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xtaran, 5 days ago to random German

Habe gerade https://www.nett-hier.app/ entdeckt und musste mich da mal kurz kreativ austoben. #FahrradBubble #BahnBubble #NettHier #NettHierAberWarenSieSchonMalInBadenWürttemberg

xtaran, 10 days ago to random

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

xtaran, 15 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!

xtaran, 23 days ago to debian

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

#Debian

xtaran, 25 days ago to random German

Ah, mit Vitamin D!

xtaran, 25 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

xtaran, 29 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

xtaran, 1 month 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, 1 month 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.

xtaran, 1 month ago to retrocomputing German

Das #VCFe in München nächste Woche wurde abgesagt bzw. in den Herbst verschoben wegen Sperrung der Veranstaltungsräumlichkeiten nach Schäden an der Decke. Neuer Termin ist das Wochenende vom 7. und 8. September 2024: https://vcfe.org/

#VintageComputerFestival #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

xtaran, 1 month ago to linux

The xz backdoor storm isn't over yet and the next storm seems coming up: #LocalPrivilegeEscalation in the #Linux #kernel 5.15 to 6.5 (at least): https://github.com/YuriiCrimson/ExploitGSM

Affects at least #Debian 12 Stable and #Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (including HWE kernels).

(Via https://twitter.com/matteyeux/status/1777974230325354579 and https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1c0i7tx/someone_found_a_kernel_0day/)

#LPE #Exploit #ZeroDay #ZeroDayExploit #ZDE

xtaran, 1 month ago to random

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 5, Part 2: Went into the weekend a bit earlier due the time I worked during the Easter weekend on understanding and locally mitigating the #xz f🤬ckup. Ran some cycling related errands: bringing a rain jacket to #Transa for repair and visiting my #Brompton repair shop #Velofix for making an appointment for the next maintenance. The boss came out, pointed to their window and said "You're hanging in our window!" And indeed, there's a printed version of https://www.provelozuerich.ch/magazin/bromptonaut-unter-strom/

xtaran, 1 month ago to debian

Yay, #Debian reduces #OpenSSH dependencies (in Debian Unstable for now) and removes #libsystemd dependency.

openssh (1:9.7p1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

• Rework systemd readiness notification and socket activation patches to not link against libsystemd (the former via an upstream patch).
• […]

Thanks Colin Watson!

(via https://tracker.debian.org/news/1516548/accepted-openssh-197p1-4-source-into-unstable/)

#xz #xzbackdoor #xzorcist #JiaT75 #systemd #AttackSurfaceReduction

xtaran, 2 months ago to cycling German

Schön war's an der #Velodemo gegen das Verbot der #CriticalMass u. die Kriminalisierung des freitagabends #Velo fahren in #Zürich. Die schönsten Momente waren einerseits, als wir die Rampe zur Hardbrücke hochradelten u. jemand mit Stoppuhr rief "10 Minuten bis zur Spitze!" 😂 u. andererseits, als uns beim Raufradeln der Rosengartenstr. die Spitze schon wieder entgegen kam. Insgesamt waren wir 2h u. 12km unterwegs. Mit hin- u. zurückradeln waren's für mich sogar 23km.

#CMZH #HalloVelo #BikeTooter

Blick von der Rosengartenbrücke runter auf die Hardbrücke. Unten fahren in beide Richtung Velos. Nur Velos. 😁
Velostau auf dem Sihlquai kurz vor dem Hauptbahnhof. Man sieht auf mehreren hundert Metern nur Velos auf der Strasse.

xtaran, 2 months ago to random

#BadenWürttemberg #BWegt! Auch die kreativen Köpfe der Umfahrungsinitiative von #Olten. Gesehen in #Zürich an der #Langstrasse. #NettHierAberWarenSieSchonMalInBadenWürttemberg #NettHier #BahnBubble

xtaran, 2 months ago to random

@mntmn: Say, if I buy an MNT Reform Standalone USB Keyboard 3.0, can I swap the 3.0 keyboard itself between my (IIRC 1st gen) MNT Reform which currently has the old 1u+1.5u-only keyboard with ALT keys in the middle, and the USB keyboard standalone case, so that I get the new keyboard layout into my MNT Reform and the old, more exotic layout in the standalone keyboard?

xtaran, 2 months ago to animals

My parents' old #beagle dame sleeping in her basket. She's 13 years old but still looks like a #puppy.

#dogsofmastodon #doggosofmastodon #sleepingdog #sleepingpuppy

xtaran, 3 months ago to til German

#TIL: Beim Fahrrad und Motorrad spricht man eher von #Schutzblech, beim Auto eher von #Kotflügel. Ich hatte beides bisher synonym verwendet. "Kotflügel" ist übrigens ein Begriff, der noch älter ist als das Auto und aus der Zeit der Pferdekutschen stammt. (Quellen: https://www.swr3.de/aktuell/kurze-frage-kurze-antwort/warum-heisst-der-kotfluegel-so-kurze-frage-100.html und https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotfl%C3%BCgel)

xtaran, 3 months ago to keyboards

#ShiftHappens happend! @mwichary's impressive book about #keyboards and #typewriters today arrived here, too. 🤩 #MechanicalKeyboard meets #Bookstodon

A book slipcase with a black and white photography of some blank key caps.
Front view of the Shift Happens slipcase withe two thick and one thinner orange book inside. The two thicker books have beige key caps with legends 1 and 2 as label for volume 1 and 2. There's also a thin, stapled leaflet on the very right end of the slipcase visible.
Black and white cover of Shift Happens volume 1, showing a woman sitting in front of a typing device from probably the 50s.

xtaran, 3 months ago to mechanicalkeyboards

Happy #MechanicalKeyboard #40sDay!

My favourite ≤ 40% keyboards:

1. custom #WorldspawnsKeebs #Shambles (world's smallest #TKL 😉) in fluorescent acrylic with #Nephlock #GMK #Kaiju (bought from Drop)

2. #Ziptyze #Zlant (bought from #1UpKeyboards) with SA #Vilebloom

3. #TheVanKeyboards (#TVK) #MiniVan with GMK #Paperwork — IMHO the most usable 40%

4. #PyrooL #Alpha28 (sub-30% bought from WorldspawnsKeebs on Etsy) with GMK Pulse #Mitolet (from Drop)

Thanks to @petejohanson for the idea!

A Zlant keyboard (designed by Ziptyze and sold by 1UpKeyboards) with SA Vilebloom as keycap set. The keyboard has a uniform stagger, i.e. every row of keys has an offset of ¼ key width to the next row, hence filling the gap between ortholinear and classic staggered keyboard layouts. It's a keyboard just consisting of three layers of white PCB material, but it has no frame so you nearly don't see anything of it in this top-down shot. The keycaps show a (stepped) gradient slanted in the opposite direction as the keyboard's rows are slanted. Left side is navy blue on pale yellow, then there are two columns white on salmon pink, then one row white on old rose, and the right side including the 2u space bar is all white on navy blue.
A Minivan keyboard from TheVanKeyboards (TVK) with aluminum frame and the GMK Paperwork (design IIRC also from TVK) keycap set. Most of the keycaps are medium grey on light grey with the cursor keys having a slightly darker light grey as base color. Tab, Shift, Enter Backspace, one the two short spacebars and the menu key have inverse colors (light grey on medium grey). The for bottom left keycaps have the base colors yellow, cyan, purple and green with legends in a darker tone of the same color. These colors are reminiscent of neon markers on recycling paper with a checked pattern. Black background.
An Alpha keyboard, designed by PyrooL and sold by WorldspawnKeebs. As "Alpha" is a very ambiguous name, many call it Alpha28 as it only has 28 keys: 26 "alpha" keys (hence probably the original name), a 2u spacebar and a key left of the L key which can be used as layer switch key or Enter key, … The keyboard has a half-ortholinear and half-staggered layout consisting of just three rows of keys. The two upper key rows have each 10 1u keys and are ortholinear to each other and contain the letters QWERTYUIOP, ASDFGHJKL and a key labeled "Data". The bottom row has 7 1u keys (ZXCV and BNM) and a 2u space bar between V and B. It's a keyboard just consisting of one layer of white PCB material and two layers of transparent acrylic, so you nearly see anything of the "case" in this top-down shot. The keycap set is GMK Pulse Mitolet, i.e. cyan on purple. It's sitting on a sun-lit sandstone window sill.

xtaran, 3 months ago to random German

Ich bin da, wo seid Ihr? #KlareKanteGegenRechts #Zürich

Cc @kubikpixel

xtaran, 4 months ago to random

@mattof, @linm @SDF: I just discovered by chance that the #10kBClub (formerly available under the now no more resolving 10kbclub.com domain) has been closed and is no more maintained: https://github.com/spcask/10kbclub/commit/2e47bf4d2e60897b9de4cdc549cc5cf9e75ea5b2

The git repo at https://github.com/spcask/10kbclub (made a backup copy) and what's in the Wayback Machine (latest copy at https://web.archive.org/web/20231208000921/https://10kbclub.com/) is all that's left.

xtaran, 4 months ago to random German

#BikeToWork / #Bike2Work im Sommer kann doch jeder. 😉 Und weil's das im Winter nicht gibt, gibt's das #Frostpendeln (von @frostpendeln) für die, die auch bei Frost noch #mdRzA radeln. #WinterBiking

Selfie mit leuchtgelbem Velohelm und Jacke, roten Rucksacktrageriemen und orange-braun gemustertem Buff-Endlosschal so weit hochgezogen, dass nur noch der Schnauzbart rausschaut.
Screenshot der MeteoSchweiz Äpp auf SailfishOS für das Wetter für 8049 Zürich am 9.1.24: -4 bis -2 Grad Celsius, 10 km/h Wind und trocken.
Ein leicht verdreckter Frostpendeln-2023-Aufkleber (schwarz auf weiß: halbes Kettenblatt, halbe Schneeflocke, in der Mitte Schriftzug und Jahreszahl) auf dem hinteren Kotflügel eines Bromptons.

xtaran, 5 months ago to random

Chances are not that low that this happens, but I was confused and then surprised anyways: @Mark (admin of that server) and @dingodog19 use the same (comic) profile picture.

But I assume they're two different persons as I don't expect that someone who runs their own server does have an actively used account on another server. And one seems to be a car and cat person, the other one a bicycle and dog person according to their profiles. 🙂

xtaran, 5 months ago to cycling

Found this #hubless, belt driven #bicycle called #Lunartic by chance while looking for something else: https://technabob.com/blog/2011/04/09/belt-driven-hubless-bicycle/

It has the bottom bracket inside the rear rim (but not at its center). Surely something for the #WeirdBikeMastodon crowd. 🙂

The original project website seems gone, but this YouTube video still exists: https://youtu.be/cPsY2NfPJtw (via Invidious: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cPsY2NfPJtw)

By the way, the prototype seems to be a #fixie, given that the pedals turn while the bike is pushed.