Thanks to everyone’s sewing machine help, I think we’re set!
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Do you think Instagram/TikTok are a problem and you'd like a tiny, free and cheap fanzine to spread around the awareness?
Say no more!
Download it here:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/TgG5fAx…
This is an 8 page copyleft fanzine, printable on a single A4 sheet. You can cheaply print/photocopy and give it to your friends or just leave it around.
Here's how to fold it:
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/19vxGAm…
Text + layout by me, translation by @valentinabarreca
INSTAGRAM IS A CAGE!
(boosts appreciated!)
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I want people to maintain personal sites in the same way they wrote zines. I want people to share homemade music through homemade social networks, and to create both just for the pure love of it. I want our personalities to come through not just in the words or links we share, but in the URLS we use and the code we write. I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from. Basically, to bring back all the things that made the early internet so exciting and open and welcoming.
~ from Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!, by Zach Mandeville
Basic HTML Is the New Punk Folk Explosion
A manifesto for making yr own personal websitescoolguy.website
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i wish there was an easy way to host my music as suggested.
rn im just slapping a static image onto a video with my audio in order to share it amongst friends.
ppl are too plugged into Spotify.
rn im just slapping a static image onto a video with my audio in order to share it amongst friends.
ppl are too plugged into Spotify.
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Gente, butto qui la cosa anche se non so come siamo messi a livello di gente in brianza e zone limitrofe.
Ma se si tirasse in piedi un piccolo gruppo Origami (con ritrovo tipo una volta al mese e modelli adatti sia a neofiti che gente navigata) qualcuno qui sarebbe interessat?
Battete un colpo anche solo se verreste a fare un giretto per vedere che aria tira 
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allora diciamo che se lo fate e passo dalle vostre parti vi vengo volentieri a trovare
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Promemoria quotidiano: per favore i thread sulle elezioni politiche americane sotto CW.
Già se ne parla ovunque, facciamo che se qui qualcun vuole evitare l'argomento possa farlo senza problemi.
Grazie.
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Hai dimenticato il "PLIN PLON!" all'inizio e il "Fine annuncio di servizio" alla fine. Per il resto 👌
please CW even *joking* about uspol
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Where to Buy Books Other than Amazon
A few years back I had a habit of every six months or so doing a thread on Fedi about options for getting books other than Amazon. Eventually it finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
Here’s the updated version for the new site.
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Also avoid Book Depository (or whatever they're called) as they're also owned by Amazon...
ilpost.it/2024/11/04/sciopero-…
sciopero dei treni (non solo trenitalia come dice l'url) per oggi, con poco preavviso per delle specifiche motivazioni #trenord #trenitalia #tper #italo
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TFW you're walking back from the hospital (vaccines) and you have a #faceMask hung on your ear to dry out in the sun, and you see people cutting into the street raising a huge cloud of dust in front of you
0% effort, 100% results!
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TFW stai tornando a casa a piedi dal centro vaccinale con una #mascherina ancora appesa all'orecchio per asciugare al sole, e davanti a te ci sono degli operai che stanno tagliando la strada e sollevando una nube enorme di polvere
sbattito 0%, risultato 100%!
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Today I've put this mirror on one wall
and I just had to ask it.
However, in Italian the mirror mirror phrase end with “who's the fairest *in the kingdom*”, and of course the mirror remained blank, since we live in a republic.
However, we do have a Marquess, who walks around the block looking for spots in the sun, demanding tribute and giving purrs in exchange, so I tried asking for the fairest *in the march*. I was deeply disappointed to see that the mirror remained blank and did not show any of the local cats.
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Oggi ho appeso questo specchio al muro
e ho dovuto fargli la domanda.
Giustamente è rimasto vuoto, dato che viviamo in una repubblica e non in un reame.
Però abbiamo un Marchese che gira per l'isolato alla ricerca di posti scaldati dal sole, richiede tributi e in cambio fa le fusa, e quindi ho provato a chiedere chi fosse la più bella *del marchesato*. Sono rimasta profondamente delusa dal fatto che lo specchio sia rimasto vuoto e non si sia messo a mostrare immagini dei gatti locali.
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I know it's only November, but I'd like to make a request: if you are buying toys for kids in the next couple of months, and think you might have old ones that you want to clear out, please consider donating them before the holidays rather than after. Shelters and charities always get a glut of donations in January, but they'd be more useful to the families who need them now rather than then. Thank you.
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as it is traditional for the 1st of November, my thumbs and indexes are raw and slightly burnt after peeling roasted chestnuts as fast as I could eat them to prevent eating less than the other people on the table, who have been doing the same :D
me. happy.
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come è tradizione per il primo novembre, i miei pollici e indici sono escoriati e leggermente scottati per aver sbucciato caldarroste bollenti alla stessa velocità a cui riuscivo a mangiarle, per evitare di mangiare di meno delle altre persone a tavola, che stavano facendo la stessa cosa.
me. felice.
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Vendo ad offerta libera / regalo ultimo dvd della serie Full Metal Panic, anno 2004, con cofanetto.
Zona Varese / Como
Ho dei ricordi vaghi sul motivo per cui avevo preso solo l'ultimo dvd, ma se a qualcuno servisse per completare la serie posso cederlo volentieri
#MastoMercatino #MastoRegalo @Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️
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Things that fit on a Yaris and don't require a truck, number 23124: 6 square meters of 1 cm thick wood planks of the type used to cover walls or ceilings
(luckily we needed them 235 cm long and had the shop cut them, because we only had a few cm of length left in the car :D )
(although we could have probably loaded them in a different way and get another bit of length)
cose che ci stanno su una Yaris e per cui non c'è bisogno di un pickup numero 23124: 6 metri quadri di perline da 1 cm.
(per fortuna ci servivano lunghe 235 cm e ce le siamo fatte tagliare dal negozio, perché avevamo solo pochi cm di margine)
(anche se forse caricandole in un altro modo si sarebbe guadagnato qualcosa in più)
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Floppsy rev B - now Apple-ier - a floppy disk-shaped board, fully open hardware / open source interface to archive diskettes! 💾 🍏 📀
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With the big new Adafruit factory, and Ladyada & pt's move to Brooklyn also complete, it's time to turn our attention to some older projects that have fallen by the wayside. Here's an update to our Floppsy board (blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/08/d…), it's floppy disk-shaped and is intended to be a fully open hardware / open source interface to archive diskettes.
Desk of Ladyada – Floppsy bring-up & a FONA revival #DeskOfLadyada @Adafruit @DigiKey
This week we worked mostly on some internal tools to help us keep more products in stock, but we did get a moment to also do a little hardware! First up we’re working on bringing up the Flopp…Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
This version adds Apple Disk ][ (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_II) support via a 2x10 IDC connector. Thankfully we were able to recycle many of the GPIO from the classic 'shugart' 2x17 IDC connector for the diskII, but we had to splurge for an extra -12V bias power supply - we went for the TPS65130 (digikey.com/short/t4rd9503) a low-cost split supply generator -
a nifty chip that is! this version will also support floppy disk emulation mode by letting us control the direction of the two-level shifters. An additional GPIO expander provides the 4-way button interface, which we will use for offline disk imaging.
meanwhile, a message about the coming elections from a historian who afaik is quite right-wing in his economic policy opinions
acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acqu…
(spoiler: he's not endorsing Trump)
are YOU making a website with INFORMATION?
it needs a date. if its not just a list of links... it needs A DATE.
yes your blog, youre recipe edit etc NEEDS A DATE..
please, can we get this right
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been writing my own static blog thing and literally the first thing I did is add a date under the title, and make it so if you hover over it it'll give you an exact post timestamp in ISO 8601 format. it's also in the page metadata. when stuff doesn't have proper date stamps it drives me nuts. it's especially bad on academic papers.
aaaaand I've caused an email to be sent to a number of work address just before 7 in the morning of a Sunday.
(I was reading wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_S… for personal reasons, as one does on 7 in the morning of a Sunday, and found a workaround for a problem I had at $DAYJOB, so I added a note to the relevant ticket)
(and honestly if the people involved get a notification from their work email at that hour, that's their problem: it's all people above me in the power hierarchy and it's not like we have a culture of having to be ready to reply to things at all hours, to the contrary)
e stamattina, domenica, ho fatto sì che un'email arrivasse all'indirizzo del lavoro di un po' di gente subito prima delle 7.
(stavo leggendo wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_S… per questioni personali, come è normale fare alle 7 di mattina della domenica, e ho trovato un workaround per un problema che avevo al lavoro, quindi ho aggiunto una nota al ticket opportuno)
(e onestamente, se qualcuno ha ricevuto una notifica dalla sua email di lavoro a quell'ora, è un problema suo: è tutta gente con più potere di me e non abbiamo una cultura aziendale che impone di essere pronti a rispondere a tutte le ore, anzi)
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Viaggio dentro Montblanc, tra delocalizzazioni in loco e sfruttamento altreconomia.it/viaggio-dentro… #lavoratoritessile #Approfondimento #idustriatessile #campibisenzio #aziendelusso #madeineurope #stilografica #abitipuliti #montblanc #sindacati #montblac #lusso
Viaggio dentro Montblanc, tra delocalizzazioni in loco e sfruttamento
Non solo stilografiche con la stella ma anche pelletteria, gioielli, orologi e accessori di moda. Il marchio del gigante svizzero del lusso Richemont ha una catena di fornitura problematica.Deborah Lucchetti (Altreconomia)
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Asemic Writing, a Zine
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I have no idea either.
Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess.
If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template).
A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped on white paper because the ink from the pad wasn’t working well on tracing paper.
Then everything was scanned (with the correction on top of the wrong page) asemic_zine_scans.tar.
Imported in Inkscape and traced asemic_zine_svg.tar.
Printed, cut in half, folded and stapled. The magenta lines weren’t by design, but are there because my printer is currently2cursed.
And finally, asemic_zine.pdf was created, joining the pages together with pdfjam, for convenience in case somebody wants to download the full thing.
All the .tar and .pdf downloads from this page are released under the WTFPL, or All Rites Reversed..
- it’s still technically Maladay when I write this, even if by the time you’ll get this it’s probably the 6th of The Aftermath.↩︎
- I mean, all printers are always cursed, but at different times they can be cursed in different and novel ways.↩︎
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 la robba è arrivata. ripeto, la robba è arrivata.
(quella da mcenteestea.com/ )
Dopo pranzo ho provato l'Irish Afternoon, che ha un gusto bello amaro e astringente, quasi allappante ma nel senso buono.
L'unico problema è che anziché svegliarmi mi ha fatto rilassare.
C'è dentro lo stesso principio attivo rilassanti della camomilla¹!11!11ONE!111 #noncielodiconoh
¹ la camomilla non contiene principi attivi rilassanti, se non l'acqua calda
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bene! Allora mi sa che finito lo Yorkshire proverò anche io il McEntee's :)
Dalla tua descrizione sembra molto buono (a me piacciono i tè allappanti), tuttavia io non mi sono mai svegliato con il tè, solo il caffè ci può per me
Aspetto le tue impressioni delle altre miscele :)
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 a merenda invece abbiamo assaggiato il Sencha (té verde), per fortuna preso solo come campione da 20 grammi, e quello invece è stato fortemente deludente: insulso e pochissimo saporito.
O meglio, sarebbe stato deludente se avessi avuto aspettative, ma tutto sommato gli Irlandesi non è che siano famosi per i loro té verdi, per cui le aspettative erano basse, e posso dimenticarmene senza danno e tornare a comprare té verde dalle coppie italo-nipponiche :D
già il tè non rientra tra i miei gusti, ma certo non lo comprerei dagli irlandesi... hai fatto bene a prendere solo il campione. Dalla descrizione sul sito riesco più o meno a immaginare come possa essere l'irish breakfast, ma molto curioso per il Manx.
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 allora, l'Irish Breakfast è più o meno come l'altro Irish Breakfast che già compravo (ma decisamente più economico), amaro ma non allappa, mentre il Manx è una via di mezzo tra quello e l'Irish Afternoon.
Direi approvati tutti e tre!
@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 beh, è un po' come gli stivali di Vimes, spendi un po' di più tutto in una volta, ma poi spendi meno nel tempo :)
@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_th… “Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness”
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Più o meno come faccio io col formaggio, andando a comprarlo a decine di kg al caseificio e surgelandolo.
Non è che abbia sconti particolari, ma il prezzo rispetto a qui mi copre abbondantemente il viaggio.
E lo stesso faccio ogni volta che c'è qualcosa a lunga conservazione in offerta speciale in qualche supermercato.
Ovviamente bisogna avere un freezer grande, e una casa nella quale ci stia sia il freezer che tutte le altre scorte, cosa impossibile in un monolocale.
Non è che abbia sconti particolari, ma il prezzo rispetto a qui mi copre abbondantemente il viaggio.
E lo stesso faccio ogni volta che c'è qualcosa a lunga conservazione in offerta speciale in qualche supermercato.
Ovviamente bisogna avere un freezer grande, e una casa nella quale ci stia sia il freezer che tutte le altre scorte, cosa impossibile in un monolocale.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 e la fiducia nel fatto che non ti staccheranno la corrente, facendo andare male tutto ciò che c'è nel freezer, e a seconda di dove vivi i soldi per comprare un pacco batterie per tenere il freezer acceso se la corrente salta.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 credo che l'abbia appena preso (altrimenti lo stia per prendere) mio padre, che abita in culo ai lupi, per usare in termine tecnico
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 sospetto che il rilassamento, per non dire abbiocco, fosse più che altro l'effetto del post-pranzo associato al clima piovigginoso, ma questi sono dettagli :D
domani probabilmente provo una o due delle altre miscele
I’m gonna be honest, it is difficult to take your anticapitalist “revolutionary” group seriously when they meet on Microsoft Teams and have documents saved on Google.
I understand meeting nontechnical people where they’re at, but this is just a bad look, y’all.
Also I feel like “meeting people where they’re at” would ideally involve helping them surpass where they’re at, rather than merely dropping to their level.
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Like we could just have a laptop. And store the records on there. Not on the internet. We could back them up with an external hard drive, or even physical copies in a locked file cabinet.
This is wild stuff, I know
To be honest, it is difficult to take anticapitalistic groups seriously if they use laptops at all. Laptops (and smartphones too) are basically a lot of capitalism squeezed and packed very hard to fit inside the the small devices we use today.
Electric power is pretty capitalistic too. Most electric power in the world is generated and distributed by huge capitalistic companies. Even if you have PV at home I doubt your panels were made by a local family-owned shop.
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ma la vera domanda è: questo ce l'avete?
(non so perché ma l'ho visto e mi son venuti in mente gli evidenziatori di non-ricordo-che stilista, e una serie di considerazioni sul late stage capitalism)
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@Rapita dagli alieni @Yaku 🐗 solo se poi i ricambi si trovano facilmente individuali (e le ricariche! gli evidenziatori stabilo boss non dovrebbero essere ricaricabili? credo di non aver mai trovato in giro le ricariche! non che io usi abbastanza evidenziatori da essere andata a cercarle con attenzione, ma di cazzeggio guardando prodotti di cartoleria ne faccio :D )
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Escher and Penrose were pen pals!
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Escher's maps are usually more confusing than this one on a successfully delivered letter in Iceland.
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Cleaning the nozzle of my bottle of carpenter's glue with Isopropyl alcohol when I suddenly remembered this D&D page.
Sovereign Glue
Wondrous Item, legendaryThis viscous, milky-white substance can form a permanent adhesive bond between any two objects. It must be stored in a jar or flask that has been coated inside with oil of slipperiness [emphasis mine]. When found, a container contains 1d6 + 1 ounces.
One ounce of the glue can cover a 1-foot square surface. The glue takes 1 minute to set. Once it has done so, the bond it creates can be broken only by the application of universal solvent or oil of etherealness, or with a wish spell.
Notes: Utility, Consumable
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If you use the Wayback Machine a lot and you’re concerned about what’s happening with the Internet Archive, you might like to give ArchiveBox a look as a way to do self-hosted website archiving. I run an instance at work, and it’s been really, really useful. Bonus points for installing the browser extension that lets you send a page off for archiving in a couple of fire-and-forget clicks.
ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…ArchiveBox
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I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!
The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.
All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!
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Spelling with flags.
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Currently putting together a page on "communicating in Morse Code" for Rabbit Waves.
It'll be done before the end of the month. In the meantime, here are some very adorable rabbit dits and dahs.
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With this project, I get to draw all of my favorite sea birds ^____^...
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It took me a little longer than expected, but I completed the Rabbit Waves page for Morse Code!
Below is an illustration for the sub-page about signaling Morse with flags.
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Non so quante persone di #Boves ci siano da queste parti… comunque rilancio.
«A Boves si cerca la gatta Sophie, smarrita a Fontanelle
L'ultima volta è stata vista in via don Pellegrino. È sterilizzata e chippata»
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A proposito, se avete sentito parlare di Boves forse è per questo:
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Last weekend I've bought my first (convection) microwave oven, ever!
And. it. has. buttons. (and a knob)
And I didn't take much effort finding it, it was bought with supermarket points.
One meal has been successfully reheated, one piece of bread has been unsuccessfully grilled (I didn't allow enough time because the tea was already ready :D ) and actual cooking attempts will follow in the next months
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@Kermode yeah, if I'm going to take the counter space for a microwave oven I decided I might as well have a spare / small convection oven as well, since that's something I use a lot :)
Il mondo deve sapere che la traduzione italiana della parola “grue” (il colore) è blerde.
(ok, ho controllato, effettivamente non sono solo io a dirlo, anche wikipedia dice che è così it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinzi… )
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The world must know that the Italian translation of the word “grue” (the colour) is “blerde”
(and I've checked, and it's not just me, it's actually the accepted translation)
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This toot comes courtesy of a conversation while making the bed about the colour of a duvet set that ikea sold while claiming they were light blue
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I had never heard that word before. After I looked it up, I realized that your post appeared to me with this amusing juxtaposition:
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Questo post gentilmente offerto da una conversazione mentre si rifaceva il letto a proposito del colore di lenzuola e copripiumone che l'ikea vendeva come azzurri.
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It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev
blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…
Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!Minetest
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thank you for making such a fabulous platform. Looking forward to seeing what my kids (who love to play) think of the new name.
I told the kids Minetest changed name to Luanti.
Kids: Oh, not good. We don't like it.
Me: No worries! Then we will not play this game again...
Kids: Of course we will play.
:)
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the explanation is useful also for people from Italy: I didn't know existed another Valdarno!
@Daniele Verducci 🧉 I have to admit that I knew about the Arno stream, but not (or if I did, I had forgotten) about the Valdarno village, even if it's not far from where I live :D
Yesterday while sewing I was watching a second-channel video of somebody talking about the current status of the main-channel project while cleaning the house and doing laundry and washing the dishes.
This morning, while doing laundry, I thought that I really hope at least some of this kind of things survives in the future, because *how cool* would it be to have a video of somebody in the past just doing their daily chores while chatting about unrelated things? even if we no longer care about the unrelated things, just to be able to see a glimpse in the almost¹ regular life of people.
Honesty, it's already nice to see the difference with the way those things are done in this corner of the world.
¹ I mean, it's still somebody who is recording a video that will get posted on the internet for everybody to see, some things are probably a bit different from the way the would be done in private.
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Domestic history! It didn't often get written down.
I love those housekeeping pages in Victorian ladies' journals where they offer tips to do things I'd barely ever heard about.
I love those housekeeping pages in Victorian ladies' journals where they offer tips to do things I'd barely ever heard about.
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@Sini Tuulia this
and when it started to get written down a bit, often they skimp on the details that are obvious to everybody at the time (and baffle us).
a video on its own would probably have parts that leave us baffled too¹, but having both written sources and unrelated videos I hope would solve a number of mysteries!
¹ why is she saying that she's washing the clothes, when she's just putting them in an oddly shaped box and going away?
The XSF has a fantastic page dedicated to debunking common XMPP myths. Here are a few examples:
• XMPP is XML, so it must be slow
• XMPP isn’t secure
• XMPP doesn’t protect privacy
• XMPP is too verbose
• XMPP is unreliable
• XMPP isn’t suited for the web
Of course, all of these are misconceptions.
You can read the full explanations and clarifications here: xmpp.org/about/myths/
Are there any other XMPP myths you’ve encountered that you’d like to see debunked?
#XMPP
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And with this project I think I'm doing both a mantua makers seam and a prickstitch for the first time. or maybe I have already done them, but under a different name?
I am enjoying them, anyway
#sewing #historicalSewing #AmaliaJacket
(I haven't stopped sewing, I just haven't had a lot of energy to post about it)
E con questo progetto credo di aver usato per la prima volta sia il mantua makers seam che il prickstitch (e no, non ho idea dei nomi in italiano). o magari li avevo già usati, ma con un nome diverso?
Comunque, li sto apprezzando
#cucito #cucitoStorico #cucitoAMano
(non ho smesso di cucire, ho solo avuto meno energie a disposizione per postare a riguardo)
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I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.
Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.
So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …
… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.
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I actually use and like to have Caps Lock.
But I believe the Debian installer still contains a change I made when I discovered that the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout has 106 keys, and / is on the 106th key - so I had to be able to switch out of it manually without needing to type any absolute paths!
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#mastoaiuto c'è qualcunə che si reputa espertə di figurine Mira Lanza anni 60/70? Vorrei capire cosa c'è dentro la "collezione" di mia nonna (tra virgolette perchè le ha tenute in uno stato inaccettabile)
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@valhalla (grazie x il boost)
non sono un intenditore delle miralanza, ma in rete ho trovato questo:
marcoeula.tripod.com/sitebuild…
guarda se può esserti d'aiuto. ovviamente come hai precisato contano molto le condizioni.
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kate
in reply to Naomi P • • •Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
in reply to Naomi P • • •I don't know their US prices, but Janome does a range of reasonably good non-computerized machines; I don't think they generally do one-step buttonholes but they're not usually difficult to set. I like the look of the heavy duty models (especially the one with the larger bobbin) though I'm not in the market for a new machine. Mine was around AUD750 when I bought it about 4 years ago; I wouldn't personally go below AUD500 on a brand new machine, but anything over AUD1000 on a domestic sewing machine (unless it's one of those fancy free-arm quilting machines or something) is probably paying too much.
However, Janome's accessories are not cheap, so it's worth looking for a deal to at least get the buttonhole and walking foot with the machine (two of the more expensive accessories). And a hard case as well. It's also important to note that their better machines are heavy, so it's probably best to purchase in-person rather than paying the shipping on a 5kg+ item.
As to comparisons... I went through brand websites individually, but some brands have better info than others. I still had to make a spreadsheet in the end.
Naomi P
in reply to Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] • • •mood
in reply to Naomi P • • •the primary suggestions i’ve seen are:
1. singer heavy duty singer.com/products/singer-hea…
2. old bernina record ebay.com/b/Bernina-830/3118/bn…
SINGER® Heavy Duty 4432 Sewing Machine
SINGER®Naomi P
in reply to mood • • •ink and yarn
in reply to Naomi P • • •Naomi P
in reply to ink and yarn • • •@emery
Thanks
Marta 🌿🍃
in reply to Naomi P • • •I think I recommended this one to a new user based on reviews only, and they are satisfied.
amazon.co.uk/Necchi-K132A-Sewi…
There are several other non-computerised Necchi in that price range too.
Kimberley
in reply to Naomi P • • •It has a feature search and there are reviews of most machines. To use the advanced search you'll need an account but registration is free and worth it as the community knowledge on the forums is excellent
Sewing Machine Reviews & Research at PatternReview.com
PatternReview.com Sewing CommunityNaomi P
in reply to Kimberley • • •Kate Montgomery
in reply to Naomi P • • •Naomi P
in reply to Kate Montgomery • • •Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️
in reply to Naomi P • • •@LJ I love my 43yo (not a typo) Kenmore, although it’s not “heavy duty” and it’s becoming difficult to repair when needed. It handles 95% of what I want it to do. And it does have a buttonhole attachment!
Maybe you should be on the lookout for an older, gently used machine? Have you considered estate sales? Good luck with your search!
Naomi P
in reply to Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️ • • •@mlanger I’m asking on behalf of someone else; I don’t know what they’ve tried yet.
Thanks!
Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️
in reply to Naomi P • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Naomi P • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Elias Aarnio • • •Naomi P
in reply to Elias Aarnio • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Naomi P • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Naomi P • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Elias Aarnio • • •This contains good information too: youtube.com/watch?v=NExdHb1-_D…
The main choice to make is whether one wants to have a new machine or a second hand heavy duty pro version which I recommend.
- YouTube
www.youtube.comNaomi P
in reply to Elias Aarnio • • •Elias Aarnio
in reply to Naomi P • • •This was an interesting dive for me as well. I could not find an old video in which a senior mechanic explains the fundamentals of quality of sewing machines explaining the details on material choices etc.
Never mind this. My advice is simply to get some old reliable machine. It is also way cheaper.
citrus
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