FLOSS hiring thread for November 2023
Are you hiring? Especially for remote work?
Let us know what region(s) of world, type of work, link to opening, etc.
Are you looking for a job?
10s of thousands of layoffs in last year, lots of people looking, let's help them find good jobs
@SeaGL hybrid Career Expo this Friday
floss.social/@FLOX_advocate/11…
#GetFediHired #FLOSScareer #FLOSSjobs #CareerExpo #FediJobs
#SeaGL 's Career Expo is a hybrid for the first time this FridayWe'll be in person in UW's HUB in #Seattle and we'll also have counselors available for virtual sessions
Please attend @SeaGL this Friday and Saturday and sign up for a #CareerExpo consulting session if you'd like some #CareerCounseling
30 minute sessions begin at 11:30 after our Friday keynotes ( @baconandcoconut and @sri )
gnu-cloud.yourownnet.cloud/app…
osem.seagl.org/conferences/sea…
#FLOSSevent #FLOSScareers #FLOSSconf #FLOSSjobs
reshared this
Just learned, that #debian is going to the moon!
This is a group of rovers which will collaboratively and autonomously drive around on the moon. They're using Debian for all the dev machines and the rovers themselves.
CADRE
A trio of small rovers will work as a team to explore the Moon autonomously, mapping the subsurface in 3D, collecting distributed measurements, and showing the potential of multirobot missions.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
reshared this
that hood made of just squares and rectangles, vaguely inspired by the Skjoldehamn hood (but assembled from different pieces) that has remained on my WIP pile for more than a year because I got the side of the pieces completely wrong?
On Friday I've cut new fabric, and now I'm halfway through the hem, and then it will be finished! And it fits!
(now, the next step of the Project is going to take a lot more time before I even start thinking about doing it, but the (combed?) top (yes, top. not fabric, not yarn) is still in the Stash, not around the house somewhere not really protected from dust)
An underrated thing about there not being an algorithm here is you can basically be inactive for two months and then write a message that’s seen by tens of thousands of people. You don’t need to keep gaming the system in order to get visibility.
Questa voce è stata modificata (2 anni fa)
Luca Sironi (da chiudere) likes this.
reshared this
Eccomi di nuovo qui a rompervi le scatole.
Abbiamo deciso di chiudere la pagina facebook della nostra #Mastocartoleria e volevamo lasciare un messaggio qualche giorno per spiegare le nostre motivazioni.
È un po' lunghetto e ringrazio in anticipo chi avrà la voglia e il tempo di leggere e dare qualche consiglio 
Ciao a tutti.
Volevamo comunicarvi che la pagina della cartoleria xxxxxx su Facebook sarà eliminata entro breve. Non che sia una cosa così importante, ma volevamo farvi almeno sapere il perché di questa decisione.
Non è solo la novità dell'abbonamento a pagamento per i social di casa Meta nel caso in cui non si vogliano vedere le inserzioni (abbiamo già eliminato il profilo Instagram), ci sono motivi più profondi e importanti.
->
reshared this
))
@GustavinoBevilacqua
Cazzo, a questo non ci avevo pensato. Devo fare una versione per l'utente medio facebook:
"Feisbùk cacca, sito bello, buongiornissimo kaffè"
reshared this
So fun to be interviewed about Norse Myths for this episode of Imaginary Worlds! imaginaryworldspodcast.org/epi…
Episode 237: Seeing Ourselves in Norse Myths
Thor and Loki have become pop culture icons thanks to Marvel. But the influence of Norse mythology on contemporary fantasy runs through Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and so much more.Eric Molinsky (Imaginary Worlds)
Elena ``of Valhalla'' reshared this.
Confirmed: they have found the mummy of Marge Simpson (depicted on the sarcophagus), and it's from the New Kingdom.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua reshared this.
Piecepack and postcard boxes
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.
Posted on November 4, 2023
Thanks to All Saints’ Day, I’ve just had a 5 days weekend. One of those days I woke up and decided I absolutely needed a cartonnage box for the cardboard and linocut piecepack I’ve been working on for quite some time.
I started drawing a plan with measures before breakfast, then decided to change some important details, restarted from scratch, did a quick dig through the bookbinding materials and settled on 2 mm cardboard for the structure, black fabric-like paper for the outside and a scrap of paper with a manuscript print for the inside.
Then we had the only day with no rain among the five, so some time was spent doing things outside, but on the next day I quickly finished two boxes, at two different heights.
The weather situation also meant that while I managed to take passable pictures of the first stages of the box making in natural light, the last few stages required some creative artificial lightning, even if it wasn’t that late in the evening. I need to build1 myself a light box.
And then decided that since they are C6 sized, they also work well for postcards or for other A6 pieces of paper, so I will probably need to make another one when the piecepack set will be finally finished.
The original plan was to use a linocut of the piecepack suites as the front cover; I don’t currently have one ready, but will make it while printing the rest of the piecepack set. One day :D
One of the boxes was temporarily used for the plastic piecepack I got with the book, and that one works well, but since it’s a set with standard suites I think I will want to make another box, using some of the paper with fleur-de-lis that I saw in the stash.
I’ve also started to write detailed instructions: I will publish them as soon as they are ready, and then either update this post, or they will be mentioned in an additional post if I will have already made more boxes in the meanwhile.
- you don’t really expect me to buy one, right? :D↩︎
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
For the last ... checks notes ... 14 months I've been working on the next major release of FreeSewing. The core software itself was ready at the end of September, but I still have to put the finishing touches on the website migration.
That is done now, and (the completely new) FreeSewing.org now runs v3.
There's a ton of new stuff, so I'll link to this umbrella post with an overview: freesewing.org/blog/v3-umbrell…
Spread the word because this is big news #FreeSewing
Everything about FreeSewing v3: Umbrella post
There's a flurry of news about FreeSewing v3, so here's an overviewFreeSewing.org
reshared this
As a reminder, no corporate algorithm here means you don’t need to disguise your words.
Twitter can be Twitter, Trump can be Trump, Musk can be Musk, etc. Using plain language is both clearer for readers than code words AND means people can set up more useable filters to control their own experience. #FediTips
Questa voce è stata modificata (2 anni fa)
reshared this
@xdydx
It'll always be ex-twitter to me. X is not a website, it is the graphics system used in Unix and simliar from the late 1980s until currently beeing replaced by wayland.
It'll always be ex-twitter to me. X is not a website, it is the graphics system used in Unix and simliar from the late 1980s until currently beeing replaced by wayland.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' likes this.
Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:
saved it as ``hit🗞 .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit🗞.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).
(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)
reshared this
Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!
Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a “Discworld makealong”. And naturally we’d love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too 🥳
No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!
So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but I’m sure we’ll pick up a few more along the way 😄
November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. You’re very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.
Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, link’s in my bio, but not necessary if you’re not into that.
(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what I’m talking about, congratulations you’ve got 41 books to look forward to!)
*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because we’re slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until it’s a week away 🙃
Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--…
@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch
#DiscworldMAL pattern ideas
Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.Google Docs
Questa voce è stata modificata (2 anni fa)
reshared this
se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona è ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/vendit…
Varese, zona Ospedali
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unità immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
like this
reshared this
Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
Luca Sironi (da chiudere) likes this.
@Elikorokoros non garantisco niente sulla tempestività, ma ci sarà di sicuro un post sul blog (che arriva anche qui sul fediverso) con dovizia di documentazione fotografica :)
se non fossi orrendamente pigra e/o se avessi un cellulare che fa le foto inizierei già a farne qualcuna, ma al momento non si vede ancora molto :)
@kamikat I've done the first seam and it didn't react in an horribly bad way.
I'll wait until I've finished all of the machine seams before claiming that it's working, however :D
Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.
Posted on October 29, 2023
I’ve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, “Pan Sbagliato”, or “Wrong Bread”.
And this is the procedure I’ve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that it’s ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240°C, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
I’ve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
scientificamerican.com/article…
What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?
As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar exploration—and vice versaScientific American
reshared this
Can we please bring content warnings back? for descriptive violence?
reshared this
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostly¹ finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
¹ it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
like this
reshared this
@Kermode I mean, I'm used to Garibaldi's name appearing around every corner here in Italy, and I know he was called hero of the two Worlds (the old and the new, but afaik it was mostly in South America) and that he was quite a celebrity in his time. But I didn't expect a mountain named after him in Canada!
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua reshared this.
On a street I've seen two lost pet announcements: one for a cat named Kitty and one for an unnamed ferret, and now I'm really really hoping that somebody will find that mustelid and force him to marry Kitty!
Sai reshared this.
Per strada ho visto due annunci di animali smarriti: un gatto di nome Kitty e un furetto del quale non era specificato il nome, e adesso sto sperando caldamente che qualcuno trovi quel mustelide e lo costringa a sposare Kitty!
reshared this
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
Lasst euch eine zauberhafte Woche von diesem Kätzchen zaubern 💜!
reshared this
Have you noticed that people are taking weekends seriously? I used to be able to get responses on weekends and now I barely do. It's the greatest development in the history of email and we should never go back.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' reshared this.
Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
like this
Oblomov reshared this.
Infatti notavo delle discrepanze con l'ora del toot: non è che sei su GMT, visto che arrivano da 2 ore nel passato?
@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua no, no, questo post era stato scritto poco prima delle 10 di stamattina, ma ci sono volute un paio di ore prima che tutta la coda di messaggi vecchi arrivasse ad essere spedita in giro.
reshared this
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
#CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday #CorvidsOfMastodon #Odin #Freya #NorseMythology
reshared this
Not really a hot-take but: open source projects moving public discussions from project run mailing lists or chats to commercial (albeit "free") platforms is inevitably and eventually going to backfire and we'll all lose important knowledge and content either completely or behind login-, ad-, or paywalls.
reshared this
@Jan Schaumann reheated stale take, but like homemade bread which reheats great.
Except reheated homemade bread is a good thing, this is a very serious problem.
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55…
Books by Babbage, Charles (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 71,820 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
reshared this
During a nine-month period in 1842–43, Ada Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. via @wikipedia
TIL: #valentina (the pattern drafting software) now has a manual layout component that generates pattern PDFs that are much nicer than the automatic ones, and closer to what one expects from a bought pattern (including registration marks and watermarks with a logo or text).
@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua crocine / crocette non sono i segni di riferimento per il taglio (che mi pareva di aver sentito chiamare crocini, però, anche)?
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
Il termine corretto è "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' likes this.
I've introduced a lot of people to xournalpp (and xournal). I couldn't do my job (current or previous) without it -- best thing I've found for writing/typing on top of PDFs and inserting signature images. If you don't know it, check it out! xournalpp.github.io/
reshared this
so i have a 20-year-old drawing file i wanted to look at today. but i didn't recognize the file extension (axd) and there was no file association. what to do? 🧵
reshared this
so i think it would be easier to track down a copy of the software and install it on an old PC, then save it as some other format, rather than trying to reverse engineer this mountain of binary garbage.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua reshared this.
there are three lessons here:
1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents
1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents
reshared this
In honour of a friend's device that has just crapped it's self.
Back up your stuff. Do it now. It doesn't have to be fancy, a zip file copied to a free Google drive with your most important documents and pictures will do, or multiple Google drives if you've got too much stuff.
Plug your phone into your computer and copy everything over. At least it's in more than one place.
Something, some way of recovering the stuff just in case. Something, anything is better than nothing here.
You don't need to have full 3 tier grandfathered backups to bother starting. A usb stick in the bottom of a draw full of your pictures is better than it being blank.
reshared this
Waking up thought of this morning¹:
“Higher than the sun” describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittarius² and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
¹ actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
² wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattina¹:
“più in alto del sole” descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato più o meno su dicembre quando il sole è in sagittario² e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
¹ in realtà di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
² no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giù di lì
Today's Wikipedia page of the day is The Planet Venus as a Setting in Science Fiction! What a great topic to have an exemplary Wiki page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_in…
Elena ``of Valhalla'' reshared this.
poiché ultimamente ho visto varie discussioni su uso e non uso del CW, vorrei dire anche la mia: mettete un CW a tutte le foto di gatti!
non è che la mia allergia si scateni anche con le immagini (fortunatamente, se no internet sarebbe off limits 😅) è che ogni volta che mostrate un gatto che fa la sua bella vita io provo invidia, una fortissima invidia, uno struggimento doloroso... sto male! perché quella è la vita che dovremmo fare tuttə e non solo i privilegiati felini, mannaggia...
reshared this
@kappazeta mi pare che i gatti stiano bene dentro un Content Wrapper morbido e accogliente
When violent and tragic events happen around the world, I really appreciate the norms around content warnings here on Mastodon 🙏
reshared this
/me, puts away a pair of linen detachable cuffs, sees her cozy, warm, flannel 1880s shirt.
is it winter yet? and yet? and yet? and…
Oblomov reshared this.
* ripone nell'armadio un paio di polsini di lino separati, vede la camicia di flanella morbida e calda in stile 1880.
è arrivato l'inverno? eh? eh? e adesso, è arrivato?
reshared this
25.5°C in officina.
Col ventilatore puntato in faccia si sta abbastanza bene.
@Oblomov @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua alla fine di agosto non c'è un'occasione “ufficiale” per andare in giro in costume (non che io abbia piani quest'anno di andare a Lucca, ma se volessi andarci, dovrei preoccuparmi di gestire le temperature col costume, e io non ci andrei col costume da uomo nudo :D )
quindi evidentemente agosto e ottobre non sono la stessa cosa!
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua reshared this.
@Kermode that's probably¹ lower than I've ever experienced in my life :D
¹ I've had exactly one experience of -18°C, so maybe on that night I've also met a -19°C, hence the probably
si parlava di treni storici, c'è un viaggio questo weekend (però questo sarà elettrico, non a vapore)
Carissim*, ovviamente i fatti di cronaca recente ci stanno pesantemente impattando, e tutt* abbiamo la propria opinione e vogliamo esprimerla.
È normale e non è ovviamente un problema.
Però per favore, ricordate che esiste la funzione CW (Content Warning), e che nel dubbio è sempre meglio usarla.
Non è censura: è una forma di cortesia verso chi non vuole leggere anche qua cose relative a determinati argomenti.
Grazie.
reshared this
reshared this
The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
Fervono i preparativi...
[Domenica, 8 ottobre, in occasione della Domenica di Carta promossa dal Ministero della Cultura, l'Archivio di Stato di Como inaugurerà una mostra su Fernanda Wittgens, prima direttrice donna della Pinacoteca di Brera e attiva antifascista, che non esitò a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita per porre in salvo molte persone di religione ebraica, venendo per questo anche incarcerata a Como]
#ASpassoNellaStoria #storia #donnetoste #FernandaWittgens #asco
reshared this
Open Source JobHub
in reply to FLOX Advocate • • •FLOX Advocate reshared this.
FLOX Advocate
in reply to FLOX Advocate • • •WikiMedia jobs
senior, director, and VP levels, sre, program mgr, data engineer, community relations
floss.social/@osjobhub@fosstod…
Open Source JobHub
2023-11-14 16:59:52
ersatzmaus
in reply to FLOX Advocate • • •Careers - Open Source Consulting | Collabora
Collabora | Open Source ConsultingFLOX Advocate reshared this.
FLOX Advocate
in reply to ersatzmaus • • •Open Source JobHub
in reply to FLOX Advocate • • •Open Source JobHub
Open Source JobHub