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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈, @Fabio non so perché, ma vedendo questo cartello ho pensato a voi :D

Era attaccato a:

E il cartello dall'altra parte lo descriveva come “Sulla linea Como - Laveno”, per dire quanto è vintage :)

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No English version of the post above, which is mostly for people who travel on the local commuter trains, but the picture is of a model of a rather impressive (in person) 5 arcs railway bridge above a valley with a river and, at the time of the model, a second railway (which only had a relatively short life because of international politics¹ and now at that place is just a path through the woods)

¹ as in: it was an international local line, and then fascism.


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The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokument…

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov

@gov
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We now have the following national governments with a Mastodon server:

- Germany: social.bund.de
- The Netherlands: social.overheid.nl
- Switzerland: social.admin.ch

As well as the EU with
- social.network.europa.eu

Let's hope that other countries will follow this design pattern, and all launch a fediverse server at social.[governmentwebsite].[TLD]. Following this pattern makes it immediately clear to people they are communicating with an official government account.

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Elena ``of Valhalla'' ha ricondiviso questo.


I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.



Pietro Conti, nel 1896 ha scritto:

“Onore di pianto avrete ed il vostro nome durerà finché i sacrosanti ideali di libertà ed indipendenza batteranno nei petti umani e finché si giudicherà sommo sacrificio versare il sangue per la patria.”

ecco, mi spiace dirtelo, perché ammetto che l'entusiasmo che traspira dal capitolo un po' è contagioso, ma temo che quel “finché” non sia durato molti altri decenni, e per ottime ragioni.

(la formattazione qui su friendica da info che potrebbero non arrivare su mastodon)


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How I Keep my Life in Git


Posted on September 12, 2023

git secret_cabal greet

After watching My life in git, after subversion, after CVS. from DebConf, I’ve realized it’s been a while since I talked about the way I keep everything1 I do in git, and I don’t think I’ve ever done it online, so it looked like a good time for a blog post.

Beyond git itself (of course), I use a few git-related programs:

  • myrepos (also known as mr) to manage multiple git repositories with one command;
  • vcsh to make it easy to keep dot-files under git;
  • git annex to store media files (anything that is big and will not change);
  • etckeeper to keep an history of the /etc directory;
  • gitolite and cgit to host my git repositories;

and some programs that don’t use git directly, but easily interact with it:

  • ansible to keep track of the system configuration of all machines;
  • lesana as a project tracker and journal and to inventory the things made of atoms that are hard 2 to store in git.

All of these programs are installed from Debian packages, on stable (plus rarely backports) or testing, depending on the machine.

I’m also grateful to the vcs-home people, who wrote most of the tools I use, and sometimes hang around their IRC channel.

And now, on to what I’m actually doing.

With the git repositories I’ve decided to err for too much granularity rather than too little3, so of course each project has its own repository, and so do different kinds of media files, dot-files that are related to different programs etc.

Most of the repositories are hosted on two gitolite servers: one runs on the home server, for stuff that should remain private, and the other one is on my VPS for things that are public (or may become public in the future), and also has a web interface with cgit. Of course things where I’m collaborating with other people are sometimes hosted elsewhere, mostly on salsa, sourcehut or on $DAYJOB related gitlab instances.

The .mr directory is where everything is managed: I don’t have a single .mrconfig file but a few different ones, that in turn load all files in a directory with the same name:

  • collections.mr for the media file annexes and inventories (split into different files, so that computers with little disk space can only get the inventories);
  • private.mr for stuff that should only go on my own personal machine, not on shared ones;
  • projects.mr for the actual projects, with different files for the kinds of projects (software, docs, packaging, crafts, etc.);
  • setup.mr with all of the vcsh repositories, including the one that tracks the mr files (I’ll talk about the circular dependency later);
  • work.mr for repositories that are related to $DAYJOB.

Then there are the files in the .mr/machines directory, each one of which has the list of repositories that should be on every specific machine, including a generic workstation, but also specific machines such as e.g. the media center which has a custom set of repositories.

The dot files from my home directory are kept in vcsh, so that it’s easy to split them out into different repositories, and I’m mostly used the simplest configuration described in the 30 Second How-to in its homepage; vcsh gives some commands to work on all vcsh repositories at the same time, but most of the time I work on a single repository, and use mr to act on more than one repo.

The media collections are also pretty straightforward git-annex repositories, one for each kind of media (music, movies and other videos, e-books, pictures, etc.) and I don’t use any auto-syncing features but simply copy and move files around between clones with the git annex copy, git annex move and git annex get commands.

There isn’t much to say about the project repositories (plain git), and I think that the way I use my own program lesana for inventories and project tracking is worth an article of its own, here I’ll just say that the file format used has been designed (of course) to work nicely with git.

On every machine I install etckeeper so that there is a history of the changes in the /etc directory, but that’s only a local repository, not stored anywhere else, and is used mostly in case something breaks with an update or in similar situation. The authoritative source for the configuration of each machine is an ansible playbook (of course saved in git) which can be used to fully reconfigure the machine from a bare Debian installation.

When such a reconfiguration from scratch happens, it will be in two stages: first a run of ansible does the system-wide configuration (including installing packages, creating users etc.), and then I login on the machine and run mr to set up my own home. Of course there is a chicken-and-egg problem in that I need the mr configuration to know where to get the mr configuration, and that is solved by having setup two vcsh repositories from an old tarball export: the one with the ssh configuration to access the repositories and the one with the mr files.

So, after a machine has been configured with ansible what I’ll actually do is to login, use vcsh pull to update those two repositories and then run mr to checkout everything else.

And that’s it, if you have questions on something feel free to ask me on the fediverse or via email (contacts are in the about page)

Update (2023-09-12 17:00ish): The ~/.mr directory is not special for mr, it’s just what I use and then I always run mr -c ~/.mr/some/suitable/file.mr, with the actual file being different whether I’m registering a new repo or checking out / updating them. I could include some appropriate ~/.mr/machines/some_machine.mr in ~/.mrconfig, but I’ve never bothered to do so, since it wouldn’t cover all usecases anyway. Thanks to the person on #vcs-home@OFTC who asked me the question :)


  1. At least, everything that I made that is made of bits, and a diary and/or inventory of the things made of atoms.↩︎
  2. until we get a working replicator, I guess :D↩︎
  3. in time I’ve consolidated a bit some of the repositories, e.g. merging the repositories for music from different sources (CD rips, legal downloads, etc.) into a single repository, but that only happened a few times, and usually I’m fine with the excess of granularity.↩︎

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…

#vcs

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#DebConf23

The video team needs volunteers!

A lot of people have received training, it would be awesome if you can sign up for tasks on debconf23.debconf.org/voluntee…

The conference does not run on thin air, but the sweat, blood and possibly other bodily fluids !

apt install #anarchism today!

#debian

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DebConf23 starts today in Kochi! bits.debian.org/2023/09/debcon… #debian #debconf #debconf23 #freesoftware #dc23 #kochi #debconfkochi #debianindia

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Banners and Signs


Posted on September 8, 2023
I forgot to write down the details back when it happened, but now that the surprise has been delivered I can write about it.

A triangular fabric banner, black with a reflective grey border, and a penguin outline where part of the outline is in the shape of Lake Como screenprinted in white and light blue.

Some time ago, I decided to make a small banner with the GL-Como penguin for a friend, because reasons.

However, this friend has a big problem, he, well, is from Pisa (no, I’m not from Leghorn, why do you ask?), and I had a screen printing kit, openclipart and no inhibitions.

Three fabric banners: one is the one mentioned above, two are square with a yellow corded border, a yellow triangle and a tower of Pisa in black in the middle. The yellow triangles aren't perfectly flat yellow, but somewhat ruined, one more than the other.

So, with the encouragement of a few friends who were in the secret, this happened. In two copies, because the first attempt at the print had issues.

And yesterday we finally met that friend again, gave him all of the banners, and no violence happened, but he liked them :D

An ISO 7071-style triangle warning sign with a simplified tower of Pisa in black on yellow background.

If somebody is interested, the source image I used is on openclipart, with links to all of the sources I’ve used.

I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but when I was working on the Pisani sign I also stumbled on the “no dogs” sign and decided that the world needed a “mandatory cat” sign, and well, here is the full set (all images are a link to the openclipart page).

ISO 7071 “no dogs” sign, a black dog on white background with a red circle with a diagonal line.

ISO 7071-style “mandatory cats” sign, a white cat on blue circle background.

ISO 7071-style “mandatory dogs” sign, a white dog on blue circle background.

ISO 7071-style “no cats”, a black cat on white background with a red circle with a diagonal line.


blog.trueelena.org/blog/2023/0…


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book bundles (drm-free ebooks for sale)

The current storybundle includes a few complete trilogies, rather than the usual book 1 (and then you're on your own getting the rest), as long as you pay at least the bonus level, and I'd strongly recommend Machineries of Empires to anybody who loves space opera and/or excellent worldbuilding.

storybundle.com/trilogies

(I'm not involved in any of this, I've just loved reading it)

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book bundles (drm-free ebooks for sale)
thanks, I had mindlessly deleted that email but I will take a second look.

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Un amico mi scrive quanto segue:

“Ciao,

mi devo liberare dei #libri di cui puoi trovare le copertine al seguente link:

data.laboccadellupo.it/index.p…

Li ho rozzamente classificati e non li ho catalogati perche' non trovo che il gioco valga la candela. Voglio provare a salvarli dal loro tristo destino: finire nella stufa, una pagina alla volta, questo inverno. Mi dai una mano?

Sono i vecchi libri miei, di mia madre e di mio padre che abbiamo deciso di non tenere dopo aver venduto la vecchia casa di famiglia. La URL ti permette di accedere ad un gestore di file web: accedi ad una cartella, clicca su un'immagine e comincia a scorrere con i tasti freccia destra e sinistra tra le copertine. Qualcosa so che finira' sicuramente nella bocca della stufa, ma magari qualcosa no (spero la maggior parte!).

Sono quasi tutti in italiano, tranne quelli in un'apposita e chiara cartella. Cosa troverai? Arte e romanzi, saggi sull'Italia repubblicana, qualcosa di filosofia, vecchi manuali liceali, qualcosa di informatico, vecchie riviste e fumetti, pubblicazioni molto locali. Guardati intorno.

Segnati il nome del file che appare sopra l'immagine della copertina e mandamelo per dirmi che vuoi il libro o maggiori informazioni. Passa pure questo messaggio a persone che possono aiutarci a salvarli, pero' io agisco nella sola area di #Varese e dintorni mentre tu ti prendi la responsabilita' per amiche o amici piu' lontani.

Consulta il file "istruzioni.txt" per trovare il modo di contattarmi ed eventuali altre informazioni che potrei aver aggiunto nel tempo rispetto al momento in cui hai ricevuto questo messaggio.”

(hashtag miei)

Qualcuno qui sul fediverso vuole dargli una mano?

#mastoregalo

in reply to Scimmia di Mare

@Scimmia di Mare :unverified: e immagino che tu non abbia qualche amico/parente/conoscente che capita in zona a cui far fare da corriere (della droga :D ), vero?

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Consiglio caldamente l'apertura con blocco javascript, e l'articolo probabilmente è stato scritto su calda raccomandazione dell'azienda, ma dice cose interessanti sui TiLo (treni pendolari / locali tra lombardia e ticino), anche se a livello molto poco approfondito.

#trenò, #trenord

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

La gente che si chiede perché non ci siano treni che vanno direttamente da uno stato all'altro queste cose non le sa.
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ha ricondiviso questo.

@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua Però è anche vero che oggi come oggi non è così difficile costruire treni che accettano più tensioni (che io sappia molto più semplice di quanto non fosse una volta).

E se non altro, sui confini italiani mi risulta che lo scartamento sia sempre lo stesso (contrariamente alla Spagna che ha uno scartamento diverso dalla Francia (e dal resto d'Europa))

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Stop using creative words to 'censor' the name of current owner of twitter.com. Breaks filters. I understand you don't want to CW those posts, but let me do it for myself? Just had to add 'Eln0' to my filter list, and found I already had 'Elno', and a bunch of others already. Please let me control what I want to read when?

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Nice, apparently I was not completely unproductive yesterday during #DebConf23

I **did** upload the latest #confy after having helped upgrading blueprint-compiler (the required version was bumped) in #Debian .

The #gtk4 version looks absolutely beautiful, but see for yourself in the screencast I just did on my #Librem5 (no hw acccelerated video encoding yet, so that's why its not full fps).

This is the sort of app that makes it an absolute joy #daily #driving #phosh !

#MobileLinux #gnome

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And for anyone who's interested:

This is actually using the information merged into #giggity .
I'm very happy that the #DebConf23 xml appears **very** complete (thanks to whoever took the time to send the pull request)!

@fabrixxm is the upstream author and deserves a lot of praise and recognition for #confy IMO

It should migrate to #Debian testing in around 4 days, so just in time for the beginning of #DebConf23 \o/

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car, +

TFW you announce “and now I'm driving on a straight and wide road” and 10 seconds later you turn an almost-blind curve and see two big buses overtaking a bike and end up brushing the bushes at the edge of the road with the left rear view mirror to avoid hitting the second bus with the right mirror.

(No significant damage was done to the mirror nor to the bush, it was just a light touch, like a cat using her whiskers to check that she could pass in a narrow opening :D )

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automobili, +

TFW annunci “e adesso sto guidando su una strada larga e dritta” e 10 secondi dopo esci da una curva quasi cieca e vedi due pulman che stanno sorpassando una bicicletta e finisci a sfiorare la siepe a bordo strada con lo specchietto di sinistra per evitare di toccare il secondo pulman con lo specchietto di estra.

(Nessuno si è fatto male, né lo specchietto né il cespuglio, è stata una cosa tipo gatto che usa le vibrisse per controllare se ci passa da un pertugio :D )

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car, +

@David de Groot it wasn't that bad: when I got out of the curve there was plenty of space for the first bus to finish overtaking, and thus plenty of space for me to react to the second bus who did the same when there *wasn't* plenty of space (because of course it would do that, they were probably traveling together, and my expectations were safely low :D ).

It was just proof that, while definitely *wider* and *straighter* than the road I had been driving just before, well, calling it *wide* and *straight* was still a bit of a stretch :D



A proposito di lingua che evolve:

“Fin verso la metà del volgente secolo oltre due terzi delle tenute boscate erano di proprietà dei comuni i quali in seguito ne cedettero, in gran parte, il possesso ai comunisti”

Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi, 1896

E avendo letto questo sono andata a vedere treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… e ho scoperto che il significato di uso comune oggi non è una parola italiana, ma che è un adattamento di una parola francese.

(Ovviamente lì sopra lo usano nel significato treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… , pagina che purtroppo non aiuta a capire se siano tutti gli abitanti del comune, o solo un loro sottoinsieme privilegiato, tipo il patriziato svizzero)

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@Fighen e se si trasferiva una famiglia nuova nel comune non aveva quel diritto, giusto? e i loro discendenti?
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Dipende dalle regole immagino. Qualcuna è stata anche pubblicata e forse ci sarebbero notizie più precise lì.dalle mie parti le terre comuni erano su scala molto inferiore al comune come noi non intendiamo oggi, cioè come unità amministrativa.e con ogni probabilità se qualcuno si aggregava alla comunità, aveva anche lui il diritto di, ad esempio fare legna,


“Quasi a contrasto dell'allegro e spaziante suolo intelvese, da Lanzo discendi nell'orrida *Valmara*. Da quel fondo tetro e lugubre lo spirito rifugge, oppresso e sgomento; lo sguardo incarcerato appena scorge una striscia sottile di cielo, che si allarga alle estremità, frastagliata tra le cornose vette dei due nuclei montuosi, che quasi si accavallano, si confondono e l'eco in quell'angusto tragitto, più che mai sonoro, dal basso all'alto ripercuote tra il fragore dell'acque cascanti, il fischio del pastore, che richiama alla stalla le capre pascentesi tra le erbose sinuosità di quelle eterne rupi. Tuttavia il pensiero anche da quell'orrido aspetto in quell'imo profondo riscontra eloquente il bello, il sublime della natura ed il sentimentalismo , anche il meno fervido, trova ad esuberanza materia, princip ̛i. concetti, idee con cui filosofare, fantasticare, vagare, approfondirsi, innalzarsi, inebriarsi.”

Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi

@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 è la strada *divertente¹* che citavo oggi pomeriggio, descritta dal libro che accidentalmente mi è capitato di comprare in fiera :D

¹ per qualche valore di divertente che poche persone condividono :D

@LaVi
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

"divertente" = "arrivare in fondo con metà battistrada rispetto alla partenza, i freni che fumano, sette anni in meno di aspettativa di vita ed un carico di adrenalina che 'narcos levatevi'"? #StradeDivertenti
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@Ferdinando Simonetti @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 pendenza del 18%, circa 20 m tra un tornante e l'altro

le velocità che consumano i battistrada cerco di evitarle, che non si arriva al fondo vivi, tutto il resto lo posso confermare :D



TFW you go looking for an old linocut plate to make a test print, and it's. the. first. one. you. check.

win!

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anyway, doing a couple of prints with acrylic paint and a spray bottle of water instead of proper linocut ink works, cleaning up is a bit of a pain. I would never do tens of prints with it (but then I'm not doing them anyway).

Retarder medium would probably help, but I don't have it. But maybe for those few times when I want to use metallic or other special effect paint it's more sensible to buy that, and use the acrylics I already have, rather than buying more types of linocut ink.


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Allora, dopo aver visto che le previsioni cominciano ad essere incoraggianti diamo l'annuncio ufficiale per il #MastoIncontri a tema #abbigliamentoEccentrico e #trenò!

Ritrovo giovedì 31 agosto a #Saronno al binario opportuno per prendere il treno delle 14:03 per #Como, all'altezza della carrozza di testa: anche se pochi dovremmo essere vistosi :D (ma contattatemi pure in privato se pensate di partecipare).

L'abbigliamento eccentrico non è obbligatorio, ma consigliato :)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@Kermode it would have been perfectly reasonable :D

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Il cavallo è quasi arrivato in stazione, ma il treno #trenord con cui voleva fuggire era in ritardo e sono riusciti a catturarlo

(consiglio di aprire il sito con javascript bloccato)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

E ringrazia che "la provincia di Varese" ha chiuso, anche se ogni tanto regalava certe perle...

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Here is a hopefully-useful notice about Linux kernel security issues, as it seems like this knowledge isn't distributed very widely based on the number of emails I get on a weekly basis:

- The kernel security team does not have any "early notice"
announcement list for security fixes for anyone, as that would only
make things more insecure for everyone.

- The kernel community does not assign CVEs, nor do we deal with them
at all. This is documented in the kernel's security policy, yet we
still have a number of people asking for CVE numbers even after
reading that policy. See my longer "CVEs are dead..." talk for full
details about how the CVE process is broken for projects like Linux:
kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/tal…

- You HAVE to take all of the stable/LTS releases in order to have a
secure and stable system. If you attempt to cherry-pick random
patches you will NOT fix all of the known, and unknown, problems,
but rather you will end up with a potentially more insecure system,
and one that contains known bugs. Reliance on an "enterprise"
distribution to provide this for your systems is up to you, discuss
it with them as to how they achieve this result as this is what you
are paying for. If you aren't paying for it, just use Debian, they
know what they are doing and track the stable kernels and have a
larger installed base than any other Linux distro. For embedded,
use Yocto, they track the stable releases, or keep your own
buildroot-based system up to date with the new releases.

- Test all stable/LTS releases on your workload and hardware before
putting the kernel into "production" as everyone runs a different %
of the kernel source code from everyone else (servers run about
1.5mil lines of code, embedded runs about 3.5mil lines of code, your
mileage will vary). If you can't test releases before moving them
into production, you might want to solve that problem first.

- A fix for a known bug is better than the potential of a fix causing a
future problem as future problems, when found, will be fixed then.

I think I need to give another talk about this issue to go into the above in more detail. So much for me giving a technical talk at Kernel Recipes this year...

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Weird question, but does anyone know of a place to buy small vases or pots in the style of ones found in ancient Greece, which are suitable for painting?

...yes I want to make my students paint tiny mythological scenes, why do you ask.

(This is one of my rare cross-posts between different social media.)

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@RuthSachter Oh man, I didn't even think about tiny 'trophy' options. If the base could be popped off, and it weren't so darn small, I'd be really tempted to go with those. It's closer to some of the traditional shapes, at least.
in reply to Fade

@RuthSachter I found a trophy vase at target without the base, but it went too far in the other direction in terms of size and price.


Filed under: #misleadingProductLabels

“source of calcium and magnesium”, they say

then the nutritional label claims 14% and 10% of the recommended daily dose respectively per 100 ml.

Except that 100 ml also have 65 g of sugar. it's a syrup that you mix with water to make a soft drink, and the serving is maybe 5 ml, possibly even less.

Pictures from a random source on the internet.

drogheriaolimpia.com/20861-lar…
drogheriaolimpia.com/20862-lar…

(which show that the product is “Sciroppo all'estratto di Tamarindo Carlo Erba”)

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@las_lallero

Un anno che ebbi una sovrapproduzione di mandarini feci i ghiaccioli di succo di mandarino… ottimi in estate nel vino bianco 😋


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Comunque, se il vento non se la porta via, comunico che in Piazza Cavour c'è l'annuale Fiera del Libro, ottima occasione per scovare pubblicazioni di piccole case editrici locali.

#libri #mastolibri #mastolibro #LibriEDintorni @libri @bibliofiliincurabili

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Oblomov
@GustavinoBevilacqua @valhalla
meglio qualcosa di piú locale, ma servono manici di cinque palmi
youtube.com/watch?v=pXJtMVzoNk…
(notare Cesare Basile)


TFW I sort of want to paint some salt-dough pieces I've made, but I've also just put some bread in the oven, and it will require my attention and clean hands in 10 minutes and then again in 10 more minutes, and then again 20 minutes later.

#multicraftual



yesterday I may also have accidentally bought another spray paint can.

Today there is a forecast for rain, so I announced that I wouldn't have used it until later in the week.

So obviously right now I'm applying masking tape to an eurobox.

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Ahh. not for recycling as I guessed, but for shipping.
Well, I can take that item off of 'business ideas/to do'. The small packages problem we have here on small cargo planes and large lorries has been solved long ago by europe.
Grrrr.
So many things that work well in one part of the world aren't copied in another part. It's not only this, but many things like voting systems, bottle refunds, labeling, electriciy and electrical plugs... even metric.
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@Kermode yeah, I'm using them for storage (of fabric, mostly), but they have been developed for shipping.

My only problem with them is that they don't fit inside our common indoors furniture, because that tends to be based on modules that are either 40 or 60 cm deep *externally*.


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I cannot overstate enough the prime rule of #sewing: if your machine starts to make a Bad Noise, stop IMMEDIATELY.

Nothing good ever happens from continuing and hoping it sorts itself out.

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I might have accidentally a new pair of experimental soles, some assembly required.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

@diegor The tape is holding up surprisingly well so far and your post made me think I could actually obtain a substance that I could fix the crack with, probably not forever but at least for a while...

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anti cat filter

I really respect the love people on here have for their cats, but I personally do not love cats and I have realized that if I filter the word cat, my feed has far fewer cats, and so I see more posts that interest me.

pls take this as nothing other than permission to filter words out of your feeds that could hurt the feelings of others if they knew about it. the feed should feed *you*


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the year is 2143, people customarily greet each other with a saying of long-forgotten origin, "let me share my screen", eliciting the enigmatic yet empathic response, "I can see your screen".

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in reply to radhika shandydann :heart_sp_bi: ha ricondiviso questo.

origins of the exchange are lost to history but it's thought to derive from an obscure religious practice with "screen" referring to the speaker's view or perspective, and the concept of sharing and seeing meant to elicit in both speakers the desire for mutual understanding

related but less common formulations such as "you're muted" or "you're on mute", seem to exist as a conventional way of suggesting someone may be failing to convey said perspective, or otherwise not being understood



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She was constantly staying near the fish market and watching people come to buy fish. She took a leaf that fell from the tree and came to the owner. On the first day, surprised, he took her "money" and gave her a fish. From that day on, every morning she comes with a leaf to "buy" fish.
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Am I the first one to point out that the story is fake?

I'm no cat psychologist, but I have never seen them do any kind of complex reasoning like that.


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Please do not neglect the original purpose of the Fediverse. Indeed, of the whole Internet.

#cats
Share them and share often.

#catsOfMastodon

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I don't think that seeing grandma's boobs in the sauna is going to solve all problems in our society, but it looks like a really good solution to at least one pressing set of issues.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@Fabio I think you're supposed to see granma's boobs when you're a child, and chop wood when you're an adult
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

this is so good, thank you for sharing! Another side benefit on top of all the others is, this also makes you kinder to yourself? Life happened and you didn’t get that beach bod by summer, lol so?, I’ll enjoy the waves no matter what.

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A long post about censorship and why “a little censorship” does not exist, from an AO3 related context

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If you live in a city with tall buildings, take a look at the night skyline. The buildings probably have flashing lights on them to help aircraft pilots to identify the shapes of buildings and not fly into them.

You might notice that the buildings flash in synchrony, even though they are hundreds of metres apart. What's going on?

(continued)

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@tomcrinstam My city has a helipad right on the river for medical emergencies.


No, I haven't been putting an ice block in the bed these nights, why would I do such a silly thing?

(Yes, I have)

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Just enough to cool the blood a bit going by. I am very miserable when it gets up to 33, but that is not very often.
in reply to Kermode

@Kermode yeah

here such temperatures used to be very rare too (and they are still something that only happen a few times per summer), but I guess I'll have to get used to them being the norm.


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Periodic reminder that if you're working with woven, non-elastic fabric, there aren't many reasons¹ not to use cotton thread to sew it: it will work, it won't break and it won't rot² unless it's really bad quality thread. The time between everybody using linen thread (for linen and cotton) and when plastic thread was available wasn't that long, compared to the history of clothing, but it was still many decades, and at a time when clothing was still an expensive thing that needed to last.

¹ and other than variations “I have a TON of plastic thread and don't want to buy more” I can't think any that doesn't involve another natural fiber such as linen or silk thread.
² in your wardrobe, things may be different if you bury it in soil :)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@kamikat uops, right, I had forgotten about the existence of sergers :D (they had not been invented yet at the time of most of the techniques I use :D )

When I had a serger I used both the light weight and regular cotton, but I never had a great experience with sergers, so I think it's better to hear from somebody who has.

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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
@kamikat You should be able to, though you may need to find some heavy washers or a way to adapt your spool pins to hold them down. Try online sellers for the big cones.


Went to the kitchen, found my SO's milk on the stove, but the stove was still turned off.
Asked, turned the stove on.
Put water in the kettle for my #tea.
Put frozen bread in the sandwich maker to defrost it, turned the sandwich maker on.
Left the kitchen.

Can you spot the missing steps?

#tea
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
@kamikat I forgot to press the button to turn it on, we keep the kettle permanently plugged in, but basically, yeah :D

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