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Lately I've been playing Brütal Legend, where there are red things hidden around the world that are useful when found.
Yesterday evening I was talking to @Diego Roversi when I spotted the red cap of a bottle of tick and mosquito repellent on top of a cupboard, and in mid conversation my brain went “red! mine!”
(to be fair, in the right season tick and mosquito repellent *is* useful and gives a stat bonus)
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chestnuts have been baked
now the question is: how many will be left for the dead to eat tonight?
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@Alessandro ah, beh, se le hai in casa meglio ancora! :D
mi sembrava un po' tardi per andare a comprarne
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I have often seen criticism of the protests against the #Gaza War in the Western World which boil down to:
"Why do the protesters only protest against #Israel - and not against the genocide in #Sudan or other places?"
To which I reply: Usually, protests are done to influence the actions and behavior of your own government. Western nations have little influence on Sudan, and have not provided substantial military support to the belligerents in this conflict. But Westen nations have provided _massive_ military support to Israel in the Gaza War, and protesting that absolutely makes sense.
Now, there are other criticisms one can levy against many of these protests - like the way some of them protray #Hamas as "heroic resistance fighters" instead of the murderous thigs they are, or calling for the destruction of Israel itself, or how the protesters too often draw upon antisemitic stereotypes.
But protesting against the military support their own governments have provided Israel in this conflict absolutely makes sense.
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In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...Python Software Foundation Blog
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I can't vote (because friendica), and I don't even have a cat, but I can provide photographic documentation of NotMyCat who usually curl up clockwise
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🗓️ Linux Day è domani! 25 ottobre 2025 - 25° edizione in Italia 🎉
Incontra la community più vicina:
linuxday.it/2025/
Grazie a tutte le città attive! Arona, Avellino, Bari, Benevento, Bergamo, Biella, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia, Cairate, Casarano, Casorate Sempione, Cesate, Cosenza, Crotone, Este, Fabriano (parte 1 ..)
#LinuxDay #LinuxDay2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 #SoftwareLibero #Italy
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Archaeologists in Lüscherz, near Lake Bienne (Bielersee) in Switzerland 🇨🇭, uncovered a 4700 year-old ball of yarn dating back to around 2700 BC an extraordinary discovery from the #Neolithic era.
Its preservation is exceptional, as organic materials like yarn rarely survive for thousands of years. Scientists believe the yarn was protected in an oxygen-free environment such as lake sediment or peat, which prevented decay #globalmuseum #archaeology
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@ragazza senza grazie i sorgenti di quelli esagonali sono su git.trueelena.org/crafts/hex_s… (tranne quelli disegnati da @Fabio che sono su git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/stickers )
gli adesivi invece sono appena stati messi nella borsa che domani verrà portata al #LinuxDay2025 di Casorate Sempione :)
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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Ottimo!
Also: I like your website sunkencastles.com/ let's follow you :)
Your guidebook to German folklore!Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
Thanks!
As part of practicing the language, I have also started to read some Italian folk tale collections.
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!
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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…
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
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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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Immagino che fare un plastico di quella linea sia il sogno bagnato della maggior parte dei ferromodellisti, ma 51 km in scala 1:87 (la classica "H0") richiederebbero un bel po' di spazio.
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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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@Comandante Virgola :snwfn: no, dai!
io speravo “non c'è due senza tre” ed essere arrivata. altri 7 no! :D
/me, who has been playing Brütal Legend in the last week or two
DOUBLE JAB!
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@David Bremner on the way to the vaccination we stopped at the library to leave some books we had read, and on the way back we stopped again to get some more books.
and we also looked at the titles in the little free library (but didn't find anything interesting)
for this weekend *we have plans* :D
/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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@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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L'anno scorso ho provato a farli. Ogni giorno a scaldarli in sciroppo. All'ultimo giorno mi arriva una telefonata importante mentre li stavo scaldando e si sono bruciati.
Non ti dico le bestemmie.
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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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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Contribute to Kelsidavis/System7 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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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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I need to do something quick and easy, and to clear up the sewing room a bit: I'll just do this cap for which I've cut the fabric more than one year ago, should only require a couple hours.
proceeds to do some finishing by hand over each seam.
@Antonio beh, fondamentalmente cucire a mano consiste nel ripetere continuamente piccoli gesti, è il genere di attivita che si presta molto bene alla meditazione
però dipende da cosa uno fa con la testa mentre le mani cuciono
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.
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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and the button on top. I almost forgot about the button on top.
And back when I had cut the fabric I had forgotten about it too, so tomorrow I'll have to dig through the stash until I get to the remains of this fabric, but I know I still have it.
e il bottone in cima. mi stavo dimenticando del bottone in cima.
E me ne ero dimenticata anche quando ho tagliato la stoffa, quindi domani dovrò scavare nello stash fino a che non trovo i residui di questa stoffa, ma so di averne ancora.
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@matematica - Algoritmi spiegati come fossero manuali IKEA
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Presenting my four best tips for hand sewing in bed, for anyone bedbound, disabled or needing to conserve energy.lizhaywood (The Craft of Clothes)
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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…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
@daniel I agree that it would be a better example. Wikipedia has decent references if you'd like to update the article: support.google.com/talk/?hl=en…
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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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 ?)
this is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.
polenta season has started!
rejoice!
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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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Good news, we have a new website on EU soil 🎉
And a Git web frontend (cgit) that works well with #Dillo:
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:
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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
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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
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
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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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ho appena ricevuto il mio nuovo e luccicante mazzo di tarocchi¹
l'ho mescolato e pescato una carta
era knight of coins, W026 – Battery charging
mi sono resa conto di essermi dimenticata di una batteria che avevo messo sotto carica stamattina
sono i tarocchi che funzionano davvero?
¹ organical-mechanical.itch.io/i… ovviamente
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@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 :)
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.
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Ultimamente ho giocato un po' a Brütal Legend, in cui nel mondo sono seminascoste delle cose rosse che è utile trovare.
Ieri sera stavo parlando con @Diego Roversi e con la coda dell'occhio ho visto il coperchio rosso di una confezione di repellente per zecche e zanzare, e a metà conversazione il mio cervello è partito per la tangente.
(che poi, a voler ben vedere, nella stagione giusta il repellente per zecche e zanzare *è* utile e da un bonus alle caratteristiche personaggio)
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in reply to Dread Pirate (Tom) Roberts • •@Tom Roberts @Diego Roversi yeah, I've only had a computer able to play it for a couple of years, so I'm pretty late to it, but now that I've finished it I definitely want to go around and find all of the missing bound serpents and buried metal (not that there are *that many* left)
the only problem I have with it is that at times I got stuck not being able to do what I need to do (say, start a (side) quest) because I didn't want the current song to stop playing :D
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