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Apparenty I've discovered that: a) sewing reusable masks stresses me out b) sewing reusable masks by hand relaxes me.

I'm not sure whether it's the pattern I'm using being full of nice features, but also a bit fiddly, making the same thing multiple times or the guilt over having had two months of quarantine and not having managed to make masks even for my close neighbors.

Sewin by hand while on confcall and the like is not really different from sewing by hand random things, apparently (at least for the first mask I'm making, maybe I'll need a break from this too).

Anyway, doing them by hand is slower, but probably faster than leaving a big pile of cut mask pieces near the sewing machine and avoiding watching in that direction :D

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it! could! work!


(a picture of a somewhat crumbly dough in a glass container)

I've successfully reproduced baker's #yeast following the instructions (in Italian) on vivalafocaccia.com/ricette/ric… (web.archive.org/web/2020041907…) and the linked videos youtube.com/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1V… (invidio.us/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1VY) plus youtube.com/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1… (invidio.us/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1A).

The basics are: mix 25 g fresh yeast (or 8g dry, which is what I used) and 25 g water, add 60 g flour, knead a bit and put in the fridge (low temperature is important) in an airtight container (low oxygen is the other important factor) for at least 24 hours. Use in the following week, and start again from the last 25 g.

It smells definitely like baker's yeast (as opposed to sourdough) and the bread I've made with it has risen as expected.

#yeast

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

It depends on the recipe: the proportion between dry and fresh is about 1:3 (but my 7g dry packets are marked as equivalent to one 25g block of fresh yeast).

I'm also used to dry yeast, so I don't really have an idea of how much that would be in volume. In the picture the container is a bit less than 10 cm wide, if that can help.

Also, I tend to make a lot of bread with pre-ferments, so I may be using as low as 2-4 g of fresh yeast (around 1g dry) for 400-500 g flour. The highest I routinely go is one 7g dry packet (i.e. 25g fresh) per 1000g flour.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Starting from a particular strain and trying to prevent anything else from growing.

I don't think I'm going to keep this alive long-term for a few reasons.

Between the low amounts of yeast per dough and the fact that I also have an active sourdough, this is making more yeast than I use (and it only keeps for a short time between feedings — although it can keep in the freezer for slightly longer and I could try to experiment with drying like I do with sourdough).

While sourdough grows with time and gains flavour, with baker's yeast the idea is to have something that is consistent, so one would want to remain pretty close to the original, and I suspect that after a few generations mutations may start to change the way it behaves. I believe that this reason alone makes it worth restarting the batch from commercial yeast periodically (maybe every few months?)

And then there is the bit where dry yeast is soooo convenient, while this is a bit of a hassle to get the same results, and I'm basically lazy…

OTOH, it's an excellent way to get more yeast from a package now that it has disappeared from the supermarkets (and this means that I'm currently in the 1% or less of italians that have more yeast than they can use, and I can't even share it with other people in a reasonable way :( (at least not outside the building where I live))

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@Ondiz I've received this (via xmpp) and for some *strange* reason I thought about your italian lessons :D

(image is a screenshot of a post by some Claudio Marinaccio with the following contents:

"C'è la faremo" = Il signor La Faremo è presente.
"Ce l'ha faremo" = Faremo è in possesso di qualcosa.
"Ce la fa remo" = Remo riuscirà a fare qualcosa.
"Cela faremo" = Qualcuno nasconde Faremo.
Ce la faremo?

@Ondiz

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Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 (alt account)

2020-04-17 05:12:37


the palindromic prime 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, named after #Belphegor, one of the seven princes of Hell. Belphegor's Prime consists of the number 666, on either side enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one. Belphegor's Prime is an example of a beastly #palindromic #prime in which a prime p is palindromic with 666 in the center. #calculotrivia #maths #Math
#Math #maths #Belphegor #palindromic #prime #calculotrivia

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A few days ago I found out that the shop I buy kitchen appliance from is making home deliveries (this is still allowed under our lockdown rules for any kind of product), so I decided to buy the pasta machine I've been wanting to buy for quite some time (everybody in our household is still working, from home, so I wanted to spend some money in the local economy).

Yesterday we called them to order… and about two hours later we had a shiny, new, pasta machine: take that amazon and next day deliveries!

(ok, it was just a lucky accident: they already had a delivery scheduled to our area — and they have known us long enough to trust us with delivery before the payment had cleared — it's not going to happen a second time)

(in this context, the real advantage over amazon is that this involved the shop owner preparing and delivering the package safely on her own, rather than underpaid workers risking contagion in an unsafe warehouse)

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Kermode

The point they make about people using more, because they are at home is valid, but reading that article you'd think there weren't hordes of hoarders at the beginning. They certainly exist where I live!
The stores here were selling out for a few days, but quickly adjusted their truckloads. There was supply every day. After a few days they weren't ever selling out.
Hoarders turned to flour next, but that's fixed, so now there is no yeast! Or isopropyl.
Plenty of bog roll though! :-)

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I did this one of the first days of the lockdown, but I only took pictures a couple of days ago a sami-style leather pouch from an old (and quite ugly) leather jacket¹ and some red felt I had around:

I browsed through a number of search results for “sami style leather pouch” and drafted my own (very simple) pattern; I'm afraid I've lost the links I used.

My SO mentioned that it looks like pouch of gold coins from fantasy games, but the real contents are much more preciooouuuusss:

(the biggest, heavier steel washers I could find in the local DIY stores, that I use as pattern weights)

¹ that I got for free under the menace “if you don't come to take this (and other perfectly working things, including some almost-new garments) I'm going to throw everything away”

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Inspired by an article that @Fabio wrote, I spent this afternoon configuring an nginx to serve video streams.

Almost everything works, except that apparently my letsencrypt configuration has broken (aaargh). Well, it can still be used with a non-matching certificate until I get to fix it.

And then I tried to install OBS Studio, and discovered that my laptop is too old, and it doesn't even try to load.

:(

@Fabio

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Teryl's Tales of Whim~

2020-03-27 06:55:47


The crones huddled in their secluded hut, brewing merrily.

They startled as a voice called from the entrance, "Are you well?"

"We are," said one.

"For now," said another.

"Supplies are running a bit low," mentioned the third.

"I can fetch what you need," offered the voice.

"What do you wish in return?"

"The secret to your health."

They agreed, gave the list and it was fulfilled.

"So what is your secret?"

"Wash your hands; now go."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

#fantasy #writing #MicroFiction #TootFic #TerylsTales

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Kiwix

2020-03-22 07:07:12

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RT @wolfwithdances@twitter.com

Decided to keep a local copy of reference essentials just in case anything disconnects us. All of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Project Gutenberg's eBooks, and some Linux distributions. That's it there, on my pinky.

The world may be terrifying these days, but it's still kind of amazing.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wolfwithdances/sta…


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ghose [D*]

2020-03-10 04:42:35


debian


debian social

GREAT NEWS!


#pleroma #pixelfed #peertube #writefreely and .... more?

The Debian social team aims to run a few services under the debian.social domain. Our goal is to create a safe space for Debian contributors (whether their project members or not) to share what they're doing in the project and to showcase their work, collaborate with others and share knowledge. Just like planet Debian, it's completely fine for these platforms to have a personal touch, however, our goal is not to create any kind of social network per sé.


You can read it here!

#debian #debiansocial

#Debian #Pleroma #peertube #pixelfed #Writefreely #debiansocial

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#InCoWriMo wrapup...

#InCoWriMo has finished, time for a bit of wrapup.

On feb 20th I had written 21 letters, which a) was my bare minimum objective b) meant that I was perfectly on time. Then SnowCamp happened, and it was great, but it also meant I just stopped writing (aaahhh, too many things to dooooooo. ugh, post-conference blues).

Yesterday at the last possible minute I finished one letter and a handful of postcards, so I'm at 25; I still have two letters I really want to write anyway, and then I don't know if I want to look for two other things to write, even if I'm late, or just be happy with 27.

I've also started three correspondences that will hopefully continue beyond February (yay!).

And now, back to the regular avatar…

#InCoWriMo

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Ex-Fedi Workers' Collective

2020-02-19 23:27:38


I hear tech folks saying that RSS is dead, and people on social media saying that blogs are dead.

The problem with this is twofold:

- RSS is doing just fine, and not even remotely dead

- Blogs are doing just fine, and are not even remotely dead, either

There's this strange sort of defeatism around. "Well, we lost, so what can you do". Um, not undermine things that still work and are actively being used? Support them as well?

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always impermanent

2020-01-31 00:10:13


Y'all, imma issue a challenge:

Before buying a thing on Amazon, take just two minutes to see if it's available elsewhere online.

There's very often another seller that is price competitive, and free shipping is super common these days.

If you still wanna buy from Bezos I'm not gonna stop you, but it's worth at least checking for alternatives. Divesting yourself can be easier than you might think.

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