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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

If #xz were a Go or Rust dependency, you wouldn’t have a single copy of xz library on your system, but many, #xzbackdoor hidden in every executable that uses it. Distros would have to rebuild all packages using that lib (not just the lib itself), which could take days or weeks, and users would have to update them all, downloading tens or hundreds of megabytes.

If you install binaries directly from vendors/devs, it’s even worse – you wouldn’t even know which ones are affected and you’d (1/3)

#xz #xzbackdoor
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @ITwrx @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: @kravietz πŸ¦‡ @Jakub Jirutka πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ and even for single person projects, having a packager in each main distribution that isn't the upstream developer is a big plus, as it provides a minimum of oversight and redundancy.

Not much, especially when said maintainer(s) are overworked and demoralized, but still better than nothing.

@ITwrx @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) @Aleksandra Fedorova @kravietz πŸ¦‡ @Jakub Jirutka πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

Aleksandra Fedorova

@valhalla

Yes, that is an important point too.

When we say co-maintainer, we often implicitly assume that it should be an equally or comparably skilled person doing the same tasks.

And then we stop at a thought on how hard it is to find a duplicate.

While it doesn't have to be.

There is plenty of room for a developer to collaborate with a tester, or a packager or a build engineer, or a documentation writer.

It often can be healthier too.

@ITwrx @Conan_Kudo @kravietz @jakub

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @ITwrx @Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) @kravietz πŸ¦‡ @Jakub Jirutka πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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Stanotte mi son sognata che, per celebrare un anniversario o qualcosa del genere, #trenord chiedeva ai suoi clienti di inviare foto scattate in stazione o sui treni, purchΓ© non si vedessero persone, da mettere in un apposita galleria, e stavo suggerendo a @LaVi πŸ•ŠοΈπŸ“šπŸˆ di inviare la sua collezione di foto del cartellone dei ritardi di Saronno
#trenord @LaVi

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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the PyraΒΉ that I've just received (YAY!).

Which means working with technical materials.

Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.

ΒΉ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.

#sewing
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua non so, il problema Γ¨ che abito in collina, non nelle zone da risaia, credo che darΓ² la prioritΓ ΒΉ al piantare il mio lino, filarlo e tesserlo, prima di pensare a produrmi il mio amido.

PerΓ² potrei fare quello di patate, anche se credo che ingiallisca un po'.

ΒΉ quello richiede β€œavere un posto dove piantare il lino”, e ancora sono ben lontana dall'averlo. Diciamo che non Γ¨ in cima alla lista :D

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.

And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I can’t imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope they’re ok.

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

So, Philipp Kern dropped by asking if we could do some #ReproducibleBuilds verifications of recent Debian Security updates, given, well the whole #xz mess... and that our build infrastructure may have run compromised code at some point...

So I did a quick pass at a handful of updates and everything verified ok so far, though I skipped some of the probably more juicy targets such as chromium and firefox:

lists.reproducible-builds.org/…

Debian is reproducible enough to at least try this sort of thing!

Reproducible Builds for recent Debian security updates

lists.reproducible-builds.org
#reproduciblebuilds #xz

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Asking people who use #screenReaders: what is the best way to add #AltText to a QR-Code? Are the screen readers clever enough to recognise it as such and offer to read the contents or follow the link? Does putting the content of the QR-Code in the alt text help? or would it make it worse, especially if it is an URL?

boosts are welcome

(the whole point of the post that prompted this question was posting a QR-Code, so no, I couldn't have just posted the URL)

#alttext #screenreaders

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#sewing update? sewing update!

I suspect that the body of the shift is a bit too wide at the top, but I haven't tried it on yet to find out. It's only missing a hem at the bottom, and then it's done, however (and I'm sure I can adjust the width so that it is wearable anyway).

I haven't done anything on it (nor on the #AugustaStays), however, because I've spent most of my sewing time on the corded petticoat, because *I want to know* whether it will work and how it will look.

And I'm happy to report that I've just finished the next to last section of cording, only 3 more 3-metre-long seams and then I can finally start on the assembly.

#sewing #AugustaStays
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

aggiornamento sul #cucito? aggiornamento sul cucito!

Sospetto che la sottoveste sia un po' troppo larga sul busto, ma non l'ho ancora provata per esserne sicura. Manca solo l'orlo in basso, e poi sarebbe finita (e ho fiducia del fatto di poter sistemare in qualche modo la circonferenza in modo da poterla indossare comunque).

Però è un po' che la ignoro (così come sto ignorando le Augusta Staus), perché la maggior parte del mio tempo-cucito in questi giorni è stato passato sulla sottogonna cordonata, perché *voglio sapere* se funziona e che aspetto ha.

E sono felice di annunciare che ho appena finito la penultima sezione di cordonature, mi mancano solo 3 cuciture da 3 metri l'una, e poi posso finalmente iniziare la costruzione.

#cucito

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

TFW you wake up in the morning, try to login on your computer and the h key on your keuboard doesn't work.

so you connect a spare keyboard (cheap gaming keyboard with blue keys, way too noisy for regular use) to a free USB port, login, open a few things and then try to write again with your keyboard, and it works.

disconnect the spare, start having breakfast, post a few things on the fediverse, now the s and the f keys no longer work.

Connect the spare, use it for a while, try the original, it works. And then it stops.

I'm wondering whether I should move elsewhere my keyboard and just resign myself to use the spare today.

(I know what caused the issues, there may have been an accident in the weekend, and a replacement has already been ordered and may even be delivered today or tomorrow, and then there will be time to try and fix the original one.)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

TFW ti svegli alla mattina, cerchi di fare login sul computer e il tasto h non funziona.

quindi attacchi la tastiera di scorta (una da gaming economica, con tasti blu che sono troppo rumorosi per l'uso regolare) ad una porta USB libera, fai login, apri un po' di cose, provi a scrivere di nuovo con la tua tastiera e funziona.

stacchi quella di scorta, inizi a fare colazione, postare sul fediverso, e smettono di funzionare i tasti s e f.

Riattacchi quella di scorta, la usi per un po', riprovi l'originale, funzona. E poi smette di funzionare.

Mi chiedo se sia il caso di staccare l'originale e per oggi rassegnarmi ad usare quella di scorta.

(So cosa causa il problea, nel weekend potrebbe esserci stato un piccolo incidente, ed Γ¨ giΓ  stata ordinata una nuova tastiera che potrebbe essere consegnata oggi o domani, e poi ci sarΓ  tempo per provare a far rifunzionare l'originale.)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Kermode it was hot water that had been used to clean a jar of jamΒΉ, but basically the same thing, except with more sugar.

Not that I would ever do anything like that to my keyboard!

ΒΉ as in: when there is just a bit of jam left I don't bother with removing it with a spoon, I just pour boiling water in it, let it dissolve and then drink the result as if it was an herbal tea.

@Kermode

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Ricevo, e credo che sia utile per un po' di vittime di #trenord qui sul fediverso

prealpina.it/pages/lombardia-t…

β€œLa norma nel prevedere la necessitΓ  di richiesta dell’abbonato reindirizza la misura compensativa del disagio a chi effettivamente lo ha subito, diversamente da quanto accadeva con il vecchio bonus.”

che credo voglia dire, piΓΉ o meno β€œsperiamo che la maggior parte dei pendolari si dimentichino di chiederlo e/o non vengano a sapere di doverlo chiedere”

se ho ben capito le istruzioni su come fare la richiesta sono giΓ  su regione.lombardia.it/wps/porta…

@LaVi πŸ•ŠοΈπŸ“šπŸˆ @Fabio #trenΓ²

#trenord #trenΓ² @Fabio @LaVi

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@LaVi πŸ•ŠοΈπŸ“šπŸˆ @Fabio mi pareva tempo fa di aver trovato su uno dei siti istituzionali (trenord o regione) che i treni soppressi contino uguali ai treni con piΓΉ di 30 minuti di ritardo, ma adesso non ho il link sottomano (e non so se le nuove regole siano cambiate).

Comunque c'Γ¨ il fatto che quei dati non dicono che i treni in ritardo sono ovviamente soprattutto in ora di punta (anche per ragioni ragionevoli, tutto sommato), e che quindi impattano molte piΓΉ persone rispetto ai treni in orario alle 10 di mattina o alle 8 di sera.

@Fabio @LaVi
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First working prototype of the #CardboardComputer, calculating the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

cardboard-computer.org

#slideRules #DouglasAdams

The Cardboard Computer

cardboard-computer.org
#douglasadams #cardboardcomputer #sliderules

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Forgotten Yeast Bread - Sourdough Edition

Posted on March 23, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking, craft:baking, craft:bread
Yesterday I had planned a pan sbagliato for today, but I also had quite a bit of sourdough to deal with, so instead of mixing a bit of of dry yeast at 18:00 and mixing it with some additional flour and water at 21:00, at around maybe 20:00 I substituted:

  • 100 g firm sourdough;
  • 33 g flour;
  • 66 g water.

Then I briefly woke up in the middle of the night and poured the dough on the tray at that time instead of having to wake up before 8:00 in the morning.

Everything else was done as in the original recipe.

The firm sourdough is feeded regularly with the same weight of flour and half the weight of water.

Will. do. again.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Lars Wirzenius yeah, it helps, mostly because you can wrap the thing around it, and only have one layer under the iron.

Mine is just a hand-me-down that isn't even 100% stable, but it already makes a difference.

And then there are the taylor's ham and sausage that I made for pressing while sewing, but sometimes they get used also for ironing sleeves and other small or curvy bits: I don't know if they're worth having if somebody does not sew, but they can help.

@Lars Wirzenius
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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically β€œinactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with β€œIt’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

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glitchsoc - Collegamento all'originale

Your periodical reminder that all clothing is hand made by humans, usually underpaid!
Polyester doesn't breathe and sheds microplastics when manufactured, worn and washed!
Cotton farming takes immense amounts of water and pesticides!
Viscose can be made from recycled fibres & waste cellulose, but it's a fairly toxic process!
Linen is more ecological to grow but expensive!

"But what do I wear then, Sini?"
The garments you already own, until they fall apart or someone else needs them!
#Sustainability #FastFashion #WorkersRights

#sustainability #FastFashion #workersrights
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glitchsoc - Collegamento all'originale

Sini Tuulia

@psistarpsiii Clothes swaps can be wonderful, some of my favourite things came from a couple of those and I wore them until they fell apart. πŸ˜„ It's also a nice bit of community in addition to the thrift and sustainability, absolutely no downsides as long as you don't accidentally give each other moths etc. so washing everything beforehand is recommended!
@Ξ¨*Ξ¨

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale
JKR, personal

Disclaimer: I've only read canon Harry Potter once many years ago, and what I remember may be seen from fanfiction-tinted glasses.

What really throws me off about the whole JKR thing is that I remember her famous book series as being about people fighting against a group that was defined by having discrimination against an unprivileged group as their main objective. In a mid-quality YA fiction way with lots of problems and plot holes, but still, the Big Bads of the story were the ones doing the discrimination and then even killing etc. of members of a minority.

And then later in her life she goes and basically joins the Death Eaters?

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

JKR, personal

@Hypolite Petovan otoh Hermione can also be seen as the one that basically really saves everyone (almost to Mary Sue levels, at times), so an empowering character rather than one that is stuck under oppressive gender roles.

(but here I may be misremembering thing and being influenced by the fact that I may have read a few Hermione based fanfictions. just a few :D )

@Hypolite Petovan

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And I think it's time for a new #sewing update.

The shift is progressing nicely, I'm quite happy with the way the sleeves look, and it's getting close to being all assembled together.

In the weekend I've finished the market bag, which means that in category β€œlong straight seams” I've started to work on a corded petticoat.

I've worked on it for more than one hour, and I'm about half through the first seam.

Maybe I should have done it by machine? But at least it is nice and relaxing work, even if it's going to take forever.

As for the lining of the stays… look! a squirrel!

#sewing
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

Also, have I ever mentioned that I have the Italian translation of the famous Reader's Digest sewing book, and that when I write these posts I often have to go through it to find the Italian terms I need for the translation?

Yes, I have learned the basics of #sewing in Italian, but everything else in English on the internet, does it show? :D

#sewing

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Low Fat, No Eggs, Lasagna-ish

Posted on March 10, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking
A few notes on what we had for lunch, to be able to repeat it after the summer.

There were a number of food intolerance related restrictions which meant that the traditional lasagna recipe wasn’t an option; the result still tasted good, but it was a bit softer and messier to take out of the pan and into the dishes.

On Saturday afternoon we made fresh no-egg pasta with 200 g (durum) flour and 100 g water, after about 1 hour it was divided in 6 parts and rolled to thickness #6 on the pasta machine.

Meanwhile, about 500 ml of low fat almost-ragΓΉ-like meat sauce was taken out of the freezer: this was a bit too little, 750 ml would have been better.

On Saturday evening we made a sauce with 1 l of low-fat milk and 80 g of flour, and the meat sauce was heated up.

Then everything was put in a 28 cm Γ— 23 cm pan, with 6 layers of pasta and 7 layers of the two sauces, and left to cool down.

And on Sunday morning it was baked for 35 min in the oven at 180 Β°C.

With 3 people we only had about two thirds of it.

Next time I think we should try to use 400 - 500 g of flour (so that it’s easier to work by machine), 2 l of milk, 1.5 l of meat sauce and divide it into 3 pans: one to eat the next day and two to freeze (uncooked) for another day.

No pictures, because by the time I thought about writing a post we were already more than halfway through eating it :)

blog.trueelena.org/blog/drafts…

#6

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Elastic Neck Top Two: MOAR Ruffles
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Posted on March 9, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
A woman wearing a white top with a wide neck with ruffles and puffy sleeves that are gathered at the cuff. The top is tucked in the trousers to gather the fullness at the waist.

After making my Elastic Neck TopI knew I wanted to make another one less constrained by the amount of available fabric.

I had a big cut of white cotton voile, I bought some more swimsuit elastic, and I also had a spool of nΒ°100 sewing cotton, but then I postponed the project for a while I was working on other things.

Then FOSDEM 2024 arrived, I was going to remote it, and I was working on my Augusta Stays, but I knew that in the middle of FOSDEM I risked getting to the stage where I needed to leave the computer to try the stays on: not something really compatible with the frenetic pace of a FOSDEM weekend, even one spent at home.

I needed a backup project1, and this was perfect: I already had everything I needed, the pattern and instructions were already on my site (so I didn’t need to take pictures while working), and it was mostly a lot of straight seams, perfect while watching conference videos.

So, on the Friday before FOSDEM I cut all of the pieces, then spent three quarters of FOSDEM on the stays, and when I reached the point where I needed to stop for a fit test I started on the top.

Like the first one, everything was sewn by hand, and one week after I had started everything was assembled, except for the casings for the elastic at the neck and cuffs, which required about 10 km of sewing, and even if it was just a running stitch it made me want to reconsider my lifestyle choices a few times: there was really no reason for me not to do just those seams by machine in a few minutes.

Instead I kept sewing by hand whenever I had time for it, and on the next weekend it was ready. We had a rare day of sun during the weekend, so I wore my thermal underwear, some other layer, a scarf around my neck, and went outside with my SO to have a batch of pictures taken (those in the jeans posts, and others for a post I haven’t written yet. Have I mentioned I have a backlog?).

And then the top went into the wardrobe, and it will come out again when the weather will be a bit warmer. Or maybe it will be used under the Augusta Stays, since I don’t have a 1700 chemise yet, but that requires actually finishing them.

The pattern for this project was already online, of course, but I’ve added a picture of the casing to the relevant section, and everything is as usual #FreeSoftWear.

  1. yes, I could have worked on some knitting WIP, but lately I’m more in a sewing mood.β†©οΈŽ

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#FreeSoftWear

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Denim Waistcoat
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Posted on March 8, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear
A woman wearing a single breasted waistcoat with double darts at the waist, two pocket flaps at the waist and one on the left upper breast. It has four jeans buttons.

I had finished sewing my jeans, I had a scant 50 cm of elastic denim left.

Unrelated to that, I had just finished drafting a vest with Valentina, after the Cutters’ Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments.

A new pattern requires a (wearable) mockup. 50 cm of leftover fabric require a quick project. The decision didn’t take a lot of time.

As a mockup, I kept things easy: single layer with no lining, some edges finished with a topstitched hem and some with bias tape, and plain tape on the fronts, to give more support to the buttons and buttonholes.

I did add pockets: not real welt ones (too much effort on denim), but simple slits covered by flaps.

a rectangle of pocketing fabric on the wrong side of a denim

piece; there is a slit in the middle that has been finished with topstitching.


To do them I marked the slits, then I cut two rectangles of pocketing fabric that should have been as wide as the slit + 1.5 cm (width of the pocket) + 3 cm (allowances) and twice the sum of as tall as I wanted the pocket to be plus 1 cm (space above the slit) + 1.5 cm (allowances).

Then I put the rectangle on the right side of the denim, aligned so that the top edge was 2.5 cm above the slit, sewed 2 mm from the slit, cut, turned the pocketing to the wrong side, pressed and topstitched 2 mm from the fold to finish the slit.

a piece of pocketing fabric folded in half and sewn on all 3

other sides; it does not lay flat on the right side of the fabric because the finished slit (hidden in the picture) is pulling it.


Then I turned the pocketing back to the right side, folded it in half, sewed the side and top seams with a small allowance, pressed and turned it again to the wrong side, where I sewed the seams again to make a french seam.

And finally, a simple rectangular denim flap was topstitched to the front, covering the slits.

I wasn’t as precise as I should have been and the pockets aren’t exactly the right size, but they will do to see if I got the positions right (I think that the breast one should be a cm or so lower, the waist ones are fine), and of course they are tiny, but that’s to be expected from a waistcoat.

The back of the waistcoat,

The other thing that wasn’t exactly as expected is the back: the pattern splits the bottom part of the back to give it β€œsufficient spring over the hips”. The book is probably published in 1892, but I had already found when drafting the foundation skirt that its idea of β€œhips” includes a bit of structure. The β€œenough steel to carry a book or a cup of tea” kind of structure. I should have expected a lot of spring, and indeed that’s what I got.

To fit the bottom part of the back on the limited amount of fabric I had to piece it, and I suspect that the flat felled seam in the center is helping it sticking out; I don’t think it’s exactly bad, but it is a peculiar look.

Also, I had to cut the back on the fold, rather than having a seam in the middle and the grain on a different angle.

Anyway, my next waistcoat project is going to have a linen-cotton lining and silk fashion fabric, and I’d say that the pattern is good enough that I can do a few small fixes and cut it directly in the lining, using it as a second mockup.

As for the wrinkles, there is quite a bit, but it looks something that will be solved by a bit of lightweight boning in the side seams and in the front; it will be seen in the second mockup and the finished waistcoat.

As for this one, it’s definitely going to get some wear as is, in casual contexts. Except. Well, it’s a denim waistcoat, right? With a very different cut from the β€œget a denim jacket and rip out the sleeves”, but still a denim waistcoat, right? The kind that you cover in patches, right?

Outline of a sewing machine with teeth and crossed bones below it, and the text β€œhome sewing is killing fashion / and it's illegal”

And I may have screenprinted a β€œhome sewing is killing fashion” patch some time ago, using the SVG from wikimedia commons / the Home Taping is Killing Music page.

And. Maybe I’ll wait until I have finished the real waistcoat. But I suspect that one, and other sewing / costuming patches may happen in the future.

No regrets, as the words on my seam ripper pin say, right? :D

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Jeans, step two. And three. And four.
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Posted on March 7, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear
A woman wearing a regular pair of slim-cut black denim jeans.

I was working on what looked like a good pattern for a pair of jeans-shaped trousers, and I knew I wasn’t happy with 200-ish g/mΒ² cotton-linen for general use outside of deep summer, but I didn’t have a source for proper denim either (I had been low-key looking for it for a long time).

Then one day I looked at an article I had saved about fabric shops that sell technical fabric and while window-shopping on one I found that they had a decent selection of denim in a decent weight.

I decided it was a sign, and decided to buy the two heaviest denim they had: a 100% cotton, 355 g/mΒ² oneand a 97% cotton, 3% elastane at 385 g/mΒ²1; the latter was a bit of compromise as I shouldn’t really be buying fabric adulterated with the Scourge of Humanity, but it was heavier than the plain one, and I may be having a thing for tightly fitting jeans, so this may be one of the very few woven fabric where I’m not morally opposed to its existence.

And, I’d like to add, I resisted buying any of the very nice wools they also seem to carry, other than just a couple of samples.

Since the shop only sold in 1 meter increments, and I needed about 1.5 meters for each pair of jeans, I decided to buy 3 meters per type, and have enough to make a total of four pair of jeans. A bit more than I strictly needed, maybe, but I was completely out of wearable day-to-day trousers.

a cardboard box with neatly folded black denim, covered in semi-transparent plastic.

The shop sent everything very quickly, the courier took their time (oh, well) but eventually delivered my fabric on a sunny enough day that I could wash it and start as soon as possible on the first pair.

The pattern I did in linen was a bit too fitting, but I was afraid I had widened it a bit too much, so I did the first pair in the 100% cotton denim. Sewing them took me about a week of early mornings and late afternoons, excluding the weekend, and my worries proved false: they were mostly just fine.

The only bit that could have been a bit better is the waistband, which is a tiny bit too wide on the back: it’s designed to be so for comfort, but the next time I should pull the elastic a bit more, so that it stays closer to the body.

The same from the back, showing the applied pockets with a sewn logo.

I wore those jeans daily for the rest of the week, and confirmed that they were indeed comfortable and the pattern was ok, so on the next Monday I started to cut the elastic denim.

I decided to cut and sew two pairs, assembly-line style, using the shaped waistband for one of them and the straight one for the other one.

I started working on them on a Monday, and on that week I had a couple of days when I just couldn’t, plus I completely skipped sewing on the weekend, but on Tuesday the next week one pair was ready and could be worn, and the other one only needed small finishes.

A woman wearing another pair of jeans; the waistband here is shaped to fit rather than having elastic.

And I have to say, I’m really, really happy with the ones with a shaped waistband in elastic denim, as they fit even better than the ones with a straight waistband gathered with elastic. Cutting it requires more fabric, but I think it’s definitely worth it.

But it will be a problem for a later time: right now three pairs of jeans are a good number to keep in rotation, and I hope I won’t have to sew jeans for myself for quite some time.

A plastic bag with mid-sized offcuts of denim; there is a 30 cm ruler on top that is just wider than the bag

I think that the leftovers of plain denim will be used for a skirt or something else, and as for the leftovers of elastic denim, well, there aren’t a lot left, but what else I did with them is the topic for another post.

Thanks to the fact that they are all slightly different, I’ve started to keep track of the times when I wash each pair, and hopefully I will be able to see whether the elastic denim is significantly less durable than the regular, or the added weight compensates for it somewhat. I’m not sure I’ll manage to remember about saving the data until they get worn, but if I do it will be interesting to know.

Oh, and I say I’ve finished working on jeans and everything, but I still haven’t sewn the belt loops to the third pair. And I’m currently wearing them. It’s a sewist tradition, or something. :D

  1. The links are to the shop for Italy; you can copy the β€œCodice prodotto” and look for it on one of the shop version for other countries (where they apply the right vat etc., but sadly they don’t allow to mix and match those settings and the language).β†©οΈŽ

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/me rants at aspell for daring to suggest β€œsexist” as a correction for β€œsewist”

sewist. it's a word. learn it.

and no, it's not β€œsewer”. I'm not a sewer, ok.

(go and suggest a patch for the dictionary file rather than ranting on the internet? naaaaaa, too much effort :D )

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/me gesticola col bastone contro aspell che suggerisce β€œsexist” come correzione per β€œsewist”

sewist. Γ¨ una parola inglese. imparala.

e no, la parola giusta non Γ¨ sewist. non sono una fogna, ok?

(alzare il culo e preparare e suggerire una patch ai file del dizionario, anzichΓ© lamentarsi su internet? troppo sbattito :D )

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Vendo macchina da cucire Singer 8280 usata

Chiedo 100 euro trattabili, consegna in zona Varese / Como (se proprio
proprio necessario si puΓ² organizzare per zona Milano).

Mi pare che sia stata comprata nei primi anni 2000, il modello era in
vendita e presente sul sito singer fino all'anno scorso.
Ovviamente Γ¨ ancora presente il manuale originale, completo di istruzioni di
manutenzione base.

Non la uso da qualche anno, ma era perfettamente funzionante e ad una prova
veloce mi pare che lo sia ancora.

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Una macchina da cucire meccanica di stile recente, si vedono le manopole di selezione punti e lunghezza punto, leva per cucire all'indietro, rotella per la tensione del filo superiore e vite per la pressione del piedino; non ci sono altre impostazioni

Il retro della macchina da cucire, si intravede il meccanismo di metallo dietro alla leva per alzare il piedino, e sull'etichetta c'Γ¨ il modello (8280)

La stessa macchina da cucire, con la custodia di jeans leggero blu e cerniera gialla che Γ¨ stata cucita con la macchina da cucire stessa (e ha un sacchettino a parte per il pedale)

#mastoMercatino @Il Mercatino del Fediverso πŸ’΅β™»οΈ

#mastomercatino @Il Mercatino del Fediverso πŸ’΅β™»οΈ
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Poliverso - notizie dal fediverso ah, uops.

Grazie per l'aggiornamento delle istruzioni!

Prova di inserimento di due immagini in un commento, per vedere se invece lì appaiono :)

(stavo per chiedere, ma così ho già la risposta :) )

Il retro della macchina da cucire, si intravede il meccanismo di metallo dietro alla leva per alzare il piedino, e sull'etichetta c'Γ¨ il modello (8280)
La stessa macchina da cucire, con la custodia di jeans leggero blu e cerniera gialla che Γ¨ stata cucita con la macchina da cucire stessa (e ha un sacchettino a parte per il pedale)
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LaVi

Ero un po' impensierita, perchΓ© a marzo inoltrato non mi si era ancora palesata "la cosa da imparare a fare quest'anno"ΒΉ, ma ieri @valhalla e @mercatino credo mi abbiano risolto il problema πŸ₯°

ΒΉ anzichΓ© fare i "buoni propositi" d'inizio anno, che tanto poi restavano propositi, da qualche tempo ho iniziato a provare a imparare una cosa nuova ogni anno.

@Elena ``of Valhalla'' @Il Mercatino del Fediverso πŸ’΅β™»οΈ

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I was luceting and suddenly my mother put To Tame a Land (Iron Maiden) on her phone, and my hands tried (and failed) to get into the rhythm of the song, and the rhythmic movement attracted a worm… er… and my hands stumbled because I'm not that good at luceting and I was trying to go too fast, and then my hands tried to pick up the rhythm again and… it was intense.

I need to train and try it again. But not this close to bedtime.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Stavo usando il lucet e senza preavviso mia madre ha messo To Tame a Land (degli Iron Maiden) sul telefono, e le mie mani hanno cercato (invano) di prendere il ritmo della canzone, e il movimento ritmico ha attirato un verme… volevo dire… e le mani hanno inciampato perchΓ© non sono *cosΓ¬* brava con il lucet, e stavo cercando di andare troppo veloce, e poi le mie mani hanno cercato di riprendere il ritmo e… Γ¨ stato intenso.

Devo allenarmi e riprovarci. Ma non quando Γ¨ ora di andare a dormire.

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/me, camminando verso il centro> l'unica cosa che da fastidio della pioggia Γ¨ quanto il traffico diventi ancora piΓΉ rumoroso
@Diego Roversi > l'unica? e i piedi che si bagnano e prendono freddo no?
/me, con addosso scarponcini da trekking e scarpe di lana> quali piedi che si bagnano?
@Diego Roversi

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The #sillyDream of tonight was finding and buying a #metal LPΒΉ from the band Iridium, titled of course Iridium, with a big *shiny* #FountainPen nib on the cover.

And now I have a voice in my mind that sings

β™« Iridium point / on a nib of steel / workers in a German plant / laying down iridium points β™«

to the tune of Medieval Steel (by Medieval Steel, from the EP Medieval Steel, of course)

ΒΉ or maybe it was an EP? something round, 12 inches in diameter, and in a square cardboard sleeve anyway :)

#metal #fountainpen #sillyDream

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Gattone comasco se ne va a zonzo, piantando i propri bipedi umani nella disperazione. E io mi gioco ancora la carta del #PersoETrovato che piΓΉ volte ha funzionato.
Confido in voi e nel vostro prezioso passaparola. Grazie!

#CercoTrovo #mastodonperilsociale #mastodoncats #gattidimastodon

#mastodonperilsociale #CercoTrovo #PersoETrovato #mastodoncats #gattidimastodon

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#sewing update

the drawers have been finished. I haven't worn them yet.

the binding on the bottom of the #AugustaStays is done, that on the top is almost all attached, and then I need to sew it to the back. I'm procrastinating the cutting of the lining.

I've cut and started hemming the shoulder sack / marked bag. Wait, have I just started a new #handsewing project before finishing the ones in progress? Who does that kind of things (me. the answer is me. :D )

this morning I finished the last machine seams on the denim vest and attached the buttons, I need to to the buttonholes and then it's wearable.

the pieces for the shift have been cut, except for the fact that the side gores are still attached to the main body. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to sew everything together (and that may change the exact size of the gores).

And I've realized that I've probably done one of the seams of the drawers wrongΒΉ: I can fix the instructions I'm writing, but then they won't have a picture of that step until I do another pair of drawers. it will have to be.

ΒΉ as in: perfectly serviceable, but not the way the book I was following probably intended.

#sewing #handsewing #AugustaStays
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Today we could see the yellow ball in the sky!

So in the afternoon I went on a frenzy of doing part of a seam, taking pictures, then doing another bit of a seam elsewhere, more pictures, rinse, repeat on the shift.

I hope I have enough half-done seams (and repeats of the same seam in a symmetric position) for the next few days of rain :)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Oggi si vedeva la palla gialla nel cielo!

Quindi nel pomeriggio ci ho dato dentro nel cucire una parte di una cucitura, fare foto, fare un altro pezzo di cucitura da un'altra parte, ulteriore foto, eccetera eccetera sulla sottoveste.

Spero di aver abbastanza cuciture a metΓ  (e ripetizioni della stessa cucitura in una posizione simmetrica) per i prossimi giorni di pioggia :)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

time required to carefully measure and pleat two sleeves: XΒΉ

time required to:

a) pin an approximation of the pleating pattern on half of one sleeve, to see whether it fits
b) make a custom pleating board with a precise version of said pleating pattern
c) pleat two sleeves using said pleating board

probably at least 4 Γ— X, if not more.

Can you guess which option I've just chosen?

Can you guess that I'm a programmer? :D

ΒΉ I don't know exactly know how much it would be, but I'd estimate a few tens of minutes

#sewing #prematureOptimization

#sewing #prematureOptimization
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

tempo necessario per misurare con precisione ed effettuare delle pieghe su due maniche: XΒΉ

tempo necessario per:

a) appuntire in modo approssimativo le pieghe su metΓ  di una manica per verificare che la misura sia corretta
b) realizzare un ausilio per pieghe su misura con la versione precisa di quello schema di piegatura
c) piegare le due maniche usando il suddetto ausilio

probabilmente almeno 4 Γ— X, se non di piΓΉ.

Si indovina facilmente cosa ho scelto di fare?

Si capisce che sono un programmatore, vero?

ΒΉ non so con precisione quanto sia, ma stimerei qualche decina di minuti

#cucito #ottimizzazionePrematura

#cucito #ottimizzazionePrematura
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

E mi sono appena resa conto che facendo una delle cuciture in un modo leggermente differente sarebbe stato piΓΉ accurato rispetto alla descrizione data nel libro.

Ho corretto le istruzioni che sto scrivendo.

Ho voglia di disfare la cucitura e rifarla per fare foto?

#cucito #cucitoStorico

#cucito #cucitoStorico
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

the custom pleating board was in the wrong size. It results in pleats that aren't deep enough to manage all of the fullness.

I could measure directly on the fabric, or I could use the second half of the poster paper sheet and make another one.

On a more positive note: the vest is wearable (not done. I have ideas.), and one half of the top binding of the #AugustaStays is done, and I'm on the way to finish the other half!

#sewing

#sewing #AugustaStays
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

l'ausilio di piegatura era della misura sbagliata. Fa delle pieghe che non sono abbastanza profonde per gestire tutta l'abbondanza di stoffa.

Potrei misurare le pieghe direttamente sulla stoffa, oppure potrei usare la seconda metΓ  del foglio di carta da poster per farne un'altro.

Passando alle buone notizie: il gilet Γ¨ indossabile (non finito. ho idee.) e metΓ  dei margini delle Augusta Stays sono finiti, e sono ad un buon punto con l'altra metΓ !

#cucito

#cucito
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua eh, ma per stirarci sopra stoffa bianca (e anche abbastanza trasparente) Γ¨ meglio se non Γ¨ ancora stampata, prima che con il caldo e il vapore si trasferisca qualche pezzo della stessa.

e poi dovrei andare tipo nella sede della lega? quelli che mettono in giro manifesti (e che spediscono volantini cartacei) qui da noi sono loro…

@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

The second attempt at a custom pleating board worked just fine, I'm currently working on the sleeves of the shift.

I still haven't cut the lining pieces for the #AugustaStays

And I've made myself a new sashiko thimble, and patched the old one which was failing, because I'm using it on the market bag (and will need to use it for the next task in the β€œ40s underwear” project)

Not historically accurate, I know. But much faster, and gives exactly the same result.

#AugustaStays
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Il secondo tentativo di ausilio di piegatura ha funzionato perfettamente, sto lavorando alle maniche della sottoveste.

E ancora non ho tagliato la fodera delle Augusta Stays.

PerΓ² mi son fatta un nuovo ditale per sashiko, e riparato quello vecchio che si stava bucando, perchΓ© lo sto usando per la market bag (e lo userΓ² nel prossimo pezzo per il progetto β€œbiancheria anni 40”)

La tecnica non Γ¨ storicamente accurata. Ma si cuce molto piΓΉ rapidamente, e il risultato Γ¨ esattamente lo stesso.

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The 64-bit time_t transition is now in progress in unstable, preparing Debian to deal with the "Year 2038 Problem". lists.debian.org/debian-devel-… #debian micronews.debian.org/2024/1709… #debian

The 64-bit time_t transition is now in progress in unstable, preparing Debian to deal with the

micronews.debian.org
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Hey #knitting folks: what books/resources do you recommend for making clothing items based on your measurements, and then using gauge in your chosen yarn/stitch from there? Any type of garment or accessory is fine, but bonus points if you know of something that guides you on making tights/stockings (leggings with feet?)

Thanks in advance, everyone!

#knitting
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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Ashley Reynolds This is the first sock pattern I've ever used and has been my sock pattern since then, some times extended up the leg by taking measurements and winging it :) knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTu…

however it's just a socks pattern, afaik most other things on the site are regular knitting patterns with precalculated numbers

@Ashley Reynolds

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