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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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FantasticalEconomics, to denver
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For anyone in the area who is looking to reduce their carbon footprint, the city is starting a program to pay people to ride their instead of take their car.

Transportation is the second biggest driver of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest contributer reducing air quality in three city. Every bit helps and the $150,000 in funds will hopefully help push people to make the healthier choice we all benefit from.

https://denverite.com/2024/02/14/biking-paid-program/

sam,
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@FantasticalEconomics I'll be curious how their implementation works; Georgia has a program like this that I think is state wide (though it may just be in Atlanta), but it's so obscure and hard to use that I'm not aware of anyone using it. That said, that's anecdotal, I don't know how successful or not the program has been overall. I bike to work almost every day and would love the small-but-meaningful sums of money it gives you, but it was so hard to use I've never done it.

sam,
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@CelloMomOnCars @FantasticalEconomics probably not, but (at least in Georgia's case) it's a non-profit created by the Atlanta Regional Commission who manages the program and raises the funds (or most of the funds? unclear.), so I doubt it's taking any money away from building safe bike lanes and it definitely doesn't reduce political will to create safe bike lanes since it creates more bikers to advocate for them. ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

alanz, to random
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Thanks to the @SocialCoop people dealing with the current spam onslaught.

I know one is happening based on what people are saying, but have not yet seen any here.

sam,
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@alanz it seems to be oddly targeted, from the couple dozen spammers I've banned this morning the same people seem to be reporting the spam over and over but I'm not sure why they should always be targeted and not others on social.coop. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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!

ascentale, to random
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Bonus BikeNite question that I lost earlier, by mistake:

Q3. Do you have a favorite (or recent) cycle-related photo you'd like to share? We'd love to see it, and tell us about it!

sam,
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@ascentale A3. here's one from earlier today: they brought this into the shop and asked us if it was safe to ride… if you inflated the tube it would balloon out of a slit in the wheel and start to pop. Yes, that's a slit in the wheel, not "tire". Their brake pads were worn down to the metal backing and there was a deep groove all the way around the breaking surface (pun intended) which had broken through at this point. I've seen bad wear before, but this has it all beat hands down!

ascentale, to random
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@sam has a nice question about cycle shops:

Q6. What is the best looking bike shop or bike related business you've ever been in and why (even if the people were jerks or you never want to go back for whatever reason)? What was the vibe it gave off? Bonus points for pictures!

sam,
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@moira @ascentale oh! I know that place! When visiting a friend in Seattle last year he had one day where he was meeting up with another old friend that I didn't know so I took a bike ride around town to entertain myself while he was off having lunch. I came across that shop and went in and chatted for a bit and bought a breakfast taco or something, I think. It was a lot of fun, and that was a great trail!

sam,
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@moira @ascentale (maybe, it looks slightly different than I was thinking, but I'm almost sure that was it? I dunno, next time I go back I'll have to stop in and verify)

sam,
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@moira @ascentale yah, I hail from Atlanta where (until recently, this seems to be changing) everyone just hates bikes so the whole time I was in Seattle my friend was just like "yah, I know, our bike lanes kind of suck" and I was just blown away by how many there were!

sam,
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@moira @ascentale oh yah, I still get that on occasion when riding to work; the last two miles of my commute is a small road, but it's a cut through that people take from a main road to the highway and I've had people pull up next to me, shoot me the bird, and then swerve straight into me several times.

sam,
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@moira @ascentale where abouts in Kentucky are you from? I haven't been back since I was tiny but I lived in Lexington for a while as a kid.

sam,
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@moira @ascentale oh that's right, you did say it was grad school, sorry! Small world!

sam, to random
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For non-profits big donors can often make demands. For example: "I'll give $50 million for a new building, but only if you name it after me." Individual small donors don't have this sort of leverage.

What if we created a platform where a group draft a proposal and pick an amount of money. Everyone donates what they can to the pool. If you reach the goal, you send the donation intent to the company. If you don't (or they refuse the donation), it all gets returned?

sam,
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ie. "100k donors have contributed $500k USD to Mozilla, but only if they abandon integrating AI research into Firefox and agree to remove Pocket integration to a separate addon that has to be installed only if you want it and doesn't come bundled like everyone else has to do with their addons?"

ned, to random
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Those of you who follow me probably know my situation. I am underemployed after my hours were cut in half in December. Since then I took on a part-time job baking (my usual work is in graphic design, and formerly photography), but it messed up my hands so badly that I couldn't properly use them for a month. My thumb has just healed up, but now I have to face another hurdle. It's midway through the month, and we haven't paid a thing towards rent. We have never ever been this delinquent before. /1

sam,
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@ned what speed bike chain do you need and what brand is the rest of your drive train (doesn't really matter unless it's 11 or 12 speed, but still); if I've got one that would work (and I probably do) I'm happy to send it your way.

Jeremiah, (edited ) to random
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Getting upset about an AT Protocol↔ActivityPub bridge is like getting upset that some of your friends used Google Reader to read your RSS.

“I didn’t opt in to people being able to read my blog if they use Google Reader!”

“I didn’t opt in to people being able to read my public Mastodon posts on the Web unless they request my URLs using a user agent I approve!”

(Countdown to someone calling for me to be fediblocked for having a different opinion than them in 5… 4… 3…)

sam,
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@Jeremiah this has nothing to do with a difference of opinion, and it's nothing like the example you gave. If I'm sending out a newsletter and I don't want people using gmail to receive it, I can actually do that. I can absolutely say "my content doesn't go here, the gmail.com domain is blocked". That's my prerogative. The same with other servers on fedi: I block a couple dozen servers where I don't want my stuff being boosted or interacted with, and I can do that.

sam,
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@Jeremiah There are even other bridges that are okay, because I choose to use them or not, they don't just vacuum all my content up and give it to tech bros to perform sentiment analysis on.

What's happening here is if someone walked up to you, started punching you in the face repeatedly, and then told you "you can opt out if you want". No matter how fast you opt out or how fast they comply, the damage was still done.

sam,
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@Jeremiah the same difference there is in most discussions of consent. I knew what I was getting into when I joined the fediverse, and I knew there were some servers that I would want to block but agreed to federate by default. With this other thing, however, I personally know about it, but most people won't. They'll just have all their posts vacuumed up and have no way to give consent in the first place. Most people won't, or even can't if they don't read English, know about this blog post.

sam,
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@Jeremiah In the alternative, the pithy answer is "there's no difference, we should have opt-in consent-based federation on fedi too." but generally I think it's obvious that there's a difference, and I don't know why some people have so much trouble with consent. Things are still copyrighted even though they're posted in public, or things may be public but I only want them searchable on some networks. Most people aren't being given that choice here.

sam, to random
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The thing the crypto currency (and various other forms of tech salvation-ism whether it's AI or just the newest social media trend) folks don't understand is that you can't solve social and cultural problems with technology (and especially not Ayn Randian right-libertarian tech-bro technology).

sam, to random
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I continue to be excited to see other bicycles at the grocery. Today there were a total of 3 bikes (which, sadly, means one of them had to be chained to a street sign because the grocery has only the pictured bike parking). One of the bikes was decked out with panniers, a trailer, and a child seat. So many groceries could be fetched!

sam, to random
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> 👍
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> [redacted] reacted via Gmail

Wait, is this a thing now? I absolutely hate Gmail even more than I already did. Why are we ruining everything? Why was this response necessary? I'm sure it shows up nicely there with terrible fallback behavior for literally everyone else. Proprietary extensions to email are not okay.

ntnsndr, (edited ) to random
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Hey friends, a question: what would you think of us piloting a Personal Data Server for Bluesky under the co-op? No commitment, just an experiment.

Docs: https://atproto.com/guides/overview

Discussion with @robin @boris: https://bsky.app/profile/ntnsndr.in/post/3kl3hwzd5we2x

sam,
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@ntnsndr @robin @boris strongly feel that we should stay away from supposedly open tech that is entirely controlled by the usual tech billionaires. Every time they claim to be reformed and doing something in the open they slowly pull back and enshittify, and lock us in and for some reason we always just fall for it again the next time they use a bunch of VC money to make some ostensibly open software that in reality they entirely controlled with no democratic input.

sam, to random
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It's amazing how many people will leave off alt text on a screenshot with text, get asked to add it, and then will be like "oops, yah, sorry, I added it" and now the alt text reads "screenshot of a twitter post" or whatever. I'm no accessibility expert, but I'm pretty sure it's obvious how worthless that is. Or do people not understand what alt text is for?

I don't know who needs to hear this, and I'm sure that my own alt text isn't perfect, but you need to actually think about your readers.

BlackAzizAnansi, to transit
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So this is cool!

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/02/09/plans-unveiled-in-georgia-for-americas-longest-paved-trail?fbclid=iwar0ec5ndo0wtyljwdecrwfv1ibiuafbvqa0rpfis9yexeiiiachjj4_r3fu

sam,
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@BlackAzizAnansi when the inevitable beltline connector is built I will absolutely bike to Savannah for vacation!

ascentale, to fedibikes
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BikeNite starts in ~1 hour, at 4pm Pacific! We ask cycle-y questions for community discussion. I post w/Q1, Q2, etc; you can answer with A1, A2, etc for easier matching.

Tag if you want your answer to be more discoverable; follow it to see questions & replies in your feed. Boost & reply to replies to keep the discussion going.

You can follow the BikeNiteQ tag so questions are easier to find, but you don't need to include this in your answers.

image: @glightly cc @fedibikes

sam,
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@ascentale @glightly @fedibikes woo, has landed on International Winter Bike To Work Day, perfect timing!

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