whooops, that one DOS fighting game I've played a lot when I was young has been released as freeware (nonFree, just downloadable). Let us download it, what can possibly go wrong?
(download link: web.archive.org/web/2004091902… from web.archive.org/web/2004091902… , linked in the wikipedia page)
(it's also on the internet archive, playable online archive.org/details/msdos_One_… )
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Everyone always says cats are liquids, but one of the chief qualities of a liquid is that it is incompressible.
But one quick image search for "If I Fits, I Sits" reveals that cats are far from incompressible and are thus something closer to a gas.
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Se blocchi un utente, luilei non potrà più vedere le tue attività. Se lo silenzi semplicemente non ricevi più le notifiche delle sue attività sulla tua HOME, ma naturalmente se vai sul suo profilo vedi tutti i suoi toot normalmente. In pratica silenzi chi ti intasa la bacheca e blocchi chi ti sta sui calli.
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Bits from the Debian Project
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.Debian Project
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"As for testing: We have "unstable" and "stable" repos, that is already more than a few volunteers can cope with."
Testing can (and should) be fully automate-able. Maybe 'plugwash' (@d.o.), the sole maintainer of raspbian.org repos, can help with that?
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Thanks to a combination of coincidences, last week I ordered 50 garment labels in woven cotton (pictured above as they arrived from the german language shop, as a continuous strip, with the writing in white over a black background) with the hashtag #FreeSoftWear to sew on the garments I make for which a Free as in Freedom pattern is available .
Now I need to be better at actually writing compilationsewing instructions for the valentina patterns I put on my git repo, because right now they tend to be... obvious to a quite experienced sewist who already did something similar?
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I've made myself a new pair of Rosalia Stockings.
It's my second pair (a few years after the first, because I got distracted), and this time I've solved the fitting issues with my first pair, so now I can make ALL THE STOCKINGS!
Mostly the pattern is symmetrical for the right and left leg, but my feet are very much not symmetrical, so I changed the stocking to be more pointy rather than square-toed.
It's made from the leftovers of a cut of black cotton jersey that I was using for something that was supposed to be a nightgown, but is looking more like a little black dress (yay for drafting my own patterns and always having predictable results :D )
Also, I've finally found a use for at least two repeats of a piece of plastic lace that I got for free from a shop more than a decade ago because it had been discolored by the sun (at strategically placed positions that made it harder to use in any kind of length). Also, have I mentioned “plastic”? I wanted to use it for something, but it's scratchy enough that I didn't want it anywhere where it could touch my skin. Here it's safely on the outside, it helps distinguish this pair from future pairs I'm going to make, and it looks nice.
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I haz a #bustle cage!
(picture of a bustle cage in off-white fabric with lace over the boning and box pleats at the bottom)
There is a gaping hole at the top because the top row of boning is a bit too high and I didn't have enough fabric to pleat it correctly to the waistband; I will probably add a few more tapes to keep that bit of fabric taut.
It's based on adamselindisdress.wordpress.co… (and the instructions on the book by the same author), but I've added tapes on the inside instead of a full inside back piece so that the width can be regulated, but most importantly making it was much easier, as even the second side seam is done on a flat cage instead of a 3D shape.
How to make a Victorian cage bustle
AS promised, another of my articles – this time on making bustles! enjoy! The underwear we are dealing with in this article was created to go with my Victorian wedding gown (more articles …A Damsel in This Dress
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The tapes at the top have been added, and I've finished hemming by hand all 24 tape ends.
Next step, finishing the summer corset before summer ends, now that I have the missing notions :D
Next next step, petticoat.
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Why? Why? Why?
«Why women feel pressured to shave»
edition.cnn.com/style/article/…
Why women feel pressured to shave
Why do women feel pressure from society to shave their body hair? Its removal has long shaped gender dynamics, served as a signifier of class and defined notions of femininity and the "ideal body."Marianna Cerini, CNN (CNN)
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crypto is short for "cryptography"
if you want a shorter word for "cryptocurrency", the word you are looking for is "ponzi"
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A reflection on the perception of the relationship between images and reality in the past and today, and what consequences it can have on people and their self-image
Exposing Victorian Influencers Who 'Facetuned' Their Photos. (Photo Manipulation was EVERYWHERE 🤯)
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I remember the day the aliens came. All of them, at once. Their varied spacecraft hovered above every population centre. Then they sent their broadcast.
“We’re really sorry. You probably wondered where we all were. It turns out that someone incorrectly typed your coordinates into our planetary directory.”
After all these years, we had the answer to the Fermi Paradox. It was DNS.
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I haven't tried any of the patterns, but this looks extremely interesting.
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That's the fork of valentina, right? valentinaproject.bitbucket.io/
I had been using it before the DRAMA, and now it's even in Debian (and it keeps being developed).
To be honest, I'm glad that somebody else is doing the maintenance and dealing with the drama bits, because the program itself is pretty good.
I've seen that the website uses the same approach to pattern making, and I wonder if there is a way to convert between those formats, but yesterday evening I couldn't find anything about it.
I've made a list of all the #sewing projects I have in various stages of planning / making (and for which I already have fabric and most notions). It's 17 items long. no, wait, make it 18, but it didn't fit in the page. Plus at least four fixes to existing garments (probably more).
I need to stop starting new projects (yeah, right, like that's going to happen).
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No, I don't think you've ever shared it, and I needed something like this for a current project, thanks.
only... I think I've found a bug :D
It is possible to select just one colour in the first screen, but if you do so, you get Uncaught Error: colorCount should be between 2 and 20. To get one color, call getColor() instead of getPalette() in the javascript console (followed by Uncaught TypeError: getColor is not a function
Using two colours work fine.
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Informazione di servizio per i pendolari emiliano-romagnoli: da qualche giorno è possibile richiedere il rimborso su conto corrente dell'intera cifra dei voucher emessi per compensare abbonamenti non usufruiti durante il lockdown (fino ad ora la somma era spendibile solo per l'emissione di massimo due titoli di viaggio, intestati all'abbonato, solo in ER)
Ovviamente il rimborso in denaro non è sponsorizzato ed è quasi introvabile quindi se aveste bisogno di dettagli scrivetemi pure in privato.
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La traduzione italiana di [RÉSOLU], la guida all’utilizzo del #softwarelibero per le organizzazioni che lavorano nel campo dell’economia sociale e solidale, completata da #LinuxTrent, ha attraversato le Alpi ed è arrivata su #Framablog: framablog.org/2021/06/29/resol…
Oltre alla versione in pdf, già disponibile (s.devol.it/resolu_linuxtrent), viene annunciata anche una prossima versione web.
Come al solito, un grosso grazie a @Framasoft #contributopia @softwarelibero @rresoli @Framatophe @linux
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You know what: it'd be great if people who need accessibility didn't go around calling other people's work "trash". I get it: accessibility is hard, and required for people to use a computer—but you know how proprietary platforms deal with it? They pay developers. You know what Linux users do for it? They fucking whine about it, and then they go out and say that any effort made is trash.
Well, guess what: stuff doesn't fix itself.
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Dear lazyweb,
I remember that some time ago somebody mentioned a good (well maintained with modern extensions) #xmpp server that offered accounts for a small price (as opposed to free) and wasn't conversations.im, but I can't find which one it was.
I'm writing suggestions for new users, and I'd like to provide more than just one alternative.
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For example, the jmp.chat gateway. Once a person has an account on some server and a client application, then jmp.chat/ gives xmpp phone numbers with standard telephony network connections for a small fee after a free demo period. They are a gateway for voicemail, texts, SIP and other media through xmpp, and committed to the GPL.
For more technically inclined readers, xmpp.org/about/myths.html compares benefits of xmpp with other communication standards protocols.
Thanks everybody!
I've sent what I was writing, it went badly for reasons mostly unrelated to xmpp itself, but this time I'm going to save all those links in a place where I'm going to find them again the next time I need them.
It's Prime Day, which means that I'm spending money anywhere but Amazon.
I have a couple of electronics gizmos and related artifacts that I need for myself and for our Maker Space.
I am soliciting suggestions for which items to buy and where to buy them in this thread. I will update it throughout the day, and may octopode it, we'll see how froggy I'm feeling.
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Ebook readers -
The first item I'm looking for is a cheap and reliable ebook reader with a backlight, support for common file formats (epub I guess, is the only one I care about) and ideally a web browser which can be used to browse a library web page we run on our intranet to load ebooks on to the thing.
Micro USB or USB-C charging, and battery life of 20+ hours active is ideal
I need 4 - 6 of them, but I'd like to spend less than $300, which is the most complicated part here.
Tablets -
There are a couple of places in the maker space where having an easy interface to a web portal, etc, would be really useful.
Stuff like "checking out a piece of equipment from the closet" and "clocking out of my volunteer shift" and "registering the time that I turned on the kiln, and what temperature I set it to."
I plan on having a web page to record these things, but a wall or desk tethered touch screen would be useful. Less than $75?
waveshare.com/product/displays…
This, or something like it, is the option that makes the most sense for a makerspace.
It's just a lot of work, and I'm the only one around doing this kind of work for another month or two.
Bella lettura consigliata: "Galassia che vai" di Eric Frank Russell.
Soprattutto l'ultimo pianeta visitato, Gand.
In originale ("The great explosion") qui:
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Thanks to the sewing machine, advances in the quality of machine lace etc. shirtwaists in the most delicate & dainty materials can now be had for pretty cheap, but before buying them the prudent office girl should ask herself: can I afford their laundry costs?
(says the one who has just ironed and starched a few shirts, and even cheated a lot (steam iron, spray starch…), but it's HOT)
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TIL: Catherine de Medici is a secret time traveling vampire.
no, really
youtube.com/watch?v=4XBLBfWNH7…
(TV;DW: reaction video from a few corseted dress historians on youtube to a generic-history video on the history of corsets. Painful and hilarious at the same time :) )
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The Workwoman's Guide (1840) page 11 ha scritto:
The gathers at the top of the sleeve should be set into a space exactly the same as the wristband, to make it lie flat also.These little attentions are a great assistance to the washer-woman.
omg. I must try this.
Wonderful!
I think to limit all those useful infos to just women (and specifically workwomen!) is a waste of knowledge…
the amount of *-ism in that book is just as can be expected from a book of the early 1800 that is meant to be used when teaching the poor so that they can become exploitable domestic workers.
But then, it was the early 1800s, it's not like one could expect anything better.
And for people who are interested in historical clothing, it's full of useful bits.
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E intanto in lombardia gli slot vaccinali ci sono, ma la gente non ci si iscrive :(
varesenews.it/2021/06/fine-giu…
se avevo qualche senso di colpa per essermi fatta vaccinare anche se lavoro da casa, beh, non ne ho più.
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Poi “ci sono gli slot” non vuole necessariamente dire che siano la settimana dopo e non dopo tipo un mese.
Però insomma, non si è più in una fase in cui pensare di essere vaccinati è un sogno remoto.
A qualcuno in zona como / varese interessano due o tre forni solari a pannello di cartone e stagnola?
Li ho fatti per provare forme diverse e li ho usati per qualche mese, funzionano, ma nel frattempo me ne sono fatta uno di compensato per cui non li uso più e ho bisogno di liberare lo spazio.
boost welcome
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Per le lattine, direi che questo possa andare bene :D
youtu.be/8tt7RG3UR4c
(spoiler: fonde l'acciaio)
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Questo con una lente di Fresnel è meno "hi-tech", ma per me andrebbe già bene.
Al momento non ho in previsione fusioni in ghisa!
Ever used this?
"wget <url-to-gpg-key> | sudo apt-key add -"
man:apt-key says
"apt-key - Deprecated APT key management utility"
It has been deprecated for (quite) a while now, but most people probably missed that.
michael-prokop.at/blog/2021/02…
is an excellent blog post describing what you should use instead.
It also describes a feature to restrict a gpg key to a specific repo (available since apt 1.1):
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/example.gpg] https://example.com/…
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Uno dei posti da cui di tanto in tanto compro cose online sembra avere una sola misura di scatolone (enorme), da loro non riesco ad avere bisogno di così tante cose da riempirla, e di consequenza mi son trovata con un grosso sacchetto pieno di chip di mais da imballaggio, quelli che si attaccano assieme con l'acqua.
Ora, a parte farci modellini, che però non farò mai, e una volta fatti rimangono comunque ad occupare spazio in casa, c'è qualcosa di utile e pratico che ci si può fare?
L'alternativa è provare a sentire conoscenti di conoscenti se hanno bambini dell'età giusta per giocarci (ma tra i conoscenti non ce ne sono, che io sappia).
BTW, I feel I should mention that of course I'm also leaving freenode, you can find me on both Libera.chat and OFTC.
I may still be on FreeNode for a few days, to help with the ongoing migration of one channel, but if you need to contact me it's better to use one of the other two.
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