Notices by valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)

@celesteh @monocles @Steldamm @kkarhan my experience was that hosting an XMPP server lead pretty quickly to having friends and family use it, although there were a couple additional factors:

* family members (who are pretty normal people) got an account on that server, so they only had to install conversations on their phone
* most of our friends are of the FLOSS-nerd variety, and there are enough who are able to run their own server to provide for themselves and for the non-uploading nerds of the group, but everybody had at least some motivation, once the effort required was low
* I'm not on other chat systems (other than IRC, which I'm not going to recommend to family members :) )

Filed under: #selfInducedProblems.

I quite like my new fancy #fountainPen, I've loaded it with my go-to ink, and I've been using it semi-regularly.

But then last week I had to fill a couple of forms, in public, and when I got my pen from the beg I started to feel self-conscious and start to worry that maybe normal people aren't going to realize that it's a 16 € pen and not an expensive one, while the transparent plastic of the Preppy should show its price point quite more.

And I very much don't mind being seen as *that* person (the pen snob that won't lower themselves to write with a tool that isn't perfectly selected for their tastes), but I really don't want to be seen as *that other* persn (the pen snob that won't lover themselves to write with a tool that didn't cost at least a few hundred EUR).

Nella categoria #ProblemiAutoindotti

Sono decisamente contenta della mia nuova #stilografica fighetta, l'ho caricata con il mio inchiostro da tutti i giorni e la sto usando semi-regolarmente.

Ma in questa settimana ho dovuto compilare un paio di moduli in pubblico, e prendendo la penna dalla borsa ho cominciato a preoccuparmi del fatto che forse le persone normali non si rendono conto che è una penna da 16 € e non una costosa, mentre la plastica trasparente delle Preppy dovrebbe essere più indicativa del prezzo.

E non mi spiace per niente fare la figura di *quella* persona (la snob degli strumenti di scrittura che non si abbassa ad usare niente che non sia stato selezionato con cura per le sue fisse), ma non voglio essere scambiata per *quell'altra* persona (la snob degli strumenti di scrittura che non si abbassa a scrivere con uno strumento che non sia costato come minimo qualche centinaio di euro).

Dear people who use #warpWeightedLoom : how noisy are they?

I've seen videos of human-powered mechanical looms and there is quite a bit of *clack* noise when it's used, and I have some experience with backstrap looms where the moving parts are mostly soft and there isn't a significant noise.

Are the warp weighted ones somewhere in between? do the weights hit each other? Anything else that isn't soft hitting some other hard part?

Would it be possible to have somebody read a book in a room with a few looms in use, for the weavers to listen to, or would it be hard to hear them?

maybe @mlemweb knows?

TIL that #solarPanels also have bad consequences :D

today just after lunch for the second time since they had been installed our batteries were basically full, the sun was still shining, and we still can't send energy to the grid¹, so we run a dishwasher load, a washing machine (cold water, so it didn't help a lot, but that's what I had to wash at the moment) and we still weren't using what the panels were producing, so I had to face The Pile of Stuff That Needs Ironing.

I had been successfully² postponing that for *weeks*!

¹ from installation to being enabled for that it usually takes a couple of months, between bureaucracy and waiting for a tecnicians
² not that it is in any way near the bottom

L'Italia moderna¹ ha avuto due regine e un pezzetto.

La terza è stata regina per qualche mese e poi ci si è liberati di tutto quanto.

La seconda, Elena, il cui marito era impegnato a far sì che l'italia diventasse una repubblica², si è dedicata alle opere di carità: non credo che conti come particolare merito, ma se sei una persona bene o male buona che si trova ad essere una donna nata in una casa reale nell'ottocento, è una delle cose che puoi fare.

La prima, Margerita, era una stronza reazionaria che incoraggiava a sparare alle folle in protesta e supportava entusiasticamente il fascismo.

Indovinate a chi hanno dedicato un francobollo quest'anno?

¹ c'è stato un regno d'Italia nel medioevo, ma è una storia diversa
² potrebbe non essere stato il suo obiettivo

Modern¹ Italy had two queens and a bit.

The third one was only queen for a few months and then we got rid of the whole thing.

The second one, Elena, whose husband was busy making sure that Italy would become a republic soon², devoted herself to charitable work. I don't think it makes her especially worth of merit, but if you are stuck as a woman born in a royal house in the 1800s and are a baseline good person, that's one of the things you do.

The first one, Margerita, was a reactionary asshole who encouraged the shooting of protestors and was an enthusiastic supporter of fascism.

Guess which one is being celebrated with a stamp this year?

¹ there was a kingdom of Italy in the middle ages, but that's a different matter
² this may have not been his aim

@gemlog you are in Canada :D I live in a technically subtropical climate :D

(also, it's still the middle of the night over there, right?)

(-4°C is on the colder end of what we routinely get, nothing unusual, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to get outside without gloves and use water based glue right now :) )

Sunrise has happened

I could get up from the chair and go outside to do things

(checks the temperature, it's -4°C)

maybe I'll wait another 30 minutes :D

(it's 8:30 here, and sunny enough that I expect the temperature to go above freezing soon-ish)

(0.25 l / 1 gallon * 2 pounds) to g

needed to write no person living in a sane world ever.

Alla serata del @gl-como stasera abbiamo trovato il nuovo sistema di init successore di systemd: puntarellad!

e abbiamo anche i sorgenti di puntarellactl:

#Puntarella

@gemlog yeah, sorry, I published the article in a way that meant that the links in the rss were broken, and friendica didn't get the fix

the links are now correct on the blog:

blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/1…

this morning:

me: @diegor , you are legally the head of the household, right?
diego: yes, why?
me: and this means that you have power, right?
diego: [looks at me with a suffering air]
me: [hands him an alarm clock with a dead rechargeable battery] this needs some power, thanks [runs away]

stamattina:

io: @diegor , tu sei ufficialmente il capofamiglia, giusto?
diego: uhm, sì?
io: e quindi tu hai del potere, giusto?
diego: [mi guarda con aria sofferente]
me: [gli passo una sveglia con la batteria ricaricabile scarica] questo avrebbe bisogno di un po' di potere, grazie [scappa]

@gemlog no, I don't think that there is a club or something about historical clothing in this area (there are some reenactment things, but they are focusing mostly on other aspects), but I believe that a number of people here on fedi do know about historical accuracy

and I don't care about having it, since I'm basically making clothing for day-to-day wear, but I think it's important to say what is accurate and what is not, for people who are reading this and may have reason to care

(and yes, the shirt does need something around the waist, be it a belt or being tucked in in a skirt)

TFW you are sewing a skirt, with various meters¹ of fabric on your legs, and need to check your notes², and you know that you've updated them somewhat on the laptop, but you're on the PC, so you git pull and. timeout.

the VPS³ where you have the git repository is down. and you could sync directly with the laptop, but you're here under various meters of fabric and the laptop is over there, turned off, on the other side of the room!

or you can complain on the internet until the VPS is back :D

(and find out that you didn't push your commit from the laptop)

¹ we don't do those “90 cm cut of fabric, good for a skirt here. it's ankle-length at the very least, and finished circumference at the hem above 3 m or GTFO
² what will become instructions on my website
³ contabo, if anybody is wondering