it! could! work!
(a picture of a somewhat crumbly dough in a glass container)
I've successfully reproduced baker's #yeast following the instructions (in Italian) on vivalafocaccia.com/ricette/ric… (web.archive.org/web/2020041907…) and the linked videos youtube.com/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1V… (invidio.us/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1VY) plus youtube.com/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1… (invidio.us/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1A).
The basics are: mix 25 g fresh yeast (or 8g dry, which is what I used) and 25 g water, add 60 g flour, knead a bit and put in the fridge (low temperature is important) in an airtight container (low oxygen is the other important factor) for at least 24 hours. Use in the following week, and start again from the last 25 g.
It smells definitely like baker's yeast (as opposed to sourdough) and the bread I've made with it has risen as expected.
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@Ondiz I've received this (via xmpp) and for some *strange* reason I thought about your italian lessons :D
(image is a screenshot of a post by some Claudio Marinaccio with the following contents:
"C'è la faremo" = Il signor La Faremo è presente.
"Ce l'ha faremo" = Faremo è in possesso di qualcosa.
"Ce la fa remo" = Remo riuscirà a fare qualcosa.
"Cela faremo" = Qualcuno nasconde Faremo.
Ce la faremo?
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se però li si vede come modi possibili per separare un hashtag scritto in sole minuscole (come viene scritto di solito fuori da mastodon e dal fediverso), tutto torna :)
the palindromic prime 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, named after #Belphegor, one of the seven princes of Hell. Belphegor's Prime consists of the number 666, on either side enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one. Belphegor's Prime is an example of a beastly #palindromic #prime in which a prime p is palindromic with 666 in the center. #calculotrivia #maths #Math
A few days ago I found out that the shop I buy kitchen appliance from is making home deliveries (this is still allowed under our lockdown rules for any kind of product), so I decided to buy the pasta machine I've been wanting to buy for quite some time (everybody in our household is still working, from home, so I wanted to spend some money in the local economy).
Yesterday we called them to order… and about two hours later we had a shiny, new, pasta machine: take that amazon and next day deliveries!
(ok, it was just a lucky accident: they already had a delivery scheduled to our area — and they have known us long enough to trust us with delivery before the payment had cleared — it's not going to happen a second time)
(in this context, the real advantage over amazon is that this involved the shop owner preparing and delivering the package safely on her own, rather than underpaid workers risking contagion in an unsafe warehouse)
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Last time we had #pizza, some of the dough got wrapped around a diced apple (one quarter of a big apple per roll).
I think this is going to happen every time we have pizza, at least as long as renetta apples are available (probably not very long, since they are a winter variety).
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The stores here were selling out for a few days, but quickly adjusted their truckloads. There was supply every day. After a few days they weren't ever selling out.
Hoarders turned to flour next, but that's fixed, so now there is no yeast! Or isopropyl.
Plenty of bog roll though!
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Locked down because of the Corona epidemic, schools in northern Italy’s South Tyrol have moved to online classes thanks to BigBlueButton, an open source webconferencing solution. ICT service providers...
I did this one of the first days of the lockdown, but I only took pictures a couple of days ago a sami-style leather pouch from an old (and quite ugly) leather jacket¹ and some red felt I had around:
I browsed through a number of search results for “sami style leather pouch” and drafted my own (very simple) pattern; I'm afraid I've lost the links I used.
My SO mentioned that it looks like pouch of gold coins from fantasy games, but the real contents are much more preciooouuuusss:
(the biggest, heavier steel washers I could find in the local DIY stores, that I use as pattern weights)
¹ that I got for free under the menace “if you don't come to take this (and other perfectly working things, including some almost-new garments) I'm going to throw everything away”
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Inspired by an article that @Fabio wrote, I spent this afternoon configuring an nginx to serve video streams.
Almost everything works, except that apparently my letsencrypt configuration has broken (aaargh). Well, it can still be used with a non-matching certificate until I get to fix it.
And then I tried to install OBS Studio, and discovered that my laptop is too old, and it doesn't even try to load.
:(
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maybe. I'm not sure if I have the motivation to go down that sinkhole.
At the moment I don't really have plans for any kind of streaming; it was just something cool to do together-ish with the lug.
Then I got more interested in extracting the information than in actually reading it for a while, because... I'm like that.
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The crones huddled in their secluded hut, brewing merrily.They startled as a voice called from the entrance, "Are you well?"
"We are," said one.
"For now," said another.
"Supplies are running a bit low," mentioned the third.
"I can fetch what you need," offered the voice.
"What do you wish in return?"
"The secret to your health."
They agreed, gave the list and it was fulfilled.
"So what is your secret?"
"Wash your hands; now go."
Non sai che server #jitsi scegliere? Su iorestoacasa.work metti il nome della stanza e poi il isto ti assegnerà il server più libero #softwarelibero
RT @wolfwithdances@twitter.comDecided to keep a local copy of reference essentials just in case anything disconnects us. All of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Project Gutenberg's eBooks, and some Linux distributions. That's it there, on my pinky.
The world may be terrifying these days, but it's still kind of amazing.
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GREAT NEWS!
#pleroma #pixelfed #peertube #writefreely and .... more?The Debian social team aims to run a few services under the debian.social domain. Our goal is to create a safe space for Debian contributors (whether their project members or not) to share what they're doing in the project and to showcase their work, collaborate with others and share knowledge. Just like planet Debian, it's completely fine for these platforms to have a personal touch, however, our goal is not to create any kind of social network per sé.
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Amazing #cosplay of Pepper —the heros of my webcomic— by Duda, 11y/o, Brazil. Blog-post: davidrevoy.com/article758/pepp…
#InCoWriMo wrapup...
#InCoWriMo has finished, time for a bit of wrapup.
On feb 20th I had written 21 letters, which a) was my bare minimum objective b) meant that I was perfectly on time. Then SnowCamp happened, and it was great, but it also meant I just stopped writing (aaahhh, too many things to dooooooo. ugh, post-conference blues).
Yesterday at the last possible minute I finished one letter and a handful of postcards, so I'm at 25; I still have two letters I really want to write anyway, and then I don't know if I want to look for two other things to write, even if I'm late, or just be happy with 27.
I've also started three correspondences that will hopefully continue beyond February (yay!).
And now, back to the regular avatar…
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#Videoconferenze in #SoftwareLibero: ILS mette disposizione di tutti jitsi.linux.it/?lang=it , che si aggiunge a framatalk.org/ e altri.Wikimedia Italia usa Jitsi per riunioni interne, lezioni a distanza e piccoli seminari, sempre con grande soddisfazione di tutti.
I hear tech folks saying that RSS is dead, and people on social media saying that blogs are dead.The problem with this is twofold:
- RSS is doing just fine, and not even remotely dead
- Blogs are doing just fine, and are not even remotely dead, either
There's this strange sort of defeatism around. "Well, we lost, so what can you do". Um, not undermine things that still work and are actively being used? Support them as well?
Someone is trying to build a #language learning app like #duolingo, but it's free software. Maybe you want to help out?: github.com/kantord/LibreLingo librelingo.app/ #librelingo
Y'all, imma issue a challenge:Before buying a thing on Amazon, take just two minutes to see if it's available elsewhere online.
There's very often another seller that is price competitive, and free shipping is super common these days.
If you still wanna buy from Bezos I'm not gonna stop you, but it's worth at least checking for alternatives. Divesting yourself can be easier than you might think.
It's #InCoWriMo!
First letter delivered, and I may have changed my avatar a bit for the season :)
(and doing this feels wrong, as if I was sharing publicly a symmetric encryption key…)
Capitalism is quietly erasing the idea of private property. All products are effectively becoming rentals, and the companies can revoke your right to use them whenever they feel like it. It's becoming increasingly difficult to actually own anything. Media is streamed, and devices are locked from the users.It's hilarious how all the things people were afraid of happening under communism are actually happening under capitalism.
So I was recently asked why I prefer to use free and open source software over more conventional and popular proprietary software and services.A few years ago I was an avid Google user. I was deeply embedded in the Google ecosystem and used their products everywhere. I used Gmail for email, Google Calendar and Contacts for PIM, YouTube for entertainment, Google Newsstand for news, Android for mobile, and Chrome as my web browser.
I would upload all of my family photos to Google Photos and all of my personal documents to Google Drive (which were all in Google Docs format). I used Google Domains to register my domain names for websites where I would keep track of my users using Google Analytics and monetize them using Google AdSense.
I used Google Hangouts (one of Google’s previous messaging plays) to communicate with friends and family and Google Wallet (with debit card) to buy things online and in-store.
My home is covered with Google Homes (1 in my office, 1 in my bedroom, 1 in the main living area) which I would use to play music on my Google Play Music subscription and podcasts from Google Podcasts.
I have easily invested thousands of dollars into my Google account to buy movies, TV shows, apps, and Google hardware devices. This was truly the Google life.
Then one day, I received an email from Google that changed everything.
“Your account has been suspended”
Just the thing you want to wake up to in the morning. An email from Google saying that your account has been suspended due to a perceived Terms of Use violation. No prior warning. No appeals process. No number to call. Trying to sign in to your Google account yields an error and all of your connected devices are signed out. All of your Google data, your photos, emails, contacts, calendars, purchased movies and TV shows. All gone.I nearly had a heart attack, until I saw that the Google account that had been suspended was in fact not my main personal Google account, but a throwaway Gmail account that I created years prior for a project. I hadn’t touched the other account since creation and forgot it existed. Apparently my personal Gmail was listed as the recovery address for the throwaway account and that’s why I received the termination email.
Although I was able to breathe a sigh of relief this time, the email was wake up call. I was forced to critically reevaluate my dependence on a single company for all the tech products and services in my life.
I found myself to be a frog in a heating pot of water and I made the decision that I was going to jump out.
Leaving Google
Today there are plenty of lists on the internet providing alternatives to Google services such as this and this. Although the “DeGoogle” movement was still in its infancy when I was making the move.The first Google service I decided to drop was Gmail, the heart of my online identity. I migrated to Fastmail with my own domain in case I needed to move again (hint: glad I did, now I self host my email). Fastmail also provided calendar and contacts solutions so that took care of leaving Google Calendar and Contacts.
Here are some other alternatives that I moved to:
- Gmail → Fastmail → Self-hosted (via Cloudron)
- Google Contacts → Fastmail → Nextcloud Contacts
- Google Calendar → Fastmail → Nextcloud Calendar
- Google Search → Bing → DuckDuckGo
- Google Maps → Bing Maps → OpenStreetMaps and OsmAnd
- Google Analytics → Matomo Analytics
- Google Drive → Nextcloud Files
- Google Photos → Nextcloud Files/Gallery
- Google Docs → Collabora Office (Nextcloud integration) and LibreOffice
- Google Play Music → Spotify / Plex → Spotify / Jellyfin
- Google Play Movies/TV → Plex → Jellyfin
- Google Play Audiobooks/Books → Audible/Kindle
- Google Play Store (apps) → F-Droid / Aurora Store
- Google Android → Lineage OS → Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone (coming soon?)
- Google’s Android Apps → Simple Mobile Tools
- Google Chrome → Mozilla Firefox
- Google Domains → Hover
- Google Hangouts → Matrix and Nextcloud Talk
- Google Allo → Signal
- Google Podcasts → PocketCasts → AntennaPod
- Google Newsstand → RSS
- Google Wallet → PayPal and Cash App
- Google Voice →Ting Mobile
Migrating away from Google was not a fast or easy process. It took years to get where I am now and there are still several Google services that I depend on: YouTube and Google Home.
Eventually, my Google Home’s will grow old and become unsupported at which point hopefully the Mycroft devices have matured and become available for purchase. YouTube may never be replaced (although I do hope for projects like PeerTube to succeed) but I find the compromise of using only one or two Google services to be acceptable.
At this point losing my Google account due to a mistake in their machine learning would largely be inconsequential and my focus has shifted to leaving Amazon which I use for most of my shopping and cloud services.
The reason that I moved to mostly FOSS applications is that it seems to be the only software ecosystem where everything works seamlessly together and I don’t have to cede control to any single company. Alternatively I could have simply split my service usage up evenly across Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple but I don’t feel that they would have worked as nicely together.
Overall I’m very happy with the open source ecosystem. I use Ubuntu with KDE on all of my computers and Android (no GApps) on my mobile phone. I’ve ordered the PinePhone “Brave Heart” and hope to one day be able to use it or one of its successors as a daily driver with Ubuntu Touch or Plasma Mobile.
I don’t want to give the impression that I exclusively use open source software either, I do use a number of proprietary apps including: Sublime Text, Typora, and Cloudron.
scene: inside valhalla's brain.
home economy manager> I know that #InCoWriMo is near, but you can't buy new stationery until you've used up the one you have. Not even if it's cheap, you no longer have space to keep it
some other less wholesome part of me> making doesn't count as buying, right?
home economy manager> well, since you're using things you already had in the stationery bag…
(I had a 2015 sponsored calendar together with stationery and other paper “in case I ever decide to do something with it”)
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I'm tired of these dishonest diatribes trying to argue that Social Media provides no value to the world.Tell that to the grandparents who have been able to keep in touch with their grandkids on a daily basis instead of the way it used to be: whenever they could manage to get on the telephone or visit.
Tell that to the marriages that happened because people were able to connect.
Tell that to the businesses that started because people were able to easily network.
Tell that to the families split across the world who can keep in touch (like my wife's uncle and his family in Germany, who she would only ever see for a week every 5 years when they came back to the USA to visit)
We wouldn't be here if Social Media sucked. No, we just don't like the corporations extracting their own value from our lives. We're here because we want the power back, and we finally have the tools to do it.
finishes writing a letter.
looks at the calendar.
I guess it's time to start to work on the list of people I want to write to for #InCoWriMo (and to see if I have enough stationery, but I probably do :D )
About one year ago, my father gave me and @Diego Roversi a cheap laptop he had bought at a supermarket and found out it wasn't suited to his needs (plus it didn't have enough disk space to install the latest windows upgrades, or something like that, I don't remember the exact details).
We didn't really have a need for it, the only part that was potentially interesting (touchscreen and tablet mode) didn't work with linux, nor did the sound card, and overall the process to install linux on it made us discover how low quality the thing was, but we ended up using it to watch movies with an usb sound card.
Then the last time we tried to turn it on (to show a countdown for the new year) it didn't. Opening it revealed a dead battery. Glued down to everything else. And it didn't start without a battery connected. And when trying to unglue the battery it started to break, so my SO stopped before burning down the house.
At this step, #repair mode ended and scavenging for parts started, but most components were covered by the glued-down battery, trying to dismantle the screen resulted in cracked glass and the only thing we could save are two magnets and a handful of screws.
We didn't buy the thing. We didn't need the thing. We knew it was bad, but still this is irritating. Extremely irritating.
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it did.
except for the fact that we aren't going to buy a new one to replace it (but I suspect my father did).
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OTOH, reading point 3 of the proposed solutions and comparing it with the place I'm getting my dependencies from (distributions):
For example, package discovery sites might work to find more ways to allow developers to share their findings.
check, there is room for improvement, but the principle is there and is being used
Build tools should, at the least, make it easy to run a package’s own tests.
check
More aggressively, build tools and package management systems could also work together to allow package authors to test new changes against all public clients of their APIs.
check, as long as those clients are also available from the same source
Languages should also provide easy ways to isolate a suspect package.
this one isn't done, but the idea is that suspect packages don't get there in the first place. YMMV on what counts as suspect, however.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •It depends on the recipe: the proportion between dry and fresh is about 1:3 (but my 7g dry packets are marked as equivalent to one 25g block of fresh yeast).
I'm also used to dry yeast, so I don't really have an idea of how much that would be in volume. In the picture the container is a bit less than 10 cm wide, if that can help.
Also, I tend to make a lot of bread with pre-ferments, so I may be using as low as 2-4 g of fresh yeast (around 1g dry) for 400-500 g flour. The highest I routinely go is one 7g dry packet (i.e. 25g fresh) per 1000g flour.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •This bread making game is a real adventure. At least my recent efforts are good and edible. Last year's experiments were a disaster - even the crows couldn't eat the sourdough rye Rocks I produced.
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Unknown parent • •Starting from a particular strain and trying to prevent anything else from growing.
I don't think I'm going to keep this alive long-term for a few reasons.
Between the low amounts of yeast per dough and the fact that I also have an active sourdough, this is making more yeast than I use (and it only keeps for a short time between feedings — although it can keep in the freezer for slightly longer and I could try to experiment with drying like I do with sourdough).
While sourdough grows with time and gains flavour, with baker's yeast the idea is to have something that is consistent, so one would want to remain pretty close to the original, and I suspect that after a few generations mutations may start to change the way it behaves. I believe that this reason alone makes it worth restarting the batch from commercial yeast periodically (maybe every few months?)
And then there is the bit where dry yeast is soooo convenient, while this is a bit of a hassle to get the same results, and I'm basically lazy…
OTOH, it's an excellent way to get more yeast from a package now that it has disappeared from the supermarkets (and this means that I'm currently in the 1% or less of italians that have more yeast than they can use, and I can't even share it with other people in a reasonable way :( (at least not outside the building where I live))