I remember the day the aliens came. All of them, at once. Their varied spacecraft hovered above every population centre. Then they sent their broadcast.
“We’re really sorry. You probably wondered where we all were. It turns out that someone incorrectly typed your coordinates into our planetary directory.”
After all these years, we had the answer to the Fermi Paradox. It was DNS.
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I've made a list of all the #sewing projects I have in various stages of planning / making (and for which I already have fabric and most notions). It's 17 items long. no, wait, make it 18, but it didn't fit in the page. Plus at least four fixes to existing garments (probably more).
I need to stop starting new projects (yeah, right, like that's going to happen).
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No, I don't think you've ever shared it, and I needed something like this for a current project, thanks.
only... I think I've found a bug :D
It is possible to select just one colour in the first screen, but if you do so, you get Uncaught Error: colorCount should be between 2 and 20. To get one color, call getColor() instead of getPalette() in the javascript console (followed by Uncaught TypeError: getColor is not a function
Using two colours work fine.
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Informazione di servizio per i pendolari emiliano-romagnoli: da qualche giorno è possibile richiedere il rimborso su conto corrente dell'intera cifra dei voucher emessi per compensare abbonamenti non usufruiti durante il lockdown (fino ad ora la somma era spendibile solo per l'emissione di massimo due titoli di viaggio, intestati all'abbonato, solo in ER)
Ovviamente il rimborso in denaro non è sponsorizzato ed è quasi introvabile quindi se aveste bisogno di dettagli scrivetemi pure in privato.
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La traduzione italiana di [RÉSOLU], la guida all’utilizzo del #softwarelibero per le organizzazioni che lavorano nel campo dell’economia sociale e solidale, completata da #LinuxTrent, ha attraversato le Alpi ed è arrivata su #Framablog: framablog.org/2021/06/29/resol…
Oltre alla versione in pdf, già disponibile (s.devol.it/resolu_linuxtrent), viene annunciata anche una prossima versione web.
Come al solito, un grosso grazie a @Framasoft #contributopia @softwarelibero @rresoli @Framatophe @linux
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You know what: it'd be great if people who need accessibility didn't go around calling other people's work "trash". I get it: accessibility is hard, and required for people to use a computer—but you know how proprietary platforms deal with it? They pay developers. You know what Linux users do for it? They fucking whine about it, and then they go out and say that any effort made is trash.
Well, guess what: stuff doesn't fix itself.
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Dear lazyweb,
I remember that some time ago somebody mentioned a good (well maintained with modern extensions) #xmpp server that offered accounts for a small price (as opposed to free) and wasn't conversations.im, but I can't find which one it was.
I'm writing suggestions for new users, and I'd like to provide more than just one alternative.
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For example, the jmp.chat gateway. Once a person has an account on some server and a client application, then jmp.chat/ gives xmpp phone numbers with standard telephony network connections for a small fee after a free demo period. They are a gateway for voicemail, texts, SIP and other media through xmpp, and committed to the GPL.
For more technically inclined readers, xmpp.org/about/myths.html compares benefits of xmpp with other communication standards protocols.
Thanks everybody!
I've sent what I was writing, it went badly for reasons mostly unrelated to xmpp itself, but this time I'm going to save all those links in a place where I'm going to find them again the next time I need them.
It's Prime Day, which means that I'm spending money anywhere but Amazon.
I have a couple of electronics gizmos and related artifacts that I need for myself and for our Maker Space.
I am soliciting suggestions for which items to buy and where to buy them in this thread. I will update it throughout the day, and may octopode it, we'll see how froggy I'm feeling.
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Ebook readers -
The first item I'm looking for is a cheap and reliable ebook reader with a backlight, support for common file formats (epub I guess, is the only one I care about) and ideally a web browser which can be used to browse a library web page we run on our intranet to load ebooks on to the thing.
Micro USB or USB-C charging, and battery life of 20+ hours active is ideal
I need 4 - 6 of them, but I'd like to spend less than $300, which is the most complicated part here.
Tablets -
There are a couple of places in the maker space where having an easy interface to a web portal, etc, would be really useful.
Stuff like "checking out a piece of equipment from the closet" and "clocking out of my volunteer shift" and "registering the time that I turned on the kiln, and what temperature I set it to."
I plan on having a web page to record these things, but a wall or desk tethered touch screen would be useful. Less than $75?
This, or something like it, is the option that makes the most sense for a makerspace.
It's just a lot of work, and I'm the only one around doing this kind of work for another month or two.
Bella lettura consigliata: "Galassia che vai" di Eric Frank Russell.
Soprattutto l'ultimo pianeta visitato, Gand.
In originale ("The great explosion") qui:
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Thanks to the sewing machine, advances in the quality of machine lace etc. shirtwaists in the most delicate & dainty materials can now be had for pretty cheap, but before buying them the prudent office girl should ask herself: can I afford their laundry costs?
(says the one who has just ironed and starched a few shirts, and even cheated a lot (steam iron, spray starch…), but it's HOT)
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TIL: Catherine de Medici is a secret time traveling vampire.
no, really
youtube.com/watch?v=4XBLBfWNH7…
(TV;DW: reaction video from a few corseted dress historians on youtube to a generic-history video on the history of corsets. Painful and hilarious at the same time :) )
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The Workwoman's Guide (1840) page 11 ha scritto:
The gathers at the top of the sleeve should be set into a space exactly the same as the wristband, to make it lie flat also.These little attentions are a great assistance to the washer-woman.
omg. I must try this.
Wonderful!
I think to limit all those useful infos to just women (and specifically workwomen!) is a waste of knowledge…
the amount of *-ism in that book is just as can be expected from a book of the early 1800 that is meant to be used when teaching the poor so that they can become exploitable domestic workers.
But then, it was the early 1800s, it's not like one could expect anything better.
And for people who are interested in historical clothing, it's full of useful bits.
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E intanto in lombardia gli slot vaccinali ci sono, ma la gente non ci si iscrive :(
varesenews.it/2021/06/fine-giu…
se avevo qualche senso di colpa per essermi fatta vaccinare anche se lavoro da casa, beh, non ne ho più.
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Poi “ci sono gli slot” non vuole necessariamente dire che siano la settimana dopo e non dopo tipo un mese.
Però insomma, non si è più in una fase in cui pensare di essere vaccinati è un sogno remoto.
A qualcuno in zona como / varese interessano due o tre forni solari a pannello di cartone e stagnola?
Li ho fatti per provare forme diverse e li ho usati per qualche mese, funzionano, ma nel frattempo me ne sono fatta uno di compensato per cui non li uso più e ho bisogno di liberare lo spazio.
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Per le lattine, direi che questo possa andare bene :D
youtu.be/8tt7RG3UR4c
(spoiler: fonde l'acciaio)
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Questo con una lente di Fresnel è meno "hi-tech", ma per me andrebbe già bene.
Al momento non ho in previsione fusioni in ghisa!
Ever used this?
"wget <url-to-gpg-key> | sudo apt-key add -"
man:apt-key says
"apt-key - Deprecated APT key management utility"
It has been deprecated for (quite) a while now, but most people probably missed that.
michael-prokop.at/blog/2021/02…
is an excellent blog post describing what you should use instead.
It also describes a feature to restrict a gpg key to a specific repo (available since apt 1.1):
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/example.gpg] https://example.com/…
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Uno dei posti da cui di tanto in tanto compro cose online sembra avere una sola misura di scatolone (enorme), da loro non riesco ad avere bisogno di così tante cose da riempirla, e di consequenza mi son trovata con un grosso sacchetto pieno di chip di mais da imballaggio, quelli che si attaccano assieme con l'acqua.
Ora, a parte farci modellini, che però non farò mai, e una volta fatti rimangono comunque ad occupare spazio in casa, c'è qualcosa di utile e pratico che ci si può fare?
L'alternativa è provare a sentire conoscenti di conoscenti se hanno bambini dell'età giusta per giocarci (ma tra i conoscenti non ce ne sono, che io sappia).
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BTW, I feel I should mention that of course I'm also leaving freenode, you can find me on both Libera.chat and OFTC.
I may still be on FreeNode for a few days, to help with the ongoing migration of one channel, but if you need to contact me it's better to use one of the other two.
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TFW you get almost stuck in traffic *twice* when driving what were supposed to be 600m.
And no, I couldn't just walk there, the whole point of it was bringing the car over there for maintenance.
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RT @offlinemark@twitter.com
Here's my favorite git feature that no one knows about:
You can reference commits using the commit message instead of the hash. The ":/" syntax accepts a regex that matches any part of the commit message, returning the youngest matching commit.
git-scm.com/docs/revisions/2.2…
🐦🔗: twitter.com/offlinemark/status…
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Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost
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ugh. libre-#$$@#$-office.
I've looked into it and it's because the package has a Recommends on unoconv (converter between LibreOffice document formats), which in turn Recommends the whole suite.
I've found that apt install --no-install-recommends gnome-books brings down the dependency list to a much more reasonable size. (of course, some features of gnome-books will be missed, notably all those that relate to dealing with office formats).
Disclaimer: I had to work with uno (accessing libreoffice from python programs) and I got traumatized by the experience :)
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* one tiny bit of kneadable eraser
* some pencil lead shavings (from a 2mm lead rather than a regular pencil, so that there was no wood)
kneaded together for a while, applied with a toothpick over an #SMDjumper
profit!
no more cleaning a jumper that has been written over with pencil every time I try to update the firmware on my #espruinoPico
espruino.com/Pico#advanced-ref…
disclaimer: wash your hands after kneading the eraser and before touching sensitive electronics, as they may be more conductive than usual :D
New shirt!
Sewn by hand, pattern by Bernadette Banners on youtube with minor changes (all of the non-historically accurate details are mine).
Light blue (with a purple tint) shirting that I bought a few years ago, so it counts as stashbusting, right?
Worn tucked in
and loose, with a belt (I guess it can be worn without the belt, but I don't think I like that look)
It is pretty long, almost reaching to above-knee lenght.
Also, is it me, or am I accidentally ending up with a pidgeon breast look even when wearing things from a different era?
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Ma vogliamo parlare del fatto che il mio spacciatore di tessuti di fiducia ha la sede legale¹ in via del Sarto?
¹ (vende al mercato, la sede legale è scritta sullo scontrino e immagino sia il magazzino)
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Is anybody going to do #meMadeMay here on the fediverse?
sozowhatdoyouknow.blogspot.com…
I'm not really sure about it, but then I already wear me made quite often, but I'd be glad to see some #fediSewing :)
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It’s Saturday, so you know what that means!
I am once again asking that you start your own instance. Just do it. Control your own data, make your own rules, and choose what you see. It’s fun. And as the Fediverse scales horizontally, we will each individually hold a larger stake in the network.
Again, if you are having any trouble, please (!) feel free to reach out to me. I will be more than happy to help you out with whatever problems you have.
Set it up on a server that is yours or will be yours
Pay someone else to host it for you
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Even if you put ecological destruction and so on aside, it makes the target on their back bigger. Payment service providers are regulated in a lot of countries. The regulators in the EU will probably want to know who sends money to whom. It’s a good excuse to block and/or raid signal.
Dear fediverse: do you know of any online shop in Europe that sells food-grade paper packaging such as bread bags in quantities suitable for the needs of a household (a min quantity of 100 pieces is fine, 1000 is not, 10000 is definitely way too high)?
Excluding amazon / ebay / other big platforms.
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Gentil fediverso: qualcuno conosce dei negozi online in Europa che vendono imballaggi di carta per alimenti, tipo i sacchetti del pane, e che vendano a privati in quantità adeguate a privati (acquisto minimo 100 pezzi va bene, 1000 no, 10000 è decisamente troppo)?
Che non siano amazon / ebay / altre megapiattaforme.
Grazie, e i boost sono graditi
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np
(I wonder if that kind of restriction is a thing only in Italy and not elsewhere)
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me, playing klondike¹ during breakfast and wishing for the next card: “a king, any kin… waitasecond! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!”
¹ as implemented by pysolfc
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Dresses and skirts with pockets.
Boost if you agree.
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A couple of weeks ago I baked nordickitchenstories.co.uk/201…
Today, I followed the same recipe. Except I've used 150 g buckwheat / 250 g wheat flour, wheat starter and malt instead of honey. And it's also good.
Served with white beans and parsley spread.
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I have never retracted anything, nor I intend to do so. As one of the first signers I stand behind what is written in the open letter.
I hope that is clear enough.
(I deduce from your messages that you cannot reconcile this with what I wrote in the message that started this thread. And I can live with that.)
Please, /please/, don't make /only/ videos, y'all! Make text articles too!
Text is even /easier/ to make it's just /always/ video
always
Not everyone can do videos. Especially long videos that we're expected to Sit Down And Focus Entirely On which means engaging speech parsing AND we can't easily back up and reread things like we could text and we /can't slow down/ like we could text and we can't skim like we could text and just
there's often /no point/ to it being a video and we /can't/.
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It couldn't be DNS
It was DNS
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