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The conference does not run on thin air, but the sweat, blood and possibly other bodily fluids !
apt install #anarchism today!
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DebConf23 starts today in Kochi On Sun 10 September 2023
DebConf23, the 24th annual Debian Developer Conference, is taking place in Kochi, India from September 10th to 17th, 2023. Debian contributors from all over the world have come together at Infopark, Kochi to participate and work in a conference...Debian Project
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Banners and Signs
Posted on September 8, 2023
I forgot to write down the details back when it happened, but now that the surprise has been delivered I can write about it.
Some time ago, I decided to make a small banner with the GL-Como penguin for a friend, because reasons.
However, this friend has a big problem, he, well, is from Pisa (no, I’m not from Leghorn, why do you ask?), and I had a screen printing kit, openclipart and no inhibitions.
So, with the encouragement of a few friends who were in the secret, this happened. In two copies, because the first attempt at the print had issues.
And yesterday we finally met that friend again, gave him all of the banners, and no violence happened, but he liked them :D
If somebody is interested, the source image I used is on openclipart, with links to all of the sources I’ve used.
I don’t remember exactly how it happened, but when I was working on the Pisani sign I also stumbled on the “no dogs” sign and decided that the world needed a “mandatory cat” sign, and well, here is the full set (all images are a link to the openclipart page).
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The current storybundle includes a few complete trilogies, rather than the usual book 1 (and then you're on your own getting the rest), as long as you pay at least the bonus level, and I'd strongly recommend Machineries of Empires to anybody who loves space opera and/or excellent worldbuilding.
(I'm not involved in any of this, I've just loved reading it)
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Un amico mi scrive quanto segue:
“Ciao,mi devo liberare dei #libri di cui puoi trovare le copertine al seguente link:
data.laboccadellupo.it/index.p…
Li ho rozzamente classificati e non li ho catalogati perche' non trovo che il gioco valga la candela. Voglio provare a salvarli dal loro tristo destino: finire nella stufa, una pagina alla volta, questo inverno. Mi dai una mano?
Sono i vecchi libri miei, di mia madre e di mio padre che abbiamo deciso di non tenere dopo aver venduto la vecchia casa di famiglia. La URL ti permette di accedere ad un gestore di file web: accedi ad una cartella, clicca su un'immagine e comincia a scorrere con i tasti freccia destra e sinistra tra le copertine. Qualcosa so che finira' sicuramente nella bocca della stufa, ma magari qualcosa no (spero la maggior parte!).
Sono quasi tutti in italiano, tranne quelli in un'apposita e chiara cartella. Cosa troverai? Arte e romanzi, saggi sull'Italia repubblicana, qualcosa di filosofia, vecchi manuali liceali, qualcosa di informatico, vecchie riviste e fumetti, pubblicazioni molto locali. Guardati intorno.
Segnati il nome del file che appare sopra l'immagine della copertina e mandamelo per dirmi che vuoi il libro o maggiori informazioni. Passa pure questo messaggio a persone che possono aiutarci a salvarli, pero' io agisco nella sola area di #Varese e dintorni mentre tu ti prendi la responsabilita' per amiche o amici piu' lontani.
Consulta il file "istruzioni.txt" per trovare il modo di contattarmi ed eventuali altre informazioni che potrei aver aggiunto nel tempo rispetto al momento in cui hai ricevuto questo messaggio.”
(hashtag miei)
Qualcuno qui sul fediverso vuole dargli una mano?
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Consiglio caldamente l'apertura con blocco javascript, e l'articolo probabilmente è stato scritto su calda raccomandazione dell'azienda, ma dice cose interessanti sui TiLo (treni pendolari / locali tra lombardia e ticino), anche se a livello molto poco approfondito.
Come i treni TiLo hanno cambiato i collegamenti tra Lombardia e Canton Ticino
La società ferroviaria italo-svizzera compie vent'anni nel 2024. Anche grazie a nuove linee transfrontaliere, nell'ultimo decennio ha raddoppiato i passeggeri e nel 2023 supererà i 20 milioni di persone trasportate.Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua Però è anche vero che oggi come oggi non è così difficile costruire treni che accettano più tensioni (che io sappia molto più semplice di quanto non fosse una volta).
E se non altro, sui confini italiani mi risulta che lo scartamento sia sempre lo stesso (contrariamente alla Spagna che ha uno scartamento diverso dalla Francia (e dal resto d'Europa))
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Nice, apparently I was not completely unproductive yesterday during #DebConf23
I **did** upload the latest #confy after having helped upgrading blueprint-compiler (the required version was bumped) in #Debian .
The #gtk4 version looks absolutely beautiful, but see for yourself in the screencast I just did on my #Librem5 (no hw acccelerated video encoding yet, so that's why its not full fps).
This is the sort of app that makes it an absolute joy #daily #driving #phosh !
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And for anyone who's interested:
This is actually using the information merged into #giggity .
I'm very happy that the #DebConf23 xml appears **very** complete (thanks to whoever took the time to send the pull request)!
@fabrixxm is the upstream author and deserves a lot of praise and recognition for #confy IMO
It should migrate to #Debian testing in around 4 days, so just in time for the beginning of #DebConf23 
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TFW you announce “and now I'm driving on a straight and wide road” and 10 seconds later you turn an almost-blind curve and see two big buses overtaking a bike and end up brushing the bushes at the edge of the road with the left rear view mirror to avoid hitting the second bus with the right mirror.
(No significant damage was done to the mirror nor to the bush, it was just a light touch, like a cat using her whiskers to check that she could pass in a narrow opening :D )
TFW annunci “e adesso sto guidando su una strada larga e dritta” e 10 secondi dopo esci da una curva quasi cieca e vedi due pulman che stanno sorpassando una bicicletta e finisci a sfiorare la siepe a bordo strada con lo specchietto di sinistra per evitare di toccare il secondo pulman con lo specchietto di estra.
(Nessuno si è fatto male, né lo specchietto né il cespuglio, è stata una cosa tipo gatto che usa le vibrisse per controllare se ci passa da un pertugio :D )
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@David de Groot it wasn't that bad: when I got out of the curve there was plenty of space for the first bus to finish overtaking, and thus plenty of space for me to react to the second bus who did the same when there *wasn't* plenty of space (because of course it would do that, they were probably traveling together, and my expectations were safely low :D ).
It was just proof that, while definitely *wider* and *straighter* than the road I had been driving just before, well, calling it *wide* and *straight* was still a bit of a stretch :D
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A proposito di lingua che evolve:
“Fin verso la metà del volgente secolo oltre due terzi delle tenute boscate erano di proprietà dei comuni i quali in seguito ne cedettero, in gran parte, il possesso ai comunisti”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi, 1896
E avendo letto questo sono andata a vedere treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… e ho scoperto che il significato di uso comune oggi non è una parola italiana, ma che è un adattamento di una parola francese.
(Ovviamente lì sopra lo usano nel significato treccani.it/vocabolario/comuni… , pagina che purtroppo non aiuta a capire se siano tutti gli abitanti del comune, o solo un loro sottoinsieme privilegiato, tipo il patriziato svizzero)
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“Quasi a contrasto dell'allegro e spaziante suolo intelvese, da Lanzo discendi nell'orrida *Valmara*. Da quel fondo tetro e lugubre lo spirito rifugge, oppresso e sgomento; lo sguardo incarcerato appena scorge una striscia sottile di cielo, che si allarga alle estremità, frastagliata tra le cornose vette dei due nuclei montuosi, che quasi si accavallano, si confondono e l'eco in quell'angusto tragitto, più che mai sonoro, dal basso all'alto ripercuote tra il fragore dell'acque cascanti, il fischio del pastore, che richiama alla stalla le capre pascentesi tra le erbose sinuosità di quelle eterne rupi. Tuttavia il pensiero anche da quell'orrido aspetto in quell'imo profondo riscontra eloquente il bello, il sublime della natura ed il sentimentalismo , anche il meno fervido, trova ad esuberanza materia, princip ̛i. concetti, idee con cui filosofare, fantasticare, vagare, approfondirsi, innalzarsi, inebriarsi.”
Pietro Conti — Memorie Storiche della Vall'Intelvi
@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 è la strada *divertente¹* che citavo oggi pomeriggio, descritta dal libro che accidentalmente mi è capitato di comprare in fiera :D
¹ per qualche valore di divertente che poche persone condividono :D
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@Ferdinando Simonetti @LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 pendenza del 18%, circa 20 m tra un tornante e l'altro
le velocità che consumano i battistrada cerco di evitarle, che non si arriva al fondo vivi, tutto il resto lo posso confermare :D
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TFW you go looking for an old linocut plate to make a test print, and it's. the. first. one. you. check.
win!
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anyway, doing a couple of prints with acrylic paint and a spray bottle of water instead of proper linocut ink works, cleaning up is a bit of a pain. I would never do tens of prints with it (but then I'm not doing them anyway).
Retarder medium would probably help, but I don't have it. But maybe for those few times when I want to use metallic or other special effect paint it's more sensible to buy that, and use the acrylics I already have, rather than buying more types of linocut ink.
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Allora, dopo aver visto che le previsioni cominciano ad essere incoraggianti diamo l'annuncio ufficiale per il #MastoIncontri a tema #abbigliamentoEccentrico e #trenò!
Ritrovo giovedì 31 agosto a #Saronno al binario opportuno per prendere il treno delle 14:03 per #Como, all'altezza della carrozza di testa: anche se pochi dovremmo essere vistosi :D (ma contattatemi pure in privato se pensate di partecipare).
L'abbigliamento eccentrico non è obbligatorio, ma consigliato :)
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Il cavallo è quasi arrivato in stazione, ma il treno #trenord con cui voleva fuggire era in ritardo e sono riusciti a catturarlo
(consiglio di aprire il sito con javascript bloccato)
Il cavallo Kaboo scappa dall’ippodromo e corre libero per Varese
Inconsueto problema durante la riunione alle Bettole: il purosangue ha disarcionato il fantino ed è fuggito fino quasi alla stazione Nord. Recuperato, sta beneDamiano Franzetti (Vareseweb Srl)
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Here is a hopefully-useful notice about Linux kernel security issues, as it seems like this knowledge isn't distributed very widely based on the number of emails I get on a weekly basis:
- The kernel security team does not have any "early notice"
announcement list for security fixes for anyone, as that would only
make things more insecure for everyone.
- The kernel community does not assign CVEs, nor do we deal with them
at all. This is documented in the kernel's security policy, yet we
still have a number of people asking for CVE numbers even after
reading that policy. See my longer "CVEs are dead..." talk for full
details about how the CVE process is broken for projects like Linux:
kernel-recipes.org/en/2019/tal…
- You HAVE to take all of the stable/LTS releases in order to have a
secure and stable system. If you attempt to cherry-pick random
patches you will NOT fix all of the known, and unknown, problems,
but rather you will end up with a potentially more insecure system,
and one that contains known bugs. Reliance on an "enterprise"
distribution to provide this for your systems is up to you, discuss
it with them as to how they achieve this result as this is what you
are paying for. If you aren't paying for it, just use Debian, they
know what they are doing and track the stable kernels and have a
larger installed base than any other Linux distro. For embedded,
use Yocto, they track the stable releases, or keep your own
buildroot-based system up to date with the new releases.
- Test all stable/LTS releases on your workload and hardware before
putting the kernel into "production" as everyone runs a different %
of the kernel source code from everyone else (servers run about
1.5mil lines of code, embedded runs about 3.5mil lines of code, your
mileage will vary). If you can't test releases before moving them
into production, you might want to solve that problem first.
- A fix for a known bug is better than the potential of a fix causing a
future problem as future problems, when found, will be fixed then.
I think I need to give another talk about this issue to go into the above in more detail. So much for me giving a technical talk at Kernel Recipes this year...
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Weird question, but does anyone know of a place to buy small vases or pots in the style of ones found in ancient Greece, which are suitable for painting?
...yes I want to make my students paint tiny mythological scenes, why do you ask.
(This is one of my rare cross-posts between different social media.)
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Filed under: #misleadingProductLabels
“source of calcium and magnesium”, they say
then the nutritional label claims 14% and 10% of the recommended daily dose respectively per 100 ml.
Except that 100 ml also have 65 g of sugar. it's a syrup that you mix with water to make a soft drink, and the serving is maybe 5 ml, possibly even less.
Pictures from a random source on the internet.
drogheriaolimpia.com/20861-lar…
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(which show that the product is “Sciroppo all'estratto di Tamarindo Carlo Erba”)
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Un anno che ebbi una sovrapproduzione di mandarini feci i ghiaccioli di succo di mandarino… ottimi in estate nel vino bianco 😋
Comunque, se il vento non se la porta via, comunico che in Piazza Cavour c'è l'annuale Fiera del Libro, ottima occasione per scovare pubblicazioni di piccole case editrici locali.
#libri #mastolibri #mastolibro #LibriEDintorni @libri @bibliofiliincurabili
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meglio qualcosa di piú locale, ma servono manici di cinque palmi
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(notare Cesare Basile)
M° Alfio Di Bella Antica Scola da paranza rutata
Il M° Alfio Di Bella impegnato in uno dei tanti momenti di didattica in cui indica ai propri allievi l'importanza del movimento dei passi, nell'arte del bast...YouTube
TFW I sort of want to paint some salt-dough pieces I've made, but I've also just put some bread in the oven, and it will require my attention and clean hands in 10 minutes and then again in 10 more minutes, and then again 20 minutes later.
yesterday I may also have accidentally bought another spray paint can.
Today there is a forecast for rain, so I announced that I wouldn't have used it until later in the week.
So obviously right now I'm applying masking tape to an eurobox.
Well, I can take that item off of 'business ideas/to do'. The small packages problem we have here on small cargo planes and large lorries has been solved long ago by europe.
Grrrr.
So many things that work well in one part of the world aren't copied in another part. It's not only this, but many things like voting systems, bottle refunds, labeling, electriciy and electrical plugs... even metric.
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I cannot overstate enough the prime rule of #sewing: if your machine starts to make a Bad Noise, stop IMMEDIATELY.
Nothing good ever happens from continuing and hoping it sorts itself out.
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I really respect the love people on here have for their cats, but I personally do not love cats and I have realized that if I filter the word cat, my feed has far fewer cats, and so I see more posts that interest me.
pls take this as nothing other than permission to filter words out of your feeds that could hurt the feelings of others if they knew about it. the feed should feed *you*
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origins of the exchange are lost to history but it's thought to derive from an obscure religious practice with "screen" referring to the speaker's view or perspective, and the concept of sharing and seeing meant to elicit in both speakers the desire for mutual understanding
related but less common formulations such as "you're muted" or "you're on mute", seem to exist as a conventional way of suggesting someone may be failing to convey said perspective, or otherwise not being understood
TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216#…
and this. this. this is The Right Thing, can we have it for other things, PLEASE?
(say, knitting needles?)
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Am I the first one to point out that the story is fake?
I'm no cat psychologist, but I have never seen them do any kind of complex reasoning like that.
Please do not neglect the original purpose of the Fediverse. Indeed, of the whole Internet.
#cats
Share them and share often.
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just rockin' and rollin'
anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma's boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are "like that" because they haven't seen...mad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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just rockin' and rollin'
Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit,...mad-dame-zou (Tumblr)
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If you live in a city with tall buildings, take a look at the night skyline. The buildings probably have flashing lights on them to help aircraft pilots to identify the shapes of buildings and not fly into them.
You might notice that the buildings flash in synchrony, even though they are hundreds of metres apart. What's going on?
(continued)
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No, I haven't been putting an ice block in the bed these nights, why would I do such a silly thing?
(Yes, I have)
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Periodic reminder that if you're working with woven, non-elastic fabric, there aren't many reasons¹ not to use cotton thread to sew it: it will work, it won't break and it won't rot² unless it's really bad quality thread. The time between everybody using linen thread (for linen and cotton) and when plastic thread was available wasn't that long, compared to the history of clothing, but it was still many decades, and at a time when clothing was still an expensive thing that needed to last.
¹ and other than variations “I have a TON of plastic thread and don't want to buy more” I can't think any that doesn't involve another natural fiber such as linen or silk thread.
² in your wardrobe, things may be different if you bury it in soil :)
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@kamikat uops, right, I had forgotten about the existence of sergers :D (they had not been invented yet at the time of most of the techniques I use :D )
When I had a serger I used both the light weight and regular cotton, but I never had a great experience with sergers, so I think it's better to hear from somebody who has.
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Went to the kitchen, found my SO's milk on the stove, but the stove was still turned off.
Asked, turned the stove on.
Put water in the kettle for my #tea.
Put frozen bread in the sandwich maker to defrost it, turned the sandwich maker on.
Left the kitchen.
Can you spot the missing steps?
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It is nice wearing a garment that you made from fabric bought when visiting a friend.
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È bello indossare un vestito che hai fatto con stoffa comprata andando a trovare un'amica.
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#sewing
#travel
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This whole thread!! "Assuming all religions are bad because yours was is actually still perpetuating Christian hegemony" - yes! exactly!
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There are lots of books about schools for magical kids: Hogwarts, Camp Half-Blood, Unseen University, Strange Academy, and on and on.
But what about a retirement home for magical grownups? Imagine reaching a ripe old age, children and grandchildren grown and gone, and one day you find a gold-embossed letter in your mailbox:
"Greetings!
You have been selected for residence at the Moonfrost Home for Exceptional Elders."
Somebody write a novel about a magical retirement home. I want to read it.
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you know what else is magic?
Getting in your climate controlled coach, driving to somewhere 40 miles away and arriving about a half hour later, and all the while you listened to a symphony played by a 100 piece orchestra.
I admit it's not as magical as being moved by words written someone 1000s of miles away or centuries in the past, but it is pretty damn good nonetheless.
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