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sam

@sam@social.coop

Cooperator :TwinPines:, neo-luddite 🔨, Atlantan, solidarity forever 🌹, probably wants to be out swing or blues dancing 🕺, backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.

#biking #bicycles #climbing #bouldering #coops #backpacking #Atlanta #nobot #nobridge

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ascentale, to random
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@sam is woondering about DIY rain covers:

Q2. Does anyone have examples of a bicycle that they've built a rain-cover for (for the rider preferably, but if you've built one for your kids in a cargo bike bucket I'd be curious about that too)? Not something you can buy, something you built. Thanks!

sam,
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@ascentale A2. I don't have a good answer for this, which is why I was asking, but I keep wondering if I could rig something up with tent poles and some heavy plastic that would work with a conventional bicycle. Maybe have it clamp to rear and front racks and stretch a little bubble of plastic film over it to keep the rain off? I dunno, hopefully someone else will have ideas, but I know it's a niche question.

douginamug, to linux
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Tips for dealing with different timezones?

Every time I plan on an event in a different timezone I'm confused how to put it in my calendar.

sam,
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@douginamug I really miss Fastmail for this. As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't provide any sort of support for time zones except correctly showing events in whichever one you have set. I decided to switch to a provider with no (good) webmail and went to Thunderbird full time, and as much as it's gotten better, the calendar is the thing that really hasn't worked for me and that's made me consider going back. If you find a good solution, I'd love to know.

sam,
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@douginamug Somehow I have never seen that there and I can't imagine why there would be a whole option just to show or hide two extra tiny UI elements. Also why I can't just click on this map… I tried to click the map like 5 times and assumed it was just being buggy before I realized that it's not actually supposed to work that way. Thanks for pointing this out though!

sam, to motorcycles
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Anyone have recommendations for Bluetooth headsets? As far as I can tell they're all terrible, or both terrible and stupidly expensive for something that's just a Bluetooth speaker with a plastic helmet clip on the back.

flancian, to random
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@sam thanks for the meeting!

Do you have a link to the moderation hack?

Wdyt about setting up an XMPP room and then using that, and maybe cross-posting to/from the matrix room later if you agree?

sam,
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@flancian Just threw it up here; it doesn't really work for a few reasons (and other spam waves won't be this easy to detect): https://codeberg.org/SamWhited/spamblock

sam,
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@flancian I'm not completely against setting up an XMPP room and bridging it, but I've never had good luck with the Matrix developed bridges. This may sound a bit conspiratorial (but knowing some of the folks who develop Matrix it's no worse than anything else they do so I really think it's the case), but I'm pretty sure they deliberately make the bridges miserable to use with all sorts of terrible UI anti-patterns from the other platforms they bridge to so that you'll just use matrix directly

sam,
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@flancian we could try it, but in my experience theirs are just bad, they drop messages, they do all kinds of annoying things, etc. but there may be other bridges that work better.

sam,
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@katanova @flancian I've also used their IRC/Matrix bridge and it's even worse IMO, but I'd be willing to try it. With IRC in particular though I think it's just so far from peoples expectations for how a chat system should work these days that most people wouldn't use it and we'd end up alone in the room. That being said, I'm not against trying it if it's what everyone else wants; I definitely think it fits with our values more than VC funded Matrix.

sam,
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@katanova @flancian that is exactly the opposite of the experience I've had on both counts (both whether people will use it or not and the learning curve if they try to), but who knows, I'm willing to try either way :)

sam,
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@katanova @flancian we should probably consult everyone else first; unless you just want to make one to do a demo? Maybe we should setup a separate meeting to demo a few options.

sam,
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@flancian @katanova I think they meant an IRC server? That being said, yes, I'm very against running a Matrix homeserver. The matrix folks are just scummy and we shouldn't be supporting them in my opinion. Also the protocol itself is just garbage and extremely resource intensive (I was interested and involved with it for a bit but stopped after they did some questionable stuff at conferences and after realizing how bad the developers were and how hard it was to run anything)

sam,
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@flancian I actually did two things (it's a small diff, I wasn't actually doing version control so I don't have the other one): I tried just iterating over the timeline like it is now (sadly that doesn't really work, you can only get so much stuff, really it needs better search to make this practical), the other thing was a "live" feed using the streaming API that checked all posts as they came in and then auto-limited/reported them (so you had to keep it running as a daemon).

daihard, to cycling
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NBD... well, not exactly, but I picked up a 2015 Trek 1.1 for $200 USD. According to the seller, the bike was used once for a ride event (Seattle To Portland) but not much since. It's got the Shimano Claris with 11-28T, which isn't ideal for steep hills, but it's okay. I mainly intend to use it for errands and commuting.

sam,
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@nickzoic @daihard @nothingfuture that would be pretty tiny for max drivetrain capacity :) the formula is (big cog - small cog) + (big chainring - little chainring), so in this case it would be: (50-28)+(34-11)=45

sam, to random
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People talk about the "lack of an algorithm" on Mastodon a lot, but one thing I love about it that this doesn't capture is how my timeline is almost entirely bicycle and co-op related content and that this is by design. I've followed several hash tags, groups, etc. and heavily curated what I see. You can't do that on Twitter and the like because the algorithm will insist on showing you content that it thinks will drive engagement. Mastodon does have an algorithm, it's just a user driven one.

tfrank_de, to cycling
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It just occurred to me that everybody riding a 1x mullet setup with his Gravel bike (and most probably does so with a SRAM over a Shimano GRX drivetrain) really opted for the worst of all the possible drivetrain efficiency downfalls: He not only suffers "cross chaining" efficiency losses in the outermost cogs of the cassette but also does so with the worst of all chains - the conventional Eagle AXS chain! Yikes! (see my previous posts to see why)


@mastobikes

sam,
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@tfrank_de @mastobikes interesting; is SRAM that popular where you are? Near me at least I see it on a lot of nice mountain bikes, but on gravel I see almost exclusively GRX and Deore XT drivetrains. Very anecdotal, but I would be curious if grx is less popular in some places?

ascentale, to random
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Q8. Have you seen any really great and effective examples DIY traffic improvements or "tactical urbanism"? Did these work well and last without bad unintended consequences? If the "improvements" weren't great, what made that the case?

sam,
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@ascentale I don't know about DIY traffic improvements, but there's a bus stop near me that is on one side of a 5 lane road with no way to get to it. It's just an island with thickets and a rock formation behind it, a 5 lane road in front of it, and no sidewalks. Every time the city takes it away, someone shows up and bolts a new wooden bench there and spray paints "Build A Sidewalk Assholes" or something similar on it.

sam, to random
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Listening to a podcast this morning where the hosts try to push back against toxic masculinity, patriarchy, and gender norms. Randomly in the middle of an episode specifically about toxic masculinity and how harmful it is one of the hosts made a joke in response to something one of the other hosts said about how they "probably ride a bicycle with a bell on it like a child in the 30s". Car culture is so absolutely ingrained that this was entirely passed by without comment or concern.

sam,
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One day I will run for political office on the platform of "Dinggy bells and bicycles for all!" and if anyone tries to tell me I'm not manly enough I'll give them a lesson in what toxic masculinity really is (by challenging them to an extremely toxic dance off, probably).

sam, to Atlanta
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Apparently Georgia has a program now where low-income households can lease solar panels and have no up front cost for the solar install. After the lease and their power bill the monthly cost will still be lower than their old power bill. This seems almost too good to be true; what am I missing here?

https://capitalgoodfund.org/bright/

Matt_Noyes, to random
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Sending love to my fellow social.coop community working group ops team mods who have been fielding the deluge of spam...
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@emi @sam @flancian

sam,
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@flancian @shauna @Matt_Noyes @emi I've got a script to automate reporting/suspending I wrote last night, I'll try to properly test it when I get home later today and then may pester the tech team for review before I turn it loose on the server.

daihard, to cycling
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If you don't mind, I want your feedback on this @glightly. Others, please chip in, too.

I discussed the term "biking" vs "cycling" with the executive director of the advocacy org I volunteer for. The discussion took place because I wanted the org to start using the term "cycle/cycling" in order to be more inclusive. "Bike/biking" can be interpreted to exclude non two-wheeled cycles, such as trikes and quadricycles.

While the director understands and appreciates my concern and reasoning, he also wonders if the term "cycling" can send the wrong message that the org caters to recreational/sport "cyclists" rather than everyone who cycles. His direct quote:

"[I think] in the United States 'cycling' is often associated with road racing sport activities, rather than the more inclusive European definition that includes transportation. That's why the two main national transportation nonprofits are League of American Bicyclists and People For Bikes and the main racing nonprofit is USA Cycling."

I'd never thought about (or noticed) this distinction, but given the names of those orgs, it does make sense if, in fact, "cycling" and "biking" are used to indicate two different groups in the US. Do you have any insight into this?

sam,
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@glightly @daihard @grivettcarnac I had a friend years ago correct me and tell me to use "person with disabilities", but they were also able bodied and I wasn't sure they had any expertise. I've kind of forgotten to ask friends who actually have a say about it ever sense so I'd be curious what you'd want an able bodied person to say, if it's different or matters?

sam, to Atlanta
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The Jonquils and Carolina Jesamin are starting to peek out this morning, that makes it officially Spring in , I think! Yellow is everywhere!

sam,
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Spring update: now this thing in my yard is blooming! I should really figure out what it is, they're all over and I never know.

A large shrub or small tree covered with pink and white flowers.

sam, to random
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Took the first grocery trip on the (still incomplete) new bike! Still missing a front rack so I couldn't do a full grocery shop, but it also turns out that I can put panniers on the outside of the baskets! As a bonus, there was another bike at the grocery store too (which is always exciting since that used to never happen around here)!

The same bicycle on a bike rack. There are grocery bags in the baskets and green panniers on the outside. Another bike is behind it.

sam,
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Bicycle update! I got a shiny headset, stem, seatpost (not installed in this picture), and spacers! The old headset was very broken, the seat post was way too short to be safe, and the stem was borrowed from a co-worker, so I decided to spend the money and upgrade. Next step is building some new wheels as these rims and hubs are in pretty bad shape as well. Hubs have arrived, rims are ordered! I also treated myself to a bell even though that wasn't strictly something I had the budget for 😳

sam,
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As a follow up, because I'm extremely excited about how over the top the mirrored silver on this is going to be, here's a picture of the hubs! I ordered the matching Voyager rims, so the whole thing is just going to be glaringly bright!

sam,
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And here's a picture where the shiny silver seat post is actually installed!

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