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This is not a drill either.

Chestnut season has started! I repeat, chestnut season has started!

Yesterday we bought 1 kg of chestnuts from the supermarket. This morning we noticed a few chestnuts while walking, decided to pick some up and mix them with those from the supermarket and *without going out of our way or anything* we accidentally found ourselves with almost another kg of chestnuts.

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@Lars Wirzenius there are also some horse chestnuts in the area, and now I'm wondering whether I should use a drill to drill a hole in some conkers and play the game (that I've never played because around here it isn't a thing)

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Anyone using #pdfpc (PDF presenter console) on #GNOME 48 (from #Debian Trixie)? It no longer works for me since the Trixie upgrade: it now shows both presenter and presentation windows on the same display. -1/-2 fiddling doesn't change anything, and even manually moving the presentation window to the right display doesn't help, because it has the wrong size.

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@Stefano Zacchiroli (boosting, liking and commenting because I want to read the answers (and hopefully remember to check tomorrow whether that's also true when not using gnome, because aaaargh, I need pdfpc *soon*))
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Just tested using Phosh and the presentation window opens on the correct display but is not fullscreened (window decorations are shown).

In sway it properly fullscreened, but did both windows were opened on the monitor of the terminal I started it in (but of course you can easily move it to the workspace of the desired monitor).

(Not sure applications have much say on which monitor they get attached to in swaywm ?)


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food

this is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.

polenta season has started!

rejoice!

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cibo

questa non è un'esercitazione!

è iniziata la stagione della polenta!

rallegratevi!

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@Rapita dagli alieni @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

passate di qui che ne metto su un'altra pentola :D

(potrebbe essere quella istantanea che in 20 minuti è pronta. la confezione dice 5, ma mente :D )

(potrebbe volerci un po' più tempo a far cuocere dei condimenti decenti però :D )

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@Rapita dagli alieni stavo giusto avvisando diego che domani mattina sul molto presto rischiavamo di essere svegliati in modo traumatico dal citofono :D

(o stanotte appena andati a dormire, da @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua che invece ha meno strada)

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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Rapita dagli alieni @Panormus giusto ieri sera era avanzato del sugo che era stato preparato per la polenta, e ho proposto di finirlo oggi a pranzo con del cous cous :)

(alla fine verrà ripassato in forno a cena con degli altri avanzi, veniva più comodo)

però la polenta scalda di più del cous cous, e quando le giornate iniziano ad accorciarsi e la sera scende l'arietta fresca… :D

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@Fabio c'è stata la stagione della “polenta solo sopra ai mille”
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@Fabio sì, avrei dovuto specificare meglio ”la stagione della polenta a casa” :D

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#Debian #armel has reached end of life with the release of #trixie and will not be included in #forky (already being removed from sid).

Unfortunately, that means e-waste for the affected devices, such as several older #RPi editions (unless switching to Raspian, which may or may not even work or support them for longer and is effort anyway).

armel has not been part of #LTS and #ELTS for a while, but this was not a problem as it’s a minority architecture and users could always upgrade (btw, if your armel box is still running bookworm, you’ll want to be on trixie by 2026-06-10).

I asked for it to be included in trixie LTS and ELTS, so that the old hardware can be used mostly securely until about 2035 instead of 2028, and the limiting factor for this is not will or infrastructure but funding. (While most security fixes aren’t specific to one of the architectures in question, there’s still some overhead, and armel is often slower to build and may need some more hand-holding than the newer armhf and arm64, so I believe that funding is actually needed.)

I’m just a private individual running one box with it I got as a gift, so I cannot offer much, but if you care about Debian and can offer funding, please approach @freexian (who organise LTS and offer ELTS as a separate-from-Debian offer) about this (and specifically mention armel).

If someone has connections to organisations involved in devices that cannot run armv7 hardfloat Debian or better, such as the #Raspberry Pi foundation, please ask them to contribute to #Freexian in the same way, so we can have proper Debian on these devices for seven years longer than planned.

Thanks in advance.

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AIUI most armel packages are built on systems with arm64 kernels anyway, and there is no "holding us back" outside of a myth the "let’s support and64 and arm64 only" fraction likes to propagate; plus, it’s a release arch for trixie, so not hard to continue to support for trixie
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So, that means you got around another ~3 years of trixie for your armel devices? That's not too terrible.


tonight while half-asleep I thought of a possible set of rules for a card game using the cards in use in a #conworld

I've just realized that the potential maximum score is 20724, and that the game involves counting points at the end to see whether the game¹ has been won.

To be fair, in context card games are usually played mostly by school-age children and are supposed to be at a somewhat useful learning exercise.

But maybe it's a bit too much?

¹ it is a cooperative game, in that place and time they don't do competition if they can avoid it



dream, dating
A friend of mine had opened a bar of the kind where you go with the intent to meet people to interact closely with. Another friend was there with that intent and was sitting at one of the outside tables reading a thick book on a left-wing sociology topic. We commented on the probably effective selection strategy.
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sogno incontri
Un amico aveva aperto un bar del tipo in cui si va con l'intenzione di incontrare persone con cui interagire da vicino. Un'altra amica era lì con intenzioni ed era seduta ad un tavolino all'aperto e leggeva un tomazzo pesante su un argomento di sociologia sinistrorsa. Abbiamo commentato sulla strategia di selezione probabilmente efficace.

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Good news, we have a new website on EU soil 🎉

dillo-browser.org/

And a Git web frontend (cgit) that works well with #Dillo:

git.dillo-browser.org/

If all goes well, we will be moving the rest of the components away from GitHub.

Many thanks to all the donors that have made this posible, hopefully we can keep the lights on for some more years:

liberapay.com/dillo/

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if i make web stuff, i try to make them look ok and be accessible in browsers like dillo. javascript must not be used to display the main content. and some sensible css. it's not very hard.
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Hello,

Then maybe you should use a European "owned" domain for this new site, and host it in Europe.

@oppen


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Ieri sono stata a fare un po' di turismo architettonico¹ a Milano, e avrei un favore da chiedervi: quando fate la rivoluzione potreste cercare di non rompere troppo piazza Gae Aulenti?

No, perché così com'è è un tempio al consumismo che fa impressione, ma a metterci dentro qualcosa tipo una biblioteca e altri spazi sociali deve venir fuori una figata pazzesca

¹ altrimenti detto “un'ora e venti di coincidenza tra due treni, ho avuto tempo di guardarmi attorno



TIL that in Milan you can pay your metrò fare by tapping a debit (or credit, I guess) card when entering and when leaving.

which is pretty convenient when the high speed train you're on, that you've chosen precisely because it stopped at the same station as your next train, announces that they are stopping at another train station in a different part of Milan (~15 minutes by metro from the right station) and they tell you you can continue your journey “with the first useful train” (if you can find one)

thankfully the disruption had affected most trains, and my second one was also late, so I could catch it easily :D

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TIL che a Milano si può pagare il metrò passando il bancomat (o una carta di credito, immagino) sui tornelli in entrata e uscita.

che è comodo quando l'alta velocità su cui sei, che hai scelto apposta perché fermava alla stessa stazione del treno successivo che devi prendere, annuncia che stavolta fermeranno ad una fermata diversa (a ~15 minuti di metrò da quella giusta) e che puoi continuare il tuo viaggio “a bordo dei primi treni utili” (se riesci a trovarne)

per fortuna i problemi coinvolgevano anche gli altri treni, anche il secondo era in ritardo e son riuscita a prenderlo facilmente :D


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tarot reading (sort of), non believer

I've just received my shiny new tarot deck¹

i mixed it and picked a card

it was the knight of coins, W026 – Battery charging

I realized I had forgotten about putting a battery under charge this morning

is this the tarot actually working as designed?

¹ organical-mechanical.itch.io/i… of course

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@ragazza senza grazie più che altro il mio approccio a tutto ciò che può avere aspetti spirituali è molto discordiano, e l'approccio discordiano può essere offensivo per chi approccia quelle cose in altri modi.

e le cose offensive, insegna Eris, si fanno, ma senza ostentarle :)


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Sophie [predator tag] [petting zoo tag]
Size 165 enclosure
Immediate effect: Shuffle your action cards and then try to put them back in the same order.
Ongoing effect: if Released Into the Wild, returns to your zoo within two turns.

#ArkNova #Boardgames #cats

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When I was first getting into home computers, one of the first programs I played with on the TRS-80 Model 1 was "Eliza" (we also had a version of "Space Invaders").

It really depended on the way we naturally project agency on things for the illusion. But it wasn't hard to see through after a few minutes.

LLMs are better. It takes longer to see through them. But it's still basically the same thing, and getting LLM chatbots to do your homework isn't going to fare much better.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

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I also played with it, decades ago.. I actually like ELIZA better than modern llms because it was obvious that it was very limited and "not learning"...

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I would like to remind two things I did around FOSDEM.

The "how to survive FOSDEM" blog post with a bunch of hints on how to prepare and get most of FOSDEM:

marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019…

And the "FOSDEM videos" page with alternative view of schedule. There is search option, a way to check each year (or all at once), direct links to slides and videos.

gpages.juszkiewicz.com.pl/fosd…

@fosdem

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FOSDEM
@TheOneDoc by lack of travel options we always provide the live video feeds and an interactive chat platform. We know it's not the same, but we try to keep it as accessible as possible.

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Let it be officially known: I've just opened a drawer and said “I don't need any other notebook¹”

¹ for a while

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Quit optimizing for time and cost. That's the capitalism talking.

Learn to optimize for joy and delight.

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If somebody is wondering why they are receiving a truckload of toots from me in a short time, no, I didn't write them in the last hour or so, it's because of a glitch in the matrix[esc]bdwafediverse :D

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There’s yet another “supply chain attack” so it’s a good time to remind you what the word means aria.dog/barks/forklift-certif…

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anweteltar yer illengil Hildegarduz malluz
anwet-e-lt-ar ye-r illeng-il Hildegard-uz mall-uz
enjoy-2-IMP-P 2-P feast-PROX Hildegard-GEN holy-GEN
Happy St Hildegard's Day!
#conlang

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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

#infosec

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This is amazing! @albertgui have been able to draw around 2,547 stations from different European cities, all accessible on stations.albertguillaumes.cat

#Metro #Station #EuropeanMetro #European

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Intanto treni per Malpensa con seri problemi, e per una volta non è colpa di #trenord

varesenews.it/2025/09/danni-al…

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Lots of people on Mastodon use CWs and I like to use them too. I use them to filter content and to help others filter content. It doesn’t matter why someone is filtering content.

The CWs I try to remember to use are photos with eye contact, politics, food, alcohol, mental health, physical health, violence, and NSFW.

Sometimes I forget to apply a CW to something I toot. But every time I remember to CW a toot, it helps someone, so I keep trying.

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If anybody needs to make a slide for a talk where they are talking about bug hunting / bug squashing, this may be useful

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

(yes, today I have been preparing slides for a talk, why do you ask?)

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Se a qualcuno serve una slide per un talk in cui devono parlare di caccia ai bug, questo può essere utile

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

(sì, oggi stavo preparando le slide per un talk, perché?)


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Some people on activitypub seemed a bit interested in mobile linux, so I decided to share a bit more of my experience on here. I will break it up into different posts covering different aspects.

I have been using a PinePhone 1.2b (3GB of RAM, 32GB eMMC storage) as my daily driver for roughly four years now. That may sound impressive, but I only really use a phone so people can reach me, for music on the go, and for a browser in a pinch. I'm not on my phone all that often.

PinePhone: pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

Currently, I have Mobian (based on Debian) Trixie installed on the internal eMMC storage and a 512GB microSD card mounted at /home, both utilizing full-disk encryption, for plenty of storage for my use-case. I'm using the Phosh interface, since it is more stable in my experience than plasma mobile currently. I also mostly use GTK software since they tend to integrate better with Phosh. I do not have cellular service on it, I even have the entire cellular modem disabled via the hardware dipswitch on the back currently.

Mobian: mobian-project.org/
Phosh: phosh.mobi/

#mobian #debian #linux #mobilelinux #pinephone #linuxphone #phosh

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@Masked Witch /me waves the secret pinephone daily driver¹ salute :D

I'm using cellular service rather than wifi more than half of the time, and I feel that these days it's way more reliable than it used to be: lately the main reason why I didn't have data service has been because I had not paid for it (ehm... :D ), or disabled international roaming because I live close to a border and then traveled internationally (double ehm...)

to be fair, I never use it for phone calls, only data, so I don't know whether receiving calls is reliable

(and I suspend a lot, because battery and not wanting notifications anyway)

¹ for values of “daily” where I don't use a phone every day

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@valhalla Trying a sleepwalk script (like the one I maintain codeberg.org/maskedwitch/sleep… for Mobian) might work for you. It suspends the phone but periodically wakes the phone to connect to the internet to allow apps to check for messages

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The original patent from 1891 for a toilet roll shows the correct rolling direction. In case you ever doubted it.

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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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this such a mind-bending photo. i stared at this for like a minute and then got frustrated that I still didn't see anything but a cheesecake boat on the ocean. I'm still laughing at how long it took me to figure it out. Thank you for sharing.

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Good news here in Scotland!

"A grid-scale battery in the Scottish Highlands got a chance to prove its mettle in March when, 11 days after it started up, a massive wood-burning generator in Northern England shut down unexpectedly. Suddenly 1,877 megawatts of supply was missing, causing the 50-hertz frequency of the grid’s alternating current to crash below its 49.8-Hz operating limit in just 8 seconds.

But the new 200-MW battery station leapt into action within milliseconds, releasing extra power to help arrest the frequency collapse and keep the grid running.

Conventional fossil-fuel generators have historically helped thwart these kinds of problems. With the inertia of their spinning rotors, their kinetic energy provides a buffer against rapid swings in frequency and voltage. But the response in the Highlands was one of the world’s first examples of a grid-scale battery commissioned to do this kind of grid-stabilizing job.

Without moving parts, the lithium battery storage site—the largest in Europe and located in Blackhillock, Scotland—simulates inertia using power electronics. And in an innovative twist, the battery site can also provide short-circuit current in response to a fault, just like conventional power generators.

Four more of these battery sites are under construction in Scotland."

The article goes on to explain a bit more about how these batteries work and why they're so important for the solar- and wind-powered future. (Amusing that it was unreliable *wood* power needing help this time. England is so backward in some ways.)

spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-b…

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As I understand it, those "biomass" generators are actually burning our American forests. Put them permanently out of commission, please.
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- Indeed, the wood burning power plant whose glitch was saved by the Scottish battery system is the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. This the largest carbon emitter in the UK and has taken wood, including whole trees, from old-growth forests.

I can't put a English power plant out of commission; I'm just one American in Scotland. But I've been complaining about it!

Scotland is way ahead of England on renewable energy.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyplj…

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- as I mentioned in earlier comments, the wood burning power plant whose glitch was handled by the new Scottish battery system is the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. This is the largest carbon emitter in the UK. It is even partially fueled by whole trees, some from old-growth forests!

Drax has been subsidized by the UK government, probably because this way of generating energy is - mistakenly - classed as "renewable".

If I understand the situation correctly, it's disgraceful.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ…

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uspol, that one killing, personal

I am sorry about that one murder everybody is talking about:

I am sorry about the possibly otherwise nice¹ person who has decided to kill another human;

I am sorry about the potential celebration of the dead person as a martyr, and consequential further spread of his ideas;

I am sorry about the further normalization of violence as a political tool

I am sorry about the potential for more violence as a reaction

And it's a minor thing, but I'm annoyed at the fact that these days I keep reading what for me is the name of one of the Captains, and it's that person instead :)

Things I'm not sorry about include:

One dead asshole (good riddance)

¹ afaik there is still the possibility that it was some other fascist from a rival faction or whatever


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Filed under: #SlowComputing

currently watching:

* one armhf Debian installer installing a system on an SD card
* one armhf Debian system calculating sha512sums of some files (why didn't I download the SHA256SUMS file?)

and doing the bind off row of the shawl mentioned in that other thread (total 400-odd stitches)

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Nella categoria #informaticaLenta

in questo momento sto guardando:

* un installer Debian armhf che installa un sistema su una scheda SD
* un sistema Debian armhf che calcola gli sha512sums di alcuni file (perché non ho scaricato il file SHA256SUMS?)

e nel frattempo sto facendo il ferro di chiusura dello scialle citato nell'altro thread (un totale di 400 e rotti punti)

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@Yaku 🐗 @Rapita dagli alieni

ilpost.it/2025/09/09/scuole-it…

quand'è che lo fanno anche le scuole lì da voi? :D

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@Elena ``of Valhalla''

non vuoi comprare uno zainetto leggero nuovo per portare a scuola bottiglia dell'acqua e merenda?


Quechua:

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@Fabio no, il sistema di idratazione integrato nello zaino per andare alle elementari mi pare un po' eccessivo :D

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This evening the sky was quite clear, except for just a few clouds.

Can you guess the direction of the clouds?

#LunarEclipse2025

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@Uilebheist assai probabile

poi la luna è uscita dalle nuvole più o meno 5 minuti dopo la fine della totalità

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@Kermode if it had been up in the sky maybe we would have been able to see the moon: it was rising while already eclypsed, so pretty low on the horizon just above the hills, and those don't count as sky, right? :D

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TFW you're tired after doing stuff (and watching people doing stuff) all day, and suddenly you realize: there is cake!

*cake*!!!!

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Quella sensazione di quando sei stanco dopo aver fatto cose (e guardato gente che faceva cose) tutto il giorno, e all'improvviso di rendi conto: c'è della torta!

*torta*!!!!


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Gente di puntarella, avete consigli?


I’ll be in Roma (Rome), Firenze (Florence), and Sorrento for a couple of weeks at the end of October and beginning of November.

What recommendations do you have, fedi? Particularly interested in quirky sights, amazing food or arts/crafts/textile things.

Please boost for reach! #askfedi #italy #italia



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Dear #costuming-verse,

does anybody know what happened to the Costuming Drama youtube channel?

Apparently it has been “removed because it violated our Community Guidelines.”?

(I was still going through the backlog and I was a few years in the past, but other than possibly a glimpse of a *chemise* it didn't feel like a potentially controversial channel in any way)

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I've found news!

patreon.com/posts/sigh-ive-bee…

the linked post is mostly an image, with the following text:

“Yes, my Gmail and my YouTube has been hacked.

Thank you all for letting me know! I appreciate you all very much!

I have tried to recover my account, but Google is saying I must wait 48 hours while they look into it.

Fun times.

Sorry about whatever crypto nonsense is happening. That's for sure not me.”


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English Paper Piecing, Done Wrong


Posted on September 3, 2025
Tags: madeof:bits
A square mat made of orange, green and grey knit fabric hexagons sewn together.

For quite some time, I have been thinking about trying a bit of patchwork, and English Paper Piecing looked like a technique suited to my tastes, with the handsewing involved and the fact of having a paper pattern of sort and everything.

The problem is, most of the scraps of fabric I get from my sewing aren’t really suitable for quilting, with a lot of them being either too black and too thick or too white and too thin.

The other side of the same mat, made of orange and green squares.

On the other hand, my partner wears polo shirts at work, and while I try to mend the holes that form, after a while the edges get worn, and they just are no longer suitable for the office, even with some creative mending, and they get downgraded to home wear. But then more office shirts need to be bought, and the home ones accumulate, and there is only so much room for polo shirts in the house, and the worst ones end up in my creative reuse pile.

Some parts are worn out and they will end up as cabbage stuffing for things, but some are still in decent enough conditions and could be used as fabric.

But surely, for English Paper Piecing you’d need woven fabric, not knit, even if it’s the dense piqué used in polo shirts, right? Especially if it’s your first attempt at the technique, right?

The hexagon side of the mat, with my hexagonal pattern weights decorated with Standard Compliant stickers: they fit exactly on the mat pattern.

Well, probably it wouldn’t work with complex shapes, but what about some 5-ish cm tall Standard Compliant bestagon? So I printed out some hexagons on thick paper, printed some bigger hexagons with sewing allowance as a cutting aid, found two shirts in the least me colours I could find (and one in grey because it was the best match for the other two) and decided to sacrifice them for the experiment.

And as long as the paper was still in the pieces, the work went nicely, so I persevered while trying to postpone the Moment of Truth.

The squares side of the mat, with a few random Piecepack pieces: the tiles take almost exactly 2 × 2 squares, and the coins fit inside each square with room to pick them up.

After a while I measured things out and saw that I could squeeze a 6.5 × 7 hexagon pattern into something resembling a square that was a multiple of the 2.5 cm square on the back of my Piecepack tiles, and decided to go for another Standard for the back (because of course I wasn’t going to buy new fabric for lining the work).

I kept the paper in the pieces until both sides were ready, and used it to sew them right sides together, leaving the usual opening in the middle of one side.

Then I pressed, removed the paper, turned everything inside out, pressed again and. It worked!

The hexagon side of the mat, with a set of polyhedral dice.

The hexagons look like hexagons, the squares look like squares, the whole thing feels soft and drapey, but structurally sound. And it’s a bit lumpy, but not enough to cause issues when using it as a soft surface to put over a noisy wooden table to throw dice on.

I considered adding some lightweight batting in the middle, but there was really no need for it, and wondered about how to quilt the piece in a way that worked with the patterns on the two sides, but for something this small it wasn’t really required.

However, I decided to add a buttonhole stitch border on all edges, to close the opening I had left and to reinforce especially the small triangles on the hexagons side, as those had a smaller sewing allowance and could use it.

The squares sides of the mat, with some blue and purple stones in the starting position for a hnefatafl game.

And of course, the 11 × 11 squares side wasn’t completely an accident, but part of A Plan.

For this project there isn’t really a pattern, but I did publish the files I used to print the paper pieceseven if they were pretty trivial.

And there are more polo shirts in that pile, and while they won’t be suitable for anything complex, maybe I could try some rhombs, or even kites and darts?


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I'm tired of web sites inflicting known-bad rules on passwords. Like what characters are required, or minimum length.

pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-…
schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…

TL;DR: don't require specific classes of characters, require at least 15 characters.

I'd go for a minimum length of at least 16, myself. Brute force guessing is a thing and is dealt with by using longer passwords.

Any web site that doesn't follow these is just security incompetent.

#rant #passwords

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in reply to Lars Wirzenius Lars Wirzenius ha ricondiviso questo.

@Lars Wirzenius or even worse, when public sector regulations enforce obsolete and harmful rules, and even when the people running the services know what they should do, they are forced to do the wrong thing.

#rant #rantRantRant



I have been thinking in the general direction of doing a bit of streaming where I handsew stuff while talking about handsewing and the project I'm making and general craft things, maybe later in September, would anybody be interested?

It would happen on the streaming server¹ of our LUG, and I may then post recordings on peertube (if I create an account somewhere).

¹ lol, it's just an nginx with a bit of configuration

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Stavo vagamente pensando all'idea di streammare mentre cucio a mano, parlando di cucito a mano, il progetto che sto facendo e cose craftose in generale, magari nella seconda metà di settembre, qualcuno sarebbe interessato?

Sarebbe sul server di streaming¹ del LUG, e (se apro un account da qualche parte) poi potrei mettere la registrazione su peertube.

¹ lol, è un nginx con un minimo di configurazione

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And if you're interested, what time would you prefer? (all times are CEST, i.e. UTC +2)

E se interessati, a che ora preferireste? (ora italiana)

  • 8:00 - 9:00 (in English) (20%, 1 vote)
  • 8:00 - 9:00 (in italiano) (60%, 3 votes)
  • 15:30 - 16:30 (in English) (20%, 1 vote)
  • 15:30 - 16:30 (in italiano) (40%, 2 votes)
5 voters. Poll end: 2 mesi fa

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