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

"Smile you are free"

#Oslo

Ever wondered how to mount and dismount a #PennyFarthing? I just found this old video that @anneviv once took of me.

OH MY GOD, they make a baby (20") Hatchet #unicycle ?

Have you seen this @erlendloe and @unimyra

https://unicyclist.com/t/20-mini-hatchet/278023

My daughter already has two unicycles… and still cannot properly ride. I guess this would be an overkill. ?

@erlendloe @unimyra

Here is am image of them both side by side, stolen from Josh's¹ Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOFGQ2OXCL/

¹ Josh is a unicycle.com employee

@erlendloe @unimyra

Looking through some old photos. Damn… could it be summer (or at least proper spring) soon.

I do like snow but I think I am ready to be done for a while now.

Time for a ride perhaps?

#Unicycle #Ennhjulssykkel #WinterCycling

I unicycled passed a woman walking her bike this morning along the river at a particularly icy spot. Here coment to me was "Ballsy!" (yes… in English) ?

Honestly I think walking was more ballsy at that particular point. My tyre has far better grip than most people walking. Even if they have studded shoes or "brodder" (Ice cleats?). There are 402 studs on my tyre.

#Ice #Unicycle #Ennhjulssykkel #WinterCycling #VikingBiking

But @erlendloe, why not also ask over hear in the good place, where all the cool people are? ?

You are right though, today was very tough. The roads aren't up to standard I recall and to some extent that can be explained by extreme weather but the pavements (sidewalks ??) and cycle paths are a joke at the moment. That is the bit that actually dissapoints me. ?

CC: @morten_lode, @syklemil, @VeloNitram, @delveien, @geirst0rli …

#sykkelføremelding #Oslo

https://nitter.net/erlendloe/status/1611271687416254466#m

First thought, "LOL ChatGPT is so fun!"

But then I had a dream where there was a merger between "OpenAI" and "Boston Dynamics" with a rebrand as "Skynet" and suddenly it seems a lot less fun.

We are all gonna die! ?

#ChatGPT

@atomicpoet @BillySmith @stephan I would agree with that.

I have not been here that long in the grand scheme of things (I joined back in April).

But I felt immediately got it and wondered why I (and also Vivaldi as a company) had not paid more attention before.

Back in Opera we tried to do something that has elements of the fediverse, small web and decentralisation with the Unite project. In the end it failed but the intentions where there

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/opera-unite.html

@BillySmith @atomicpoet @stephan

Well we (I work for Vivaldi) have offered many of the other services entirely for free for 8+ years.

As for walled garden, the point of joining the fediverse was to move away for being considered a walled garden.

@BillySmith @atomicpoet @stephan The company is employee owned and will not be floated on the stock market, Jon (the Opera founder and our founder) already got burnt on that once. It will not happen again.

P.S. I am an employee in case that was not clear.

@BillySmith @atomicpoet @stephan What do you mean? Please expand on what you see as the "Dark Pattern approach". Honest question as I do not think I am following what you imply here.

@BillySmith @atomicpoet @stephan

Difficulties in sign up are difficulties in sign up. Creating a Vivaldi account is because our login for all our services is single sign on. This also makes it easier for a user who already uses Vivaldi to create a Mastodon account, e.g. if they made a sync account, they can login with that to our instance and a mastodon account will be created on the fly.

This is why we changed the login. To allow for the possiblity of easir sign up for our users.

@atomicpoet @BillySmith @stephan Perhaps but indeed I think it is fair that we make it easy for those who already use our services.

This is not to saw we want to intentionally make it bad for others. It should be easy for everyone.

But we hooked this into our signup process in less than a week, if it does not work perfectly well those are probably bugs. Hanlon's razor and all.

@BillySmith @atomicpoet @stephan Well we are a small team and move fast… maybe sometimes too fast.

This is the entire company. We have some volunteers who help with things like testing and moderation but we are not highly structured.

https://vivaldi.com/team/

I like that my follower number makes me think of binary ?, though I think I need to follow at least 6 more people ?

Me trying to very quickly explain Mastodon and the Fediverse to a colleague (as I had little time).

"Think of the Fediverse as equivalent to 'Email'. Mastodon is like a specific email server software, e.g. Cyrus or Courier. The method of communication between servers ActivityPub, is similar to how SMTP is used to relay messages."