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"Bottled water companies don't produce water, only bottles"

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This seems bad. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/recalls/2023/09/21/shimano-recalls-760-000-hollowtech-road-cranks-after-receiving-4-500-incident Check your crankset. And maybe do something nice for your local bike mechanics who are going to have to deal with this headache. This is a big recall.

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owww that power meter replacement condition is going to really upset some people.


Ugh, getting 404s when I run "apt update".

Is "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-non-UK/ unstable main" not the correct url? 🙃


@FlockOfCats I learned something new today 👀👀👀

and vilified doesn't mean turned into a ritzy house.

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I'm doing a reading and book signing tonight! 6PM at Métier Racing (11th/Union) on Capitol Hill. Come get a copy or bring yours for me to sign.

https://nookandcrannybooks.com/products/meet-the-author-tom-fucoloro

#SEAbikes #Seattle

Event poster with book cover and author photo with event details.

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okay the awful touch interface on your oven/car/death machine is dangerous and annoying, but have you considered: it's cheap to build and makes for flashy marketing. that means more profit for the manufacturer, and that means they're winning at capitalism, which is the most efficient possible system, so it's actually a good thing everything sucks now!

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Having something just for the sake of having it doesn't appeal to me anymore. If I get something, I get it because there are things I want to do with it.

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Same. This usually means leaving them in a box in the garage while I'm paralysed by all the accumulating projects I've got to do (all of which are actually important to me).
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Can’t wait for the “actually LLMs are a worthless scam” articles in 2025 and all the people that pretend they never fell for it

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I will be speaking at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland on September 27th.

When? The event runs September 27, 2023, 9:00–22:00 CEST
When is this keynote address? On September 27th at 14:00h
Where? Volkshaus in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Link: https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/

40 years ago the GNU Project — to develop the GNU operating system — was launched and gave birth to the Free Software movement, and Free Software has since become the cornerstone of modern computing.

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Excellent, GNU anniversary in Biel🇨🇭
Welcome in #Switzerland again Richard :ch_be:
Good to see GNU + FSF in my area in Switzerland.👌
I will attend and promote the event arround me.
✅ Le logiciel #LIBRE et #GNU est devenu ultra essentiel pour conserver nos libertés.
👍 C'est toujours un immense plaisir d'assister à vos présentations.
Très content que ce 40eme🎂 a lieu à Bienne le 27/09/23
https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/
Je viens volontiers fêter GNU & le LIBRE
@faubriot
#libre #gnu #gnu40 #suisse
do you know why it was called the space cadet keyboard ?

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boy it's so so good to hear Premier Ford say sorry i made a mistake. and to hear he's fully reversing opening up the Green Belt to rich property developer buddies. but let's be clear: he's not sorry for doing the thing he reversed himself on, he's *sorry he got caught behaving corruptly* by important people like the Auditor General. #ONpoli

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Also, I just discovered a broken spoken on my other bike's rear wheel that was just handbuilt at the shop a few months back (and also trued after a couple weeks of riding back then to be safe). :'(

#cycling #bicycle #mastobikes #biketooter

@nothingfuture I'm going to guess drive-side, behind the cassette, because that's the biggest pain to replace.

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Experts Find Brown Bear Tri-color Foam Car Wash Effective Alternative to Getting High: https://theneedling.com/2023/08/01/experts-find-brown-bear-tri-color-foam-car-wash-effective-alternative-to-getting-high/

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Kind of annoyed with White Industries at the moment. The original press-fit bearings in my Stanyan's MI5 rear hub needed replacement a long while ago, so I had my local bike shop order them (which took forever to be shipped by Enduro) and swap them out. Unfortunately, the same amount of play persisted after the bearing swap despite said shop following White Industries's directions to the T multiple times. My shop has called White Industries multiple times only to not be given any recourse.

I've been out that Stanyan for several weeks now and I don't know if I should just get a different hub put in the wheel or something at this point. 😒

#cycling #bicycle #biketooter #mastobikes

where on earth is the play? Between the bearing and the seat?
All I saw was play between the wheel and the frame.

Well ... it's gotta be somewhere! Could be a worn axle too I suppose?

Last time I had terrible wheel play it turned out to be a shitty QR had led to uneven wear on the dropouts, letting the axle shift a little.

Not sure how your hub is constructed. But if it is the bearing seat into the hub, rather than replace the hub you can try something like Loctite bearing seat compound, this sounds like a rubbish hack but I used it successfully on very badly worn bearing seat on a >250kg off road motorcycle rear wheel and it lasted over 50,000km like that so it *does* work :-)

(To get the bearing exactly centered in a badly flogged-out seat you can raise little craters with a punch all around the inside of the seat, then when you press the bearing home it'll center between the craters and the loctite glue can do its job over the rest of the seat area.)

I'll stop by the shop tomorrow, and if we can't come up with any ideas (White Industries's warranty department is being unhelpful), I guess I'll just get a different hub built into the wheel. 🤷

I downloaded minux 3 recently and keep meaning to fire it up under QEMU, but... haven't found the time yet.
It's on my list. Last time I tried it on i386 there were issues and people encouraged me to try it on a #BeagleBoneBlack instead.




I had this on my 486 as a kid, and played the hell out of it. It had find-the-object, maze, and jigsaw puzzle game modes, but find-the-object was always my favourite.
@dHeinemann I will say that some of the things it asks you to find in hard mode are kind of bullshit.

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Hello #Mastodon! Welcome, I'm Etheria!

It's my first post here and I'm glad to see the #fediverse is doing well and to see many artists here via #misskey 😇

I love my #NintendoSwitch, the #Nintendo games on it as well as many of the great 3rd party games 😍

I watched #anime for over 20 years and I won't stop hihi 😀

I appreciate #DisneyPlus the most among the main #streaming platforms, #Disney & #Pixar animation is magical and I appreciate epic #StarWars stories

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Is it true that you're the mastermind behind #Etherium? :P

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Obviously.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
A group of hippos is called a hippocampus.

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A group of hippos in a rap band is a hiphoppocampus.

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Man, looks like someone burned down the recycling plant putting a lithium battery in the curbside bin, again. Wonder how long we'll be without recycling this time. #Tulsa

https://www.newson6.com/story/650c886b11a7901651ed0c7d/large-fire-at-tulsa-metal-recycling-plant-under-control

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are these disposable vaping "cigarettes" a thing over there, too?
@buwel Yeah but I don't think those are using lithium ion batteries.


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Got water?

As a long time resident of the #PNW I never thought I would see a news story announcing that #Seattle residents are being asked to conserve water due to #drought conditions.

The red areas on the map indicate extreme drought. This area includes one of the drainage areas that leads to a reservoir where Seattle gets a good share of its water. #WAwx

No paywall:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/seattle-public-utilities-asks-customers-to-conserve-water-amid-drought/

Open #GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=46.140984,-119.113769&zoom=6&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=State_boundary,Drought_monitor&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_weather.txt

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Major development on the New York City front of The War on Cars:
"Our new rules will eliminate parking mandates for new housing across New York City and dramatically expand the options for adding more homes. Right now, every two parking spots that are added to new buildings take up space for one studio apartment making housing more expensive for everyone. If you want to build parking you still can. But we will not force people to build parking they do not want.”
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/09/21/city-of-yes-yes-yes-adams-eliminates-parking-mandates-on-all-new-construction

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Of course, CERTAIN people will get all the parking they want—CERTAIN people will be 'taken care of'.

People who wouldn't even think of living in a studio apartment.

The class war continues. But look, new rules!

TIL NYC still had parking mandates. We really don’t get anything good in America

Well uh, I except I guess today


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Notice how essentially nobody in Washington asks “if we can afford” an $886 billion defense budget?

No, we only hear that when we need health care, or student debt relief, or climate action, or paid family leave, or universal pre-K, or child-poverty relief.

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It's because that "defense" budget goes straight into the bank accounts of the wealthy people behind the "defense" contractors. The same wealthy people who both lobby the government and effectively appoint legislators to the government.

@🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩



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"Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed"

sorta

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wines-true-origins-are-finally-revealed/

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New cartoon: Please use the cycle path.
[Funded by my Diagram Club davewalker.com/diagram-club/ ]
Cartoon showing a cycle path. A rider approaches a sign saying ‘Please use the cycle path’. There are potholes, thorns, broken glass, and a car parked on the path

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that would be a terrible location for a war on cars sticker, because that would be defacing public property and we shouldn't put stickers there.

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#Seattle Public Utilities asked water customers to curb #water use until fall rains arrive. Below normal precipitation, an early melt to the winter snowpack and low reservoir levels have diminished water supplies.
#drought #Washington
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/seattle-public-utilities-asks-customers-to-conserve-water-amid-drought/

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A visually intoxicated driver rammed a building multiple times on Rainier.

I'm here to tell you this person will not have their license permanently revoked. We basically do not do that in Washington.

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a person has to be caught for DUI 3 or more times in 10 years, not skate via testing delay or claiming they drank more after driving, and even then we just do jail or interlock devices mostly. Should be revocation of driving privileges for a long time and a free transit pass.
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we are more willing to throw people in jail than revoke their license.
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What if the people doing the erasing are the ones more deserving of being erased? 🤔


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This story is wild to me. Who knew that receiving mail opted us into tracking like this? I certainly didn't.

"The federal privacy watchdog says Canada Post is breaking the law by gleaning information from the outsides of envelopes and packages to help build marketing lists that it rents to businesses.

... includes data about where individuals live and what type of online shopping they do, based on who sends them packages."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-post-breaking-law-by-gathering-info-from-envelopes-parcels-watchdog-1.6569855

#privacy #trust

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