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I just found out that one of my old books, DevOps Troubleshooting, is selling for 10x the cover price on the used market because no new versions. That explains the past few royalty statements...

This weekend I finished the krokbragd pillow I was ⁨⁩ for my mom. I used a Damascus edge for the fringe and hid the fringe in the fabric. It took three tries to hand stitch the seams in an envelope fold I was happy with. Now I just wait for the pillow form to arrive!

It's a complicated loom but no one understands it but its weaver. Shaft.

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Apparently naming your floor loom is a thing weavers do. Right now my top pick is "Shaft" because of course it needs to be a pun and having a theme song is icing on the cake.

My local yarn shop sells natural-color wool from sheep living in the county south of here and the skeins actually have pictures (and names!) of the sheep the wool is from. I just need to decide on a project before I buy it all. ⁨

I'm over halfway through with this krokbragd ⁨⁩ project. It's amazing how much faster this is on a floor loom compared to on a rigid heddle.

these are some of the tips and tricks I used as a health reporter to access academic studies without spending thousands of dollars on them blog.yaelwrites.com/how-to-byp

I'm finally getting to the fun part of this project where patterns start to emerge. ⁨

So the main reason I wrote the Visual Voicemail App for mainline linux phones is because my mother leave voicemails if she can't get a hold of me to check up on me and gets worried if I don't call her back.

I'm glad to share that my mom can still do that since I switched to a #librem5

(and yes, I did call her back both times!)

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism @aral That's because it was only after that proposal that we discovered the project existed and that our repo was being used in this way. We were surprised and (perhaps naively in retrospect) didn't expect people would use us as a generic public source repo.

@koherecoWatchdog @aral @purism @LibreSolutionsNetwork Again we didn't intend on this platform being used as a public repo for everyone. I understand you still are angry about this but I assure you it this was not out of "DDG loyalty" as you put it, or some conspiracy, but instead from discovering: "people are using us to host their own projects and as a platform to attack other companies? We aren't set up for that."

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism @aral Oh I think I remember this! From what I remember we were trying to protect ourselves from liability since the goal with source.puri.sm was to host our own development projects and help outside contributors contribute to them.

We didn't intend on it being a free public GH replacement, or a generic web host for arbitrary content, and didn't expect people would use it for things like that. That would take much more infrastructure.

@koherecoWatchdog @LibreSolutionsNetwork @purism You seem to be using some pretty strong language such as "loyalty" for some reason. I simply am unaware of a better alternative at this point but would be happy to consider one if it becomes available. If you know of better options please let me know.

@phaethon @purism We're working on it as we get CPU supply! We just manufactured a new batch that arrived at our warehouse a few weeks back and we are starting to contact customers so we can ship them out.

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