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mi sono accorta di essermi dimenticata di assaggiare il campione di Gold Blend McEntee: quando ho aperto la busta le foglie avevano quasi profumo di caffé

poi avevo bisogno urgente di un té e quindi ho sbagliato a puntare il timer e non so quanto tempo sia rimasto in infusione, per cui non posso ancora fare confronti con gli altri (uooops, fortuna che il campione non è monodose), ma in generale sembra approvato anche questo, nella categoria amari e risveglianti.

@Robo

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minor body complaints

After four days on and off of building ikea furniture (on the floor, of course), as I was walking up the stairs my legs had an union meeting and started to make demands.

I told them that I can't give them a pay rise, but I suggested a significant reduction in working hours (for the same pay, of course), and they haven't started a strike yet.

We are still negotiating about a warm shower.

Related, those cheap knee pads we bought almost on a whim a few months ago are starting to go quite high in the list of best way to spend 5-ish €

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So @hexephre and I have been working on a secret project lately & now we are excited to present to you:

✨ Fedi Trading Cards! ✨

- Create your own personal trading card(s) and share them with friends!
- There are no rules to this game, so put whatever you want on there! Or make up your own rules!
- Use the #FediCard tag to share with other fedi...carders? cardizens??
- Collect them ALL 😤

nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmake…

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"End this accused meeting!" Conan's bellow was nearly inaudible over the resounding crack of his huge fists against the table. "Tis been half an hour, and those IT mages still struggle to connect with Zuul. Must we continue to waste..."

"For the last time, it's ZOOM." cut in the frustrated manager.

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Leggo casualmente in giro una certa preoccupazione e/o svariate discussioni sul problema delle migrazioni di utent* dai sn commerciali al fediverso, a seguito delle merdate cicliche dei vari proprietari miliardari.
Beh, negli anni che ho passato qui, ho visto queste dinamiche succedere ogni tot. Anch'io le prime volte mi sentivo infastidito dall'atteggiamento spesso verbalmente e psicologicamente aggressivo di persone abituate ad algoritmi e bolle social echo-chamber autoreferenziali basate su numeri di followers.

Però posso dirvi che il 90% delle nuove persone che sbarcheranno qui in questo periodo, non faranno altro che lamentarsi che il fediverso è troppo difficile senza sforzarsi un minimo di capire, non chiuderanno l'account commerciale e torneranno di là a leccare algoritmi appena passata la bufera. Durano un mese. 🤗

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Why am I here and not on #Bluesky or #Threads? Because here I am on my own instance, hosted in the EU, and not on a centralised service from the US (which both Bluesky and Threads are) where soon a Trump government is installed that can easily force both Bluesky and Threads to hand over full access to all my data (I am quite sure Musk is already offering the X/Twitter social graph to Trump). That's my personal risk calculation. Yours might be very different. And that's perfectly fine! 1/3
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷

And yes, I still treat every single post and message here as ultimately being stored and analysed by adversaries because for me the Pub in ActivityPub means public. My private communication happens via Signal or old fashioned pen and paper. Or, even more often, by direct communication over a coffee, beer or a walk outside :) 2/3
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in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷

Another reason for staying here is metadata. Trust me, not many organisations out there really care about the content of your posts. They focus far more on the connections and frequency of data on likes, boost, follow/unfollow etc. In a centralised service that metadata is, uhm, centralised too and easy to access. In a federated network that isn't that easy, especially when, like me, you live on your own instance and not a big one like mastodon.social. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive. 3/3
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jerry-rigged electronics

TFW you have to reflash a device on site, and forgot home the mini-breadboard and jumper cables that you use to ground pin 9 on the board, but an electrician has just finished working on the 230V lines and they have left droppings (i.e. small bits of electric cable of unknown size)

it worked, the device is now reflashed and safely in position :D

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Meta (Facebook & Instagram) is purging links to our comics going back a decade and forbidding folks from sharing even in private chats. This does severely limit our ability to reach our followers, BUT people can join our Patreon FOR FREE to still receive comic updates!
patreon.com/OhJoySexToy
#Censorship #SexPositive

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I've just declared sock mending bankruptcy.

(I'm talking about thin cotton ones, not thicker wool ones I've knit)

* darning them is basically useless: as soon as they have been darned they break somewhere else
* patching them with bits of other socks works, but takes some effort and I have a years-long backlog. really. it's a huge bag and I'm not going to go through it ever, and there are others in various piles around the house
* I need materials to fill a few draught excluders, and I don't have enough textile waste of other types (that I don't want to reuse in some other way)

#sewing #sewingPersonProblems

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x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"

You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.

These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.

This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.

If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?

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going to fawn over Standard Ebooks site standardebooks.org for a minute here

So aside from providing beautiful ebooks of public domain books, the site is blazing fast serving pages for so many books, and it's all static pages:

alexcabal.com/posts/standard-e…

Then look on a page for a book. There's a render of a book with the cover, the books at like an angle and if you hover over it the book floats a little.

Turn off javascript and the pic still renders and floats a little. If you right click and say open pic in new tab just the unaltered cover comes up.

Which means all the magic to take the cover and turn into a render of a book with a floating animation is all done in CSS.

And even better, go to a typical book. Typical thickness in that render. Then go to a big book, like The History and Decline of the Roman Empire.

standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwa…

Look at that chonk of a book in the rendering. So each book rendering is rendered the relative thickness of the book. Just such a cool detail.

edit: Oh, and go to the feeds for books:

standardebooks.org/feeds

There's OPDS (the catalog feed format), and RSS and Atom. Normally, you make the mistake of going to a feed URL in your browser instead of a specific program to read feeds, and you're punished with horrible XML.

But click on any feed link here and it's the nice looking HTML like the rest of the site. Is the server determining dynamically if a browser is reading the feed or a different program? But wait, isn't the site static?

That's right, all those feeds are also good looking HTML. Just brilliant work.

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old rpg materials, lewd topics / 8th grade humor, ye olde web

TFW you're packing up your RPG books and in the second row in the back you find a printout of The Complete Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

and you have to see if it still exists online

and yes, it does!

textfiles.com/rpg/carnal.txt

and has even been updated to d20!

carnal.orfinlir.de/

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This contains good information too: youtube.com/watch?v=NExdHb1-_D…

The main choice to make is whether one wants to have a new machine or a second hand heavy duty pro version which I recommend. ;-)

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Do you think Instagram/TikTok are a problem and you'd like a tiny, free and cheap fanzine to spread around the awareness?

Say no more!

Download it here:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/TgG5fAx…

This is an 8 page copyleft fanzine, printable on a single A4 sheet. You can cheaply print/photocopy and give it to your friends or just leave it around.

Here's how to fold it:
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/19vxGAm…

Text + layout by me, translation by @valentinabarreca

INSTAGRAM IS A CAGE!

(boosts appreciated!)

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I want people to maintain personal sites in the same way they wrote zines. I want people to share homemade music through homemade social networks, and to create both just for the pure love of it. I want our personalities to come through not just in the words or links we share, but in the URLS we use and the code we write. I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from. Basically, to bring back all the things that made the early internet so exciting and open and welcoming.


~ from Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!, by Zach Mandeville

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Gente, butto qui la cosa anche se non so come siamo messi a livello di gente in brianza e zone limitrofe.

Ma se si tirasse in piedi un piccolo gruppo Origami (con ritrovo tipo una volta al mese e modelli adatti sia a neofiti che gente navigata) qualcuno qui sarebbe interessat?

Battete un colpo anche solo se verreste a fare un giretto per vedere che aria tira :ls003_folpo:

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Promemoria quotidiano: per favore i thread sulle elezioni politiche americane sotto CW.

Già se ne parla ovunque, facciamo che se qui qualcun vuole evitare l'argomento possa farlo senza problemi.

Grazie.

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Where to Buy Books Other than Amazon

A few years back I had a habit of every six months or so doing a thread on Fedi about options for getting books other than Amazon. Eventually it finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.

Here’s the updated version for the new site.

jessmahler.com/where-to-buy-bo…

#bookstodon #AmReading

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TFW stai tornando a casa a piedi dal centro vaccinale con una #mascherina ancora appesa all'orecchio per asciugare al sole, e davanti a te ci sono degli operai che stanno tagliando la strada e sollevando una nube enorme di polvere

sbattito 0%, risultato 100%!

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Today I've put this mirror on one wall

and I just had to ask it.

However, in Italian the mirror mirror phrase end with “who's the fairest *in the kingdom*”, and of course the mirror remained blank, since we live in a republic.

However, we do have a Marquess, who walks around the block looking for spots in the sun, demanding tribute and giving purrs in exchange, so I tried asking for the fairest *in the march*. I was deeply disappointed to see that the mirror remained blank and did not show any of the local cats.

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Oggi ho appeso questo specchio al muro

e ho dovuto fargli la domanda.

Giustamente è rimasto vuoto, dato che viviamo in una repubblica e non in un reame.

Però abbiamo un Marchese che gira per l'isolato alla ricerca di posti scaldati dal sole, richiede tributi e in cambio fa le fusa, e quindi ho provato a chiedere chi fosse la più bella *del marchesato*. Sono rimasta profondamente delusa dal fatto che lo specchio sia rimasto vuoto e non si sia messo a mostrare immagini dei gatti locali.

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I know it's only November, but I'd like to make a request: if you are buying toys for kids in the next couple of months, and think you might have old ones that you want to clear out, please consider donating them before the holidays rather than after. Shelters and charities always get a glut of donations in January, but they'd be more useful to the families who need them now rather than then. Thank you.

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cibo, bua minima, +

come è tradizione per il primo novembre, i miei pollici e indici sono escoriati e leggermente scottati per aver sbucciato caldarroste bollenti alla stessa velocità a cui riuscivo a mangiarle, per evitare di mangiare di meno delle altre persone a tavola, che stavano facendo la stessa cosa.

me. felice.

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Vendo ad offerta libera / regalo ultimo dvd della serie Full Metal Panic, anno 2004, con cofanetto.

Zona Varese / Como

Ho dei ricordi vaghi sul motivo per cui avevo preso solo l'ultimo dvd, ma se a qualcuno servisse per completare la serie posso cederlo volentieri

#MastoMercatino #MastoRegalo @Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️

cars, medium size, +

Things that fit on a Yaris and don't require a truck, number 23124: 6 square meters of 1 cm thick wood planks of the type used to cover walls or ceilings

(luckily we needed them 235 cm long and had the shop cut them, because we only had a few cm of length left in the car :D )

(although we could have probably loaded them in a different way and get another bit of length)

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automobili, di taglia media, +

cose che ci stanno su una Yaris e per cui non c'è bisogno di un pickup numero 23124: 6 metri quadri di perline da 1 cm.

(per fortuna ci servivano lunghe 235 cm e ce le siamo fatte tagliare dal negozio, perché avevamo solo pochi cm di margine)

(anche se forse caricandole in un altro modo si sarebbe guadagnato qualcosa in più)

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With the big new Adafruit factory, and Ladyada & pt's move to Brooklyn also complete, it's time to turn our attention to some older projects that have fallen by the wayside. Here's an update to our Floppsy board (blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/08/d…), it's floppy disk-shaped and is intended to be a fully open hardware / open source interface to archive diskettes.
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This version adds Apple Disk ][ (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_II) support via a 2x10 IDC connector. Thankfully we were able to recycle many of the GPIO from the classic 'shugart' 2x17 IDC connector for the diskII, but we had to splurge for an extra -12V bias power supply - we went for the TPS65130 (digikey.com/short/t4rd9503) a low-cost split supply generator -

aaaaand I've caused an email to be sent to a number of work address just before 7 in the morning of a Sunday.

(I was reading wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_S… for personal reasons, as one does on 7 in the morning of a Sunday, and found a workaround for a problem I had at $DAYJOB, so I added a note to the relevant ticket)

(and honestly if the people involved get a notification from their work email at that hour, that's their problem: it's all people above me in the power hierarchy and it's not like we have a culture of having to be ready to reply to things at all hours, to the contrary)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

e stamattina, domenica, ho fatto sì che un'email arrivasse all'indirizzo del lavoro di un po' di gente subito prima delle 7.

(stavo leggendo wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_S… per questioni personali, come è normale fare alle 7 di mattina della domenica, e ho trovato un workaround per un problema che avevo al lavoro, quindi ho aggiunto una nota al ticket opportuno)

(e onestamente, se qualcuno ha ricevuto una notifica dalla sua email di lavoro a quell'ora, è un problema suo: è tutta gente con più potere di me e non abbiamo una cultura aziendale che impone di essere pronti a rispondere a tutte le ore, anzi)

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Viaggio dentro Montblanc, tra delocalizzazioni in loco e sfruttamento altreconomia.it/viaggio-dentro… #lavoratoritessile #Approfondimento #idustriatessile #campibisenzio #aziendelusso #madeineurope #stilografica #abitipuliti #montblanc #sindacati #montblac #lusso

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Asemic Writing, a Zine


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Posted on October 24, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine
An open booklet with lines that look like some kind of cursive non-alphabetic script, framed by a border in the same script and four symbols in the corners.

I have no idea either.

The front of that booklet, with three lines of fake text in different sizes and a circle of the same.

Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess.


A template on white paper with pencil lines where text is supposed to go.

Multiple A4 sheet of tracing paper with fake text, plus an A6 sheet and a white A6 sheet with a stamp impression.

If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template).

A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped on white paper because the ink from the pad wasn’t working well on tracing paper.

Then everything was scanned (with the correction on top of the wrong page) asemic_zine_scans.tar.

Imported in Inkscape and traced asemic_zine_svg.tar.

Printed, cut in half, folded and stapled. The magenta lines weren’t by design, but are there because my printer is currently2cursed.

And finally, asemic_zine.pdf was created, joining the pages together with pdfjam, for convenience in case somebody wants to download the full thing.

All the .tar and .pdf downloads from this page are released under the WTFPL, or All Rites Reversed..


  1. it’s still technically Maladay when I write this, even if by the time you’ll get this it’s probably the 6th of The Aftermath.↩︎
  2. I mean, all printers are always cursed, but at different times they can be cursed in different and novel ways.↩︎

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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 la robba è arrivata. ripeto, la robba è arrivata.

(quella da mcenteestea.com/ )

Dopo pranzo ho provato l'Irish Afternoon, che ha un gusto bello amaro e astringente, quasi allappante ma nel senso buono.

L'unico problema è che anziché svegliarmi mi ha fatto rilassare.

C'è dentro lo stesso principio attivo rilassanti della camomilla¹!11!11ONE!111 #noncielodiconoh

¹ la camomilla non contiene principi attivi rilassanti, se non l'acqua calda

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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 a merenda invece abbiamo assaggiato il Sencha (té verde), per fortuna preso solo come campione da 20 grammi, e quello invece è stato fortemente deludente: insulso e pochissimo saporito.

O meglio, sarebbe stato deludente se avessi avuto aspettative, ma tutto sommato gli Irlandesi non è che siano famosi per i loro té verdi, per cui le aspettative erano basse, e posso dimenticarmene senza danno e tornare a comprare té verde dalle coppie italo-nipponiche :D

@Robo
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Più o meno come faccio io col formaggio, andando a comprarlo a decine di kg al caseificio e surgelandolo.
Non è che abbia sconti particolari, ma il prezzo rispetto a qui mi copre abbondantemente il viaggio.
E lo stesso faccio ogni volta che c'è qualcosa a lunga conservazione in offerta speciale in qualche supermercato.
Ovviamente bisogna avere un freezer grande, e una casa nella quale ci stia sia il freezer che tutte le altre scorte, cosa impossibile in un monolocale.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 e la fiducia nel fatto che non ti staccheranno la corrente, facendo andare male tutto ciò che c'è nel freezer, e a seconda di dove vivi i soldi per comprare un pacco batterie per tenere il freezer acceso se la corrente salta.

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I’m gonna be honest, it is difficult to take your anticapitalist “revolutionary” group seriously when they meet on Microsoft Teams and have documents saved on Google.

I understand meeting nontechnical people where they’re at, but this is just a bad look, y’all.

Also I feel like “meeting people where they’re at” would ideally involve helping them surpass where they’re at, rather than merely dropping to their level.

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To be honest, it is difficult to take anticapitalistic groups seriously if they use laptops at all. Laptops (and smartphones too) are basically a lot of capitalism squeezed and packed very hard to fit inside the the small devices we use today.

Electric power is pretty capitalistic too. Most electric power in the world is generated and distributed by huge capitalistic companies. Even if you have PV at home I doubt your panels were made by a local family-owned shop.

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