I argue we (#curl) should NOT pay docker. Not give in to extortion. This might mean that someone else soon suddenly will register our name and can serve whatever image they want there. 5 *billion* pulls indicate there's a user or two that might fall victim for this.
That's on docker, not us.
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swish test:
passed. uooops, it seems that the pocket was also swishing out.
stability test:
I didn't fall. I didn't faint. At my age that's a success, right? :D
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grazie!
sisi, disegnato seguendo le istruzioni di un manuale ottocentesco e cucito da me.
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Can somebody with an account on discord or something contact the people of freesewing.org/community/where… to let them know that on the Fediverse there is a community of a) people who sew and b) people who care about free culture c) an hashtag ( #FreeSoftWear ) where they have been mentioned a few times and it would be great if they wanted to join us?
Thanks!
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we already have more social media accounts than we manage to maintain.
Not to say we don't want to, merely saying that we are spread thin as it is. So unless the request comes with an offer to help out, I doubt it will get much traction
@Joost De Cock uops, so you know about the fediverse already, sorry.
And I'm also sorry that I can't probably help, since I don't have accounts on proprietary platforms, and thus can't act as a bridge between the communities :(
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One of my current #sewing projects is a summer garment and it's missing only 3.5 buttonholes, 6 buttons and probably a snap or a hook + eye. I think it's reasonable to aim at finishing it this evening.
Will it cause a sudden drop in the temperatures with a lot of rain?
(one may hope :D )
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it's done!
I also have the instructions and blogpost mostly written, but I need to take a few pictures and edit all of the ones I've already taken.
I hope to publish those in the next few days, unless it starts raining and raining and raining.
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English in a comment.
Di solito, quando devo chiedere a chi è accanto a me, ma è in confcall, se va bene l'ora di pranzo prendo un foglietto usato poche volte di carta, una stilografica e scrivo la domanda in buon #corsivo.
Oggi mia madre, al telefono, mi ha passato un pezzo di carta e una penna a sfera per capire cosa stessi cercando di chiederle (era “devo andare avanti a mescolare il pranzo mentre tu sei al telefono?”), e mi sono accorta che mi son messa a scrivere in stampatello, facendo molta più fatica.
La soluzione: abolite le penne a sfera. :D
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The pen they gave me was terrible though! The point would dip a little constantly :( And the one I had with me is heat erasable so not good for documents.
Tiny rant: US-/North America-centrism is so pervasive on the English-language Internet. People are quick to describe a plant or animal in a post as "invasive" without knowing where the photo was taken. I'm like, *where do you think it is native to?* Mars? ಠ___ಠ
I just saw a user assuming a planarian they found was invasive because that's what North Americans automatically parrot. They were in its native range. 
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The non-free-firmware repository
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PinePhonePro users might get nagging messages about packages being held back right now…
TL;DR: Please add the non-free-firmware section to the Debian repository line in /etc/apt/sources.list (recommended, even if you are not on PinePhonePros).
Details are in our blog post blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/03/…
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my mother asked me to buy some fabric on an online shop for her.
I only bought a bit of cord for piping, and NO fabric.
(ok, I was tempted to look for materials to make a couple new towels, but they were out of it, so not even that :D )
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It is spring, which means it's a good time to update emergency supplies before summer rolls in.
I consider myself a small-scale prepper. By which I mean that I am not interested in preparing for 'the end of the world as we know it' (TEOTWAWKI) or stocking up on weapons for the 'inevitable civil war.'
But I absolutely am interested in having enough emergency supplies laid in for actual emergencies.
My baseline is off of the 2003 Northeast blackout and several years of emergency relocations
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something that I want to do and isn't doing, on top of that, is keeping a digital copy of all important records, both on an HDD in the emergency bag AND a cloud solutions. Things like old payslips, blood test results, etc.
This is a great plan and mine is stuck at "I have a vague idea what bag I'd use" because anything more makes my head spin :(
*pinches bridge of nose* none of the ones that come to mind feels any good, and I haven't had capacity to research it, to be honest. I'd have to check where it's hosted, and their interest in privacy, and also if it's kinda obscure it has more chances of flying under the radar of hackers.
Not that I have any sensitive documents besides my personal stuff, but might as well go with people I trust!
Forgotten Yeast Bread
Posted on March 7, 2023
Yesterday around 13:00 I started my usual ”I’m being lazy” bread recipe:
- 400 g flour
- 250 g water
- 6 g salt
worked for 8 minutes (by machine), left to rise until about 18:00.
For the record, it was a strong flour (310 W), type 1, so white, but somewhat coarsely ground.
And then, when it was time to cook bread for dinner I realized that something was missing. Something critical. See if you can spot it in the list above.
The yeast.
Some bread was taken out of the freezer and defrosted in the oven, but I didn’t want to throw away the flour, so I mixed 2-3 g dried yeast, 10 g flour and 10 g water, and left it to rise until after dinner.
Then I added it to the dought, added some more water (I know. I should have measured it. I didn’t expect having to repeat the thing. It was probably about 20 g), mixed for 5 minutes, covered it to rise.
This afternoon, around 15:30, I took the dought, folded it 5-6 times, formed a round loaf on the lined baking tray and left it in the cold oven until 17:45. Then I removed it from the oven, turned it on at 240°C, scored the top of the loaf and sprinkled it with water.
When the oven was hot I baked the loaf for 10 minutes at 240°C, then turned it down to 160°C for 20 additional minutes.
And then I realized I need to repeat this.
No, there are no pictures (there is some left, but it’s too dark to take pictures).
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The alternative (cold autolyse) is a bit more involved.
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Bits from the Debian XMPP Team
Debian is a free operating system for your computer. XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence.Debian Project
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Uh! the 2023 edition of #ColorOurCollections is out (has been out for a while, now :D ): free (as in price, but often also as in freedom) #colouringBooks based on the images found in the collections of museums around the world.
BRB will be downloading stuff :D
Welcome!
From February 6-10, 2023, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials in their collections. Please download, …#Color Our Collections
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Bookbinding: photo album
Posted on March 6, 2023
When I paint postcards I tend to start with a draft (usually on lightweight (250 g/m²) watercolour paper, then trace1 the drawing on blank postcards and paint it again.
I keep the drafts for a number of reasons; for the views / architectural ones I’m using a landscape photo album that I bought many years ago, but lately I’ve also sent a few cards with my historical outfits to people who like to be kept updated on that, and I wanted a different book for those, both for better organization and to be able to keep them in the portrait direction.
If you know me, you can easily guess that buying one wasn’t considered as an option.
Since I’m not going to be writing on the pages, I decided to use a relatively cheap 200 g / m² linoprint paper with a nice feel, and I’ve settled on a B6 size (before trimming) to hold A6 postcard drafts.
For the binding I’ve decided to use a technique I’ve learned from a craft book ages ago that doesn’t use tapes, and added a full hard cover in dark grey linen-feel2 paper. For the end-papers I’ve used some random sheets of light blue paper (probably around 100-something g / m²), and that’s the thing where I could have done better, but they work.
Up to now there isn’t anything I hadn’t done before, what was new was the fact that this book was meant to hold things between the pages, and I needed to provide space for them.
After looking on the internet for solutions, I settled on adding spacers by making a signature composed of paper - spacer - paper - spacer, with the spacers being 2 cm wide, folded in half.
And then, between finishing binding the book and making the cover I utterly forgot to add the head bands. Argh. It’s not the first time I make this error.
I’m happy enough with the result. There are things that are easy to improve on in the next iteration (endpapers and head bands), and something in me is not 100% happy with the fact that the spacers aren’t placed between every sheet, but there are places with no spacer and places with two of them, but I can’t think of (and couldn’t find) a way to make them otherwise with a sewn book, unless I sew each individual sheet, which sounds way too bulky (the album I’m using for the landscapes was glued, but I didn’t really want to go that way).
The size is smaller than the other one I was using and doesn’t leave a lot of room around the paintings, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it also means less wasted space.
I believe that one of my next project will be another similar book in a landscape format, for those postcard drafts that aren’t landscapes nor clothing related.
And then maybe another? or two? or…
Traceback (most recent call last):
TooManyProjectsError: project queue is full- yes, trace. I can’t draw. I have too many hobbies to spend the required amount of time every day to practice it. I’m going to fake it. 85% of the time I’m tracing from a photo I took myself, so I’m not even going to consider it cheating.↩︎
- the description of which, on the online shop, made it look like fabric, even if the price was suspiciously low, so I bought a sheet to see what it was. It wasn’t fabric. It feels and looks nice, but I’m not sure how sturdy it’s going to be.↩︎
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Nel 2023 ho deciso di dedicare meno tempo al "lavoro che porta a casa la pagnotta" e più tempo alla mia vita creativa (leggasi: suonare in giro come Kenobit, partecipare a eventi, etc.).
Per farlo funzionare, con sommo sforzo, sto impostando in maniera più ordinata tutte le faccende collaterali, dalle fatture al merch.
Per questo, in ottica di vendere le magliette, vi chiedo: qual è il modo migliore per spedire una maglietta in Italia?
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TFW I'm finally using the 2-ply linen thread on an historically accurate piece of reed rather than modern cardboard¹ spool, and it's when sewing a pair of modern slippers.
#sewingPersonProblems #HistoricalSewing
¹ I don't think I've ever bought linen thread on plastic spools
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not that I ever do any kind of sewing where a cardboard spool wouldn't be realistically possible (even if possibly the markings could be too modern, e.g. if there is a barcode)
or at least, not that I'm currently planning to do :D
It's the end of February, and my “score” is: 27 pieces of mail (mostly postcards, some letters) have been written and sent / delivered, one is on my desktop because I've decided at the last minute to paint a postcard and I'm a bit late with it, and will be sent maybe thursday or so.
I'd call it a success, anyway!
#InCoWriMo #MonthOfMail or whatever you want to call this thing :D
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Making a pair of slippers in optical white linen is a good idea, right?
What can possibly go wrong?
I mean, it's not like slippers are getting dirty or anything, RIGHT?
(it's what I had in the stash, and I wanted to do it NOW)
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I don't really want to be prescriptive about how people communicate with each other over the Fediverse.
That said, I do think that using euphemisms is inferior to directly naming things. Naming things outright means people can avoid them more easily, by making filters that remove those topics.
Also, while I think the lack of search is a flaw, it also means that people won't find and harass you because you mention something, obviating another reason for euphemisms.
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the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)
unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm…
![Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:
Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.
[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.](https://social.gl-como.it/photo/preview/640/2173360 "Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:
Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.
[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.")
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Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.
Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace
If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.
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Or, as the Boomer says...
(You may need to click the image...sorry; it's how Mastodon formats things)
I guess it's unplanned #fiberuary #mending?
This morning I've realized that the socks I had washed yesterday were dangerously thin on the heel, but I've managed to get them when it was still possible to do a duplicate stitch.
No picture because when I did it there was still no sunlight (not that we've had a lot of it today)
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I feel lucky: the laundry is currently outside to hopefully dry and not be drenched by rain. I repeat, the clean laundry is currently at risk of being drenched by rain. :D
Mi sento fortunata: ho steso fuori sperando che asciughi e non ci piova sopra. Ripeto, la biancheria pulita è stesa fuori nonostante un leggero rischio di pioggia. :D
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TFW you have all of the powder / desaturated blue thread colours your haberdashery carries, and realize that the fabric (that you've had since 2019) you are cutting right now is a *saturated* light blue.
A voice tells me that a trip to the haberdashery is going to be in my future.
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DOMANDA COMPLETAMENTE RANDOM MA PER LA QUALE CHIEDEREVVI (per favore grazie)MASSIMA DISTRIBUZIONE:
Qualcuno di voi utilizza ancora i Centri per l'Impiego? Anche non solo per la ricerca del lavoro, credo offrano altri servizi (forse, ho smesso di andarci quando, nella minuscola tessitura in cui ho fatto la prova le finestre erano tenute su con lo scotch da pacchi, il riscaldamento era con stufette a kerosene del 1800 e la prova alla fine non me l'hanno pagata, e rivolgendomi al CPI di Varese mi hanno detto che, fondamentalmente, erano cazzi miei nonostante il lavoro me l'avessero procurato loro con conseguente denuncia mia *privata* all'ispettorato perchè lo stesso CPI non voleva essere coinvolto mortacciloro)...
Grazie!!
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We're hiring! Senior Python developer (Full time) wanted – Kiwix
Kiwix is the leading offline solution for people who cannot access internet content – be it because of data cost, low connectivity, or outright censorship. It is free, and open-source.Stéphane Coillet-Matillon (Kiwix)
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While I'm not interested in this job myself, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate some indication of compensation to be mentioned.
However, Kiwix is awesome, and a worthy project, and I encourage anyone who knows Python to consider applying for this job.
We pay market prices based on where people are located so it really can vary a lot tbh.
We are looking for a developer, selection will be based on their code, not on how much of a cut they want to take compared to others.
We trust applicants to make an offer that's fair to themselves and we'll go along with it. Might be worth mentioning somewhere though, you are right.
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OMG, the #pockets, the #pocketses!
youtube.com/watch?v=4_2s4s90d8…
at second 44. with cats.
(it also seems to be a good tutorial for a nice but simple skirt suitable for beginner sewists, either with or without a sewing machine. but I can't be sure, I was distracted by the kittens :D)
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aaaaaaaah, the home server with the list of video channels I'm not-following-because-i-don't-have-a-youtube-account is down and I'm not sure whether it's a problem or it's because my SO is working on it, so I can't relax for the next half-hour or so sewing and watching videos while I wait for him.
wait, that list of video channels is saved in a git repo, I can get the next video I want to see from the local copy, even if I can't use the fancy web interface :D
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The idea is fascinating: a pattern that is sold not on paper, but as drawings on a (substantial and fitted) lining, the idea being that the outer fabric will probably be draped on top of it.
I wonder how widespread they were.
“The same difficulty appears when marked waist linings are used. These linings may be purchased by the yard,on which is traced the entire waist and it can soon be cut out and basted together and alterations made in it.”
From Annie E Myers. Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing. Chicago, C.H. Sergel & company, 1892. pag 48
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It sounds almost like a pre-printed version of Trace N Toile (which I'm always tempted by, but I'm not a huge fan of - it's expensive compared to paper, and almost every version I've found is non recyclable). Or if anyone was printing patterns directly on Swedish tracing paper (which you can apparently sew like fabric and is recyclable, but I've struggled to find anyone selling it in a decent width or length for a price I can afford who'll ship it here.)
From skimming a fairly closely dated Sears catalogue (1897) it looks like sellers did differentiate between paper patterns and these, but I can't find if Sears was selling the printed linings to see what they were listed as or the price difference.
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in vetrina dal coltellaio oggi c'era un victorinox con la bandiera italiana e “I love Italy”.
ma.
ma.
ma è fatto da extracomunitari!!!!
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Anni fa un'amica di Quito che era qui senza documenti in attesa di sposarsi dovette fare qualcosa all'ASL.
E là le chiesero un documento.
Lei mostrò la patente della California e l'impiegata disse: «Ah, Stati Uniti? Allora non è extracomunitaria!»
ci sono extracomunitari di serie A ed extracomunitari di serie B. Il mio impegno morale è prendere per il culo quelli di serie A, che se lo meritano.
(la prima parte della frase mi era stata detta da uno svizzero che era andato a rinnovare il permesso di soggiorno italiano scaduto, e ovviamente ha avuto molti meno problemi a farlo di quanti ne avrebbero avuti extracomunitari di altre nazioni, anche se era prima che la svizzera entrasse in Schengen, la seconda parte è stata la mia risposta)
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git status Side Effects
Posted on February 17, 2023
TIL, from a conversation with friends1, that git status can indeed have side effects, of some sort.
By default, running git status causes a background refresh of the index to happen, which holds the write lock on the repository.
In theory, if somebody is really unlucky, this could break some script / process that is also trying to work on the repo at the same time, especially on a huge repository where git status takes a significant time, rather than the usual fraction of a second2.
There is a way to prevent this, by running git status --no-optional-locks (git-scm.com/docs/git#Documenta…) or by setting GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS to 0, as writing the updated index is just an optimization and git knows it can be avoided.
I don’t think there are many chances to actually stumble on this in the real life, but I’m writing this down so that if I ever do I have an easy way to remember what happened and find the solution.
- I won’t name name or provide details to protect the innocents (and the guilty), but thanks to all of the people involved in the conversations who helped find the answer.↩︎
- Related, but unrelated TIL: there is a place called Secondo (second), near Venice, but it’s already a frazione (fraction / subdivision of municipality).↩︎
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This morning pet peeve is:
fabric weight isn't a weight nor a density, since it's measured in g/m²
(I don't think it will remain a pet peeve for long)
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ditto paper weight!
I looked it up. It's a specific term, "grammage"
(One for next Scrabble game?)
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@Catherine RW I mean, it's a great unit, it's just missing a sensible name
although, the wikipedia page for grammage suggests area density, which is probably what I was looking for
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