Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com), page 7

A much more sensible setup for winter cycling, I'm sure you'll all agree.

If you don't have a winter tyre like me, at a push (if you are careful) you can sometimes make do without

https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/111324037857570056

In case you get caught out by snow and ice and do not have the correct cycling setup (as was the case for me today).

Some tips, having found myself in this situation numerous times.

https://ruario.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-11-24_Winter_cycling_tips_and_tricks.gmi

#VikingBiking #WinterCycling

Awesome! It looks like perfect #unicycling weather.

The first proper snow is always a highlight of winter commutes.

Yeah, pretty excited, not gonna lie.

On my way

Sadly I had to use an inappropriate setup as I had some issues with the unicycle I planned to use.

This meant no studded, winter tyre. But since there was no real ice and just light snow cover, it was fine anyway.

Still, it is always a bit of a shame when you do not have your uncycle setup just right for the winter conditions. People might think I am some kind of newb! 😜

As I was cycling in this morning there was a woman in front of me who slipped a little on some icy/wet leaves down a minor slope. She did not fall down and was not in any way hurt but I think it suprised her a little.

As I cycled past I said, "Forsiktig, det er glatt!" (Careful, it is slippery).

Mean … maybe… but I made myself smile. 😜

I didn't actually look back to see if she was amused or angry.

Shortly after that a different woman walking towards me repremanded me for not wearing a helmet.

Though I noted that she was not wearing one either and actually my pace was not a lot faster than hers at that point. 🤷

I do think that people overestimate the risk I am taking when unicycling relatively slowly in the snow.

Normally in the winter I have a wide tyre with hundreds of studs and look more stable than most of the pedestrians when cycling over icy patches. Yet they often tell me to wear a helmet, while they slip around without one.

Given we are would be falling from roughly the same height (on a small uni) and they are more likely than me to fall, who really should be wearing the helmet? 🤷

@amin Norway is currently on DST (Daylight Saving Time), which is applied in summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The gain is in the evening based on when people wake. Our version is called CEST (Central European Summer Time) and ends (switches back to CET) on 29th October.

In the US (summer) daylight savings are until 5th November.

But yeah I hate DST, it is stupid.

Oh and yes I have a decimal watch on now. 😉

@sotolf @rl_dane @theDoctor @peter @ivan @mirabilos

@pfefferle Did you mean to copy @binarytango because the domain appears to be cropped in your post.

@matthias

I am now following 35 unicyclist accounts on the fediverse. That is pretty crazy. Back when I was on Twitter I used to follow 4-5.

I feel this says something about the fediverse.

@mike The about page (or any page if you run the web interface on a big screen) would tell you near the bottom left.

In any case sauropods.win is indeed on v4.2.0 as I write this.

@feditips

@feditips I guess I could write a short blog post about it with maybe an example script.

@feditips I can tweak this old script that I used to use on my watch account that posted hourly updates of the time in binary as Christmas trees (lit and unlit).

Make it into something more useful and embed it in a blog post

https://gist.github.com/ruario/dcbb5a42df8590cb9bf61e846bba393e

@feditips Well it just makes the posting part really simple as you can just pipe text into it from the command line. Here is a small excerpt from the shell script that posts the @vivaldiversiontracker information.

@ihabunek

@feditips My "bots" (actually just automated posting) are tiny shell scripts run as cron jobs. At set intervals they use cURL to fetch information from the web, extract key values with tools like sed and grep and then post with Toot (if those values have changed since last time).

I know it is not for everyone but the barrier for entry is fairly low if someone is at all command line savvy.

@feditips I now eagerly await a future post on best tips when alt texting from you. 😆

@eys

@feditips FWIW I do think a lot of sighted users do use the alt text as well. Images are sometimes deleted from caches on instances. In addition there are extentions and tools built into browsers (including Vivaldi) to prevent loading of images for various reasons. Here is my earlier post, which interestingly shows the entire alt text even though the toltip did not.

@eys