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Tails

2020-06-03 10:33:32


New leaflets available to explain how Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) works.

They are available in in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish:
tails.boum.org/contribute/how/…

You can print them out, to distribute them where ever you believe fits.

Thanks to @dileodile for making it, and thanks to @[url=https://chaos.social/users/anhdres]anhdres[/url] for the illustrations.

(Tails protects you against surveillance, censorship, advertising, and viruses with a full digital security toolbox to allow secret communication)
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@Gruppo Linux Como

@Gruppo Linux Como

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

request for comfort

2020-05-29 20:07:56


content warnings aren't just for white people, though. they're for preparing folks for the content they're viewing before they view it. it's informed consent.

(note: using second person for the sake of rhetoric, but I'm not specifically talking about you)

assuming that folks want content warnings because they want to shut out all content perpetuates the harmful idea that content warnings are purely for blocking content. they're not.

the reason why I want content warnings is because I want to engage with content without having it shoved into my face. simply telling me to block everyone who posts about it without a content warning is counter to that idea, because you're basically telling people to stop engaging with the information out there.

social media is fueled by outrage, and the idea that people can't stop the firehose of information headed their way. forcing people to leave platforms because they're fed up with you throwing heavy shit in their faces is directly counter to the fact that people are sharing this shit to inform and to show solidarity.

like, vent all you want without CWs to your followers, but if you plan for your post to be shareable, you owe it to your audience to preface it with a very small summary of what you're talking about, to give your audience the ability to engage in context.

you're not going to engage with the folks who don't want to see your content anyway. want to change a racist's mind? your untagged meme won't change that. all you're doing is forcing mentally ill folks to ignore everything about the situation instead of taking in stuff at their own pace.

and, there are loads of black folks who are hit harder by this deluge of content because they have to deal with loads of anti-black shit every day. experience dealing with stuff, and maybe even the numbness that follows, doesn't mean it's okay to shove something in someone's face.

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Gruppo Linux Como

2020-05-24 12:31:53


OpenCast Live
Inizia: Martedì Maggio 26, 2020 @ 9:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce: Martedì Maggio 26, 2020 @ 10:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Immagine/foto</p><p><b>Torna OpenCast in versione Live!</b></p><p>Martedì 26 maggio a partire dalle 21:00 saremo live all'indirizzo live.gl-como.it/view.html#gl-o… , con la possibilità di interagire via chat!</p><p>Opencast è il podcast del GL-Como che tratta di open source, software libero e tecnologia in generale.
Posizione: live.gl-como.it/view.html#gl-o…
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

I mean, I've “always” know that red = warm, blue = cool from school art lessons, and that red = low energy, blue = high energy from school science lessons. It just took decades before I thought about the two things together.

Also, a friend with a background in astrophysics commented “yeaaaah, like stars. hot stars are blue, like the universal label for cool water taps!”

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

pins, following the instructions on katafalk.wordpress.com/2013/04…

made with 0.6mm copper wire, because that's the one I already had plenty of. I also have some huge 1.2mm brass wire that I want to try (but probably will only be suitable for things like coarse wool?) and silver plated copper wire that I'm not sure would survive the hammering part.

I also need a better surface to do the hammering on; the scrap of wood I used is probably too soft and didn't enjoy the process :D

Definitely something I need to get better at (and will probably try to).

in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

Second batch (the ones on the right). The silver plated copper is too thin to be really useful, and the brass is nice, but too thick. I do plan to buy thinner brass, the next time I have a chance to.

I also found a better surface to do the hammering on: one of my multifunction heavy washers / fabric weights (placed on top of the wood scrap).

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Inkscape

2020-05-04 18:09:10


Introducing Inkscape 1.0! After a little over three years in development, we're excited to launch this long-awaited version for Windows and Linux (and the macOS preview) Watch the release video (inkscape.org/release-video-1-0) and download it here: inkscape.org/release/inkscape-…

Note: If the download link doesn't work, check back a little later. The files are being propagated across our CDN.
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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Apparenty I've discovered that: a) sewing reusable masks stresses me out b) sewing reusable masks by hand relaxes me.

I'm not sure whether it's the pattern I'm using being full of nice features, but also a bit fiddly, making the same thing multiple times or the guilt over having had two months of quarantine and not having managed to make masks even for my close neighbors.

Sewin by hand while on confcall and the like is not really different from sewing by hand random things, apparently (at least for the first mask I'm making, maybe I'll need a break from this too).

Anyway, doing them by hand is slower, but probably faster than leaving a big pile of cut mask pieces near the sewing machine and avoiding watching in that direction :D

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

it! could! work!


(a picture of a somewhat crumbly dough in a glass container)

I've successfully reproduced baker's #yeast following the instructions (in Italian) on vivalafocaccia.com/ricette/ric… (web.archive.org/web/2020041907…) and the linked videos youtube.com/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1V… (invidio.us/watch?v=VeldxQHZ1VY) plus youtube.com/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1… (invidio.us/watch?v=7abLyLKIk1A).

The basics are: mix 25 g fresh yeast (or 8g dry, which is what I used) and 25 g water, add 60 g flour, knead a bit and put in the fridge (low temperature is important) in an airtight container (low oxygen is the other important factor) for at least 24 hours. Use in the following week, and start again from the last 25 g.

It smells definitely like baker's yeast (as opposed to sourdough) and the bread I've made with it has risen as expected.

#yeast

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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

It depends on the recipe: the proportion between dry and fresh is about 1:3 (but my 7g dry packets are marked as equivalent to one 25g block of fresh yeast).

I'm also used to dry yeast, so I don't really have an idea of how much that would be in volume. In the picture the container is a bit less than 10 cm wide, if that can help.

Also, I tend to make a lot of bread with pre-ferments, so I may be using as low as 2-4 g of fresh yeast (around 1g dry) for 400-500 g flour. The highest I routinely go is one 7g dry packet (i.e. 25g fresh) per 1000g flour.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

Starting from a particular strain and trying to prevent anything else from growing.

I don't think I'm going to keep this alive long-term for a few reasons.

Between the low amounts of yeast per dough and the fact that I also have an active sourdough, this is making more yeast than I use (and it only keeps for a short time between feedings — although it can keep in the freezer for slightly longer and I could try to experiment with drying like I do with sourdough).

While sourdough grows with time and gains flavour, with baker's yeast the idea is to have something that is consistent, so one would want to remain pretty close to the original, and I suspect that after a few generations mutations may start to change the way it behaves. I believe that this reason alone makes it worth restarting the batch from commercial yeast periodically (maybe every few months?)

And then there is the bit where dry yeast is soooo convenient, while this is a bit of a hassle to get the same results, and I'm basically lazy…

OTOH, it's an excellent way to get more yeast from a package now that it has disappeared from the supermarkets (and this means that I'm currently in the 1% or less of italians that have more yeast than they can use, and I can't even share it with other people in a reasonable way :( (at least not outside the building where I live))

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

@Ondiz I've received this (via xmpp) and for some *strange* reason I thought about your italian lessons :D

(image is a screenshot of a post by some Claudio Marinaccio with the following contents:

"C'è la faremo" = Il signor La Faremo è presente.
"Ce l'ha faremo" = Faremo è in possesso di qualcosa.
"Ce la fa remo" = Remo riuscirà a fare qualcosa.
"Cela faremo" = Qualcuno nasconde Faremo.
Ce la faremo?

@Ondiz

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Christina ✅ 🇨🇦 (alt account)

2020-04-17 05:12:37


the palindromic prime 1000000000000066600000000000001 is known as Belphegor's Prime, named after #Belphegor, one of the seven princes of Hell. Belphegor's Prime consists of the number 666, on either side enclosed by thirteen zeroes and a one. Belphegor's Prime is an example of a beastly #palindromic #prime in which a prime p is palindromic with 666 in the center. #calculotrivia #maths #Math
#Math #maths #Belphegor #palindromic #prime #calculotrivia

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

A few days ago I found out that the shop I buy kitchen appliance from is making home deliveries (this is still allowed under our lockdown rules for any kind of product), so I decided to buy the pasta machine I've been wanting to buy for quite some time (everybody in our household is still working, from home, so I wanted to spend some money in the local economy).

Yesterday we called them to order… and about two hours later we had a shiny, new, pasta machine: take that amazon and next day deliveries!

(ok, it was just a lucky accident: they already had a delivery scheduled to our area — and they have known us long enough to trust us with delivery before the payment had cleared — it's not going to happen a second time)

(in this context, the real advantage over amazon is that this involved the shop owner preparing and delivering the package safely on her own, rather than underpaid workers risking contagion in an unsafe warehouse)

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

Kermode

The point they make about people using more, because they are at home is valid, but reading that article you'd think there weren't hordes of hoarders at the beginning. They certainly exist where I live!
The stores here were selling out for a few days, but quickly adjusted their truckloads. There was supply every day. After a few days they weren't ever selling out.
Hoarders turned to flour next, but that's fixed, so now there is no yeast! Or isopropyl.
Plenty of bog roll though! :-)

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

I did this one of the first days of the lockdown, but I only took pictures a couple of days ago a sami-style leather pouch from an old (and quite ugly) leather jacket¹ and some red felt I had around:

I browsed through a number of search results for “sami style leather pouch” and drafted my own (very simple) pattern; I'm afraid I've lost the links I used.

My SO mentioned that it looks like pouch of gold coins from fantasy games, but the real contents are much more preciooouuuusss:

(the biggest, heavier steel washers I could find in the local DIY stores, that I use as pattern weights)

¹ that I got for free under the menace “if you don't come to take this (and other perfectly working things, including some almost-new garments) I'm going to throw everything away”

friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Inspired by an article that @Fabio wrote, I spent this afternoon configuring an nginx to serve video streams.

Almost everything works, except that apparently my letsencrypt configuration has broken (aaargh). Well, it can still be used with a non-matching certificate until I get to fix it.

And then I tried to install OBS Studio, and discovered that my laptop is too old, and it doesn't even try to load.

:(

@Fabio

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Teryl's Tales of Whim~

2020-03-27 06:55:47


The crones huddled in their secluded hut, brewing merrily.

They startled as a voice called from the entrance, "Are you well?"

"We are," said one.

"For now," said another.

"Supplies are running a bit low," mentioned the third.

"I can fetch what you need," offered the voice.

"What do you wish in return?"

"The secret to your health."

They agreed, gave the list and it was fulfilled.

"So what is your secret?"

"Wash your hands; now go."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

#fantasy #writing #MicroFiction #TootFic #TerylsTales

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Kiwix

2020-03-22 07:07:12

mastodon - Collegamento all'originale

RT @wolfwithdances@twitter.com

Decided to keep a local copy of reference essentials just in case anything disconnects us. All of Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Project Gutenberg's eBooks, and some Linux distributions. That's it there, on my pinky.

The world may be terrifying these days, but it's still kind of amazing.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wolfwithdances/sta…


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ghose [D*]

2020-03-10 04:42:35


debian


debian social

GREAT NEWS!


#pleroma #pixelfed #peertube #writefreely and .... more?

The Debian social team aims to run a few services under the debian.social domain. Our goal is to create a safe space for Debian contributors (whether their project members or not) to share what they're doing in the project and to showcase their work, collaborate with others and share knowledge. Just like planet Debian, it's completely fine for these platforms to have a personal touch, however, our goal is not to create any kind of social network per sé.


You can read it here!

#debian #debiansocial

#Debian #Pleroma #peertube #pixelfed #Writefreely #debiansocial

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