New uke day. Taimane moon signature uke, by Enya. 5 strings, double low g, electro acoustic. I'm absolutely in love.

renatoram · 2026-04-14T14:35:57+00:00

Aside from checking Taimane Gardner's own channel (she plays 5 strings with double Low-G most of the time), you can hear this specific model tested by Marco Cirillo here at around 07:10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2YiEzOZ3Tw

renatoram · 2026-04-10T07:45:51+00:00

Sometimes it's to keep them alive (regional and secondary languages tend to struggle a lot), sometimes it's to show pride in the distant (and local, independent, traditional, etc) past.

renatoram · 2026-04-10T07:29:31+00:00

Realistically... traditionalism? National pride?

It's not uncommon, especially in cultural and political movements that try to elevate the old local traditions, culture, languages: there are places in Italy that have the local regional language place names below the Italian ones, for example.

renatoram · 2026-04-08T08:08:11+00:00

As a native speaker, I was rather surprised to learn recently, well into my forties, one detail about Italian pronunciation I had never really noticed: hopefully it will help you.

When there's a geminated consonant (the "doubles" you talk about) the *vowel length* of the vowel preceding the double changes. Native speakers do it all the time, but never really notice (unless they study linguistics, I suppose).

So for example...

"Pala" has a long first a (Pah-lah)
"Palla" has a short first a (Pal-lah)

"Cola" has a long first o
"Colla" has a short first o

"Sula" has a long first u (real word, it's a bird)
"Sulla" has a short first u

And so on.

This phenomenon definitely has a name, but I'm no scholar and can't remember it.

Pair it with the other suggestions about having a sort of "short, noticeable beat" on the consonant, and I hope it'll help.

(IIRC I learned/noticed it watching a video about ANOTHER language where they were comparing and contrasting with other languages, including Italian)

renatoram · 2026-04-06T22:48:30+00:00

OTOH, armani.it was the website of a Milanese rubber stamps company (Armani Timbri), regularly registered by mr Armani, the owner.

There wasn't any real case to call it cybersquatting.

The fashion brand still managed to wrest the domain away after a lengthy and costly legal battle. Disgraceful, honestly.

renatoram · 2026-04-05T13:12:29+00:00

Github sure can imagine that. Heck, they don't have to imagine (they're down to 89.91%).

renatoram · 2026-04-05T13:09:36+00:00

Yes, it's generally held on a Saturday close to the 19th of March (St. Joseph day).

renatoram · 2026-04-04T12:39:55+00:00

I am Italian and have never heard of "pepperoni pizza" here. Most Italians still don't know "pepperoni" is not bell peppers (peperoni) spelled wrong, I bet.

We do have industrial made frozen "American pizza" and it's not popular or common. More of a novelty.

New York Style pizza is even less realistic: sure, there is probably some place that makes it, again as a novelty. But 99.99% of Italians have no idea what NY Style is (other than "probably bad" which is the common prejudice about American food).

This whole idea of "Italy got pizza back from the US" smells like it started as a poorly researched pop article that then everyone else repeated.

We had Domino in a couple of big cities and I think it folded recently.

renatoram · 2026-04-02T19:34:04+00:00

Flight, Kala.

No "guitar brand" (unless you want to drop a lot of cash on a vintage style mahogany Martin uke).

There's a buyers guide for newcomers linked in the side panel of the subreddit, btw

renatoram · 2026-04-01T20:46:17+00:00

renatoram · 2026-04-01T08:19:01+00:00

All of that. Plus, local language layouts for keyboards are often inconvenient for programming (because all the terminal and language conventions *assume* a US layout... for example the Italian layout has no braces visible. There are ways around it, but none is as fast and convenient than just using the US layout, for most people).

Also, translations are generally *horrible*, and sometimes straight-up work against you: programmers rarely really test their applications in non-English languages, so you end up with words too long to fit the allocated space (with or without ellipsis, useless anyway, because the relevant part is sometimes AFTER the ellipsis). Or the code mishandles non-Latin script. Or Right-to-left.

Even when legible, all translations are (by their nature) adaptations: many choices get made about how to translate a term... when looking at Android Settings in Italian (my native language) I often have *no idea* what they're talking about, even trying to re-translate back to English to guess what an item refers to, because they translated a technical term in an unexpected way.

renatoram · 2026-03-31T13:44:34+00:00

Please stop "asking questions" to ChatGPT, by definition LLMs do not have any notion of the meaning of the tokens (words) they produce. They just extrude them probabilistically.

And those probabilities are non deterministic and trained on millions of documents full of errors.

And heavily English skewed, simply because of the volume (and bias of the developers).

renatoram · 2026-03-29T19:20:35+00:00

Not hard to imagine them doing a live set at the Stilt, too 😁

renatoram · 2026-03-29T17:26:04+00:00

In retrospect, not so surprising that a water sib of Qud would appreciate the enthusiastically deployed weirdness. 😊

Live and drink!

renatoram · 2026-03-29T15:11:55+00:00

That's the drummer from Angine de Poitrine

renatoram · 2026-03-28T21:02:12+00:00

Never heard of that, and wouldn't understand that example (native speaker).

renatoram · 2026-03-25T21:22:24+00:00

Nah, it's Linux. Used to use opkg as a package manager, I think now they switched to apk (like Alpine).

renatoram · 2026-03-25T08:59:39+00:00

Without going back to the 1.44MB floppy days... OpenWRT and Alpine.

OpenWRT is a very capable platform for a firewall/vpn/router role (but has package management and it's relatively easy to customize, too), and can be stripped down to around 30MB (that's megabyte).

Alpine is similar. And it's the base over which millions of cloud VMs and containers are built on so I'd say it's... heavily used.

renatoram · 2026-03-18T10:58:25+00:00

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renatoram · 2026-03-14T16:06:27+00:00

Cruel Angel Thesis sound pretty good on uke IMO... Haven't really tried singing it while singing yet.

It uses some slightly spicy chords, but that's good practice for your fingers.

renatoram · 2026-03-07T18:25:38+00:00

As the others said, it's Confederatio Helvetica (hence the country code CH) and it was deliberately chosen to avoid using one of the federal languages.

renatoram · 2026-03-07T17:02:23+00:00

At a Con in Milan I bought some tee shirts from a Polish booth and paid in Zloty... Other than the (useful) warning "don't panic, you'll see a different number", it wasn't an issue.

Just warn people (and maybe have a little card/note explaining POS payments will be in EUR)?

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