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Question for the practical #knot experts:

I've got some hoodies with drawstrings that keep sliding all the way out of the hood when I put them in the dryer. They don't have grommets so tying a knot in each end of the string won't help. I've tried tying a reef knot between the two ends but it comes undone in the dryer and sometimes the string slides out anyway. Is there a different knot that would be less likely to come undone from dryer tumbling, but would still be easy to undo afterwards?

A star knot for #TilingTuesday

A dodecagon ring can be made from squares and triangles. There are three nice way to connect decagon rings to hexagons - each with a small star inside. If you connect the rings into a larger hexagon you start seeing a koch snowflake. This snowflake can also be tiled with squares and triangles, joining select shapes you can make a nice knot.

@jpmens Read that too and also had a look at #cznic #Knot for a #dnssec bump-in-the-wire signer.
Also seen that @nitrokey also has doc for #Knot: docs.nitrokey.com/nethsm/knotd
One operational question I have is the the ability to pre-generate keys once on the HSM, lock the #pkcs11 interface and have #Knot use them for automatic roll-overs according to policy w/o creating new keys automatically.
My understanding of #Knot manual mode is that key timing has to be done… well, manually!

docs.nitrokey.comKnot DNS - Nitrokey Documentation

I like knots that can be made with repeated cycles. I this is called a mat knot, by Ashley. There's some interesting math about it, in a notebook I can't find ATM.😅 I made this using cardboard & a bunch of pins. There's people, who make huge rugs, with peg frames & a similar method.

There's a number of different ways to expand this knot iteratively. This way expands with 2 ends, but I've seen a method that expands with only 1 end.🤔 #knot #math

Is anyone more interested in more #rope and #knot content? For example practical uses, (links to) tutorials, hints, Q&A about use cases.

Pictured: Friend's ceiling lamp was hanging too low and bumping heads. Pocket rope and two friction hitches solves that. See alt text for more.