I wonder if there is any decimal clock in a church/town tower deep in #France.
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Uooops, yesterday I may have accidentally a pizza oven (wood fired, “portable”)
(does it count as accidentally when you have making plans about buying it for more than a year, but then hit the “buy” button today instead of “maybe this month” because of a discount on the website?)
Of course that's because I often make pizza both for our family and for friends, and I wanted to cook it at properly high temperatures, and not because I wanted to have an alternative way to cook pizza and bread in case of prolonged blackouts.
(If you already know where I live and we have already eaten together: when the oven will arrive I'll need volunteers to help me consume the pizza made while learning how to use it: I don't think it's worth firing it up for just pizza for three people.)
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Uops, ieri potrei aver accidentalmente un forno da pizza (a legna, “portatile“)
(conta come accidentalmente quando è più di un anno che fai piani per comprarlo, ma poi schiacci il pulsante “acquista” oggi anziché “probabilmente questo mese” perché hai trovato uno sconto sul sito?__
Ovviamente l'ho preso perché faccio spesso pizza per famigliari e amici, e volevo avere modo di cuocerla alle temperature adeguate, non per avere anche un modo alternativo di cuocere pizza e pane in caso di blackout prolungati.
(e per chi sa dove abito, e ha già mangiato alla stessa tavola con noi: quando il forno arriva avrò bisogno di volontari per aiutare a consumare la pizza fatta mentre impariamo ad usarlo: temo che non valga la pena accenderlo per la sola pizza per tre persone)
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Se si tratta di "ginnastica da tavola"...volontario a vita!
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Nota: il motivo per cui io detesto il cinquestelle e Conte è il fatto che il "Movimento" nasce nella stessa incubatrice populista e antiueuropeista della Brexit, di MAGA, della Lega salviniana e di tutta una galassia di movimenti destabilizzanti che fioriscono dove estrema destra ed estrema sinistra si incontrano perchè al di là dei simboli e delle bandiere dicono esattamente le stesse cose.
Che ne siano o meno consapevoli (alcuni sono onestamente convinti di quel che dicono) sono la facciata istituzionale della fogna che ci ha portati all'attuale casino.
Giuseppi li guida e ora vorrebbe tornare a guidare anche l'Italia, mentre non dovrebbe neppure sentire l'odore delle istituzioni, neanche da lontano,allo stesso modo di Salvini, Vannacci, Santoro, Rizzo e tutta la compagnia cantante.
Se questo discorso non piace, non mi offendo, mi si blocchi.
Io continuerò a ripeterlo fino alle elezioni.
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Ci sarebbero anche alcune cose ancora abbastanza poco chiare successe quando Conte teneva la delega ai servizi segreti.
tra i pepputati a cinque stelle furono molti gli utili idioti della Russia. Ricordo una discussione con una europarlamentare pentastellata, poi riciclata nei verdi per dare il buon esempio sulla differenziata, in cui giustificava (peraltro usando come unica fonte il sito “l’antidiplomatico”) la sua astensione da una risoluzione che invitava la Russia a fermare la proliferazione nucleare ai confini dell’UE, dicendo “eh ma allora lo dobbiamo chiedere anche agli USA”.
This morning when the alarm clock rang I was dreaming of saying the the words “I need a set of lockpicking tools”
so, in case I decided it actually was a prophetic dream and I need to act on it to avoid offending some god, where do EU people buy #lockpicking tools? especially simple beginners' sets
(I may end up cutting a few hairpins, using them to open the one lock I want to try and open at the moment and then postponing everything for years like I did the last time, but having something to do some window shopping on that is not an US shop nor a big chinese platform is nice anyway)
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I'll have to check where I got my basic set from... I don't think EU-based, but they might have had an EU stockist or something.
EDIT: Unfortunately, no EU version of the site, but the basic kit I got was by Sparrows (EDIT 2: sorry was actually Southord, so that exact kit may be harder to get - but Sparrows are a pretty well-regraded brand) and I was looking at their progressive practice lock set as well.
EDIT 2: I found this site lockpick.shop/engl/lockpick-se… - they don't stock the exact kit that I have, but they have some reasonably priced beginner kits. This one should cover most of what you'd need lockpick.shop/engl/marken/kick… and then one of the clear practice locks, which one would depend on what kind of lock you want to try lockpick.shop/engl/schlosser/u…
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Another hill I'm choosing to die on today: if you feel the need to hide your use of a tool, you shouldn't be using that tool.
If a tool has a "feature" where it can (try to) hide itself, to be undercover, that's a tool you should avoid.
Why? Because deep down, everyone involved knows the tool in question is unethical at best. Otherwise you - or the tool - wouldn't want to hide it.
A good tool is to be proud of. If you can't be proud of it, it's not a good tool.
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Allora, ho provato qualche volta la friggitrice ad aria.
NON È UNA FRIGGITRICE
Con tutto ciò che di positivo e negativo ne consegue.
Chi dice che frigge ma senza olio mente sapendo di mentire.
Però, come piccolo fornetto ventilato funziona egregiamente, per una o forse anche due persone è davvero comodo e veloce sia per cuocere che per riscaldare gli avanzi
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e invece é una friggitrice ad aria!
Le cose che metti in friggitrice ad aria alla fin fine hanno sempre del grasso in superfice che sia la pelle del pollo o l'olio spennellatto/spruzzato sopra.
La frittura avviene intorno ai 160°C/200°C, quei fornetti funzionano a quel range di temperature.
Quindi sta cosa che la friggitrice ad aria é un forrnetto ventilato fá il giro e diventa che i forni ventilati sono friggitrici ad aria.
@Alessandro @Lysander il breve vabbé, allora era una friggitrice ad aria anche il mio forno ventilato grande, quando ci facevo le focaccette spalmate d'olio nella teglia oliata
ma non sempre nella friggitrice ad aria metti cose spalmate di grassi, ci vengono bene anche cose tipo le patate cotte intere con la buccia (su cui poi i grassi tipicamente si mettono sotto forma di burro crudo) o le mele (su cui i grassi non si mettono proprio, al massimo degli zuccheri extra)
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scuola.wiki: una istruzione libera grazie a strumenti open source
Da qualche tempo mi sono messo al lavoro per creare un elenco breve e ragionato dei programmi adatti all’istruzione. Oggi nasce quindi scuola.wiki una raccolta “essenziale” di software open source da cui le scuole possono partire per svincolarsi da sistemi operativi e programmi proprietari. 🎓
#Scuola #ScuolaOpenSource #SoftwareLibero
scuola.wiki - software libero per l'istruzione
Directory di risorse open source per il mondo dell'istruzionescuola.wiki - software libero per l'istruzione
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Ink Lightfastness Tests 2026
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Posted on March 28, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, topic:inks
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This post will be updated in the next weeks with the test results as they become available.
Note
Most of the images in this post have no real alt-text: they are all scans of the test sheet at various stages through the test, and the results visible on them are described in detail at the end of the post.
Most of the time, what people write by hand will either end up inside a notebook in a drawer or cupboard where it’s well protected, or thrown in the recycling where it doesn’t matter. There are times, however, when things will be exposed to light: it doesn’t matter whether it’s a work of artistic calligraphy that you want to frame or a passive-aggressive notice left in the atrium of a building; it is useful to know whether the work will remain legible or it will fade into nothing in a short time.
A few inks are tested by the producers for lightfastness according to some established standard, a few others are declared lightfast in a generic way, but a lot come with no indication at all. Proper testing according to the standard scales requires significant equipment to precisely control the exposure, but it’s significantly easier — and fun — to do a simple test to divide the inks into three categories:
- suitable for framed calligraphy, i.e. it looks the same after 3 months of direct sun exposure;
- suitable for complaining about the way your neighbours deal with the trash, i.e. still readable after 3 months of exposure;
- not suitable for either, i.e. has faded significantly in the same time.
In the past I’ve done some such tests by taping some sheets to a south-east facing window, and I’ve noticed that most of the results were already apparent after a month, and there was basically no difference between two and three months of exposure, but spring equinox to summer solstice is a nice timeframe to use for such a test (and it leaves time for a second test of different materials from summer solstice to autumn equinox), so this is what I’ve chosen to do this year.
Rather than a window, now I have access to a south-facing covered balcony that is protected from rain but receives quite a bit of direct sun, so instead of taping sheets to the windows1 I’ve prepared a sturdy cardboard panel that I can leave on a table on the balcony, hopefully safe from the rain, but well exposed to the sun.
And then made a quick test, and realized that without the window glass in front, the black strip used to cover the unexposed half of the sample doesn’t lay flat and lets some sun in, so I used an old cheap2glass frame instead of the panel.
The next step, already in January, was mentioning in a fountain-pen enthusiasts forum that I planned such a test, and asking if people were interested in having me buy a few samples of more inks when I was buying my next pen. The word “enthusiasts” is probably a hint of the reason why soon afterwards I received a package with the pen I had planned to buy, its converter, and a couple dozens ink samples. And then a couple envelopes with additional samples of inks that weren’t available on the shops, from said enthusiasts.
Added to the inks I already had acquired since the last lightfastness test, it meant that they couldn’t all fit in one single page, and thus I had some room to add some inks I had already tested: some were requests, and for others I tried to select ones that felt relevant. Since I’m changing the test setup, I’ve decided I should probably keep doing this until I’ve tested again all of the inks I still have available.
For the paper, I’ve used A4 sheets of Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis 160 g/m², one of my staples that I’m sure I will have available in the next years, printed with a dot pattern with a laser printer, using this pdf. And as for the pen I’ve used a fresh Brause n°361 nib: loading a fountain pen with all of these inks wouldn’t be a reasonable effort, and the 361 is one of the writing implements I use most anyway. I also used a glass pen to fill a couple of squares on the paper with more ink. One side of each sheet was then covered with a strip of 300 g/m² black paper (also from Clairefontaine), kept in place with three dots of non-permanent two sided tape, put in the frame and set out in the sun on the morning of 2026-03-20, the day of the spring equinox.
While I was filling the sheet for the lightfastness tests, I decided to also prepare a second set of sheet, for a liquid resistance drop test.
On each line, beside the name of the ink, I added five sets of crossing parallel lines, and let everything dry for a few days.
Then I used a syringe to put a drop of a liquid on each set of lines, waited for it to be absorbed into the paper and to dry, at least overnight, but sometimes also for a day or two (life happened), and then looked at the results and did the next test.
The first liquid was water, with the usual wild difference between washable and permanent inks, and all of the intermediate possibilities.
The second liquid was isopropyl alcohol, and I was surprised to see that, with very few exceptions, most inks didn’t change at all. I wonder whether that’s related to the fact that instead of forming a drop it was absorbed almost immediately into the paper, and dried in a very short time.
The third liquid was hydrogen peroxide: beside the individual results I noticed that its column yellowed visibly; I wonder whether that means that the paper I used has optical brighteners, and it will also yellow under the sun: that wouldn’t be ideal, but it would also be a surprise, for paper that is acid free and sold for arts.
The fourth liquid was citric acid, by mixing a bit less than a teaspoon of citric acid granules in just enough very warm water (heated to 70°C, i.e. the lowest temperature available on my kettle) to dissolve most of the acid. I forgot that I had some old PH strips until one hour after I’ve put the drop on the paper, and I don’t know whether something had changed, but when I did remember about them it showed a deep red between 1 and 2. I don’t think I can trust those strips too much, however.
This backfired badly: the drop of citric acid never dried out, but formed a sticky paste that prevented me from scanning the results, and I’m not sure whether I’ll do the last test, which was supposed to be household bleach.
Luckily I had scanned the partial results, and they are shown here.
After one full day with plenty of sun, nothing really had changed, except possibly for a vague hint that the Herbin Bleu Myosotis may have have been a bit lighter than it started, but it may also have been a suggestion.
After three days, however, some results started to show, with the most fugitive inks starting to be visibly changed, becoming either paler or in some case duller.
And the full week showed more of that, with a few more inks starting to show visible change.
These are the inks I’ve tested, and here I’ll add notes on the results, as soon as they will be available, keeping this section updated.
When nothing is mentioned, it means that there were no changes, either under the light or under the various liquids.
Lamy Sepia
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler.
Sheaffer Skrip Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler.
Waterman Audacious Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After three days it started to be just slightly paler, after a week visibly so.
Waterman Harmonious Green
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop looks a bit lighter than the one with just water.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler..
Waterman Mysterious Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is significantly lighter and tends towards green.
Waterman Serenity Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it started to be a bit duller.
Visconti Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it was visibly duller, looking darker than the original.
Montblanc Royal Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it started to be just slightly duller..
Montblanc Mystery Black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Aurora Nero
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Online Duft Blueberry
Not resistant to water, the drop looks very washed out, although a hint of the original shape can be guessed; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it was visibly paler and duller.
Diamine Forever Ink - Smoky Mauve
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Diamine Forever Ink - Honey Pot
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Diamine Forever Ink - Coral Blaze
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Diamine Forever Ink - Red Ochre
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Diamine Graphite
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Diamine Rustic Brown
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Diamine China Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
Diamine Inkvent Purple Edition - Glacier
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Fountainfeder STEVE
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Pilot Iroshizuku Syo Ro
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Ebony
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a recognisable shade of the original shape; under hydrogen peroxide the shade is significantly lighter.
KWZ IG Orange
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is significantly bleached to a light orange.
Kallipos.de Schwarze Eisengallus-Tinte
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Kallipos.de Blaue Eisengallus-Tinte
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Salix
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Scabiosa
Water stains the paper with a significant purple spot, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is is a bit bleached by hydrogen peroxide, but still quite readable.
Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, but there is a visible trace of the original shape.
Montblanc Burgundy Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; slightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Cifra inchiostro finissimo verde alla lavanda
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; quite bleached to a light yellowish green by hydrogen peroxide.
After one week it was visibly paler.
Sennelier Abstract acrylic ink 917 purple
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The Feather Pen Ink
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Eloquentia Inchiostro nero
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DeAtramentis Document Blue
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DeAtramentis Document BlueGrey
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DeAtramentis Document Brown
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DeAtramentis Document Fuchsia
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DeAtramentis Document Grau
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DeAtramentis Document Green Grey
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DeAtramentis Document Light Grey
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DeAtramentis Document Moosgrün
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DeAtramentis Document Orange
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DeAtramentis Document Purpurviolett
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DeAtramentis Document Urban Sienna
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KWZ Sheen Machine
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide bleached away the red sheen. This was one of the only two inks to react to isopropyl alcohol, which caused a pale cyan halo around the lines.
After three days it was still perfectly readable, but had visibly lost some red sheen, after one week the red had completely gone and it looked very dark blue (but still shiny)
KWZ Walk over Vistula
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
KWZ Warsaw Dreaming
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Octopus Neon Violett
Water very lightly stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible. The other ink that reacted to isopropyl alcohol, with a pale purple halo around the lines.
Octopus Write & Draw Elephant Black
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Platinum blue black
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; it is significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Pelikan 4001 Brillant-Schwarz
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Pelikan 4001 Blau-Schwarz
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; it is significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Pelikan 4001 Königsblau
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it had started to be slightly paler.
Herbin Bleu Myosotis
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform pink spot, significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it was already visibly paler, after one week it was a pale grey.
Faber Castell Royal Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it was slightly duller.
Koh-I-Noor Fountain pen ink blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it had started to be slightly paler, more so after one week when it had also turned grey.
Koh-I-Noor Document Ink Blue
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Koh-I-Noor Document Ink Black
Water leaves a very light stain, but the original shape doesn’t look changed.
DeAtramentis Document Black
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Waterman Intense Black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with a trace of the original shape still visible; very lightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Herbin Perle Noir
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with a trace of the original shape still visible.
Parker Quink black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Platinum Carbon black
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Rohrer & Klingner Documentus Black
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Sailor Pigment Kiwaguro
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Platinum Dyestuff Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; very lightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Noodler’s Eternal Polar Blue
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- which would be spend the day covered by mostly closed shutters anyway, because they receive quite a bit of direct sun, and we don’t want that to enter the house during the summer.↩︎
- and thus, I hope, not especially UV-filtering.↩︎
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And tomorrow we're back to cooking breakfast from the grid rather than the solar panels, because they aren't producing enough yet
who is saving energy now?
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me, who is not cooking breakfast 
. And I need sun. I’m already the first in the office and by large margin. I want dynamic hours. 6 o’clock always at sunrise.
. And I need sun. I’m already the first in the office and by large margin. I want dynamic hours. 6 o’clock always at sunrise.Elena ``of Valhalla'' likes this.
@cate it was good enough for humanity for most of recorded history, we should go back to it!
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It's blowing my mind that Final Fantasy, one of the most Japanese of 'Japanese Role Playing Games' was programmed by Iranian-born Nasir Gebelli, who left Iran to avoid the 1979 revolution.
Studied programming in the US, and did notable work on the Apple II before being recommended to Square.
He programmed the first three Final Fantasy games and also Secret Of Mana.
What a champ.
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Parte oggi una serie di interviste ai responsabili dei progetti Linux italiani presenti nel fediverso.
IL FediLUG intervisterà le distro attive e partiamo con @fuss una distro storica fondata più di 20 anni fa:
fedilug.it/dentro-il-progetto-…
Per non perdere le prossime distro italiane basta seguire il gruppo fedilug: @linux@diggita.com che ha da poco superato i 1000 iscritti e/o iscriversi alla newsletter FediLUG su fedilug.it oppure nella stanza matrix: matrix.to/#/#fedilug:fedimedia…
Dentro il Progetto FUSS – 20 anni di sostenibilità e sovranità digitale nella scuola
Questa è la prima di una serie di interviste che il FediLUG ha deciso di fare per andare alla scoperta delle distribuzioni Linux italiane presenti nel Fediverso.FediLUG (FediLUG Italia)
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CERN just managed to transport antimatter via truck, and people are asking what happens if it gets into an accident. the answer is... a car accident.
the energy equivalence of antimatter is huge — 10¹⁷J/kg, but the amount is tiny — 92 protons. it's so tiny that if i placed all 92 in your hand, the destruction and release of energy would feel less warm than mere sunlight, by a factor of at least a few thousands.
i'd be more worried about the 2-ton magnetic containment machine in that truck.
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You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.
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@edwtjo The problem I run into is my writing was used to train LLMs without my consent so sometimes I get flagged for sounding like myself
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. @Edward Tjörnhammar This is the reason I don't trust those LLM detection tools any more than I trust the LLMs themselves. It's all cheap* parlour tricks.
* Actually, they're rather expensive, but you know what I mean.
two nights ago I woke up with the idea that once in a while The Magic calls a very powerful muggleborn to become a pureblood, a sort of first of their name situation; after the call this requires a ritual that requires also a pureblood and results in the two being married.
After the war the Magic calls Hermione, Lucius Malfoy finds out about it, kidnaps Hermione, brings her to the Malfoy sacred grove or something. Draco has been summoned there, arrives, realizes what's happening, tries to run away, gets full-body-bound too, and the ritual is performed.
They find themselves warded in a very newlywed themed wing of Malfoy Manor, with the ability to have visitors, and to receive most of what they want through the house elf (including books from the Malfoy library), but unable to leave, they start cooperating to find a way to undo the ritual.
Narcissa didn't know anything, and allies with them.
For some reason, both Draco and Narcissa's first though is that Hermione should have had the chance to marry Neville, since he's suitably pureblood and a friend. Nobody considers Ron worthy of Hermione :D
Have I been reading too many dramione fics?
#iGattiSiArrangiano , giusto?
per cui non abbiamo appena passato la domenica pomeriggio in un pronto soccorso veterinario perché il gatto che non è nostro ha fatto la guerra e si è fatto male
@Ju
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @LaVi @Puxi_Il_Gatto @AL.FA (NONOINO) @Signor Tigrillo 😻 @Ju intanto lunedì¹ sua Grazia è stato portato dal veterinario
che ha detto che effettivamente la ferita sta guarendo correttamente
ha fatto un altra iniezione di antibiotico
e ha detto che ci vorranno ancora due settimane in casa, e poi dobbiamo riportarlo da vedere, perché è ancora bella aperta, e prima di tornare ad infilarsi nella terra o peggio fare guerra deve prima richiudersi per bene
¹ chiedo scusa per la poca prontezza degli aggiornamenti
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @LaVi @Puxi
@Tigrillo prima di diventare il signore e padrone di casa ha subìto una cosa simile alla guancia, ma molto più piccola di quella di sua Grazia.
Dopo essere stato prigioniero per una settimana, è sparito per un'altra, poi se n'è fatta un'altra ancora sul tetto dei garage e infine ha cominciato ad avvicinarsi di nuovo. Ora schiodarlo dal letto è quasi un'impresa... 😂😂
@Tigrillo prima di diventare il signore e padrone di casa ha subìto una cosa simile alla guancia, ma molto più piccola di quella di sua Grazia.
Dopo essere stato prigioniero per una settimana, è sparito per un'altra, poi se n'è fatta un'altra ancora sul tetto dei garage e infine ha cominciato ad avvicinarsi di nuovo. Ora schiodarlo dal letto è quasi un'impresa... 😂😂
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Alura.
Questa è l'istanza Gancio della Provincia di Varese. Potete caricare tutti gli eventi belli della provincia anche senza dover creare per forza un profilo.
Diffondete il verbo.
Questo è un side-project sperimentale. Se volete dare una mano a gestire l'istanza scrivetemi in DM (ne ho bisogno)!
Fino ad allora... sa vedum!
Potete seguire gli eventi dal fediverso: @relay
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I gatti, soprattutto i gatti grassi, è importante che non stiano a digiuno.
Questo perchè se stanno a digiuno il corpo inizia a consumare i grassi, i grassi si accumulano nel fegato e il fegato si intasa (lipidosi) e la situazione diventa in breve tempo gravissima.
I gatti a volte smettono di mangiare per le cause più sceme: raffreddore (non sentono l'odore del cibo), mal di gola... boli di pelo (boli di pelo e erba!) o magari associano un cibo a un momento di malessere e decidono che è veleno.
A quel punto bisogna (!!!SENTIRE IL VETERINARIO!!!) nutrirli a forza, poco ma spesso, fin che non gli si scracca il neurone e ricominciano a funzionare come niente fosse.
La mia Picù ha già avuto dei seri problemi di fegato due anni fa (sulla cartella clinica c'è scritto "viva per miracolo") e appena vedo che va in sciopero della fame mi allarmo molto.
Comunque stamattina ha mangiato di buon appetito. Forse sta meglio.🤞
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Bernadette Banner, in the video that is coming out in the next few days on youtube (I think):
“I'm a huge proponent of leather thimbles. You can very easily make these if you have just a scrap of leather”
true. as long as you also already have a thimble
you all see what's the issue here? :D
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I mean, a block of wood or some pliers will do in a pinch, if you don’t have a thimble
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@infryq I've done a bit of sewing using the table as a thimble -- kind of -- pressing the fabric down over the needle braced on the table.
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no, un momento, sono morti nello stesso giorno Chuck Norris e Bossi?
noi di Boyager non crediamo alle coincidenze!
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@LaVi temo che per indole politica Chuck Norris sarebbe stato più propenso ad aiutare Bossi che non a tirargli calci :(
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“Sette cantieri e 66 lavoratori controllati dalla Polizia Cantonale nel Mendrisiotto: “Non sono emerse violazioni””
ora la domanda è: ma la cantonale del Mendrisiotto è meno brava della nostra guardia di finanza a farsi fare soffiate, o gli imprenditori edili del Mendrisiotto sono onesti (e/o più controllati)?
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Just to be clear
a hiking outfit is first and foremost a *practical* garment, as evident from the fact that the skirt is not supported over a bustle but just a bit of padding
so if I'm making a matching hat it's perfectly reasonable to add earflaps to it, even if it's something that is vaguely shaped like a top hat, right?
#sewing #historicalSewing #theJaegermonsterSchoolOfMillinery
meanwhile, life has happened, and progress on the hat has been slow, but
a) there *was* progress
b) yesterday I spilled blood on it (luckily on the buckram, and it won't be seen
c) I was starting to see the finished shape of the hat
and then I had to unpick all of the work from the last half an hour or so, because I am an idiot and didn't mark properly the center front and back and sides.
intanto son successi casini e il cappello è andato avanti più lentamente del previsto, ma
a) è andato avanti
b) ieri ho compiuto il sacrificio di sangue (per fortuna è finito sul buckram e non si vede)
c) stavo iniziando a vedere la forma finale del cappello
e poi ho dovuto scucire tutto il lavoro dell'ultima mezz'ora e passa, perché sono un'idiota e non ho segnato correttamente il centro davanti, dietro e i lati.
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no, un momento. in italia beviamo 20 caffé al giorno? ah sì?
si vede proprio che vivo in svizzera!
(no, non vivo in svizzera. vivo al di qui del confine con la svizzera. ci tengo a precisare)
La macchina del caffè che la Nazionale italiana di baseball ha sempre in panchina
È solo uno dei rituali con cui la squadra – formata soprattutto da italoamericani – ostenta il legame con le proprie originiIl Post
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Confermo: 20 caffè, 1 kg di spaghetti, 5 pizze pro-capite al dì. Soprattutto se il tutto cucinato da mammà mentre il babbo, coi baffi - of course - strimpella la chitarra.
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eh non ci sono più i luoghi comuni di una volta
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' è matematica. In America usano tazze da mezzo litro per la stessa quantità di caffeina. Se in Italia un espresso è ~25ml , ne consegue che un italiano beve 20 tazzine al giorno.
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Made a quick bookmark for the case when "was I on the left page or the right page, and which paragraph was I looking at?" is a relevant question...
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I heard the sound of my cat in the kitchen hacking away. I went to have a look and it turned out I was right – he was establishing an SSH connection to a custom port while wearing a black hoodie.
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A Pen Case (or a Few)
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Posted on March 2, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing
For my birthday, I’ve bought myself a fancy new expensive1fountain pen.
Such a fancy pen, of course requires a suitable case: I couldn’t use the failed prototype of a case I’ve been keeping my Preppys in, so I had to get out the nice vegetable tanned leather… Yeah, nope, I don’t have that (yet). I got out the latex and cardboard material that is sold as a (cheaper) leather substitute, doesn’t look like leather at all, but is quite nice (and easy) to work with. The project is not vegan anyway, because I used waxed linen thread, waxing it myself with a lot of very nicely smelling beeswax.
I got the measurements2 from the less failed prototype where I keep my desktop pens, and this time I made a proper pattern I could share online, under the usual Free Culture license.
From the width of the material I could conveniently cut two cases, so that’s what I did, started sewing the first one, realized that I got the order of stitching wrong, and also that if I used light blue thread instead of the black one it would look nice, and be easier to see in the pictures for the published pattern, started sewing the second one, and kept alternating between the two, depending on the availability of light for taking pictures.
One of the two took the place of my desktop one, where I had one more pen than slots, and one of the old prototypes was moved to keep my bedside pen, and the other new case was used for the new pen in my handbag, together with a Preppy, and now I have a free slot and you can see how this is going to go wrong, right? :D
- 16€. plus a 9€ converter, and another 6€ pen to get the EF nib from, since it wasn’t available for the expensive pen.↩︎
- I have them written down somewhere. I couldn’t find them. So I measured the real thing, with some approximation.↩︎
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Is there a #python module for #activitypub #c2s I can use for a silly idea? My search engine foo seems to suggest rather No, but maybe you know one 😉
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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓯 𝓓𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓽 thank you for the link! The calf client that is mentioned might be a basis for what I had in mind :)
I consider writing software a kind of craftsmanship. It's important to me to think through what I build, to consciously make design decisions based on knowledge and the existing problem space. To understand why things work (or not!) and be able to solve problems as they come up. To keep things readable, understandable, maintainable.
In the end, I want to be proud of what *I* build.
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I’ve been writing code for 25 years. Allow me to disagree. While I love building things, programming is just a tool for achieving a goal, not the end goal in and of itself. While I’m meticulous about what comes out as a final product, I don’t care anymore if it’s written by me, by a colleague, or by a machine, as long as it meets my strict criteria.
If you’re looking for an authentic form of expression, try creative writing. This is one area I’d be ashamed of delegating entirely to AI
Hello! Because I clearly hate myself I have written about some of the tradeoffs involved in allowing non-free blobs of code to be updated at runtime and published it on the internet: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-…
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I was thinking about this kind of stuff today when I saw there was an "intel-microcode" update for my computer. My computer is pretty old now, and it seems to work fine. So I wonder what the update is about. And it crosses my mind that the political situation in the USA might mean companies are pressured into doing things they wouldn't have done in the past...
That said, I'll probably install the update. I think it unlikely to be malicious. But this forced-trust really isn't a great way for things to work.
Che ne dite del CW quando si parla di guerra?
Non perché non me ne frega ma perché attualmente non ce la faccio.
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per favore segnala i post senza CW sulla guerra così li sistemiamo lato mod ❤
Confermo che - come dice @Donutsaurus - ci vuole il CW su LS per quegli argomenti.
Un cw più che necessario. E secondo me non servono nemmeno spiegazioni, i temi forti sono da mettere sotto cw, per avere cura delle altre persone
The internet tells me that there is a book called “Natural dyes for education and colour experimentation”, targeting educational and artistic users, that can be downloaded (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and looks quite interesting:
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It turns out I had another stained glass project in me after all. I just couldn't resist the heady contrasts of strength and fragility, profanity and sanctity. Plus, it used up a lot of random pieces of leftover glass!
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@book Yes, either in the form of extruded channels or, more commonly these days, soldered directly to the glass, after applying copper foil tape around all the edges.
And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?
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So my display, which is accurately showing the data, is like:
We're going slower than a Toronto pub crawl. No, wait! We're going faster than the speed of light!
We're somewhere in Mexico. No, wait! We are probably in Kansas.
The client ship is going the exact same speed at the exact same location as us! No wait. It *is* us. No wait, it's *ramming* us at full speed!!
Man, I had some fails in my time, but this one wasn't just a fail, it was fucking *embarrassing*.
"Build a special custom icebreaking display using the hardware on the ship, it'll be brilliant!"
The hardware doesn't work in the ice. Any actual icebreaker captain could have told me -- us -- that, had we -- they -- ever actually consulted one.
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Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.
Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.
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Fedi update: He's willing to look anywhere in Italy now -- suggestions welcome. (He was interested in that area because his family is from there, but no one is left there now.)
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Ehi Fediverso italiano!
Aiutiamo l'amico di @wohali a trovare un appartamento a Padova!
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🇮🇹 Going to Italy in the near future. Exciting!
Does anyone have recommendations for learning to read/ speak Italian? Hopefully not AI-cooked like Duolingo
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My suggestuon is not to try to learn Italian, just go there and keep a little diary of expressions people tell you. Depending on where you go, you might also learn some dialect!
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While I don't like to travel, and I dislike planning travel, Wikivoyage is a really helpful site when I have to.
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Thanks for the reminder!
Have a (short) trip I have been nervous about planning as I had not been there before and it is a bit of a smaller town... but it at least spells out a bit about the public transit options, limited though they may be.
It also includes a link to a bike route map, which is a really compelling option for me!
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thanks to Wouter for writing what I think on the subject
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I don't care what tools you use. Whether your use is ethical or not is not my business, it's yours, and it is your conscience you'll have to clear. I used to be a gatekeeping elitist prick who judged people who used software I disliked. I try not to be one anymore.
But - and this is a very, very big but - if the tools you use only exist because they're scraping and DDoSing the entire internet, and the cost of their existence is externalized to me, and everyone else running a website?
Then I will care, and I will call you out on your bullshit if you try to present yourself as an ally, while making excuses for the damage these things cause.
This is not about ethics. This is not about copyright, or rights in general. This is about externalizing costs to people who do not deserve this level of abuse, and then denying their complaints.
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ma questi sono gli smart ring con la batteria al litio nel lato interno dell'anello con cui si rischia seriamente di perdere il dito?
(no, il caso che era finito sui giornali era della samsung)
Il governo Trump vorrebbe che tutti indossassero uno di questi
Gli “smart ring” dell'azienda finlandese Oura piacciono tanto a Robert Kennedy Jr. e al suo movimento Make America Healthy AgainIl Post
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changeColin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
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@David de Groot @Yogthos yeah, beyond that I recognized a few words, but some of those I recognized from the time when I played a medieval nun on the internet :D
(I hand copied a text in Old English of which I had read a translation, so I had a vague idea of what was happening, but I couldn't exactly understand what I was copying in each individual sentence)
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