In a while we're probably going to live in a house with AC (as well as radiator-based heating)
This morning as I was watching @Diego Roversi get dressed at a record-setting speed I asked “so, what are we going to do? turn the bedroom AC on for 10 minutes in the morning to get dressed? It's probably not going to be worth the effort, is it?”
his answer: “yes.”
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The candles at the points of the pentagram flickered. A demon appeared.
"Do you do Black Friday deals?" the conjuror said.
"What?"
"Like, unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures, for less than my soul?"
"Actually, it was five souls, but today it's only one."
"Oh? That's cheap!"
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And thanks to an anonymous worker who was changing some gas pipes and broke down half of the electronic payments of Italy, today we used a *check*.
(to pay for services, not for black-friday goods)
(and for services that we had booked at the beginning of the month, way before the strike for today had been announced, and they had legal deadlines (one tomorrow and one two weeks ago - uoooops), so we couldn't just rebook them out of solidarity)
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E grazie all'anonimo lavoratore che cambiando i tubi del gas ha rotto metà dei pagamenti elettronici in Italia, oggi abbiamo usato un *assegno*.
(per pagare dei servizi, non dei prodotti in offerta per il black friday)
(ed erano servizi che erano stati prenotati ad inizio mese, ben prima che si parlasse dello sciopero di oggi, e c'erano delle scadenze legali (una domani, e una due settimane fa, uooops), per cui non potevamo rimandarli così per solidarietà)
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@zarel stavo per scrivere “più che altro a qualche commerciante, io per oggi non esco più di casa” e mi è venuto in mente che dovevo ancora passare in farmacia.
ma vabbé, lì era poca roba e avevo ancora abbastanza contanti
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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.
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mamma mia che voglia che mi stai facendo venire di provarli tutti! Io ancora ho tantissimo Yorkshire per cui al momento non ne compro altri, ma mi sto facendo una lunga lista della spesa
(tè che odora di caffè, mamma mia, che libidine. Una cosa simile l'ho provata soltanto con il Lapsang)
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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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e quando son cose che uno fa di tanto in tanto non ci si pensa e non sente il bisogno di prenderle, ma cambiano il livello di comfort per queste cose in modo drastico!
@Fabio e cosa ci facevi ancora sveglio a quell'ora tarda (le dieciemmezza, giusto)? noi avevamo già spento la luce :D
Date: March 7, 2111 Abstract This document defines the syntax and semantics of the Do-Not-Stab header, a proposed HTTP header that allows users to indicate to a website their preferences about being stabbed.5snb.club
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@Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] , I assume, wrote this
and. it's. genius.
I salute you.
Only one thing: out of *pure curiosity* I have been wondering what safeguards are in place to prevent you from flagging random accounts for verification at any time when you are out of gin.
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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 😤
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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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I think I had seen it here on the fediverse when it was announced, but I've missed the date when it was made actually available (last summer, uooops):
bloomsburycollections.com/mono…
a new English translation of the Enuma Elish in open access
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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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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)
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@MaialeCosmico forchetta o qualunque altro strumento opportuno sia stato usato per cucinare o mangiare in quelle pentole / piatti
e i programmi più lunghi tendono ad essere più risparmiosi, per cui preferisco usare quelli.
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:
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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From one of the blogs I follow, a list of primary sources of interest for historical costumers
sewhistorically.com/free-patte…
(mostly #victorian / #edwardian)
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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!
and has even been updated to d20!
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My M4 buying guide: meh, just get a package in each of the lengths that the shop has, you're going to use them all anyway
because M4 is a size of screws and nuts, right?
(this subtoot brought to you by being tired and misinterpreting other toots for a few *long* seconds :D )
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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.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
This was an interesting dive for me as well. I could not find an old video in which a senior mechanic explains the fundamentals of quality of sewing machines explaining the details on material choices etc.
Never mind this. My advice is simply to get some old reliable machine. It is also way cheaper.
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
A manifesto for making yr own personal websitescoolguy.website
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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 
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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.
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ilpost.it/2024/11/04/sciopero-…
sciopero dei treni (non solo trenitalia come dice l'url) per oggi, con poco preavviso per delle specifiche motivazioni #trenord #trenitalia #tper #italo
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TFW you're walking back from the hospital (vaccines) and you have a #faceMask hung on your ear to dry out in the sun, and you see people cutting into the street raising a huge cloud of dust in front of you
0% effort, 100% results!
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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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as it is traditional for the 1st of November, my thumbs and indexes are raw and slightly burnt after peeling roasted chestnuts as fast as I could eat them to prevent eating less than the other people on the table, who have been doing the same :D
me. happy.
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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 💵♻️
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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)
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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This week we worked mostly on some internal tools to help us keep more products in stock, but we did get a moment to also do a little hardware! First up we’re working on bringing up the Flopp…Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
a nifty chip that is! this version will also support floppy disk emulation mode by letting us control the direction of the two-level shifters. An additional GPIO expander provides the 4-way button interface, which we will use for offline disk imaging.
meanwhile, a message about the coming elections from a historian who afaik is quite right-wing in his economic policy opinions
acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acqu…
(spoiler: he's not endorsing Trump)
are YOU making a website with INFORMATION?
it needs a date. if its not just a list of links... it needs A DATE.
yes your blog, youre recipe edit etc NEEDS A DATE..
please, can we get this right
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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)
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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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •tra non molto se tutto va bene abiteremo in una casa con l'aria condizionata (oltre al riscaldamento con termosifoni)
Stamattina stavo guardando @Diego Roversi che si vestiva a velocità da record e gli ho chiesto “ma poi cosa si fa, si accende l'aria condizionata in camera per 10 minuti per vestirsi? ma non credo che ne valga la pena”
la sua risposta: “sisi.”
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Unknown parent • •@Luca Sironi @Diego Roversi aria condizionata in modalità riscaldamento, eh
la differenza è che i caloriferi sono ottimi per tenere una temperatura costante nel corso della giornata, l'aria condizionata per avere tanto caldo localizzato subito
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Unknown parent • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Rinaldo Giorgetti • •@Rinaldo Giorgetti @Luca Sironi @Diego Roversi io credo profondamente nelle magliette termiche di lana merino
(e poi una maglietta di cotone, poi un maglione o una felpa, e poi quando sono al pc¹ una coperta)
¹ buona parte del tempo, tra lavoro e non
i guanti senza dita sono opzionali, le doppie calze sono fisse da metà autunno
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Unknown parent • •@Luca Sironi @Diego Roversi no, no
è che di solito teniamo il termostato sui 16°C o 18.5°C a seconda dell'orario (la prima temperatura non viene raggiunta quasi mai, se non quando fuori fa molto freddo), e rispetto alla temperatura che c'è sotto il piumone pesante la differenza di prima mattina si sente :D
(poi in studio coi pc c'è sempre almeno un grado in più, che è dove serve perché si è fermi per lunghi periodi a lavorare)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Però il cappello, fateci caso, la testa è sempre calda, quindi perde molto calore.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Rinaldo Giorgetti • •@Rinaldo Giorgetti @Spazio ☮️🌈📖 @Diego Roversi @Luca Sironi già, però sulla mia testa ci sono anche i capelli lunghi, che un po' aiutano a trattenere il calore
fuori casa rigorosamente cappello e/o cappuccio e/o varie ed eventuali, quello sì
(di cachemere credo che facciano più che altro maglioni, la lana merino viene usata per le magliette termiche perché è molto morbida a contatto con la pelle)