Context: riding s-Pedelec through a European city for 25km each way on commute several times a week over three seasons at any weather. Been doing since 3 years now. Majority of the path is cycle paths, lots of crossings and entrances that have cars coming out on the way.

Helmet:

• NTA8667 certified
• with MIPS
• integrated lighting
• windshield

(e. G. Lumos ultra ebike smart helmet). Mine is a bit older, that’s the one I’d get now.

Vest: high vis with reflectors and good air circulation. Small rain jacket in the bike bag.

Trousers: reflectors there as well, always carry rain-proof trousers in your bike bag. 30mph make you freeze to your bones even in summer if you get wet and have wind running through your cloths

Gloves: depending on the season, high summer none, when temps are below 18degC light mountain bike gloves, when temps are below 12 thicker gloves. Beginning and end of the biking season skiing gloves.

Bike:

• spoke reflectors
• really loud horn. You want a car driver to jump when you press the horn not to be annoyed by you
• additional lights for driving in the rain

I never had an accident in three years but lots of close calls and I really try to save time on my commute, so I don’t go slow. However, that being said I think similarly important to the right equipment is the mindset.

• Plan your route so that you avoid any tricky spots. E. G. My old route went on a stretch of road through the woods. I hated it bc the road turns meant car drivers could potentially not see me in time.
• be paranoid about car drivers
• be double paranoid about trucks. There’s no do over after a truck accident, no matter what you wore.
• be paranoid about pedestrians. They’ll randomly veer off path.
• never believe that a car driver will not just cut right across your way only bc they looked at you 1 second before. They do not understand how fast you are.
• I’d rather get sued than killed. There are spots where it is illegal to drive my bike on a cycling path (stupid laws). Same spot has a really tricky and dangerous stretch of road. I’m happy to pay the fee for having taken the bike path illegally, a lot cheaper than an accident.
• take care of others, be prepared to break. Normal cyclists are like turtles when you’re riding an s-Pedelec. Keep proper distance and just factor in the few minutes extra for staying in line behind them for a mile each way
• Train braking from full speed in emergency mode. It’s not that easy with such a heavy bike. Keep your emergency brake path also in mind when choosing your speed.
• assume they don’t know you’re there until you honked them.

That last one combines great with the paranoid rules above, don’t honk in anger, honk to make others aware you’re there. Also when driving in the rain in the dark you unlock a new mode! You’re completely invisible, no matter how much lights you carry. That assumption saved my ass twice last season.

First time ever I heard Kazakhstan being called part of the European region.

Sorry, didn’t know that. I was just looking for a video hosting site that requires no account. Happy for better suggestions on what to use next time

Was the first thing I found that let me upload a video for a few days w/o making an account

Video link

Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she’s here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.

Oh, sorry - I wanted to say no problem with UK and Korea, trying to avoid China due to human rights violations.

Demeyere is made in Belgium afaik

Produces only in UK, China and Korea. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulte-Ufer

Nothing against the first two on that list ofc

Hetzner is pretty popular as well

Fife has a unique landscape, formed by its vulcanic past combined with the erosion of the sea. Different types of lava have different resilience, which is partially responsible for those stunning rock formations. Great shot!

I don’t see why people get so riled up in the comment section of this post.

Is the original post a legit psa? Definitely. Will this become problematic with European law at some point? Well at least it’s going to be interesting. Should we care? Seeing as lemmy development is partially funded by the European Commission, definitely! Should we care for altruistic reasons? Also definitely. This place is supposed to be better than the centralized corporate social media to its users, especially also regarding privacy. It’s good practice to set up new accounts every once in a while against doxing and seeing how much of the community on lemmy is built by people who are sensitive to their privacy this is sth we should respect.

Should we break down in squabbles here of one instance against another? Please, if I want to hear “all people from place x are bad” I’d just switch on an election debate. Show that your adults. Take your peers and their concerns here seriously. Make something out of it when people raise legit concerns. Thank you bonjour for bringing up this topic.

That law is definitely problematic. The phrasing was even back then critizised rightfully as too broad, too open to interpretation. It generates a bad precedent, as it could just as well be used against anti fascism activists once the AFD manages to grab power anywhere.

Now where does that come from? It stemmed from one of those actionism-phases in politics where someone said ‘oh there’s so much hate on the internet, it inspires hate on the streets, what should we do?’

The backdrop was a consistent uprising in really troubling hate speech on the internet, where people with their clear names called for lynching politicians and their families. The thing is, addressing this would not have required new laws. We would have been fine with someone actually persecuting the laws we already had.

Now the “new law” ofc makes it easier to persecute those criminal cases. But that prosecution still only happens if the police actually stand up to it. Arguments like “insufficient public interest” “insufficient staffing” “that could have been anyone writing this, how should we know that an account named Max Mustermann actually belongs to said Max Mustermann” still give the police in the more right wing states in Eastern Germany easy ways out. If they don’t want to prosecute a crime, they will always find a way around it.

With all that being said, I can only concur with observations that this law is only now being discussed in international news as right-wing governments with media ties try to make a bad mood against Germany and influence the upcoming elections. Otherwise the anti-protest laws in the UK that bring climate activists behind bars for peaceful non-violent protests would top those headlines every time.

Tl/DR; yes, that law is shit and good intentions don’t help. Police still only prosecute those they want.

Sounds pretty cyberpunk that adblockers could soon be a guerilla group sabotaging rocket launches instead of FOSS devs

This is the northern hemisphere, just a picture I took in the summer and found now while cleaning up my image folders

Found this image when cleaning up my SD card. It’s a small local flooded gravel pit. The color of the water is natural and comes from the limestone gravel that the Alps rivers and glaciers left here over the millenia.

Yeah, if you like playing with compositions they are a great tool :)

I use a DJI mini 3, changed the rotors to new ones that have a bit more lift and make less noise, added a polarization filter and thereby all in all upgraded it for 30 bucks compared to out of the factory configuration.

My thoughts: I absolutely love it. You see my complaints about the weird raw file format that is hard to process properly but apart from that it’s so very nice. It is small mobile, the controls work excellent and the only regret I have is not spending the extra money to get the pro version that would have had the nice follow modes for shooting video.

Mostly I use it for making outdoor videos when hiking, biking or paddling and it is bringing me lots of joy :) Have not found a good video service yet (tried the fediverse version but didn’t perform well, don’t like YouTube), otherwise there would be about as many nice outdoor video shots from me as there are photos ^^

Thank you :)

Hmm, I read a thread on darktable about it. The devs said the problem with that kind of Pixel-based correction is that it’s running counter to all their data processing and they’d basically have to rewrite their raw processor from scratch. I totally get it that that’s a lot to ask from an open source team, so no complaints there.