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xtaran, 19 hours ago to random

#LateNightThoughts: If I ever buy an #Omnium cargobike, I name it #Omnomnom.

moira, 1 month ago to cycling

this rain cover is kind of a nightmare to sew but it’s starting to come together

need to add a skirt and attachments of course

#BikeTooter #maker #sewing

HonkHase, 2 days ago to microsoft German

#BSI verklagt #Microsoft auf Herausgabe von Informationen zu #Security-Desaster

"Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik hat offenbar ein offizielles Verfahren gegen Microsoft eingeleitet – und wartet weiter auf Antworten."
https://www.heise.de/news/BSI-verklagt-Microsoft-auf-Herausgabe-von-Informationen-zu-Security-Desaster-9721245.html

xtaran, 20 days ago to cargobike

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 28 = #SPEZI24, Day 2: Rode my KMX recumbent trike to #SPEZI (2x 4km) and rode each of the following bikes at least once through the 750m test course: A #Portus #Cargobike with direct steering 🤩, a #Muli (both with a #3x3 https://www.3x3.bike/ hub gearbox, once manual and once electric), a Wolf&Wolf SWB #recumbent and "Big Brompty", a nice, unique 24" conversion of a #Brompton: https://www.velomobilforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/verkaufe-24-zoll-brompton-umbau-weltweit-einzigartig-spezi-messepreis-1800-00-eur.73326/

But in the end I didn't buy it: It's too high above ground for me.

"Sofie" a red, front wheel driven short wheelbase recumbent with an aerodynamic wooden box in the back which also provides the seat. It has lettering on the box that says "Sofie made by holzwurm 2024". A visitor's bicycle.
Zarabike, an Italian delta layout recumbent trike which can tilt when riding through curves. Shown tilted to the left. A product shown at the fair.
"Ride your Bed" (RyB, campcycle.ch), an oval-ish 50kg folding caravan with a canvas top for use with e-bikes. A product shown at the fair.

xtaran, 5 days ago to random German

#PSA (nein, nix mit Autos 😉):

Auch Deutsche im Nicht-EU-Ausland (z.B. in der Schweiz) dürfen bei der #Europawahl 2024 wählen. Sie müssen aber wie bei der Bundestagswahl vorher die Aufnahme ins Wählerverzeichnis beantragen. Die Einreichungsfrist ist der 19. Mai 2024. Das ist kommenden Sonntag: https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/info/presse/mitteilungen/europawahl-2024/21_24_antragsfrist.html

Achtung, manche PDF-Reader (insbesondere PDF.js/Firefox) drucken das Geburtsdatum im Formular nicht mit aus. 2x von Hand nachtragen! Und 2x unterschreiben!

scy, 11 days ago to linux

Trying out bat (the cat(1) alternative) for the first time, and … I dunno, the flushing behavior seems bonkers.

I assume it's because stdout and stderr end up in separate places, and maybe cat isn't innocent here either, but having the output split inside of an escape code (note the "31m") looks like there's something really wrong.

("bar" does not exist; that's on purpose to produce an error message.)

#Unix #Linux #CLI #bat #batcat

Same command; this time, the error message is printed below the license.
Same command. This time, the red "[bat error]" is printed first, followed by (without a line break) the first line of the license, followed by the rest of the license as normal. After the end of the license there's the colon that would normally come after the "[bat error]", followed by the rest of the error message.
Same command. This time, the license is printed first. The last line of the license, which normally contains just the word "software", followed by a period, now has an additional empty line before it and is missing the "s". Below it, there's a line containing "31m[bat error]", followed by the rest of the error message.

xtaran, 28 days ago to random

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 21: Took part in the mass bicycle tour #slowUp #Ticino (https://slowup.ch/ticino/) with the #Brompton. I rode 52.4km according to the Garmin GPS. Officially it's a 50km round course between #Locarno and #Bellinzona. Took me 4h45min including all breaks. Needed the e-assist more often than expected due partially hefty wind. It had around 15 degrees C, though. So temperature-wise it was a comfortable ride. There were surely several thousand cyclists taking part in the event.

A fenced garden full of parked bicycles.
Shop window of a bicycle shop named "Cicli Rivolta" with two guitars made out of bicycle parts, mostly chainrings.
Many cyclists on a residential main street using up all the width of the street in on direction. One person on inline skates and a dog on a leash between them.

ascentale, 22 days ago to random

Welcome to the April 26th BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.

We'll start out with our introduction:

Q1. Where are you posting from today? Have you experienced or thought about any cycle-related milestones lately? Past, present, or future. Number of trips, distance, location, type of ride, etc?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

xtaran, 13 days ago to debian

#Lintian merge request list down to a single page again. Phew!

#Debian

ilanti, 15 days ago to fedibikes_de German

#Brompton Faltrad? Kaufempfehlung für Fahrten bis 20km entlang der Donau? Rückfahrt dann je nach Wind mit der Bahn. Ich warte meine Räder auch gerne selber.
@fedibikes_de
@mastobikes_de @fedibikes

xtaran, 14 days ago to debian

Anyone has an idea why for a few weeks, the #ComposeKey under #X11 on #Debian Unstable (set via "setxkbmap -option compose:menu -option compose:rwin -option compose:rctrl -option compose:ralt") suddenly only works if I release it before pressing the first key of the wanted key combo?

If you see e.g. a "a instead of an ä from me, it's because I was used to already press " before I released the Compose Key. Very annoying and happens far too often. 🤬

#DebianSid #DebianUnstable #MechanicalKeyboard

xtaran, 14 days ago to random German

Ah, mit Vitamin D!

xtaran, 15 days ago to cycling

#BikeStreak, Day 34: Mostly #quaxing, especially doing groceries. Not many kilometers yet (1.75km), but many kilograms: Frontbag 14kg, rear bag 10kg (beverages), #Brompton with #Velospeeder e-assist and the big battery 17kg, me myself + clothing, multiple swiss army knives, wallet, keyring, etc. 87kg, i.e. 128kg overall. Yes, the Brompton was overloaded.

Thanks to ROK straps (https://rokstraps.com/pages/rok-moto) I can now carry my Brompton on the crate swing out of the shopping cart. Cc @mwfc

#BikeTooter

A folded red-white Brompton sitting on a swung out platform at the rear end of a shopping cart originally meant to put crates of beverages there. It's saved against falling off with an orange strap between the bag hook of the cart and the trailer hook of the Brompton

moira, 17 days ago to cycling

today was my late end of #30daysofbiking, added on to the april event because I literally forgot a day while working on my northshore bike map xD

anyway that's 30 days even across 31 and it was a pretty good one, 21 miles with a few buns (I posted the best picture) even if there was also what might be a stolen bike. but!

now i'm wondering how it'll affect my biking in future if at all.

#biketooter

xtaran, 19 days ago to random German

Boah, hier hat's grade geklungen, wie wenn ein Bahnübergang zu geht: Gong, gong, gong, ... Nur ist hier kilometerweit keiner in der Nähe. Stellte sich raus, das war der Rückwärtsfahrton von irgendeinem Elektroauto. 🤬 #Musikauto

ascentale, 29 days ago to random

@xtaran wonders about campaigns designed to boost cycling:

Q4. Given campaigns like #Frostpendeln, #30DaysOfBiking (this is happening right now!) or #Bike2Work: Which type of campaign motivates you most? Are you more looking for "as often as possible" (e.g. at least once per day, outbrave any weather) or more at the distance ("see how "much you cycle get within some period")? Maybe regular group rides similar to a #CriticalMass? Or something completely different?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

ai6yr, 1 month ago to cycling

#BikeTooter achievement unlocked. This cyclist went to the market. This cyclist did not stay home. This cyclist bought arugula and butter. This cyclist put it on the new rack and pedaled (wee! wee! wee!) uphill all the way home.