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Why? Because it really matters #mentalhealth
#mentalhealth

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The world's longest rail tunnel has been shut to passenger services after a derailment in Switzerland causing damage that will take months to repair.

Swiss authorities said there was "no indication" when the Gotthard Base Tunnel would reopen.

Sixteen wagons derailed and are still stuck inside, a week after the derailment on 10 August.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66…

Derailed wagons inside Gotthard tunnel - the World's longest rail tunnel SBB currently assumes both tunnel tubes will be available for limited rail traffic at the beginning of 2024

Gotthard: World's longest rail tunnel shut for months after freight crash

National Swiss rail operator SBB said a derailed freight train caused severe damage to tracks.
By Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)

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New terf slogan just dropped.
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BREAKING: the world jigsaw authority have banned trans women from doing jigsaws with cis women citing their "biologically immutable advantage at connecting bits of cardboard together."

More as we have it.
#trans

#trans

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Debian Celebrates 30 years! Thank you everyone! bits.debian.org/2023/08/debian… #debianday #debian #debian30years

Debian Celebrates 30 years!

Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
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#Debian #debianday #debian30years

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Congratulations to Debian! Such an important project for everybody! #debianday #debian #debian30years
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Daily Mail Online: Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland. caitie delaney: The thing that's still bothering me about this is that a giraffe is easily one of the most disproportionate animals when halved. Which half, scientists. In what direction is it halved. I hate this.

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Moor’s Law ended in 1492.
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Very sad. Look at all the great things to come out of Granada: Corronation Street, University Challenge, World In Action...
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Anyone after #retroComputing fonts?

Just found this GitHub repository full of fonts for quite a few systems

github.com/robhagemans/hoard-o…


GitHub - robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts: turns out I like bitmap fonts

turns out I like bitmap fonts. Contribute to robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#retrocomputing
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@livinglavidaretro @Jmj I get the same thing, although I had seen that table before and it did work, but I think it was on another site
@jmj
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From Tumblr. I might as well post it myself...
Q:Some of your books make it seems like you believe in actual literal magic, do you? () A: I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn't actual literal magic I don't know what is.
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Magic is a little more than that, but not much more. You have to be good at writing to take it to that next level, though.
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you know what else is magic?
Getting in your climate controlled coach, driving to somewhere 40 miles away and arriving about a half hour later, and all the while you listened to a symphony played by a 100 piece orchestra.

I admit it's not as magical as being moved by words written someone 1000s of miles away or centuries in the past, but it is pretty damn good nonetheless.

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Huh. The council phoned up to ask me some questions and send me a £10 Amazon voucher.
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After all these years I’m rarely surprised by medical misogyny, but finding out that the research from the first ever tests on period products using blood instead of water were published LAST WEEK is one of those surprises.
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and even then, this research didn’t use period blood, which can vary wildly in consistency. Cups or discs can contain the thicker material that pads and tampons can’t absorb.
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as a trans woman who, thankfully, doesn't need to deal with menstrual products, but who patiently listens whenever my cis woman friends vent about their periods and therefore knows the general sentiment on that topic, I was shocked by this fact, and now I get why people hate menstrual products so much.

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The worst thing about going all explodey mopey on social media is feeling a bit of a fraud when you don’t feel quite so bad.
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If you're at all being triggered by external events, then its going to come in waves.

The question is, do you feel that you were being fraudulently mopey, or that the feeling not so bad is a fraud? Hint: it's neither.

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@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.

Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.

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I think the potential for emergencies almost certainly counts as an emergency. It's a bit like standing on a plank and it wobbles, I think. If you try again and it doesn't wobble the next time it doesn't mean that it's okay to put all your weight on it, or that it's not worth investigating it as a priority, or that it was silly to alert people to it!
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Having been there: just because it's stopped being an emergency now, doesn't mean it's not going to be again before the next time you can see your therapist. Or that next time it's going to go away so quickly. There's no such thing as a false alarm in this sphere, just that sometimes it takes a *lot* of work to figure out what the root cause is.

Have long post brewing about feeling guilty about alarming friends and family, particularly those who understand. Just do it. Some of us are going to be in a place to listen, some aren't, and if we're all honest and transparent about this then those that aren't should just be able to back away from the moment without anyone's guilt, and be there another time.

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Looks like I was pretty prescient ~5 years ago about the Hashicorp CLA being added:

twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1…

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Remember that free software licenses are irrevocable - even if a vendor changes a project to a non-free license, the older versions continue to exist as free software. So while we should absolutely criticise vendors who take the work of others and make it non-free, we should also bear in mind that they gifted us the earlier versions in the first place, and cannot take that away again.

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Yes, and there are examples where things went sideways; "Hudson" was a tool to do Continuous Integration testing, and Oracle trademarked "Hudson" and claimed that they owned it. Community quickly continued under "Jenkins" that we now all know and love. "Hudson" was abandoned and donated to Eclipse, and largely a forgotten name by now.

MySQL -> MariaDB is another example.

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Niclas Hedhman
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And something similar happened to OpenOffice; community went an created LibreOffice and Oracle dumped the remains on Apache.
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All the woke contingent in Apache is working hard at that too, and the reason I resigned from the Board 2.5 years ago.
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@niclas AOO's failure was obvious far longer than 2.5 years ago, and everyone on the board since the handover needs to accept responsibility for fucking up the value of the OpenOffice brand
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I agree. I opposed the acceptance of OpenOffice into the Incubator in 2011, pointing out it was going to be bad for the ASF reputation. However, the Incubator PMC majority was in favor of accepting it.
I am pretty sure there was powerplay with IBM behind the scenes.

"2.5 years ago" was a reference to the woke invoking cancel culture on an individual from his own (original creator) project and Apache at large, because people were upset about what he wrote on Twitter.

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No, no, see, piracy is only illegal if you’re an individual. If you’re a multinational, it’s called “the cost of doing business”, and they’re banking on the (very likely) fact that they can afford way more and way better lawyers, and bribe — sorry, I mean “lobby” — way more judges and lawmakers than you can.

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Mental health
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How does one "do" friendica. I don't particularly want to post things, but being able to comment would be good, if that's a friendica thing?
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@kæt I don’t understand. You literally did just comment on a friendica post?
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Oh, I see. It's two-way from mastodon is it? The friendica post content is presented to me here as a link. But unlike RSS, if I comment on mastodon, the replies are federated to friendica?

I was confused, expecting either the content and replies to both be embedded within my mastodon client or else neither.

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@kæt It’s two-way, yes. Or rather, they’re both activitypub servers so use the same protocol to exchange messages. Dunno why the content might just be a link though. Sorry.
@kæt
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@chiffchaff The confusion may be that a Friendica post has (can have) title and content, and when it gets federated to Mastodon all we see is the title and a link back to the full post on its server. But you can just reply to that stub here and it gets federated back as a comment.
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Stop using Brave Browser.

Seriously.

spacebar.news/p/stop-using-bra…

If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.


Stop using Brave Browser

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@ScottStarkey I am, but in context, it really makes no difference at all.
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@Feral3D Vivaldi is a great browser in a lot of ways, but I personally have never got on with the Opera UI, even 23Y ago.

But others like it and always did, and that's good.

@Feral 3D

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Oh Pip! 🤦‍♀️ #TheArchers
#thearchers
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When I gathered the courage to tell my mother that I was her daughter, not her son, she simply said:
"I have suspected so, ever since you were born."
"Why?"
"I was cursed when expecting you. A demon would take my firstborn son."
"And?"
"It came, looked at you and said 'Nah'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
#tootfic #smallstories #microfiction
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I love this trope! When magical beings know the true gender of a person
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I have booked my Winter Flu Jab for 14th September. I'm eligible to get mine free, but most pharmacies in England also have private jabs for around £20. In my case it was quicker to book the free one via my local chemist than to wait for the GP clinic in my village.

boots.com/flu-eligibility

#FluVaccination

#fluvaccination

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@NatalyaD @goatsarah Some years it seems to take months and months before schools get doses too. Though I think that tends to be when they've changed their mind last minute about which variants of flu to target this year.
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@goatsarah What year is this again?
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Whilst I like flying out of London City Airport for the convenience, a 31 hour flight to Porto seems a bit long.
luxair flight from LCY - OPO which takes 30 hours and 55 mins

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I wonder whether the Pavilion B Common Room at DAMTP is buzzing with talk of all this! mastodon.social/@Dtl/110858637…

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Interesting! Newtonian Gravity seems to break down at very very low accelerations - perhaps the end of dark matter models for the universe?

phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-…



Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars

A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable analysis of the orbital motions of long-period, widely separated, binary stars, usually referred to as wide binaries in astr…
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@Ben Harris
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Here's a repeat of an experiment I did on Twitter about 5 years ago.

Can you fit an entire Shakespeare play into a single social media image?

This uses the tiny GNU Unifont which is the most compact way to represent most characters.

The image is 4091x2069px and about 460KB . But when expanded it uses about 70MB of RAM - so some devices and services have trouble with it.

If this breaks something unexpectedly, please let me know.

(My original at twitter.com/edent/status/97032…)

Complete text of Romeo and Juliet in a tiny red font.

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it aliases horribly on my phone, probably monospace font size beating against sampling used to show the preview. If I was more awake I could probably figure out something from the alias period, but I'm not that awake yet.
Grid pattern formed by looking at too small text on an undersample preview
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The Royal Mail swap-out form has a box for your old stamps and no constraints on how you arrange them. So I tried to do something pretty.
#SwapOut #Art?
The back side of a stamp swap-out form, with a large box labelled "Use the box below to stick any stamps that are not self-adhesive". The box contains 43 stamps of a variety of colours and values arranged in a pleasing abstract floral design.
#art #swapout
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OK. How did that form end up with an odd multiple of ½p on it? I presume I must have mislaid a stamp somewhere.
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I made a keyboard!

Another keyboard!

dotat.at/@/2023-08-04-keybird.…

a compact keyboard; most of the keycaps are warm grey with white legends, but the modifiers and special keys are black and white, escept for escape and arrows which are red and white; to the right is a Kensington Slimblade trackball, and below both of them is a dark wooden wrist rest

I made a keyboard! – Tony Finch

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After some faff getting git repositories into shape, here are some notes on making the PCB and plates for Keybird69

dotat.at/@/2023-08-09-kbpcb.ht…

here's the hero image from the blog post, you will have to click through to enjoy the awesome purpleness of the actual PCB

a picture of the waveshare rp2040-tiny microcontroller and usb boards, a kailh hotswap socket, a key switch, a blue alt keycap, and a batman lego minifigure for scale

Purple PCBs for Keybird69 – Tony Finch

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Bluntly, Britain should be banned from hosting major sporting events over this racist policy. #cyclingWorldChampionships #Glasgow23 amp.theguardian.com/sport/2023…

Africa’s top cyclist Biniam Girmay ‘denied UK visa’ for Glasgow worlds

The Eritrean was among the favourites for the men’s elite road race in Glasgow but has withdrawn after the Home Office reportedly denied him an entry visa
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#cyclingworldchampionships #glasgow23

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@Nicovel0 yep. Here it's even more blatant because his schedule is so visible - the guy competes around Europe, he's not suddenly a flight risk because he's coming to Glasgow rather than Ghent. Britain is insular, racist and petty.
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What I find most ironic with the British Government and their racist policies is, the most racist members of said government, and hoping I don't come over racist myself, are non-white.
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100% tax. Every American tech giant has their European HQ in Ireland for a reason.
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Yep, breaking their system and making the users fix it is par for the course for Patreon.

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I didn’t even have much beer but I feel less good for it. Bah.
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I wasn't surprised to learn that someone proposed a unit for reciprocal of resistance to be called the 'mho' (ohm backwards).

I was suprised to see it proposed by Lord fucking Kelvin in 1883.

He even suggests to play 'ohm' backwards in a phonograph to work out how to pronounce it.

19th century physics shitposting.

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But what about phoneticians who came up with their 'cepstrum'?

(A cepstrum is a kind of inverse spectrum. Get it? spectrum -> cpestrum)

((The independent variable on a cepstral graph is quefrency. Get it? GET IT? frequency -> quefrency))

(((Phoneticians are very good shitposters.)))

#phonetics #linguistics #acoustics

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Thinking about heat pumps, since there's been waffle on the radio about them recently. My mental model of a heat pump is that you have unit(s) outside, and aircon unit(s) indoors which you can run either to cool or heat your preferred rooms.

However, what's being talked about on the radio seems to consist of hooking a heat pump up to replace your gas boiler and warm your radiators. Is this more effective or efficient? It seems to me that as the chances of hot weather increase you'll want to cool your house for some of the year, and this doesn't do that.

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Traditional model in this country has been to hook them up to low-temperature wet-underfloor systems. Recently they've started producing higher efficiency/temperature ones which can hook into an existing CHS, but you might need your radiators upsized.
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@Sion [main] I think @mobbsy has underfloor heating (wet, if I remember seeing the spaghetti of tubes rightly) and described it has having horrid latency so it takes forever to get to whatever temperature you wanted.
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indeed, not helped by the giant mass of poured concrete that the pipes are set into.

However, it's unobtrusive, no radiators on walls, warm floors are lovely in winter and the house stays pretty much constant temperature.

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daikin.be/content/internet/int… sort of thing

Daikin Altherma 3 M

Daikin Altherma 3 M is the Daikin’s first third generation monobloc, benefiting from a new design and using the R-32 refrigerant. Get in touch today.
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AIUI they're basically "drill hole through wall of the room to be heated; install unit A on the outside and unit B on the inside; supply with electricity. I think they'd be an adjunct to the existing gas CH rather than a replacement.
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@Adam Yes, I think that’s probably what I’d want for the downstairs living area.
@Adam
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Do let me know if you find anything interesting in your research!
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@Peter Ellis If I were to do this I think I’d have ducts in the loft for the upstairs rooms. Maybe the two big downstairs rooms would be more of a challenge.
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Today i am releasing a new font for $pay-as-you-like. drj11.itch.io/airvent-font

Airvent is a utility sans with near-monoline strokes with rounded terminals.

Airvent includes pre-built and OpenType fractions, smallcaps (including smallcap numbers and a couple of smallcap symbols), sub- and super-script numbers, ballot boxes, planets, and a typical range of daggers, section symbols, currency symbols, mathematical symbols, and so on.

Please try, buy, and boost!

#advertisement

The front cover of the Airvent specimen. White text on blue background. After the title, Airvent, follows an extended alphabet (that includes /ae /schwa /ezh and so on) a line of numbers, then at the bottom follows "From CubicType / Designer: David Jones". The overall style is of a rounded sans serif, quite serious, but approachable.

Airvent Font by David Jones (CubicType)

A utility font from CubicType. Made in Yorkshire by David Jones.
itch.io
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Fira Sans does. Dotted zero is a total killoff for me, even unstyled zero is less bad, slashed from lower left to upper right is the best ofc.
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taste aside (i'm pretty sure i have at least a few friends that share your opinions), it can be difficult to separate undecorated zero from /O and slashed zero from /Oslash (especially in this particular font, where i inherited the basic shapes; for example, the /zero and /O are unusually close in width).

[edit: oh, and disappointingly i don't think there is an OpenType feature for dotted zero, despite IBM implementing this option on the 3270 terminal thousands of years ago]

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Why cat ears?
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Sion [main]
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On cats or on catgirls?
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@Sion [main] On catgirls specifically. I feel part of the trans experience has somehow passed me by
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Oh, yes, me too. In my case I put it down to not being sufficiently girl, not being sufficiently cute, or not being sufficiently young. See also thigh-highs, which I would definitely have done when younger if sufficiently cute (and if they had been as available as now).
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@Sion [main] I tried them in my early transition (also lockdown!) clotheshorse phase and thought I looked kind of cute in them. They never stayed put though.
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Maybe you just don't have the right shaped head? :blobcatSad: (Like the way I can never get behind-the-head straps to work properly, on anything from VR headsets to masks.)
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Oh right! Either early phases you've not got enough thigh, or nobody's telling you to use tape.

(I can imagine you in cat ears though. Looking somewhat bemused.)

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railadvent.co.uk/2023/08/polic… This is rather amazing. As in the the 1963 robbery, they interfered with signals to get the train to stop. There was an excerpt from an incident log on the birdsite which I’ve shamelessly lifted here but I have no idea of its provenance. I’d be fascinated to read more.
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@geekylou :transgender_flag: Probably not quite that well informed? Most people kind of understand signals by analogy with traffic lights (though they probably don’t understand yellow) but are probably entirely unaware of track circuits.
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Branches of Costa on the verge of becoming entirely arsehole-free newsthump.com/2023/08/01/branc…
Laurence Fox calls for boycott of Costa

Branches of Costa on the verge of becoming entirely arsehole-free

Coffee chain Costa Coffee is on the verge of becoming free from the sort of arsehole that takes advice from Laurence Fox.
NewsThump
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Font Licensing. I would be interested in exploring a somewhat permissive license that is more restrictive than SIL. In particular, i would be interested in incorporating elements of firstdonoharm.dev . What licenses have people been impressed or intrigued by? (doesn't have to have an ethical stance)

Please boost.

#FontLicensing

#fontlicensing
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re ethical font licensing, this 2021 AIGA provides some interesting background eyeondesign.aiga.org/some-type…

Some Type Foundries Want to Restrict Usage of Their Fonts on Ethical Grounds. Will It Work?

Since opening shop in 2009, Zurich-based independent foundry Grilli Type has quietly built a reputation for expertly drawn contemporary designs.
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"In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month." -- Giorgia Hofer
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The German word "Arsch" means "butt".

But:

- am Arsch (at the butt) = out of luck, or: As if!

- im Arsch (in the butt) = damaged, broken

- für den Arsch (for the butt) = in vain, useless

- verarschen (to forbutt) = to hoax

- Das geht mir am Arsch vorbei! (That passes my butt) = I don't care

- am Arsch der Welt (at the butt of the world) = at the end of the world, out in the sticks

- Arschgeige (butt violin) = jerk

Enjoy our languarsch!

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I love that “arse-end of beyond” exists as a literal phrase in German too!
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TIL the soldering iron that has been sitting in a box of misc stuff in the corner of my room is about as much use for melting solder as a rod of graphite wrapped in wood

so tomorrow i should be getting a pinecil pine64.org/pinecil/

it’ll be the first risc-v micro in this house that i know of
(certainly the first user-programmable one)


Pinecil | PINE64

32-bit RISC-V SOC 0.69 inch OLED monochrome display USB-C PD and QC 3.0 @ 12V-20V 3A Replaceable plastic housing Removable tips Go to Store The Pinecil is a smart mini portable soldering iron with a…
PINE64

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Before I forget: this may be irrelevant for you, but have you seen one of the most common mods is to replace the tip screw with a thumbscrew?

There's advice on sizing on the wiki if that's something that appeals

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@flippac sounds like a sensible mod! so far i am not in love with the conical tip, tricky to get a good thermal contact, at least when soldering a breakout board with castellated edges to smt pads
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Because there are images of child sexual abuse circulating on Twitter (or whatever it’s called) and Elon Musk has actively intervened to ensure the perpetrators retain their accounts, I judge it no longer psychologically or legally safe to remain on Twitter. I’ve deleted my account.

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I was going to stop using it once TweetDeck becomes unavailable next week anyway (if that's still happening), keeping account to prevent appropriation of id.
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