Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org)

@evan

Qualified Yes. If it's the *Social* Web then it includes society, ie. the public.

And the word *Web* also implies a great reach among many people, again implying it's public.

There is a great need for *Private* communication, but neither the #Fediverse nor the commercial social media provide it.

@MLE_online

I lost (irrevocably) a key to a Dutch-style bike lock, and the spare was lost too. My dad and I spent an entire afternoon trying to get a hacksaw in the right position and slowly (very slowly!) sawing through the hardened steel shackle.

Of course, I found the spare key sometime later, but at least I had the use of my bike in the interim.

@tsherrygeo

#BikeNite A5: I used to think cyclists on the sidewalk were a hazard, and everyone ought to learn to bike with traffic. But now that there's so much improved bike infrastructure in #WaterlooRegion, I'm recognizing how dangerous vehicular cycling is, and I now accept sidewalk cyclists. They show us where we need better, safer bike infrastructure.

And maybe because I'm getting old and feeble and no longer up to vehicular cycling, but I find myself biking on the sidewalk sometimes.

@ascentale

#BikeNite A2: I've read that the more upright your position, the wider your saddle should be.

I like to be upright enough so I don't have a lot of weight on my arms. My handlebar stem pivot is fully up, and I have the stock saddle on my hybrid city/touring bike. Mostly I haven't had bikebutt, except maybe for the first few rides of the season.

Recently the bolt on top of the seatpost came a bit loose (many folks on the #CycleWR group ride offered to fix it, thanx all!).

1/3

@ascentale @NNN

TL;DR: Comfort may be as simple as adjusting the tilt of the saddle.

(it would probably be more useful to put the TL;DR at the top of the first message 😃)

3/3 #BikeNite A3c

@ascentale@sfba.social
@NNN@urbanists.social

But I only got around to tightening it today after my last ride resulted in severe bikebutt -- the saddle is a pain to adjust, I have to remove the bracket for the taillight. But the seat must have got tilted up, because today I had bikebutt almost right from the start. So before the trip home I loosened it again, tilted it down a couple of notches, and re-tightened. It made a BIG difference in comfort!

2/3 #BikeNite A3b

@ascentale
@NNN

@carkner

By "nativism" do you mean "racism"?

@lanodan

For what it's worth, I think storage capacity and miniaturization is increasing faster than the amount of music produced. And lossless compression only gets better. I won't be surprised to see portable music players, tablets, phones, &c have the capacity to store 1.65 TiB of music in a few years.

The time to load up your device may take a bit longer, tho.

Maybe we'll see music players preloaded with all the music. Marketing such a device is something for the big labels to consider.

@paulbusch

I've had one on my keychain for years. I got mine (for free!) from Brantford Public Health when they were doing a tick awareness campaign.

#Brantford #PublicHealth

@scottsantens

I didn't think passing Bill C223 to study a Guaranteed Livable Income would be an easy win, but neither did I think it would be so strongly defeated.

And this was just for a study! The cost would have been minimal, but I guess politicians were afraid the study results might have indicated they've done a poor job of providing the social safety net they claim we have in Canada.

#GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #C223 #BillC223 #CDNpoli #CanPoli

#Alt4You

Screenshot of a social media post (probably Twitter/X):

In The Chamber
@HoCChamber

Vote result: Bill #C223 was defeated at 2nd reading. #cdnpoli

Yeas: 54
Nays: 273

C-223
National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act

Sponsor
Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre)

[photo of Leah Gazan, a woman with long black hair smiling into the camera]
NDP

House of Commons

@scottsantens

Edit: Add hashtags
#GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI #BillC223 #CanPoli

@evan

I thought the question referred to usernames, as in "Is '@bobjonkman' more or less successful than '@FloppyHatGuy'?" Tough to say; I've always used my real name on all things Internet, thinking it would be the best way to have a career in Internet-related things. So I chose "Slightly less successful", but I really don't have comparative data for silly user names...

@Sheril

Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins: Meh. Never heard of Rancid.

But I'd go just to hear the Linda Lindas! When did they become mainstream?

@sam

Speculation: It's the pump, not producing enough pressure to blast water throughout the dishwasher. might be the motor that drives the pump...

Caveat: Dammit, Sam, I'm SysAdmin, not an appliance repair guy. And my own dishwasher has been out of service for years because the pump doesn't pump.

@evan

For me, Muting is temporary, Blocking is forever.

Are the Muting and Blocking actions part of the ActivityPub spec? Or are those actions implemented separately (and possibly differently) for every platform that supports ActivityPub?

@MrBerard

This is for our Community Radio station. In Canada we had additional incentive to join the #Fediverse because of Meta's shutdown of Facebook and Instagram for online news services.

This isn't about Mastodon, but joining our WordPress server to the #Fediverse. And it doesn't give any financial info, but the "technical difficulties" were that the Fediverse plugin required more resources than our webhost tier had (so extra costs for a higher tier are needed).

https://radiowaterloo.ca/the-fediverse-a-new-social-messaging-platform-for-programmers/

@foone

> This would solve no problems and make a significant number of things worse

Woulda sworn that was in reply to 'I want my car horn changed so that every time I press it, it just yells "SERIOUSLY?!"'

@joshbressers

Here's one I saw just recently: Open Source projects are not political.

Open Source projects have no racism / ableism / DEI biases.

Open Source projects strive for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

@richardloxley

Corollary: Open Source maintainers are obligated to accept all code contributions / modifications.

Followed shortly by: It's easy to fork a project.

@joshbressers

@ken_fallon

My Mom used to sing to me:

Poesje mauw
Kom eens gauw
Ik heb lekkere melk voor jou

En voor mij
Rijstebrei
O wat smullen wij!

-----
Kitten meow
Come quickly
I have delicious milk for you

And for me
Rice pudding
Oh how we enjoy that!

----
I don't know a good single English word for 'smullen', to enjoy eating tasty food. And me without a handy Dutch-English dictionary...

@hobbsc @morph

#Dutch #ChildrensRhymes #Nederlands #Kinderliedjes