The #LanguageCreationSociety is planning to restock on #conlang flags in the near future, but we need to assess demand. Contact me if you would like one
@qyd0ro It's a mythical origin story for the diversity of languages, so it seemed an appropriate thing for people who create languages to use to show off their work.
@qyd0ro well, Jewish originally, but Christianity originated as an offshoot of Judaism. But it was the subject matter rather than the source that recommended it.
Been really enjoying learning #Inkscape over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.
Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.
It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.
I’ve been influenced again into feeling the need for a garment.
It was again a case of multiple sources conspiring in the same direction for unrelated reasons, but I decided I absolutely needed a linen hood, made from the heavy white linen I knew I had in my stash.
Why? I don’t know. I do like the feeling of wearing a hood, and the white linen should give a decent protection from the sun, but I don’t know how often I’m going to wear these instead of just a hat. On the other hand the linen was already there and I needed something small to sew.
My first idea was to make a square hood: some time ago I had already made one out of some leftovers of duvet cover, vaguely inspired by theS , because I have a long-term plan of making one a bit more from scratch1.
I like the fact that this pattern is completely made out of squares and rectangles, and while the flannel one is quite fitting, as suitable for a warm garment, I felt that by making it just a cm or two wider it would have worked nicely for a warm weather one, and indeed it did.
Except, before I even started on the square hood, I started to think that the same square top would also be good for a hood-scarf, one of those long flowy garments that sit on the head, wrap around the neck and fall down, moving with the wind and the movements of the person.
Because, let’s be honest. worn in a way that look like a veil they feel nice, it’s true. But with the help of a couple of pins then you can do this.
And no, I’ve never played that game2, and I’m not even 100% sure what it is about, other than killing people, climbing buildings and petting cats3, but that’s not really an issue when making a bit of casual cosplay of something, right?
Anyway, should anybody feel the need to make themselves a hood or ten, the patterns have been released as usual as #FreeSoftWear: square hoodand hood scarf.
I’m not going to raise the sheep :D I’m actually not even going to wash and comb the wool, I’ll start from the step just after those :D↩︎
because proprietary software, because somewhat underpowered computers and other related reasons that are somewhat incidental to the game itself.↩︎
at least two out of three things that make it look like a perfectly enjoyable activity.↩︎
today my mother mentioned thinking about the croccante (almond brittle) her grandmother used to make.
we didn't have enough almonds at home, nor the time to make proper croccante.
but we did have a slightly stale package of unsweetened cornflakes.
some sugar may have accidentally fallen into a pan, and after it was almost liquid and slightly caramelized some cornflakes may have accidentally fallen in the sugar.
(this finished a meal that had started with some popcorn, in front of a movie, and progressed with bean (and tomato) spreads on freshly baked bread. it's all vegetables so it's healthy, right?)
(oh, and we've had polenta* for lunch. but at least the bread wasn't made with cornmeal :D )
oggi mia madre stava pensando al croccante che faceva sua nonna.
non avevamo abbastanza mandorle in casa, né il tempo di preparare del croccante per bene.
però c'era in giro una confezione di cornflakes senza zucchero un po' vecchiotto.
potrebbe essere accidentalmente caduto dello zucchero in un pentolino, e quando era quasi liquido e leggermente caramellato potrebbero esserci caduti dentro dei cornflakes.
(e questo è stato il dolce in un pasto iniziato con dei popcorn, guardando un film, e proseguito con creme di fagioli (e pomodori) sul pane appena sfornato. Sono tutti vegetali quindi fanno bene, giusto?)
(ah, e a pranzo c'era stata polenta*. ma almeno il pane di stasera non era pan giald)
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I saw this screenshot posted on a Star Trek Discord server today and really liked it. A little digging turned up the original post and reply on Tumblr: roach-works.tumblr.com/post/73…
it used to bother me that all the art in star trek was really mediocre. the paintings are banal and poorly executed. the music was bland. the games were all sort of slow and lame. but like. now it...
«Matilde, splendida gattina di un anno cerca casa urgentemente
Abbandonata, è stata accolta momentaneamente dalla signora Eva nella sua casa in Valle Roya. In caso di adozione si dice disposta a portarla di persona anche a Cuneo e dintorni»
I am looking for an experienced pattern drafter to assist me with adapting Elfkin customers' blocks into production patterns. Your skills should be at a level where you're able to create patterns based on technical sketches. So that the work may be done from anywhere, I’m specifically looking for someone(s) who uses computer-based methods.
If you have these skills, live on planet earth, and would like to earn some extra money, I very much want to hear from you!
Hi there, I’m wondering if you are still in need of some digital pattern making? I’ve been a CAD patternmaker for 15 years and I’m currently in a sort of transitional phase where I could do with some extra income. I work with a German system called Grafis, but can export to dxf, pdf, whatever you need. Let me know if I can be of assistance. Sarah
Set da 6 di posate con manico giallo e supporto per appenderle (cucchiai, cucchiaini, forchette, coltelli) e set da 6 coltelli da bistecca con manico di legno e ceppo di legno.
@Oblomov mah, è tutto il pomeriggio che la mia timeline (gente che seguo) è lentissima, e quasi solo con post in inglese, e visto che contabo sta avendo problemi grossini mi chiedevo se ci fosse correlazione
se provo ad andare via web su puntarella.party o livellosegreto.it sembrano funzionare. Forse è solo il rientro dalle ferie che ha stroncato i fedinauti italiani 8-D
@Oblomov uhm, ho provato ad aprire cisti ed era lentissimo (ma potrebbe essere un mio problema), ma su mastodon.cisti.org/public/loca… vedo pochissimi post recenti, il che potrebbe spiegare alcune cose
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Oblomov quindi eri tu che avevi da fare oggi pomeriggio, e a me non arrivavano più messaggi? è stata un'ipotesi che ho fatto, in effetti :D
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' io sono un po' prevenuto, ma secondo me è tutta la monnezza che arriva da newsmast.community (che secondo me al momento è molto peggio di quanto temevo potsse essere Threads)
Da quello che ho letto il problema è sull'infrastruttura OpenStack, non so in quale datacenter. redsnake.io è su Oracle Cloud a Montreal, in Canada. bologna.one è su OVH, ma non credo usi OpenStack (dico bene @victorvandort ?)
@chiaraepoi Confermo. L'infrastruttura è nostra, OVH fornisce i server bare metal e la connettività. E i server fisici stanno in due datacenter diversi (Gravelines e Roubaix)
@𝔅𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔖𝔢𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔬 🦋 @Oblomov beh, credo che tra M1 e le istanze anarchiche non ci siano grandi punti in comune (tranne eventualmente essere per caso nello stesso datacenter, ovviamente)
There is an ongoing issue with the data center that is causing slowdown in Masto.host infrastructure: https://public-cloud.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/zchrslswkkvp
It supposed to be fixed already but I am still seeing some problems.
I wish folks would stop equating size of userbase with "success" of platform, it's never been an interesting metric to look at unless you're talking about megaplatforms that need millions and millions of people so they can just about break even by selling data and eyeballs.
Back in the forum days nobody worth taking seriously was anxious about getting millions of people onto a forum, were they? And those forums weren't "failures" because of that, cuz they still connected people with similar interests together.
Stuff like user safety, fun, sustainability, and sense of community seem more interesting to talk about, to me, when evaluating whether a space is worthwhile to engage with. Raw numbers are boring.
Vendo a offerta libera / regalo piatti con decorazioni floreali
Mi pare che siano un servizio completo da 18 e pochi piatti in più con l'altro disegno (attenzione: nel post dovrebbero esserci due foto, se non le vedete entrambe controllate il link al post originale), se c'è interesse posso controllare meglio, fare ulteriori foto, ecc. ecc.
Regalo cintura di velluto nero basata sul cartamodello della cintura edoardiana di Black Snails Patterns, taglia 34 europea.
Zona Varese / Como, eventualmente ci si può accordare per Milano.
È realizzata in velluto nero a coste sottili, foderata di cotone, con teletta di cotone non adesiva e steccata con fascette fermacavi larghe. Chiusura con tre ganci e occhielli sul retro. La lunghezza della cintura, allacciata, sono 66 cm.
Vorrei che qualcuno me la togliesse da davanti, perché si sta prendendo gioco di me e del fatto che io non abbia fatto un mockup — o almeno controllato le misure del cartamodello — prima di realizzarla.
Quando dicono che la taglia 34 è per una vita da 66 cm, con un pollice e mezzo di riduzione, intendono che la misura finale della cintura è di 63 cm. Senza lasciare spazio per il corsetto stesso e i vari vestiti che si stanno indossando sotto la cintura.
Quando me ne sono accorta ho spostato ganci e occhielli il più possibile, ma non è bastato, sopra ai vestiti con cui la volevo portare arriva *quasi* ad allacciarsi, ma non ce la fa. Probabilmente ridendo di me e dei miei sforzi.
Ovviamente si possono rispostare gli occhielli nella loro posizione corretta per riportarla alla misura finale di 63 cm, ma allargarla ulteriormente è più complicato.
Abbiate pietà di me e fatemi dimenticare questo episodio increscioso senza dover scavare una buca per sepellire la cintura, che le stecche non sono biodegradabili :D
Calling all white hat #hackers who have music knowledge. #Finale announced it was shutting down. Their files are proprietary and nothing else reads them. Composers are really screwed. This particular Mastodon (@Lichtenbergian ) composer could really use help saving his life’s work. mastodon.sdf.org/@Lichtenbergi…
This is way out of my wheelhouse, but surely someone I know can help?
@scottwilson I had started using the open source Lilypond. I'm not sure of the functionality crossover, but at least it won't suddenly disappear and the files are in text notation. lilypond.org/ #Lilypond #finale
Una scultura in marmo bianco è stata ritrovata giovedì scorso, 22 agosto, verso le 10,30 del mattino in via Vela, in località San Salvatore. Non si sa come sia arrivata lì: se sia stata persa, buttata o frutto di un furto
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twelve years ago, a painter by the name of anders ramsell painted 12,597 aquarelle paintings of blade runner, shot by shot, of the entire film edited down to ~35 minutes. it took two years of painstaking work, all done in his spare time after work each night.
the video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at.
a few months ago i spent a few hours digging for it, and finally found a copy of the original file.
i'm not sure how long it will last over at IA, so enjoy it while you can. it is a true achievement. 🙏
* A freedom-respecting computer should never prevent a user from running software they want to run
But also:
* A safety-respecting computer should never allow someone other than the user to run software that acts against the user
There's no inherent conflict here - the user should be allowed to run whatever they want, someone who isn't the user shouldn't. But how do we tell the difference?
What the fuck is SBAT, why did it break your dual-boot setup, it's not strictly my fault but if you need a scapegoat whatever: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70348.htm…
> But also distributions shipping signed bootloaders should make sure that they're updating those and updating the security generation to match, because otherwise they're shipping a vector that can be used to attack other operating systems and that's kind of a violation of the social contract around all of this.
I was getting deeply frustrated about the reporting on this which verged on "Microsoft pushing update to gatekeep Linux for no reason at all". The articles even went so far as to lightly hint that there is some security issue involved but completely missed the fact that distributions could quite easily have avoided this mess by keeping their bootloaders up to date (seriously, why isn't *this* the headline: multiple Linux distributions with 2yo security issue in the bootloader refuse to boot after signature update?). I am a bit shocked that this doesn't apply only to older and niche distros but quite recent and supported ones.
If Mozilla finally revokes a certificate we cheer on them, even if this breaks some websites. And we blame the websites that they didn't switch to a good CA in time.
And yes, MS should've done more testing too. But that stuff has been said now thousands of times and I'm just super annoyed at the reporting.
@ljrk > If Mozilla finally revokes a certificate we cheer on them, even if this breaks some websites. I don't think the comparison is fair, though... a broken SSL certificate can be worked around easily if you really need to access that website; breaking the boot bricks the entire machine (there's no "continue anyway" button), and is an order of magnitude more complex to fix for the user. Also, an update of an OS breaking the other is not something you expect.
@cvtsi2sd @ljrk I think the right metaphor for TLS is a CA is compromised and issues an invalid cert for your domain to a hostile government. What do you want to happen next?
@cvtsi2sd @ljrk Not really, obsolete TLS suites are generally difficult to crack rather than impossible to crack, obsolete bootloaders are already cracked
@cvtsi2sd @ljrk Microsoft could have detected that situation and prompted the user saying "your grub is vulnerable, this breaks secure boot's guarantees, go shout at your distro, do you want to apply the update anyway and break booting into your other OS?". They didn't. Not a great look for the company that ships so much legacy cruft for backwards compatibility. Most home users don't care about secure boot at all.
@neverpanic @cvtsi2sd @ljrk Like I said the theoretical implementation was to detect that and not do that on dual-boot setups and let the Linux distro push it instead but that failed for reasons we don't understand yet
And why is Ubuntu 24.04 affected which should ship recent enough versions of both packages (I only checked the shim version against the numbers in that other thread but would assume that grub was updated within the last two years to fix that security issue)?
Microsoft's SBAT update contains the following entries:
sbat,1,2024010900
shim,4
grub,3
grub.debian,4
You probably already spotted the problem: GRUB versions older than '3' are revoked, but so are shim versions older than '4'.
@mss grub was revoked, shim is the thing that's consuming the SBAT variable to refuse to boot grub, I honestly do not know what the Ubuntu situation is
According to that other thread was shim pre 15.8 revoked as well which is why it complains about a self-check failing. But Ubuntu 24.04 ships that version of shim so should not have been affected. I was just about to ask over there though
I really don't get what security this is adding when you can just copy a signed bootloader from the internet on your potentially malicious drive and it boots again. How is this not just theater that only increases my risk given that potentially not being able to get into my OS is a pretty significant problem?
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Aside from those unfortunate souls who have a dual-boot system that both wasn't detected by Microsoft and also is out of date enough so that its boot bits are noncompliant, who else might be affected by this?
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@leeloo The boot path for booting Windows from grub isn't really affected by this for extremely convoluted reasons, except in cases where someone's doing it maliciously
2) If it is fixable, who has to fix it? Theoretically, it should be the Linux distros that haven't updated their grub code. But now the Linux partition is no longer bootable, so they can't. Is the Windows partition bootable? Can Microsoft fix it? Or do people have to go through hoops by preparing a special flash stick or CD, booting from it, and having something there fix the problem?
Excellent explanation, but I’m left wondering how many single boot Windows systems out there use grub. My first guess would have been approximately zero.
Im confused - why would they have intended to push an update to windows-only systems for grub? Wouldn't you only have grub if you were dual-booting? Do people regularly use grub on a windows only system?
I don't use windows anymore except at work and haven't dual booted in years so I'm out of the loop on this.
does this work the other way round - I.e. if there is a vulnerable old version of the windows boot loader can a Linux distro(s) ship an SBAT update that increments the security generation to stop that boot loader being used to attack a Linux install?
I'm trying to use the debian images from cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/ to setup a new virtual machine with libvirt, but it's not working and I don't understand what's wrong.
I have downloaded debian-12-genericcloud-amd64.qcow2 and then I try to run:
@broken://link I've also tried to pass more detailed parameters to --cloud-init, with no results; the one I've written above is just the simplest failing example I could find
Probably relevant life and body positivity tip from a sewist, pattern drafter and seamstress: The clothes are the problem. Please try to remember that you are not the wrong shape, size or dimensions. If the shirt doesn't button closed the shirt is too narrow, you're not too wide. If the dress sags at the back it's the dress pattern, not your ass. Absolutely nobody makes clothes that are Actually Your Size unless you custom order or make them yourself. Even then fitting is a skill and an art!
This has been a two in the morning thought. I don't know if I should put some kind of content warning on there, I didn't think so, but please let me know if I should and I'll do it in the morning!
All that. It used to be that clothes were handmade to fit the person. It wasn't cheap but we respected our clothing more and it looked better on us; it was more sustainable consumption, too.
I can't think of a vintage photo of persons before mass manufacturing of clothes in which clothing didn't fit well save for laborers who dressed for their jobs and comfort.
@femme_mal A lot of people would also buy second hand, but all in all they'd own less and use it until it wasn't wearable any more. Sometimes it didn't look very nice, but certainly much more sustainable.
I think of Japan's boro with sashiko repairs as an example of extending use even beyond wearability. Old items became patches, beautified with stitching. No waste, only wabi-sabi.
A big issue I often have as a chubby short person, is that clothing manufacturers either assume that if you're short then you are skinny but if you're fat then you are 11 feet tall.
I just got a shirt today that fits great around my body, but it's so long! I'm going to try and hem it and hopefully it'll look fine.
@simplebadger27 as a tall leggy woman, I get the impression most "women's clothing" is designed for 5'2-5'7 bodies, that only get broader, never taller, and 26 inseam max
@seawall @simplebadger27 I'd be grateful if I could FIND clothes for my inseam + waist circ. It's so frustrating that I went for years making my own jeans.
@cavyherd @seawall @simplebadger27 @MissConstrue It's cheaper to only make sizes that people can fit inside, not bothering with if it fits them! I'm quite short, have a small waist and tiny ribcage, wider shoulders and very very wide hips in proportion... Add a sway back, scoliosis and a bunch of other things and there is very rarely anything that fits. Which is why I started modifying and making my own clothes as early as the teenage years. Actually learning pattern drafting and fitting explained SO MUCH about why nothing ever looked good. Learning about the history of pattern drafting and garment manufacture then also made me angry!
every time i go shopping for clothes that need to cover my arms i get upset / disappointed, even when i go shopping for sports which you'd think would cater to long armed freaks like me
@liw Men's sizing is possibly even more garbage in multiple ways! Shoes are also kind of a shit show, feet are very finicky and to be truly comfortable you'll need to be lucky and know what you need to look for.
@Triffen Honestly we could probably produce knitwear to people's exact measurements already. Heck, we did that at school when we were learning machine knitting: We calculated the pattern based on our individual sizes, and then did maths to translate that to stitch count and such according to a test swatch with the yarn... And onto the machines we went. True, we did it by hand and thus were the computer, but there's no reason you couldn't just let the computer be the computer!
@Sini Tuulia @Marta 🌿🍃 and the technology is already here to take a number of measurements, let a computer draft a pattern for sewn clothing, and then have a human sew them the way all other mass produced garments are sewn, except they would fit significantly better (even if less than clothing that has been fitted on the body).
I think that there are companies providing that service, but I suspect mostly in the countries where most clothing are already been made.
@anguinea Yes! "If the body is shaped like this" followed by a neutral description "then do this" and it's to help make the person look good, feel good and be comfortable - not to rag on the person. A happy customer is a returning customer. They knew the magic of well fitting and well tailored clothes and knew you couldn't just guilt a person into changing their physical shape like some sort of sentient elastic blob. Just make the clothes better!
@steggy Exactly! We had an entire pattern drafting curriculum in dressmaking school, and went quite deep into how the standard sizes were developed (at least the European ones we used) and that there's meant to be a different set for a full five or six *different body types* and another for the different heights! A full 12 different standard size categories as opposed to just one. And that's just to start with: You're supposed to use those to draft a sloper to start with, if you're in a rush with clients, and then make a personal one from the fitting adjustments. Me, myself, am in the "Short D" body shape (hip heavy) category but have my measurements scattered across four different sizes. One doesn't even fit inside the standard range! 😆 And this is normal! Bodies are different!
@MissConstrue I am very much an hourglass, though a bottom heavy one, and I started out making do with buying to fit my bust and shoulders in there, and then taking in the waist and back! I'd also need to add a gusset/gore to widen the high hip to button them closed below the waist... Modifications and tailoring existing clothes is cheaper than construction from scratch, so you might be able to afford to have several pieces fitted to you by a dressmaker. 🤔 Depends on everything, of course, but in case that's helpful!
@Anathema You're very welcome! It was one of the most important lessons we got taught in pattern drafting class, in addition to the actual drafting! Ah, the modern clothing industry is horrible in so many ways.
Relevant: wondering why your favorite actor looks so fabulous in just jeans and a t-shirt? It's because their clothes are tailored to them specifically.
@SallyStrange And when they're not, they probably have an assistant or stylist or both to wade through every single available thing on earth to find the one thing that does fit and look good right away! People whose literal career it is to make sure they look good!
@𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚊 :maxwell_cat: @Sini Tuulia I wonder about the language in tailoring books from the 1800s: they talk (a lot) about defects and ways a body is *wrong*, but it was also in a context where you weren't supposed to be the right shape, you were supposed to add MOAR padding until the dress is the right shape (and that's what the books talk about).
@valhalla @anguinea I tried to think about reading those, but it's fully possible I had my Oldey Times Filter on in my brain whilst reading Victorian material, or I haven't read the judgemental ones!
@Sini Tuulia @𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚊 :maxwell_cat: I think that it may be a case of “they weren't judgemental, they only look so to modern eyes”, I'm just not 100% sure
Bodies are complicated, and I'd have happily ceded to someone's more educated opinion if I'd accidentally fucked up! But I'm glad it seems like I didn't 😄
@anguinea @valhalla Some of the trends and fads were kind of cumbersome and ridiculous (sleeve puff crinolines and hobble skirts, anyone?) but corsets and padding are actually quite comfortable! You will not catch me wearing eight petticoats, though, so it's steel bustle cages or a maximum of two petticoats only for me. 😆 Tailored jackets? Very very very heavy with all the inner layers, but feel more like armour than a straitjacket!
@MissConstrue @cavyherd @seawall @simplebadger27 Full bust adjustment! It can be really fun to do (just measure the distance from mid shoulder seam down to the apex of your body first so that the bust dart points to it). When you do your first one and make it up in a cheap draft fabric, you put it on, and IT ACTUALLY FITS!!! Oh my god, best feeling in the world.
I'm betting that "standard sizes" resolve to: "serviceable template that the end user modifies if they are so moved."
I actually got sick of having to take up the hems on all the pants I wore, & there's a local taylor who will do it for an entirely reasonable fee. Especially helpful when dealing with weird stretch fabrics that I have never been arsed to learn to deal with.
IIRC, the way basic patterns work is the pattern is designed for a specific body type and size...for the last 40 years that has been a Twiggy shaped female who is a size 2. Then, rather than remeasuring how women with boobs and butts will change the flow of fabric, what they do is just expand the pattern lines by X inches (maybe 2?) for every size range over that. So, 2" for size 4, then 2 for 6, 2 for 8, etc....but then it gets weird when they get into women's sizes and plus sizes. I have a whole book on how to modify patterns to fit busty and hippy women, but I'll be honest it's a little above my skill set. (A lot...it's a lot above my skill set. I can't figure out arm holes and sleeves, so...) But if you're interested, I can photo it.
I will try to find the documentary when I get home. I may have taken notes, which will make it easier to find. ( I hate trying to use my phone to research anything, multitabbing is just a pita.)
oh yes... and therefor I'm teaching myself to sew bras. or alter them. because "nah, we only have normal bras" when asking for something with more space between underwires or "you just can't wear a bra with wires" is just lame...
I did not have one single well fitting bra in my whole life. I'm 40.
@sibylle I make my own, these days! I do prefer them without underwires, but always put in upright short boning at the sides of the cups. It makes a world of difference in comfort and support for me, it's weird that's more of a vintage bra thing these days. I can't quite draft my own bra patterns yet so I'm happy about how many options to buy them there are!
oh yes, I bought two pairs of that kind recently. they were so comfy in the shop. in real life gravity and weight made the wiring (boning?) fold in half (and stabbing my ribs) while also folding the cup into a weird shape as a side effect.
they just used some lightweight plastic strip as boning...
I work on a spandex sports bra design right now...
@sibylle I've used synthetic whalebone in mine, the same that gets used in historical costuming corsets. (It's a carefully engineered slightly more expensive plastic.) It's not right at the side of bust either, more directly under the armpit and to the side? I've not had it warp even in long line bras that need some four to five hooks to close. If you can easily source synthetic whalebone and switch to that, you might be able to use them again!
Waitasecond, I thought I was living in a country with a more or less working healtcare system, not one where people need to save a significant amount of money for health emergencies
Spettaunattimo, pensavo di vivere in una nazione con un sistema sanitario tutto sommato funzionante, non una in cui bisogna mettere da parte cifre sinignificative in caso di emergenze mediche
and I've finished the #AugustaStays! Except for the fact that I had misplaced 3 out of the 4 laces I had luceted, and could not try it.
This morning I've found two of the laces, and there is still a bit of string in the place of the last lace that has been misplaced, so I will probably be able to try it on?
I won't be able to take pictures for a while, it's still quite a busy time.
Ho finito le AugustaStays! Tranne per il fatto che ho perso 3 delle 4 stringhe che avevo fatto con il lucet, e non ho ancora potuto provarlo.
Stamattina ne ho trovate due, e al posto dell'ultima che non so dove sia c'è ancora un pezzo di spago, per cui probabilmente riuscirò a provarlo prossimamente?
Di sicuro non riuscirò a fare foto ancora per un po', continua il periodo discretamente impegnato.
TFW you wake up in the early morning wondering what is the total mass the buildings of a typical Tuscany walled town (say, Lucca), and whether 5 and a half million kg is a small but measurable percent of it or a rounding error.
TFW ti svegli alla mattina presto chiedendoti quale sia la massa totale degli edifici del centro storico di una tipica città toscana, chessò, Lucca, e se 5 milioni e mezzo di kg a confronto siano una percentuale piccola ma misurabile o un errore di arrotondamento.
Lucca ha circa 90.000 abitanti, a occhio ciascuno ha per se qualcosa come 10 metri cubi di muri, densità diciamo 2 ton/mc (il calcestruzzo è 2,4). Farebbe 1,8 milioni di tonnellate. Il tuo numero sarebbe dalle parti dello 0,3%, secondo questo conto a spanne.
@Walter Tross già, ma dei 90000 credo che una parte significativa abiti fuori dalle mura, nel resto del comune, e che dentro alle mura ci siano più edifici non residenziali.
però magari una cosa compensa l'altra, e quindi la risposta è che è una percentuale misurabile, direi
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua to be fair if somebody wants to be efficient at painting they don't use rollers and brushes like we are doing, they use paint sprayers.
OTOH, those require more work in covering the surfaces that don't have to be painting.
Actually, I wouldn't mind a robot able to cover all of the bits that need to be covered with cloth, tarps and masking paint.
When it occurred to me that “yolo” is basically a James Bond title, I suddenly realized that most of our online acronyms would also make great Bond titles.
James Bond will return in...
Be Right Back Not Safe For Work In Case You Missed It As Far As I Know For What It’s Worth To Be Honest I Am Not A Lawyer In [Her Majesty’s] Humble Opinion
Non ho molti dettagli, il cavo elettrico sembra risalire se non a questo secolo almeno alla fine del secolo scorso, quindi credo abbia discrete probabilità di funzionare ancora (e non prendere fuoco appena la si attacca alla corrente :) ).
Ci sono anche un po' di spazzole.
Le mie ambizioni piccoloborghesi non sono al livello da voler lucidare regolarmente i pavimenti :D
Se nessuno esprime interesse, al prossimo giro finisce in discarica.
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For those of you roaming a lot and using your #LinuxMobile phone as hotspot to access the internet: @arunmani has added an (optional) Wi-Fi hotspot quick toggle to #phosh
Let me reveal unto you this dearly learnt textiles and laundry wisdom! For years I have, without issue, cleaned up this and that but often cat piss with regular generic quality cotton kitchen towels and cotton hand towels. Wring them in cold water, rinse them with vinegar, wash normally in hot water with detergent for whites... They're fine.
But a viscose towel used for the same? Reeks! Even after multiple washes smells exactly like it did prior to them! Do not clean cat piss with viscose!
I assume it's something to do with both the twist of the fibres as well as the microscopic structure and texture of the extruded viscose fibres themselves. Perhaps the way the fabric is treated? Who knows. But an entirely different animal to cotton. Now I know. Learn from my mistakes!
Best regards, Sini "my nose is too sensitive for human existence but at least it's somewhat useful in determining laundry cleanliness" Tuulia
@DrVeronikaCH I used to have this bamboo rag that was pretty horrible for general cleaning, but damn would it clean a window crystal clear with nothing but water and rubbing!
I love this, it makes perfect evolutionary sense: if you’re a shape-shifter you would naturally settle on the optimal default shape. Perhaps it’s more correct to say that all shape-shifters are cats?
There's no such animal as a cat. When we think we're seeing a cat, we're just seeing a polymorph in its optimal configuration.
The bit with "cats" having nine lives is just them using polymorph to get out of scrapes. Eventually they take on the form of a new cat to avoid arousing suspicion.
Dear #trenord, the fact that I'm a vampire (black ribboner!) doesn't mean that its fine to try to prevent me from buying tickets for your trains.
5. minutes. to buy a ticket for “the next train that is due to arrive in 6 minutes, from this secondary station to the next main station, which is also the last stop”
the stations were the first choice in the “quick choice” buttons, but then there were approximately 200 buttons to select, each one of which took about 400 attempts to touch the touchscreen before it recognised my existence.
Cara #trenord, il fatto che io sia un vampiro (black ribboner!) non è un valido motivo per impedirmi di comprare biglietti per i tuoi treni.
5. minuti. per comprare un biglietto per “il treno che deve arrivare tra 6 minuti, da questa stazione secondaria alla stazione principale più vicina, che è anche il capolinea”.
Le due stazioni erano la prima scelta nei pulsanti di scelta veloce, ma poi ci sono state circa 200 scelte da selezionare, ciascuna che ha richiesto circa 400 tentativi l'una prima che lo schermo touch si degnasse di riconoscere la mia esistenza.
E poi si lamentano se la gente non fa il biglietto!
Ci ho preso un Frecciabianca da Spezia a Genova a scrocco, ma ero con un ferroviere in pensione che per prima cosa è andato a avvisare i controllori che eravamo senza biglietto perché arrivati all'ultimo minuto, quelli hanno detto "va bene, poi passiamo" e non li abbiamo più visti.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua e poi hanno tolto tutti i modi sensati di fare il biglietto in anticipo, a meno che uno non abbia uno spartphone con installata la loro app.
e ti chiedono di selezionare il treno preciso che vuoi prendere. su una linea suburbana, che in certi punti avrebbe abbastanza treni per arrivare in stazione senza neanche controllare l'orario, come se fosse un metrò.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua per carità, il biglietto serve anche a disincentivare i viaggi non necessari, che è sacrosanto, visto che le linee ferroviarie attorno a milano sono già a più che capienza.
però un conto è disincentivare i viaggi non necessari, un conto è dirti “fatti venire a prendere in auto, anche se facendolo arrivi più tardi”, e qui si è rischiata la seconda
As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
Ever since I first picked up one of his books in the very early 90's as a young man. I thought I was going to be reading a funny fantasy novel.
Every time I was wrong.
What I read was a lesson in morality and ethics, a novel about giving a voice to the voiceless. Novels that tackled racism, gender politics, fascism and everything else that's used as a weapon to treat people poorly for being different to what they think is 'normal'.
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