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Continuo la traversata intorno alle Alpi (lavoro) e domani arriviamo lì, se avete idee per un posto dove mangiare o bere, consigli sono ben accetti!
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I love it when I wake up with a pretty low blood pressure, it's already starting to get hot, I have¹ to walk to the pharmacy, stuff happens and I don't manage to have breakfast before doing so.
at least it's a short walk, and there is also a convenient post box very close, so I also sent a postcard :)
¹ technically I could have asked my SO to go, instead we went together, but that meant that we had to go earlier
Adoro alzarmi con la pressione bassa, sta già iniziando a fare caldo, devo¹ andare in farmacia, succedono casini e non riesco neanche a fare colazione prima di andarci.
di buono c'è che è qui vicino, e c'è anche una comoda cassetta della posta quasi sul percorso, quindi ho anche spedito una cartolina :)
¹ tecnicamente avrei potuto chiedere al mio compagno di andarci, invece siamo andati assieme, ma la cosa dava più vincoli di tempo
Someone asked me if they could commission a sweater from me. And, honestly, I was flattered. But then I explained that:
1. It takes me approximately 50 or more hours across a month to knit,
2. The materials alone cost $60-$80, and
3. I knit because I find it meditative and relaxing, which would not be the case if it was paid work.
And even if I wanted to turn knitting into a paid gig, and even if I valued my labor at a really low price (say $5/hour), a simple sweater would cost over $350.
Handmade work is expensive. And so many people don't know what it takes to create something. Materials plus labor doesn't even capture the years of practice it takes to develop the skill to make the thing in the first place.
So when you do find folks taking commissions for hand crafted items, understand what it is you are paying for.
(Brought to you by someone who definitely does not take fiber arts commissions, but who just might make you something as a gift.)
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On the other hand, the calculation looks very different with my pottery. I can throw a dozen pots in any given session at the wheel. Now there's drying time, trimming, glazing 2 trips through kilns, but a lot of that time is unattended time.
I estimated once that it takes me on average about an hour of hands on work per piece.
Most of my pieces sell for under $50. My average price per piece is about $30. This pays for my materials, my equipment, electricity, and time.
I'm not a production potter and only make a small amount of work a year. I sell enough to make my hobby pay for itself with enough left over to continue to outfit my studio.
I'm interested in other creative folks' processes. Any #weavers #painters #metalsmithing #quilting (etc) folk who want to chime in?
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I guess my takeaways include:
1. Not every creative outlet needs to be/should be monitized, and
2. Creative people who do choose to sell work should be paid for their time and expertise, and
3. Buying hand crafted work from the artist supports a person rather than some distant shareholders who more often than not, exploit those who make what stores sell.
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Marginalia reenactment
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Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.ploum.net
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Reitero l'appello.
Ci sono 3 cabinati da videopoker IN REGALO a chi viene a prenderseli a Imperia.
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Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
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@Kat
I really did just follow a beekeeper, for the record.
More interesting than anything on Twitter, Threads or Bluesky.
My mother's washing machine is breaking down, and she lives close enough that I'm washing all of her laundry.
Now, I like being able to fill more loads and wash things more often, rather than have them accumulate until the laundry basket is overflowing, so I'm not encouraging her to buy a new machine (an attempt at repairing hers has already been done, and failed).
My real question is: should I do the proper #victorian thing and embroider my husband's initials on all of our household items? should I do a radical feminist thing and embroider my own initials¹? And what should I do with the bedsheet that already has my great-grandfather initials on it?
¹ or rather design. which has the advantage of having a form that is extremely easy and quick to embroider, and I already use on my conference t-shirts that are identical to @Diego Roversi 's ones :D
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@Fabio no, you were right at the margin of my field of vision, I wasn't looking at you!
but text only lesana can work with something like zbarcam through the shell, Collector would need some QR-code reading of its own :D
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Thread di benvenuto all'ondata di nuovǝ utenti!
Ciao! Avete trovato Livello Segreto, un'istanza di Mastodon pensata per sfuggire alle logiche dei social commerciali e per creare una comunità più umana e felice.
Qui non ci sono influencer, non ci sono pubblicità, non ci sono brand, non c'è monetizzazione.
Qui l'algoritmo è cronologico, quindi i like e l'engagement non contano.
Qui parliamo per il gusto di farlo, senza gare di popolarità.
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finalmente un luogo veramente "democratico". Devo ancora imparare a usare bene questo prezioso strumento ma mi piace. Mi piace un sacco.
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queste istanze senza pubblicità e logiche commerciali ruberanno il lavoro a noi SMM.
Diciamolo ad alta voce: I luddisti avevano ragione! (cit)
[Si scherza😆 ]
Finally, the twitter shitstorm reached a point where I was personally affected and I had to do something. I just added a key combination to my keyboard map to easily get 🍿.
E alla fine, il casino di twitter mi ha coinvolta personalmente, dandomi cose da fare. Ho appena aggiunto una combinazione di tasti alla mia mappa tastiera per poter digitare rapidamente 🍿.
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@keverets org Self hosting is kindof a dealbreaker for most of my correspondents. I can and do host my own server, but I don't want to host everyone I talk to.
@0xDEADBEEF @snikket_im@fosstodon.
@0xDEADBEEF yeah, that's the rub. There are free non-snikket instances but the signup and trust/reliability is a bit shaky. Hard to convince people to pay for ones like conversations.im when they initially only use it to interact with me. Quick.sy is Android-only. Wish there was a big one that used the original WhatsApp "first year free, then $1/year" style pricing model to kick start some network effect.
And I've just managed to refactor a long file with tons of #ifdef into a hierarchy of classes, in C++, a language I have vague notions about, through the establish industry practice of copying stuff from stackoverflow.
No, the code isn't anywhere where it can be seen.
Yes, if this fails somewhere the worst that can happen is that I have to get up from my chair to know whether the temperature is higher outside or inside.
And I really needed a project where I could give myself permission to do things that only work for me, rather than having to consider other possible usecases, and possibly even to do bad things, like this one.
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December 2022, one month after the huge influx, me writing about why one huge instance is far worse for many reasons than lots of small instances, when we closed .art registrations in order to control our growth in a healthy way.
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I refer to this as “stallmanising”
Named after Richard Stallman, stallmanising is to be so obnoxious about your perfectly good and just cause, that you actively turn people against it.
Don’t stallmanise your causes.
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Your instance admins will appreciate content warnings on Russia-related posts, which will let people filter, make it possible for folks not to fixate on the topic, and frankly reduce the number of reports they need to handle about bad takes, racism and glorifying violence so they can go back to sleep.
Relatedly, I'm going back to sleep. Please do me this favor. I'm very tired and I need to cuddle my cat.
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filed under: palazzinari
“(passeggiando per Roma) scorgiamo in fiamme un isolato¹ di notevole altezza, a molti piani; già tutta la zona vicina bruciava in un incendio spaventoso. Allora uno degli accompagnatori di Giuliano disse «La proprietà urbana offre grandi proventi, ma i rischi sono enormi, senza confronto. Se si potesse trovare un rimedio contro gl'incendi di case tanto frequenti in Roma, giuro che avrei già venduto le mie campagne e comprato in città».”
(Aulo Gellio, trad. Giorgio Bernardi-Perini)
per carità, apprezziamo l'onestà e la mancanza di ipocrisia, but still…
¹ io avrei tradotto condominio o palazzina
Parola filtrata: nsfw
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@aural io trovo sempre fatte molto bene le schede di questo profilo, che tecnicamente è un e-commerce di sex toys, ma fa campagne assai interessanti sul consenso, la sessualità e l'affettività @ashneehs
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COSA SIGNIFICA DAVVERO IL CONSENSO?
Oggi assieme alla nostra fantastica sessuologa Vittoria @d.ssavbottelli chiariremo alcuni punti sul vero significato della parola consenso e l'importanza di esercitarlo e rispettarlo. 🛍 Scopri il nostro sito: https://bit.MySecretCase | Invidious
Anyone have any ideas about books aimed at kids on creating their own board or card games? My child is obsessed, but the rules exist only in their head and they get very frustrated.
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Una mia amica ha un laboratorio di artigianato a Lucca, non smette mai di voler imprare a fare cose nuove e ha recentemente iniziato a lavorare il legno. Mi ha regalato per il compleanno la prima penna di legno che ha costruito, regalo che ho adorato 💜
Se capitate a Lucca andatela a trovare, ha una fantasia e una manualità uniche! Il suo negozio si chiama Vibrisse 😉
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@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 ecco, in effetti il sito parla di malpensa che terminano / ripartono da Saronno, ma del resto dei treni (varese / como / novara) non dice niente
@LaVi 🕊️📚🐈 mi correggo, sono uscite le notizie su un tot di treni per le altre destinazioni, che come si può immaginare…
If your program constructs a configuration from one or more configuration files and maybe also built-in defaults, command line options, environment variables, or anything else, it is a good idea for the program to have a way to dump the actual, combined, configuration so that the user can see what it actually is.
This beats reading documentation and deducing what things should be. It helps with debugging configuration mistakes of all kinds.
Trust, but verify, sort of.
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@Lars Wirzenius this is very fine advice. that I should follow. And I don't think my projects currently do. uooops.
#PostgreSQL's
pg_settings view is an excellent example of this.54.24. pg_settings
54.24. pg_settings The view pg_settings provides access to run-time parameters of the server. It is essentially an alternative interface to the …PostgreSQL Documentation
Anyway, tonight I've dreamed that a *soccer player* from Torino FC (serie A italian league) had joined the fediverse.
Himself, not his PR staff or something.
And I received a boost of one of his posts, about his struggles with impostor syndrome.
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E stanotte mi son sognata che un *calciatore* del Torino si era iscritto sul fediverso.
Non il suo staff, proprio lui.
E mi era arrivato un boost di un suo post in cui parlava del fatto di soffrire sindrome dell'impostore.
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@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua pseudorisotto dietetico allo zafferano, uno yogurt, frutta :D
Direi che anche per i miei standard era una cena leggera :D
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Oh, io ve lo dico, poi vedete voi che fare
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Yesterday, users of mstdn.social instance lost their connections to artists at mastodon.art instance ( src: framapiaf.org/@Curator@mastodo… ). I hope giving visibility to this issue will help them to restore the broken bridges.
Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator (@Curator@mastodon.art)
We're no longer blocked by mstdn.social, but I don't know if that's subject to change. Unfortunately, when an instance suspends another instance, all follow/follower relationships are immediately broken and aren't recovered by un-suspending, so you w…Mastodon.ART
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That is a lovely piece of art!
(Aah, can’t keep it in. Viking helmets didn’t have horns:) That looks like a Wagner opera:) But I don’t think it takes away from the image. It kinda makes me think of some management type game. Like a Settlers of the World type game.)
e niente, ci sono 27°C in casa, e sto facendo merenda con polenta e zucchero.
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@Paolo Redaelli @Fabio @Oblomov niente violenza! solo guardare la vostra polenta fatta male con aria di compassione e superiorità :D
Shawl Calculations
Posted on June 16, 2023
Update 2023-06-17: I had missed an N in the formulas, they have been updated, and since I was editing this I’ve added the haskell bit.
I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.
This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.
It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an approximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.
So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:
$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = N ⋅ w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$
where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.
This gives:
N2 + (1 + 2 ⋅ w0/wr) ⋅ N − 2 * wT/wr = 0
and the only positive solution will be:
$$N = - 1/2 - w_0/w_r + \sqrt(1/4 + w_0^2/w_r^2 - w_0/w_r + 2 ⋅ w_T/w_r)$$
or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):
import math
import statistics
w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
-1/2 - ws[0] / w_r + math.sqrt(1/4 + ws[0]**2 / w_r**2 - ws[0]/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)Or, in Haskell:
let ws = [2, 4, 6]
let w_T = 200
let w_0 = head ws
let w_r = ( sum (map (\(x,y) -> y-x) (zip ws (drop 1 ws))) ) / (fromIntegral (length ws - 1))
-1/2 - w_0 / w_r + sqrt (1/4 + (w_0/w_r)**2 - w_0/w_r + 2 * w_T / w_r)Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 135 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.
Which means that this shawl will also take forever.
IMPORTANTE: ZONA WARPA HA BISOGNO DI AIUTO A ROMA!
Ciao, stiamo tuttə bene ma il furgone di supporto ha il motore fuso e ci ha lasciato a piedi.
Il Camper Warpo è già in zona Napoli e con due treni possiamo risolvere lo spostamento.
Abbiamo però bisogno di unə o possibilmente più *volontariə* che ci diano supporto logistico. Persone con un'auto e un paio di ore da dedicarci. Girate pure questo messaggio ad amicə di cui vi fidate.
Boost graditissimi!
Contattare in dm!
Grazie ❤️
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Started cutting out the rectangles for my floaty skirts. (Just comfy, not fitted.) The first is cotton gauze, which is great for this kind of skirt, but it’s kind of a pain to work with. Because it’s a loose weave it tends to wiggle around and be hard to cut accurately.
There’s a trick to cutting a straight line across woven fabric, where you pull out a thread and then cut along the gap where it used to be.
I’m starting by straightening the ends. The photo of the cut end is the correct color
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Shawl Calculations
Posted on June 16, 2023
I’ve just realized that I’m not anywhere close to finishing the shawl I’m knitting, so I’ve done the perfectly logical and rational thing and started a new one.
This one is using some yarn from the stash, so its size is limited by the available yarn, and I wanted to estimate how long it may be, so I weighted the ball of yarn at the beginning and then again after knitting 10 and 20 rows.
It’s a top-down crescent, with 6 increases every two rows (but these calculations should work for any uniform top-down shawl with a regular number of increases), so each block of 10 rows should use an aproximately fixed weight of yarn more than the previous block of 10 rows.
So, let w0 be the weight of the first block of rows, wr the (average) difference between two consecutive blocks and wT the total weight of the shawl. Then the weight used by block i should be wi = w0 + wr ⋅ i and the total weight of the shawl should be:
$$w_T = \sum_{i=0}^{N}w_i = w_0 + w_r ⋅ \frac{N ( N + 1)}{2}$$
where N is the number of blocks in the whole shawl.
This gives:
N2 + N + 2/Wr ⋅ (w0 − wT)
and the only positive solution will be:
$$N = \frac{-1 - \sqrt(1 - \frac{8}{w_r} (w_0 - w_T))}{2}$$
or, in a few lines of python that can be easily copypasted (changing the values in ws and w_T, of course):
import math
import statistics
w_T = 200
ws = [2, 4, 6]
w_r = statistics.mean(map(lambda x: x[0] - x[1], zip(ws[1:], ws)))
(-1 + math.sqrt(1 - 8 / w_r * (ws[0] - w_T))) / 2Which right now (using the actual measured values) tells me I will have about 140 rows in my shawl, but I’d really want to do a few more blocks of 10 rows and have more datapoints before I trust the numbers I’ve put in.
Which means that this shawl will also take forever.
also, lol, I see that the support for math in pandoc (which I use to generate my blog) is somewhat partial, and what gets here to friendica is even less.
But then, everybody who knits also reads LaTeX, right? :D
Yesterday evening we've put the mosquito net over the bed (sigh, the Season has started late, but it has started).
/me, just before going to sleep: should I also engrave Elbereth on the net, just to be safe?
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Ieri sera abbiamo messo la zanzariera sopra al letto (sigh, la Stagione è iniziata tardi, ma è iniziata)
io, subito prima di dormire> devo anche engravare Elbereth sulla zanzariera, tanto per andare sul sicuro?
(sì, lo stavo dicendo in italiano è ho proprio detto engravare. non mi pento di niente)
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Ever need a cuniform clay tablet print on demand service? You're in luck: dumbcuneiform.com/
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visto che ci aspettano settimane di celebrazioni e quant'altro, cosa ne direste di mettere un CW quando ne parlate, in qualunque modo lo si faccia?
grazie
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@nihil22 content warning, quella cosa che dovrebbe nascondere il contenuto di questi post fino a che non ci si clicca sopra, mostrando solo l'argomento.
/me, making a set of drawers for coloured pencils
my mother> oh, you're also making separators for each individual pencil
me> not making these fiddly things. was. an option?
some reconsidering of lifestyle choices may be in order. or maybe not :D
We are happy to announce a stable release for Bookworm! Thank you to all the devs, testers, and others who made this possible.
You can find it here:
images.mobian.org/
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Not that anyone noticed, but the English #Wikipedia recently crossed the 6,666,666 article mark.
Unofficially, the milestone article was... SatanCon! It's the annual convention of the Satanic Temple.
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Debian 12 "bookworm" released and avaiiable for download. Thank you!
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We encourage our creators to post their shop links as often as they like here on .art; it's how we earn a living, after all!
However, if you run a shopfront like Etsy for your creations and would prefer a dedicated place to post and promote your things for sale, have a look at handmade.social/about. You can use it in addition to your normal account, and then fedi users looking to support indie creators can (and do!) browse the homemade.social local feed to see what's for sale.
handmade.social
handmade.social is for all handmade artisans to create accounts for their Etsy and other handmade business shops.Mastodon hosted on handmade.social
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Gente questa va bene per il retrobright?
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se è perossido di idrogeno a 30 volumi dovrebbe andare bene. Ho usato una cosa simile (crema per ossigenare i capelli) ed ho ottenuto buoni risultati
Funziona anche con semplice acqua ossigenata, l'importante sono gli UV.
Io ho usato anche acqua ossigenata e candeggina gentile.
Project #linocut steampunk #piecepack is under way!
Quite a few months ago I started the project by making this
and buying some supplies (such as non-black linocut ink :D ), and then procrastination happened and I got quite stuck.
Today I've actually drawn all most of the pieces on tracing paper, I need to add the smaller suites, trace everything from the reverse, and then finally carve the linoleum.
And then maybe I'll start procrastinating again, or maybe I'll actually do some test prints in the weekend?
I may also be thinking of regular piecepack suites and playing card suites in the same style, but first I need to actually assemble a piecepack and discover whether it will work.
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For Linux Days:
- carve a fancy Tux not wider than a pasta machine
- bring paper, ink and a pasta machine on the event site
- have people printing their own Tux with their hands ("Ooooh, look, I'm skilled!")
- gather contributions
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Unknown parent • •@kappazeta @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua i traghetti ci sono solo a centro lago, tra Menaggio, Bellagio e Varenna; da Como partono solo battelli e aliscafi, e dal sito non son riuscita a capire se trasportano biciclette o meno.
Per i ristoranti, io non ne frequento più da poco prima dell'inizio della pandemia, ma ho boostato la richiesta e segnalato al resto del LUG che c'è una domanda su un tema di forte competenza del gruppo :D
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