I’m gonna be honest, it is difficult to take your anticapitalist “revolutionary” group seriously when they meet on Microsoft Teams and have documents saved on Google.
I understand meeting nontechnical people where they’re at, but this is just a bad look, y’all.
Also I feel like “meeting people where they’re at” would ideally involve helping them surpass where they’re at, rather than merely dropping to their level.
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ma la vera domanda è: questo ce l'avete?
(non so perché ma l'ho visto e mi son venuti in mente gli evidenziatori di non-ricordo-che stilista, e una serie di considerazioni sul late stage capitalism)
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non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve, non mi serve
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Cleaning the nozzle of my bottle of carpenter's glue with Isopropyl alcohol when I suddenly remembered this D&D page.
Sovereign Glue
Wondrous Item, legendaryThis viscous, milky-white substance can form a permanent adhesive bond between any two objects. It must be stored in a jar or flask that has been coated inside with oil of slipperiness [emphasis mine]. When found, a container contains 1d6 + 1 ounces.
One ounce of the glue can cover a 1-foot square surface. The glue takes 1 minute to set. Once it has done so, the bond it creates can be broken only by the application of universal solvent or oil of etherealness, or with a wish spell.
Notes: Utility, Consumable
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If you use the Wayback Machine a lot and you’re concerned about what’s happening with the Internet Archive, you might like to give ArchiveBox a look as a way to do self-hosted website archiving. I run an instance at work, and it’s been really, really useful. Bonus points for installing the browser extension that lets you send a page off for archiving in a couple of fire-and-forget clicks.
ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…ArchiveBox
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I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!
The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.
All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!
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Currently putting together a page on "communicating in Morse Code" for Rabbit Waves.
It'll be done before the end of the month. In the meantime, here are some very adorable rabbit dits and dahs.
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It took me a little longer than expected, but I completed the Rabbit Waves page for Morse Code!
Below is an illustration for the sub-page about signaling Morse with flags.
rabbitwaves.ca/site/morse.html
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Non so quante persone di #Boves ci siano da queste parti… comunque rilancio.
«A Boves si cerca la gatta Sophie, smarrita a Fontanelle
L'ultima volta è stata vista in via don Pellegrino. È sterilizzata e chippata»
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A proposito, se avete sentito parlare di Boves forse è per questo:
Last weekend I've bought my first (convection) microwave oven, ever!
And. it. has. buttons. (and a knob)
And I didn't take much effort finding it, it was bought with supermarket points.
One meal has been successfully reheated, one piece of bread has been unsuccessfully grilled (I didn't allow enough time because the tea was already ready :D ) and actual cooking attempts will follow in the next months
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Il mondo deve sapere che la traduzione italiana della parola “grue” (il colore) è blerde.
(ok, ho controllato, effettivamente non sono solo io a dirlo, anche wikipedia dice che è così it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinzi… )
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The world must know that the Italian translation of the word “grue” (the colour) is “blerde”
(and I've checked, and it's not just me, it's actually the accepted translation)
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I had to look up Grue, as I was only familiar with the old Nethack monster of the same name.
Apple Dictionary came to the rescue:
Grue and bleen, portmanteau words formed from green and blue, coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his new riddle of induction.
Grue, a linguistic and translation concept (see Blue–green distinction in language)
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It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev
blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…
Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!Minetest
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I told the kids Minetest changed name to Luanti.
Kids: Oh, not good. We don't like it.
Me: No worries! Then we will not play this game again...
Kids: Of course we will play.
:)
Yesterday while sewing I was watching a second-channel video of somebody talking about the current status of the main-channel project while cleaning the house and doing laundry and washing the dishes.
This morning, while doing laundry, I thought that I really hope at least some of this kind of things survives in the future, because *how cool* would it be to have a video of somebody in the past just doing their daily chores while chatting about unrelated things? even if we no longer care about the unrelated things, just to be able to see a glimpse in the almost¹ regular life of people.
Honesty, it's already nice to see the difference with the way those things are done in this corner of the world.
¹ I mean, it's still somebody who is recording a video that will get posted on the internet for everybody to see, some things are probably a bit different from the way the would be done in private.
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I love those housekeeping pages in Victorian ladies' journals where they offer tips to do things I'd barely ever heard about.
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and when it started to get written down a bit, often they skimp on the details that are obvious to everybody at the time (and baffle us).
a video on its own would probably have parts that leave us baffled too¹, but having both written sources and unrelated videos I hope would solve a number of mysteries!
¹ why is she saying that she's washing the clothes, when she's just putting them in an oddly shaped box and going away?
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The XSF has a fantastic page dedicated to debunking common XMPP myths. Here are a few examples:
• XMPP is XML, so it must be slow
• XMPP isn’t secure
• XMPP doesn’t protect privacy
• XMPP is too verbose
• XMPP is unreliable
• XMPP isn’t suited for the web
Of course, all of these are misconceptions.
You can read the full explanations and clarifications here: xmpp.org/about/myths/
Are there any other XMPP myths you’ve encountered that you’d like to see debunked?
#XMPP
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And with this project I think I'm doing both a mantua makers seam and a prickstitch for the first time. or maybe I have already done them, but under a different name?
I am enjoying them, anyway
#sewing #historicalSewing #AmaliaJacket
(I haven't stopped sewing, I just haven't had a lot of energy to post about it)
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E con questo progetto credo di aver usato per la prima volta sia il mantua makers seam che il prickstitch (e no, non ho idea dei nomi in italiano). o magari li avevo già usati, ma con un nome diverso?
Comunque, li sto apprezzando
#cucito #cucitoStorico #cucitoAMano
(non ho smesso di cucire, ho solo avuto meno energie a disposizione per postare a riguardo)
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I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.
Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.
So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …
… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.
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I actually use and like to have Caps Lock.
But I believe the Debian installer still contains a change I made when I discovered that the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout has 106 keys, and / is on the 106th key - so I had to be able to switch out of it manually without needing to type any absolute paths!
For those of you into historic #sewing , Folkwear Sewing Patterns is located in #ashevillenc and survived #hurricanehelene . If you want to help local businesses get back on their feet, you can buy their PDF patterns online and download them immediately. (They're on sale for 10% off, too.)
Folkwear Sewing Patterns
Folkwear creates high quality sewing patterns for historic and folk clothing from around the world based on authentic garments, with special focus on embellishment details, history, with a catalog of beautiful folk and historic clothing, from dozens …Folkwear
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@valhalla (grazie x il boost)
non sono un intenditore delle miralanza, ma in rete ho trovato questo:
marcoeula.tripod.com/sitebuild…
guarda se può esserti d'aiuto. ovviamente come hai precisato contano molto le condizioni.
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I've failed a saving throw against “small items just before checkout, in the area where people are queuing”
and it's for something I already had at home (and I knew I had it)
but it was pink. and fluo.
contrary to what the name says, I've tested it on my arm and it doesn't scratch.
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ho fallito miseramente un tiro salvezza contro “oggettini negli scaffali subito prima delle casse, dove si rimane in coda”
per qualcosa che avevo già a casa (e sapevo di avere)
ma questo era rosa. fluo.
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btw, the picture has been taken with a pinephone camera, and it's a bit more red than the realitiy.
ah, la foto è stata fatta col pinofono ed è un po' più rossa della realtà
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This undergraduate thesis by Jan Strehmel deserves a prize:
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭. One of the most fundamental unanswered questions that has been bothering mankind during the Anthropocene is whether the use of swearwords in open source code is positively or negatively correlated with source code quality. To investigate this profound matter we crawled and analysed over 3800 C open source code containing English swearwords and over 7600 C open source code not containing swearwords from GitHub. Subsequently, we quantified the adherence of these two distinct sets of source code to coding standards, which we deploy as a proxy for source code quality via the SoftWipe tool developed in our group. We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of swearwords constitutes an indicator of a profound emotional involvement of the programmer with the code and its inherent complexities, thus yielding better code based on a thorough, critical, and dialectic code analysis process.
cme.h-its.org/exelixis/pubs/Ja…
It cites some previous research:
• Yehuda Baruch et al. Swearing at work: the mixed outcomes of profanity, Journal of Managerial Psychology 32 (Jan. 2017),149–162, doi.org/10.1108/JMP-04-2016-01…
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭. In contrast to much of the incivility and social norms literatures, the authors find that male and female business executives, lawyers and doctors of all ages admit to swearing. Further, swearing can lead to positive outcomes at the individual, interpersonal and group levels, including stress-relief, communication-enrichment and socialization-enhancement
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It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.
Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.
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TFW you realize that it's mid afternoon and both you and your partner have forgotten to change from your sleep pajama into your work pajama (i.e. comfy home clothing)
thankfully we have to briefly leave the house, so we're not going back to bed this evening without changing :D
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E poi ti accorgi che è metà pomeriggio e sia tu che il tuo compagno vi siete dimenticati di cambiarvi dal pigiama da sonno al pigiama da lavoro (in realtà vestiti comodi da casa)
per fortuna dobbiamo uscire un attimo, e quindi stasera non torniamo a dormire senza esserci mai cambiati
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
A guidebook with swatches to help when describing the colours of things before colour photography - as used by Darwin on his expeditions
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeuxwww.c82.net
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Since there are no more analog TV stations on the air in this country, I have no way of testing sets I find it thrift stores anymore.
So, I finally decided to try the code that Charles Lohr developed for tricking an ESP8266 into transmitting analog TV signals over the air with its RX pin.
This is actually someone else's version of his code because he wrote his code to be compiled in the esp8266 SDK environment and I don't know how to use that. This code compiles in the Arduino IDE and it does work!
This is being transmitted over the air. This is not a composite video signal.
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This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!
Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)
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English translation later this evening (if I don't fall asleep).
Intanto tecnocasa: “una casa da vivere tutta la giornata. Ore 22:30 | Lavatrice”
che.
che.
ma anche fanculo no? se alle 22:30 una¹ è lì che riempie la lavatrice (anziché a letto a leggere o dormire) vuol dire che in casa non c'è stato per tutto il giorno, e adesso gli tocca recuperare con gli accolli prima di potersi finalmente rilassare. Ovvero esattamente il contrario del vivere la casa.
¹ ovviamente la foto è di una donna. Che sembra avere il numero giusto di dita, però sta caricando una lavatrice chiusa, e la marca della lavatrice sembrano pseudolettere.
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@Oblomov uops, ho rivisto adesso il volantino :D
e due ore fa ero impegnata a fare cose serie anziché crollata davanti al pc a cazzeggiare :D
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#mastoaiuto #mastoregalo #pianoforte #agazzano
questo pianoforte d’epoca (fine 1800) ha degli evidenti problemi però mi dispiace pure portarlo in discarica senza nemmeno provarci… ho provato a metterlo su piattaforme varie e chiedere ad antiquari locali, senza fortuna.
Ho chiesto a riparatori di strumenti e mi hanno detto “non ci proviamo nemmeno”.
Avete qualche idea alternativa o è destinato allo sfascio?
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i pianoforte sono tra i rari strumenti che, salvo eccezioni, non aumentano di valore col tempo. Anzi.
Il suggerimento della scuola di restauro mi pare sensato, altrimenti tutto il valore che ha è quello affettivo, che ho capito non esserci.
È molto bello, e merita di essere restaurato.
Chi dice che non ne vale la pena, non lo ha capito.
Se il legno è buono e non è tarlato, non arrenderti.
Cerca un bravo riparatore ed affidaglielo.
Il risultato sarà senz'altro degno di nota.
Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.
Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms
tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc…
(boosts appreciated! 
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It's officially autumn, the temperature indoors is the same that we would have in winter (except that there isn't a nice hot radiator to hug now and then) and I'm getting bored of cold lunches.
So I've just taken the thermal bento box out of the cupboard it has been sitting in for years, and on the stove there is a pot of mixed beans “ragù”, cooking at least for a couple of hours.
Tomorrow morning it will get re-heated, I'll prepare some cous cous, probably cook a few apples, and then we'll find out whether the thermal bentos are still working. (And if they don't, lukewarm cous cous is much more tolerable than lukewarm soup)
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È ufficialmente autunno, la temperatura in casa è la stessa che ci sarebbe d'inverno (e non c'è neanche un calorifero caldo da abbracciare ogni tanto) e non ne posso più di pranzi freddi.
Quindi ho appena riesumato le schiscette termiche dal mobiletto dove sono rimaste per anni, e sul fornello c'è un “ragù” di fagioli misti che cuoce almeno per un paio di ore.
Domattina verrà riscaldato, preparerò del cous cous, probabilmente cuocerò un paio di mele, e poi si scoprirà se le schiscette termiche funzionano ancora. (E se non funzionano, se non altro il cous cous tiepido è decisamente più tollerabile di una minestra tiepida)
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I just stumbled on
archaeology.org/issues/novembe…
stories from random merchant-class people, their trade and their personal life, from the letters they wrote on clay tablets
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C’è una nuova compagnia ferroviaria nazionale
Arenaways riaprirà due tratte abbandonate in Piemonte a partire dal 2025, per poi puntare sui collegamenti secondari trascurati dall’alta velocitàIl Post
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@francina1909 @LaVi […] In Lombardia la Regione ha rinnovato il contratto a Trenord – controllata al 50 per cento da Trenitalia, azienda del gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato, e per un altro 50 per cento dal gruppo Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), una società a sua volta controllata per quasi il 60 per cento dalla Regione – per altri 10 anni, anche in questo caso senza gara.[…]
Non lo avrei mai detto con ministro dei trasporti che abbiamo [sarcasm]
l'Archivio di Stato di Como aderisce alle Giornate Europee del Patrimonio 2024 mostrando nuovamente al pubblico uno dei suoi tesori più grandi: le mappe realizzate dai disegnatori chiamati, assieme a geometri e tecnici, da Maria Teresa d'Austria per porre in essere la grande riforma del Catasto.
Recentemente oggetto di delicatissimi interventi di restauro, e normalmente escluse dalla consultazione per ragioni di tutela, le mappe saranno visibili sabato.
#storia #ASpassoNellaStoria #mappe #GEP
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Però capisco che sono più utili le pubblicazioni diacroniche, che di un dato territorio propongono una successione storica di mappe che ne documentano l'evoluzione.
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So Cards Against Humanity just sued M*sk for ruining a piece of land they bought in Texas for their customers...
Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7
Elon Musk stole your land, and now he owes you $100.www.elonowesyou100dollars.com
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in reply to sidereal • • •sidereal
in reply to sidereal • • •Like we could just have a laptop. And store the records on there. Not on the internet. We could back them up with an external hard drive, or even physical copies in a locked file cabinet.
This is wild stuff, I know
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in reply to sidereal • • •To be honest, it is difficult to take anticapitalistic groups seriously if they use laptops at all. Laptops (and smartphones too) are basically a lot of capitalism squeezed and packed very hard to fit inside the the small devices we use today.
Electric power is pretty capitalistic too. Most electric power in the world is generated and distributed by huge capitalistic companies. Even if you have PV at home I doubt your panels were made by a local family-owned shop.