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In engineering we say "Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick 2"'. AI is when you pick Fast twice.
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In engineering we say "Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick 2"'. AI is when you pick Fast twice.
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Destickening?
I have a pile of stickers to destash again because I have been super-stressed due to Alasdair's health and buying stickers and need to sort out what I want to keep..
It's totally fine if you've got stickers before to ask again, no shame.
Holo stickers, activist stickers, trans stickers, totally random and weird stickers not related to any of the above. Also some waterproof decals.
If we are mutuals I might include something I think suits you in particular. 🤔
Example selection:
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Il cavo che modificò la misura del mondo - RSI rsi.ch/cultura/storia/Il-cavo-…
Il cavo che modificò la misura del mondo - RSI
1866: il cavo transatlantico permanente unì Europa e America, rivoluzionando le comunicazioni globali. Scopri come il Great Eastern cambiò per sempre il mondo.rsi
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@Fucina Fibonacci una delle persone coinvolte è Isambard Kingdom Brunel, personaggio famoso nella storia della scienza e tecnologia vittoriana
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Years ago, I bought A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (lizhaywood.com.au/a-year-of-ze…) as a zine, with the intent to print and bind it when it was completed.
Then our printer was acting up, and there were other reasons to delay, so I postponed the printing and not exactly forgot about it, but it went quite low on the list of priorities.
Now I could have used a printed version of the pleating pages from December, so I decided it was a good time to print everything and fit binding it between other projects.
We have a new #printer, we've had it for quite some time and have been quite happy with it.
It printed every number of the zine with very little issues¹, with automatic two sided printing, everything was working fine
Until December.
It didn't print December. out of toner. for the first time since we bought it.
It claims we had been warned about it. Probably on a notice board in the usual underground corridor with no lights.
They know.
¹ and those were strictly between keyboard and chair
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Anni fa ho comprato A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (lizhaywood.com.au/a-year-of-ze…) mentre usciva come zine, con l'intenzione alla fine di stamparlo e rilegarlo.
Quando ben è stato il momento la nostra stampante faceva le bizze, e poi ci son state altre ragioni, e insomma ho rimandato la stampa, e non me ne sono totalmente dimenticata, ma era finito in basso nella lista delle priorità.
Adesso mi avrebbe fatto comodo una versione stampata delle pagine di dicembre sulle pieghe, quindi ho deciso che era il momento giusto per stamparlo e rilegarlo, in mezzo ad altri progetti.
Abbiamo una #stampante nuova, da un po' di tempo, e ne siamo abbastanza contenti.
Ha stampato tutti i numeri della zine quasi¹ senza problemi, con la stampa fronte e retro automatica, tutto stava funzionando senza fare una piega.
Fino a dicembre.
Non ha stampato dicembre. Toner finito. per la prima volta da quando ce l'abbiamo.
Dice di averci avvisato. Probabilmente su una bacheca nel solito corridoio sotterraneo senza luci.
Lo sanno.
¹ gli unici problemi in realtà sono stati tra sedia e tastiera
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Non credo di aver mai guardato i livelli di toner o inchiostri per la stampante, di conseguenza ogni volta che finiscono (finivano) sono bestemmie 
@Yaku
@Yaku
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@Whiskey a gogo @Vespa cartolaia ah, pensavo che voi foste organizzati, col fatto di usarle per lavoro :D
io ero abituata con le due stampanti precedenti che mesi prima (per i nostri standard di consumo¹) iniziavano a fare terrorismo “ordina il toner che sta per finire! presto! sbrigati!” con luci colorate lampeggianti e ci mancava solo che suonassero una sirena.
questa invece a quanto pare è molto discreta e riservata
¹ tendiamo a stampare botte di tante (~100) pagine tutte assieme, e poi niente o quasi per qualche settimana
@Vespa cartolaia @Whiskey a gogo (ah, comunque le stampanti prima onestamente erano pure ansiogene, potrebbe non spiacermi qualcosa di un po' più morigerato, basta saperlo :) )
@Alessandro mah, io pensavo che più ad essere specificatamente il numero di dicembre fosse “pezzo che ti serve prima del progetto” come concetto generale
Today I've marked as finished *two* #sewing projects: a corset cover and a corset. There will be blog posts.
Now i have the slippers in progress, but I'm starting to think about the next #handsewing project, and I have two options.
The one I've been planning is yet another shirt, using some linen-cotton fabric from the stash in blue rather than white: something that I felt the need for this spring, and will probably use again this early autumn, when it will be still warm enough for wearing just a shirt, but also not too hot for anything that isn't white.
And then there may be the fact that I still watch youtube videos, and see stuff, and decide that I want something like that, and that I even have the fabric for it in my stash, so I have no valid reason not to. But that's something that is probably more suitable for early spring, and thus I will not start working on it until I've finished the shirt.
Or at least I will not start *sewing* it. I do have to prepare a pattern O:-)
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Oggi ho dichiarato finiti *due* progetti di cucito, un corsetto e un copricorsetto. Ci saranno post sul blog.
Adesso sto facendo le pantofole, ma sto iniziando a pensare al prossimo progetto di #cucitoAMano e ho due opzioni..
Quello che avevo già pianificato è l'ennesima camicia, usando del misto lino che ho nell'armadio, in blu anziché bianco: ne avevo sentito un po' il bisogno questa primavera, e probabilmente la si potrà usare di nuovo questo autunno, quando sarà ancora abbastanza caldo per stare in maniche di camicia, ma non più così caldo da non voler indossare niente che non sia bianco.
E poi potrebbe esserci il fatto che continuo a guardare video su youtube, e vedo cose, e decido che voglio qualcosa di simile, e che ho pure della stoffa adatta nell'armadio, e quindi non ho neanche un valido ostacolo per non farlo. Ma è qualcosa che probabilmente sarà indossabile all'inizio della primavera, e quindi non inizierò a lavorarci prima di aver finito la camicia.
O almeno non inizierò a *cucirlo*. Devo pur sempre preparare un cartamodello O:-)
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Late Victorian Vampire Shirt
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Posted on July 27, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
The recurring joke is that because of some health issues, in summer I dress like a Victorian Vampire.
But how would an actual Late Victorian Vampire dress? Picture her, she would look like some kind of eccentric gentlewoman, as vampires usually do, probably with a style that is a bit conservative, rather than following the latest fashions.
Now, she wouldn’t probably wear men’s shirts. But what if she was a lesbian1 vampire? Wouldn’t she need a fancy, frilly shirt to go with her tailored cycling suit when she’s out seducing the more active ladies in the neighbourhood?
Or maybe not. It’s not making a lot of sense, is it? But I do have a lot of shirt fabric in my stash2, and I could use a few more shirts that were practical and comfortable, but also somewhat over the top.
For the practical and comfortable I went to my trusted 1880s shirt, while for the over the top part I looked at inspiration from the earlier 18th century frilly shirts, and their later imitations.
I decided to use some nice cotton batiste I had bought quite a few years ago to make one of my first historically inspired shirtwaists: I may have a tendency to buy a bit more fabric than actually needed by the pattern, but that’s what everybody does, right?
For the ruffles I decided to use a lighter weight cotton voile, also from the stash.
At the front, I wanted the ruffle to be inserted in the yoke, but I was also whipstitching the gathers to it to make them neater, so I started bu attaching the yoke lining to the gathered front, then I whipstitched the ruffle to the front, catching each gather, and finally I whipstitched the other yoke on the ruffle and the rest of the gathered front.
And then after sewing the collar, I realized that this way the slit would have remained open in the front (or the collar too narrow), so I had to unpick the front part of the yoke, and sew it again, this time leaving an excess of fabric as wide as half the placket width from the pattern, to be sewn directly in the collar band.
From then, things progressed smoothly, with some interruptions, until I got to the first sleeve, which I failed to insert twice, as one does.
On the third attempt, with a different method, I succeeded, I tried the shirt on, and it already felt extra.
But it could be even more extra. With some ruffles also at the collar.
The shirt had been made with a simple collar band, and I could have just added the ruffle to it, but I also wanted to be able to wear it with other detachable collars, so I decided to make another collar band with ruffles, to wear on top.
And that was mostly it, except for the reinforcement patches at the side seams and cuffs: I love having them, because they make the seam end neater and stronger, but they are a bit of a hassle to make, so they got postponed a few days.
But finally, the shirt was done.
And I tried it on, and it was good.
But now I really need a pair of cycling breeches, don’t I?
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@Ed grazie!
(che poi è tutta scena, ma non è niente di difficile)
(così, nel caso qualcuno volesse scopiazzare o prendere ispirazione)
Forget a logo for your exploit.
Your language needs a theme song. Preferably metal.
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La butto qui, non è urgente non è indispensabile.
Qualcuno sa come bypassare un tag rfid?
Nel dettaglio:
La nostra copertinatrice di libri scolastici funziona con un tag rfid che sta nelle confezioni dei rotoli di plastica, con quel tag puoi fare solo un certo numero di tagli per confezione, poi la macchina si ferma.
Volevo provare ad aggirarlo, perché usiamo la macchina anche per ritagliare strisce di plastica da riutilizzare come confezioni regalo per singole penne o matite (invece di buttarle via).
Grazie.
Boost graditi 
#Mastocartolaio #Hacking #Rfid
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deduco il lettore rfid sia sulla macchina e le bobine abbiano un tag rfid univoco. Sarebbe da verificare se comunicano in emulazione tastiera o in seriale. Un dispositivo come flipper zero potrebbe analizzare i pacchetti rfid e riprodurli simulando una nuova bobina
Tanto per risollevare la quantità di #positività nel mio profilo, rispolvero un #soloCoseBelle in salsa #gatto con queste pagine di wikipedia (collegate) che mi hanno fatto scoprire cose bellissime che non sapevo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mo…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(c…
La prima consiglio sopratutto il Partisanship study.
La seconda è una chicca dall'inizio alla fine
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@Electric Sheep certo che anche se il governo non lo paga, un po' si comporta da dipendente pubblico, eh :D
“The final straw came on Thursday when Mr Cameron caught Larry cat-napping on his chair in his No.10 study as another mouse scurried across the room. When he tried to wake Larry to do his duty one eye opened but the moggy wouldn't budge.”
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Debian Logo drawn with lights at UNL ATE hotel during DebConf26!
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"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."
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I know that each of us is different
and i know that i am very wierd, cause I don't own a smartphone
but, in general, on avg, software in 2026 is way way better then software in 2010
that is my experience
I neglected to share last week’s backer update, but here it is belatedly! In which I share my love for a particular short story by Annie Proulx, and talk about the dictionary that appears when you look up a word from it. Also: highlights, bookmarks, and more! crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific…
Never a Loss for Words: Search, Highlights, and Dictionaries
This update is about the reading reflexes, all the things your hands already know how to do with a book and that Open Book Touch implements: mark your place or mark a passage, consult the table of contents, flip ahead and back again, skim for a word …Crowd Supply
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Hey, I'm curious what is the difference between regular and author's edition? the description is kind of vague
@a There will be a backer update explaining in a couple of weeks. Part of it is, the level of interest in the author's edition determines what's possible, but in general it's a different industrial design, likely with different materials, that will be nicer than the standard edition. much like bunnie did with the "Omakase" version of the Precursor, it's a "you'll have to trust me" thing — but I'm striving to make it something really special.
Dear #3dPrinting-verse,
is there something I should know about prusa / printables.com?
I was vaguely thinking about making an account and publishing a few stl files for convenience (the original files are on my git repo, and they will remain there, but they are published as openscad source code), is it something I should avoid?
I don't think that there is a fediverse platform for 3d-printing files, right? mediaGoblin never got activityPub compatibility, iirc?
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There is @manyfold. I have no experience with it but I think it's a federated 3D-models platform.
And if there's anything to know about prusa I'd like to know too. That's my first goto if I'm looking for a download (and also they made my printer so 🤷♀️).
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@openess it is indeed! Take a look at manyfold.app or sign up to our public instance 3dprint.social 😁
@openess the name we ask for gets used as the *creator* name (which is what people would follow), not the account username (which doesn’t get used for much). The prefix is intentional but we know it’s ugly, one day we hope to come up with something better!
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@Manyfold @Fabio I think I tried @ valhalla @ 3dprint.social 3dprint.social/creators/valhal… and @ u;valhalla @ 3dprint.social
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@fabrixxm hm, ok the first one should be ok, just managed to follow it from here (Mastodon). Could well be a bug with other interop… could you pop any details you can into an issue on our GitHub repo? github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold
GitHub - manyfold3d/manyfold: A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files.
A self-hosted digital asset manager for 3d print files. - manyfold3d/manyfoldGitHub
@Fabio and here is the issue, when you have time to do those tests again and add the data you got from them:
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The right button on my mouse had stopped working (yesterday afternoon)
So this morning I opened the mouse, cleaned the dead bodies around the wheel, cleaned everything else a bit, tried the button on the PCB, it worked, closed the mouse again, it did not work
I opened the mouse again, asked @Diego Roversi to look at it, he did, he tried the button on the PCB, it did not work, he looked at it with a bit more intent¹, tried it again, it worked, I closed the mouse and it's now working.
Now, I'm happy about the mouse working again, but.
¹ ok, there may have been a bit of canned air
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Il bottone destro del mio mouse aveva smesso di funzionare (ieri pomeriggio)
Quindi stamattina ho aperto il mouse, pulito i cadaveri attorno alla rotella, pulito un po' il resto, provato il bottone sul PCB, funzionava, chiuso il mouse, non funzionava più.
Ho aperto di nuovo il mouse, chiesto a @Diego Roversi di dargli un'occhiata, ha provato il bottone sul PCB, non funzionava, l'ha guardato con più intento¹, provato ancora, funzionava, ho chiuso il mouse e adesso funziona.
Ora, mi fa piacere che il mouse funzioni ancora, ma.
¹ ok, potrebbe esserci stata una spruzzatina di aria compressa
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Io capisco. Anche io sono a volte usato come sacerdote/feticcio per problemi tecnici (più software che altro). Si dice che tra i programmi giri qualche voce per cui debbano avere paura di me, per cui normalmente con la mia presenza le cose funzionano, o almeno fanno cose diverse.
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I've started a new #sewing project and it's sewn by machine!
which means that I've spent the afternoon handsewing buttonholes, because of course buttonholes are sewn by hand :D
it's my take on the corset cover from archive.org/details/americansy… , for which I've seen other blog posts that gave completely different results, so I wanted to make another one for myself to post my method.
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Ho iniziato un nuovo progetto di #cucito, ed è cucito a macchina!
E quindi ho passato il pomeriggio a cucire occhielli a mano, perché ovviamente gli occhielli si fanno a mano :D
È la mia versione del copricorsetto di archive.org/details/americansy… per cui ho visto dei post su blog che davano dei risultati totalmente diversi, quindi volevo farmene un'altro per pubblicare il mio metodo.
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also, the hems I've done this morning would have been much neater if done by hand.
but also, this is technically underwear, and from a 1909 book, quite into sewing machine age, and I'm doing this to write instructions and I want to write instructions for doing this on the sewing machine.
hemming foot it is.
e gli orli che ho cucito stamattina sarebbero venuti molto meglio fatti a mano.
ma anche, questa è tecnicamente biancheria, e arriva da un libro del 1909, ampiamente nell'era delle macchine da cucire, e lo sto facendo per scrivere istruzioni e voglio scrivere istruzioni per farlo a macchina.
che piedino orlatore sia.
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and surely sewing by machine is fast. the only thing left is to attach the sleeves, and then I only have some finishing to do by hand (such as buttons and buttonholes).
e certo che cucire a macchina è veloce: l'unica cosa che manca è inserire le maniche, e poi mi mancano solo un po' di rifiniture da fare a mano (tipo bottoni e occhielli).
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Comunque molto in sordina, ma con quel genio di @cedmax (ha fatto il 98,9% lui, io ho dato solo due input) "abbiamo" tirato in piedi blogroll.it/
Cos'è Blogroll.it?
È un aggregatore dell'Indieweb italiano dove si vogliono raccogliere le voci di questo "sottobosco". Nelle pagine del progetto trovate tutte le informazioni (anche per partecipare, forza e coraggio!)!
Con più calma elaboro meglio, ma nel frattempo... segnalate pure bug o rogne e godetevi questa boccata d'aria fresca ❤
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sicuramente interessante, leggendo però le perentorie specifiche di adesione traspare fortissima la passione per l'ordine e disciplina :)
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We're turning 21 today, if you can believe it!! 😱🥳🎊
Come join us on the Postcard Lounge and write postcards together with postcrossers all around the world!
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Intanto #trenord abilita il servizio di pagamento del biglietto con carta di credito, passandola alla stazione di salita e di discesa
senza dover litigare con le loro macchinette infernali che discriminano contro i non morti
peccato che sia abilitato solo su due linee, per ora, ma siamo fiduciosi per il futuro :D
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Cockades!
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Posted on July 10, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing
Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I found some ribbon that looked passable, but the colours I wanted weren’t available, so I set up the website to notify me, and kept working on the hat.
Eventually the hat was done, the ribbon was still not available, so I decorated the hat with fake flowers from my stash, and started wearing it.
And that’s when I got notified that the ribbon was back in stock.
By the time the ribbon arrived, I had decided that the hat looked better with the flowers, and project cockade was put on hold, possibly for a future hat.
And then June came, and what could be a better time than that for a project based on flag colours?
As I feared, the ribbon I got wasn’t the best: it was a bit too stiff and plasticy, and not really usable for many other things. It did however work well enough for a cockade, and I decided it was a good chance to try different methods and designs, and then make another one to take pictures and publish step-by-step instructions.
And that’s the perfect recipe to find oneself surrounded by a somewhat unreasonable number of very similar cockades, I guess.
I looked around for instructions, and the ones that gave a result that was closer to my mental idea of a cockade were the ones by American Duchess, so on my first attempt I tried to follow those.
I didn’t have a cork board with a hole, so it was a bit fiddly, and the result was passable, but could have been better. Meanwhile I saw a forum post commenting on the above tutorialand that gave me ideas for a procedure more suitable to the tools I had.
The second cockade I made was indeed more satisfactory, and I also started to experiment with making a center piece with ribbons, to cut down on the types of materials needed.
On this one I also tried to add a pin backing, so that I could write instructions on how to do it in what I believe is a more stable way than simply adding it to the felt backing at the end.
I’m not sure whether the other ones will be tacked to a hat, and thus won’t require pins at all, or if I’ll just put them on some dress with pins hidden under the ribbon layers.
And then I was ready to make a third cockade, taking step by step pictures for my website, and I planned to start on it the next morning.
Trenord had different ideas.
Thanks to the combination of independent but complete disruptions ontwo nearby train lines, I spent the morning driving a couple of people to the nearest station that was still being served by trains, and then back home less than 10 minutes before I had to start working, which if you ask1 me was pretty homophobic of the train company.
There was way less traffic than I expected, and I did enjoy the drive2, but for various reasons it meant a significant delay for this post.
Anyway, less than a week later than I had planned, halfway in June I managed to publish step by step instructions on my website, but I wasn’t done with the project yet.
Beside the fact that I still needed to finish sewing the backing felt to the cockades I had done, I also had a few ideas for more centrepieces made of ribbon I wanted to try.
And this means that I moved on to another project that was already in progress (this one will also be blogged).
After I’ve finished that one, at the very end of June I quickly made the last two centrepieces, taking pictures for the instructions, and in the next few days I also finished the cockades.
This time, instead of plain pleats I tried to use box pleats, and I quite like the look they give, so if in the future I’ll have a need for more cockades I may use again this pleating pattern.
For the last cockade I wanted to try two things: putting a pin in the middle as a centrepiece, and gathering the ribbons.
For the pin, I found that the only one I had that had a colour scheme compatible with the ribbons I had was one with the penguin from linux.it, which had a black background, so I put black ribbon on the outside and white next to it for contrast.
And gathering was done with a whipped gather with ribbons that were one and a half times the outer circumference of their slot, and looks decent enough, but I think I prefer the look of pleated cockades a lot. Maybe it would look better with a softer ribbon.
Anyway, I think this is plenty of cockades for the time being, unless I get tempted by buying more colours of ribbon to make different ones. But I’m not making an online purchase just for those. I am not.
- you probably shouldn’t.↩︎
- also thanks to my partner who, on entering the destination town, told me to stop on the big, straight, two-way road with plenty of roundabouts to turn around, and went through the maze of one-way streets to the station by foot.↩︎
Today I've been *very* good and instead of cutting myself a new shirt I've picked up the twine braids I did maybe two years ago and started sewing the soles for a new pair of slippers, so that when the current ones self destructs I won't have to make new ones in a hurry.
The first part of the sewing has been done on one sole, now I'd really want to do something easier in the evening, but if I keep working on the second sole I can bring it down to the point where it's more contained, without a long tail to manage.
But I'd really want to do be sewing something else!
#selfRestraint #forwardThinking #TheShirtWillComeNext #OhWillIt!
Oggi sono stata *davvero* brava e invece di tagliarmi una nuova camicia ho tirato fuori le trecce di spago che avevo preparato forse due anni fa, e iniziato a cucire le suole per un paio di pantofole nuove, così quando quelle attuali vanno a pezzi non devo farmene un paio nuovo in fretta e furia.
Su una delle suole ho finito la prima parte delle cuciture, e stasera vorrei tanto cucire qualcosa di più semplice, ma se continuo a lavorare sulla seconda suola riesco a portarla ad un punto in cui è più compatta, senza una coda lunga da gestire.
Ma vorrei davvero cucire qualcos'altro!
#autocontrollo #PensareAlFuturo #LaCamiciaSaràLaProssima #OhSeLoSarà!
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grazie mille per i tuoi posts in due lingue, I'm learning a lot of expressions! :)
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+1 kudos
She's one of the very, very few people that bothers manually (and precisely!) translating long toots
È una delle poche, pochissime persone che si prende la sbatta di tradurre manualmente (e precisamente) toot lunghi
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@Lysander il Breve @Marcos Dione it also helps me learn Italian. which is my L1, except for sewing topics :D
mi aiuta anche ad imparare l'italiano. che è la mia madrelingua, tranne che per gli argomenti di cucito :D
(also, I don't trust automatic translations not to screw up the historical sewing details, and even less so if they had to translate between Italian and another language rather than going through English)
(e tra l'altro non mi fido che le traduzioni automatiche non faccian casino sui dettagli di cucito storico, e a maggior ragione se dovessero tradurre tra l'italiano ed un altra lingua anziché passare dall'inglese)
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@lysander ah, so Italian is your mother tongue, but the sewing terminology you only know in English. Yeap, I have the same thing with computer stuff :)
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@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve I learned the basics of sewing in Italian, but especially for the historical bits (and other somewhat advanced techniques) finding materials in English is way, way, way easier, and I've learned most of it in that language.
Computer stuff in Italian uses a lot of English loans anyway, so it's the same situation for me, but less of an issue. :D
Uhm… un paio di valenki per l'inverno?
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ho un paio di pantofole basse di feltro, credo che con le nostre temperature siano più che sufficienti :D
però devo trovare il modo di farmi delle galosce o qualcosa del genere da mettere quando esco nel portico e nelle altre parti di casa che non sono proprio esterno, ma non sono neanche interno, soprattutto quanto a ruvidità del pavimento, altrimenti le pantofole di feltro senza suola non reggono
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Avevo un po' di roba in canna e in 'sti giorni mi son deciso a riprendere qualche bozza. Fediverso e moderazione, via, olé!
cantina.ragnate.la/la-moderazi…
La moderazione sul Fediverso
Argomento leggero, carino e coccoloso che fa seguito a un post altrettanto leggero. Regà, di 'sti tempi va così, va bene? Accolliamocelo. Comunque, dicevo, moderazione sul Fediverso.Edoardo Maria Elidoro (La cantina dell'appartamento al terzo piano (senza ascensore))
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sono molto d'accordo sul CW come forma di consenso.
Sul "free speech" di Musk e dei neonazi: mi sembra più orientato ai loro commenti disgustosi e alla pubblicazione di mis/disinformazione, più che alla libera pubblicazione di notizie di politica in senso stretto (infatti sono i primi a censurare le notizie vere, ma "scomode").
@zompetto quello che vuole questa gente è il poter parlare liberamente senza conseguenze (e ovviamente vale solo per loro)
A Pair of Hair Towel Wraps
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Posted on July 2, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap: it mostly worked as an idea, but it was too short for my hair.
On the other hand, I had two old towels I wasn’t using, and a recently unpacked sewing machine.
I didn’t plan too much, I just put the STJÄRNBUSKE over the towel, cut, realized that the two pieces didn’t fit with right sides together, cut the second towel (I had planned to make two wraps, anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal), and started sewing by machine in what seemed like a reasonable procedure, taking notes and pictures.
The result was pretty good, and I started using it every time I washed my hair, but then I started to entertain the idea of shooting myself sewing the second one by hand for a video, but never found the time to actually doing it, and the pieces remained in the Pile for months, and months, and way more than a year.
Until one day I bought a meter of cotton cheesecloth (mostly because it was almost cheaper than buying a sample) and it felt like a good material to make a nicely looking head wrapper, to keep my hair out of the way when needed.
A couple months later, it was finally time to bring this project to the top of the list, and even if I was sewing two by hand it went pretty quickly: we had a weekend when it was too hot to do anything else, and by the end of it the wraps were done.
All that remained was finish writing the instructions for my FreeSoftWear patterns website <https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/contemporary_unisex/headwear/hair_towel_wrap/index.html>>, and having some pictures taken, and this project was done.
And now, on to documenting a few more things I’ve done lately, and to start working on the other projects I have added to the queue in the meantime.
- small things. Like, you know, a kitchen :D↩︎
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I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announ…
Announcing Box3D
I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games.box2d.org
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This is super cool: Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has published a ton of audio effects with a good permissive license.
> The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle is Finland's public broadcaster and holds a large audiovisual archive. The archives also contain a great amount of sound effects which have been recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques.
freesound.org/people/YleArkist…
Freesound - YleArkisto
Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?freesound.org
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The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.
...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...
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Hopefully this news about the NetNut residential proxy platform will help diminish the attacks against @lwn - krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fb…
When you first reported it, I shared it with a colleague involved with tracking residential proxies. They could see that lwn.net was showing up in some of the data they were getting about NetNut attacks.
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASD…krebsonsecurity.com
@danyork Hopefully that will help, at least for a while. The takedown of IPIDEA earlier this year calmed things considerably for a few months. They always seem to rebuild their botnets, though...
Some time ago my mother bought (online) some pairs of white cotton shorts with whitework at the hems, she tried them on, they fit, she used them a couple of times, washed them, and they no longer fit.
so, she gave them to me, and they fit me, as in “i can put them on, but I'd need to take in the waist”, but as long as I'm unpicking them to make them narrower I might as well unpick the crotch seam and turn them into proper split drawers that I can wear both as shorts under skirts to prevent chafing and as underwear under properly victorian dress with a corset and everything.
the funny thing? they have #pockets (and decently sized pockets, too!)
so, yeah, my underwear is going to have pocketses :D and I didn't even have to make them from scratch :D
Un po' di tempo fa mia madre ha comprato (online) dei pantaloncini corti bianchi con l'orlo ricamato, li ha provati, andavano bene, li ha usati un paio di volte, lavati, e non le vanno più bene.
quindi me li ha passati, li ho provati e mi vanno bene, per valori di bene “li posso indossare, ma devo stringere la vita o cadono”, ma già che sto scucendo per stringerli posso scucire anche il cavallo e fare dei mutandoni apertti per bene che posso indossare sia come panmtaloncini sotto le gonne per proteggere le cosce che come biancheria sotto i vestiti vittoriani completi di corsetto e tutto quanto.
la cosa divertente? hanno le #tasche (e anche di misura dignitosa!)
e quindi la mia biancheria avrà le tasche :D e non ho neanche dovuto cucirmela da zero :D
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I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.
I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.
Edit: Thanks for the help from @thomzane getting the server back online. It appears to have been Facebook attacking.
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I've managed to massively reduce scraper traffic with #fail2ban on my self hosted services. Here's the filter configuration I'm using to protect against the bots that at least identify themselves with their user agent: yuno.jack-case.pro/bookstack/b…
This is reading logs from NGINX running in docker, but it could be adapted for other server logs.
Happy to help navigate Fail2Ban if you need, the docs are somewhat unhelpful for getting started 😮💨
Fail2Ban LLM Bot User ... | Town Square Server
# Fail2Ban filter to match bad requests to nginx # [INCLUDES] before = common.conf [Definition] #...yuno.jack-case.pro
I've mentioned this in a comment elsewhere but fail2ban + Anubis + BadBotBlocker (github.com/mitchellkrogza/ngin…) is the current perfect mix to get rid of 99% of all attacks.
GitHub - mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker: Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for
Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail f...GitHub
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My brothers, sisters, and siblings I have spent far too long on this. I present to you:
The Periodic Table of Rock and Roll
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Today it was too hot to do, well, anything, really, so we decided to take a day off and rest.
Which means that I've spent the whole day #handsewing.
Which, one could assume, means that I've finished the vampire shirt? of course not, I still have to attach two pairs of finishing patches to the sleeve slits, of course.
But I've worked quite a bit on a new-ish project, so that's good, right?
And to be fair, I had cut the fabric for that project close to two years ago, so it didn't completely count as a *new* project either.
(It's a towel hair wrap, and a second one in a lighter fabric to use as general head wear)
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done. done. done!
I've finished the shirt, and both headwraps!
3 of the 11 handsewing projects I had in the list written at the beginning of june have been finished!
(and I've already done some work on three more)
and none of the machine sewing ones, of course
and only some in category “other”
finito. finito. finito!
ho finito la camicia, ed entrambe le cose da mettere in testa!
3 degli 11 progetti da cucire a mano che c'erano nella lista che avevo scritto ad inizio giugno sono stati finiti!
(e altri tre sono in corso)
e nessuno di quelli da cucire a macchina
e poca roba nella categoria “altro”
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ilpost.it/2026/06/27/energia-e…
“Il massimo storico risale a luglio del 2015, quando toccò 60,5 gigawatt. Negli anni più recenti i picchi si sono assestati su valori un po’ più bassi, probabilmente grazie a una maggiore efficienza degli impianti di condizionamento”
mi chiedo quanto abbia influito anche la maggior diffusione dei pannelli solari, perché i consumi dell'aria condizionata di chi li ha in teoria non dovrebbe essere visibile a Terna (se non come calo di produzione)
Quanta energia si consuma con questo caldo
La risposta breve è “tanta”, soprattutto per l'aria condizionata; per la risposta completa ci vuole qualche numero e graficoIl Post
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a quanto ne so viene conteggiata tutta l'energia prodotta e tutta quella utilizzata, almeno nei casi più comuni con un contatore in uscita e uno in entrata, non solo il netto con il singolo contatore. Non so come siete messi voi
@Alessandro c'è un contatore in uscita, ma mi risulta che conti solo l'energia che viene venduta alla rete, e un contatore in entrata che dovrebbe contare l'energia comprata dalla rete
ma quella che viene usata per caricare le batterie e/o usata direttamente sul posto non dovrebbe passare dai due contatori, ma solo dallo scatolo dell'inverter, e quello che passa di lì dovremmo vederla solo noi e il governo cinese¹
credo che passasse tutto dai due contatori negli impianti dell'epoca del conto energia?
¹ il bello delle tecnologie smart!
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why every time I read “touch your security key” when logging in in gitlab it feels like it's asking me to do something lewd?
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Intanto su ferrovie nord
varesenews.it/2026/06/tranciat…
varesenews.it/2026/06/ripristi…
Tranciati i cavi della ferrovia per un tentato furto di rame a Busto Arsizio: treni cancellati verso Malpensa, Gallarate e Novara
il tentativo di furto nella notte ha mandato in tilt i sistemi di gestione della circolazione. Corse soppresse e bus sostitutivi, tecnici di Ferrovienord al lavoro dalle 2Tomaso Bassani (VareseNews)
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soundtrack youtu.be/zB_q1I0leoI
STA ANDANDO TUTTO MALE
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.domenico bini (YouTube)
E, a tal proposito, qualcuno ha esperienza con un odroid m1 probabilmente brickato, cui temo di aver fottuto petitboot ma in realtà tutto l'SPI?
Boota diretto dall'ssd, ignorando qualunque cosa su usb (e mi torna) ma perfino mmc (e mi torna meno).
E per rendere le cose interessanti, non ho (devo ordinarlo) un usb->uart quindi non posso effettivamente vedere quel che succede se non quando poi arriva a tirar su l'hdmi
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Per la rubrica #ASpassoNellaStoria oggi parliamo del colore blu. Trattandosi di un #pippontoot vi ricordo che ogni singola parte deve essere salvata, o raggiungere almeno 5 boost, per evitarne l'autodistruzione (lo spazio sul server non è infinito e ho scelto di eliminare, dopo qualche settimana, i toot che non riscuotono interesse, così da liberare spazio). Per lo stesso motivo, se gradite, potete immaginarvi la sigla di Superquark come sottofondo mentre leggete.
Andiamo a incominciare ->
Andiamo a incominciare ->
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secondo me per la seconda si ricollega abbastanza al pallore della pelle che dicevi sopra, ma ribadisco che mia nonna è una fonte poco affidabile anche se rapportata alla media delle nonne 😅
/me, rivolta a @Diego Roversi: “stamattina quando sei entrato in casa dicendo che avevamo un pffft nellla mmm”
diego: “eh?”
si capisce cosa stavo dicendo, vero? ditemi che si capisce cosa stavo dicendo, *vero* :D
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*vero*
se non ricordo male: "La brumm del Mm, han un pffft nella mmm (3v.), e noi la ripariamo con lo gnam gnam gnamm".
se non ricordo male: "La brumm del Mm, han un pffft nella mmm (3v.), e noi la ripariamo con lo gnam gnam gnamm".
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TFW you see a building with scaffolding covered by netting in the colours of the Italian flag, and you think WTF
but then you realize you're in San Fermo della Battaglia, i.e. (if I'm not mistaken) on the very place of a locally important battle of the wars of Italian unification, and one fought by the army of idealistic volunteers, not the regular one, and then it becomes ok.
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Oggi ho visto un edificio con un ponteggio coperto con delle reti tricolore, e il primo pensiero è stato WTF
poi mi sono resa conto di essere a San Fermo della Battaglia, credo nel punto preciso della battaglia eponima, ed erano i garibaldini idealisti, non l'esercito regolare, e allora dai, direi che hanno fatto bene
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Giacché ha più volte funzionato, invoco il potere del Fediverso per riportare a casa un gattaccio che ha avuto la pessima idea di svignarsela, lasciando nell'angoscia i suoi coinquilini.
#PersoETrovato #CercoTrovo #mastodonperilsociale #caturdayeveryday
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