this such a mind-bending photo. i stared at this for like a minute and then got frustrated that I still didn't see anything but a cheesecake boat on the ocean. I'm still laughing at how long it took me to figure it out. Thank you for sharing.
"A grid-scale battery in the Scottish Highlands got a chance to prove its mettle in March when, 11 days after it started up, a massive wood-burning generator in Northern England shut down unexpectedly. Suddenly 1,877 megawatts of supply was missing, causing the 50-hertz frequency of the grid’s alternating current to crash below its 49.8-Hz operating limit in just 8 seconds.
But the new 200-MW battery station leapt into action within milliseconds, releasing extra power to help arrest the frequency collapse and keep the grid running.
Conventional fossil-fuel generators have historically helped thwart these kinds of problems. With the inertia of their spinning rotors, their kinetic energy provides a buffer against rapid swings in frequency and voltage. But the response in the Highlands was one of the world’s first examples of a grid-scale battery commissioned to do this kind of grid-stabilizing job.
Without moving parts, the lithium battery storage site—the largest in Europe and located in Blackhillock, Scotland—simulates inertia using power electronics. And in an innovative twist, the battery site can also provide short-circuit current in response to a fault, just like conventional power generators.
Four more of these battery sites are under construction in Scotland."
The article goes on to explain a bit more about how these batteries work and why they're so important for the solar- and wind-powered future. (Amusing that it was unreliable *wood* power needing help this time. England is so backward in some ways.)
- Europe made the mistake of making biofuels count toward "renewable" quotas and counting wood pellets imported from Brazil, etc. as biofuels! I don't know what the rules in the UK are now, and where Drax is getting its wood. I'll check.
- thanks! Then I need to figure out where those wood pellets came from.
"Yet, in North Carolina alone, Enviva has logged 300,000 acres of forests in just eight years. This forest destruction released 28 million tons of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) during harvest, transport, production, and combustion."
Still there's a difference between places where they repeatedly grow trees and chop them down, and places where they destroy old growth. I'll dig into it....
"one of the first examples" is debatable - the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia already helped preventing such frequency glitches back in 2017: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdal…
ok. But one of the battery sites is being built on greenbelt in my area with little consultation with local people. Also windfarms are being built with next to no consultation. E.g. north Berwick. We already supply over 100 pc of our needs. All for profit for private companies.
I am sorry about that one murder everybody is talking about:
I am sorry about the possibly otherwise nice¹ person who has decided to kill another human;
I am sorry about the potential celebration of the dead person as a martyr, and consequential further spread of his ideas;
I am sorry about the further normalization of violence as a political tool
I am sorry about the potential for more violence as a reaction
And it's a minor thing, but I'm annoyed at the fact that these days I keep reading what for me is the name of one of the Captains, and it's that person instead :)
Things I'm not sorry about include:
One dead asshole (good riddance)
¹ afaik there is still the possibility that it was some other fascist from a rival faction or whatever
* one armhf Debian installer installing a system on an SD card * one armhf Debian system calculating sha512sums of some files (why didn't I download the SHA256SUMS file?)
and doing the bind off row of the shawl mentioned in that other thread (total 400-odd stitches)
* un installer Debian armhf che installa un sistema su una scheda SD * un sistema Debian armhf che calcola gli sha512sums di alcuni file (perché non ho scaricato il file SHA256SUMS?)
e nel frattempo sto facendo il ferro di chiusura dello scialle citato nell'altro thread (un totale di 400 e rotti punti)
@Oblomov @Yaku 🐗 @Rapita dagli alieni se ho ben capito l'articolo i soldi per comprare il materiale arrivano comunque dai genitori, che però pagano un tot alla scuola, che poi fa gli acquisti in comune (risparmiando rispetto agli acquisti individuali)
Mi affido alla memoria collettiva: io ricordo che a fine anni 80 programmavo su #c64 con una specie di IDE di basic ma più avanzata di quella di default: faceva anche disegni di funzione e semplici disegni.
Ho come memoria si chiamasse tipo "smart basic" o "visio basic" ma davvero non ricordo il nome.
@cate @valhalla si l'hanno fatto alla versione successiva, nel 64 dovevi usare una serie complicata di chiamate poke che ricordo vagamente. Comunque si era proprio Simon's Basic
Esattamente anche qui lo stesso. La luna piena (ma bianca) visibile attraverso quello che rimaneva delle nuvole. Un minuto prima, come se non ci fosse.
@Kermode if it had been up in the sky maybe we would have been able to see the moon: it was rising while already eclypsed, so pretty low on the horizon just above the hills, and those don't count as sky, right? :D
Quella sensazione di quando sei stanco dopo aver fatto cose (e guardato gente che faceva cose) tutto il giorno, e all'improvviso di rendi conto: c'è della torta!
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@Jonobie in Florence there is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_o… (that has been on my list for quite some time, but I've never managed to visit it, so I don't know exactly what to expect :( )
@GustavinoBevilacqua I like that advice. I’m hoping things will be a wee bit quieter near the end of Oct, but not sure. I will have a newbie with me too so likely will need to hit a few of those big things, but I’m way more fond of the quirky and local!
I don't know how many days you'll be staying in Florence, but if you have time it might be worth popping over to Prato's Museo del Tessuto, since you're interested in textile things! from Florence to Prato it's about 30 minutes by train.
does anybody know what happened to the Costuming Drama youtube channel?
Apparently it has been “removed because it violated our Community Guidelines.”?
(I was still going through the backlog and I was a few years in the past, but other than possibly a glimpse of a *chemise* it didn't feel like a potentially controversial channel in any way)
For quite some time, I have been thinking about trying a bit of patchwork, and English Paper Piecing looked like a technique suited to my tastes, with the handsewing involved and the fact of having a paper pattern of sort and everything.
The problem is, most of the scraps of fabric I get from my sewing aren’t really suitable for quilting, with a lot of them being either too black and too thick or too white and too thin.
On the other hand, my partner wears polo shirts at work, and while I try to mend the holes that form, after a while the edges get worn, and they just are no longer suitable for the office, even with some creative mending, and they get downgraded to home wear. But then more office shirts need to be bought, and the home ones accumulate, and there is only so much room for polo shirts in the house, and the worst ones end up in my creative reuse pile.
Some parts are worn out and they will end up as cabbage stuffing for things, but some are still in decent enough conditions and could be used as fabric.
But surely, for English Paper Piecing you’d need woven fabric, not knit, even if it’s the dense piqué used in polo shirts, right? Especially if it’s your first attempt at the technique, right?
Well, probably it wouldn’t work with complex shapes, but what about some 5-ish cm tall Standard Compliant bestagon? So I printed out some hexagons on thick paper, printed some bigger hexagons with sewing allowance as a cutting aid, found two shirts in the least me colours I could find (and one in grey because it was the best match for the other two) and decided to sacrifice them for the experiment.
And as long as the paper was still in the pieces, the work went nicely, so I persevered while trying to postpone the Moment of Truth.
After a while I measured things out and saw that I could squeeze a 6.5 × 7 hexagon pattern into something resembling a square that was a multiple of the 2.5 cm square on the back of my Piecepack tiles, and decided to go for another Standard for the back (because of course I wasn’t going to buy new fabric for lining the work).
I kept the paper in the pieces until both sides were ready, and used it to sew them right sides together, leaving the usual opening in the middle of one side.
Then I pressed, removed the paper, turned everything inside out, pressed again and. It worked!
The hexagons look like hexagons, the squares look like squares, the whole thing feels soft and drapey, but structurally sound. And it’s a bit lumpy, but not enough to cause issues when using it as a soft surface to put over a noisy wooden table to throw dice on.
I considered adding some lightweight batting in the middle, but there was really no need for it, and wondered about how to quilt the piece in a way that worked with the patterns on the two sides, but for something this small it wasn’t really required.
However, I decided to add a buttonhole stitch border on all edges, to close the opening I had left and to reinforce especially the small triangles on the hexagons side, as those had a smaller sewing allowance and could use it.
And of course, the 11 × 11 squares side wasn’t completely an accident, but part of A Plan.
And there are more polo shirts in that pile, and while they won’t be suitable for anything complex, maybe I could try some rhombs, or even kites and darts?
Agree almost entirely (that password composition rules are outdated, and NIST agrees).
Though if you're talking about password attacks that are true brute force (nothing known about the password at all, word list and other attacks exhausted, so falling back to trying every single possible character) ... the math of 16 characters may be bigger than intuitive.
To give you an idea, let's start with 13 characters. Assuming the full printable ASCII character space, and an astronomical hash rate like a trillion hashes per second, it would take 1.6 million years to truly bruteforce 13 characters:
So bruteforcing 16 random characters would be 95 * 95 * 95 of 1.6 million years. Which is probably overkill. 😉
Of course, if we're not talking about passwords based on randomly generated individual characters, but instead about passphrases, this math shifts. But the math is always the number of possibilities to the power of how many of them were chosen. For passphrases, this is (size of dictionary to the power of the number of words). So five words from a 20,000 word dictionary would take a modest 100 years to guarantee a crack (fully exhaust), with an average time to crack of 50 years.
So the password would be dramatically longer than 15 characters, and quite a bit less strong, but still suitable for many use cases. (But if it was stored with a fast hash like MD5, it would only take six 4090s to hit that hash rate! So with all the GPU compute likely available to private attackers, probably not enough if you are a high value target)
Hopefully, those reading along can see why simple composition rules (that you are correctly railing against) wouldn't map as well to a passphrase.
(People may also have questions about quantum photography. My awareness is weaker here, but my understanding is that relatively modest strengthening of password strength is enough to compensate, and wouldn't make an appreciable dent in the astronomical time scales described above.)
@nyxraccoon I'm not sure what you're asking. If there is no limit on the length on passwords, the site will be fed terabytes of data as passwords. That's pointless.
well its not a rare occurence to hit sites with password between 8 and 12/16. That's enraging especially when it (more often that it should) go with no 2fa options for applications where you will have to log without being able to autofill with a password manager (like any social service terminals, where your password to the terminals are the same as the web one)
@Lars Wirzenius or even worse, when public sector regulations enforce obsolete and harmful rules, and even when the people running the services know what they should do, they are forced to do the wrong thing.
I have been thinking in the general direction of doing a bit of streaming where I handsew stuff while talking about handsewing and the project I'm making and general craft things, maybe later in September, would anybody be interested?
It would happen on the streaming server¹ of our LUG, and I may then post recordings on peertube (if I create an account somewhere).
¹ lol, it's just an nginx with a bit of configuration
Stavo vagamente pensando all'idea di streammare mentre cucio a mano, parlando di cucito a mano, il progetto che sto facendo e cose craftose in generale, magari nella seconda metà di settembre, qualcuno sarebbe interessato?
Sarebbe sul server di streaming¹ del LUG, e (se apro un account da qualche parte) poi potrei mettere la registrazione su peertube.
Meanwhile, it's been a while since my last thread on crafting.
I've picked back up #knitting a shawl from *very fine* yarn that I started in 2022, when it looked like this:
and now looks exactly the same, but *a lot more*.
Now I have written down a plan and I think I can finish it by the end of September: it's longer than the usual time before I get bored with it and move to something else, but now that I can actually see the end I really want to do it!
(right now I have picked up a 8 days buffer, so there is hope)
Also, I've kept going on with the 16th century hemd inspired shirt I started (check notes 3 months ago: it's structurally done, I need to finish the bottom hem and the smocking at the sleeves, and then sort out buttons, so I hope that one too will be finished by the end of September, and then I can start some other project I have in the queue!
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.
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 …
E mi sono accorta che è un po' che non aggiorno sullo stato dei progetti craftosi.
Ho ripreso in mano uno scialle ai ferri con un filato *molto* sottile che avevo iniziato nel 2022, quando aveva questa faccia:
e adesso ha lo stesso aspetto, ma *di più*.
Ho provato a mettere giù un piano e credo di riuscire a finirlo per la fine di settembre: le altre volte mi sono stancata prima e sono passata ad altro, ma stavolta vedo la fine, e vorrei davvero arrivarci!
(al momento sono anche riuscita a portarmi avanti di 8 giorni rispetto al piano, quindi c'è speranza)
Sono anche andata avanti con la camicia ispirata allo hemd del XVI secolo che ho iniziato (controlla gli appunti) 3 mesi fa: è interamente assemblata, devo finire l'orlo in basso e lo smocking sulle maniche, e poi decidere cosa fare per i bottoni, quindi spero di riuscire a finire anche quella entro la fine di settembre, e poi posso iniziare uno degli altri progetti che ho in coda!
Ho appena iniziato a cucire a mano uno zaino, quindi non ho bisogno di un altro progetto di cucito a mano, vero?
Ecco…
Con lo zaino sono ad un punto in cui ho bisogno di pensare, ed oggi non è cosa, e poi è un tipo di cucito abbastanza fisicamente impegnativo, per cul il piano era di avere qualcosa di meno faticoso con cui alternarlo.
Avrei potuto fare qualcosa di facile e veloce? ovviamente no :D
E invece avere a che fare con quattro metri e mezzo di stoffa, orlarla e raccoglierla tutta in qualcosa come 36 cm? Più nel mio stile :D
Quindi ho deciso di farmi una camicia seguendo le istruzioni per una camicia tedesca del XVI secolo, usando però del voile di cotone e accorciandola leggermente in modo da poterla infilare nei jeans alla bisogna.
Also, in a Pile of things I was supposed to be clearing I've found an attempt at English Paper Piecing that only needed me to remove the paper bits, turn it inside out and sew it shut, and I've just finished the paper bits removal.
yes, I am clearing the mess on my desktop, doesn't it look like I'm doing it?
Inoltre, in una Pila di cose che avrei dovuto riordinare ho trovato il tentativo di English Paper Piecing a cui mancava solo togliere i pezzi di carta, rovesciarlo e cucire chiuso, e ho appena finito di togliere i pezzi di carta.
Sì, sto riordinando il casino sulla mia scrivania, non si vede?
also, I've decided to sew a buttonhole stitch reinforcement all around the English Paper Piecing mat, so it's no longer 10 minutes and it's done, but I hope to finish it in the next few days too.
11/12 dello scialle finiti! Per caso ho calcolato dei nuovi obiettivi per avere qualcosa su cui mettere dei segni di spunta mentre faccio le ultime 20 righe o giù di lì? cosa ve lo fa pensare?
E ho anche deciso di rinforzare il bordo del tappetino in English Paper Piecing con dei punti occhiello, quindi non bastano più 10 minuti per finirlo,ma spero in questi giorni di finire anche quello.
The reinforcement around the mat has been done, the mat has been photographed (there will be a blog post) and put away in its final place (the gaming cupboard).
The shawl is progressing slowly but steady, according to the plan.
And half of the hem of the hemd has been done, and one of the sleeves is almost smocked.
*And* my temporary desktop is free of clutter and ready to be replaced with the real one!
(yes, these are my summer holidays, I'm not also doing my day job)
La cucitura di rinforzo del tappetino è finita, l'ho fotografato (ci sarà un post sul blog) e messo al suo posto definitivo (il mobiletto dei giuochi).
Lo scialle prosegue lento ma costante, secondo i piani.
E metà dell'orlo della camicia è fatto, e anche lo smocking su una delle maniche.
*E* la mia scrivania provvisoria è stata liberata, pronta per essere sostituita con la scrivania vera!
(sì, sto facendo le ferie estive, non sto anche lavorando in questi giorni)
(strictly speaking, 63/64 of the lace part, then I have 5 rows of garter stitch border, but I didn't bother counting those when calculating the milestones)
I think I can safely say that I may finish it at least one week earlier than expected, maybe a bit more?
At least the knitting: I may have to block it outdoors, and thus I fully expect that when I'll be ready to do so we will have at the very least a full month of rain :D
(volendo essere pignoli 63/64 della parte lavorata, poi ci sono 5 righte di bordo a punto legaccio, ma quelli non li ho contati quando calcolavo gli obiettivi)
Credo di potermi azzardare a dire che lo finirò almeno una settimana prima del previsto, magari anche qualcosina di più?
Almeno il lavoro ai ferri: è possibile che io lo debba bloccare all'aperto, e quindi sono sicura che quando sarò pronta per farlo ci sarà almeno un mese di pioggia continua :D
A bit more than a year ago, I had been thinking about making myself a cartridge pleated skirt. For a number of reasons, one of which is the historybounding potential, I’ve been thinking pre-crinoline, so somewhere around the 1840s, and that’s a completely new era for me, which means: new underwear.
Also, the 1840s are pre-sewing machine, and I was already in a position where I had more chances to handsew than to machine sew, so I decided to embrace the slowness and sew 100% by hand, not even using the machine for straight seams.
If I remember correctly, I started with the corded petticoat, looking around the internet for instructions, and then designing my own based on the practicality of using modern wide fabric from my stash (and specifically some DITTE from costumers’ favourite source of dirty cheap cotton IKEA).
Around the same time I had also acquired a sashiko kit, and I used the Japanese technique for sewing running stitches pushing the needle with a thimble that covers the base of the middle finger, and I can confirm that for this kind of things it’s great!
I’ve since worn the petticoat a few times for casual / historyBounding / folkwearBounding reasons, during the summer, and I can confirm it’s comfortable to use; I guess that during the winter it could be nice to add a flannel layer below it.
Then I proceeded with the base layers: I had been browsing throughThe workwoman's guide and that provided plenty of examples, and I selected the basic ankle-length drawers from page 53 and the alternative shift on page 47.
As for fabric, I had (and still have) a significant lack of underwear linen in my stash, but I had plenty of cotton voile that I had not used in a while: not very historically accurate for plain underwear, but quite suitable for a wearable mockup.
Working with a 1830s source had an interesting aspect: other of the usual, mildly annoying, imperial units, it also used a lot a few obsolete units, especially nails, that my qalc, my usual calculator and converter, doesn’t support. Not a big deal, because GNU units came to the rescue, and that one knows a lot of obscure and niche units, and it’s quite easy to add those that are missing1
Working on this project also made me freshly aware of something I had already noticed: converting instructions for machine sewing garments into instructions for hand sewing them is usually straightforward, but the reverse is not always true.
Starting from machine stitching, you can usually convert straight stitches into backstitches (or running backstitches), zigzag and overlocking into overcasting and get good results. In some cases you may want to use specialist hand stitches that don’t really have a machine equivalent, such as buttonhole stitches instead of simply overcasting the buttonhole, but that’s it.
Starting from hand stitching, instead, there are a number of techniques that could be converted to machine stitching, but involve a lot of visible topstitching that wasn’t there in the original instructions, or at times are almost impossible to do by machine, if they involve whipstitching together finished panels on seams that are subject to strong tension.
Anyway, halfway through working with the petticoat I cut both the petticoat and the drawers at the same time, for efficiency in fabric use, and then started sewing the drawers.
The book only provided measurements for one size (moderate), and my fabric was a bit too narrow to make them that size (not that I have any idea what hip circumference a person of moderate size was supposed to have), so the result is just wide enough to be comfortably worn, but I think that when I’ll make another pair I’ll try to make them a bit wider. On the other hand they are a bit too long, but I think that I’ll fix it by adding a tuck or two. Not a big deal, anyway.
The shift gave me a bit more issues: I used the recommended gusset size, and ended up with a shift that was way too wide at the top, so I had to take a box pleat in the center front and back, which changed the look and wear of the garment. I have adjusted the instructions to make gussets wider, and in the future I’ll make another shift following those.
Even with the pleat, the narrow shoulder straps are set quite far to the sides, and they tend to droop, and I suspect that this is to be expected from the way this garment is made. The fact that there are buttonholes on the shoulder straps to attach to the corset straps and prevent the issue is probably a hint that this behaviour was to be expected.
I’ve also updated the instructions so that they shoulder straps are a bit wider, to look more like the ones in the drawing from the book.
Making a corset suitable for the time period is something that I will probably do, but not in the immediate future, but even just wearing the shift under a later midbust corset with no shoulder strap helps.
I’m also not sure what the point of the bosom gores is, as they don’t really give more room to the bust where it’s needed, but to the high bust where it’s counterproductive. I also couldn’t find images of original examples made from this pattern to see if they were actually used, so in my next make I may just skip them.
On the other hand, I’m really happy with how cute the short sleeves look, and if2 I’ll ever make the other cut of shift from the same book, with the front flaps, I’ll definitely use these pleated sleeves rather than the straight ones that were also used at the time.
As usual, all of the patterns have been published on my website under a Free license:
I was in a B&B in Tuscany and there was a 1.5 l bottle of a soft drink with the label in English and German; it looked like the Swiss rivella, and the flavour was *mushrooms*.
Ero in un B&B in Toscana, c'era una bottiglia di soft drink da 1.5 l con l'etichetta in inglese e tedesco, aveva l'aspetto della rivella svizzera e il gusto era *funghi*.
Hey pals: Someone I like made a tool that extracts still images from youtube tutorials so we can follow them step by step with screenshots as God intended instead of having to constantly be pausing and seeking back and forth. I have LOST this precious resource.
Was it you? Will you give me the link? I will bookmark it this time.
at one point I thought about and actually prototyped a desktop version, but it started to feel a little too much like an end run around monetization for YouTube creators, which felt a bit icky.
@jesse I hate ads but am actually happy to directly pay creators of instructional material I find useful, via patreon or their own websites.
But man if any of the really good unreal tutorial makers made a habit of actually writing tutorials instead of doing screencasts I'd subscribe so hard I'd pay their phone bill
The other thought was a tool for creators to turn their video content into gorgeous tutorial webpages. But doing it well would take actual work and care.
And yeah, I go to great lengths to avoid seeing ads. It was just the idea of building (and possibly profiting from) the ad circumvention technology didn’t sit right.
And I think you're right that tooling is half of the problem. Videos may be easier to monetize but screencasts are just plain easier to *make,* which is why it's so hard to find traditional illustrated instructions.
I actually think the main challenge is that speaking for dictation is different than speaking for video - tutorial makers would have to learn to do the former to make the posts work
I don't know what that tool was, but I can think of tools that will download the youtube video and then convert it to a series of pictures.
I just need to know, on a scale from "I am Neo." to "Hannah Montana Linux," what's your level of terminal-aversion? Are you cool typing out commands, and can you do basic stuff in the terminal ok?
yt-dlp for downloading it, and ffmpeg for the conversion. You just need to supply the video URL, then then give ffmpeg the file name along with the options I supply.
And bless you for actually asking instead of assuming a certain level of comfort - I do a lot more managing than coding these days but I know my way around the terminal*
*For values of "know my way around" that include "my keyboard shortcut aversion pains pairing partners" but I get by
Good news: the offline version of Wikipedia is back! Bad news: so many people are currently trying to download it that our mirrors got crowded out and can't download the update!
Download it, open it via your favourite client (we use Transmissionbt.com but that's a matter of personal taste mostly) and get started with downloading.
It is that simple.
Do not forget to keep seeding after you are done downloading so as to help spread the load!
(Quick note on torrenting if you are not familiar: it is a peer-to-peer technology that, instead of relying on a central server, makes user share back what they have already downloaded.
Torrents break down your file into as many chunks as it can, so that the load is distributed among many sources. If one person goes offline, anyone else from the seeding community can provide with the missing chunks. Super resilient)
I really wanted to use your app but it request whole disk access which is not a necessety for it to work properly. It would be just sufficient to grant read and write access to one designated folder. Such programming would build up trust.
@Laurenz0071 Are you sure? Then I can only recommend to you to open an issue for the devs at github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android. Detailed and articulated feedback are always welcome by the devs and we do our best to treat them well.
Might be a good idea if the app was able to download from torrent sources, or if the app could access (torrent)-downloaded files from a local desktop pc, without the need to configure a local directory on the android device and manually copy from pc to android.
@Life_is It is also stupid as hell to have the Android app require that it move a .zim file to the app's special libraries directory to open it. Can't even manually move the file yourself. Need to have the app do it. Extremely problematic when dealing with a 100+ GB .zim file as is the case with English-All-Maxi.
@Life_is It should work. If it still does not work (servers were overloaded these last two days), then please report the problem to the dev so it can be investigated why at github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android.
Hey, you could consider adding http redirects from the main source to the mirrors? That way it won't break downloads, except of course they might be a bit stale if mirrors can't update.
Our mirror (mirror.accum.se) has plenty of capacity for http downloads in case you want to point redirects here.
@maswan We have a functioning mirror manager and always welcome new mirrors! Please contact us if you have storage AND bandwidth. Detailed instructions at master.download.kiwix.org/READ…
@maswan Indeed you are already listed as an official mirror! My bad! Sorry! But the key file is not mirrored (yet!?), see download.kiwix.org/zim/wikiped…. This is the reason.
The sync that started in the morning of the 25th failed with "connection unexpectedly closed " just a few hours ago today, so the upstream has been slow.
I manually started it again, hopefully it'll be a bit faster now if things are sorted out on your side.
Dear people/sites that publish HOWTOs. For the love of $DEITY *always* add the original publishing date and the last edited date at the very top, in a visible way. The amount of HOWTOs I sifted through only to find out they are totally outdated and simply can't work anymore is staggering. Sites that fake the publishing date to a more recent one for "SEO optimisation", I am especially looking at you. You act evil. /rant (Yes, I need to update some of my gists to be compliant, working on it :)
Also kind of the reverse is also true as having a publishing date before this whole AI nightmare happened is giving me confidence in that I’m not just about to read a bunch of slop.
Vendo a offerta libera rilegatrice manuale a spirale Rexel CB205.
C'è anche un discreto numero di spirali di plastica nera, ma devo ancora recuperarle per sapere quante e precisamente di che misure.
Vendo perché sono passata ad un sistema di rilegatura diverso (ma anche il fatto di non essere più all'università e/o in altri ambienti dove girano dispense stampate in copisteria aiuta :D )
I've just put a debian live on an usb key, put it on the pegboard close to the home servers¹ and told my partner it was there in case he needed an emergency debian live.
And then asked him if I should put it on a cord with a fast release buckle, so that the emergency debian live could be pulled down quickly in case of emergency.
And… I need to do it, right?
¹ for which it is completely useless, because arch mismatch, but it was a convenient place
Ho appena messo una debian live su una chiavetta, l'ho appesa al pannello portaoggetti che c'è accanto ai server casalinghi¹ e detto al mio compagno che era lì, nel caso gli servisse una live di emergenza.
E poi gli ho chiesto se dovevo attaccarla ad un cordino con sgancio rapido, in modo da poterla strappare via in fretta in caso di emergenza.
E… adesso lo devo fare, vero?
¹ per cui è totalmente inutile, dato che l'architettura è diversa, ma era un posto comodo
Tonight I dreamed that the rain and wind had thrown down a fence around our house, a couple of goats were ready to jump in and we were afraid for out tomatoes¹.
This morning I got on the fediverse and found a thread (in Italian) about heavy rains in the center of Italy and then this:
Stanotte mi son sognata che pioggia e vento avevano abbattuto una staccionata attorno a casa nostra, un paio di capre erano pronte a saltare dentro, e avevamo paura per i nostri pomodori¹.
@Madeleine Morris out of curiosity, if you want to answer: when you sew japanese garments are you using a western style position pushing the needle with the thimble on the middle finger, or the method I've learned from shashiko instructions with the thimble at the base of the middle finger?
(this question prompted by me thinking about the cording I've done by hand in the japanese style, and how fast it it)
Sto cercando un' app o una qualsiasi cosa dove posso segnare i miei interessi e vedere articoli o notizie riguardanti solo quelli.
Ho capito che per il lavoro sarebbe utile tenermi aggiornata sulle tendenze e le mode delle stagioni, ma siccome metà del mio armadio sono vestiti neri.. beh non sono molto ferrata.
@cretinodicrescenzago @Claudi 🧶 eh, ma per quelli devi trovare i feed giusti che parlino solo di quell'argomento (o almeno che parlino anche di quell'argomento e taggino i contenuti in modo che permetta al client di filtrarli).
Io al massimo posso dire che credo che si possa fare un abbonamento a Le Follet e a La Mode Illustrée anche nel Lombardo Veneto, e poi nel regno d'Italia ma se mi chiedi cose che pubblichino ai tempi della Repubblica (la *seconda* repubblica, persino!) posso solo boostare e sperare che qualcun'altro legga :)
(l'ultima volta che sono stata dal vecchio dentista aveva la rivista D in sala d'attesa che così a memoria poteva essere rilevante, magari quei contenuti ci sono anche sul sito del giornale repubblica? o magari per i tuoi scopi è più utile qualcosa tipo Burda, che ha come target chi viene a comprare i materiali?)
@valhalla @cretinodicrescenzago grazie ✨️ Sì mi servirebbe qualcosa che mi dica "oi va di moda questo adesso". Tipo la figlia di una mia cliente mi ha detto che ora vanno di moda i cappelli a retina all'uncinetto. Mi dice che c'era l'hanno tutto e io ero tipo "ah.. si? 👁👄👁"
mia mamma quando aveva la merceria usava molto burda per i suoi lavori. Non so se però è quello che intendi. Per nuove idee/moda guardava spesso pinterest e Ultimamente ha fatto anche questo che va molto di moda per la mia compagna (sempre all’uncinetto) it.mc2saintbarth.com/cdn/shop/…
- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories) - you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse - become powered by cake
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
of course depends on what's intuitive and what's not. if you've seen joules in food packages your whole life, there's nothing particularly unintuitive in them in comparison to calories.
A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery's entire charge in one go.
A Big Mac slightly tops that with about 650Wh. A slice of pizza is about half that with 340Wh.
Meanwhile, fruits like apples/bananas are in the ~100-130 watt-hour oversized twice laptop battery ballpark, and a cup of greek yogurt is about the same, so a big cup of fruit-filled yogurt is still less calories than a big mac or snickers!
A full english breakfast can be over 1kWh! Quickcharge ⚡⚡
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
@cinebox maybe, but I unironically can relate more to an egg or slice of bread being about a large laptop battery worth energy (90wh), than whatever '78kcal' is
@cinebox maybe, but I unironically can relate more to an egg or slice of bread being about a large laptop battery worth energy (90wh), than whatever '78kcal' is
@xerge @venite - I like this post but I hate measuring energy in units of 3600 joules... it's like the revenge of the Babylonians... and then, yes, people talk about gigawatt-hours per year. 😒
@johncarlosbaez @xerge I’ve been feeling a bit fractious. Might be remedied by going around the neighbourhood putting up stickers saying THE BABYLONIANS WERE RIGHT.
@johncarlosbaez @venite @xerge yea exactly, as mentioned in mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115… I'd say generally speaking scientists are perfectly capable of picking the appropriate meaningful SI units for their papers and daily usages.
Watt-hours is just practical when you want to visualize how long an electrical device would run on a certain amount of energy, even if that of course is very different energy than burning fuel/food. The fact it's almost the same as calories makes it easy to draw analogies✨
As much as you're right, it's also less intuitive in daily life. Knowing an egg or slice of bread is about 80-90Wh means I can go 'omg a big laptop battery worth power', 324kJoules is very arbitrary there if you don't use it much.
This is also a half-joking post, like, I'm not going to argue to replace anything currently used in science because as far as I can tell most sane scientists use the correct SI units for research papers
- yes, being a scientist I'm perfectly capable of choosing the units I want, and thus have spent a lot of time converting publicly available power data in gigawatt-hours / year into SI units. It's tiresome, so it's nice to have a chance to complain about it, but it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things.
Qualche giorno fa parlavo, non ricordo con chi, di #libriScolastici sotto licenza libera, e dicevo di conoscere dei progetti, ma tutti abbastanza fermi
ecco, ho ritrovato in giro un elenco *quasi* aggiornato (ultima modifica nel 2022):
BCC - a "barely ANSI" C compiler, but generates small binaries (64+64 com). Great if I'm making something small, like a retro implementation of something.
Edlin - great no frills editor that I use without irony to edit files like batch files and makefiles. I've sometimes written entire readme files in it.
OpenWatcom FORTRAN 77 - I sometimes write a little FORTRAN, and this goes a long way.
May I humbly suggest adding MartyPC to the list of emulators? Its got a lot of useful features for DOS development, assuming you're targeting an 808X class CPU.
#FreeGEOS source codes. The offical home of the PC/GEOS operating system technology. For personal computing fans. For all developers and assembly lovers. For YOU! - bluewaysw/pcgeos
oh, I didn't know of that Allegro 4 fork. I should dig out the double-free bug during error handling I found somewhere and see if they're interested in a patch
github.com/msikma/allegro-4.2.… , because that was the easiest way to convey it, but yeah the project doesn't look super-alive. (I've debug-tracked this down to the problem, and checked it's still present in the source of this fork, but *haven't* built and tested it since I've been depending on upstream Allegro's prebuilt binaries.)
unload_datafile() already frees the datafile itself, so calling _AL_FREE() on it again is a double-free. This causes custom data loaders returning errors to abruptly abort the program before any er...
oh hunh, I poked the upstream website to check they indeed weren't interested in patches against 4, and what do you know, most recent news post from a few months ago is they split off github.com/liballeg/allegro4
...and still aren't interested in patches. Don't they know all the millennials are having a huge wave of midlife DOS nostalgia?
Meanwhile, yesterday evening I died. Or rather, they let me die. And by “let” I mean “piled monsters on me until I died, and then looted my dead body”.
And then on the next turn, with the new cards I had just picked I won.
I am thankful to @Diego Roversi for getting the cat companion when looting, however. It was just a +2, but it was a cat, and I didn't want him to go into the discard pile!
Intanto ieri sera sono morta. O meglio, mi hanno lasciata morire. E con “lasciata” intendo “mi hanno buttato addosso mostri fino a che non sono morta, e hanno saccheggiato il cadavere”.
E poi al turno dopo, con le carte nuove appena pescate, ho vinto.
Sono grata a @Diego Roversi per essersi preso il compagno gatto durante il saccheggio. Era solo un +2, ma era un gatto, e non volevo che finisse nel mazzo degli scarti!
Posted on August 17, 2025 Tags: madeof:bits TL;DL: if you’re using rrdtool on a 32 bit architecture like armhf make an XML dump of your RRD files just before upgrading to Debian Trixie.
I am an old person at heart, so the sensor data from my home monitoring system1 doesn’t go to one of those newfangled javascript-heavy data visualization platforms, but into good old RRD files, using rrdtool to generate various graphs.
This happens on the home server, which is an armhf single board computer2, hosting a few containers3.
So, yesterday I started upgrading one of the containers to Trixie, and luckily I started from the one with the RRD, because when I rebooted into the fresh system and checked the relevant service I found it stopped on ERROR: '<file>' is too small (should be <size> bytes).
Some searxing later, I’ve4 found this was caused by the 64-bit time_t transition, which changed the format of the files, and that (somewhat unexpectedly) there was no way to fix it on the machine itself.
What needed to be doneinstead was to export the data on an XML dump before the upgrade, and then import it back afterwards.
Easy enough, right? If you know about it, which is why I’m blogging this, so that other people will know in advance :)
Anyway, luckily I still had the other containers on bookworm, so I copied the files over there, did the upgrade, and my home monitoring system is happily running as before.
of course one has a self-built home monitoring system, right?↩︎
Caro Direttore, ho letto il suo editoriale sui bambini rom che hanno rubato una macchina e hanno investito e ucciso una signora. Ho sentito la sua sincera indignazione.
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
I'd just like to say thank-you for creating and maintaining putty for all these years! It undoubtedly makes the world a slightly better place for anyone on windows with need of a ssh connection or serial line or otherwise.
The current URL exists all over the place – in particular, it's baked into every current release of PuTTY itself. So it's really important that people going to that URL will still end up somewhere useful.
Most likely it'll end up as a 301 redirect to the new site, once the move has happened.
@Purple @30p87 someone mailed me a day or two ago to say that the chiark PuTTY site had now got ahead of putty.org on the Google rankings. What changed? Only that he pivoted to antivax. He's already working on obliterating his own pagerank!
This is an excellent start, though y'all somehow you forgot the cookie warning, news letter popup and the "please disable your adblocker" messages though
Thanks for finally getting a more officially-looking domain. Let's hope the .org drops from Google cache soon, now that the owner has started pushing antivax bullshit on it...
@durandal or perhaps because PuTTY landing pages are now considered suspicious after putty.org went rogue, so a new one is automatically suspect?
The real PuTTY website at chiark has a news item on the front page linking to putty.software and confirming that it's really ours. So if you need to raise an unblocking request with anyone, that might be a way to convince them that this isn't another putty.org, without them having to trust the text saying so on putty.software _itself_.
Made me want to check if my local version had been claimed, and yes of course, also a squatter but they seem quite well-behaved with a direct link and no faff except a fake logo and two unobtrusive links to their own commercial shit. But I do use an adblocker so maybe it's worse without. No need to promote them with a clickable link, so: putty dot nl.
I've commented for like a decade that it doesn't matter where the Putty web site is, it was the most reliable Google search in the world that searching for "putty" would lead to pages of hits that would get you there (and if you ever wanted to search for putty as a form of cement, you were out of luck).
@richpuchalsky someone sent me a screenshot just recently showing the chiark web site above putty.org in the Google search results. Apparently putty.org's "pivot to antivax" stunt burned a lot of its ill-gotten pagerank.
If you search in various ways for "putty wiki" it's wiki's preferred meaning of putty as well. The stuff that people use to fix window panes is relegated to a disambiguation page.
I've mostly eliminated (directly using) Windows from my computing life. But if you find yourself there, PuTTY is one of the best pieces of software for the platform.
On my quasi-blog: "Iconography of the PuTTY tools"
The icons used by the PuTTY tool suite; some discussion of the design, the technical constraints, and the progression from hand-drawn to script-generated. Inspired by a user sending me email asking about it recently.
Hey, people who make PUTTY terminal... how about a nice way to enumerate com ports rather than making me open device manager to see what random com port my usb-serial adapter was given
@DevWouter @schmidt_fu for extra verification, there's a news item on the front page of the current main PuTTY website acknowledging that putty.software is ours.
I totally understand people being distrustful, given things that have already happened!
Maybe it would be useful to also mention the new domain in the FAQ - A.9.1-A.9.3? The answers seem to be confusing to some people on Hacker News, at least
@asjo @DevWouter @schmidt_fu yes, I've just been editing the FAQ this morning. The revised version should go up tonight, as part of the build that also bakes a copy of it into a signed PuTTY help file.
Honestly I think that the Chiark link is well-known enough, so much that many of us who have been using your software for many many years will be suspicious of *any* other page, even if it *says* "oh trust me".
Having `putty.software` doesn't help with disambiguating from `putty.org` ... perhaps it should just be a redirect to Chiark, rather than it's own site?
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