ChunkMcHorkle
@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 1 week ago:
What you need is a curved needle: it will allow you to sew from the top without ever needing to have access to the underside. They are cheap and widely available. When you use one to sew your patches to the pocket, you can use your hand to keep the pocket expanded, or even better put something small and solid in it to keep the two layers separated while you whipstitch the patch down from the top. Watch a video on how to use curved needles for repair.
Going by name, there are two kinds of curved needles sold: upholstery and embroidery. You absolutely want the embroidery kind: the upholstery needles are huge, made for much larger projects, and would make the fine work you are trying to do very difficult. Also, if you can pare down any hard coating on the underside of the patches around the edges without disturbing the patch itself, that will be helpful when you go to put it on.
If you get a thread that closely matches the beige of the patch it won’t matter how sloppy your stitches are, because they won’t be seen. But if you can, wash it and clean the grime off as much as possible before you do this, because it’s hard to match thread to dirty fabric. Also, when you are trying to match thread, sometimes value (light and dark) matters more than color. Because you’re sewing a lighter colored patch, if you can’t find an exact match, choose the closest one but go a shade lighter: the dark will stand out more on a lighter background.
If you have any problems or questions, feel free to hit me up. I’ve been doing my own hand and machine sewing for decades.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 week ago:
After I didn’t see the mentioned content I looked around Zdnet, and I think you might have meant to link this article instead:
zdnet.com/…/rebooting-your-phone-daily-is-your-be…
Bad click, it happens. Good article, though. Thanks!
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 months ago:
Companies are not machines, nor algorithms, nor even just “incentive structures” devoid of humanity, regardless of their stated or actual purpose.
At their core, companies are ALWAYS groups of human beings, who have created that structure around the very principles you insist they don’t have, the primary principle being profit.
Algorithms don’t give a shit about money, nor do structures. But the people in them care a great deal. Enough to support genocide, which they individually, to a man, know is wrong, or they would not be trying so desperately to darvo this situation, to the point that they have the press ignoring that this protester’s email was her resignation. They didn’t fire her. She quit first.
Don’t normalize amoral behavior and group sociopathy.
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