Today's dinner is avocado toast on slices of artisanal bread with¹ wholewheat stone ground flour².
We're never getting rich, right?
¹ not 100%, just a bit because I had leftovers and wanted to get rid of them
² i.e. whatever stale bread I had from last week
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It’s been about four months since I started hosting my own email again.
I have absolutely zero regrets. As large providers prove, now more than ever, that they are not on our side, it feels great to have that aspect of my online life under control.
I used the wonderful Run Your Own Mail Server book by the fedi’s own @mwl to guide my install.
It has been absolutely stable, I have perfect deliverability to the email empire, I’m on zero blocklists, and spam control is great.
If you’re a sysadmin, self-hoster, homelabber, ignore the nay-sayers. You can do it too.
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YMMV but:
I cycled through creating IPs at a vps vendor until I found a mostly clean IP and held onto it for a couple months while I waited for RYOMS to come out.
Then I requested removal from the couple lists it was on and there were no issues with removal as there was no recent spam.
Then I built up my mail server and started to build a reputation with it by corresponding with friends and relatives on various big email servers.
Now it has enough reputation that I don’t see any issues and I keep it clean so I don’t land on any blacklists in the future.
it’s also important to know that not all blocklists are created equal and not all blocklists are universally utilized.
There are some that are nearly extortion rackets and will probably not be worth your time trying to correct, they may not even affect your deliver ability.
appreciate the recs! I'm getting my lab test servers spun up right now so I can start really playing with all these protocols, and maybe eventually have my self hosted email.
Been a few years since I bought a domain. What do you folks like for registering your domains these days? A quick search and I'm seeing cloudflare and porkbun come up as recs and that I shouldn't touch GoDaddy with a 10ft pole.
Winter
Posted on January 10, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:painting, medium:acrylic
A few days ago1 I wanted to paint, but I didn’t know what to paint, so I did a few more colour tests to find out which green combinations I can get out of the available yellows and blues (and greens) acrylic I have (from a cheap student grade line).
I liked the cool grey tones in the second to last line, from 200 “Naples yellow” (PY3 PY83 PW6) and 410 Ultramarine blue (PB29), so I went up a step on the scale of “things to do when having a desire to paint, but the utter inability to actually paint something ” and did a bit of a study with those two colours plus titanium white.
And btw, painting with acrylics on watercolour paper taped to a sheet of scrap paper works just fine for stuff like this that is not supposed to last, but the work will get glued to the paper below when (not if) the paint overflows :D
- i.e. almost three months, and then I wrote 95% of this post and forgot to finish and publish it.↩︎
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Poor Man Media Server
Posted on January 9, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms
Some time ago I installed minidlna on our media server: it was pretty easy to do, but quite limited in its support for the formats I use most, so I ended up using other solutions such as mounting the directory with sshfs.
Now, doing that from a phone, even a pinephone running debian, may not be as convenient as doing it from the laptop where I already have my ssh key :D and I needed to listed to music from the pinephone.
So, in anger, I decided to configure a web server to serve the files.
I installed lighttpd because I already had a role for this kind of configuration in my ansible directory, and configured it to serve the relevant directory in /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/20-music.conf:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "music.example.org" {
server.name = "music.example.org"
server.document-root = "/path/to/music"
}the domain was already configured in my local dns (since everything is only available to the local network), and I enabled both
20-music.conf and 10-dir-listing.conf.And. That’s it. It works. I can play my CD rips on a single flac exactly in the same way as I was used to (by ssh-ing to the media server and using alsaplayer).
Then this evening I was talking to normal people1, and they mentioned that they wouldn’t mind being able to skip tracks and fancy things like those :D and I’ve found one possible improvement.
For the directories with the generated single-track ogg files I’ve added some playlists with the command ls *.ogg > playlist.m3u, then in the directory above I’ve run ls */*.m3u > playlist.m3u and that also works.
With vlc I can now open music.example.org/band/album/p…to listen to an album that I have in ogg, being able to move between tracks, or I can open music.example.org/band/playlis… and in the playlist view I can browse between the different albums.
Left as an exercise to the reader2 are writing a bash script to generate all of the playlist.m3u files (and running it via some git hook when the files change) or writing a php script to generate them on the fly.
- as much as the members of our LUG can be considered normal.↩︎
- i.e. the person in the LUG who wanted me to share what I had done.↩︎
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I'm not sure whether this post will be updated, but I've updated the blog post with the php script provided by a reader.
Don't you all love it when reader do their exercises? :D
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I get asked very often "how do you keep up with all the posts because you follow thousands of people?"
Well, I don't. And you shouldn't either. It's a general misconception that you should always be up to speed with the world.
Nobody can keep up with anything online. And we are not supposed to. If my mom calls me or I receive a traditional letter by mail, that's something I can keep up with. Not feeds or stories online. That is not the place of FOMO, every nanosecond we miss something.
I try to live in the present, I check my social media whenever I feel like it. I add the core folks to a list, but I don't try to keep up with them either. It's life.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't follow people or the followed folks don't matter. On the contrary. I follow anything or anyone that I show even tiniest bit of interest, that's the best way to make my feed most alive.
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hey by the way
i moved from a 30,000 active user server to a 700 active user server about a month and a half ago
if anything, i have more "reach"
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Confy 0.8.0
Hey! Confy 0.8.0 has been released!
In this release :
- Updated UI to latest Adwaita widgets and style
- An handy list of latest opened conferences at start (and in application menu)
- Talks list grouping can be set by user. Is there a multi-room track and you want to group the list of talks by room? Now you can!
- Fixed and enhanced XML parsing for past events (I know... better later than never!), eg: try to not panic on not expected date formats, try to handle completely different xml structures, extract and show speakers avatar if available. Man, I love the ever changing world of unstandardized XML schedule format!
Updated screenshots on official home page:
confy.kirgroup.net/
and in your nearest appstream-enabled appstore!
I would like to thank everyone who helped with code, tickets, distro packaging and general moral support :)
If you want to contribute, jump in the dev mailing list at lists.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy-de… or open a ticket at todo.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy
(and you don't even need to create an account on sourcehut, just send an email to ~fabrixxm/confy-dev (a) lists.sr.ht or ~fabrixxm/confy (a) todo.sr.ht )
Confy - Conferences schedule viewer
Navigate conference schedules, mark favourite talks, get reminded when talks are coming up. Works offline, ready for mobilekirgroup.net
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Ritrovato!!
❗❗GATTO DISPERSO❗❗
❗Milano città zona Largo Cairoli❗
Condivido questo appello di Bao Publishing:
"Normalmente non postiamo cose personali, ma ci serve una mano dai nostri lettori di Milano città.
Ieri sera, verso le 23, in zona Largo Cairoli, si è perso il nostro Tomino. Ha il microchip, e sicuramente molta paura, perché è un gatto di casa.
Se lo vedete, per favore, ce lo fate sapere?"
Boost ben accetti
#mastoaiuto #AiutoSegreto #gattidelfediverso
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the makerspace printer has been jamming a lot lately, so we decided to print a reusable sign for when it's not working. it jammed at the perfect point while printing the sign so we laminated it and now have the best out of order sign ever made
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I've been so enjoying my new #Debian music studio install that I decided to switch my little lappy over today. That computer is a 6-yr-old Lenovo Yoga 9 w/ 16GB of RAM.
#Windows 11 at idle was using *92% of my RAM*!!!!!
Debian 12 uses *5% of my RAM*.
That's...a much lower number. The lesson? Install the holy fuck out of Debian, kiddos.
Bonus: touchscreen, wifi, bluetooth, and audio all worked immediately, right out of the box.
That's the fun thing about Linux - once you are over the hurdle of installation and start looking around, it really is a very nice place.
Debian possibly feels a bit daunting to some, but once there is an appreciation of the slightly spartan nature of it (and that it is contributor built and supported), it really is a very calm distro to use.
I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment.
This is very rushed and the instructions are incomplete. Only FAT16 for now; FAT32 coming real soon now.
GitHub - lproven/usb-dos: Usable DOS-based live USB media
Usable DOS-based live USB media. Contribute to lproven/usb-dos development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@thomasdorr There's occasionally discussion about this on the FreeDOS mailing list.
I reckon it would be doable with a 386 memory manager on steroids, plus a copy of SeaBIOS. Mostly, though, the developers say no way. And they know much more than I do!
@thomasdorr If on the other hand you were thinking of creating a lightweight Linux distribution just to run DOS apps, then go for it. I suggest taking a look at the way HP did it.
@withaveeay The thing is, Microsoft is very much alive and well... and highly litigious.
MS *gave away* Word 5.5 for DOS as a Y2K fix for all previous versions. It's freeware. But sadly Word 6 is not.
This week on the blog: Coins! Contrasting historical coinage with the vision of ancient coinage presented through 'gold' in fantasy fiction.
What were coins used for, why did much economic activity remain non-coinage and what do you use when you aren't using coins?
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to …A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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today our car has reached BOOBS km! (ok, it was 80085)
#boobies!
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Uhhh, I have a strange request. If you own a bread knife with a flat-sided handle in your kitchen, and calipers or something else that will measure to the nearest millimetre or so, and want something to do for 30 seconds, could you tell me how thick the handle is?
Yes, I'd like to collect some random samples of bread knife handle widths. Doesn't matter what brand, what it looks like, how long the blade is or where in the world you are.
I will explain later. Boosts appreciated.
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Only on the Fedi would "Hey, can you go and measure your breadknife handle width with calipers" get hundreds of boosts.
Never change Fedi. Never change.
Yesterday afternoon as I was brewing some tea my mind suddenly was reminded of the word “eidolon”.
I still have no idea what it was about.
The first and seventh of four? A metal band I've never really listened? Some other kind of ghost or idol?
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@David de Groot ecco, devo ammettere che non la percepivo come parola inglese
ma ho visto su wikipedia e wiktionary che esiste anche in inglese (presa direttamente dal greco), lol
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L'inizio di un nuovo anno mi pare momento propizio per un #MolloTuttoECambioVita , perciò:
- Se amate la cucina tipica lombarda
- Se la ristorazione non vi terrorizza ma anzi vi attrae
- Se amate la relativa calma della vita in provincia
allora questo locale di Como potrebbe fare al caso vostro!
È appena fuori le mura, a un passo dal centro storico, vicino al mercato e in zona di grande passaggio. Bonus: il vicino ortolano è gentile e sorridente.
#lavoro #UfficioDiScollocamento
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In che senso è l'account "Ufficiale" di Peertube in Italia?
Quanto è problematico, in ottica di decentralizzazione, che un'istanza si presenti con il nome Peertube e la dicitura "ufficiale", con tanto di logo?
Decentralizzazione significa che non esistono istanze ufficiali. Il resto è accentramento.
Le parole sono importanti e questi atteggiamenti sono un grande ostacolo per la divulgazione del Fediverso.
Mi sembra scorretto anche nei confronti di @Framasoft
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@peertube Testo alternativo: Immagine di testo in italiano che descrive Peertube Italia. Si spiega che è un'istanza senza scopo di lucro, gestita dal gruppo devol e finanziata tramite donazioni su Liberapay e criptovalute. È presente su Mastodon, Matrix e Writefreely. L'istanza peertube.uno è gestita dall'associazione no-profit devol con sede a Milano.
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Immagine di un profilo Peertube Italia. Il profilo mostra il logo di Peertube, il nome utente, un invito a seguire il profilo, informazioni su come supportare il progetto tramite Liberapay e il numero di post, seguiti e seguaci. Sono presenti anche sezioni per i post, le risposte e i media.
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Testo alternativo: L'immagine contiene un testo in italiano che descrive Peertube.uno, una piattaforma senza scopo di lucro finanziata da donazioni. Spiega come sostenere la piattaforma tramite donazioni o usando il browser Brave. Indica anche come contattare gli amministratori o seguire gli aggiornamenti tramite Mastodon o Matrix.
Fornito da @altbot, generato utilizzando Gemini
@vanblessed @peertube @ed
Le vicende del gruppo Devol sono un ottimo spunto di riflessione per comprendere perché le rivoluzioni vanno a finire male.
Come nel caso dei comunismi storici realmente esistiti (e realmente falliti), anche nel Fediverso, pur partendo dalle migliori intenzioni, una minoranza di parassiti ha creato un regime oppressivo che impedisce la critica mediante forme di censura (tecnicamente mastodon.uno funziona così).
In modo esattamente speculare a come la retorica dell'uguaglianza è servita a mascherare nuove forme di disuguaglianza (e la retorica della lotta al potere è servita a mascherare nuove forme di oppressione), i Devol usano la retorica della decentralizzazione per creare nuove forme di accentramento, illudendosi che un giorno riusciranno a fare i soldi col fediverso. Ma questo non succederà mai.
Forse anche qui c'è dietro la volontà di potenza intesa come mania di grandezza, illusione di essere importanti perché si è a capo di un gruppo, di avere un esercito di schiavetti a disposizione...
Quando una mezza sega (e parlo di statura morale, sociale e intellettuale, non di altezza fisica) diventa capo di qualcosa, si trasforma nel peggio tiranno, perché non avendo nessuna abilità relazionale, non è in grado di gestire il potere. Basterebbe capire che quello non è il proprio posto nel mondo. Sarebbe una liberazione per il Fediverso italiano (e per l'umanità intera)...
The era of ChatGPT is kind of horrifying for me as an instructor of mathematics... Not because I am worried students will use it to cheat (I don't care! All the worse for them!), but rather because many students may try to use it to *learn*.
For example, imagine that I give a proof in lecture and it is just a bit too breezy for a student (or, similarly, they find such a proof in a textbook). They don't understand it, so they ask ChatGPT to reproduce it for them, and they ask followup questions to the LLM as they go.
I experimented with this today, on a basic result in elementary number theory, and the results were disastrous... ChatGPT sent me on five different wild goose-chases with subtle and plausible-sounding intermediate claims that were just false. Every time I responded with "Hmm, but I don't think it is true that [XXX]", the LLM responded with something like "You are right to point out this error, thank you. It is indeed not true that [XXX], but nonetheless the overall proof strategy remains valid, because we can [...further gish-gallop containing subtle and plausible-sounding claims that happen to be false]."
I know enough to be able to pinpoint these false claims relatively quickly, but my students will probably not. They'll instead see them as valid steps that they can perform in their own proofs.
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I see so many adults and professionals talking about how they are using LLMs to deepen their understanding of things, but I think this ultimately dives headlong into the “Gell-Mann amnesia” effect — these people think they are learning, but it only feels that way because there are ignorant enough about the topic they're interested in to not detect that they are being fed utter bullshit.
How shall we answer this? I think it speaks most urgently for people who actually know things, those with "intellectual power", to democratise our knowledge, throw aside the totems that make our fields inaccessible and obscure, and open the gates to the multitudes who wish to learn.
At first it seems like it would be easy to compete with LLMs (because they say only bullshit), but to actually compete with LLMs we need to produce educational materials that actually explain things properly. Any 'proof by intimidation' will immediately send our student to the LLM. The moment you rely on something that you haven't explained, same deal. So it may be that this era has a silver lining: we must finally teach mathematics properly.
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There was a pile of IKEA instructions, the one of top read SKADIS, but while passing nearby my mind read TARDIS.
And @Diego Roversi worried about it, and apparently doesn't trust me with assembling a TARDIS because he's afraid of the extent of what can possibly go wrong in case of a small error assembling it.
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C'era una pila di istruzioni IKEA, quella in cima alla pila era per SKADIS, ma passando di fianco ho letto TARDIS
E @Diego Roversi si preoccupa, e a quanto pare non si fida a farmi assemblare un TARDIS perché ha paura dell'entità di ciò che può andare storto in caso di un piccolo errore di assemblaggio.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Diego Roversi so che confezionano separatamente i fori dei lavandini
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meanwhile, in #bakingPeopleProblems, it has been too long since I last made my favourite #bread, and I can't remember whether the measurements on the recipe printouts, which are already higher than the original ones, are for two or four pieces.
And I have enough sourdough for double that amount. And I'm not sure whether my machine can deal with 2.4 kg of flour. But that's a problem for tomorrow me.
Also a problem for tomorrow me: I am sure I don't have enough pieces of white fabric to wrap the dough while it's rising, in case I end up accidentally making 8 pieces. (and my stock of fabric is elsewhere).
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Intanto, nella categoria #ProblemiDiChiPanifica, è passato troppo tempo dall'ultima volta che ho fatto il mio #pane preferito, e non mi ricordo se le dosi appuntate sulla stampa della ricetta (che sono già più alte delle originali) sono per due o quattro pezzi.
E ho abbastanza lievito madre per raddoppiarle. E non sono sicura che l'impastatrice regga 2.4 kg di farina. Ma quello è un problema per domani.
Un altro problema per domani: sono sicura di non avere abbastanza pezzi di stoffa bianca in cui avvolgere 8 pezzi a lievitare, nel caso io abbia per sbaglio quadruplicato la dose. (e le mie scorte di stoffa sono altrove)
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and it's confirmed, the corrected recipe was already for 4 loaves, and I doubled it.
the machine managed it without too much effort (but I had to take some out of the bowl to rise, or it would have expanded everywhere in the kitchen)
I found enough pieces of canvas to wrap the 7 loaves I made, 4 plain and 3 with fruit (fresh apples, dried apricots, raisins)
This afternoon the oven will work overtime :D
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confermato che la ricetta corretta era già per 4 ciabatte, e l'ho raddoppiata.
l'impastatrice ce l'ha fatta senza grossi problemi (ma ho dovuto poi toglierne metà dalla ciotola per lievitare, o si sarebbe allargato per tutta la cucina)
Ho trovato abbastanza teli per avvolgere le 7 ciabatte che ho fatto, 4 liscie e 4 con la frutta (mele fresche, albicocche essicate, uvetta)
Oggi pomeriggio il forno farà gli straordinari :D
@Sini Tuulia there will be :D
and it's not even a type that is great for freezing
still problems for later me!
(I may beg for help from the new neighbours)
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Yesterday our culturally-significant-movies watching group met to watch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chri…
And we all agreed that it's a shame that it's not more widely known, and if anybody has an operating system project that needs a name, an homage to this movie may be worth considering.
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Ieri il nostro gruppo cineforum per film di rilevanza culturale si è incontrato per guardare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chri…
E siamo stati tutti d'accordo che sia un peccato che quel film non sia maggiormente conosciuto, e se qualcuno sta scrivendo un sistema operativo e gli manca il nome, pensare ad un omaggio a quel film potrebbe non essere una cattiva idea.
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Parco campo dei fiori, Varese.
* Santa Maria Al Monte at sunset
* Monti Chiusarella e Martica
* Chiusarella and than 🤷🏻♂️
* A well deserved rest ☺️
* Under the dismissed funicular
Do you know any tool to help me to identify peaks? Something that giving a position and an azimuth calculate what is visible? ☺️
#photography #mountains #walking #hiking #sonyalpha
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#clay #ceramics #craft #diy
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Dear GitHub support,
I have just been notified of access to GitHub Copilot having been added to my account, and I cannot find a way to disable that.
I build my reputation on original software that I write, and I do not want risking accidental copyright infringement or worse by having github surreptitiously push "smart" features I do not need on my account.
I am writing to ask for a complete removal of Copilot features from my account. Failing that, I would like a written confirmation that Copilot is not touching anything related to my account, and possibly a procedure I can use at any time to verify and prove that to my customers.
Best regards,
Enrico Zini
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Do you feel like vigilante killings are the way to solve the “CEO problem” in the U.S.? Read up on the Reign of Terror period of the French Revolution and get back to me.
For those with cooler heads, consider reading up on how CEO compensation is controlled and limited in the EU and Japan. While imperfect, they serve as templates for an effective way forward.
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Last night a car landed on the rails near Ieper. The car driver immediately called 1711, resulting in Infrabel doing an emergency GSM-R broadcast and the train could break in time! The crossroad sensors got triggered so the call for sure saved the day.
When in Belgium: 1711 plz remember that number
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aaaargh, my clit has broken!
I touch it, and rather than getting the proper feedback and movement, I see the pointer jumping a bit around the screen and then it gets stuck on the left side of the screen
(I don't need suggestions, right now I'm just using an USB mouse, and then I'll try to repair the clit when I'll have time for it)
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It's not even like the practical consequences of this classification are unproven. Lots, if not most of hardware I've seen that proudly boasts RYF take inane steps to pretend firmware doesn't exist, in ways that don't limit their capacity for harm whatsoever...
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Intanto per chi dovesse prendere dei mezzi pubblici domani (venerdì 13), Salvini ha precettato, ma il TAR ha sospeso, quindi lo sciopero è della durata originale
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C’è un po’ di confusione sullo sciopero dei trasporti di venerdì 13 dicembre
Il ministro dei Trasporti Matteo Salvini è intervenuto con un'ordinanza per ridurre lo sciopero, ma il provvedimento è stato sospeso oggi dal Tar. Le aziende di trasporto stanno rivedendo "in corsa" le comunicazioniRoberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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Welcome to my twisted ass
starseedjenny: “ advanced-procrastination: “This is simultaneously comforting and uncomfortable ” A clear river flowing with leaves Runs through a red forest of trees Such a vision of maple Is a boon...morphimus (Tumblr)
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Dear european¹ craftingverse,
I'd like to put a #pegboard in my sewing room.
The local hardware stores sell the metal ones, and they have holes at an odd distance that I suspect is some absurd amount like one and a half inch or something, sometimes with two additional smaller holes in between.
Then there is the SKÅDIS line from IKEA, where the holes are at a decent and proper distance of 4 cm, but
a) they are made of particleboard instead of metal
b) I'd be afraid of getting stuck into an ikea-only standard
Are there other places that sell metric-based pegboards?
Is there something else I should consider?
Am I overthinking the whole thing?
¹ I'd prefer² any product recommendation to be available from a shop in the eurozone
² as in, I will just ignore anything else :D
#crafting (boosts welcome)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua do you also have a good source for “enough time”? :D
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @David de Groot
(and no, I can't use the time I use to handsew garments: that's usually the kind of time when it would be pretty unsafe for me to be around any kind of power tools, be it a drill or a sewing machine)
(and that's one of the reasons why handsewing is great: it fills that kind of time when want to do stuff, but aren't able to do anything that requires more than a modicum of concentration)
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Intanto, quando c'è LEI i treni viaggiano in anticipo!
e no, non mi risulta che sia *partito*, è solo l'orario in cui il treno prima (RE 2516) da Milano a Porto Ceresio è arrivato a Gallarate. e lì si è fermato in attesa di ripartire, causa guasto ad uno scambio
(e adesso posso riaprire il tracking dei treni che volevo veramente tracciare, dopo averli chiusi tutti per fare lo screenshot buffo senza perdita di privacy :D )
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dimenticavo nell'alt text, è il treno 2525, per chi vuole seguirlo su viaggiatreno.it/
(ommamma. http. e redirigono https su http, mi pare)
#Mastoaiuto
Io chiedo, magari qualcuno sa: devo buttare via un paio di scarpe e dei guanti, scarpe in pelle con suola di gomma e guanti di lana con palmo in pelle vera.
Vorrei trovare qualcuno che sia in grado di riciclarli, vanno bene sia punti di raccolta specifici (possibilmente zona #Torino) o persone, artigiani, etc che magari riutilizzano gli scarti per ricavarne portafogli o altri oggetti.
Non mi va di buttarli nell'indifferenziata, so che esistono progetti di riutilizzo, io stesso ho acquistato accessori realizzati con pelle riciclata, camere d'aria e copertoni di biciclette, etc...
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Nel caso qualcuno non avesse più niente da fare da qui a stanotte:
it.wikisource.org/wiki/Regolam…
e apprezziamo il fatto che #trenord non si debba più preoccupare di dimezzare i treni “Quando la corsa di un treno in una galleria divenga lenta e stentata, e la respirazione si faccia penosa per deficiente ventilazione”
(in compenso missà che ho dei ricordi della lavagna dell'art. 6 comma 14, significa che sono vecchia?)
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e poi c'è la soluzione ai problemi di @LaVi e @Fabio : tornare ai cavalli!
(tecnicamente sta parlando della linea dello stato¹, non di quella delle nord¹ da saronno, ma il problema è sempre quello)
“Superata poi appena che si abbia la suddetta spartizion d’acqua a fianco della Camerlata, il terreno discende rapidamente verso il lago di Como, e qui è dove le difficoltà per la costruzione dell’ideata rotaja non sono veramente nè poche, nè piccole qualora si volesse continuare a servirsi delle macchine locomotive per il trasporto delle merci e dei passeggieri nel ritorno dal lago di Como alla Camerlata; ma postochè si offre per quest’ultima tratta di strada di ferro l’ovvio ripiego di servirsi dei cavalli in vece del vapore, mentre l’uso dei cavalli per l’attiraglio dei carri e delle carrozze sulle rotaje di ferro comporta pendenza e curve assai maggiori, almeno nello stato attuale di perfezionamento delle macchine locomotive inglesi, e così permettono di non allungarne di troppo la linea con molti giri per andare a spianarsi colla strada di ferro sotto il livello del pelo basso del lago di Como.”
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¹ ai miei tempi si chiamava così, ok? :D lo so, sono vecchia :D
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e per chi si chiedesse cosa volesse dire “correntale”:
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“ogni guardiano va al casello vicino trasmettendo al compagno la notizia dell'accidente e l'ordine di disporre i segnali di fermata”
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By popular request, I'm releasing a Christmas short story to get you all in the festive holiday mood.
Okay, not popular request. It was @ParadeGrotesque .
And it's not exactly festive.
But I'm assured that it's a Christmas story. It doesn't take place at Christmas. But it's a Christmas story! Seriously.
Previously published in WMG's 2020 Holiday Spectacular, and the lead story in the "Fantastic Christmas" anthology. DRM-free, exclusive to my store, only $1.99.
#ebook #christmas tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc…
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yesterday evening I had to stop playing wesnoth (Son of the Black Eye) in the middle of a scenario because it was bedtime.
“The problem here is that there is some *scum* that is not worth living! And that their skulls are still inside their heads, attached to their bodies, instead of being made into cups!
“And if I want to use those cups to drink mint cordial, that's my own business!
“You know what? I'm going to order those skulls made into a *tea*set*! A fancy tea set, with its own wicker basket, lined with checked fabric, to carry on campaign!”
and @Diego Roversi didn't even bother deigning me with a “yes dear”
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Ieri sera ho dovuto interrompere uno scenario di wesnoth (Son of the Black Eye) a metà, perché era ora di andare a dormire.
“Il problema è che c'è della *feccia* che non è degna di vivere! E che i loro teschi sono ancora dentro alle loro teste, attaccate al loro corpo, anziché in lavorazione per diventare delle tazze!
“E se in quelle tazze voglio bere un cordiale alla menta sono fatti miei!
“Anzi, sai cosa? Darò l'ordine con quei teschi di fare delle *tazze da té*! Un bel servizio da té elegante, con il suo cestino di vimini foderato di stoffa a quadretti, da portarmi durante le campagne!”
e @Diego Roversi non si è neanche degnato di concedermi un “sì cara”
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Hey @penfount & maybe also #MedicalLab, #Chemistry fedi?
I’m looking for non-plastic alternatives to the typical 5mL medical sample vials—that have the same aspect ratio including ledge/brim!
I use the ledges in storing and with a test tube holder as a customizable dip pen palette. Most of the glass ones I see have lids the same width as the body, not wider. Don’t have to be glass. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Images for reference of the plastic ones
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •update: it was followed by bits of fresh cheese with fine herbs¹ covered with locally produced chestnut honey³, on durum wheat bread rolls².
¹ leftovers from stuff bought for the holiday feasts
² the other stale bread I had from yesterday
³ the honey is just a staple in this house, not a leftover :)
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Unknown parent • •@Kermode it's not exactly no money, buying ingredients more or less directly from the producers seems to cost a bit more than buying from the supermarket (but it's also not the same quality), but we're still talking maybe 5 EUR for the avocado toast *for 3 people*, and that's because I don't know how much electricity I use to cook the bread and I overestimated it :D
still a far cry from the 22 AUD quoted in *that* article :D
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Unknown parent • •@Kermode sounds like a win win: you pay less and you don't even have to wait for them to be ready :D
Just the avocado here costs 2.98 EUR for 300 g for those that have traveled from another continent and 5.99 for 500 g (yes, that *more* per g) for those that only have to cross the country lenghtwise
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