Notices by Jon Dubovsky (jond@mastodon.social)

While there are still a lot of Blue Ridge Parkway closures from hurricane Helene, I was surprised that the recent ice and wind storm closed a previously-repaired 3.1 mile section over the top of Rocky Knob. There were a few downed trees intruding into the road on even the ungated side.

Still absolutely beautiful out there today on the #bike, though!

@flyingsquirrel @mhoye second'ing this: hostname -I (capital I) will give you the non-loopback addr (or addrs, if the machine has multiple)

From today's #bike ride: one of the regular runs by the New River but with a big extended loop over Guinea Mountain, Broad Hollow, etc. A bucket of climbing but great company and perfect weather! I'm *tired*.

Friends: "We should go ride bikes! It's surprisingly warm."
Me, then: "Hooray!"
Me, on the ride: "TREACHERY AND LIES.

"(Also, hooray!)"
#bicycle rides despite, or perhaps because of, the winter. 😍

@siege I feel like your excellent naming scheme and explanation deserves be an internet-wide survey! I'm curious what systems other folks use.

All our hardware here is named after fruits and there are some specific unwritten-but-codified rules. Plum was the purple laptop, peach is the cute little server, etc.

Some photos from last week's #cycling trip through the mountains of Slovenia et al. Gorgeous, incredibly nice people, steep climbs, and SO HOT at the start of the week.

More #cycling through Slovenia...

It's not much of a #bicycling picture, but the roads around here are just really #$!% lovely (if a bit vertical).

@notclacke So I've heard. *sigh* Seems like such a bad design decision. :/

Checking on the previous homeowner's wiring job before plopping all the Ethernet gubbins down nearby... oh. Yeah, that's why I check.

There are at least two things wrong with this wiring job. Sigh.

Home machining to the rescue!

We've a #bike brake rotor lockring that's too thin for my old 16-notch BBT-19 (built for an era when it just had to worry about bottom brackets, not super-thin lockrings) and has too much axle protruding for my BBT-69.3 (socket isn't deep enough).

There's a ton of meat in the BBT-69.3, so I just fixtured it and milled out the innards. 1. I should've done this on the SB-9 but it's currently offline; 2. I don't have a 20 mm end mill so had to make a circle by hand.

Did you know that you don't need to use link shorteners (bit.ly, etc.) on Mastodon? All links, no matter how long, only count for 23 characters against your 500 limit!

(And since link shorteners are bad for user experience and break the web, there's almost no good reason to use 'em! ?)

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" ?

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)