so, apparently it was a thing already in the 9th century?
“Aside from Christian literature and Biblical commentary, Sedulius held a passion for alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Sedulius liked the drink so much that he even wrote a lament to a small drought titled Nunc Viridant Segetes, or Drought in Spring. The poem ends with the line "Muse, ask our good father bishop: when do we drink again?"”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedulius…
(why did I end up on the wikipedia page of a monk from the 9th century?)
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A few days ago we helped a friend disassemble an old thinkpad to refresh the thermal paste and clean around a bit: everything went fine, but removing the screws from the vga port was quite an hassle.
So yesterday we just received (among other things) an hex socket bit in the right size to disassemble the vga port of old thinkpads, suitable for my handbag screwdriver set.
Anybody else around here needs help to disassemble an old thinkpad? :D
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Qualche giorno fa abbiamo aiutato un amico a smontare un vecchio thinkpad per cambiare la pasta termica e dare una pulita in giro: è andato tutto bene, ma togliere le viti dalla porta vga è stata una sofferenza.
Quindi ieri ci è arrivata una punta esagonale a tubo della misura giusta per smontare le porte vga dei vecchi thinkpad, adatta per il mio cacciavite da borsetta.
Qualcun'altro da queste parti ha bisogno di una mano a smontare un vecchio thinkpad?
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"Please sign here."
"Okay. Where's the agreement it refers to?"
"Oh, we don't have that part. Just sign it."
How many times have you gone through this scenario? It's a structural trick to make you into the Bad Guy for rudely insisting on seeing, let alone having a copy, of legally-binding documents you are being asked to sign.
Today, I was that Bad Guy. I still feel rattled. And it's still not resolved. Supposedly, they will email me something.
I am really, really tired of this BS.
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@Space Catitude 🚀 here usually you do get access to the document, *after* you ask.
Except that now they have started to use so-called “digital” signatures, where they give you a tablet and a pen to sign with, on a screen that only shows the signature space of the document you're signing, so you don't have any way to see that it's the same document that they gave you to read.
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Want to send a quick video message, postcard, image or announcement for the DebConf video loop? Just follow the instructions in lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/07/msg00000.html #debconf24 #debian
Want to send a quick video message, postcard, image or announcement for the DebConf video loop? Just follow the instruction https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/07/msg00000.html #debconf24 #debianmicronews.debian.org
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1/ The original post replies to a rant I had about artist pricing earlier aren't the place to discuss this, but I have one bit of advice for anyone working with an org who suddenly ask you to do it cheaper:
(Nuance in the next post)
If an org comes to you and asks for a piece of work to be done cheaper, AND YOU THINK THEY'RE STILL WORTH YOUR TIME AND NOT TAKING THE PISS try this:
"Hi there, for £X, I can't deliver our original agreement, but I can do this..."
Reasons why in the next post.
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3/ And going, "this is what you can have for X" helps the person you're dealing with because they can then go back to Finance and say the same thing.
It's important, because then nobody can say it was achievable at the other budget and the person simply didn't try hard enough.
Likewise, for anyone else in the same sort of job as me, for the love of fuck, do the same thing.
(Cont'd)
4/ Don't say, "I'm so sorry, our budget has changed, could you do it for X?"
Ask, "I'm so sorry, our budget has changed, WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR X?"
It's the same respect you'd give to a restaurant, or the supermarket.
If you had less money, you'd take things out of your basket.
Do the same for your freelancers.
ma credo che come contenitore lasci a desiderare.
@Matteo Zenatti @Orcspiration dipende da quanto è stato bravo l'artigiano che l'ha montato come tazza, no? :)
probabilmente serve un artigiano longobardo che è più abituato a questo genere di lavori :)
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nel caso in cui @LaVi oggi veda soppressioni verso varese / cadorna, il motivo è questo
varesenews.it/2024/07/il-malte…
(per Como vedo che è la linea che passa dalla svizzera)
Il maltempo danneggia la rete ferroviaria, danni e diverse linee ferme
I problemi principali si segnalano su Laveno - Milano, Luino - Gallarate e Malpensa - Como. A Varese la copertura di un edificio sui binari in via TonaleAndrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)
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lil tidbit about Solar
Not a funni comic and a bit nerdy, but i wanted to write about something that i find cool lol.
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So my local library's makerspace offered a free event where they brought in a bunch of old tower computers, printers, game consoles, etc., - laid out a bunch of iFixit toolkits - and let everyone (kids and adults alike) take everything apart!!!
One kid was hesitant because they didn't want to break anything and the library staff were like, none of it works. We're recycling and throwing everything out afterwards! Go hog wild, you won't get in trouble! You're meant to break it and take it apart!
The kid was absolutely enthusiastic and went to town!
I got to be a kid again and go into detail about all the computer parts and what each of the hardware did. It was awesome watching my children and other kids and adults interact, share tools, show off what they found.
I spoke with the organizer afterwards and asked if this was a regular thing and he said that he didn't have enough old equipment to make it regular. I laughed and said all of my friends have CLOSETS FULL OF THIS STUFF and the idea of giving it to a bunch of kids and adults to play with would bring joy and meaning to their life, lol!
I gave him the time to meet up with @fxbghackers and told him to make a community announcement about needing old electronics for donation to take apart and he'd get truck loads.
Just another way community helps each other out. This is post scarcity education.
#solarPunk #mutualAid #community #library #makerSpace
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Bolognesə, a me!
Avete negozi di belle arti da consigliarmi? Prossimo mese vorrei acquistare colori per dipingere tessuti, magari anche qualche tinta per alcuni progetti che ho in testa~
Edit: cerco anche negozi dedicati ai writer se ci sono!
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Una volta in via Belle Arti ce n'erano ma anche io non passo da millenni
If Etsy acquires, gets acquired by, or merges with eBay or Amazon or Alibaba or Temu in the next six months, I called it yesterday, based on my theory that when a platform rolls out new pornocalypse policies, it usually indicates a financial inflection point like a merger or acquisition.
Here's yesterday's ErosBlog post on the upcoming Etsy pornocalypse:
erosblog.com/2024/07/05/pornoc…
#Pornocalypse #Etsy #ErosBlog #Finance #News #Merger #Prediction #eBay #Amazon #Temu #Porn #Ban #PornBan
Pornocalypse Comes For Etsy - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog
I have argued that the pornocalypse began with Meg Whitman's eBay, back in the last century: Then Meg Whitman happened. It’s too many years ago now for me... Tagged: sex blogging,Bacchus (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)
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@violetmadder @bookandswordblog @LexPendragon
Decades ago, long before the blockchain-based "crypto" bubble, I was avidly following 'net discussions of virtual currencies. I felt then, as I still feel, that we need a stateless electronic money that is secured by cryptographic tools and immune to regulation by anyone of the uses to which it is put. Bitcoin proved it's possible, but failed (for my purposes) for various reasons. I'm still waiting. The day will come.
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TIL: if you press the “on” button on the kettle you get hotter water than if you didn't.
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@Lars Wirzenius I mean, water heated by concentrated sunlight is still better than cold water at making (hot brew) tea, so I don't see where the problem in your contraption is :D
today here it wouldn't be working, however (it's raining a bit :) )
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TIL: premendo il pulsante di accensione del bollitore si ottiene dell'acqua più calda che non a non premerlo
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🎉 The "De-google-ify Internet" campaign celebrates its 10th anniversary 🎂
Petitions, Whiteboard, Tricount-like, etc…
New Framasoft services are in the pipeline, and existing services are being renovated. The following page will tell you all about it, including why we need your help:
soutenir.degooglisons-internet…
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We have mandatory* voting here. I can recommend it, other countries. It changes the kind of candidate you get because they have to cater to all voters, just not to the ones who bother showing up.
[Single transferrable vote and proportional representation are also good and you should (re)try them. I mention this because if I don’t, many of you will.]
* There are edge cases which I will omit for brevity.
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TIL that if you take a pair of old-ish¹ sneakers, put them in a box and forget about them for more than 10 years², and then take them out of the box and try to wear them, their plastic soles will have degraded to the point of unwearability.
OTOH, after the soles detached from the rest of the shoe I was left with relatively comfortable footwear for walking on floor protection felt, so they are still working at their job of protecting my feet from wall paint and it's a win, I guess?
¹ maybe 2-4 years?
² they were stained with wall paint, which I don't think influenced too much the degradation, but is the reason why I kept them and tried to use them now.
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Allow me to remind that you if you are a fan of @davidrevoy's Pepper and Carrot, there is now a wifi-enabled, open source NES game where they can beat the snot out of an ogre, a video game magician, and a cyber squirrel.
home page: super-tilt-bro.com/
action shots: mastodon.social/@rainwarrior/1…
repo: github.com/sgadrat/super-tilt-…
#NES #SuperTiltBro #retrogaming #PepperAndCarrot
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È nato!
Il primo numero di Cheat Code, la Rivista Digitale Ufficiale di Livello Segreto è finalmente disponibile al download.
Scaricatelo, stampatelo, condividetelo, coloratelo, ma soprattutto: leggetelo!
Lo trovate a questo link:
cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/b2nq…
Nel caso lo vogliate inviato in via privata commentate con un vostro contatto!
Ringrazio tutte le persone che hanno collaborato per la nascita di questo progetto nato totalmente dal basso. È stata dura, ma ce l'abbiamo fatta!
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-f "best[height<=720]" and it had started downloading small videos, I've heard that -f "bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio" requires ffmpeg installed, but works.like this
@Kermode if I used it (which *of course* I don't :D ) I would also add --prefer-free-formats --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs "en*,it*"
(I could select just one of the two languages depending on the language of the video, but I've put everything into an alias and this way I don't need two different aliases :) )
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Regalo due scatoloni di riviste e libri di cucina anni 70-90
Con ritiro in zona Varese (o Como con tempi lunghi), regalo due scatoloni con riviste e libri di cucina prevalentemente tra gli anni 70 e 90 del 1900; solo in blocco e se non trovo qualcuno interessato temo che finiscano nel bidone del riciclo carta.
Rispetto alle foto (nel post originale sono allegate due foto, nel caso stiate leggendo da qualche parte dove ne mostra una sola) sono stati riempiti un po' di più, e ci sono un po' di numeri di Cucina Italiana, qualche libro di Frate Indovino, varie ed eventuali.
(il pezzo di carta da parati è stato tolto, a meno che ci teniate particolarmente, nel qual caso posso rimettercelo :) )
!Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️ #mastoMercatino #mastoRegalo
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@aka Ciccillo ecco, alla biblioteca neanche pensavo di far perdere tempo, mi aspetto al massimo che possano interessare a qualcuno che può volerci fare collage o simili.
Ancora ancora fossero cose di nicchia, ma le riviste di cucina credo che siano in giro a quintali.
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Regalo lampadario vintage funzionante
Regalo, con ritiro in zona Varese (potenzialmente anche Como, ma con tempi più lunghi), lampadario di linea vintage, appena staccato dal locale dove era in uso (e quindi perfettamente funzionante)
Attacco per le lampadine normale E27.
!Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️ #mastoMercatino #mastoRegalo
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Regalo cintura di velluto nero basata sul cartamodello della cintura edoardiana di Black Snails Patterns, taglia 34 europea.
Zona Varese / Como, eventualmente ci si può accordare per Milano.
È realizzata in velluto nero a coste sottili, foderata di cotone, con teletta di cotone non adesiva e steccata con fascette fermacavi larghe. Chiusura con tre ganci e occhielli sul retro. La lunghezza della cintura, allacciata, sono 66 cm.
Vorrei che qualcuno me la togliesse da davanti, perché si sta prendendo gioco di me e del fatto che io non abbia fatto un mockup — o almeno controllato le misure del cartamodello — prima di realizzarla.
Quando dicono che la taglia 34 è per una vita da 66 cm, con un pollice e mezzo di riduzione, intendono che la misura finale della cintura è di 63 cm.
Senza lasciare spazio per il corsetto stesso e i vari vestiti che si stanno indossando sotto la cintura.
Quando me ne sono accorta ho spostato ganci e occhielli il più possibile, ma non è bastato, sopra ai vestiti con cui la volevo portare arriva *quasi* ad allacciarsi, ma non ce la fa. Probabilmente ridendo di me e dei miei sforzi.
Ovviamente si possono rispostare gli occhielli nella loro posizione corretta per riportarla alla misura finale di 63 cm, ma allargarla ulteriormente è più complicato.
Abbiate pietà di me e fatemi dimenticare questo episodio increscioso senza dover scavare una buca per sepellire la cintura, che le stecche non sono biodegradabili :D
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Periodic reminder that NIST does not approve of expiring passwords.
pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-…
> Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
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The dreamstress / scroop patterns is having a sale on printable patterns
I've always had great experiences with her patterns
from her blog she looks like a good person
the article contains a picture of a day old duckling, if you don't care about the patterns :D
thedreamstress.com/2024/06/its…
It's the midyear Scroop Patterns Sale! - The Dreamstress
It’s midyear, I’m in Hawai’i having a long overdue visit with my parents, AND 10 adorable khaki campbell ducklings hatched yesterday.The Dreamstress
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I've just asked @Diego Roversi to buy a diamond for me and for some reason he told me “you don't need it”
the diamond: leroymerlin.it/prodotti/utensi…
(it's a diamond-tipped chisel, for walls, and I have to admit I currently don't have a use for it)
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@LaVi @Diego Roversi @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in realtà coi loro prodotti di consumo (tipo il nastro di carta o i guanti usa e getta) non mi son neanche trovata male (contrariamente al nastro di carta della coop. quello evitatelo come la peste).
Però non so se ho mai preso qualcosa che non fosse materiale di consumo.
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Da Leroy Merlin ci ho preso la lama per la troncatrice… ma era una Freud da 45 euri.
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when the alarm clock woke me up Draco had just proposed to Ginny
out of desperation, because she had been found to be the other half of a macGuffiny prophecy that involved saving the world (and a bit of pureblood prestige in the process)
and now I will never know what her answer was!
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua è dura prendere il treno (all'orario giusto) senza sveglia :D
(e sono anni che ho intenzione di implementare “fai il ciclo luci senza poi suonare” sulla sveglia per i giorni in cui non c'è da prendere il treno, ma non l'ho ancora fatto O:-) )
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Today there is what I believe is the pride parade closest to where I live, so of course while I'm ready to jump on a bookcase to hide from the noise I'm also doing studies in different techniques to paint rainbows
(no, it's just a coincidence, but I just noticed it and it felt appropriate)
(this is still work in progress, and most of the point was trying out techniques and materials)
Oggi c'è il pride che credo sia più vicino a dove abito, e quindi ovviamente sono pronta a saltare sulla libreria per nascondermi dal rumore, ma sto anche provando tecniche diverse per dipingere arcobaleni.
(non è vero, è solo una coincidenza, ma mi sembrava appropriata)
(è ancora in corso, e lo scopo di tutto ciò era soprattutto provare tecniche e materiali più che l'oggetto finito)
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I feel like the Internet Archive debate hits differently in countries like the US and UK, and countries like Hungary.
I do tons of academic research. The volumes needed to keep up with academia often run $100+ each. And unless I order them from overseas (delivery $30-50 each) there is no access to them. Several don't have a copy *on the entire continent* (few Hungarian libraries do international loan but it takes large amounts of money and months.)
I imagine many countries are even worse off.
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Things I will never stop doing: translating Elfenbeinschwarz as Elvish bones black, and expect it to be extracted from real bones from real elves.
Now, I do worry a bit about the fact that elves are supposed to be immortal unless killed, so extracting said bones would probably require violent death, but they are going to the Halls of Mandos and then reincarnate in a new body, so they are going to eventually be ok? maybe?
ok, maybe it's better if they extract the pigment from random inanimate carbon sources :D
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Una cosa che mi rifiuto di smettere di fare: tradurre Elfenbeinschwarz come “nero di ossa di elfo”, e aspettarmi che sia ottenuto da vere ossa di vero elfo.
Certo, un po' mi preoccupa il fatto che gli elfi sono immortali a meno che vengano uccisi, e quindi per estrarre le ossa gli si deve probabilmente causare una morte violenta, ma tanto poi vanno nelle Sale di Mandos e poi si reincarnano in un nuovo corpo, quindi alla fin fine va tutto bene, giusto? forse?
ok, forse è meglio se continuano ad estrarlo da fonti di carbonio inanimate a caso :D
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@Zambunny posso fornire agili link a documentazione della cosa dal sito della Schmincke (ma non ho sottomano il catalogo / scheda colori dell'olio, solo linoleografia, acquarello e acrilico), che guardare quelli costa meno che non comprare materiale di belle arti :)
schmincke.de/fileadmin/downloa…
schmincke.de/fileadmin/downloa…
schmincke.de/fileadmin/downloa…
però se serve un incoraggiamento agli acquisti, mi metto il cappello da enabler e arrivo :D
(edit: un incoraggiamento agli acquisti (e acquisizioni) *di materiale per pratiche creative*, non agli acquisti in generale)
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Non so come spiegarlo.
La parola corretta in HochDeutsch e':
ElfenknochenSchwarz
Puoi metterci Bein?
Si' ElfenbeinSchwarz funziona, cosi' come funziona l'italiano del seicento. Si capisce. Ma suonerai sia inconsueta che desueta.
E' come se tu, invece di dire "Dich zu treffen war wunderschön.", dicessi "Dich zu treffen was vil wol".
Verra' capito, ma se fai lo stesso in Italiano, l'interlocutore ti chiedera' "ma perche' parli come Dante Alighieri?"
Parlare come Dante non e' sbagliato, e' solo strano.
@Egli/Lui ok, ma avorio in tedesco si dice Elfenbein, non Elfenknochen, sia nel contesto del nero di avorio che nel senso generale del materiale.
Lo dice wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ivory#T…), lo dice la pagina di wikipedia in tedesco (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfenbei…) e lo dice il catalogo Schmincke e le etichette degli altri prodotti di belle arti di marca tedesca (meno buona della Schminche :D) che ho in casa.
L'etimologia della parola Elfenbein non mi risulta abbia niente a che fare con gli elfi, e usa il termine Bein nel vecchio senso di ossa, che comunque non è accurato (visto che le zanne sono più denti che ossa), ma è un'etimologia, non è una classificazione scientifica del materiale, e comunque nel contesto ossa ha molto più senso di gamba per descrivere una zanna.
Si, ma quando dici Elfenbein per indicare l'avorio , la parola Elfen non deriva da Elfo, e' una storpiatura di Elefant....
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfenbei…
Proviamo a riassumere. Nella parola composta, l'oggetto principale sta alla fine.
ElfenbeinSchwarz ha "Nero" come concetto principale, e ElfenBein come attributo. Stai dicendo "nero come l'avorio". Che non e' nero.
Se lo vuoi fantasy, la testa della gente la devi ficcare nel fantasy, perche' il tedesco e' tremendamente sensibile al contesto. Quindi, invece di tuffarti nella difficile arte di coniare parole composte, "Schwarz wie die Beine eines Elfen".
Per cui, usare knocken rimane il mio consiglio.
@Egli/Lui allora, la parola composta non è mia, la parola composta è tedesca, già esistente ed usata in germania e negli altri paesi di lingua tedesca: Elfenbeinschwarz, ovvero nero d'avorio, che è anche il nome italiano dello stesso colore, ovvero “pigmento nero ottenuto carbonizzando avorio” (ovviamente non lo producono più in quel modo, adesso lo ottengono bruciando scarti di animali non in via d'estinzione).
non posso chiamare quel colore con un altro nome in tedesco, né usando knocken, né usando una perifrasi, il nome di quel colore è quello, Elfenbeinschwarz, punto.
quello di cui parlavo nel post originale è la mia traduzione mentale della parola, in *altre* lingue rispetto al tedesco.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in theory I know the position of each key and can easily recognise them
in practice, if @Diego Roversi has opened the first door with his key, and I'm trying to open the second door my brain isn't able to realize it's supposed to give the hand the order to switch to the next key :D
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@Александр @Avery (She/Her) It made 102+ people see that cat and potentially follow the poster.
Introduction post is fine and all, but when you pay the cat tax it's a different game.
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Dear paintingverse,
when I decided I wanted to try #painting with #acrylics I bought a few 20 ml tubes, because I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new hobby, even if the price per liter was significantly higher, and I expected to only paint on A6 / postcard size, like I do with watercolours. They weren't metal tubes like I was used to in the 1800s :D but transparent plastic.
And then I got into myself some ideas on a bigger scale, and now I'm buying *huge*¹ 120 ml tubes. However I've found that the smaller tubes are quite convenient to use when painting on small scale on a cramped desktop, which is something I'm not planning to stop doing.
Does anybody have any experience with refilling smaller plastic paint tubes from of bigger ones? Is it even doable? If it is, I'd expect it's better to use the same brand/line/colour of paint, and possibly to avoid a complete refill, and only doing limited amounts at a time, to prevent wastage in case the biocides fail at their work and there is spoilage.
Also, I'm thinking I could either try to refill from the opening, or cut the seal at the bottom and easily refill from there, but then I'd need a solution to close it back in a way that doesn't let air in.
I guess that the alternative would be to buy empty metal tubes of the kind used by people who make their own paints, but that's too easy, right?
¹ I know :D
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Today I need to do things that require quite a bit of washing of hands.
I have a big papercut on the base of my thumb.
The. Pain.
(and I don't even remember how it happened)
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modern programming is like,
"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."
old-time programming is like,
"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."
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!["Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."
BSD coreutils
GNU coreutils
"They're [different in subtle and infuriating ways]."](https://social.gl-como.it/photo/preview/640/3180791 "\"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.\"
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GNU coreutils
\"They're [different in subtle and infuriating ways].\"")
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •OTOH, from the same wikipedia trip, and possibly by the same author:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_B…
a poem about the author's cat.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I have an illustrated version of this poem, which always moves me when I read it to my daughter:
themarginalian.org/2016/04/11/…
The White Cat and the Monk: A Lovely 9th-Century Ode to the Joy of Uncompetitive Purposefulness, Newly Illustrated
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