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 )
Ritiro zona Varese.
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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
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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:
mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/1…
i.e. Samuel Pepys being kept up by the rain (and by the cat, who had jumped on the bed)
¹ the fence actually exists, but it's metal, not easily toppled wood, and there are no goats on the other side
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@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)
Buongiorno a tutti ✨️
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.
Consigli? Conigli?🐇
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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/…
BurdaStyle | Il mondo della moda fai da te, dei cartamodelli e del cucito
Burda Style è l'unica rivista sulla moda fai da te. Scopri ogni mese le ultime tendenze con gli speciali sul cucito e i cartamodelli scaricabili!Burda Style Italia
I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.
- 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
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@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✨
Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.
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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):
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I just cobbled a list of my favorite #MSDOS #RetroDev resources.
github.com/SuperIlu/DOSDevelRe…
DOSDevelResources/README.md at main · SuperIlu/DOSDevelResources
A short list of development resources for MS-DOS. Heavily influenced by my own projects and favorites - SuperIlu/DOSDevelResourcesGitHub
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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!
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rrdtool and Trixie
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?↩︎
- an A20-OLinuXino-MICRO, if anybody wants to know.↩︎
- mostly for ease of migrating things between different hardware, rather than insulation, since everything comes from Debian packages anyway.↩︎
- and by I I really mean Diego, as I was still into denial / distractions mode.↩︎
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Can anyone explain why #wikivoyage is so underused? I mean, traveling is such a wikiable thing!
Anyhow, I will keep on adding stuff to the Basel wikivoyage, even if it were only to remember for myself how my guests can park their cars.
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I access it via OSMand~.
Its is slightly geeky - recommending an Esperanto museum for example.
On this day in 1993 Ian Murdock officially founded the Debian distribution.
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ilpost.it/2025/08/13/giustizia…
nel caso a qualcuno servisse qualcosa da rispondere a chi dice cose tipo “mandano i bambini a rubare così non vanno in galera” o simili
Come funziona la giustizia per chi ha meno di 14 anni
Per il nostro ordinamento bambini e ragazzini non sono imputabili, ma non vuol dire che dopo un reato non accada nienteIl Post
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L’Italia è profondamente razzista, i rom sono meglio di voi: ma chi volete rieducare?
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.Dijana Pavlovic (L'Unità)
There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
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!
PuTTY
Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.putty.software
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I wonder what Simon means by weird agenda.
*goes to putty.org
Wow, ok... at least they say not affiliated with the software but... yeah that's something special all right.
Good luck with getting the news out about putty.software/
PuTTY
Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.putty.software
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If there is one thing I wish I could take from Perl and give to the current hot languages, it's the importance of not breaking shit when you release new versions of stuff. If someone's code worked yesterday with your library, it should also work today after you add a new feature.
Yet, apparently, this is not the way we do code. We expect every developer to be so devoted to a random library that they keep track of all the breaking changes and are excited about them.
Please stop that.
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Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing
FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike.freesewing.org
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I've just realized that on my first #DebConf, in 2015, some people was using their (thinkpad) laptops as a tray to carry their meals. on my second DebConf, 2025, I didn't see anybody doing that.
I'd say that laptop design has gone really wrong somewhere in the process.
(this may be a bit of a subtoot)
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yesterday: watching a video sponsored by a reinforced-toe work boots company of some sort
this morning: a tool fell from the work table as we were cutting some wood, straight on @diego@social.gl-como.it slipper-clad foot
(it was a lightweight tool, nobody was hurt)
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I'm new to the @debian game.
I just saw in the documentation "Upgrades to Debian 13 "trixie" from the previous release, Debian 12 "bookworm", are automatically handled by the APT package management tool for most configurations. "
However, my debian didn't offer me upgrade in any way. Do I have to install a specific upgrade package?
Currently I'm using a standard installation based on KDE.
Or is upgrade only supported in gnome stock software packages?
Can anyone help? #Followerpower
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If you are using the debian-installer-netboot-images somewhere: There is an errata entry for it. That package wasn't correctly updated and will be fixed soon after #Debian #trixie #debian13 is done.
(If you are a normal user, you aren't affected. Only if you build your PXE boot server using it you may notice this).
Meanwhile Image building and testing goes on, they are busy over there!
Update: Binary packages named debian-installer-13-netboot-<arch>
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While we all wait for the images to build and be tested and while the archive continues to be prepared so work on #forky can start (and #backports for #trixie can be done), how about some statistics?
Not the usual boring stuff like #package #numbers (MANY - 70753 binary packages from 34735 #source packages) or architecture space (lots, multiple hundred gigabytes per architecture), can find that in enough places.
How about this? The main #archive now has 54 suites (stable, testing, stable-backports, unstable but also the NEW queue are all suites). They all have 3 or 4 components (main, contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware) and can contain up to 19 different architectures (#trixie has 9 of them). Those suites are split over 9 archives - the public ones are those you see in the #Debian mirrors as different parts of them, others are purely internal functionality (NEW queue, buildd for example).
Curious for the #security archive? That has 17 suites in 5 archives.
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MOAR Pattern Weights
Posted on August 9, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms
I’ve collected some more Standard Compliantstickers.
Some went on my laptop, of course, but some were selected for another tool I use relatively often: more pattern weights like the ones I blogged about in February.
And of course the sources:
- the stickers I designed;
- instructions for making the pattern weights(includes a link to the 3d model);
- source for the cat sticker;
- I couldn’t find the sources for the blue mobian sticker, only for other variants.
I have enough washers to make two more weights, and even more stickers, but the printer is currently not in use, so I guess they will happen a few months or so in the future.
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@Oblomov I'm not going to change laptop, this one is still pretty new (to me)!
other than that, probably make more pattern weights, as I can always print more? :D (I'd need to get a new box to keep them in, as the current one is full, too :D )
The laptop lid is covered by a vinyl sheet, so in theory I could remove it, put a new one on and start again, but I don't think I want to do anything like that (the vinyl sheet was put in place by the shop that I've bought the — reconditioned — laptop from)
Also, saving stickers for a future laptop is of course an option.
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@Oblomov coincidentally, if anybody has an European source for fridge magnet bases in the shape of an hexagon 5.08 cm tall, I'd be happy to hear about it :D
(I think I can get sheet and cut them, but if pre-cut existed it would be easier)
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apparently, wasabi paste¹ in low-fat² yogurt goes well with smoked fish (on rye bread)
¹ the thing with low single digit percentage of actual wasabi
² nope, I can't have butter, nor sour cream
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a quanto pare la pasta al wasabi¹ nello yogurt magro² sta bene coi pesci affumicati (sul pane di segale)
¹ quella cosa che contiene una percentuale ad una cifra, e pure bassa, di vero wasabi
² no, non posso mangiare il burro, e neanche la panna acida
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@5Ub-Z3r0 ce ne sono totalmente senza
quella che ho in casa aveva tipo il 2% di wasabi negli ingredienti (erano sulla scatola, non sul tubetto, e temo di averla buttata, per cui non posso controllare)
@5Ub-Z3r0 è la marca S&B, dovrebbe essere questa: sushitalia.com/shop-on-line/pr…
(non conosco il sito, io l'ho comprata in un supermercato etnico)
lì il wasabi è elencato negli ingredienti ma senza percentuale (però è bello in fondo, compatibile con i numeri citati prima)
onestamente non ho idea se in quelle quantià faccia veramente differenza, il grosso degli ingredienti alla fin fine sono gli stessi della pasta che non hai visto il wasabi neanche in foto
Ma sai che, pensandoci, ha senso?
Alla fine anche il cetriolo ha un retrogusto "pescioso", e infatti la salsa tzatziki è la morte sua!
Mi hai mooolto incuriosito!
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Vedi alla voce fasci = ignoranti.
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I grandi dibattiti di Internet non sono grandi e non sono dibattiti
Anche lo spunto più debole può diventare una discussione prevedibile con posizioni assurde e senza interlocutori realiIl Post
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SCAM ALERT
An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose
Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose
They do not have your nose
Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers
Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose
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curl turns 10,000 days · curl curl · Discussion #17930
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...GitHub
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It's not big enough to put it on github...
I was a wget(ter)... and then there was this debugging thing where local files instead of web files would be cool for speeding up debugging without the need to install a local web server...
And this guy said: "curl can do this - the syntax is just file instead of http and some more slashes..."
I never used wget again...🤷♂️
#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.
She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.
Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.
#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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@carl @Eetschrijver It's called Benzin, but that's not because of Benz, it's just because it came from "Benzene"/Benzol.
Wiki also has a paragraph about the word origin: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorenb…
It's 3AM, I'm on-call, and my phone is ringing.
There's a burst of violet light from next to me. It arcs over me, and impacts against the magic circle around my phone.
I pick up the phone and answer "Hang on a tick." I give my sleeping wife a small nudge, and she mutters something in Latin, and rolls over.
"Toby here. What's broken?" I resume on the phone.
"Hi Toby, Anthea from the call centre. We've got an alert on Sirius12 - system load above predicted limits for over two hours."
"Hi Anthea. That should be OK, we set up some new processing rules, and it will take a couple of nights for the system to recognise the change. If you get the alert tomorrow, don't call, but if it happens after Wednesday, do call."
"OK, Toby. I'll make a note in the Tzzbrzzhgga Nil hzzthrg Grrzght!"
I roll back, and nudge my wife again. When she's asleep her magics sometimes get a bit feisty, and they interfere with the 4G signal. She turns over again.
"Are you still there Anthea?"
"Yes, what happened, I started hearing the strangest voices."
"You were probably hearing Charlotte's dream. Don't listen, and don't worry about it."
"Charlotte? Dream?"
"Yeah, look up the wiki entry about calling me. It's all in there."
I should know, after I cleared it with Charlie, I put it in there. There was a pause, presumably while she read the entry. "A witch??"
"Yep, and if the mobile gets too close when she's dreaming it picks up bits of it. Only her dreams are more like astral interventions, and you really don't want to listen in to those. There can be unpleasant side effects - for you."
"Are you having me on?"
"No, you can check in with my boss and HR. They know."
"..."
"Give me a call if there are any other problems. Good night Anthea."
I hung up, and cuddled in to Charlie, and tried to go back to sleep.
I'm a sysadmin. I manage a corporation's servers along with a team of eight. And my wife is a powerful witch. Really powerful. So all the electronics around the house are in magic circles to protect them from when she's asleep. I went through five phones (three mobile and two landline) before we got that sorted.
She's sort of a magical troubleshooter. That's how we met. She was dealing with a haunted server room. I was managing the servers. I really did have a ghost in my machine. She laughed at my jokes, and I didn't laugh at her work.
#SF #SFF #UrbanFantasy #microfiction #Tootfic #IAmWriting #CharlieAndToby
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Windows has betrayed me one too many times. I'm raising money to buy a Mac for my publishing business.
Coupon code MWL gets you 10% off at my bookstore.
(and before you shout "Linux/BSD/Inferno/whatever:" mwl.io/faq#tools )
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GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdfGitHub
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Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
... 🧵
Please boost.
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Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted my initial post of this thread!
I have amazing news now:
The Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund is investing in OpenPrinting!
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain
so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out…
it’s free.
he wanted you to share them.
bsky.app/profile/silencedrowns…
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of theTom Lehrer Songs
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Yesterday I had been reading yet another late Victorian tailoring manual, and this morning I was telling @Diego Roversi about the part when the author claims that there are some measurements that would be useful do draft certain garments, but a (male, of course) tailor can't take them on a female customer, and there are ways to guess them. But at least in one case, he suggested doing the obvious thing, and just ask the customer to have her husband or maid take the measure.
And I commented that everybody who was buying cycling or riding trousers from a tailor was living with a husband, or a mother, or a sister, beside having a maid.
Unless she was unmarried, and only had brothers, and her mother had died (while giving birth, of course) and she was running her father's house because he had not remarried yet.
Or even, she was unmarried, only had brothers, she was running her father's house because he didn't want to remarry and she was quite happy with the situation because she didn't want to marry herself but wanted to keep living with that very close friend (but just a friend!) who had been living in their house for quite some time now. But then, her not-a-lover could very well take her inseam measurements.
Things escalate quickly, right?
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@Vi 💙 and now I need to read the steamy romance short story involving those two and the inseam measurement.
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reasons
scientific reasons
purely scientific reasons
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4th day using Linux. I've not yet connected my printer, but pretty much everything else I've got... And I'm just doing my usual things without issue, and that's with some slightly niche requirements from my computer.
If I was just browsing, listening to music, doing emails and instant messaging I'd barely notice the difference. If you mostly do only that and are still hesitant, don't be! Sure, have someone help install it for you, but after that you're golden.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •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
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua potrebbe essere il passo successivo :D
(però chiusure a sgancio rapido e cordini li ho già in casa, la teca no :) )
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