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In late August, my 85 years-old father and I did a vacation near #Verona , #Italy which we thoroughly enjoyed, and I want to do something similar next year.

Right now, my destinations of choice would be #Trento or #Bologna , since

(a) It's possible to reach them by train within a day from my father's home, and

(b) They have sufficient hills or mountains in their hinterland which should be nice for #hiking - an activity that both my father and I enjoy.

However, I do have one concern - most hiking paths we encountered near Verona were fine, but there were some stretches which were filled with loose stones with a diameter of 10 cm or more - far more than the small gravel paths we are used to. If I was roaming these places on my own, it wouldn't bother me much - but my father's balance is not as great as it used to be, and I do not want him to have an accident.

So, does anyone around here have any experience with hiking near these cities?

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Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!

L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.

In questa edizione il GL-Como si unisce a ILS Casorate Sempione, sabato 25 ottobre presso la biblioteca comunale Alda Merini .

Il programma è in via di finalizzazione, vi invitiamo a seguire il sito di ILS Casorate Sempione per aggiornamenti!

Volantino Linux Day 2025


gl-como.it/v2015/linux-day-202…

Gentil fediverso che lotta contro le stampanti

missà che la nostra è davvero arrivata, e sto meditando l'acquisto di una nuova: mi risulta che il consiglio del fediverso per stampanti che stampano e non cercano di infinocchiarti in abbonamenti vari siano le Brother, e i negozi soliti da cui compro questo genere di cose o non ne hanno, o hanno delle multifunzione enormi (e sono comunque esaurite)

avete consigli di negozi con sito da cui comprare stampanti, idealmente in it, al più in eu?

(sto cercando una laser a colori con connessione di rete cablata)

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@ModestinoSycamore @andre123 La questione dovrebbe essere questa: consumerrights.wiki/w/Brother_…

Il link l'ho trovato in descrizione cercando il video di #LouisRossman che ne aveva parlato tempo fa:
youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNq…

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saturday I had to wait about two hours for the seasonal vaccines, I tried to stand as close as possible to the open window in the busy waiting room, and noticed that I had noticed the sound of two trains from the nearby railway, but not the other four, from a different operator, and started to wonder whether the trains from the other operator were newer and more silent, but then the ones I had noticed often are also run with even more recent trains and…

this is (waiting for) vaccines causing autism, right?

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my mother's AC, also used for heating, has stopped working yesterday morning (service will be called tomorrow, because weekend).

since a few days I suspect that one of the heating elements in my oven is no longer turning on (I still need to test it, and then call service, I guess, or try to open it and see if there is anything obvious, otherwise call service).

and now my printer is giving errors of the “try a good clean, but if that doesn't work you need to change a motor that costs more than a new printer” kind (considering options. it wasn't printing that well lately, anyway).

the tarot reading says “danger: strong magnetic fields”

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/me at the supermarket: oh, they have candied chestnuts for sale, shall we buy some for the holidays¹?
@Diego Roversi : will they survive until the holidays? wait, what do you mean by “holidays? thursday?
/me: no, no, the holidays. well, before christmas there is also the Linux Day, that counts as a holiday, right?. and Halloween. and…

¹ around here in this season “the holidays” usually refers to Christmas time

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/me, al supermercato: oh, ci sono i marrons glacé in offerta, ne prendiamo un paio di pacchetti per le feste?
@Diego Roversi : arrivano alle feste? o per feste intendi qualcosa come giovedì?
/me: no, no, le feste. beh, prima di Natale c'è il Linux Day, quello conta come festa, vero? e poi Halloween. e poi…

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@Lysander il breve @Diego Roversi stasera era già prevista della torta di pane (e ho assaggiato della marmellata di castagne che era da aprire per altre ragioni), i maron glacé possono aspettare anche fino a domani, tutto sommato :D

(tra l'altro abbiamo ancora il secondo pacchetto preso settimana scorsa di una marca diversa, da assaggiare)

(il primo era stato assaggiato mi pare il giorno stesso in cui è stato comprato, o al più il giorno dopo)

(ma ci stiamo trattenendo perché comunque adesso stiamo anche mangiando caldarroste un paio di volte alla settimana, i maron glacé tutto sommato si conservano più a lungo)

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Once again - like so many people who host their own services or run their own tiny home servers - I find myself writing up the defensive measures I've had to stand up to keep the AI industry's crawlers from destroying the tiny human-scale machine I call $HOME.

It's incessant. My very modest tools are banning thousands of scanners from hundreds of address ranges every day.

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Whatever you think about AI and the industry around it here's a fundamental, irrefutable fact: in its current shape, with its current participants, this entire industry can only exist by offloading its costs onto unwilling and unasked people, ignoring the fact that they're part of an ecosystem, sneering at the entire idea of consentful participation and by and large refusing to admit that consent or permission are ideas that matter at all.
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In natura ci sono i maschi che fanno i maschi, le femmine che fanno le femmine, le mammemamme e i papàpapà! (balle)

...e poi c'è Teodoro Batuffolo detto Tuffolo che più volte al giorno "allatta" sua sorella con tutta la pazienza di una mamma gatta...

Che comportamento deviato e innaturale!
Sarà colpa mia che ho contagiato i gatti e sono diventati strani pure loro? 😂

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youtu.be/IkhqqA0zlHA io faccio vedere sempre questo a scuola. Il fatto che la natura sia binaria ed eterosessuale è una mega stronzata inventata grazie ad anni di censura (e autocensura) della scienza
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My system 7 project is continuing at a good clip, ps/2 keyboard input, sb16 emulation and started converting the pascal and assembly source for macpaint from Bill Atkinson to C also for inclusion #RetroComputing #macintosh #OpenSource github.com/Kelsidavis/System7
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I think it's fun that I often feel like several people on fedi are like my neighbors.

We don't follow each other, but we follow the same people, so we occasionally boost each other and like each other's stuff, but there's no real interest for more on either side, and like, that's great. I love that for us.

I love being friendly acquaintances on the internet.

If you're a friendly acquaintance, I hope you're having a nice morning, afternoon, or evening.

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new #fedibadge site!

Get your #FediBadge now!

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anyway, unexpected hand-finishing done, machine seams all done, now the only thing that is missing is a final pressing and then attaching the lining by hand (as I always expected to do).

And then I'll have a second choice of hat to go with my autumn outfit, for when for some inexplicable reason I may not want to wear a witch hat with ear flaps.

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comunque, cucito a mano non pianificato fatto, cuciture a macchina fatte tutte, adesso manca solo una stirata finale e attaccare la fodera a mano (cosa che avevo già intenzione di fare)

E poi avrò un secondo cappello per il mio completo autunnale, per quando per ragioni incomprensibili può non essere il caso di indossare un cappello da strega con i paraorecchie.

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Today my rss feed brought me this article with tips on how to handsew in bed (in case somebody is bedbound for any reason, but still feels the Urge)

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TFW you're walking around the house carefully holding a syringe¹ and they ring at the door.

thankfully it was for a somewhat spammy catalogue of frozen food delivered at home, and I didn't have to actually *open* the door while holding said syringe.

¹ empty, but still dirty with waterproof, document #fountainPen ink

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If you're helping people sign up on here, that's great! 👏

However, I'd strongly suggest not signing up on the mastodon.social server. It's way way too large and that's dangerous (here's why fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…).

I know some find choice overwhelming, so if you just want one general long-established very busy server mas.to is a better option for example.

There are also lots of other good servers listed at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers

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p.s. If you're already on mastodon.social, you can move to a different server.

If you only just signed up and have no or very few followers, easiest option is probably to sign up on another server and forget about your mastodon.social account.

if you've already got a significant number of followers and you want to keep them, you can move your account to another server using the transfer process. There's a non-technical step-by-step guide to moving your account here: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…

This is not a drill either.

Chestnut season has started! I repeat, chestnut season has started!

Yesterday we bought 1 kg of chestnuts from the supermarket. This morning we noticed a few chestnuts while walking, decided to pick some up and mix them with those from the supermarket and *without going out of our way or anything* we accidentally found ourselves with almost another kg of chestnuts.

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Anyone using #pdfpc (PDF presenter console) on #GNOME 48 (from #Debian Trixie)? It no longer works for me since the Trixie upgrade: it now shows both presenter and presentation windows on the same display. -1/-2 fiddling doesn't change anything, and even manually moving the presentation window to the right display doesn't help, because it has the wrong size.

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Just tested using Phosh and the presentation window opens on the correct display but is not fullscreened (window decorations are shown).

In sway it properly fullscreened, but did both windows were opened on the monitor of the terminal I started it in (but of course you can easily move it to the workspace of the desired monitor).

(Not sure applications have much say on which monitor they get attached to in swaywm ?)

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#Debian #armel has reached end of life with the release of #trixie and will not be included in #forky (already being removed from sid).

Unfortunately, that means e-waste for the affected devices, such as several older #RPi editions (unless switching to Raspian, which may or may not even work or support them for longer and is effort anyway).

armel has not been part of #LTS and #ELTS for a while, but this was not a problem as it’s a minority architecture and users could always upgrade (btw, if your armel box is still running bookworm, you’ll want to be on trixie by 2026-06-10).

I asked for it to be included in trixie LTS and ELTS, so that the old hardware can be used mostly securely until about 2035 instead of 2028, and the limiting factor for this is not will or infrastructure but funding. (While most security fixes aren’t specific to one of the architectures in question, there’s still some overhead, and armel is often slower to build and may need some more hand-holding than the newer armhf and arm64, so I believe that funding is actually needed.)

I’m just a private individual running one box with it I got as a gift, so I cannot offer much, but if you care about Debian and can offer funding, please approach @freexian (who organise LTS and offer ELTS as a separate-from-Debian offer) about this (and specifically mention armel).

If someone has connections to organisations involved in devices that cannot run armv7 hardfloat Debian or better, such as the #Raspberry Pi foundation, please ask them to contribute to #Freexian in the same way, so we can have proper Debian on these devices for seven years longer than planned.

Thanks in advance.

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tonight while half-asleep I thought of a possible set of rules for a card game using the cards in use in a #conworld

I've just realized that the potential maximum score is 20724, and that the game involves counting points at the end to see whether the game¹ has been won.

To be fair, in context card games are usually played mostly by school-age children and are supposed to be at a somewhat useful learning exercise.

But maybe it's a bit too much?

¹ it is a cooperative game, in that place and time they don't do competition if they can avoid it

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sogno incontri
Un amico aveva aperto un bar del tipo in cui si va con l'intenzione di incontrare persone con cui interagire da vicino. Un'altra amica era lì con intenzioni ed era seduta ad un tavolino all'aperto e leggeva un tomazzo pesante su un argomento di sociologia sinistrorsa. Abbiamo commentato sulla strategia di selezione probabilmente efficace.

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Good news, we have a new website on EU soil 🎉

dillo-browser.org/

And a Git web frontend (cgit) that works well with #Dillo:

git.dillo-browser.org/

If all goes well, we will be moving the rest of the components away from GitHub.

Many thanks to all the donors that have made this posible, hopefully we can keep the lights on for some more years:

liberapay.com/dillo/

Ieri sono stata a fare un po' di turismo architettonico¹ a Milano, e avrei un favore da chiedervi: quando fate la rivoluzione potreste cercare di non rompere troppo piazza Gae Aulenti?

No, perché così com'è è un tempio al consumismo che fa impressione, ma a metterci dentro qualcosa tipo una biblioteca e altri spazi sociali deve venir fuori una figata pazzesca

¹ altrimenti detto “un'ora e venti di coincidenza tra due treni, ho avuto tempo di guardarmi attorno

TIL that in Milan you can pay your metrò fare by tapping a debit (or credit, I guess) card when entering and when leaving.

which is pretty convenient when the high speed train you're on, that you've chosen precisely because it stopped at the same station as your next train, announces that they are stopping at another train station in a different part of Milan (~15 minutes by metro from the right station) and they tell you you can continue your journey “with the first useful train” (if you can find one)

thankfully the disruption had affected most trains, and my second one was also late, so I could catch it easily :D

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TIL che a Milano si può pagare il metrò passando il bancomat (o una carta di credito, immagino) sui tornelli in entrata e uscita.

che è comodo quando l'alta velocità su cui sei, che hai scelto apposta perché fermava alla stessa stazione del treno successivo che devi prendere, annuncia che stavolta fermeranno ad una fermata diversa (a ~15 minuti di metrò da quella giusta) e che puoi continuare il tuo viaggio “a bordo dei primi treni utili” (se riesci a trovarne)

per fortuna i problemi coinvolgevano anche gli altri treni, anche il secondo era in ritardo e son riuscita a prenderlo facilmente :D

tarot reading (sort of), non believer

I've just received my shiny new tarot deck¹

i mixed it and picked a card

it was the knight of coins, W026 – Battery charging

I realized I had forgotten about putting a battery under charge this morning

is this the tarot actually working as designed?

¹ organical-mechanical.itch.io/i… of course

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re: lettura dei tarocchi (più o meno), persona che non ci crede

@ragazza senza grazie più che altro il mio approccio a tutto ciò che può avere aspetti spirituali è molto discordiano, e l'approccio discordiano può essere offensivo per chi approccia quelle cose in altri modi.

e le cose offensive, insegna Eris, si fanno, ma senza ostentarle :)

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Sophie [predator tag] [petting zoo tag]
Size 165 enclosure
Immediate effect: Shuffle your action cards and then try to put them back in the same order.
Ongoing effect: if Released Into the Wild, returns to your zoo within two turns.

#ArkNova #Boardgames #cats

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I would like to remind two things I did around FOSDEM.

The "how to survive FOSDEM" blog post with a bunch of hints on how to prepare and get most of FOSDEM:

marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019…

And the "FOSDEM videos" page with alternative view of schedule. There is search option, a way to check each year (or all at once), direct links to slides and videos.

gpages.juszkiewicz.com.pl/fosd…

@fosdem

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There’s yet another “supply chain attack” so it’s a good time to remind you what the word means aria.dog/barks/forklift-certif…

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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

#infosec

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This is amazing! @albertgui have been able to draw around 2,547 stations from different European cities, all accessible on stations.albertguillaumes.cat

#Metro #Station #EuropeanMetro #European

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Intanto treni per Malpensa con seri problemi, e per una volta non è colpa di #trenord

varesenews.it/2025/09/danni-al…

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