So, while it isn't in the budget this month, I have a weird thing I may want to commission, if I can find the right artist/artisan.
I'm looking at pens. Specifically a nice dip pen nib holder that I would use for ink drawings. Straight and not oblique.
I don't know of any woodworking creators on the fediverse, though, and I was wondering if there's anyone with the right skill set here?
I'd love to have a unique and interesting drawing pen made.
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My SO is sleeping (siesta time), so for about one hour his chair is free.
What I want to have done in this hour is to continue my inventory of fabric (using his chair as a convenient place to hold it).
What I want do *do* in this hour is playing flare.
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quello si può all'incirca fare: la query diventa qualcosa tipo ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, purché si siano configurato i campi length e width come sortable (che non è il default perché avere troppi campi sortable influenza le prestazioni)
che io sappia non si può fare una query tipo ```lenght = null``` (di solito per quelli finisco per usare grep :D )
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@Bevilacqua Gustavino uops, I didn't realize you wrote in en...
that can be done, the query becomes something like ```colour:brown AND length > 120 AND width > 180```, as long as the length and width have been configured as sortable (which is not the default because too many sortable fields influence performance).
afaik it isn't possible to have a query like ```length = null``` (usually when I need something like that I use grep :D )
@Bevilacqua Gustavino I've found that for this kind of applications in most cases, having free text search with stemming is more useful than querying for none, so I think that the tradeoff is worth.
In theory, I could probably write an additional backend to index the data also in an sqlite database for that kind of queries, but I've never felt enough of a need for it to actually *do* it :D
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I've just realized that I *should* add interface support for the spelling correction feature of xapian, however
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“The washing machine, I maintain, is one of the most significant inventions in human history”
fully concur.
(I'd recommend using your favourite downloader or the like)
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valhalla vs the gentleman's shirt round 2
the sleeves that were too small and made me stop working on the shirt for a while weren't a failed experiment in how narrow I could cut them, they were cut wrong as compared to the size I had planned to cut on the notes.
a second pair of sleeves has been cut.
the first pair is just too narrow at the cuff, but I believe can work on the arm; I will probably be able to use them on a chemise or something, I'm not sure if I want to cut them so that they are 3/4, or leave them long and use a closure that doesn't need any overlap.
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removing the cap from the bottle will make it much easier to pour some oil on your pappa al pomodoro.
togliere il tappo dalla bottiglia rende molto più facile versare dell'olio sulla tua pappa al pomodoro.
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Anyone know a place to look up the map of trainstations in europe? Was failing with looking up the Copenhagen one. Would be so nice if there was a single resource.
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The Man in Seat 61 - for train travel
How to travel by train in Europe: Schedules, fares & how to buy tickets.www.seat61.com
Oh.. 😀 Sorry.
I haven't been there so can't verify but this looks like what you're looking for. en.hovedbanen.dk/map/
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Turn your phone into the Swiss Army encyclopedia of fixing things – Kiwix
Phone is broken? Camera is broken? Your car as well? Then you can either, you know, buy a new one of each or simply try and fix them. And the best resource for that is probably iFixit – a global community of people helping each other repair things.Stéphane Coillet-Matillon (Kiwix)
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Corso di Spagnolo gratis.
Click sul link per info sociale.network/@matz/10883734…
@matz
matz⚡ (@matz@sociale.network)
Allegato: 1 immagine Prima di gettarlo, qualcuno è interessato ai primi sei volumi di spagnolo con cd con soap opera in lingua?sociale.network
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#bida è in manutenzione. Potremmo non tornare più on line. È stato bellissimo ugualmente
@admin @gubi @admin@puntarella.party @nebbia @admin@stereodon.social #### manutenzione straordinaria #####
Dobbiamo fare alcuni interventi sul server molto impattanti.
Se si spacca tutto è stato un piacere e ci siamo divertitə assieme.
Boostare please
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😤 I just received a wave of Fedispam (reported) under my recent Peertube video on @shichimi
Quote from their instance About page: "BitTube is a blockchain based video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Airtime reward system where users earn TUBE cryptocyrrency [...] BitTube emphasizes free speech [...]" (src: bittube.video/about/instance )
😩 ...
Have I a bias, or is this corelation between spams, cryptos and 'free speech' is not surprising?
BitTube
BitTube is a blockchain based video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Airtime reward system where users earn TUBE cryptocyrrency. Check out https://bittube.appbittube.video
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Il existe aujourd'hui des annuaires des instances peertube où on peut s'inscrire, spécialement labellée "créez un compte pour vos pub et touchez un maximum de personne grâce au fédiverse !"
J'ai clos les inscriptions sur mon instance exclusivement pour ça : j'avais 20 comptes/j, et des humains, pas des bots, payés pour créer ces comptes et faire chier le monde avec 😭
TIL: the best setting on my #printer to print on (relatively lightweight) #watercolour paper is simply “heavyweight paper”.
No fancier setting required.
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Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images
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Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: Download & Color Hundreds of Free Images
There are many roads to wellness. Meditation, yoga, exercise, and healthy diet are all effective therapies for bringing down stress levels.Josh Jones (Open Culture)
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The devil made me do it, ok?
(ok, technically it was watching the picture of an amigurumi devil that gave me the idea)
| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
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| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
|
| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Oh knits of Babylon
|
| You can count but you're blind
| Someone dropped the stitches down
| But you can see in your mind
| The knits of Babylon
|
| You're knitting the endless second sleeve
| Bonded and sold as a slave
| A needle dance building up a veil
| Getting as good as you gave
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
|
| Look away from the work
| I can teach you anything
| Spend a workshop with me
| A chase with the yarn
|
| Move closer to me
| I can make you anything
| I think you're ready to see
| The knits of Babylon
|
| The tangle of what has kinked before
| Rises to trap you within
| A magic loop ride a garment maybe more
| A city of heavenly sin
| Knit with the devil and then you must pay
| Knit with the devil and the devil will take you away
| Black knits of Babylon
|
| The devil is me
| And I'm holding the chart
| To the knits of sweet hell
| Babylon
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I had a version 1 #Solo key (solokeys.com/) from the first crowdfunding that I've never managed to use, and lately every attempt to talk to it failed with ValueError: Non-canonical CBOR from Authenticator, including when trying to update its firmware to try and get it to work.
This evening I've found the solution on fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_S… : that old version of the key can't be turned into bootloader mode via software, but it needs to be connected to the pc while holding down the button until the led starts blinking.
And now I could update it, and it's working! YAY for a non-bricked key!
#2fa
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And yes, the solution was trivial.
But finding it took me multiple attempts, and even the arch linux wiki didn't have it :(
gesticulates wildly with a walking stick.
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I may have been tempted to buy some more art supplies (mostly paper, this time).
And while I was browsing the new products section of the website, they had poster paper, which I hadn't seen before.
And I remembered that some time ago I saw this tutorial twinsnneedles.com/2020/12/14/m… to make a tool to help pleat fabric.
And I may have accidentally added some poster paper to my shopping cart :D
This is a quick test I did to check whether it would survive being pressed with steam (it does) and which backing to use between more of the same paper and thin cardboard (the latter seems to be working nicely).
I've already glued a bigger pleater, about 30 cm × 30 cm with 1 cm pleats, it's currently drying.
And now I only have to decide what I want to pleat next :D
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Bad sleep, too hot, idea of the morning: I wonder whether pass(1) (the command line password manager) would be a good tool to keep an address book of the people with whom I regularly exchange #snailMail.
Up to now I've used paper (no man page, the physical thing :D), but that usually remains at home when I'm traveling, and I'm not in the habit to send postcards, but sometimes the sudden need for a letter happens (and paper is harder to backup and harder to encrypt in case it's lost).
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@Luca Sironi @Enrico Rossi I wouldn't store physical addresses on a smartphone, and especially not unencrypted: it would be fine if they were businesses, of course, but the combination of real name + surname and home address of people, often even associated with their nickname is something that I wouldn't want to have on something that is easily lost or stolen.
And I'm quite sure that most of them wouldn't consider it ok if I just appeared at their door unannounced. :)
otoh, if it is at home and only accessible via a vpn it's safer, but then one needs the internet connection to get the data, which may or may not be available while traveling.
Apparently, for some *inexplicable* reason, talking on the phone with your father is not conductive to successfully counting the cards you're turning to improvise a double faced #tabletWeaving design :D
But it's fine, this band is meant to be a sort of sandbox to learn the tecnique, anyway (and I'm using one of my first spun yarns, which isn't of high quality either).
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A quanto pare, per ragioni *incomprensibili*, parlare al telefono con tuo padre non è un buon metodo per contare con successo quali tavolette manipolare quando stai improvvisando un disegno nella #tessitura con le tavolette. :D
Ma va bene così, sto facendo questo nastro come prova per imparare la tecnica (e sto usando uno dei primi filati che ho filato, e non è di gran qualità, comunque).
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abbiamo sbagliato tutto!
dovevamo fare una raccolta di firme per chiedere di non far cadere il governo, qualunque governo, purché fosse un governo ladro (che è intrinseco nel concetto di governo) e quindi far piovere!
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@las_lallero @Paolo Redaelli e invece qualcosa c'è stato!
(io non stavo credendo all'iconcina ma all'animazione su meteosvizzera.admin.ch/home.ht… , ma sì, noi crediamo sempre alla meteo)
Oh sì ha piovuto (mi sono appena alzata). Effetti sulla temperatura (anche notturna): 0. Uhm.
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how do we get the local crematory to run the bodies through a fremen deathstill to reclaim their water before they incinerate the rest? I mean, it's not like they are going to use it, are they?
come si fa a convincere il crematorio locale a far passare i corpi da un deathstill¹ fremen per reclamare la loro acqua prima di cremare il resto? Intendo, non è che se ne fanno più niente, no?
¹ non ho idea di come sia stato tradotto in italiano, sorry
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TIL: la cedrata tassoni con dentro un pizzico di sale è buona.
(oppure sono disidratata e ne avevo bisogno :D )
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From this little notebook I have in my lap, I can get high resolution photos of deep space, or scans of mosaic work done in pompeii 2000 years ago, or watch a silent film made in mexico in 1927, or read a novel published in the 1850s, or listen to a radio broadcast of a baseball game played in 1935, or watch an 8 hour train ride through the european countryside, or see pictures or video of Machu Picchu.
All of these things are at my fingertips.
And I mostly use it to read words that make me sad and angry while also making money for rich people.
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Today's #solarOven experiment was an apple *thing* (too much sugar for a sauce, probably too little to make it keep like a preserve): 130 g pureed apples and 40 g sugar, white in one jar, muscovado in the other.
In theory, I believe that if I heated the jars in the solar oven the day before, filled them to the top instead of just halfway, and fully closed the lid (maybe for the last hour or so of cooking) it should be safe for preserving (maybe also with a bit more sugar), since everything has been at pasteurization temperatures for hours. In practice, this one is going in the fridge, and I don't think it's going to survive much more than two days :D
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L'esperimento di oggi con il #fornoSolare è stata una *cosa* di mele (troppo zucchero per essere una composta, troppo poco per essere una marmellata): 130 g di mele tritate e 40 g di zucchero, bianco e in un barattolo e mascobado nell'altro.
In teoria credo che scaldando i barattoli nel forno solare il giorno prima, riempiendoli fino all'orlo anziché solo a metà e chiudendo del tutto il tappo (magari solo per l'ultima oretta di cottura) dovrebbe essere conservabile (magari mettendo anche un po' più di zucchero), dato che è stato tutto a temperature di pastorizzazione per ore. In pratica, questo finisce nel frigo, e non credo che sopravviverà molto più di due giorni :D
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Will I be able to have pasta with a warm sauce either this evening or tomorrow evening?
a badly taken picture of a pot of tomato sauce inside a solar oven
I don't have a good place to use the #solarOven in the middle of the day (I get direct sun from around 13:30 daylight saving time), and today it's a bit overcast, but the temperature probe below the pot has been above 65°C for a few hours now.
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Filed under: yakshaving, I guess?
Today I decided I wanted to resume working on a #python script to generate an svg file for a piecepack set from a template and svgs of the suites, which is something I've been working on and (mostly) off for ages.
What I did today:
* did a bit of cleanup in the directory where I thought the script was (it wasn't)
* moved an unrelated script (to generate a template for telescoping boxes) which *was* in the above directory to the repository where I was actually working on the piecepack script
* did the initial release on pypy of my library to write command line commands (which at the moment is basically just what I had in lesana, extracted in a way that is general purpose).
Not sure whether I should have a feeling of accomplishment (I *did* things that were in the queue for months) or lack of :D
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Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the "Golden Age of the Poster" (1880-1918)
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Download 200+ Belle Époque Art Posters: An Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918)
Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth: what a time and place to be alive.Colin Marshall (Open Culture)
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Tips for dealing with extreme heat that I've learned as a cold-blooded Welsh pluviophile living in the arid hellscape that is South Africa;
* Soak your feet in a tub of cold water.
-- Better if you've got a fan pointed in your general direction; soak your feet until they acclimatise to the water temperature, remove feet and let the fan cool your wet feet down with evaporation, place feet back in water, repeat.
(1/?)
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I'm not 100% happy with it: it is quite heavy, so it's probably not really confortable to use (or at least to carry around), but using a thinner wool probably wouldn't be sturdy enough. Also, the felting isn't very regular.
However, it is usable, so I'm calling it done, and will use it at home.
And move on to the next attempt at making AllTheFauxdori. because I'm absolutely not obsessed with those, right?
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@Samuele I tend to write *small*: sometimes I even use a preppy 02 upside down to get a smaller line, afaik german nibs tend to be significantly bigger than japanese ones.
Also, everybody I've heard talking about Lamy's nibs says that they are all great, except for the EF ones
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La polenta è polenta solo quando la si può tagliare col filo!
Altrimenti è hummus di mais.
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I may have just sent this to my #crocheting mom
archive.org/details/artofcroch…
and her response wasn't “no way”.
maybe we'll both forget about it before the autumn (it's just not something that can be worked during the summer), maybe I'll crochet-nerd-sniper her again. BUAHAHAHAHAH :D
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And isn't the knitted shell insertion from archive.org/details/artofcroch… nice too?
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Per dire, eh. 😉
5uie1 :slackware: :emacs:
in reply to ren • • •#calligraphy was even discussed on the #fediverse. I've done a bit of
Copperplate and a bit of #lithogrpahy styled drawings using both a
straight and oblique. Would love to follow this thread.
ren
in reply to 5uie1 :slackware: :emacs: • • •I tend to favor ink drawings myself, with calligraphy pens being my favorite tool for it, though I'm not very skilled at calligraphy. I've done a bit with foundational hand, though it's been a long while.
I think I also remember @welshpixie doing some calligraphy (and some really cool mandalas as well), if you want to check out what she does.
Calligrafae
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