While I don't like to travel, and I dislike planning travel, Wikivoyage is a really helpful site when I have to.
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thanks to Wouter for writing what I think on the subject
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I don't care what tools you use. Whether your use is ethical or not is not my business, it's yours, and it is your conscience you'll have to clear. I used to be a gatekeeping elitist prick who judged people who used software I disliked. I try not to be one anymore.
But - and this is a very, very big but - if the tools you use only exist because they're scraping and DDoSing the entire internet, and the cost of their existence is externalized to me, and everyone else running a website?
Then I will care, and I will call you out on your bullshit if you try to present yourself as an ally, while making excuses for the damage these things cause.
This is not about ethics. This is not about copyright, or rights in general. This is about externalizing costs to people who do not deserve this level of abuse, and then denying their complaints.
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ma questi sono gli smart ring con la batteria al litio nel lato interno dell'anello con cui si rischia seriamente di perdere il dito?
(no, il caso che era finito sui giornali era della samsung)
Il governo Trump vorrebbe che tutti indossassero uno di questi
Gli “smart ring” dell'azienda finlandese Oura piacciono tanto a Robert Kennedy Jr. e al suo movimento Make America Healthy AgainIl Post
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changeColin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
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@David de Groot @Yogthos yeah, beyond that I recognized a few words, but some of those I recognized from the time when I played a medieval nun on the internet :D
(I hand copied a text in Old English of which I had read a translation, so I had a vague idea of what was happening, but I couldn't exactly understand what I was copying in each individual sentence)
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Dear people who use #warpWeightedLoom : how noisy are they?
I've seen videos of human-powered mechanical looms and there is quite a bit of *clack* noise when it's used, and I have some experience with backstrap looms where the moving parts are mostly soft and there isn't a significant noise.
Are the warp weighted ones somewhere in between? do the weights hit each other? Anything else that isn't soft hitting some other hard part?
Would it be possible to have somebody read a book in a room with a few looms in use, for the weavers to listen to, or would it be hard to hear them?
maybe @Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber knows?
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As for the *why* I need¹ to know this, I'm not overthinking the worldbuilding for a piece of smut.
I've resigned myself to the idea that I will never write said smut, and this is purely an exercise in SFW worldbuilding porn :D
it helps me fall asleep. when I don't get stuck on this kind of questions I don't know the answers for :D
¹ FSVO need
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
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Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations.
But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no longer have to pay eye watering roaming fees for calls and data when you travel to other EU countries, as it was common until 5-10 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if big tech has at least some constraints onto what it can do with your data and how much choice you have as a customer.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you, as a EU citizen, can benefit from the services of any other embassy of any other EU country if stranded abroad.
Those who try to depict the EU as a bureaucratic hell worth dismantling are those who hate the impact that its laws have on their freedom of exploiting markets, exploiting customers or living out of rent money.
Or those who hate the combined economic and political power of a united Europe with a single market because it threatens their national interests, and they’d rather exert their leverage with a bunch of divided and weaker countries instead.
Europe isn’t perfect and a lot can be improved. But those who call for its demise DO NOT talk in your interests.
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while I agree, I kinda managed to bump into the growing pains of the transition towards USB-C standard in jist the perfect ways to have maximum annoyance.
Every time I visit friends at UK, I have given like 5 - 6 reminders why EU is actually great for what it's worth.
Also it is very visible that EU is last bastion standing against corporations ruling with iron fist. Yes, not perfect, lots of insane lobbying as well, but people have chance to fight back.
Also it is very visible that EU is last bastion standing against corporations ruling with iron fist. Yes, not perfect, lots of insane lobbying as well, but people have chance to fight back.
I am a documented survivor of recurrent radiation injury resulting from sustained interaction with an unshielded Class G2V fusion reactor exhibiting high-energy particle emission, extreme luminous flux, aggressive short-wavelength electromagnetic leakage, and episodic plasma bursts attributable to confinement instability - all operating in the complete absence of attenuation systems, emissions baffling, shielding protocols or output modulation controls.
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At this point, open-source development itself is being DDoS'ed by LLMs and their human users.
At the risk of being a bit gross: this is the software development version of peeing in the pool. If *one* person does it, it's gross but will probably go unnoticed. However, at this point, it's like having 100 people all lined up on the side of the pool peeing into it in unison. I don't really want to swim in that, do you? And now they've started eyeing the punchbowl and watercoolers too. #AI #AIslop #LLMs
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Ok, right, yes we're already very much into 2026, but but but, hear us out, wouldn't you still want to access the best calendar ever - NASA's very own Astronomy Picture of the Day?
Here it is for download and offline browsing, 30+ years of starry goodness all the way back to 1995 👇
browse.library.kiwix.org/#lang…
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oh wow, thank you to everyone who made this possible! I've always wanted to maintain a local mirror (and long ago had a home brew script to do just that for a local college network: ninad.pundaliks.in/blog/2008/0…) and have been wondering about the legal Implications of doing this in the present age. Y'all answered some of these questions for me now
ACAD - wget PI
Today, we’ll have a look at one of my favourite download managers. Every Linux system includes this tool, wget. It’s manpage describes it as the perfect tool...ninad.pundaliks.in
consigli su dove dormire in zona Lugano senza svenarsi?
@thunderpussycat e io saremo a Hacking New Year questo fine settimana (programma qui: hny.indyfac.ch/schedule) a presentare i nostri libri.
ogni consiglio per una trasferta non troppo costosa è benvenuto. grazie! 
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se avete l'auto potreste anche dare un'occhiata nella zona tra la frontiera e Porlezza, che dista una quindicina di km da Lugano.
visto che lo fate all’USI a Viganello, se avete contatti con loro proverei a chiedere un paio di stanze nel campus
I consider myself a 0.5x developer because I think twice as long about the potential consequences of my actions.
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TIL that #solarPanels also have bad consequences :D
today just after lunch for the second time since they had been installed our batteries were basically full, the sun was still shining, and we still can't send energy to the grid¹, so we run a dishwasher load, a washing machine (cold water, so it didn't help a lot, but that's what I had to wash at the moment) and we still weren't using what the panels were producing, so I had to face The Pile of Stuff That Needs Ironing.
I had been successfully² postponing that for *weeks*!
¹ from installation to being enabled for that it usually takes a couple of months, between bureaucracy and waiting for a tecnicians
² not that it is in any way near the bottom
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@tk (water heating was / is integrated with heating water for the radiators, and changing *that* would have required too much work and expense. the quote for an air-water heat pump were, as I said, extortionate, so we added air-air heat pumps, but they are sized to work *together* with the radiators, not instead of them)
(one day we'll have a fully electric house, but it will need to happen through gradual changes)
(and yesterday, since the sun was shining and there was some warm wind, it was a bit too warm to turn on the heating anyway)
we are currently in the transition to a air to water heat pump, but warm water will be a seperate heat pump ( you get a 200L tank for around 1600-2000€ plus install here).
The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install
The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install
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@tk here the quote was for about 25k€, plus an unknown expense to change the electrical wiring to get three-phase current, plus having to pay more for electricity (because three-phase) and not being able to afford solar panels for years
or we could start with the solar panels and start saving money on electricity and save it for more electrification later
it wasn't a hard choice :)
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When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".
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@Qbitzerre I'm not sure why you're speculating here, it's an observable fact. Countless sites are getting hammered by bots from AI companies, at a scale that had never happened before.
Modern¹ Italy had two queens and a bit.
The third one was only queen for a few months and then we got rid of the whole thing.
The second one, Elena, whose husband was busy making sure that Italy would become a republic soon², devoted herself to charitable work. I don't think it makes her especially worth of merit, but if you are stuck as a woman born in a royal house in the 1800s and are a baseline good person, that's one of the things you do.
The first one, Margerita, was a reactionary asshole who encouraged the shooting of protestors and was an enthusiastic supporter of fascism.
Guess which one is being celebrated with a stamp this year?
¹ there was a kingdom of Italy in the middle ages, but that's a different matter
² this may have not been his aim
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua of course not the one celebrated with a liqueur
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Ciao persone, qualcunə ha esperienza con il ciclostile? #mastofficina
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Ho preparato matrici varie volte, ma non ho mai avuto occasione di usarne uno: sono troppo giovane 😄
Ho preparato matrici varie volte, ma non ho mai avuto occasione di usarne uno: sono troppo giovane 😄
How does XMPP work? I'm looking at Jabber's website and apparently some clients are both clients and servers at the same time or something? It's quite confusing...
Are spaces or multi-channel groups (like discord) a thing in xmpp? Which clients support that on iOS and Linux and etc?
Is Movim a client or a server or what?
Are groups hosted in the server of the user who created it like on Matrix or what?
Any easy tutorials I could send to my discord friends?
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Ci tengo a segnalare che oggi #trenord ha annunciato *per tempo* che un treno già presente al binario sarebbe partito prima di quello in arrivo (in ritardo) ad un altro binario, nonostante l'orario dicesse il contrario.
Credo anche con abbastanza preavviso per prendere gli ascensori per il cambio binario!
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Scommetto che sulla banchina della stazione era pieno di gente con i pop corn ad aspettare che il treno davanti partisse DOPO quello in arrivo.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in realtà la banchina della stazione era piena di gente che aspettava l'altro treno ancora in direzione opposta, quindi non so se avessero i popcorn o meno :D
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La situazione ragebait sui social di Mæta ormai è fuori controllo. Facendo leva sul fatto che siamo tutti - comprensibilmente - già incazzati, stanno puntando tutto il banco SOLO su quel tipo di interazione.
È impossibile aprire le loro app senza imbattersi in qualcosa di oltraggioso, inaccettabile, disgustoso. Trattenersi dal leggere oltre, o peggio, commentare, è sempre più difficile.
È impossibile aprire le loro app senza imbattersi in qualcosa di oltraggioso, inaccettabile, disgustoso. Trattenersi dal leggere oltre, o peggio, commentare, è sempre più difficile.
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Non cadiamoci. Questa roba è fatta apposta per avvelenarci lo spirito, per farci sentire inermi e frustrati, per farci chiudere ancora di più in noi stessi, con gli occhi fissi nel vuoto luminoso dei loro feed.
Prendiamoci cura di noi, perché per loro siamo solo carne da engagement.
Prendiamoci cura di noi, perché per loro siamo solo carne da engagement.
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Meanwhile, reading¹ my Plinius the Younger, describing his uncle's books, as one does
“STUDIOSI TRES, in sex volumina propter amplitudinem divisi”
(about scholars, three books, divided in six volumes because of their size)
it's a shame the author of acoup.blog is no longer on the fediverse, because for some inexplicable reason.
¹ in an Italian translation, but in Italy they usually publish Latin authors in both languages)
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#CIA World Factbook is back #offline in our library!
library.kiwix.org/#lang=&q=cia
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Mi sono appena resa conto del fatto che, così come “Ministero del Made in Italy” usa parole inglesi, la parola “autarchia” è greca.
Così.
Sono cose che ti sconvolgono, prima della colazione alla mattina.
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A Day Off
Posted on February 3, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits
Today I had a day off. Some of it went great. Some less so.
I woke up, went out to pay our tribute to NotOurCat, and it was snowing! yay! And I had a day off, so if it had snowed enough that shovelling was needed, I had time to do it (it didn’t, it started to rain soon afterwards, but still, YAY snow!).
Then I had breakfast, with the fruit rye bread I had baked yesterday, and I treated myself to some of the strong Irish tea I have left, instead of the milder ones I want to finish before buying more of the Irish.
And then, I bought myself a fancy new expensive fountain pen. One that costs 16€! more than three times as much as my usual ones! I hope it will work as well, but I’m quite confident it should. I’ll find out when it arrives from Germany (together with a few ink samples that will result in a future blog post with some SCIENCE).
I decided to try and use bank transfers instead of my visa debit card when buying from online shops that give the option to do so: it’s a tiny bit more effort, but it means I’m paying 0.25€ to my bank1rather than the seller having to pay some unknown amount to an US based payment provider. Unluckily, the fountain pen website offered a huge number of payment methods, but not bank transfers. sigh.
And then, I could start working a bit on the connecting wires for the LED strips for our living room: I soldered two pieces, six wires each (it’s one RGB strip, 4 pins, and a warm white one requiring two more), then did a bit of tests, including writing some micropython code to add a test mode that lights up each colour in sequence, and the morning was almost gone. For some reason this project, as simple as it is, is taking forever. But it is showing progress.
There was a break, when the postman delivered a package of chemicals2 for a future project or two. There will be blog posts!
After lunch I spent some time finishing eyelets on the outfit I wanted to wear this evening, as I had not been able to finish it during fosdem. This one will result in two blog posts!
Meanwhile, in the morning I didn’t remember the name of the program I used to load software on micropython boards such as the one that will control the LED strips (that’s thonny), and while searching for it in the documentation, I found that there is also a command line program I can use, mpremote, and that’s a much better fit for my preferences!
I mentioned it in an xmpp room full of nerds, and one of them mentioned that he could try it on his Inkplate, when he had time, and I was nerd-sniped into trying it on mine, which had been sitting unused showing the temperatures in our old house on the last day it spent there and needs to be updated for the sensors in the new house.
And that lead to the writing of some notes on how to set it up from the command line(good), and to the opening on one upstream issue(bad), because I have an old model, and the board-specific library isn’t working. at all.
And that’s when I realized that it was 17:00, I still had to cook the bread I had been working on since yesterday evening (ciabatta, one of my favourites, but it needs almost one hour in the oven), the outfit I wanted to wear in the evening was still not wearable, the table needed cleaning and some panicking was due. Thankfully, my mother was cooking dinner, so I didn’t have to do that too.
I turned the oven on, sewed the shoulder seams of the bodice while spraying water on the bread every 5 minutes, and then while it was cooking on its own, started to attach a closure to the skirt, decided that a safety pin was a perfectly reasonable closure for the first day an outfit is worn, took care of the table, took care of the bread, used some twine to close the bodice, because I still haven’t worked out what to use for laces, realized my bodkin is still misplaced, used a longand sharp and big needle meant for sewing mattresses instead of a bodkin, managed not to stab myself, and less than half an hour late we could have dinner.
There was bread, there was Swedish crispbread, there were spreads (tuna, and beans), and vegetables, and then there was the cake that caused my mother to panic when she added her last honey to the milk and it curdled (my SO and I tried it, it had no odd taste, we decided it could be used) and it was good, although I had to get a second slice just to be 100% sure of it.
And now I’m exhausted, and I’ve only done half of the things I had planned to do, but I’d still say I’ve had quite a good day.
- Banca Etica, so one that avoids any investment in weapons and a number of other problematic things.↩︎
- not food grade, except for one, but kitchen-safe.↩︎
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Happy Mail Carrier Appreciation Day! 📮
Posties make Postcrossing possible, one delivery at a time... so today’s a perfect day to leave a postcard or a quick note of thanks for yours.
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Fellow fedizens! As decreed by xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_….
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Right now, on the morning after #FOSDEM, if you started watching now and wanted to see all the currently available videos of talks that were held at the @fosdem that just finished, you have nearly 4 days ahead of you.
See review.video.fosdem.org/overvi… and dashboard.fosdem.org (the 'SReview stats' dashboard) to follow along at home.
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Anyway, somebody(TM) should really write a wayland-based UI inspired by Microsoft Bob, with the whole point-and-click adventure look.
without the crashes and the backend oddities that made sense at the time, of course :D
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@zhenech it's been discussed in a couple of issues of "git rev news" recently git.github.io/rev_news/archive…
Tangentially related (to other parts of this email), there's already an implementatin of git absorb github.com/tummychow/git-absor… and it is a very useful feature indeed!
#git
GitHub - tummychow/git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic
git commit --fixup, but automatic. Contribute to tummychow/git-absorb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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absolutely unsearchable! I had no idea it was a thing either before the talk. I suggest checking out the recording of the talk when available (main track, Jansen, the future of Git something something).
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New blog post: "Welcome to Silly Studios, a new publisher!" davidrevoy.com/article1118/wel…
PS: for the Italian Pepper&Carrot community: this is your chance to get the Italian books in your bookshelf, so spread the word!
[Edit 2026-02-03]: The link is now live on Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/silly…
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@svgeesus 
Thank you Zoe!
Just to let you know: only the book 4 exists, and I'm still working on making the book 5 ( but the three first episode are on the website ep37,38,39 peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/… and I'm working on the 40 right now).
The 5th book on my website is just a Artbook, with drawing, and more background about the universe of Pepper&Carrot.
Pepper&Carrot - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
my period has just started
on the day before a weekend where I plan to spend two days on the couch remoting FOSDEM. i.e. at the best possible time it could have started, since that is quite a period compatible activity
not, as it usually does, right when one had planned some activities or such
If anybody is having issues with yt-dlp today, there may be a workaround:
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…
[Youtube] "unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" with `android_sdkless` formats
Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...sewflag (GitHub)
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The internet¹ is telling me that there is a hat pattern inspired by hats used to protest the nazi in Norway, with proceeds from the sale going to orgs that help people affected by ICE:
ravelry.com/patterns/library/m…
payhip.com/b/TqQL1
(I follow pallia's blog, I don't know anything about the author(s) of the pattern)
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The cartridge pleated skirt I've been #sewing is finally at the stage where I can try it on (it's missing closures, but who cares about closures when you can use your hand?)
and my eyeballing of the length has been, let's say, optimistic
it's definitely floor length, and I can't walk on stairs without free hands.
on the other hand, it looks really nice as a floor length skirt
so, for the time being, I think it will stay this impractical length, what could possibly go wrong?
(there will be pictures, and a blog post, when it's finished)
la gonna arricciata che stavo cucendo è arrivata al punto in cui può essere provata (manca la chiusura, ma non serve veramente una chiusura quando si possono usare le mani!)
e stimare la lunghezza ad occhio è stato, diciamo, ottimistico
è decisamente lunga fino a terra, e se non ho le mani libere non posso fare le scale
d'altra parte, come gonna a terra è decisamente bella
quindi credo che per ora rimarrà della lunghezza totalmente scomoda, che cosa mai può andare storto?
(quando sarà finita farò foto e il solito post sul blog)
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I've just realized that maybe somebody is interested here too
A few years ago I made some light resistance tests for (mostly) #fountainPen inks, by writing samples and taping them to a south-south-east facing window
forum.fountainpen.it/download/…
forum.fountainpen.it/download/…
now I have a south facing covered balcony, and I'm getting ready to start a new test between the equinox and the solstice; at the beginning of February I'm going to buy stuff from a shop that also sells ink samplers, and my budget for buying those is almost gone, but if somebody has requests I can add a couple more to the cart
Some have already been requested at forum.fountainpen.it/viewtopic… (in Italian, but the ink names are ink names :) )
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I like testing. Thanks for sharing results and running more.
I tested a few inks in the past including a known problem ink. I used a faster method in full summer sun, UV and all. flipping.rocks/@tallastro/1122…
Tallastro 🇺🇦 (@tallastro@flipping.rocks)
Attached: 1 image Photo after 3rd day. Another 8 hours outside, partly sunny with a brief bit of rain. Not trying to add a water test but 5 -10 drops hit and spread the vulnerable inks.flipping.rocks
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@Tallastro 🇺🇦 indeed, testing is *fun*!
I'm surprised that the test started to show results after just one hour (but a bit less surprised to see *which* ink started to change after that short of a time)
cursed idea from this evening LUG meeting
/dev/sdb1 /D: ext4 user,noauto,exec 0 0
idea crudele e malvagia¹ dall'incontro LUG di stasera
/dev/sdb1 /D: ext4 user,noauto,exec 0 0
¹ altre traduzioni consigliate di “cursed” comprendevano “maledetta” e “del cazzo”
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in reply to Lars Wirzenius • • •Vagrant Cascadian
in reply to Lars Wirzenius • • •Thanks for the reminder!
Have a (short) trip I have been nervous about planning as I had not been there before and it is a bit of a smaller town... but it at least spells out a bit about the public transit options, limited though they may be.
It also includes a link to a bike route map, which is a really compelling option for me!
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