Casual reminder that next Friday is Unsubscribe Day, when marketers will make it easy to unsubscribe from all the dead weight by contacting you all at the same time. #UnsubscribeDay
(Help me make this a thing. This needs to be a thing.)
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@Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] , I assume, wrote this
and. it's. genius.
I salute you.
Only one thing: out of *pure curiosity* I have been wondering what safeguards are in place to prevent you from flagging random accounts for verification at any time when you are out of gin.
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As a reminder for folks here talking about Trump, Musk, or other MAGA folk: Please don't use cute nicknames ("musky", "space karen", "cheeto", Drumpf, T***p, etc). There aren't algorithms to manipulate, and all the use of nicknames does is bypass individual people's filters who are trying to manage their own experience.
And speaking of, amusingly, my own filters are going to make this post invisible to me.
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Another issue with this: it trivializes what such people do.
Call them like a state prosecutor would. By their real name. That's what they deserve.
@cate @Jonobie there is a limit to how the filters can be improved to recognise that e.g. Space Karen refers to Space Dilbert refers to Elon Musk and still allow people to be creative in creating new nicknames.
Mentioning those people by name at least once in the post doesn't prevent one from using creative nicknames elsewhere, and easily solves the problem.
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@valhalla it is a philosophical problem: should we adapt to machines, to make them happier? We are here not to be under control of billionaires, but I’m not here to makes machines happy.
In any case there is not many alternate names, but I recommend to just mute users which go too much “political": im not here for that. Filter will fails: they are not the only one with such name (e.g. insects and plants).
Note: Here i start to get too much “you must do that”
@cate Machines ARE dumb. Near as I can tell the only difference between our proposed solutions is who bears the burden -- I'm asking the speaker to do so; you're asking the listener.
The problem is, your solution doesn't solve my problem. It isn't that specific individuals are too political, because of course I can mute them. It's that at various times an issue flares up, *lots of people* briefly get political. And that floods my feed if the filters don't work.
So @hexephre and I have been working on a secret project lately & now we are excited to present to you:
✨ Fedi Trading Cards! ✨
- Create your own personal trading card(s) and share them with friends!
- There are no rules to this game, so put whatever you want on there! Or make up your own rules!
- Use the #FediCard tag to share with other fedi...carders? cardizens??
- Collect them ALL 😤
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"End this accused meeting!" Conan's bellow was nearly inaudible over the resounding crack of his huge fists against the table. "Tis been half an hour, and those IT mages still struggle to connect with Zuul. Must we continue to waste..."
"For the last time, it's ZOOM." cut in the frustrated manager.
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Leggo casualmente in giro una certa preoccupazione e/o svariate discussioni sul problema delle migrazioni di utent* dai sn commerciali al fediverso, a seguito delle merdate cicliche dei vari proprietari miliardari.
Beh, negli anni che ho passato qui, ho visto queste dinamiche succedere ogni tot. Anch'io le prime volte mi sentivo infastidito dall'atteggiamento spesso verbalmente e psicologicamente aggressivo di persone abituate ad algoritmi e bolle social echo-chamber autoreferenziali basate su numeri di followers.
Però posso dirvi che il 90% delle nuove persone che sbarcheranno qui in questo periodo, non faranno altro che lamentarsi che il fediverso è troppo difficile senza sforzarsi un minimo di capire, non chiuderanno l'account commerciale e torneranno di là a leccare algoritmi appena passata la bufera. Durano un mese. 🤗
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I think I had seen it here on the fediverse when it was announced, but I've missed the date when it was made actually available (last summer, uooops):
bloomsburycollections.com/mono…
a new English translation of the Enuma Elish in open access
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TFW you have to reflash a device on site, and forgot home the mini-breadboard and jumper cables that you use to ground pin 9 on the board, but an electrician has just finished working on the 230V lines and they have left droppings (i.e. small bits of electric cable of unknown size)
it worked, the device is now reflashed and safely in position :D
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patreon.com/OhJoySexToy
#Censorship #SexPositive
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I've just declared sock mending bankruptcy.
(I'm talking about thin cotton ones, not thicker wool ones I've knit)
* darning them is basically useless: as soon as they have been darned they break somewhere else
* patching them with bits of other socks works, but takes some effort and I have a years-long backlog. really. it's a huge bag and I'm not going to go through it ever, and there are others in various piles around the house
* I need materials to fill a few draught excluders, and I don't have enough textile waste of other types (that I don't want to reuse in some other way)
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@MaialeCosmico no, no, le lavastoviglie sono fatte apposta per pulire piatti e pentole *sporchi*, lavarli prima è uno spreco (e leggevo in giro che rischia pure di essere controproducente).
ovviamente se ci sono sopra pezzi grossi vengono tirati via con una forchetta o simili a secco.
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@MaialeCosmico forchetta o qualunque altro strumento opportuno sia stato usato per cucinare o mangiare in quelle pentole / piatti
e i programmi più lunghi tendono ad essere più risparmiosi, per cui preferisco usare quelli.
x.x.x.x - - [10/Nov/2024:00:02:37 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "okhttp/4.9.0"
You know what’s interesting about this log line? It repeats 56,686,963 times in www.kernel.org logs for yesterday, across 4 nodes. That’s about 700 times a second, and this has been going on for months.
These requests aren’t intentionally malicious – they issue a simple GET /, receive their 301 redirect, and terminate the connection. From what I can tell, this is some kind of appliance or software installed on mobile clients that uses “can I reach www.kernel.org” as a network test.
This wouldn’t be that big of a deal – a single plaintext “GET /“ that triggers an immediate 301 is very cheap for us to generate, but the number of these requests has been steadily growing.
If you have any idea what this is and how to make it stop, please reach out?
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going to fawn over Standard Ebooks site standardebooks.org for a minute here
So aside from providing beautiful ebooks of public domain books, the site is blazing fast serving pages for so many books, and it's all static pages:
alexcabal.com/posts/standard-e…
Then look on a page for a book. There's a render of a book with the cover, the books at like an angle and if you hover over it the book floats a little.
Turn off javascript and the pic still renders and floats a little. If you right click and say open pic in new tab just the unaltered cover comes up.
Which means all the magic to take the cover and turn into a render of a book with a floating animation is all done in CSS.
And even better, go to a typical book. Typical thickness in that render. Then go to a big book, like The History and Decline of the Roman Empire.
standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwa…
Look at that chonk of a book in the rendering. So each book rendering is rendered the relative thickness of the book. Just such a cool detail.
edit: Oh, and go to the feeds for books:
There's OPDS (the catalog feed format), and RSS and Atom. Normally, you make the mistake of going to a feed URL in your browser instead of a specific program to read feeds, and you're punished with horrible XML.
But click on any feed link here and it's the nice looking HTML like the rest of the site. Is the server determining dynamically if a browser is reading the feed or a different program? But wait, isn't the site static?
That's right, all those feeds are also good looking HTML. Just brilliant work.
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From one of the blogs I follow, a list of primary sources of interest for historical costumers
sewhistorically.com/free-patte…
(mostly #victorian / #edwardian)
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TFW you're packing up your RPG books and in the second row in the back you find a printout of The Complete Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
and you have to see if it still exists online
and yes, it does!
and has even been updated to d20!
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My M4 buying guide: meh, just get a package in each of the lengths that the shop has, you're going to use them all anyway
because M4 is a size of screws and nuts, right?
(this subtoot brought to you by being tired and misinterpreting other toots for a few *long* seconds :D )
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This contains good information too: youtube.com/watch?v=NExdHb1-_D…
The main choice to make is whether one wants to have a new machine or a second hand heavy duty pro version which I recommend.
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
This was an interesting dive for me as well. I could not find an old video in which a senior mechanic explains the fundamentals of quality of sewing machines explaining the details on material choices etc.
Never mind this. My advice is simply to get some old reliable machine. It is also way cheaper.
Do you think Instagram/TikTok are a problem and you'd like a tiny, free and cheap fanzine to spread around the awareness?
Say no more!
Download it here:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/TgG5fAx…
This is an 8 page copyleft fanzine, printable on a single A4 sheet. You can cheaply print/photocopy and give it to your friends or just leave it around.
Here's how to fold it:
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/19vxGAm…
Text + layout by me, translation by @valentinabarreca
INSTAGRAM IS A CAGE!
(boosts appreciated!)
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I want people to maintain personal sites in the same way they wrote zines. I want people to share homemade music through homemade social networks, and to create both just for the pure love of it. I want our personalities to come through not just in the words or links we share, but in the URLS we use and the code we write. I dream of regional communities forming online, based around organically grown web rings, and for idiosyncrasies to form in the aesthetics of our sites based on the communities we learned to code from. Basically, to bring back all the things that made the early internet so exciting and open and welcoming.
~ from Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!, by Zach Mandeville
Basic HTML Is the New Punk Folk Explosion
A manifesto for making yr own personal websitescoolguy.website
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rn im just slapping a static image onto a video with my audio in order to share it amongst friends.
ppl are too plugged into Spotify.
Gente, butto qui la cosa anche se non so come siamo messi a livello di gente in brianza e zone limitrofe.
Ma se si tirasse in piedi un piccolo gruppo Origami (con ritrovo tipo una volta al mese e modelli adatti sia a neofiti che gente navigata) qualcuno qui sarebbe interessat?
Battete un colpo anche solo se verreste a fare un giretto per vedere che aria tira 
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Promemoria quotidiano: per favore i thread sulle elezioni politiche americane sotto CW.
Già se ne parla ovunque, facciamo che se qui qualcun vuole evitare l'argomento possa farlo senza problemi.
Grazie.
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La cosa più simile è copiare il link al toot e mettere quello sotto CW.
Where to Buy Books Other than Amazon
A few years back I had a habit of every six months or so doing a thread on Fedi about options for getting books other than Amazon. Eventually it finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.
Here’s the updated version for the new site.
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ilpost.it/2024/11/04/sciopero-…
sciopero dei treni (non solo trenitalia come dice l'url) per oggi, con poco preavviso per delle specifiche motivazioni #trenord #trenitalia #tper #italo
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TFW you're walking back from the hospital (vaccines) and you have a #faceMask hung on your ear to dry out in the sun, and you see people cutting into the street raising a huge cloud of dust in front of you
0% effort, 100% results!
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TFW stai tornando a casa a piedi dal centro vaccinale con una #mascherina ancora appesa all'orecchio per asciugare al sole, e davanti a te ci sono degli operai che stanno tagliando la strada e sollevando una nube enorme di polvere
sbattito 0%, risultato 100%!
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Today I've put this mirror on one wall
and I just had to ask it.
However, in Italian the mirror mirror phrase end with “who's the fairest *in the kingdom*”, and of course the mirror remained blank, since we live in a republic.
However, we do have a Marquess, who walks around the block looking for spots in the sun, demanding tribute and giving purrs in exchange, so I tried asking for the fairest *in the march*. I was deeply disappointed to see that the mirror remained blank and did not show any of the local cats.
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Oggi ho appeso questo specchio al muro
e ho dovuto fargli la domanda.
Giustamente è rimasto vuoto, dato che viviamo in una repubblica e non in un reame.
Però abbiamo un Marchese che gira per l'isolato alla ricerca di posti scaldati dal sole, richiede tributi e in cambio fa le fusa, e quindi ho provato a chiedere chi fosse la più bella *del marchesato*. Sono rimasta profondamente delusa dal fatto che lo specchio sia rimasto vuoto e non si sia messo a mostrare immagini dei gatti locali.
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as it is traditional for the 1st of November, my thumbs and indexes are raw and slightly burnt after peeling roasted chestnuts as fast as I could eat them to prevent eating less than the other people on the table, who have been doing the same :D
me. happy.
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come è tradizione per il primo novembre, i miei pollici e indici sono escoriati e leggermente scottati per aver sbucciato caldarroste bollenti alla stessa velocità a cui riuscivo a mangiarle, per evitare di mangiare di meno delle altre persone a tavola, che stavano facendo la stessa cosa.
me. felice.
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Vendo ad offerta libera / regalo ultimo dvd della serie Full Metal Panic, anno 2004, con cofanetto.
Zona Varese / Como
Ho dei ricordi vaghi sul motivo per cui avevo preso solo l'ultimo dvd, ma se a qualcuno servisse per completare la serie posso cederlo volentieri
#MastoMercatino #MastoRegalo @Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️
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Things that fit on a Yaris and don't require a truck, number 23124: 6 square meters of 1 cm thick wood planks of the type used to cover walls or ceilings
(luckily we needed them 235 cm long and had the shop cut them, because we only had a few cm of length left in the car :D )
(although we could have probably loaded them in a different way and get another bit of length)
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cose che ci stanno su una Yaris e per cui non c'è bisogno di un pickup numero 23124: 6 metri quadri di perline da 1 cm.
(per fortuna ci servivano lunghe 235 cm e ce le siamo fatte tagliare dal negozio, perché avevamo solo pochi cm di margine)
(anche se forse caricandole in un altro modo si sarebbe guadagnato qualcosa in più)
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Desk of Ladyada – Floppsy bring-up & a FONA revival #DeskOfLadyada @Adafruit @DigiKey
This week we worked mostly on some internal tools to help us keep more products in stock, but we did get a moment to also do a little hardware! First up we’re working on bringing up the Flopp…Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
a nifty chip that is! this version will also support floppy disk emulation mode by letting us control the direction of the two-level shifters. An additional GPIO expander provides the 4-way button interface, which we will use for offline disk imaging.
meanwhile, a message about the coming elections from a historian who afaik is quite right-wing in his economic policy opinions
acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acqu…
(spoiler: he's not endorsing Trump)
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are YOU making a website with INFORMATION?
it needs a date. if its not just a list of links... it needs A DATE.
yes your blog, youre recipe edit etc NEEDS A DATE..
please, can we get this right
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aaaaand I've caused an email to be sent to a number of work address just before 7 in the morning of a Sunday.
(I was reading wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_S… for personal reasons, as one does on 7 in the morning of a Sunday, and found a workaround for a problem I had at $DAYJOB, so I added a note to the relevant ticket)
(and honestly if the people involved get a notification from their work email at that hour, that's their problem: it's all people above me in the power hierarchy and it's not like we have a culture of having to be ready to reply to things at all hours, to the contrary)
Uso la posta elettronica dal millennio scorso.
La posta elettronica è posta.
Si scrive quando si ha tempo, occasione, ispirazione di farlo. Si legge quando si ha tempo, occasione, dovere di farlo. È asincrona per costituzione, cosa che la distingue dalla messaggistica istantanea, dalla telefonata, dal dialogo diretto...
Il diritto alla disconnessione va esercitato e significa che non si ha l'obbligo di leggere né di rispondere, non che gli altri hanno il divieto di scrivere. No?
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Viaggio dentro Montblanc, tra delocalizzazioni in loco e sfruttamento
Non solo stilografiche con la stella ma anche pelletteria, gioielli, orologi e accessori di moda. Il marchio del gigante svizzero del lusso Richemont ha una catena di fornitura problematica.Deborah Lucchetti (Altreconomia)
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Asemic Writing, a Zine
Posted on October 24, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine
I have no idea either.
Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess.
If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template).
A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped on white paper because the ink from the pad wasn’t working well on tracing paper.
Then everything was scanned (with the correction on top of the wrong page) asemic_zine_scans.tar.
Imported in Inkscape and traced asemic_zine_svg.tar.
Printed, cut in half, folded and stapled. The magenta lines weren’t by design, but are there because my printer is currently2cursed.
And finally, asemic_zine.pdf was created, joining the pages together with pdfjam, for convenience in case somebody wants to download the full thing.
All the .tar and .pdf downloads from this page are released under the WTFPL, or All Rites Reversed..
- it’s still technically Maladay when I write this, even if by the time you’ll get this it’s probably the 6th of The Aftermath.↩︎
- I mean, all printers are always cursed, but at different times they can be cursed in different and novel ways.↩︎
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Manuali per Riparare Qualunque Cosa - iFixit
Migliaia di manuali di riparazione, tutorial e guide su come fare per le riparazioni fai da te. Dall'elettronica alle auto, impara come aggiustare la tua roba e risparmiare soldi.it.ifixit.com
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 la robba è arrivata. ripeto, la robba è arrivata.
(quella da mcenteestea.com/ )
Dopo pranzo ho provato l'Irish Afternoon, che ha un gusto bello amaro e astringente, quasi allappante ma nel senso buono.
L'unico problema è che anziché svegliarmi mi ha fatto rilassare.
C'è dentro lo stesso principio attivo rilassanti della camomilla¹!11!11ONE!111 #noncielodiconoh
¹ la camomilla non contiene principi attivi rilassanti, se non l'acqua calda
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bene! Allora mi sa che finito lo Yorkshire proverò anche io il McEntee's :)
Dalla tua descrizione sembra molto buono (a me piacciono i tè allappanti), tuttavia io non mi sono mai svegliato con il tè, solo il caffè ci può per me
Aspetto le tue impressioni delle altre miscele :)
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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 a merenda invece abbiamo assaggiato il Sencha (té verde), per fortuna preso solo come campione da 20 grammi, e quello invece è stato fortemente deludente: insulso e pochissimo saporito.
O meglio, sarebbe stato deludente se avessi avuto aspettative, ma tutto sommato gli Irlandesi non è che siano famosi per i loro té verdi, per cui le aspettative erano basse, e posso dimenticarmene senza danno e tornare a comprare té verde dalle coppie italo-nipponiche :D
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Non è che abbia sconti particolari, ma il prezzo rispetto a qui mi copre abbondantemente il viaggio.
E lo stesso faccio ogni volta che c'è qualcosa a lunga conservazione in offerta speciale in qualche supermercato.
Ovviamente bisogna avere un freezer grande, e una casa nella quale ci stia sia il freezer che tutte le altre scorte, cosa impossibile in un monolocale.
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