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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Now something to make it round.

yewtu.be/watch?v=uNn6q0TXdDM

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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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#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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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. :)

#MastoArt #CreativeToots

#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).

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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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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_…

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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)

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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…

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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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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)

@Bevilacqua Gustavino

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…

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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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 interessa cerco di contattare il produttore direttamente, senza intermediari: sul loro sito, per e-mail, al telefono.
monodes.com/predaelli/2021/12/…
#Ethics

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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.



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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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…

perma.cc/SXZ6-58JV

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

mondo-artista.it/stencil-per-a…

@Rapita dagli alieni @Yaku

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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.)

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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?

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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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Making a green screen dress by Shay (Instagram @cresentshay)

#dressmaking #greenscreen #fashion

Filed under: catastropheeeeeee

Friday I was finally able to go to the closest #LYS (the last time had been in autumn 2019, because it's not that close), and I've discovered that they no longer make my favourite #yarn suitable for felting.

Obviously, I may have had to buy just a bit of what they still had.

(picture of eight 100g / 85 m balls of yarn in mauve (4 balls), light desaturated blue (2 balls) and red (2 balls), in a weight suitable for knitting with 5-5.5 mm needle)

#yarn #LYS
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Dear developers, emails can have a + sign before the @ and it's perfectly valid (and in fact, many characters outside of a-z0-9 can be used)

Having a message "your email is invalid" because of the + sign is really a problem to me.

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I've started to play with the DeAtramentis Document CMYK #inks (or maybe CMYW?).

My aim is to get an ink shade that coordinates with the fabric in one of my dresses (everybody needs that, right?), so I took a couple of pictures of that fabric (in different lights), checked the CMYK values of the pixels with gimp and found results that were always something somewhat close to 50% 30% 0% <various K values>, so my first attempt was 3 parts of Cyan, 2 parts of Fuchsia and 7 parts of white, and this is the result, on various papers (Favini schizza e strappa, printer paper from the coop supermarket, Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis Blanc 55 g/m², Fabriano Layout, Fabriano EcoQua, Fabriano Traccia — most of them are white, the EcoQua has a slight yellow tone).



I've also tried to add one part of Cyan to two parts of White, and then one part of Blue (regular blue, not the one that can be used to make CMYK mixes) to two parts of white to see whether it would control their tendency to feather and generally work horribly, and it does. I also like the shade I got from the Blue, and it's somewhat similar to the one I'm looking for (and easier to make), but I like the CMYK a bit more.

I think that the next time I'll add 8 parts of white instead of 7, to desaturate it just a bit more.

And now¹ I need full bottles of those 3 inks (instead of just samples) to make a decent sized batch, and a new preppy #FountainPen to try and use this somewhere that is easy to clean (I'm not completely sure that the white isn't going to clog pens, even in a mix).

¹ as in: I NEED them RIGHT NOW, so maybe I'll consider buying them next year or so? As soon as I can manage to finish maybe at least one bottle of ink I already have?

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You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book.

Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK.

You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. >

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The loom had to make tiny movements on the scale of a TENTH of a millimetre producing tthe 400x400 resolution per inch². The woven sheets were then glued over super thin cardboard to allow the pages to be turned.

It took two years of trial and error to get the first book done.

It might be the first book produced by a program? Depends on what you mean by "program", but there's a good case to be made. (see next toot for sources)

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I found out about this from Twitter, via twitter.com/PiersatPenn/status…, and foud the detail picture above from twitter.com/DrKarrSchmidt/stat….

See historyofinformation.com/detai… for more details and sources, and youtube.com/watch?v=2hk5500VK2… to see the punch cards.

It's November, and I've finally managed to do something I've always wanted to do, but always postponed because by the time I remembered about it it was too late.

I've generated my own #weeklyPlanner for the year 2022!

Right now the script hardcodes pretty much everything, and the template is pretty simple, but hopefully next year I will improve on it.

The script is weekly_planner_generator.py from git.trueelena.org/software/pdf… (it can simply be run as e.g. LANG=it_IT-UTF-8 ./weekly_planner_generator.py, and then a6_book.py can be used to get a pdf that can be printed on A4 paper for binding.

Some examples of the results are on paste.trueelena.org/QCigPUM3#w… (this link will self-destroy in one year, but by that time one will need a planner for 2023, not 2022, right? :D )

Yesterday evening I was playing briscola with my SO: on my first hand I got the trump queen¹. And then I spent most of the rest of the game being distracted by her dress, trying to think how to make it.

For some strange reason, I lost :D

¹ we were using lombard cards, which have french suits

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non ho capito nulla di quello che hai scritto, ma stavo solo tentando di imparare a fare delle cosine semplicisssssssssime di patchwork (avevo comprato in edicola una serie di riviste per imparare le basi) ma poco tempo da dedicargli e zero macchina per cucire (a mano sono una frana) hanno fatto sì che mettessi tutto da parte :blobcatfacepalm:
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zero waste si riferisce al fatto di disegnare cartamodelli che si incastrano alla perfezione per usare ogni pezzetto di stoffa (o al più lasciare ritagli rettangolari, se la stoffa non è della dimensione giusta). È ancora più difficile che non disegnare cartamodelli normali, soprattutto se si vogliono fare vestiti che non siano sacchi informi.

E ovviamente è più difficile che non farsi vestiti usando dei cartamodelli esistenti.

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Cucire a mano non è difficile, lo può fare una bambina di 6 anni!

Purché alla suddetta bambina sia stato messo in mano un ago quando di anni ne aveva 4, e sia stata costretta a fare esercizio tutti i giorni nel frattempo :D

(seriamente: sì, richiede pratica. poi dopo un po' scatta la cosa e diventa facile e rilassante)

Per la categoria #mastoSogni, stanotte un'amica di famiglia mi ha rivelato quale fosse il cheat code per far apparire i gradini/sgabelli/scalette/quei cosi insomma per raggiungere il ripiano più alto dei supermercati.

Purtroppo non mi ricordo più quale fosse il codice, né come si faceva ad inserirlo IRL :(

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Mi narrò un compagno, magazziniere in un piccolo supermarket locale, che un collega legaiolo, per farsi bello in presenza del capo e di alcuni clienti, redarguì le cassiere dicendo che erano lente.

Il padrone (uno che sa che i dipendenti trattati bene rendono di più) gli lesse la vita, ricordandogli quali erano i suoi compiti (scaricar bancali, riempire scaffali… e basta!) e invitando le cassiere a telefonargli personalmente se ci fossero stati "problemi".

Figura di merda 1-0!

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Bad social media gives you an audience: stuff like reach, personality/celebrity, spectacle, anxiety, alienation, competition.

Good social media gives you community: it’s more like voice, agency, discussion, comradery.

I want a community, not an audience.

Il video del mio talk sul #fediverso al #LinuxDay2021 è stato pubblicato sul fediverso :D (PeerTube).

@Gruppo Linux Como @LIFO

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Ah, dimenticavo.

Non so bene come/se/dove/quando pubblicarlo, ma per preparare il talk ho scritto un testo che non corrisponde esattamente a quanto detto, ma ci assomiglia abbastanza

git.trueelena.org/docs/talks/t…

Dato che le probabilità che io produca dei sottotitoli fatti bene per un mio talk sono estremamente basse, per varie ragioni, magari può essere utile a qualcuno.

(Se poi qualcuno ha voglia di sottotitolare il video originale come si deve, ha tutta la mia gratitudine.)

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Ci sono dei programmi apposta (iirc quello che avevo usato anni fa è aegisub) con cui si può trascrivere quello che viene detto nel video e salvarlo associandolo al momento preciso in cui viene detto.

Poi il file che viene generato è un file di testo in un formato apposta, che si può caricare in vlc o simili (anzi, se ha lo stesso nome del file, salvo l'estensione, vlc lo carica automaticamente.

Non so se peertube permetta di caricare file di sottotitoli, devo ancora guardarci.

So che esiste anche una piattaforma online per farlo in modo collaborativo, ma credo che ci voglia del setup, avevo visto che avevano provato a farlo per i video di una debconf, qualche anno fa.

Il grosso del lavoro però è trascrivere e allineare al minuto giusto, che di solito richiede tanto tempo in più rispetto alla durata del video.

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puoi creare dei file di testo in uno dei formati supportati da VLC, e chiamare il file con lo stesso nome (senza estensione) del video. VLC lo trova da solo.

se invece vuoi conoscere com’e fatto il formato del file, puoi prenderti dei sottotitoli qualunque (magari da opensubtitles.org) e dedurlo.

il problema non è tanto scrivere a manina un file di testo, quanto shiftare i time offset a manina! ci sono dei sw per la creazione dei sottotitoli:

linuxlinks.com/subtitleeditors…

@valhalla

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Come dice @Sabrina Web , diventa problematico quando i sottotitoli da distribuire sono in più di una lingua, e tenendo il file a parte si da la possibilità di non avere i sottotitoli a chi li trova una distrazione.

Oltre al fatto che se uno vuole può leggersi il file dei sottotitoli come transcript, evitando di doversi guardare tutto il video.

E che il file separato potrebbe essere indicizzato per delle ricerche, il disegno dei sottotitoli integrato nel video no.

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Forse l'unico problema può essere con i cosiddetti "smart tv" (che proprio smart non sono) che accettano un numero ridotto di formati video via USB e non credo leggano sottotitoli (devo provarci col mio), cosa che ti costringe a portarti dietro anche un laptop.

Sarebbe bello non avere l'uno *O* l'altro metodo, ma l'uno *E* l'altro.

Un po' di sbattimento in più per chi fa il video, ma neppure più di tanto, e si fanno felici molti più utenti.

My new row counter for #knitting short rows toes and heels! (yes, it is quite specific)

It's an old toy: a white plastic board with holes at regular spaces and coloured pegs that were used to draw some kind of computer-free pixel art.

Instead, I've added a strip of paper with the number of stitches on each row (and whether it's knits or purls), I use four pegs to mark the beginning and end of the current toe/heel, and I mark every row as I knit it by moving other pegs around, first to one side of the strip of paper and then to the other side.

I still think that something like this would be really nice in wood and brass, but this has the huge advantage of actually existing right now :D

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Some charcoal pencil and smudge stick magic later ^.^ Copic & Sakura multiliners, Pilot Parallel calligraphy pen with Ecoline black ink, and charcoal on smooth heavyweight cold press 300gm paper, A4 size (the mandala itself is 20cm diameter).

I'm about to scan it - if you'd like a high-res digital copy to print from home, $10 USD to paypal.me/delsdoodles or ko-fi.com/welshpixie and give me your email address ^.^)

((Not selling the physical piece because postage issues))

#MastoArt

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