(mordor meme: one does not simply walk into an haberdasher)

to buy matching ribbon during a lockdown, no, one must make it from self fabric. finicky, slippery, self fabric.

And then they reopen the shops in advance, but meanwhile the hat is almost done

(picture of a witch hat with ear covers, in dark green herringbone fabric and gold lining).

The idea and instructions for the hat are from Bernadette Banner: youtube.com/watch?v=bwDo4R6wtu…

For some reason, I had to send a screenshot to a friend, and the context was #pinephone related.

So (after I had sent the serious screenshot done with import from ImageMagick) I took my pinephone, opened the Megapixels app, took a blurry picture of the screen, opened dino-im (which does not really fit in the screen yet, since I'm still using the packaged version in #mobian), tried to send the picture, realized that the 15+MB .tiff file would have been blocked by the server, opened the terminal, installed imagemagick, converted the .tiff in jpg, sent the jpg with dino-im, and of course it was rotated 90° from what I expected it to be.

Definitely ready as a daily driver, right? :D

(btw, this is just me being silly, it's not ready, but things *are* improving)

And dere vill be anodder #hat

The design is by Bernadette Banner youtube.com/watch?v=bwDo4R6wtu…

This is just an unlined mockup in cotton, but I have some leftovers of dark green wool from my old girl genius costume and they are already on my cutting table :)

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A few days ago I was looking at some scraps of bark from what will become a new distaff and parts of my new backstrap loom. Then I was looking at the white wool on my other new distaff.

And well, this happened:

currently sitting on the balcony, wrapped in black fabric for at least one week, and I'll see what happens.

From what I've read, I suspect that the worst (but quite likely) thing that can happen is some shade of pink.

Emacsen

2020-09-11 16:17:55

I feel like bookmarks are good but insufficient. What I really want is something more akin to a personal Wayback Machine.

Does anyone know of a tool to do that easily? I could write a web scraping tool easily but I feel like this must already have been done.

@Diego Roversi (see the complete thread)

Ciao a tutti.

segnalo l'esistenza del neonato gruppo @softwarelibero group ai gruppi dei due LUG che frequento, che immagino possano esserci degli interessati.

Ci sono già delle linee guida su cosa si vuole che venga postato? Immagino solo post in italiano.

@Gruppo Linux Como @LIFO

Currently watching: the loop between talks at #DebConf20

Which, this time, isn't just sponsor logos, but has pictures from old #DebConf, messages from this year's attendees, and this:

(superhero powers for video team volunteers haven't been officially confirmed. yet.)

a pretty useful tumblr post with care instructions for various natural fibers

TL;DR no, you don't need to dry-clean that.

TIL the term #historyBounding, for when you take inspiration from historical styles and put them into your everyday clothing.

Which is what I've been doing the last few years, but it's nice to know it has a name/hashtag :) .

My shiny new¹ #solarOven, waiting for the sun to reach it.

Sadly I only have direct sun in the afternoon, so I can't cook lunch with it, but I'm making solar cooked apples for dessert this evening.

It's made of lasercut plywood with aluminium foil on one side, plus acrylic glass to completely close it, and easily disassembles flat. I still need to make a fabric cover (with a mylar layer sandwitched in) for added insulation, to make it perform a bit more like a box oven, while still having the portability advantages of a panel one.

¹ FSVO new: I've had the panels laser cut just before the lockdown, but it took me quite some time to fix some model errors and apply the tinfoil.

Dear #rpg playing fediverse,

I haven't played any rpg for more than a decade because of LackOfGroupError, and now I've been vaguely thinking it could be a good time to try to start one campaign via jitsi/videoconferencing.

Any recommendation on a game system we could use? Is Fate the current freely licensed cool things to do? (also, where does one start from for that? core? accelerated? condensed?) or is there anything else I should look into?

Ellie

2020-07-12 21:10:54

"Do or do not. There is no 'try'." attempts to be inspirational, but is hilariously bad advice for many people. "Perfect or worthless" is a stupid dichotomy and its internalization prevents many from living up to their potential. Let people try, fail, and try again, especially in creative pursuits like writing, drawing, and coding.

(I'd recommend reading also the rest of the thread)

Apparently, this is one of the exercises you're supposed to do when learning #watercolour

My current (and first and only :D ) set: a student-grade pre-assembled one that a) suits me just fine, since I'm still at the stage of “first attempts” b) costed about 1 eur less than a similar empty box from the same store, and appears to be practical and of good quality.

(The pink looking thing in the upper right corner is copper, and while it's technically watercolour I've bought it for calligraphy.)

I've been looking for an #origami document folder (two sides with flaps, and the covers have an internal space for more sheets) that I found a few ages ago, but seems to have disappeared from the internet :(

instead, I found this #envelope for #snailMail, which looks extremely cute :)

barf.cc/Snailml.pdf

I wonder how practical it would be for a real letter :)

Samuel Pepys

2020-07-02 09:22:22

Every thing stands still for money, while we want money to pay for some of the most necessary things that we promised ready money for in the height of our wants, as grapnells, &c.

I can see this as pretty relevant today, a few century later

Blagh is the Umbrian reflex of the Greek βλωγοσ, both ultimately from Indo-European *bʰleh₁-, “to blow, be vapid; to be wrong on the internet.”

tanadrin.tumblr.com/post/62173…

via allthingslinguistic.com/post/6…

please read the whole post (if interested in #linguistics, of course), it's worth doing so (and pretty short anyway)

Forth-Gesellschaft e.V.

2020-06-08 05:59:14

Collapse OS is an attempt to implement a simple OS that can run on anything computer-ish in case civilisation collapses

collapseos.org/

Originally in assembler, the people around it discovered and then adopted Forth

collapseos.org/forth.html

The discussion around this topic is interesting

github.com/hsoft/collapseos/is…

@Gruppo Linux Como

Family project for this weekend: a light box.

The box is made of corrugated cardboard, covered in a nice packing paper from the last time I ordered stuff from the internet (and one sheet of white paper for the inside); the “glass” is a leftover from a door. The light part comes from my SO's Secret Stash Of Things That Produce Light.

It… works

(while looking at it from the top the individual LEDs aren't as visible as in the picture, so I don't think they are going to be an issue)

Next step: trace all the things!