As a reminder, no corporate algorithm here means you donโt need to disguise your words.
Twitter can be Twitter, Trump can be Trump, Musk can be Musk, etc. Using plain language is both clearer for readers than code words AND means people can set up more useable filters to control their own experience. #FediTips
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Thanks to a friend who gave me the idea, I've taken this:
saved it as ``hit๐ .rst``, run the command ``rst2man hit๐.rst | man -l -`` and I can indeed confirm that #manpages have no issue with #unicode and emoji (at least if your terminal is configured to show them).
(the pastebin urls will self-destruct in a month; I may delete this post at that time, if I remember about it)
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Calling all crafters & Discworld fans!
Myself and some friends from my crafty Discord are holding ourselves a โDiscworld makealongโ. And naturally weโd love to invite our friends in the Fediverse to join in too ๐ฅณ
No pressure. No deadlines. Just for fun. And any craft welcome!
So far knitting and cross stitch are well-represented but Iโm sure weโll pick up a few more along the way ๐
November 4th, through Hogswatch season, ending in the new year*. Youโre very welcome to join in with your project at any point!.
Some of us will be on Mastodon under #DiscworldMAL. I for one will be on Lemmy too. And of course if you want to join the Discord, linkโs in my bio, but not necessary if youโre not into that.
(Oh and for those of you who have no idea what Discworld is or what Iโm talking about, congratulations youโve got 41 books to look forward to!)
*I suspect most projects will not actually be finished by then, because weโre slow and easily distracted. As demonstrated by me not posting about this until itโs a week away ๐
Edit: WIP pattern suggestions list docs.google.com/document/d/1--โฆ
@discworld #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett #Knitting #CrossStitch
#DiscworldMAL pattern ideas
Knitting: Shawls - https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/discworld-6 Socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/when-granny-weatherwax-knits-socks/patterns More socks https://www.ravelry.Google Docs
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se qualcuno cerca casa (da aquistare) a Varese, sono miei parenti.
Posso confermare che la zona รจ ottima per arrivare in un bel po' di posti a piedi (ospedali, centro, stazioni)
ossolaimmobiliare.it/it/venditโฆ
Varese, zona Ospedali
in piccola palazzina di sole sei unitร immobiliari, ampio Quadrilocale recentemente ristrutturato, composto da ingresso, soggiorno con balcone, cucina...ossolaimmobiliare.it
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Dear #historyBounding people,
I still have about half of the red fabric I've used for the shirt, and it may be just enough to make myself a short dress using the pattern I've used for the princess petticoat.
It will have to be shorter, maybe even knee length, and I'm quite sure that there won't be enough for the ruffle, nor for sleeves (or at most they will be really short sleeves), but there may be some fringe that I've accidentally bought in the past when it assaulted me from the haberdashery display.
I have to, right? :D
Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostlyยน finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
ยน it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
#historyBounding #FreeSoftWear
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@AlwaysARedhead ๐จ๐ฆ from the place I'm buying it right now it's 2.25 โฌ / 50 m; for comparison I'm buying cotton at a bit lessยน than โฌ 2,95 / 100 m, so basically twice as much.
It's a bit stronger (not in a game-changing way, however) and smoother (which feels different when sewing by hand, but I don't think is an advantage nor a disadvantage).
ยน I think the haberdasher sells it at 2.50 / 100 m, but I'm not 100% sure, so I've checked the price on the producer's shop, which is usually a bit more expensive.
Forgotten Yeast Bread or Pan Sbagliato
Posted on October 29, 2023
Iโve made it again. And again. And a few more times, and now it has an official household name, โPan Sbagliatoโ, or โWrong Breadโ.
And this is the procedure Iโve mostly settled on; starting on the day before (here called Saturday) and baking it so that itโs ready for lunch time (on what here is called Sunday).
Saturday: around 13:00
In a bowl, mix together and work well:
- 250 g water;
- 400 g flour;
- 8 g salt;
cover to rise.
Saturday: around 18:00
In a small bowl, mix together:
- 2-3 g yeast;
- 10 g water;
- 10 g flour.
Saturday: around 21:00
In the bowl with the original dough, add the contents of the small bowl plus:
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g water;
and work well; cover to rise overnight.
Sunday: around 8:00
Pour the dough on a lined oven tray, leave in the cold oven to rise.
Sunday: around 11:00
Remove the tray from the oven, preheat the oven to 240ยฐC, bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160ยฐC and bake for 20 more minutes.Waiting until it has cooled down a bit will make it easier to cut, but is not strictly necessary.
Iโve had up to a couple of hours variations in the times listed, with no ill effects.
I convinced Scientific American to publish a scholarly article on werewolves and space exploration.
scientificamerican.com/articleโฆ
What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?
As space agencies turn their gaze to the moon, we need to consider what werewolves might mean for lunar explorationโand vice versaScientific American
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Can we please bring content warnings back? for descriptive violence?
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Some of you may remember that last year I have been #handsewing a shirt in red wool, but by the time I've mostlyยน finished it it was already too warm to be able to wear it significantly.
At least, the Sensible Season seems to have started, and I can wear it!
There will be a blog post. At some unknown time in the future.
ยน it does need a few detachable collar and cuffs variants, to style it a bit differently, but those don't prevent me from wearing the shirt as is.
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@Giselle thanks
the same triangle (or square-ish) patches are also at the end of the side seams, so that detail is matched elsewhere on the shirt
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Lasst euch eine zauberhafte Woche von diesem Kรคtzchen zaubern ๐!
#art #kleineKunstklasse #halloween
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Wooops, apparently I've been writting in the Void for a couple of days, except that the Void was carefully storing everything I had written to be ready to send it to the right recipients as soon as asked.
Sorry for the flood :D
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@Jan Schaumann reheated stale take, but like homemade bread which reheats great.
Except reheated homemade bread is a good thing, this is a very serious problem.
Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55โฆ
Books by Babbage, Charles (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 71,820 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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During a nine-month period in 1842โ43, Ada Lovelace translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea's article on Babbage's newest proposed machine, the Analytical Engine. With the article, she appended a set of notes.
She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. via @wikipedia
Il termine corretto รจ "crocini di registro" per quelli che servono per centrare i colori (nell'immagine di esempio NON sono centrati!) e "crocini di taglio" per quelli per tagliare.
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1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents
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In honour of a friend's device that has just crapped it's self.
Back up your stuff. Do it now. It doesn't have to be fancy, a zip file copied to a free Google drive with your most important documents and pictures will do, or multiple Google drives if you've got too much stuff.
Plug your phone into your computer and copy everything over. At least it's in more than one place.
Something, some way of recovering the stuff just in case. Something, anything is better than nothing here.
You don't need to have full 3 tier grandfathered backups to bother starting. A usb stick in the bottom of a draw full of your pictures is better than it being blank.
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Waking up thought of this morningยน:
โHigher than the sunโ describe the earth every year for a time centered on December-ish when the sun is in Sagittariusยฒ and thus between us and the center of the galaxy, right?
ยน actually, it was still the middle of the night, I woke up briefly and went back to sleep
ยฒ wait, while writing this I've just been reminded of the precession of the equinoxes, so it's actually centered in january-ish
Pensiero al risveglio di stamattinaยน:
โpiรน in alto del soleโ descrive la terra ogni anno per un periodo di tempo centrato piรน o meno su dicembre quando il sole รจ in sagittarioยฒ e quindi tra di noi e il centro della galassia, giusto?
ยน in realtร di quando mi sono svegliata brevemente che era ancora notte fonda, per poi tornare a dormire
ยฒ no, mentre scrivevo mi son ricordata della precessione degli equinozi, quindi centrato da qualche parte attorno a gennaio o giรน di lรฌ
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poichรฉ ultimamente ho visto varie discussioni su uso e non uso del CW, vorrei dire anche la mia: mettete un CW a tutte le foto di gatti!
non รจ che la mia allergia si scateni anche con le immagini (fortunatamente, se no internet sarebbe off limits ๐ ) รจ che ogni volta che mostrate un gatto che fa la sua bella vita io provo invidia, una fortissima invidia, uno struggimento doloroso... sto male! perchรฉ quella รจ la vita che dovremmo fare tuttษ e non solo i privilegiati felini, mannaggia...
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/me, puts away a pair of linen detachable cuffs, sees her cozy, warm, flannel 1880s shirt.
is it winter yet? and yet? and yet? andโฆ
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* ripone nell'armadio un paio di polsini di lino separati, vede la camicia di flanella morbida e calda in stile 1880.
รจ arrivato l'inverno? eh? eh? e adesso, รจ arrivato?
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25.5ยฐC in officina.
Col ventilatore puntato in faccia si sta abbastanza bene.
@Oblomov @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua alla fine di agosto non c'รจ un'occasione โufficialeโ per andare in giro in costume (non che io abbia piani quest'anno di andare a Lucca, ma se volessi andarci, dovrei preoccuparmi di gestire le temperature col costume, e io non ci andrei col costume da uomo nudo :D )
quindi evidentemente agosto e ottobre non sono la stessa cosa!
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@Kermode that's probablyยน lower than I've ever experienced in my life :D
ยน I've had exactly one experience of -18ยฐC, so maybe on that night I've also met a -19ยฐC, hence the probably
si parlava di treni storici, c'รจ un viaggio questo weekend (perรฒ questo sarร elettrico, non a vapore)
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Carissim*, ovviamente i fatti di cronaca recente ci stanno pesantemente impattando, e tutt* abbiamo la propria opinione e vogliamo esprimerla.
ร normale e non รจ ovviamente un problema.
Perรฒ per favore, ricordate che esiste la funzione CW (Content Warning), e che nel dubbio รจ sempre meglio usarla.
Non รจ censura: รจ una forma di cortesia verso chi non vuole leggere anche qua cose relative a determinati argomenti.
Grazie.
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Fervono i preparativi...
[Domenica, 8 ottobre, in occasione della Domenica di Carta promossa dal Ministero della Cultura, l'Archivio di Stato di Como inaugurerร una mostra su Fernanda Wittgens, prima direttrice donna della Pinacoteca di Brera e attiva antifascista, che non esitรฒ a mettere a repentaglio la propria vita per porre in salvo molte persone di religione ebraica, venendo per questo anche incarcerata a Como]
#ASpassoNellaStoria #storia #donnetoste #FernandaWittgens #asco
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Periodic reminder that "don't speak ill of the dead" is for, like, not mentioning at her funeral that Aunt Sally was a drunk and a lousy cook. It's not for suppressing public discussion of public figures and their complicated legacies.
Or, put another way, the obligation to "speak truth to power" is way more important than the obligation "not to speak ill of the dead". One is about justice and the other is about politeness. To be frank, FUCK politeness.
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/me, playing a game of 0ad and looking at the random factions: โoh, it's civil war between Syrians, and my Syrian allies have asked the help of the Roman empire against the yellow Syriansโ
@Diego Roversi โfoolsโ
/me, looking and how my ally still has more or less their initial corner of the map, while my territory has been enlarged significantly โyou're not wrongโ
Carษ maestrษ delle #scuole materne e asili, fatevelo dire da uno che conosce i prodotti scolastici.
Lasciate perdere i prodotto Giotto, costano un botto e qualitativamente non sono niente di che.
Molto meglio i prodotti Faber Castell o Staedtler, ma ci sono anche tante altre marche poco conosciute che costano meno e sono migliori.
Eventualmente ci sono i prodotti Fila (che รจ comunque Giotto) a piรน o meno pari qualitร e costo piรน basso.
Ma soprattutto, e questo รจ molto importante: a meno di esigenze super specifiche, NON DOVRESTE indicare i marchi da acquistare ai genitori, ma solo la tipologia di prodotto, altrimenti li obbligate a sostenere spese che potrebbero essere proibitive per qualcunษ.
Grazie.
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Ma a livello asilo/materna, cosa cazzo parliamo di qualitร a fare?
A meno che non siano tutti figli di Picasso direi che l'unica cosa che conta รจ che siano colori atossici e lavabili (cosa obbligatoria per legge tra l'altro). Fine!
Tanto a livello di resistenza siamo piรน o meno allo stesso livello e comunque nessun pastello o pennarello resiste piรน di tanto in mano a un bimbo di 3/5 anni, mettetevi il cuore in pace.
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This week I haven't complained about #handsewing with plastic thread yet, right?
well, now I'm complaining about handsewing plastic fabric with plastic thread when there is even a layer of mylar safety blanket under the fabric.
but binding the edges with a machine seam and then handsewing it on the back is so much neater than trying to stitch in the ditch by machine!
@donkey herder a roll for cards (ID, driver license, etc.), the mylar blanket is there to make it harder to read them remotely (it's not perfect, but it should help reducing the distance the reader has to be to work).
I'm using some leftovers of cordura from my backpack lining, and sew-all thread.
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One way Mastodon is like earlier internets that I most appreciate is there are so many cats and their humans are mostly just sharing the joy of cat rather than trying to make them into influencers/celebrities/brand deal magnets
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Or else the story wouldโve just been called The Samaritan?
@Dgar @PaulNickson ๐ฐ @MaJ1 โป๏ธ @Chris Real it's my understanding that Samaritans wereยน worshiping the rightยฒ entity in the wrong way, which in that context was way worse than worshiping the wrong entity at all.
ยน technically speaking still are, since they still just barely exist
ยฒ right and wrong from the point of view of the Jews, of course
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Udite! Udite!
Sia noto in tutto il regno che sabato si terrร la conferenza gratuita "Un patrimonio per la cittร : gli stranieri a Como nel Quattrocento".
#ASpassoNellaStoria #Storia #GEP
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@LaVi ๐๏ธ๐๐ sisi, decisamente interessante, e ti siam stati grati per la segnalazione.
l'unico problema รจ che forse forse dobbiamo un pezzettino di gratitudine anche a trenรฒ? che se non t'avessimo seguita per le lamentele sui treni, non so se l'avremmo mai scoperto :D
(se ti รจ utile saperlo: hai causato 4 delle presenze :) )
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Chickpea Crackers
Posted on September 20, 2023
And another half-written article I had in my repo. (Am I doing #FallFinishAlong with blog articles instead of / in addition to craft projects? it feels so).
I was in need of snacks. I wanted something bready, but with a bit less carbs and more proteins. I had a bag of chickpea flour.
Ingredients were:
- 100 g wheat flour
- 100 g chickpea flour
- 100 g water
- 3 g salt
- 1 g dry yeast
Mix everything as usual for bread, leave to rise for 4-6 hours.
Divide in 4 parts, roll them out to a thickness of about 1 โ 2 mm, prick them with a fork (or the fancy cracker pricking tool that you donโt really need but I may have bought).
Optionally spray with a bit of water and sprinkle with salt (coarse or flake is best).
Preheat the oven to 240ยฐC and cook for 5 minutes, or preheat the oven to 210ยฐC and cook for 10 minutes for a dryer version.
Iโve tried both cooking temperatures: the 210ยฐC had the big advantage of being the same as the common bread I was already making, so no additional oven time was required (it was summer. this was a consideration.), but Iโm not sure which version I like best, so I think in winter I will alternate between the two.
Put it in a cotton (linen?) bag and keep it in a dry place, where it will keep for weeks (assuming youโve made a bigger batch :D ).
This is now part of my staples.
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@Nathan Lรถvsund ๐ ๐ mine aren't extremely crispy (like commercial crackers) either, more like homemade crackers.
Nice idea using sourdough, I should also try it one day!
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somebody on tumblr wrote:
โstories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like youโ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblrโ
just rockin' and rollin'
โstories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like youโ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblrmad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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in reply to Jonobie • • •Death by Lambda
Unknown parent • • •Oh, completely agree! Especially since the #Guardian does it, but still doesn't support #postToMastodon links.
They just cannot accept Twitter is gone and will next never come back.
On the one hand, they mention the shit emoji as a response to enquiries, on the other hand they keep going back for more abuse..
Fanfalla :fennec_fox:
in reply to Jonobie • • •Louis Ingenthron
in reply to Jonobie • • •Fanfalla :fennec_fox:
Unknown parent • • •Rasmus Kaj ๐ผ๐ฆ
Unknown parent • • •It'll always be ex-twitter to me. X is not a website, it is the graphics system used in Unix and simliar from the late 1980s until currently beeing replaced by wayland.
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Unknown parent • • •It annoys Elon so I'm all for it.