Allora, se vi ritrovate per le mani una corposa collezione di libri di cui volete o vi dovete sbarazzare: ho fatto settimana scorsa un colloquio con un'azienda che rivende libri di seconda mano (su Amazon, eBay e innumerevoli altri siti specializzati solo in quello). Durante il colloquio mi è stato spiegato come funziona il tutto, per cui ecco qui, sperando vi aiuti a decidere che fare dei vostri tomi.
I libri usati vengono acquistati in massa, tanto da privati, quanto da istituzioni e altre aziende.
Da questa massa, tutto quello che è troppo rovinato o decisamente obsoleto (vecchie enciclopedie, atlanti, guide di viaggio ecc.) viene immediatamente buttato nel bidone.
Dei libri restanti, tutti in condizioni buone o molto buone, una quota altissima, tra l'80 e il 90%, mi hanno detto, finisce anch'essa nella pattumiera.
Come mai? Perché il valore commerciale è troppo basso e quindi non vale la pena di inserirli nel database e rivenderli. Il valore commerciale viene suggerito dall'apposito software di inventario, che pesca i prezzi per lo stesso libro da un tot di siti e ne dà una panoramica.
Nello specifico, questo "valore soglia" era di poco meno di 9 € per i libri sotto il chilo di peso e poco più di 12 per quelli sopra il chilo (cambiano le spese di spedizione).
Do abbastanza per scontato che qualunque sito vi offra di comprare in blocco la vostra biblioteca adoperi la stessa logica, ché tutti devono fare profitto.
A vendere ci guadagnate qualcosina, ma meno di quanto guadagnino loro. E la stragrande maggioranza dei vostri libri finirà comunque nel bidone.
Non volete che facciano quella fine? Posso suggerirvi alcune cose.
La prima è di stilare una bella listona dei vostri libri in un foglio di calcolo. Metteteci nomi e cognomi degli autori, titoli, editori, anno di pubblicazione e, se presente, anche l'ISBN. Presentate poi questa lista alla vostra biblioteca civica o statale o scolastica (o tutte quante) e chiedete loro se accettano donazioni e se ci sono titoli nel vostro catalogo che possano interessare loro.
La seconda è di provare a venderveli voi. Porta via un sacco di tempo, soprattutto se vi mettete in testa di fare un minimo di ricerca sui prezzi attuali almeno su Amazon e eBay, ma se non altro i soldi ve li intascate voi.
Potete provare anche a venderli a un mercatino dell'usato, ma ho il sentore che anche in quel caso la maggior parte possano finire nel bidone.
Infine, se dalle vostre parti ci sono cabine telefoniche convertite a mini-biblioteche dove prendere e mettere libri liberamente, potete piazzare qualcosina anche lì.
Tutto costa più fatica che venderli in blocco a un unico acquirente, ma almeno così, forse, ne finiscono di meno al macero.
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Qui intanto ieri sera scrivendo un messaggio di tutt'altra natura l'autocompletamento mi ha ricordato dell'esistenza dell'hashtag #fuckAldo
stamattina sono uscita a stendere la biancheria, e già si muore (contrariamente ai giorni scorsi in cui si moriva solo nelle ore centrali e pomeridiane della giornata)
(ma sospetto che non sia tanto la temperatura quanto la sua combinazione con l'umidità)
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confermo la caldazza dall'alba quando mi svegliai per farmi la doccia e già volevo APRIRE TUTTO alle 5 ç_ç figuratevi alle 7 quando sono uscita per andare al lavoro a piedi con quanta GIUOIUA ho affrontato il tragitto
arrivata qui ho aperto tutto veramente e sparato gli split a 16°, perchè già quello del nostro ufficio/serra dava TRENTUNO GRADI alle 07.15
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questo secondo me è il miglior sketch del Trio. Lo so a memoria, ma ogni volta che lo guardo rido alle lacrime.
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After careful consideration — and some procrastination — I decided I had to do it.
#StickerStandard #mdash #fuckAI
(sources on git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s… )
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I'm a proud n dash user (oh, btw, there's no dash between m or n and dash...), no way I could join
@Walter Tross this is something where the English speakers are wrong and the Continental way is provably superior, and I'm not ready to die on this hill, but I'm definitely ready to suffer very mild discomfort :D
thanks for making me notice the dash bit, I've fixed that part
ten. weeks. of. pink!
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/18t…
(this is the first week)
18th century pinks: the 1700s - The Dreamstress
What shades of pink were worn in the first decade of the 18th century? Let's take a look at portraits and extant textiles from 1700-1709!The Dreamstress
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Somebody(TM) should make #Ansible - branded espresso cups with the tagline “the coffee break generator”
(the tagline is not mine, it's from my sysadmin boss, who drinks espresso coffee instead of tea like a civilized person :D )
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/me, browsing my rss feed while drinking my breakfast tea and quietly seeing this
thedreamstress.com/2025/06/rat…
and then there were the lines
It’s so ’70s!And actually ’70s.
no keyboard was harmed. barely.
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Metti che una persona abbia aperto un dialogo con la propria estetista su dinamiche di coppia tossiche, narcisismo, privilegio e femminismo.
Metti che l'estetista si dimostri interessata e volesse leggere di piú.
Alla persona piacerebbe trovare risorse che siano sia accessibili all'estetista (e in italiano), che magari anche legate a un gruppo che poi possa essere un buon riferimento per l'estetista per continuare le sue ricerche e il suo percorso.
Aiutatemi. Cosa c'è di valido in giro?
(gradite risposte se conoscete, e boost se conoscete altre persone che conoscono)
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Piú lato aborto e autodeterminazione c'è anche prochoice.it/
Parlando con attiviste di prochoice mi era anche venuto in mente di redigere un quadernino di numeri di emergenza da tenere nelle varie collettive con riferimenti da chiamare in caso qualcuno abbia bisogno di aiuto in merito a situazioni di violenza, difficoltà ad abortire, abusi in famiglia, difficoltà legate al genere o alla neurodiversità, immigrazione, eccetera
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@severino ma all'epoca si era regnicoli (non cittadini!) senza troppi problemi
diritto di voto. adesso, calma. il diritto di voto solo per gli uomini e solo se soddisfano i requisiti economici, mica si voleva che votassero *tutti*
@severino comunque quel re in particolare era significativo perché essendo di *quella* Torino la sua lingua natale era il francese
non ho idea se parlasse anche piemontese, e di sicuro ci sono le lettere private in cui scriveva in italiano, ma un po' sgrammaticato, perché l'aveva imparato come seconda lingua
Filed under: maybe not the best idea ever, but it worked
I was wearing a cartridge pleated skirt with 4+ m of hem, of course over a corded petticoat, and heeled boots
of course the car was parked in such a way that the driver's side wasn't accessible, so I had to get on it from the passenger's side
and when I finally managed to get myself and all of my skirts in the driver's seat, I realized I had forgotten my glasses, and had to get out and in again.
(but it was easier than I expected when I found myself in front of the car and had a uh-oh moment)
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I may have done a new #hexagon?
it's not very legible (but better than the previous attempts), but the font I've used is appropriate to the topic, so I'm not 100% sure
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And after years and years of on-and-off playing it
I
have
finished
the Empirean Campaign in #Flare.
(with just a tiiiiiny bit of cheating with certain spike traps)
I've just started handsewing a backpack, so I don't really need another handsewing project, right?
well…
the backpack is at a stage where I have to think, and today I'm not really able to think, and also it's somewhat heavy sewing, and sometimes I'd prefer to do something lighter, so my plan was to have a second project to alternate it with.
something quick and easy, right? of course not :D
what about dealing with 4.5 meters of lightweight fabric, hemming all of it and then bringing it down to 36ish cm? That's more like it :D
I've decided to make a shirt by following the instructions for a 16th century hemd, except in cotton voile, and a bit shorter so that I can tuck it into my jeans if I want.
katafalk.wordpress.com/2012/06…
Current stage: hemming all of the top edge.
#sewing #handsewing #historyBounding
16th century German – hemd / chemise
So I have spoken about my new 16th century German chemise/shirt, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of …katafalk.wordpress.com
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this afternoon I was too tired to think, so instead of working on the backpack I kept hemming the neck edge, and I'm past the two thirds point.
The next step should be marking the points for the neck gathering, but depending on how the backpack is going I may start to sew the bottom of the side seams so that I can also hem the bottom edge any time my brain wants to remain off.
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oggi pomeriggio ero troppo stanca per pensare, quindi anziché lavorare sullo zaino sono andata avanti a orlare il collo, e ho superato i due terzi.
In teoria il prossimo passo sarebbe segnare i punti per arricciare il collo, ma a seconda di come va con lo zaino potrei iniziare a cucire la parte in basso dei fianchi, in modo da poter fare anche l'orlo in fondo nel caso in cui il mio cervello abbia bisogno di rimanere spento.
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Honeycomb shirt
Posted on May 25, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear, GNU Terry Pratchett
After cartridge pleating, the next fabric manipulation technique I wanted to try was smocking, of the honeycombing variety, on a shirt.
My current go-to pattern for shirts is the 1880 menswear oneI have on my website: I love the fact that most of the fabric is still cut as big rectangles, but the shaped yoke and armscyes make it significantly more comfortable than the earlier style where most of the shaping at the neck was done with gathers into a straight collar.
In my stash I had a cut of purple-blue hopefully cotton [#cotton] I had bought for a cheap price and used for my first attempt at anhistorically accurate pirate / vampire shirt that has now become by official summer vaccine jab / blood test shirt (because it has the long sleeves I need, but they are pretty easy to roll up to give access to my arm.
That shirt tends to get out of the washing machine pretty wearable even without ironing, which made me think it could be a good fabric for something that may be somewhat hard to iron (but also made me suspicious about the actual composition of the fabric, even if it feels nice enough even when worn in the summer).
Of course I wanted some honeycombing on the front, but I was afraid that the slit in the middle of it would interfere with the honeycombing and gape, so I decided to have the shirt open in an horizontal line at the yoke.
I added instructions to the pattern pagefor how I changed the opening in the front, basically it involved finishing the front edge of the yoke, and sewing the honeycombed yoke to a piece of tape with snaps.
Another change from the pattern is that I used plain rectangles for the sleeves, and a square gusset, rather than the new style tapered sleeve , because I wanted to have more fabric to gather at the wrist. I did the side and sleeve seams with a hem + whipstitch method rather than a felled seam, which may have helped, but the sleeves went into the fitted armscyes with no issue.
I think that if (yeah, right. when) I’ll make another sleeve in this style I’ll sew it into the side seam starting 2-3 cm lower than the place I’ve marked on the pattern for the original sleeve.
I also used a row of honeycombing on the back and two on the upper part of the sleeves, instead of the gathering, and of course some rows to gather the cuffs.
The honeycombing on the back was a bit too far away from the edge, so it’s a bit of an odd combination of honeycombing and pleating that I don’t hate, but don’t love either. It’s on the back, so I don’t mind. On the sleeves I’ve done the honeycombing closer to the edge and I’ve decided to sew the sleeve as if it was a cartridge pleated sleeve, and that worked better.
Because circumstances are still making access to my sewing machine more of a hassle than I’d want it to be, this was completely sewn by hand, and at a bit more than a month I have to admit that near the end it felt like it had been taken forever. I’m not sure whether it was the actual sewing being slow, some interruptions that happened when I had little time to work on it, or the fact that I’ve just gone through a time when my brain kept throwing new projects at me, and I kept thinking of how to make those. Thanks brain.
Even when on a hurry to finish it, however, it was still enjoyable sewing, and I think I’ll want to do more honeycombing in the future.
Anyway, it’s done! And it’s going straight into my daily garment rotation, because the weather is getting hot, and that means it’s definitely shirt time.
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I absolutely love your honeycomb shirt! 🐝🍯
It's not only incredibly beautiful but also a masterful work of art. The intricate design and attention to detail are truly impressive. I can see the time and effort you put into creating it, and it really shows! 🎨
Your talent for crafting such unique and stunning pieces never ceases to amaze me. Keep up the fantastic work! 
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I moderni usano elefanti pesantissimi
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anyway, 2019 journal from the CGIL/FISAC union (workers of insurance companies) 1, fancy moleskine notebook from the insurance company 0
no feathering, almost no see-through (and the paper isn't too thick), nice to write on
compared to “lol, use a pencil, ok”
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comunque, agenda 2019 CGIL/FISAC (assicurativi) 1, quaderno fighetto moleskine dell'assicurazione 0
niente spiumaggio, sul retro non si vede quasi niente (e la carta non è troppo spessa), piacevole scriverci
confrontato a “lol, usa una matita, ok”
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It's that time again! The systemd v258 release is coming closer. Let's restart the "what's new" series of posts for this iteration! Hence:
1️⃣ Here's the 1st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v258 release of systemd. #systemd258
As most of you probably know "systemctl start" is how you manually start a systemd unit. Starting a unit can fail, and systemd tracks that for you and tells you this. When you encounter such a failure the next thing you'd typically do…
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I think I'm officially insane, but
new project started: a new backpack, completely sewn by hand,
because I have the fabric (off white coated cotton canvas), and I do have some thread suitable for sewing backpacks by machine, but it's black (and afaik they don't make it in any other colour), or I have some sturdy linen thread in the right colour, but it doesn't go in the machine.
Fabric has been cut, I'll finish this herbal tea and then I'll try to sew it and see how it will work.
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@Kermode I don't think I've ever seen how that would look like, but for a backpack it may also be a reasonable look?
I guess it's pretty sturdy, right?
@Kermode usually it's considered quite important to match the strength of the thread to the strength of the fabric, and if a precise match isn't possible to have thread that is *weaker* than the fabric, so that it won't tear it (resewing when thread breaks is always easier than having to mend / patch the fabric *and* resewing it)
of course if the fabric is some kind of abrasion resistant work-clothing synthetic, I see no reason not to use fishing line (other than possibly hand health issues for the seamstress)
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e durante la cena è stata citata la parola intorno (in contesto generico)
e @Diego Roversi ha pronunciato le parole “per ogni”
e adesso una voce nella mia mente sta canticchiando
“per ogni epsilon, esiste un delta
per ogni ypsilon¹, minor di delta
eeeeffffeee di ypsilon minor di eepsiiilon”
(sapete su che musica, vero?)
(e adesso ce l'avete in testa anche voi, vero?)
¹ y anziché x per ragioni di metrica
Dinner this evening was chicken breast with yogurt sauce in pita bread
followed by cleaning every leftover of yogurt sauce with another piece of pita bread
followed by “I still had some pita bread, I could put some raspberry jam on it, right?”
I may have eaten too much pita bread
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I may have done another hexagon
source svg at git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s…
clipart of the pattern at openclipart.org/detail/351608/…
font used: Latin Modern Mono (of course)
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Today I have been wondering whether there are mechanical pencils (for 2 mm leads) in the shape of a carpenter pencil, and apparently if they exist they aren't easy to find online.
And now I wonder how hard it would be to take something cheap like eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , take the mechanism out (that's the easy part, I've just checked on mine and it's easy), and then either 3d-print or machine a carpenter pencil-shaped case for it.
(Not that I'd *need* it. I probably would have no use for it. But it would be cool if somebody did it :D )
Oggi mi son chiesta se esistano dei portamine (per le mine da 2 mm) a forma di matita da muratore / falegname, e a quanto pare se anche esistono non si trovano facilmente online.
E adesso mi sto chiedendo quanto complicato sia prendere qualcosa di economico tipo eshop.koh-i-noor.eu/_c62812608… , tirar fuori il meccanismo (questa è la parte facile, ci ho appena provato con la mia ed è banale) e poi stampare 3d o lavorare nel metallo un nuovo corpo di forma piatta.
(Non che mi serva. Non me ne farei niente. Ma sarebbe bello se qualcuno lo facesse :D )
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My mother: “we could go to the plant nursery and buy a few flowers”
The flowers @Diego Roversi and I choose: strawberry, raspberry, and they were out of blueberries but they'll probably be there next week
I mean, they *are* flowering plants, aren't they?
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@Dún Piteog @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi
ah, e se qualcuno ha altri suggerimenti di piante utili che si possano tenere in vaso e che siano anche gradevoli da vedere ditelo che sono tutte orecchie
(se non ricordo male le aromatiche già prese al giro scorso sono salvia, maggiorana, timo, basilico, prezzemolo, i soliti classici)
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TIL: overpass-turbo
Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.
E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?
Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?
Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:
(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy
e la query generata è:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;
Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).
A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.
Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.
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Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:
cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json
I may have done it again
my mother invited 3 people for tomorrow. 4 people with her, and 6 people with us (we may or may not spend most of the time with them, but we do plan to eat our share of the food :D )
I may have already prepared 1 kg of rye flour and 0.5 kg of white flour, and have plans for a dough with 1 kg of durum flour this evening. Plus there is a 0.5 kg of white flour dough that will be cooked for dinner this evening.
0.5 kg of flour per person is reasonable, right? :D
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@Marcos Dione in my defense I have to say that most of this can be easily frozen, or will keep well for a enough days to give us plenty of time to finish the leftovers, I'm way more strict with stuff that is harder to deal with.
I have no idea where empanadas lie on that scale.
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PSA: you're allowed to play and enjoy games on the easiest settings. This is your free time and you're not less of a gamer for playing games the way they are the most enjoyable for you.
Brought to you by me who has gotten back into Raft on the "peaceful" setting. I don't want to fight sharks, I just want to fish for resources and build. 🤷♀️ So that's what I'm doing.
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I used to play The Forest on no-enemies mode because at the time it was about as close as anyone was ever getting to a survival/crafting game with a photorealistic style. (Unfortunately and annoyingly, couldn't really progress much without enemies for resources. I haven't looked into whether Sons of the Forest has a similar mode, mostly because I know my PC won't be able to handle it.)
Some games also just have extremely annoying difficulty settings where 'more difficult' just equates to 'enemies have more health and you have less resources'. Or where the difficulty setting is for everything - I appreciate games where combat difficulty can be separated from puzzles and/or resource gathering, because I don't mind if the puzzles make me work for it a bit.
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Questo sabato ci sono i mercatini dei bambini proprio su quella via 🥲
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I have a piece of cordura with holes cut out in it
I have a hot air station, technically bought for (de)soldering
I want to have a piece of cordura with holes with stable edges
I have no idea what temperature to use
I should wait until there is an adult in the house to supervise me (and grab the fire blanket if needed), right?
#MYOG
(the adult will be here in a few hours)
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Ho un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi
Ho una stazione ad aria calda, tecnicamente comprata per (dis)saldare
Voglio avere un pezzo di cordura con dei buchi i cui bordi siano stabili
Non ho idea di che temperatura usare
Forse è meglio se aspetto di avere la supervisione di un adulto (che possa andare a prendere la coperta antincendio se serve), vero?
(l'adulto arriva tra qualche ora)
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Non ho avuto bisogno della coperta antincendio
e 200°C sembrano aver funzionato
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It was alarm_clock_time minus 10 minutes and a radio somewhere started playing Painkiller, so I was gently¹ woken up
halfway through the song, however, the music stopped, and I realized I had been dreaming it, and I had woken up too much for it to continue.
I was telling @Diego Roversi what had just happened, and the real alarm clock started to ring, and I woke up, this time for real.
¹ FSVO gently, but it worked :D
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erano le ora della sveglia meno 10 minuti, una radio da qualche parte ha cominciato a suonare Painkiller e sono stata delicatamente¹ svegliata
a metà canzione la musica si è fermata, e mi sono resa conto che la stavo sognando, e mi ero svegliata troppo per continuare a sentirla.
Stavo raccontando a @Diego Roversi cosa era appena successo, è suonata la sveglia vera e mi sono svegliata, stavolta davvero.
¹ per qualche valore di delicatamente, ma era piacevole, ok :D
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@Alessandro la sveglia vera è una specie di musichetta da videgioco molto vintage composta e programmata da @Diego Roversi per arduino + lo speaker di un vecchio pc :)
++ con lo svegliarsi con il piede giusto con Painkiller però :)
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Young man, there's no need to have RAM
I said young man, you can simply program
I said young man, logic gates are my jam
There's no need for a CPU
It's fun to program the FPGA
It's fun to program the FPGA
It has everything
For a Turing machine
You can write out all your routines
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Tonight at 5:19 my phone rung. it was my mother's phone number.
The call went something like:
me> hello? hello?
me> hello?
her> what? how?
me> hello?
her> my phone called you as I tried to check the time
luckily @Diego Roversi was reading in bed because he couldn't sleep, and I had just half-opened one eye enough to see the light from his ebook reader (and then closed it again, but had not completely fallen asleep yet), so it wasn't as traumatic as it could have been.
Then this morning we were all in her living room, her phone was on the table, I could see that *she wasn't touching the phone* and her phone called me again!
Should I worry?
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this one enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto… which is indeed a slightly modified version of that one
it comes from Principia Discordiae
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- 5 (12%, 1 vote)
- 6 (12%, 1 vote)
- 7 (37%, 3 votes)
- other (in the comments) (37%, 3 votes)
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@valhalla I see people being wrong (and/or not tessellating things :D )
worse than wrong! wrong on the internet¹!
@valhalla vedo gente che si sbaglia (e/o che non tessella le superfici)
anzi, peggio che “si sbaglia”, si sbaglia su internet¹!
per ridurre da 10 a 5 gli anni di residenza legale in Italia richiesti per poter avanzare la domanda di cittadinanza italiana.
Questi miei disegni compaiono sul numero di Aprile di Ossigeno, interamente dedicato al referendum sulla cittadinanza del prossimo 8 e 9 giugno, in quello che per noi è l’appuntamento politico più rilevante del 2025. (continua nel commento⬇️ )
People #diritti #politichesociali
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I think it's a good time to remind the world of the existence of
enricozini.org/blog/2017/vecto…
right?
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Does anyone know of an online library of open license, interposed, print-ready books?
I've been bookbinding copies of copyleft books you can only get as PDFs, and helping some authors and a game dev group I know make their books available as binding-ready files.
Is there already a site for them somewhere? If not, it's something I'll try to do, eventually
I know prepping the files is part of the fun but if it lowers the barrier for entry for bookbinding I think it's worth it
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fwiw, here's the open source tool that I use that makes the prepping very easy: momijizukamori.github.io/bookb…
No need to install anything, it does the PDF processing right inside your browser. No servers involved either, works offline.
@foosel that's funny, that's exactly the one I use! (It's nice to know that part matches even if I have a ton to learn elsewhere) I was amazed at how easy it made things.
I've only done one TTRPG in the past (they published my interposed files and someone made one!) I've been binding my softcover books as if they're hardcovers, signatures and all, and gluing them into canvas printed with a plotter printer. How did you do the cover for yours? The glossy paper/cardstock looks very professional!
Oh, softcover binding with signatures that way is something I still need to try 😀
The cover on my core of The Perilous Void was just some 200gsm card stock I have here, originally bought for printing photos on. It has a bit of a matte finish. I printed it and the text block (which I used basic 80gsm paper for) on my colour laser.
Most of the books I so far case-bound as hard covers with cloth, and then used the vinyl cutter to put the title on cover and spine.
I have some larger books full of random tables (Starsmith and Ancient Wonders) that are too thick to ring bind, so I'm looking into binding options that lay almost as flat as ring binding for them - nicer to look up things on a D100 table that way imho.
Want to try Coptic and Sewn Board for that.
@foosel Prepping the files is a barrier - I wasn't aware of that Bookbinder tool, that looks pretty neat.
I wrote up the steps I used of prepping an epub file for print, some it it may be of interest for this exercise, I used command line tools:
hotelexistence.ca/printing-and…
If I were to do it again, I'd definitely check out that Bookbinder, it looks like it would get around all the command line steps.
Printing and Binding an ePub eBook
I wanted a hard copy of an eBook I had that is out of print. There are many resources out there for binding books. Many recommend using acid free PVA glue.Richard Audette (xxxx)
yesterday evening, just before sleeping, I watched your custom font wheels video (youtube.com/watch?v=vi81D3YJJi…)
and then I couldn't sleep until I wrote down on a piece of paper two words: Ogham and Roman Cursive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham (I think you might just *hate* this one, but I hope it's a nice kind of hate :) )
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And then... you do know about Verdurian, right? zompist.com/vergram.html#Alpha…
The words 'fiction' and 'dough' derive from the same root.
They stem from a Proto-Indo-European root that meant "to shape" and "to mould".
'Fiction' came to English through Latin and French. Its meaning now denotes something that's shaped by the mind.
'Dough', something that's kneaded, was inherited from Germanic.
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in reply to Floreana • • •Un'amica doveva liberarsi di vari scatoloni di libri, tutti in condizioni decenti, alla fine li ha presi volentieri un carcere lì vicino.
Mi sembra un ottimo modo per renderli ancora utili.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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Unknown parent • • •Come dicevo nel post originale: fai la lista e presentala a una biblioteca. Se accettano donazioni è ben possibile che te ne prendano un po'.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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