TIL: The Mondeluz #watercolours from Koh-I-Noor seem to be the same watercolours as the White Night from St. Petersburg ones.
At least, the one random pan I bought (raw umber) has the same number and pigments as the corresponding White Night, it is made “in cooperation with” the producer of the White Night and it has their logo at the bottom of the pan.
I've never tried the White Night ones for a comparison, however.
And it is a full pan, something I couldn't find on the web site before buying.
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If you want to get angry at the modern internet, try and make something and give it away for free.
Look at how many things you have to either dodge or hoops you have to jump through in order to do something nice, without involving BigAnything or MonetizeEverything.
When you're done, try imagining doing all of this as a person who never learned to be the technical person you are. Someone interesting with interesting, or even important, things to say.
Let's figure out how to fix this.
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Uops, I forgot to post a picture of the @Gruppo Linux Como lake penguin
no, it's not perfect, and I should practice a bit more, but the LUG t-shirts are close to becoming a *thing*.
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Today I drove my mother and a neighbor to a fabric shop.
And I bought the bit of cotton canvas suitable to make a couple of bags / backpacks to be screenprinted, exactly as I had planned to do.
And I absolutely have not bought a full dress and a couple of waists. Not even if the goods were really good quality at an exceedingly affordable price.
I did resist buying broadcloth for the skirt that will go with those waists, because black broadcloth is something I'm always going to find, and first I need to make the whole set of underthings for it.
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And I've taken a picture; the brown one is for my mother.
(3 small bolts of fabric in light brown, red and almost electric blue, seen from the side)
And I forgot to mention that there may also have been a cut of black lace, probably enough for an overskirt and to decorate a shirtwaist, and I didn't take a picture either (uops).
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TIL: a collection of icons for #games, under the CC-BY license
(found on ludism.org/ppwiki/SteampunkPie… , which. which. I. need. that.)
Hidden in their mountains, the Swiss have power plants that run on Balrog's fire.
Prove me wrong.
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Too Italian; Didn't Read: offer of a postcard with COMMIE stamp to Italian addresses
L'altro giorno son stata dal tabaccaio a prendere qualche francobollo, e mi han dato quelli commemorativi del congresso di Livorno del 1921.
Ora, visto che è febbraio¹, qualcuno del fediverso italiano² è interessato a ricevere una cartolina scritta a mano con un francobollo COMUNISCHTA?
Offerta limitata al numero di francobolli che ho preso meno il numero di lettere che già devo spedire in Italia :D
¹ #InCoWriMo
² secondo la definizione di Italia delle poste, ovvero con indirizzo di consegna in Italia, San Marino e Vaticano³.
³ e se qualcuno ha l'indirizzo di consegna in Vaticano, bonus point per il LOL.
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The pad is A3 size, but it is kept together with rings and there is a line of microperforations to remove a sheet from the pad outside the ring area.
And this means that after being cut, each sheet is slightely shorter than A3, and can't be cut in e.g. 8 A6 sheets.
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TFW you write something with visudo so that you know that it will work, then you copy it in ansible, run the ansible playbook, and it breaks.
And then you open the file that ansible has written with visudo, save it with no changes, and it works.
And you spend hours trying to understand what happened.
And then it was a missing newline at the end of the file.
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Se sei infastidito da quello che sta facendo #Signal, non passare alla prossima app centralizzata, tendono tutte a fare una brutta fine dopo un po' e non puoi farci niente.
Usa invece una soluzione decentralizzata, come #XMPP, #Matrix o #Deltachat
I protocolli federati come questi permettono a tutti di poter scegliere il server a cui connettersi o avere un proprio server interconnesso come succede con le #email
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if your App has posts or some sort of content with a date displayed as X minutes/hours/days/etc ago then hovering on that should show the absolute date
nobody want's to do date math in their head to find out when something was posted....
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Experimental #screenPrint, day I've lost count :D
Art print on quality paper in a suitable mediu… no, really, more like in-joke from an IRC channel, printed on red MÅLA paper in negative with a grainy white area of paint all around it.
Anybody wants the original? only one copy, it's going to sell for a lot of money when I'll become famous :D
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For the experimental bit: I've forgot to take a picture of the screen, it's the same one made with curtain fabric from social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… , painted with PVA glue and a bit of craft acrylic paint.
While washing the screen, I've tried at first to scrub it from the back, and I believe that the paint was going away while keeping the glue in place to reuse it for another edition. I would have to test whether that's true, however. Then I've moved on to scrubbing from the front, and that easily removed the glue, so that the fabric can be used for different prints.
Qualcuna di voi ha schemi di bambole amigurumi che siano carine? RT gradito 🥰
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Today's #screenPrint results were… let's just say it's important to talk about them to prevent publication bias :D
I've spent yesterday evening painstakingly painting a QR-code on curtain fabric with PVA glye (and a bit of acrylic paint added to know what I was doing).
and then today I tried to use it, but it's definitely not clear enough to work
with the white bit way too grainy for any phone / computer to recognize the pattern.
On the plus side, the paint I'm using (marabu textil print) washes easily (with some rubbing) when it's still fresh, so I haven't wasted the scrap of fabric I was using. It may be a sign that it's not going to be as resistant to future washing (after heat setting) as other fabric paint I've used, which is less good, but while doing random experiments it's fine.
Also, while washing the screen the glue went away, which it didn't on the homesewing screen: I'm not sure whether it's the acrylic paint, the fact that it was relatively fresher (less than 24 hours) or the fact that when I washed it I scrubbed it as if I didn't care whether the glue survived or not, while I was more careful with the homesewing screen.
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I knew that there was this risk, and that the right way to print a qr-code is to get some proper screen fabric etc., so I'm not too sad about the result.
But I had to try, and it had to be with a qr-code (I could have started with a smaller one, however :D )
And I know that the right way to print things like these is to buy proper screen fabric etc., but I'm not going to do that for some time yet (right? :D )
Tonight I dreamt I was in the town centre with a friend; in a shop we saw an expensive bracelet made of a strip of fake leather with a button and an ugly print, and she asked me if I could #screenPrint something else over it. Of course I could.
And by that, what she actually meant was to make a similar bracelet in snappap (latex paper), with a screen printed design for a fraction of the cost.
And then I woke up. and I may accidentally found a leftover strip of snappap that is just the right width for a bracelet.
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Step 1: cutting the bracelet and printing it: done
(picture of a long and thin rectangle of light brown latex paper with rounded corners and a square logo printed in black at about a third of the lenght)
Step 2: patiently wait until it's completely dry (probably overnight) before ironing
are we there yet? and yet? and yet? and…
Now something to make it round.
The Rollenator! (Ring Roller Build)
Building a small bench top ring roller. This video follows through on Bushing & Gears (https://youtu.be/PFqjQ3l1MRA) and Acme Tap (https://youtu.be/L3rINJWcmbA). Check those out if you find yourself wondering where some of these parts came from.Invidious
step 3: heat set done. rubbing test done (on another bit of paper :D ), it doesn't rub away easily. And added a button.
(Pictures of a bracelet of light brown latex paper with a square logo printed in black and a black plastic snap, open flat and closed in bracelet form).
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Dear lazyweb,
is it me not being able to do an internet search, or is there no logo for #RightToRepair?
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#screenPrint! All! The! Things!, weekend 2
The attempt at a two-colours print, using a stencil cut in plastic rather than paper (to make it reusable) will have to wait until tomorrow, when I'll do the second colour.
Today there was also another thing, however:
This is a screen made with old curtain fabric painted with white (PVA) glue and a round embroidery hook, and…
it worked!
It isn't the neatest print, it's grainy and there are a few spots outside of the image where the glue didn't fill all of the fabric holes, so I'm not going to stop using the real screen any time soon, but it is A Look, and it's a look that I like, for some specific things.
And this “home sewing is killing fashion” graphic with a sewing machine with teeth and crossed bones that I've found ages ago on the internet(TM) is exactly the kind of things for which this look is fitting. I had to cut the rest of the text, however (it was “and it's -il-legal”, with the il crossed) because it was too small for the resolution of the screen.
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And I've found where the logo came from! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… and boplogg.blogspot.com/2006/12/h…
I had taken notes on the source, I had just misplaced them :D
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Finished! :D
This is a Carl Sagan quote; "A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way."
Hand-drawn on 300gm smooth heavyweight paper with a variety of pens and inks.
I'll be putting a scanned version (alas it'll lose some of the metallic shine) on my Ko-Fi shop soon for people to buy as a digital print. :)
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#screenPrint ALL THE THINGS!!!!
(pictures of two black furoshiki with screen prints on the corners: one is a debian swirl made of cat paw prints, in magenta, and the other one is my seal in light blue; on the furoshiki with my seal there is also a cut from an old pair of jeans, with the same design screen printed on the back pocket)
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Un furoshiki è un telo giapponese per avvolgere $COSE, tipo regali, schiscette, la spesa o — in Giappone — anche gli abiti mentre si è nei bagni termali.
E in caso di bisogno, vien comodo anche come foulard, o un sacco di altre cose.
(fondamentalmente è un quadrato di stoffa orlato di dimensioni varie, questo è circa 70 cm di lato, ovvero metà dell'altezza della stoffa che ho usato)
Yesterday evening I watched this: youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040… (Irving Finkel and Tom Scott playing the royal game of Ur)
On my desktop, I may have accidentally had this:
(picture of two rubber stamps inspired by the rosette on the famous royal game of Ur board)
And so, today, this may have happened:
(picture of a minimalistic board for said game, with squares printed on a sheet of paper, the important squares marked with a rosette from the above stamps, 7 + 7 piecepack coins from white (black) and red suites (from a french suits variant, so that there are 7 coins in the same colour) and four standard d4).
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And I've lost the first match against @Diego Roversi , but I still recommend this game, because it's really fun!
Irving Finkel may have been right about Mesopotamian deities and calling your numbers, btw. Don't. not even once. Trust me :D
TooItalian;DR: Tonight I had a funny dream with references to the Italian fediverse
Stanotte mi son sognata di essere in stazione centrale a Milano, poco prima dell'orario di punta, quando già iniziava a riempirsi, e vicino ad uno dei binari laterali c'era un *grosso* cinghiale, lungo un paio di metri, accompagnato da un ratto albino.
La persona che c'era con me gli ha fatto una foto usando l'app della polizia locale per segnalare cinghiali e l'ho accusato di essere un delatore e amico degli sbirri.
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#puntoevirgola
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This picture of a data storage facility that contains punched cars.
My estimate is that we're looking at about 2 GB of data.
It doesn't take that much space these days.
I just noticed that Mastodon doesn't pick up the correct photo. The link is supposed to be the one at the end of that page
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I suspect that's because direct links to the images on wikipedia pages like that one only work with javascript enabled, I also had to scroll down to find it.
And once found, the picture is rather impressive, indeed.
Who can guess what happened today? (requires quite some local context knowledge)
Chi indovina cosa è successo oggi? (richiede una discreta conoscenza di contesto locale)
Vaccino, non tampone, e no, la statua è dentro all'ospedale (una volta era di fianco al padiglione che era stato donato all'ospedale in sua memoria).
Già che ero lì in giro ho fatto un po' di foto nel caso in cui quest'anno sia la volta buona che mi metto a lavorare su un vestito così.
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c'era posto oggi, oppure tra più di una settimana. chissà come mai :D
comunque, domani è giornata in cui tradizionalmente si dorme, no? :D se anche c'è un motivo in più per farlo, poco male :D
(per il vestito, ho una coda di un bel po' di altre cose prima, ma intanto mi son portata avanti con le foto)
We're running a poll on our website to learn more about the #pinephone community. It is 9 questions long and shouldn't take you more than 2 minutes to fill in.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
pine64.org/2021/12/29/pinephon…
PinePhone community poll | PINE64
People pick up a PinePhone for the freedom to choose an operating system, to enjoy privacy by default, and to truly own the device they purchase. From the moment a PinePhone departs from our warehouse…PINE64
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Calling us "an open alternative to Lightroom" gives the impression that we're trying to match Lightroom feature for feature, but we're not some knock off. We do things our own way, we have feature that Lightroom doesn't have and we lack some features that Lightroom does have.
We're a RAW editing application.
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@sandzwerg You don't need to match something feature by feature to be an alternative.
A bike is an alternative to taking a bus, but that doesn't mean it has to have the same features and it doesn't have to work for everyone.
But it's comparable and has a reasonable amount of overlap in functionality.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
But in terms of messaging, @darktable has a point.
My mother, today, just before lunch: “please, set the table. everything is already there”
Me, mock scandalized: “but these are meat knives and forks! we're having fish!”
I mean. The bare minimum decency!
(No, we didn't have guests or anything, she just had decided to use the fancy cutlery because a) Christmas time b) it goes in the dishwasher anyway)
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You wanted to work on deciphering linear A? here there are a couple of books (and a few others on related subjects) :D
crewsproject.wordpress.com/cre…
CREWS Publications
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach Natalia Elvira Astoreca 2021. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789257434. Open access version (CC BY) The Early Greek Alphabets Edited by Robert Parker and Phi…crewsproject.wordpress.com
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I just did a new #lesana release, Christmas edition! (not really, just "some spare time before Christmas, and a release was way overdue")
pypi.org/project/lesana/0.9.0/
and by overdue, I really mean it, the changelog is the longest one
lists.sr.ht/~valhalla/lesana-a…
Updated packages are coming soon-ish to a debian distribution near you
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#Ethics
https://monodes.com/predaelli/2021/12/24/9001/
Altre persone vanno nei negozi a scegliere e poi comprano su Amazon. Io Amazon lo uso al contrario: scelgo anche su Amazon, e compro nei negozi o dal produttore; quando trovo qualcosa che mi intere…Paolo Redaelli
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Alternative ad Amazon
Iniziative come il Prime Day e il Black Friday speculano sui lavoratori e sul pianeta. È secondo noi importante usare alternative ad Amazonskariko (Le Alternative)
I'm following too many people and I need to cleanup my timeline and my contact list a bit to make them more manageable, so in the next few days I will unfollow some people.
If you get an unfollow from me, sorry, it may be because I don't see enough posts from you, because I see too many, or a number of semi-random other reasons.
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I made a "sub-home" (a list), a sort of "best of", with the part of the people I follow tooting interesting things not too often, to avoid to have to unfollow someone.
When I'm in a hurry I read it rather than the normal home.
Hello diaspora* friends,I have an unusual request. To get this request fulfilled by someone on diaspora* would be about 1 chance in a billion! But, let's give it a try...
I need a photo of the Southern Railway depot in the town of Valdese, NC. The photo should be, preferably from the 1950s, but 1940s or 1960s will be okay, since ole timey train depot's changed very little over the years.
Please share this message with your diaspora* friends and any other social media platforms that you use.
Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas.
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In Valdese, NC, there is the "PIEDMONT and WESTERN RAILROAD CLUB
and OLD ROCK SCHOOL RAILWAY MUSEUM".
Maybe they have something useful.
said: "I need a photo of the Southern Railway depot in the town of Valdese, NC."
This was a fun challenge to find an historic image. The clue is the Waldensian colony that became 'Valdese'. A history of that Christian settlers' group includes a faded photo of the train depot. :)
"A Waldensian Colony in the United States"
archive.org/details/waldensian…
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This is an archive of http://divinityarchive.com/bitstream/handle/11258/11669/waldensiancolony00sylv.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y from Monday 03, August 2020perma.cc
No, ma è un complotto. Mai avuto a che fare con cose del genere fino all'altro giorno, oggi stavo facendo window shopping di materiali artistici, e guarda un po' cosa mi salta fuori
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Don't criticize users for using Windows, criticize application developers for writing programs that only work on Windows, and FLOSS system developers for building systems that are difficult to use.
Don't criticize users for using Chrome, criticize developers for building sites that only work in Chrome, and Mozilla for making Firefox less and less attractive with their stupid off-target projects.
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Even more, perhaps criticise Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. for being the horrible 'stewards' that they are. (Even developers are somewhat at the mercy of such megacorps.)
And criticise governments for allowing private corporations to have such control over critical ecosystems.
(But, yes, definitely end users are not appropriate targets for criticism.)
Yes, given the current economic situations, really even criticising corporations is almost like criticising rabid dogs for being rabid.
reminder that NIST 800-63b recommends
- allowing all printing ascii characters
- allowing unicode
- normalizing unicode using NFKC or NFKD prior to hashing
- using a password-strength meter (presumably based on estimated entropy) instead of having composition rules
- not forcing periodic password changes
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I was searxing for the various kinds of hat stiffeners and how to use them.
I've found hatsupply.com/leko-purpose-sti… “ok, this is a solvent based one if it has shipping restrictions, let's read on” (it was, it is shellac solution in alcohol, ok, that's one of the options I've found about, fine) and then. this.
Our Hat Stiffener that comes in the gallon jugs, is 190 proof alcohol! This means that if you spray it on your straw or felt hats it will sanitize them giving you and your customers extra protection!!!
on a scale of 10 to 11, how 2020 is this?
Shellac (Italian "gommalacca") is a XXI century plastic!
XXI century A.C., I mean 😄
And it's not strictly vegan.
TIL it's probably vegetarian, however (I knew it came from an insect, and I had little hopes for the survival of the insect itself :D )
also, it would be interesting to know how they used it before the availability of distilled alcohol... oh, right, heat (first result on searx, and I've only read half of the first section :) journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfp… )
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RT of @cakesandcourage on the birdsite:
"a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly"
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I have a slightly different version of this specifically for when people who are Not Computer are surprised to see me having computer problems:
“Computers hate everyone, but I know their secrets and that means they hate me _personally_.”
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an ephemeral fille
in reply to Russ Sharek • • •Anyone with a book or other form of literature they want to publish and distribute for free can contact kat@invicious.net and provide the text file(s) along with the name they want attached to it, etc
We've made aberrata.net/epress to be an always-free, no-bullshit online publishing group
Mainly to satisfy my intense love of typesetting stuff
Aberrant ePress
aberrata.netRuss Sharek
in reply to Russ Sharek • • •I had a combination of interest, opportunity, and outright priviledge to make it possible for me to learn about technology despite it not being my job.
That isn't everyone's story, and I'm interested in more ways to make it possible to share things without the person who didn't learn this stuff having to be exploited to do so.