I was invited by Westtown School to give a speech—as a language expert—about the importance of learning languages, in front of a full auditorium of high scho...
It is the birthday of British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (books by this author), born in Ravenscroft, Monmouthshire (1872). He wrote Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), A History of Western Philosophy (1945), and The Principles of Mathematics (1903). He won the 1950 Nobel Prize in literature. He is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. writersalmanac.publicradio.org…
Some parts of Taipei are just not beautiful, say what you might. I still love this city. Lack of trees, lack of calm, roads and motor vehicles on them apparently claim all available space. Visually these bits seem devoid of any clear architectural line beyond the functional, and expose aesthetics as irrelevant. Well, what the. Just stay where you want to go after passing through here. :) #taipei #taiwan #streetview #streetphotography #busy #taxis #schonschönhier #totalgarnichtschön #randomholidayphoto #台北 #台灣 #街 #道景觀 #街拍 #繁忙 #計程車
Artikel-Serie: Joplin Notes - Joplin Server auf Docker-Basis installieren und einrichten
Ein kleines Tutorial für all diejenigen, die mehr aus Joplin herausholen und ihren eigenen Joplin Server auf Docker hosten möchten. Ein funktionierender Reverse Proxy wird vorausgesetzt.
#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.
Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.
Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.
A few weeks ago I was asking around for an invite to #FOSStodon for our #Koalagator calendar FOSS project only to have folks quickly tell me that drama was afoot.
Sounds like things have settled down hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-co… AND that the project has recommitted to being an inclusive space for marginalised communuties.
Very glad to hear this! Thanks @fosstodon team for all you've done and continue to do for the FOSS community, @Gina especially.
Now, about getting my project onto fosstodon. @Gina any chance of an invite?
Koalagator is a multi-year code revival project of a 10 year old much loved calendaring platform. We have big ambitions to make local community events easier to discover on the open web, away from big tech control.
Open source community calendar platform written in Ruby on Rails - GitHub - koalagator/koalagator: Open source community calendar platform written in Ruby on Rails
Can you draw a bicycle from memory? I suspect most people who ride one regularly and have an idea how the parts work together can make a good stab at it but these 3D renders of people’s sketches are wonkily fabulous.
Here’s my attempt. The frame certainly isn’t scaled right, and the rack and basket aren’t supported but I don’t *think* the rest of it would collapse straight away if you tried to ride it. I can’t believe I forgot to add mudguards though.
And they even made some of them into real bikes! Sadly they weren't on display last time I was at MONA but they're pretty awesome if not very rideable:
This is Photoshop's version of Lorem Ipsn gravida nibh vel velit auctoraliquet. Aenean sollicitudin, lorem quis bibendum auci elit consequat ipsutis sem nibh id elit. Duis sed odio sit amet nibh vulputate cursu a sit amet mauris.
Unixbigot@aus.social - It’s so adorkable when science articles mention temperatures like “100 million ℃” and them helpfully add “(180 million ℉)” so that Americans who have been to the core of the sun (or Melbourne) can correlate that figure with their lived experience.
It’s so adorkable when science articles mention temperatures like “100 million ℃” and them helpfully add “(180 million ℉)” so that Americans who have been to the core of the sun (or Melbourne) can correlate that figure with their lived experience.
Can we do something lighter for today? The wonderful John Held Jr. and his map from c. 1930 of "A dog's idea of the ideal country estate" map. John Held Jr was really an imaginative treasure of the time. Great illustrator and commentator on the culture of the time.
I was a fond Motorola phone user at one point. I still receive their offers via email. They remind me of a time long gone when "setting up an outgoing email server" worked by way of bash-scripting and no one cared, or knew about security, however implicit. I myself may or may not have b0rked up a mass email campaign sent via our hacky tool on the first job. "Dear $fristname," ... lol. Long ago. Product quality focus at Moto may have changed too.
The relative attention to detail too warrants some cynicism: they too seem to have low safeguards agains eff-ups in the marketing domain. In emails they address me as %%=v(@firstname) at times and have funny, wacky autotranslations on the landing or product pages. Oh please.
FWIW, I would maybe still use my Moto X Style of 2015 had the battery not gone down to about two minutes of use in the end, after 3 years. Or my DIY replacement efforts would have worked out, which didn't happen, because the screws they used are both tiny and their head would wear out on attempt to unscrew. Sigh. I still applaud the excellent cameras, hardly any oversharpening, and overall smooth evenly lit pictures. The Moto gestures. And perfect proportions, good grip and weight distribution. They just don't make them like that anymore. In contrast, sometimes the current Moto product policy makes me shake my head a little, they sure cram very many models into the mid-to-low-tier range.
#followerpower Fällt mir ja spät auf, aber manche Fahrradteile sind Verschleißteile. Also, sind dafür gemacht verschlissen zu werden. So auch meine die ich tauschen will, Kette, Kettenblätter, Kassette.
Der gute Mensch im Fahrradladen sagte also, kein Problem er könne mir einen Satz derselben Qualität wieder einbauen. Die Art wie er das sagte dämmerte mir dass ich mir dieselben Probleme nach einigen Jahren wieder einhandele damit. Professionelles understatement mag ich ja.
Also will ich jetzt was besseres (=haltbareres) kaufen, wo man die Kettenblätter verschraubt und ggf einzeln auswechseln kann, und eine Kette die nicht so ein Spiel entwickelt wie jetzt, jedenfalls nicht schon nach (grob überschlagen) 5000km.
SRAM, diese gut? Ich bin immer noch etwas verloren was Hersteller angeht, und die Vorteilskommunikation verwirrt mich.
So I have this 7+ years old bike that serves me well for city type getting around. Nowadays the chain might jump when I accelerate, which is not good for busy junctions and generally city traffic.
The bike shop repair guy says "bike has shark" referring to the shape of various worn out bits. I'd be in for 150€ of repair costs in replacement parts and labour. All parts traction need replacing, front, chain and rear. See photos; never mind me not cleaning it. This is all the Shimano SiS and Acera stuff the bike came with. The derailleur gears can stay if you ask me.
What parts can I get in order to a) make the next set last longer than the factory default, and b) maybe save me a buck or two if I'm going DIY? Or should I get something different to max out the mentioned, proposed budget? I'm fine with spending that amount or similar if that gives me both peace of mind and 7+ years of hassle-free cycling.
But. Any bike parts website is giving me a headache. Too many options cause choice pollution. I have a hard time from separating marketing blurbs from statements about, say, durability.
I haven't done this type of work in two decades, however I think I can get it right given half a day or so. Any advice on what to get?
So I have this 7+ years old bike that serves me well for city type getting around. Nowadays the chain might jump when I accelerate, which is not good for busy junctions and generally city traffic.
The bike shop repair guy says "bike has shark" referring to the shape of various worn out bits. I'd be in for 150€ of repair costs in replacement parts and labour. All parts traction need replacing, front, chain and rear. See photos; never mind me not cleaning it. This is all the Shimano SiS and Acera stuff the bike came with. The derailleur gears can stay if you ask me.
What parts can I get in order to a) make the next set last longer than the factory default, and b) maybe save me a buck or two if I'm going DIY? Or should I get something different to max out the mentioned, proposed budget? I'm fine with spending that amount or similar if that gives me both peace of mind and 7+ years of hassle-free cycling.
But. Any bike parts website is giving me a headache. Too many options cause choice pollution. I have a hard time from separating marketing blurbs from statements about, say, durability.
I haven't done this type of work in two decades, however I think I can get it right given half a day or so. Any advice on what to get?
In the right setting, I hear, training your dog to find truffles is a good thing, rewarding emotionally for both dog and owner.
You ever done that?
After the (probably multi session training) in a controlled environment that ensures reward for the dog you can go elsewhere and do as trained, and find more. Or so I imagine that this works.
Amid the atmospheric forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture, Kazuaki Koseki calls upon delightful woodland collaborators in his series "Summer Faeries."
Seen from the northern mountain above the Grand Hotel, Taipei and its many buildings presents green, calm and almost idyllic under white clouds. From this spot in the 圓山健行步道 footpath you see on the left Songshan city airport, on the right side the elevated Xinsheng Expressway leading south. On the far left side you can see Taipei 101, while the newer Nan Shan Plaza building next to it is not yet to be seen when this photo was taken in 2015. #cityscape #taipei #taiwan
After splashing around in the lake one morning, before we leave this Golden turns around to reflect. Approximately one minute of sitting at the shore, watching the lake and letting me wait.
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