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La butto qui, non è urgente non è indispensabile.
Qualcuno sa come bypassare un tag rfid?
Nel dettaglio:
La nostra copertinatrice di libri scolastici funziona con un tag rfid che sta nelle confezioni dei rotoli di plastica, con quel tag puoi fare solo un certo numero di tagli per confezione, poi la macchina si ferma.
Volevo provare ad aggirarlo, perché usiamo la macchina anche per ritagliare strisce di plastica da riutilizzare come confezioni regalo per singole penne o matite (invece di buttarle via).

Grazie.
Boost graditi :boost_ok:
#Mastocartolaio #Hacking #Rfid

#hacking #Mastocartolaio #rfid
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Volendo puoi fare un tentativo con NFCtools per Android (gratuita, ma non FOSS). Dovresti controllare i valori due volte, prima e dopo aver usato la macchina, e vedere dove differiscono [tenendo presente che a) sono in esadecimale e non necessariamente con valori "sensati" per un essere umano b) potrebbero esserci checksum o misure analoghe, tutto questo ammettendo che i chip siano riscrivibili]. Prova anche a cercare info sulla macchina stessa, magari qualcuno lo ha già fatto
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Tanto per risollevare la quantità di #positività nel mio profilo, rispolvero un #soloCoseBelle in salsa #gatto con queste pagine di wikipedia (collegate) che mi hanno fatto scoprire cose bellissime che non sapevo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mo…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(c…

La prima consiglio sopratutto il Partisanship study.

La seconda è una chicca dall'inizio alla fine

Larry (cat) - Wikipedia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#gatto #positivita #solocosebelle

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@Electric Sheep certo che anche se il governo non lo paga, un po' si comporta da dipendente pubblico, eh :D

“The final straw came on Thursday when Mr Cameron caught Larry cat-napping on his chair in his No.10 study as another mouse scurried across the room. When he tried to wake Larry to do his duty one eye opened but the moggy wouldn't budge.”

da en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_(c…

@Electric Sheep
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Debian Logo drawn with lights at UNL ATE hotel during DebConf26!
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"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."
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I neglected to share last week’s backer update, but here it is belatedly! In which I share my love for a particular short story by Annie Proulx, and talk about the dictionary that appears when you look up a word from it. Also: highlights, bookmarks, and more! crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific…

Never a Loss for Words: Search, Highlights, and Dictionaries

This update is about the reading reflexes, all the things your hands already know how to do with a book and that Open Book Touch implements: mark your place or mark a passage, consult the table of contents, flip ahead and back again, skim for a word …
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@a There will be a backer update explaining in a couple of weeks. Part of it is, the level of interest in the author's edition determines what's possible, but in general it's a different industrial design, likely with different materials, that will be nicer than the standard edition. much like bunnie did with the "Omakase" version of the Precursor, it's a "you'll have to trust me" thing — but I'm striving to make it something really special.
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Dear #3dPrinting-verse,

is there something I should know about prusa / printables.com?

I was vaguely thinking about making an account and publishing a few stl files for convenience (the original files are on my git repo, and they will remain there, but they are published as openscad source code), is it something I should avoid?

I don't think that there is a fediverse platform for 3d-printing files, right? mediaGoblin never got activityPub compatibility, iirc?

#3dPrinting-verse

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Super cool project;

github.com/epheterson/Zimi

It's an alternate front end for Kiwix's ZIM's. Auto updating through torrents with seeding, catalogue search, tons of built ins, like calendar, sky and space data. ZIM's are sorted by category, with custom sorting and favourites.

It even pulls random data for some ZIM's, like "word of the day" or "this day in history".

The world map ZIM works amazing with search and random locations, although a bit slow on a Pi5.

Something I've found really interesting is from the home screen you can click the random button and it'll give you a random article from all your ZIM's.

A big bonus is the dev is very friendly!

#kiwix #git #zimi #wiki #datahoarder #offline

GitHub - epheterson/Zimi: The offline internet — searchable, browsable, and self-updating. A modern server for ZIM files with cross-source search, built-in library management, JSON API and MCP server.

The offline internet — searchable, browsable, and self-updating. A modern server for ZIM files with cross-source search, built-in library management, JSON API and MCP server. - epheterson/Zimi
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#git #wiki #kiwix #offline #datahoarder #zimi
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The right button on my mouse had stopped working (yesterday afternoon)

So this morning I opened the mouse, cleaned the dead bodies around the wheel, cleaned everything else a bit, tried the button on the PCB, it worked, closed the mouse again, it did not work

I opened the mouse again, asked @Diego Roversi to look at it, he did, he tried the button on the PCB, it did not work, he looked at it with a bit more intent¹, tried it again, it worked, I closed the mouse and it's now working.

Now, I'm happy about the mouse working again, but.

¹ ok, there may have been a bit of canned air

#repair

#repair @Diego Roversi

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Il bottone destro del mio mouse aveva smesso di funzionare (ieri pomeriggio)

Quindi stamattina ho aperto il mouse, pulito i cadaveri attorno alla rotella, pulito un po' il resto, provato il bottone sul PCB, funzionava, chiuso il mouse, non funzionava più.

Ho aperto di nuovo il mouse, chiesto a @Diego Roversi di dargli un'occhiata, ha provato il bottone sul PCB, non funzionava, l'ha guardato con più intento¹, provato ancora, funzionava, ho chiuso il mouse e adesso funziona.

Ora, mi fa piacere che il mouse funzioni ancora, ma.

¹ ok, potrebbe esserci stata una spruzzatina di aria compressa

#riparazioni

#riparazioni @Diego Roversi

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I've started a new #sewing project and it's sewn by machine!

which means that I've spent the afternoon handsewing buttonholes, because of course buttonholes are sewn by hand :D

it's my take on the corset cover from archive.org/details/americansy… , for which I've seen other blog posts that gave completely different results, so I wanted to make another one for myself to post my method.

The American system of dressmaking : Merwin, Pearl : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

6 p. l., [15]-444 p. 24 cm
Internet Archive
#sewing

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Ho iniziato un nuovo progetto di #cucito, ed è cucito a macchina!

E quindi ho passato il pomeriggio a cucire occhielli a mano, perché ovviamente gli occhielli si fanno a mano :D

È la mia versione del copricorsetto di archive.org/details/americansy… per cui ho visto dei post su blog che davano dei risultati totalmente diversi, quindi volevo farmene un'altro per pubblicare il mio metodo.

#cucito

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e gli orli che ho cucito stamattina sarebbero venuti molto meglio fatti a mano.

ma anche, questa è tecnicamente biancheria, e arriva da un libro del 1909, ampiamente nell'era delle macchine da cucire, e lo sto facendo per scrivere istruzioni e voglio scrivere istruzioni per farlo a macchina.

che piedino orlatore sia.

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Comunque molto in sordina, ma con quel genio di @cedmax (ha fatto il 98,9% lui, io ho dato solo due input) "abbiamo" tirato in piedi blogroll.it/

Cos'è Blogroll.it?
È un aggregatore dell'Indieweb italiano dove si vogliono raccogliere le voci di questo "sottobosco". Nelle pagine del progetto trovate tutte le informazioni (anche per partecipare, forza e coraggio!)!

Con più calma elaboro meglio, ma nel frattempo... segnalate pure bug o rogne e godetevi questa boccata d'aria fresca ❤

blogroll.it

Post recenti da 17 siti personali italiani, aggiornati ogni poche ore.
blogroll.it
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We're turning 21 today, if you can believe it!! 😱🥳🎊

Come join us on the Postcard Lounge and write postcards together with postcrossers all around the world!

#postcrossing #postcards

#postcards #postcrossing

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Intanto #trenord abilita il servizio di pagamento del biglietto con carta di credito, passandola alla stazione di salita e di discesa

senza dover litigare con le loro macchinette infernali che discriminano contro i non morti

peccato che sia abilitato solo su due linee, per ora, ma siamo fiduciosi per il futuro :D

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www.trenord.it
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Cockades!
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Posted on July 10, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing
six cockades in black, grey, white, purple, in different sizes and with different centrepieces. One is only black and white and has a penguin pin in the middle.

Earlier this year, I made myself a new hat (it will be blogged), and I wanted to put a nice cockade on it. So, I looked for suitable ribbons, and couldn’t find any. I found some ribbon that looked passable, but the colours I wanted weren’t available, so I set up the website to notify me, and kept working on the hat.

Eventually the hat was done, the ribbon was still not available, so I decorated the hat with fake flowers from my stash, and started wearing it.

And that’s when I got notified that the ribbon was back in stock.

By the time the ribbon arrived, I had decided that the hat looked better with the flowers, and project cockade was put on hold, possibly for a future hat.

And then June came, and what could be a better time than that for a project based on flag colours?

As I feared, the ribbon I got wasn’t the best: it was a bit too stiff and plasticy, and not really usable for many other things. It did however work well enough for a cockade, and I decided it was a good chance to try different methods and designs, and then make another one to take pictures and publish step-by-step instructions.

And that’s the perfect recipe to find oneself surrounded by a somewhat unreasonable number of very similar cockades, I guess.

A big cockade with four ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, and a black bead in the middle covering the centre of the black ribbon. The pleating isn't the most regular, and the black ribbon at the centre is almost more gathered than pleated.

I looked around for instructions, and the ones that gave a result that was closer to my mental idea of a cockade were the ones by American Duchess, so on my first attempt I tried to follow those.

I didn’t have a cork board with a hole, so it was a bit fiddly, and the result was passable, but could have been better. Meanwhile I saw a forum post commenting on the above tutorialand that gave me ideas for a procedure more suitable to the tools I had.

A cockade with tree ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, then white, grey, and a black bead in the middle that is a bit bigger than the one on the previous one. The pleating isn't perfect, but neater than the previous one.

The second cockade I made was indeed more satisfactory, and I also started to experiment with making a center piece with ribbons, to cut down on the types of materials needed.

On this one I also tried to add a pin backing, so that I could write instructions on how to do it in what I believe is a more stable way than simply adding it to the felt backing at the end.

I’m not sure whether the other ones will be tacked to a hat, and thus won’t require pins at all, or if I’ll just put them on some dress with pins hidden under the ribbon layers.

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then grey and white, and a flat pentagonal knot of purple ribbon at the centre.

And then I was ready to make a third cockade, taking step by step pictures for my website, and I planned to start on it the next morning.

Trenord had different ideas.

Thanks to the combination of independent but complete disruptions ontwo nearby train lines, I spent the morning driving a couple of people to the nearest station that was still being served by trains, and then back home less than 10 minutes before I had to start working, which if you ask1 me was pretty homophobic of the train company.

There was way less traffic than I expected, and I did enjoy the drive2, but for various reasons it meant a significant delay for this post.

Anyway, less than a week later than I had planned, halfway in June I managed to publish step by step instructions on my website, but I wasn’t done with the project yet.

Beside the fact that I still needed to finish sewing the backing felt to the cockades I had done, I also had a few ideas for more centrepieces made of ribbon I wanted to try.

And this means that I moved on to another project that was already in progress (this one will also be blogged).

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then grey and white, and two squares of purple ribbon at the centre, forming a sort of eight point star. The ribbons are box pleated and this gives the cockade a bit more of a tree-dimensional shape.

After I’ve finished that one, at the very end of June I quickly made the last two centrepieces, taking pictures for the instructions, and in the next few days I also finished the cockades.

A cockade with three ribbons, starting with purple on the outside, then white and grey, and an hexagonal shape made of black ribbon at the centre. The ribbons are again box pleated.

This time, instead of plain pleats I tried to use box pleats, and I quite like the look they give, so if in the future I’ll have a need for more cockades I may use again this pleating pattern.

A cockade with just two gathered ribbons, starting with black on the outside, then white, and a linux.it pin in the middle with a black background and two eyes and an orange beak reminding of a penguin.

For the last cockade I wanted to try two things: putting a pin in the middle as a centrepiece, and gathering the ribbons.

For the pin, I found that the only one I had that had a colour scheme compatible with the ribbons I had was one with the penguin from linux.it, which had a black background, so I put black ribbon on the outside and white next to it for contrast.

And gathering was done with a whipped gather with ribbons that were one and a half times the outer circumference of their slot, and looks decent enough, but I think I prefer the look of pleated cockades a lot. Maybe it would look better with a softer ribbon.

Anyway, I think this is plenty of cockades for the time being, unless I get tempted by buying more colours of ribbon to make different ones. But I’m not making an online purchase just for those. I am not.

  1. you probably shouldn’t.↩︎
  2. also thanks to my partner who, on entering the destination town, told me to stop on the big, straight, two-way road with plenty of roundabouts to turn around, and went through the maze of one-way streets to the station by foot.↩︎

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Today I've been *very* good and instead of cutting myself a new shirt I've picked up the twine braids I did maybe two years ago and started sewing the soles for a new pair of slippers, so that when the current ones self destructs I won't have to make new ones in a hurry.

The first part of the sewing has been done on one sole, now I'd really want to do something easier in the evening, but if I keep working on the second sole I can bring it down to the point where it's more contained, without a long tail to manage.

But I'd really want to do be sewing something else!

#selfRestraint #forwardThinking #TheShirtWillComeNext #OhWillIt!

#selfRestraint #forwardThinking #TheShirtWillComeNext #OhWillIt
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Oggi sono stata *davvero* brava e invece di tagliarmi una nuova camicia ho tirato fuori le trecce di spago che avevo preparato forse due anni fa, e iniziato a cucire le suole per un paio di pantofole nuove, così quando quelle attuali vanno a pezzi non devo farmene un paio nuovo in fretta e furia.

Su una delle suole ho finito la prima parte delle cuciture, e stasera vorrei tanto cucire qualcosa di più semplice, ma se continuo a lavorare sulla seconda suola riesco a portarla ad un punto in cui è più compatta, senza una coda lunga da gestire.

Ma vorrei davvero cucire qualcos'altro!

#autocontrollo #PensareAlFuturo #LaCamiciaSaràLaProssima #OhSeLoSarà!

#autocontrollo #PensareAlFuturo #LaCamiciaSaràLaProssima #OhSeLoSarà
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Lysander il Breve @Marcos Dione it also helps me learn Italian. which is my L1, except for sewing topics :D

mi aiuta anche ad imparare l'italiano. che è la mia madrelingua, tranne che per gli argomenti di cucito :D

(also, I don't trust automatic translations not to screw up the historical sewing details, and even less so if they had to translate between Italian and another language rather than going through English)

(e tra l'altro non mi fido che le traduzioni automatiche non faccian casino sui dettagli di cucito storico, e a maggior ragione se dovessero tradurre tra l'italiano ed un altra lingua anziché passare dall'inglese)

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve I learned the basics of sewing in Italian, but especially for the historical bits (and other somewhat advanced techniques) finding materials in English is way, way, way easier, and I've learned most of it in that language.

Computer stuff in Italian uses a lot of English loans anyway, so it's the same situation for me, but less of an issue. :D

@Marcos Dione @Lysander il Breve
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ho un paio di pantofole basse di feltro, credo che con le nostre temperature siano più che sufficienti :D

però devo trovare il modo di farmi delle galosce o qualcosa del genere da mettere quando esco nel portico e nelle altre parti di casa che non sono proprio esterno, ma non sono neanche interno, soprattutto quanto a ruvidità del pavimento, altrimenti le pantofole di feltro senza suola non reggono

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Avevo un po' di roba in canna e in 'sti giorni mi son deciso a riprendere qualche bozza. Fediverso e moderazione, via, olé!

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La moderazione sul Fediverso

Argomento leggero, carino e coccoloso che fa seguito a un post altrettanto leggero. Regà, di 'sti tempi va così, va bene? Accolliamocelo. Comunque, dicevo, moderazione sul Fediverso.
Edoardo Maria Elidoro (La cantina dell'appartamento al terzo piano (senza ascensore))

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A Pair of Hair Towel Wraps
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Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
Two trapezoid shaped hoods made out of off-white towels: one is still looking new, while the other one has been bleached and roughened by having been washed many times.

Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap: it mostly worked as an idea, but it was too short for my hair.

On the other hand, I had two old towels I wasn’t using, and a recently unpacked sewing machine.

A towel cut in two trapezoid halves with a STJÄRNBUSKE laid on top of it: the IKEA wrap is a bit less than 10 cm less deep, and at least 30 cm shorter, and is also triangular rather than a trapezoid.

I didn’t plan too much, I just put the STJÄRNBUSKE over the towel, cut, realized that the two pieces didn’t fit with right sides together, cut the second towel (I had planned to make two wraps, anyway, so it wasn’t a big deal), and started sewing by machine in what seemed like a reasonable procedure, taking notes and pictures.

A towel, with its original care label, that has been cut in a trapezoid shape and reassembled into a hood shape with a long triangular tail. The machine sewn finishing is still neat and pristine.

The result was pretty good, and I started using it every time I washed my hair, but then I started to entertain the idea of shooting myself sewing the second one by hand for a video, but never found the time to actually doing it, and the pieces remained in the Pile for months, and months, and way more than a year.

The head of a woman with a turban-like thing on the head, covering all of the hair except for a tiny bit at the center front.

Until one day I bought a meter of cotton cheesecloth (mostly because it was almost cheaper than buying a sample) and it felt like a good material to make a nicely looking head wrapper, to keep my hair out of the way when needed.

A woman in a bathrobe with her head tilted downwards, covered by a towel thing that lies on the back of the head and has a long tail hanging on the front, in the process of being wrapped around the hairs and then brought over the top and back.

A couple months later, it was finally time to bring this project to the top of the list, and even if I was sewing two by hand it went pretty quickly: we had a weekend when it was too hot to do anything else, and by the end of it the wraps were done.

All that remained was finish writing the instructions for my FreeSoftWear patterns website <https://sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/contemporary_unisex/headwear/hair_towel_wrap/index.html>>, and having some pictures taken, and this project was done.

And now, on to documenting a few more things I’ve done lately, and to start working on the other projects I have added to the queue in the meantime.

  1. small things. Like, you know, a kitchen :D↩︎

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Happy Birthday Friendica 🥳🤩

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Author: Mike Macgirvin <mike(at)macgirvin.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 1 16:48:07 2010 -0700

    Initial checkin

16 years of federated social networking - Thank you all so much!

#Friendica #fediverse

#friendica #fediverse
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I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announ…

Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games.
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That was a very good conversation.

If you're interested in the topic of privacy and security oriented VPNs, what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are, and what their alternatives are, you might give this thread and the many responses a read.

I disagree with several elements of some of the responses, but even those responses are often given with backed up claims, nuance, and in a respectful manner.

I really love the fediverse, lol!

Tinker ☀️

2026-06-30 11:42:24

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All "privacy oriented" commercial VPNs are honeypots.

You can't change my mind on that.

Mullvad VPN has heavy marketing in Washington DC (their ads are plastered all across the metro stops frequented by government workers and foreign diplomats) for example.

The whole "you need to hide something? here we'll hide it for you! Everyone that wants to hide something should put is all in this one consolidated place!"

But they totally won't look at it.

They swear.

No logs, bro. I promise. I can look, but I won't. I could log, but I won't.

So while Mullvad the company is showing their ass, asking what other VPN to hop to begs the question: Why are you using a commercial VPN?

If it's to change your IP address to bypass porn restrictions in fundamentalist theocratic states, then cool. That's a solid use case.

If it's for a nebulous reason like "for privacy" or "for security". Then you might want to see if that tool actually meets your specific threat modeling.

#VPN #mullvad #mullvadVPN


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This is super cool: Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has published a ton of audio effects with a good permissive license.

> The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle is Finland's public broadcaster and holds a large audiovisual archive. The archives also contain a great amount of sound effects which have been recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques.

freesound.org/people/YleArkist…

Freesound - YleArkisto

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
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The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.

...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...

@LWN.net
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Dan York

Hopefully this news about the NetNut residential proxy platform will help diminish the attacks against @lwn - krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fb…

When you first reported it, I shared it with a colleague involved with tracking residential proxies. They could see that lwn.net was showing up in some of the data they were getting about NetNut attacks.

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASD…
krebsonsecurity.com
@LWN.net

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Some time ago my mother bought (online) some pairs of white cotton shorts with whitework at the hems, she tried them on, they fit, she used them a couple of times, washed them, and they no longer fit.

so, she gave them to me, and they fit me, as in “i can put them on, but I'd need to take in the waist”, but as long as I'm unpicking them to make them narrower I might as well unpick the crotch seam and turn them into proper split drawers that I can wear both as shorts under skirts to prevent chafing and as underwear under properly victorian dress with a corset and everything.

the funny thing? they have #pockets (and decently sized pockets, too!)

so, yeah, my underwear is going to have pocketses :D and I didn't even have to make them from scratch :D

#pockets
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Un po' di tempo fa mia madre ha comprato (online) dei pantaloncini corti bianchi con l'orlo ricamato, li ha provati, andavano bene, li ha usati un paio di volte, lavati, e non le vanno più bene.

quindi me li ha passati, li ho provati e mi vanno bene, per valori di bene “li posso indossare, ma devo stringere la vita o cadono”, ma già che sto scucendo per stringerli posso scucire anche il cavallo e fare dei mutandoni apertti per bene che posso indossare sia come panmtaloncini sotto le gonne per proteggere le cosce che come biancheria sotto i vestiti vittoriani completi di corsetto e tutto quanto.

la cosa divertente? hanno le #tasche (e anche di misura dignitosa!)

e quindi la mia biancheria avrà le tasche :D e non ho neanche dovuto cucirmela da zero :D

#tasche
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I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.

I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.

Edit: Thanks for the help from @thomzane getting the server back online. It appears to have been Facebook attacking.

#inkscape @Thom Zane
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Jack C.

I've managed to massively reduce scraper traffic with #fail2ban on my self hosted services. Here's the filter configuration I'm using to protect against the bots that at least identify themselves with their user agent: yuno.jack-case.pro/bookstack/b…

This is reading logs from NGINX running in docker, but it could be adapted for other server logs.

Happy to help navigate Fail2Ban if you need, the docs are somewhat unhelpful for getting started 😮‍💨

Fail2Ban LLM Bot User ... | Town Square Server

# Fail2Ban filter to match bad requests to nginx # [INCLUDES] before = common.conf [Definition] #...
yuno.jack-case.pro
#fail2ban
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Ajay Iyer

I've mentioned this in a comment elsewhere but fail2ban + Anubis + BadBotBlocker (github.com/mitchellkrogza/ngin…) is the current perfect mix to get rid of 99% of all attacks.

GitHub - mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker: Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for

Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail f...
GitHub
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My brothers, sisters, and siblings I have spent far too long on this. I present to you:

The Periodic Table of Rock and Roll

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Today it was too hot to do, well, anything, really, so we decided to take a day off and rest.

Which means that I've spent the whole day #handsewing.

Which, one could assume, means that I've finished the vampire shirt? of course not, I still have to attach two pairs of finishing patches to the sleeve slits, of course.

But I've worked quite a bit on a new-ish project, so that's good, right?

And to be fair, I had cut the fabric for that project close to two years ago, so it didn't completely count as a *new* project either.

(It's a towel hair wrap, and a second one in a lighter fabric to use as general head wear)

#handsewing

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

finito. finito. finito!

ho finito la camicia, ed entrambe le cose da mettere in testa!

3 degli 11 progetti da cucire a mano che c'erano nella lista che avevo scritto ad inizio giugno sono stati finiti!

(e altri tre sono in corso)

e nessuno di quelli da cucire a macchina

e poca roba nella categoria “altro”

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ilpost.it/2026/06/27/energia-e…

“Il massimo storico risale a luglio del 2015, quando toccò 60,5 gigawatt. Negli anni più recenti i picchi si sono assestati su valori un po’ più bassi, probabilmente grazie a una maggiore efficienza degli impianti di condizionamento”

mi chiedo quanto abbia influito anche la maggior diffusione dei pannelli solari, perché i consumi dell'aria condizionata di chi li ha in teoria non dovrebbe essere visibile a Terna (se non come calo di produzione)

Quanta energia si consuma con questo caldo

La risposta breve è “tanta”, soprattutto per l'aria condizionata; per la risposta completa ci vuole qualche numero e grafico
Il Post
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Alessandro c'è un contatore in uscita, ma mi risulta che conti solo l'energia che viene venduta alla rete, e un contatore in entrata che dovrebbe contare l'energia comprata dalla rete

ma quella che viene usata per caricare le batterie e/o usata direttamente sul posto non dovrebbe passare dai due contatori, ma solo dallo scatolo dell'inverter, e quello che passa di lì dovremmo vederla solo noi e il governo cinese¹

credo che passasse tutto dai due contatori negli impianti dell'epoca del conto energia?

¹ il bello delle tecnologie smart!

@Alessandro

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Intanto su ferrovie nord

varesenews.it/2026/06/tranciat…

varesenews.it/2026/06/ripristi…

#trenord #treno

Tranciati i cavi della ferrovia per un tentato furto di rame a Busto Arsizio: treni cancellati verso Malpensa, Gallarate e Novara

il tentativo di furto nella notte ha mandato in tilt i sistemi di gestione della circolazione. Corse soppresse e bus sostitutivi, tecnici di Ferrovienord al lavoro dalle 2
Tomaso Bassani (VareseNews)
#trenord #treno
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E, a tal proposito, qualcuno ha esperienza con un odroid m1 probabilmente brickato, cui temo di aver fottuto petitboot ma in realtà tutto l'SPI?

Boota diretto dall'ssd, ignorando qualunque cosa su usb (e mi torna) ma perfino mmc (e mi torna meno).

E per rendere le cose interessanti, non ho (devo ordinarlo) un usb->uart quindi non posso effettivamente vedere quel che succede se non quando poi arriva a tirar su l'hdmi

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Per la rubrica #ASpassoNellaStoria oggi parliamo del colore blu. Trattandosi di un #pippontoot vi ricordo che ogni singola parte deve essere salvata, o raggiungere almeno 5 boost, per evitarne l'autodistruzione (lo spazio sul server non è infinito e ho scelto di eliminare, dopo qualche settimana, i toot che non riscuotono interesse, così da liberare spazio). Per lo stesso motivo, se gradite, potete immaginarvi la sigla di Superquark come sottofondo mentre leggete.
Andiamo a incominciare ->
#pippontoot #aspassonellastoria

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

TFW you see a building with scaffolding covered by netting in the colours of the Italian flag, and you think WTF

but then you realize you're in San Fermo della Battaglia, i.e. (if I'm not mistaken) on the very place of a locally important battle of the wars of Italian unification, and one fought by the army of idealistic volunteers, not the regular one, and then it becomes ok.

#patiotismIsOkButOnlyUpToThe1860s

#patiotismIsOkButOnlyUpToThe1860s

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi ho visto un edificio con un ponteggio coperto con delle reti tricolore, e il primo pensiero è stato WTF

poi mi sono resa conto di essere a San Fermo della Battaglia, credo nel punto preciso della battaglia eponima, ed erano i garibaldini idealisti, non l'esercito regolare, e allora dai, direi che hanno fatto bene

#ilPatriottismoVaBeneMaSoloFinoAgliAnni60dellOttocento

#ilPatriottismoVaBeneMaSoloFinoAgliAnni60dellOttocento

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Giacché ha più volte funzionato, invoco il potere del Fediverso per riportare a casa un gattaccio che ha avuto la pessima idea di svignarsela, lasciando nell'angoscia i suoi coinquilini.

#PersoETrovato #CercoTrovo #mastodonperilsociale #caturdayeveryday

#mastodonperilsociale #caturdayeveryday #CercoTrovo #PersoETrovato
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Questa mattina ho due domande:

- com'è il libro sui cecchini del weekend di Sarajevo? Leggo recensioni contrastanti

- qualcuno ha una vaga idea di quando devo iniziare il processo di germinazione dei semini di ciliegia per avere, nel futuro (non importa quanto lontano), un alberello VERY AESTETHICALLY PLEASING in terrazzo? tipo st'autunno? metto in frigo? tolgo la coccia esteriore? posso dire "coccia"?

andate e condividetevi (per favore grazie)

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Cette affiche du XIXe siècle est conservée dans les archives de l'État de Côme, représentant des statues de cire représentant des «événements récents intéressants», dont certains se seraient produits en France. Le numéro IX concerne en particulier un tueur en série chatouillant, qui aurait tué quatre épouses en les chatouillant sous les pieds. Existe-t-il un document ou un témoignage en France sur cette affaire ? Merci

#histoire #France #Italie

#histoire #France #italie
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LaVi

Let's try also this way.

This 19th-century poster is preserved in the Como¹ state archives, depicting wax statues depicting "interesting recent events," some of which are believed to have occurred in France. In particular, No. IX, concerns a tickling serial killer, who allegedly killed four wives by tickling them underfoot. Is there any document or testimony in France or in your country?
Thank you

¹ North Italy

#history #serialkiller #tickles

#history #serialkiller #tickles
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

I have to admit it was definitely a form of patriarchal oppression *and* because of capitalism.

When we were starting the game I was putting my token on the female marker, and then decided “no, in honor of Pride month let's start as a male” and everybody else did the same, starting as female, and I won as the only male in the game.

*And* I finished the game with a class of Tycoon, not because I'd chosen it willingly, but because that's the only class card I got.

And I also won one level early in the game by tattling to the police.

I'm not proud of this game.

But I won, and that's the important thing in #munchkin, right? :D

#munchkin

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Devo ammettere che è stata oppressione del patriarcato *e* colpa del capitalismo.

All'inizio della partita stavo per mettere il segnalino su “donna”, ma ho detto “mannò, in onore del Pride inizio come uomo”, e gli altri mi hanno imitata (imitato?) iniziando come donna, e ho vinto essendo l'unico uomo del gioco.

*E* quando ho finito la mia classe era Tycoon, non perché l'avrei scelta liberamente, ma perché è stata l'unica carta classe che ho pescato..

E ho vinto uno dei livelli verso l'inizio della partita andando a fare la spia con la polizia.

Non sono orgogliosa di questa partita.

Ma ho vinto, e questa è la cosa importante in #munchkin, giusto?

#munchkin

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I think this is well worth reading. I've been a bit frustrated by some over-confident claims that data centres in space are literally impossible due to the cooling issues alone, and other claims that those issues are fairly minor. I am nowhere near close to being familiar with all the real-world engineering nitty gritty; I understand a fair bit of thermodynamics, but that is not enough to really settle things. FWIW, the arguments here seem well grounded in physics and the technological/economic/legal issues raised strike me as plausible.

robtow.substack.com/p/spacex-i…

SpaceX IPO, Orbital Data Centers, and Three Card Monte: The Cloud Is Not Above the World

Rob Tow · Nova Lux, New Mexico, USA, Sol III · 17 June 2026
Rob Tow

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.

No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.

But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.

Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.

---

Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.

*braces for backlash*

#AI #LLMs

#AI #LLMs

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