Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

To celebrate #Maythe4th I'm adding --force to all my command line commands.

@inetpro Welcome!

@wobin I look forward to it being the same with me. I suspect part of my current feeling has to do with being a beginner--I've dressed my floor loom less than five times--and my worries about mistakes. I keep wanting to rush to the weaving itself, probably because seeing the cloth emerge is so satisfying. I should learn to enjoy all parts of the process.

@tinybirds My previous project (overshot napkins, https://social.librem.one/@kyle/108085921478789215) used the same size 10/2 cotton for the warp and had 480 ends!

The most time-consuming/tedious part was dressing and in particular threading the loom (https://social.librem.one/@kyle/107906986348065155).

I just tell myself it's the price I have to pay to get to the actual weaving, which is the part that is fun and rewarding. It makes you really appreciate pre-industrial fabric.

Preparing to weave fine cloth is no small task. The warp for the table runner I'm weaving next calls for 452 2.25yd long warp threads (24 epi). It took me about 6-7 hours on Sunday to measure out, and that was with running three threads at a time! #weaving

@matthew_d_green The goal at least for some of these new licenses is to have their cake (get free development from the community) and eat it too (prevent other companies from using their software).

@thrrgilag Thank you. Yes we are looking for someone who has published in the past or otherwise has professional technical writing experience.

I don't typically publish every job opening we have @purism but since I know other pro tech writers follow me, I thought some of you might want to know about a new technical writer position we just posted. Details here: https://puri.sm/job/technical-writer/

@ajmartinez@fosstodon.org If the tasks are shell-based to start with, I'd recommend also looking into using yad. I've written quite a few simple (but adaptive!) GUI app front-ends to shell scripts that way.

@fssofdeath @purism @todd Thank you!

@matthew_d_green While there have certainly been other periods in the past where people have made the exodus to Mastodon, this time feels different.

I mean just look at the lines on this! Antique Singers look nice and all but don't really compare. #sewing #antique

@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin IIRC we just did it over IRC (ironic considering the subject of the article) so I probably have logs.

Also don't forget my follow-up article the next month (also 13 years old!) where I start using Twitter once I found an IRC gateway:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-what-really-ircs-me-twitter

@zwarf In general it's good practice to backup your GPG keys in offline storage so you can restore them, but even in the case you didn't, after 90 seconds this falls back to your regular disk unlock passphrase. That way you can select a much stronger passphrase that would otherwise be inconvenient to type each time you boot.

@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin It's a classic.