@eq@mas.to

· 1w ago

Sometimes the routing app expects you do do a bit of carrying bike with packing. Wonder why this never happens when I'm using the car routing app... The road around was just a few hundred meters extra but routing still selected the stairs. It was marked as a stair on the underlying openstreetmap data. #biketooter

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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@ascentale@sfba.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @bikenite@fedigroups.social A5a: Two bikes. A: Old third hand touring bike for summer with panier and as big tyres as fit. Used on nice tarmac roads, forest gravel, cobble stones. Can be used winter time with spike tyres if the weather is not beneficial to the second bike. B: Third hand fatbike for winter usage. Spikes and a very large range for the air pressure makes it suitable for badly plowed roads or forest trails that was only walked on. And if the plow has showed up, I just pump the tyres hard to get less resistance. A5b: It is usually obvious which one will be best for todays surface conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwtYWNJGihI #bikenite

How not to Turf - EQ Turfing

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· 1mo ago

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@joakimfors@mastodon.green @Karolina@mastodonsweden.se Konstigt, L går aldrig runt i vårt bostadsområde och värvar. Är väl rädda för den höga kriminaliteten bland låginkomsttagarna här.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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@marywordymary@wandering.shop I also have proof my bike was outside the house! The name of the place was something along the line of "The thick oak" so of course I had to go see it. Turns out it fell quite a few years ago and they made an altar from a part of it. Was a bit disappointed but wow what a tree that must have been. #BikeTooter

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· 5mo ago

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@ascentale @kimu @v_perjorative @bikenite A4a: When you change the frame. A4b: Mine is called Green monster #bikenite

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· 2mo ago

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@jon@gruene.social @TOrynski@mastodon.scot Every time I see those border control programs on tv, there is someone asking how they select who to control and it always comes down to either a hunch, a feeling or experience. There is no scientific method (how would that work?), they are just left inventing their own way and that *will* be based on their own prejudice.

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· 3mo ago

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@NickSchwanck@aus.social @pheonix@hachyderm.io I have an uncanny talent of skipping any advertisement and sales people up to the point of hanging up even when the salespeople where I work calls. I have to consciously *not* hang up on them because they have a special way of talking that triggers the reflex. That seems to be the same with AI text and speech.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@thorsten4future @cmconseils That is my life's philosophy. I think about this comic every time I take a shortcut. If you find your park having a two lane shortcut over the grass, you have done a bad job planning that park for the actual users. I would try to plan out where people will be walking/biking and do those as roads. Then I would wait a year to see where the grass disappears and make that into gravel roads at least. I have seen a few places where that has happened around here.

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· 5mo ago

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@alda Did you ever have a male voice in english dubbed over with a female voice in english? At the same time? Slightly out of sync so the whole instructional movie was impossible to watch and I could find no way of turning off the extra track... It was either both or nothing.

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· 6mo ago

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@cojajo@mastodon.social @rpsu@mas.to I know someone that had a burnout a few years ago. She just stopped moving the clock. It wasn't the only change she did in her life, she in general changed everything from leaving job and husband to moving town so I guess stopping with the insanity of daylight savings time wasn't such a big step any more 🙂

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· 5mo ago

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@PatrickOBeirne@mastodon.ie Not everyone is able to use a manual toothbrush good enough not to get holes. An electrical tooth brush is incredibly cost effective for us that have to pay for the dentist ourselves...

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· 5mo ago

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@gcvsa @ascentale @bikenite The question was not about if I worry about systainability of bicycles, it was about getting rid of second hand engine oil and PFAS. The problem with PFAS is not only the amount that gets off the chain and into the drain/nature when I clean the bike, it is mostly the very concentrated pollution around the production sites. The problem with old reused engine oil is the sticky dust-grinding wear on the chain that makes me change chains four times per year. #bikenite

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· 5mo ago

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@paco@infosec.exchange Just had a question from my 18 year old that was horrifiedly trying to help her classmate that fell for one of the 'get free money'-scams. Yes, your mother should be proud of herself!

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@alda Around 1990 our video recorder for VHS tapes could record video and three audio tracks separately. One stereo and two mono (L/R) channels on any VHS tape. So you could do your own dubbing if you wanted to and if you owned a microphone. On any commersial or private VHS tape.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@PedestrianError Well that's not at all what we taught our daughter. She quickly figured out where to aim. When a boy tried to hunt her at school she did a little piruett with the foot out. He spent the rest of the day in class very quiet laying on the sofa. And there was not a peep from the teachers about it. But yes, in general women is taught a lot more respect than men. And that certainly has to change. If we stop teaching the girls or start teaching the boys is up for discussion 🙂

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· 6mo ago

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@tsturm I noticed a few years ago that a contractor was sounding very strange in email conversations. Overy optimistic and extremely explainable for being a supposedly very buzy company. It was a very creepy way of talking for a swedish contractor so we didn't do much business with that company. I didn't realize it at the time but later I knew why I was having such a strange feeling. Later when looking back at the mails I'm 100% sure it was AI written. Because it said ChatGPT in hidden places.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@jascha Maybe that is why physical excercise works for some? You focus on biking or you are dead-focus. I very much enjoy biking, following the route the orienteering game opens up depending on how other players are blocking my intended route. Having to calculate a different route that takes 16 minutes so the other route opens up just at the time when arrive there again without anyone else blocking first. There are so much else to focus on while biking, it is somehow calming and de-stressing.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@wibble @dwillanski I always had problems with autocorrect. Fixing stuff takes longer than just typing it by hand so I just stopped using it. Is probably because I need mine to do three languages so it just can't get the right words. Anyway since I'm having problems with my eyes, I switched to Thumb key. That way I don't have to see the keys as long as I can see the nine squares. All letters are press or swipe and quickly becomes automatic gestures.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@erinaceus Modem mode needs a bit of patience but it does recover for me. Just make sure you have sound activated 🙂

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· 5mo ago

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@PVTejas @ChrisMayLA6 That just happened here, was on the news this morning. The guy that blew up got suspended from university for 6 weeks because he forgot the password he needs to log in to the testing platform during an exam. He blew up in the face of the exam guards and got removed.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Last years winter on the footpath around the local lake. A year when we had a bit more snow.

#footpathFriday

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@gareth @Natasha_Jay Many webservers headers broadcast every time you look on a page:

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@Epic_Null @arclight Most people in Tech* in USA is under the same influence as the rest of the country and is actively exporting the influence to tech workers all over the world. Tech workers do not like Unions because they are temporarily inconvenienced billionaires. Unions would actively work against them when they try to exploit their workers later.

All my techworker friends are unionized in Sweden.

Unreliable sources

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@zimzat I do have asthma and perfume allergy. It's pretty fun trying to explain to people, they just don't believe it's a problem. They need to smell good, that's about it in thought process. All those tumble dryers drying clothes that has been overdosed on softener. Blowing out the perfumed air around the house, real nice to come past biking and needing the airflow unconstricted. Or when it's nice weather and everyone has a grill out. Or is it a smoker? Sometimes I can't tell the difference...

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@elricofmelnibone Because not enough people are using powertools to subvert the billionaires?

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· 6mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social @swordgeek@mstdn.ca @georgetakei@universeodon.com War crimes can be prosecuted by many nations, not just USA. They might want to keep that list in mind next time they plan overseas vacation. https://www.aklagare.se/en/affected-by-crime/war-crimes/

Åklagarmyndigheten

War crimes

Sweden has an international obligation to investigate and indict genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@nini@oldbytes.space In a democracy there is sadly this very important thing with education. The first thing we (as a society) do is to cut down on the young, the disabled, the old and the sick. Because we work so hard and we deserve the money since we all are temporarily inconvenienced billionaires. What I mean with "we" in this case is the majority of the voters. We do not read books, only the propaganda and since that is pushed out with the extreme rightwing and Quatar money, that will be skewed right.

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· 4mo ago

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@nini@oldbytes.space So maybe democracy isn't the only answer to a sane society. We need good schools and good info-vaccine to prevent the rightwing disease?

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· 4mo ago

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@anarodrigues@front-end.social Wasn't until many years later that I learned that my nice group of women had brought one of the very few male coworkers I ever had to tears and that is why I'm not having male coworkers. So yes, changing environments/rotating groups might be a very good idea to see what realy goes on in society. (The group had also frozen out several women, not just that man) (Please don't take this as whataboutism or something, just trying to say I was so blind in very limited world)

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@anarodrigues@front-end.social This might be a very good idea! The last 20-odd years I spent at jobs where the majority was women (I was mostly the only male). It has been very friction free in my view so I'm spared any of this crap thankfully. But I had a few peaks at the other side of the coin when I was visiting the other branch in south sweden. A male salesperson brought one of the women working there to tears. Thankfully we have a good boss that took care of the idiot even though he was owners friend.

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· 5mo ago

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@Andii@mas.to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @pluralistic@mamot.fr "... I'm going to drag this country kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat." — Terry Pratchett in Pyramids

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· 5mo ago

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@Epic_Null @arclight The work needed for becoming so unionized took blood sweat and tears, there were even a few bodies involved. But since then it has normalized pretty well and is now liked both by the industry and the workers. Unions help the workers but also the companies to work well. The funny thing with Sweden is that we don't have that much laws saying what the companies are allowed to do. This is up for discussion with the union. What Tesla is doing now might force new laws instead.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

#til that my eye colour actually has a name. My usual answer was always "I don't know what colour I have". But apparently it's called "Hazel".

(thanks to daughter playing games and being curious what the color Hazel means)

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@2something Did you mayhaps miss the "un" part of the headline? 🙂

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@tsturm There were no option for negative saving because of fixing problems from your coworkers ai usage?

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· 6mo ago

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@meganL German biking: #fahrrad #fahrradbubble

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· 6mo ago

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@randy_ Looks like wonderful biking weather! We are having a great looking day too but I did the mistake of actually looking at the thermometer resulting in staying indoors for some more hours. It said 4 C, feels like 0 C. Brr 🥶

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@internic HTML ignores any white space including tab, space, new line and probably others in newer encodings I don't know about 🙂 So a nice book written in ascii with linebreaks and empty lines between paragraphs becomes just one long line-wrapping paragraph. I learned touch-typing 35 years ago and then it was only one space after period so that might be country dependant just like date formats.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@hp @tilton I would be ROFL right now but... it's all too close to home.

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· 6mo ago

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@mrundkvist Yes, it's so weird. Their biggest problem is that they get followed here by the controlling mechanism lately so the thing they fled from in the first place is trying to whip them into line again.

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· 6mo ago

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@Unixbigot Speaking of 1984. I keep seeing that book on display front and center in every single library in town. Are they trying to tell me something? 🙂

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· 2mo ago

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@PythonLinks@mastodon.social Russia actually already did this many years ago. I was not very successful at starting fires :)

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· 2w ago

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@kims@mas.to You do not know how much you show being American with that last sentence, and it has nothing to do with toilets I'm afraid :-) Some parts of Europe has bidets, some parts of Europe has plumbing that was well thought out already 30 years ago. And some of the people putting down the plumbing in the street, at the same time put down a fiber network that we have been running fast fiber internet connections to private homes since 30 years. :-) And we do have 3-ply papers here in Sweden.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@cpsask@techhub.social Can I follow your echo channel please? Mine is very good too but extending is always good.

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· 4mo ago

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@Karolina@mastodonsweden.se @samuel@social.spejset.org Största hindret för oss är att så fort det är fler än en person som ska någonstans så kostar det mer att åka kollektivt än att ta en bil. Även om man räknar med parkeringen och bensin. Tänk vad man skulle kunna åstadkomma med de skattepengarna istället för att använda det som valfläsk? Vi betalar alltså skatt för att återvälja ett fascistisk sammankok. Igen? Kommer vi någonsin komma ifrån själviskheten?

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· 5mo ago

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@sysop408 If they have no way of actually deleting users other than changing their email adress, they most probably won't be able to set up any new DNS records. This is what happens when you buy a system from some other company and don't want to pay them to update when laws change. You will have to find a way to continue using your old system. Our old database had a field called something like "active_0_or_1" for this, 25 years ago. And it wasn't even consistent with 0 or 1 being active...

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@alda Nice! When I got a new TV there was a lot of tapes that had a strange row of pixels on the top. I always though that was the teletext data being broadcasted since it looked like bits counting up if you look closely on it so most likely the page number 🙂

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@falcennial @donni No, you choose your fights deliberately. Someone else can deal with the unnessesary stuff.

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EQ @eq@mas.to

· 4mo ago

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@DeliaChristina@sfba.social It was all foretold in 1940's book Kallocain and later in 1984 and any other number of dystopias. Do we listen? No, we have stopped reading because we are so buzy with our noses in the doomscrollers already since decades.

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· 5mo ago

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@jeroenvanbergen@mstdn.social Yes, first time I saw all the different Star Treks on Tele5... Very strange experience but they certainly did a good job trying to make it believable. But after always seeing the english originals it was hard not to laugh in the start. Now I hardly notice though so I can understand that dubbing movies takes away a lot of the chances of learning a foreign language. Haha, and the next post in my feed was from Mr Sulu himself: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116449545163140137

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