditions, where 100% black may not be the wisest look. On the vest I had added reflective piping to the armscyes, but I was out of the same piping.
I did however have a spool of reflector thread made of glass fibre by Rico Design, which I think was originally sold to be worked into knitting or crochet projects (it is now discontinued) and I had never used.
I decided to try and sew a decorative blanket stitch border, a decision I had reasons to regret, since the thread broke and tangled like crazy, but in the end it was done, I like how it looks, and it seems pretty functional. I hope it won’t break with time and use, and if it does I’ll either fix it or try to redo with something else.
Of course, the day I finished sewing the reflective border it stopped raining, so I haven’t worn it yet, but I hope I’ll be able to, and if it is an horrible failure I’ll make sure to update this post.
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Articolo su alcune soluzioni adottate da aziende italiane per ridurre l'uso del gas
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Round two, FIGHT!
ehm, no. print!
no. stick?
Anyway, guess what I've just received
We did a group order, so some aren't mine, but the second picture has the ones I'm guilty of, mostly selected because I need them on my laptop (except for the Arch one, that one is my fault, but will go on other people's laptops / phones, mine will have the *Debian* one :D )
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Round 2, FIGHT!
ehm, no, stampa!
no, neanche. attacca?
Indovinate un po' cosa mi hanno appena consegnato?
Abbiamo fatto un ordine di gruppo, quindi una parte non sono miei: nella seconda foto c'è ciò di cui sono colpevole, selezionati in base al principio “ne ho bisogno sul mio portatile” (tranne quello di arch, che è colpa mia, ma andrà su portatile / telefoni di altri, sul *mio* va quello di *debian* :D )
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anyway, some stickers have gone on my laptop, and I may have spent the last few minutes moving the laptop to see the rainbow effect on the fediverse sticker
it's *shiny*!
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comunque, qualche adesivo è finito sul mio portatile, e potrei aver passato gli ultimi minuti muovendo il portatile avanti e indietro per vedere l'effetto arcobaleno sull'adesivo del fediverso.
*luccica*!
@Sini Tuulia it is!
I love the fact that some nerd took the time to write the Stickers Standard, and that it has since been somewhat adopted by nerds everywhere :D
and I've just realized that I have some hexagonal pattern weights (these ones social.gl-como.it/photos/valha… ) and only 3 out of 8 had proper stickers on them!
(no pictures of the full up-to-date set of pattern weights because it's dark, sorry)
e mi sono appena resa conto di avere dei pesi da cartamodello esagonali (questi: social.gl-como.it/photos/valha… ) e che su 8 solo 3 avevano già degli adesivi sopra!
(niente foto dei pesi aggiornati, perché è già buio, sorry)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua la struttura esagonale è di PLA stampato 3D, all'interno il peso sono delle rondelle di dimensioni significative, sotto c'è un pezzo di feltro che copre le rondelle e protegge ciò su cui li si usa
prima o poi (TM) ho intenzione di pubblicare il modello stampabile e tutto quanto
se serve, prima o poi potrebbe anticipare di qualche mese (il che non vuol dire che arrivi *presto* :D)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ok, tecnicamente il modello era quasi pubblicato e ho fatto in tempo a togliere il quasi (ma mancano le istruzioni per personalizzarlo e/o assemblarlo)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua si diceva sul “non sarà presto”?
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There's an email thing called dovecot. (Details irrelevant, if you've never heard of it all you need to know is it's an email thing.)
TIL there's a physical thing called a dovecot, which is a cot (bed) for doves and pigeons.
Upon learning this, I was like "oh! like carrier pigeons! that is a clever pun!" but no it turns out they mostly just kept pigeons to eat their eggs and use their poop as fertilizer :( (I probably have vastly inflated ideas of how often pigeons were used to carry messages)
Also I realized just now while typing this that the word "cottage" comes from "cot". Language is fun!
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"Regex is how I imagine eldritch horrors work.
You look at it and it makes no sense and it's scary.
As you stare, for a split second there is understanding. The universe expands before your eyes, reality unraveling.
Then the madness sets in."
- me, earlier today
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Thanks to “digging through a box of old microcontroller boards until I found an #arduino leonardo compatible one and digging through another box until I found an IR receiver and a random cheap remote labeled car mp3” I now have a remote I can use to control mpv to watch videos when I'm further away from the laptop/pc keyboard than the length of my arm (or when there is an ironing board between myself and the laptop).
18 out of 21 buttons have been assigned to a function
3 out of 21 buttons actually have the function that is labeled on the remote
3 additional buttons have a function that may be vaguely hinted at by the label on the remote (very vaguely)
everything else is completely unrelated.
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Tramite la tecnica “scavare in una scatola di schede a microcontrollore fino a trovare un compatibile #arduino leonardo e scavare in un altra scatola fino a trovare un ricevitore a infrarossi e un telecomando cinese con scritto sopra car mp3” adesso ho un telecomando che posso usare per controllare mpv quando guardo video a distanza dal pc/portatile maggiore della lunghezza del mio braccio (o quando tra me e il portatile c'è un asse da stiro).
18 bottoni su 21 sono stati configurati per avere qualche funzione
3 bottoni su 21 hanno la funzione che c'è effettivamente scritta sul telecomando
altri 3 bottoni hanno una funzione che potrebbe vagamente essere richiamata da quel che c'è scritto sul telecomando (molto vagamente)
tutto il resto è completamente scorrelato
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Tonight an early victorian gentle woman embraced me warmly, moved her mouth close to mine and sensually told me of the virtues of a sontag when walking in the cold season.
(yes, early victorian is probably too early for sontags, and yes, that's the only odd thing in the dream, right?)
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@Dún Piteog uops, no, era più una situazione tipo “non esiste maltempo, esiste abbigliamento non adeguato”
(in effetti noto che cercando sontag e basta non si trova molto di correlato, serve almeno “sontag garment” o simili)
Per fare un esempio di quote toot (o meglio “cita e ricondividi”), @peaceful aggro
Non sono d'accordo con l'introduzione della possibilità di citare i toot (il "quote post" di twitter). Non solo rischia di portare la sciagura della polemika tipica del birdsite, ma secondo me rende più facile un uso mentalmente pigro, anzi siccome la pigrizia è una bella cosa, forse direi superficiale del mezzo.Poi oh magari mi sbaglio
@peaceful aggro c'è da dire che questo era il modo di ricondividere con friendica da molto prima che esistesse mastodon, il boost è stato aggiunto negli ultimi anni per compatibilità con mastodon (e/o con activity pub), missà
secondo me è questione di comunità tossica che viene incentivarne a farne uso tossico (e probabilmente la cosa si reinforza)
mentre quando ai tempi su friendica eravamo quattro gatti che al massimo litigavano su quale fosse la distribuzione linux migliore non è che si fosse santi, ma i numeri erano bassi e probabilmente mancava l'effetto rinforzo.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •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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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@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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Soprattutto quando c'è da spiegare in pratica la differenza tra una saldatura¹ e una brasatura²!
¹ it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saldatur…
² it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasatur…
unione fisico/chimica di due metalli
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Unknown parent • •@Fabio @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua no, dai
mi risulta che si sia riusciti pure a non scottarsi!
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •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 ❤️
@fabrixxm @GustavinoBevilacqua
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