Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com)

We just had a minor earthquake here in #Oslo but it wasn't very serious as it did not wake my teenager.

#Jordskjelv

This is too nerdy, right!?

@aral yes, I am afraid so.

@aral It's the day that the bunny god lays eggs and they crack open and baby Jesus comes out.

Or at least that is my understanding, if I put all the imagery together. 🤷

You might want this back soon @objo not because I cannot look after it, I can but because it is so fun!

#tallBike #TallBikesWillSaveTheWorld

The one wierd trick to not having a cookie banner is… wait for it… Do not sell out your users!

Who knew!?

Also I just switched off JS and read your fucking article anyway. What you and your partners gonna do about that? 🤪

In the real world still, if a person says to you, "This is my partner", that basically means something like, "If you trust me, you can trust them" and/or "this person can speak on my behalf because they know me really well".

But online "partner" apparently now just means "a collection of companies whose names I could not even recount without looking them up in a database or spreadsheet I have somewhere".

I only share my economy with one person and my highest level of trust is with that same person. It's my wife. She is the one person in this world I would give the label "partner".

Apparently I am holding myself back. I need to collect a few more thousand partners.

Here is a fun thing. I work for Vivaldi Browser. Load any of our websites and you see no cookie banner and no mention of partners.

https://vivaldi.com

"But wait" you say, "didn't those terrible Europeans mandate the cookie banner!?"

No, no they did not. We do not need a cookie banner because we are not selling all your shit to every company under the sun.

Also those sites with cookie banners are just doing malicious compliance. This was never about the EU requiring cookie banners!

"We care about your privacy!"

Us and our 1584 "partners". Hah ha!

Also fuck off!

Walking along and saw an ElliptiGO in someone's front garden. I do not know who these people are but they are my kind of people.

How did it get so late? I have achieved close to nothing today.

#wristCheck

Trying to decide if I prefer it with a reddish-brown strap. 🤔 … maybe

What about an even lighter gray for even note contrast? 🤔🤷

#WristCheck

I made a small thing. Just a little automated masto account @archivetoolstracker to track updates to 7-Zip and RAR (WinRAR).

Why!? 🤔 These types of archiving tools are very handy but have been known to have security issues (both had exploits last year). Plus they don't always provide automatic update mechanisms on most platforms. 😉

It should be a very low volume of posts (maybe 5 a year? 🤷). Follow and click 🔔 for an actual notification. Or just follow via RSS. 😉

#7zip #WinRAR #RAR

And yes, for those of you that follow me on @ruario, I did just fork the scripts I use for @browserversiontracker and @vivaldiversiontracker

RSS would be here: https://velocipederider.com/@archivetoolstracker.rss

You did know that every Mastodon has an RSS feed by default, right… right!? 😉

Which reminds me, why don't all software companies have RSS/ATOM feeds for update notifications? Unobtrusive, opt-in and so low effort, especially so if you are not going to integrate automatic updates.

Remember all that shit with XZ which could have gone wildly wrong since its used in everything?

Well remember to donate again for 2026

https://liberapay.com/Larhzu/