friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

I may have been tempted to buy some more art supplies (mostly paper, this time).

And while I was browsing the new products section of the website, they had poster paper, which I hadn't seen before.

And I remembered that some time ago I saw this tutorial twinsnneedles.com/2020/12/14/m… to make a tool to help pleat fabric.

And I may have accidentally added some poster paper to my shopping cart :D

This is a quick test I did to check whether it would survive being pressed with steam (it does) and which backing to use between more of the same paper and thin cardboard (the latter seems to be working nicely).

a scrap of fabric, neatly pleated, and two squares of poster paper, folded and glued to a base, that have been used to form the pleats on the fabric.

I've already glued a bigger pleater, about 30 cm × 30 cm with 1 cm pleats, it's currently drying.

And now I only have to decide what I want to pleat next :D

@sewing group #sewing #sewingTools

#sewing #sewingTools @sewing group

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Bad sleep, too hot, idea of the morning: I wonder whether pass(1) (the command line password manager) would be a good tool to keep an address book of the people with whom I regularly exchange #snailMail.

Up to now I've used paper (no man page, the physical thing :D), but that usually remains at home when I'm traveling, and I'm not in the habit to send postcards, but sometimes the sudden need for a letter happens (and paper is harder to backup and harder to encrypt in case it's lost).

#snailmail

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Luca Sironi @Enrico Rossi I wouldn't store physical addresses on a smartphone, and especially not unencrypted: it would be fine if they were businesses, of course, but the combination of real name + surname and home address of people, often even associated with their nickname is something that I wouldn't want to have on something that is easily lost or stolen.

And I'm quite sure that most of them wouldn't consider it ok if I just appeared at their door unannounced. :)

otoh, if it is at home and only accessible via a vpn it's safer, but then one needs the internet connection to get the data, which may or may not be available while traveling.

@Enrico IU4JRU Rossi @Luca Sironi (da chiudere)

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Apparently, for some *inexplicable* reason, talking on the phone with your father is not conductive to successfully counting the cards you're turning to improvise a double faced #tabletWeaving design :D

@FiberArts group

an in-progress tablet woven band in black with purple line based designs; the one closest to the tablets is a stick figure with a few missing bits

the back of the same band, with a small black border, a purple background in most of the band, and black designs.

But it's fine, this band is meant to be a sort of sandbox to learn the tecnique, anyway (and I'm using one of my first spun yarns, which isn't of high quality either).

#tabletweaving @FiberArts group

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

A quanto pare, per ragioni *incomprensibili*, parlare al telefono con tuo padre non è un buon metodo per contare con successo quali tavolette manipolare quando stai improvvisando un disegno nella #tessitura con le tavolette. :D

@FiberArts group

un nastro tessuto con le tavolette in lavorazione, nero con dei disegni lineari in viola; il più vicino alle tavolette è un omino stilizzato a cui mancano dei pezzi.

il retro dello stesso nastro con un bordo nero, sfondo viola e i disegni in nero.

Ma va bene così, sto facendo questo nastro come prova per imparare la tecnica (e sto usando uno dei primi filati che ho filato, e non è di gran qualità, comunque).

#tessitura @FiberArts group

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abbiamo sbagliato tutto!

dovevamo fare una raccolta di firme per chiedere di non far cadere il governo, qualunque governo, purché fosse un governo ladro (che è intrinseco nel concetto di governo) e quindi far piovere!

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possible disrespect for the dead / possibile mancanza di rispetto per i morti

how do we get the local crematory to run the bodies through a fremen deathstill to reclaim their water before they incinerate the rest? I mean, it's not like they are going to use it, are they?

come si fa a convincere il crematorio locale a far passare i corpi da un deathstill¹ fremen per reclamare la loro acqua prima di cremare il resto? Intendo, non è che se ne fanno più niente, no?

¹ non ho idea di come sia stato tradotto in italiano, sorry

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

From this little notebook I have in my lap, I can get high resolution photos of deep space, or scans of mosaic work done in pompeii 2000 years ago, or watch a silent film made in mexico in 1927, or read a novel published in the 1850s, or listen to a radio broadcast of a baseball game played in 1935, or watch an 8 hour train ride through the european countryside, or see pictures or video of Machu Picchu.

All of these things are at my fingertips.

And I mostly use it to read words that make me sad and angry while also making money for rich people.

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food, sweet

Today's #solarOven experiment was an apple *thing* (too much sugar for a sauce, probably too little to make it keep like a preserve): 130 g pureed apples and 40 g sugar, white in one jar, muscovado in the other.

two small jars, half filled with pureed apples, in front of a solar oven. one is significantly darker than the other.

the solar oven (a panel / box hybrid with a clear panel in the front, a clear lid and a reflector on top) with two jars wrapped in black cloth

In theory, I believe that if I heated the jars in the solar oven the day before, filled them to the top instead of just halfway, and fully closed the lid (maybe for the last hour or so of cooking) it should be safe for preserving (maybe also with a bit more sugar), since everything has been at pasteurization temperatures for hours. In practice, this one is going in the fridge, and I don't think it's going to survive much more than two days :D

#solarOven
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

cibo, dolce

L'esperimento di oggi con il #fornoSolare è stata una *cosa* di mele (troppo zucchero per essere una composta, troppo poco per essere una marmellata): 130 g di mele tritate e 40 g di zucchero, bianco e in un barattolo e mascobado nell'altro.

tue barattoli piccoli, pieni a metà di mele tritate, di fronte ad un forno solare. Uno è significativamente più scuro dell'altro.

il forno solare (un ibrido pannello / scatola con un pannello trasparente davanti, un coperchio trasparente e un riflettore in alto) con due barattoli avvolti in stoffa nera.

In teoria credo che scaldando i barattoli nel forno solare il giorno prima, riempiendoli fino all'orlo anziché solo a metà e chiudendo del tutto il tappo (magari solo per l'ultima oretta di cottura) dovrebbe essere conservabile (magari mettendo anche un po' più di zucchero), dato che è stato tutto a temperature di pastorizzazione per ore. In pratica, questo finisce nel frigo, e non credo che sopravviverà molto più di due giorni :D

#fornoSolare

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food, accidentally no animal products

Will I be able to have pasta with a warm sauce either this evening or tomorrow evening?

a badly taken picture of a pot of tomato sauce inside a solar oven

I don't have a good place to use the #solarOven in the middle of the day (I get direct sun from around 13:30 daylight saving time), and today it's a bit overcast, but the temperature probe below the pot has been above 65°C for a few hours now.

the display unit for a temperature probe showing 69.6°C

#solarOven

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Filed under: yakshaving, I guess?

Today I decided I wanted to resume working on a #python script to generate an svg file for a piecepack set from a template and svgs of the suites, which is something I've been working on and (mostly) off for ages.

What I did today:

* did a bit of cleanup in the directory where I thought the script was (it wasn't)
* moved an unrelated script (to generate a template for telescoping boxes) which *was* in the above directory to the repository where I was actually working on the piecepack script
* did the initial release on pypy of my library to write command line commands (which at the moment is basically just what I had in lesana, extracted in a way that is general purpose).

Not sure whether I should have a feeling of accomplishment (I *did* things that were in the queue for months) or lack of :D

#python
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Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the "Golden Age of the Poster" (1880-1918)

openculture.com/2017/07/downlo… t.co/ULqYh9pe9T

Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918)

Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth: what a time and place to be alive.
Colin Marshall (Open Culture)

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

Tips for dealing with extreme heat that I've learned as a cold-blooded Welsh pluviophile living in the arid hellscape that is South Africa;

* Soak your feet in a tub of cold water.
-- Better if you've got a fan pointed in your general direction; soak your feet until they acclimatise to the water temperature, remove feet and let the fan cool your wet feet down with evaporation, place feet back in water, repeat.

(1/?)

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New #felted #fauxdori

a notebook cover in thick lavender wool with a triangular flap that closes with a button in the shape of a small blue pencil

the same notebook cover open and showing the elastic that will hold the paper in place

I'm not 100% happy with it: it is quite heavy, so it's probably not really confortable to use (or at least to carry around), but using a thinner wool probably wouldn't be sturdy enough. Also, the felting isn't very regular.

However, it is usable, so I'm calling it done, and will use it at home.

And move on to the next attempt at making AllTheFauxdori. because I'm absolutely not obsessed with those, right?

#fauxdori #felted

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale
istanze italiane, no, non è davvero subtooting, solo trolling gratuito
comunque, ci tengo a precisare che se qualcuno ha voglia di creare un'istanza autogestita con un nome tipo polentauncia.social, dedicata alla val d'intelvi, che vieta fascismo/fascisti e polenta molle, io un alt lì sopra ce lo faccio.

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I may have just sent this to my #crocheting mom

archive.org/details/artofcroch…

and her response wasn't “no way”.

maybe we'll both forget about it before the autumn (it's just not something that can be worked during the summer), maybe I'll crochet-nerd-sniper her again. BUAHAHAHAHAH :D

#crocheting
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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

Tanachvil

Ma è così. Ne ho poca, sempre e ogni giorno è una costante scelta sul come impegnarla e non lasciare che il pilota automatico (chiamiamolo ADHD, chiamiamolo in altri modi ancora meno lusinghieri) scelga di sperperarla in maniera non funzionale. A volte è inevitabile, a volte no.
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If you're fed up with streaming services, I can strongly recommend ordering or picking up DVDs from charity shops.

Some of them are selling at ridiculously low prices, and you get a library of stuff you have actually chosen.

If you rip it to a computer you can make your own little personal netflix, with no piracy involved, the titles stay available forever, and the money goes to charity.

(Same applies to CDs for making your own Spotify.)

#DVD #DVDs #CDs #Streaming #Netflix #Alternatives

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E comunque stanotte ho sognato che il Giappone stava bombardando il confine tra Italia e Svizzera.

il GIAPPONE.

Anyway, tonight I dreamed that Japan was bombarding the border between Italy and Switzerland.

JAPAN.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Bevilacqua Gustavino @las_lallero ma allora dovevano prima attaccare firenze dove fanno il lampredotto-don!

(che non sono mai riuscita ad assaggiare, e non per non averci provato :( )

(che però in effetti è fatto da un cuoco giapponese, quindi magari quello gli va bene?)

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Eastern Bloc

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Uops, my day has been sniped into updating my planner generation script to add an A5 daily planner option with graph or pointed paper.

Uops, la mia giornata è stata sniperata facendomi aggiornare il mio script per generare agende per aggiungere opzioni per un agenda A5 con una pagina per giorni a quadretti o puntini.

eoval.org/kXTCtvoT/+inline
eoval.org/AeP9Nj7W/+inline

#stationery #cartoleria

#stationery #cartoleria
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Sophie
planner_generator.py needs a system with python3, inkscape and pdfjam: in debian the latter is in the package texlive-extra-utils (and yes, it will install a lot of dependencies)

and then ./planner_generator.py --help should give hints; I've started to write some docs and found some bugs, and right now I can't fix them, but I'll look into it later.

I have no idea whether they work on something that isn't linux, however

(also, within reason, I'm willing to just generate custom requests with one of those templates and a custom language, if running the script is too much of a hassle — I can see it being so)

@Sophie
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friendica - Collegamento all'originale

Someone on Fedi created a site collecting news columns from centuries ago, debate articles by voices supporting the union between England and Scotland but pointing out its many flaws that would need to be addressed.

I read it with great interest a month or two ago. Who was it?

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friendica - Collegamento all'originale

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

This is a book. It is available as web pages at the link above but you can also buy it and other books in tangible and non-tangible forms from randomscottishhistory.com/2019… .

The author of the book and the whole site is on fedi, hello @FlikeNoir , your work is amazing!

randomscottishhistory is a site much bigger than just this book; There's an overwhelming amount of material and there is also a number of podcast series: randomscottishhistory.com/rsh-…

@Adrián Pérez

@Adrián Pérez @FlikeNoir
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We are moved all of our repos from Gitlab.com to salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team

Please use this for the new home for all things Mobian Gitlab related.

Mobian Team · GitLab

See https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian
GitLab

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Yesterday evening, while it was pretty hot, I've decided that this night we'll try to use my grandmother's embroidered linen bedsheet, instead of keeping them in a drawer forever because they are too nice.

Now it's raining and the temperatures have gone down a bit: should I do it more often?

Ieri sera, mentre faceva abbastanza caldo, ho deciso che stanotte avremmo provato ad usare le lenzuola di lino ricamato di mia nonna, anziché lasciarle sempre nel cassetto perché son troppo belle.

Adesso piove, e le temperature si sono abbassate un po': dovrei farlo più spesso?

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

la superficie liscia del legno di nocciolo dopo che è stato usato e usato e si è ingrassato coi grassi della pelle, e in questo specifico caso anche con la lanolina.

#treCoseBelle
(e ok, per ora è una soltanto)

the smooth surface of hazel wood after it has been used a lot and has been olied by skin oils and in this specific case also by lanoline.

#threeNiceThings (ok, this time it's just one, but the hashtag on the italian fediverse mentions three)

#trecosebelle #threeNiceThings
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hometown - Collegamento all'originale

Electrons? Oh, you mean metal spirits?

We use metal strings to trap the metal spirits, and talismans of black sandstone engraved with tiny runic circles to harness their power.

Sometimes we replace the strings with totems made of layered metal, but those don't last very long on their own. We can also use light spirits to command the metal spirits at distance, but the metal spirits are the ones that do most of the work.

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Cats are pure quantum uncertainty state generators. Not only are they dead and alive until you look, they also want to go outside and stay inside until you open the door. When was the last time you collapsed a cat in a superposition?

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