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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]

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Hexbear's resident machinist, absentee mastodon landlord, jack of all trades

Talk to me about astronomy, photography, electronics, ham radio, programming, the means of production, and how we might expropriate them.>

  • Cheapest ways to make your bike easier to ride

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  • This makes a lot of sense, thanks.

  • OH WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!

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  • Doing attrition warfare against Iran's Shahed program by deploying hundreds of thousands of trucks.

  • Cheapest ways to make your bike easier to ride

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  • I don't know how this translates to disc brakes, but with rim brakes the most common cause of squeaking seems to be a build-up of rubber residue on the rims. Spending about 5 minutes per wheel cleaning this surface with emory paper followed up by windex (or any mild cleaning solution which won't harm the rubber or leave behind a film) to clear away the dust it leaves behind can make a big difference. Also makes them look shiny.

    I have a rather old bike (a 1980 Fuji) so my brake pads might be a little shitty, but I notice when riding in the rain they have a tendency to leave a lot more residue on the rims than when they're running dry. The next time I ride it they're super noisy.

  • Cheapest ways to make your bike easier to ride

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  • Hey @7bicycles@hexbear.net, while you're here, I've got a question for you. My brother and I are preparing to go out on our first ride of the season (road cycling on a rail trail, 20+ miles if everything works out). It's supposed to be 48 degrees F (8 C) and sunny. I've got a cycling bib and an athletic tee-shirt, but I haven't tried them out in temperatures this low yet. What do you think would win? The exertion from exercise warming me up, or the wind chill cooling me down? (I won't hold it against you if you get it wrong :P). I'd like to avoid wearing long sleeves (cotton is all I have) or a windbreaker if I can avoid it.

  • Lutris is slop now (bonus embarrassing vague "uhhhh we live under capitalism" defense gesture)

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  • In the spirit of the GNU project re-defining well-known acronyms and abbreviations, I've noticed developers on the Guix mailing lists referring to LLMs as "License Laundering Machines."

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Worth noting Cory Doctorow is also on Mastodon. A handful of tech journalists like him, Molly White, and Paris Marx have taken the obviously correct approach of maintaining a presence (not just setting up a dead account which re-publishes their posts) on a number of social media platforms, instead of just throwing their whole lot in with the next corporate platform.

    The AT protocol (the thing BlueSky came up with rather than just joining the ActivityPub network) is technically federated, but this is kind of a joke. Over 98% of the network is hosted on BlueSky's infrastructure: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Need advice from homeless/previously homeless hexbears

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  • I thought that was Bob Dylan...

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Breaking: In unexpected twist, Labubu turns out to be Pazuzu after all.

  • "I'm a mechanical engineer." Well there's your problem.

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  • This guy must work for Boeing.

  • Will Ripley of CNN goons off to the possibility war with North Korea.

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    Important Misskey / Sharkey security update

    sharkey.team /notes/ajka8rybkjf80061
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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • You're not the only one

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • Instagram, along with nearly two thousand other sites, is supported by yt-dlp (the modern successor to youtube-dl, for those living under a rock). I've only tested it on Instagram once (just now), but I have used it to download clips from Twitter in the past, which deliberately obfuscates the interface to make this difficult.

    If you've never used a command-line program before, yt-dlp is pretty simple. Just type yt-dlp url-of-your-video, for instance. yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFTio5296w and it will save the video in your current directory.

    On Windows, you will need to make sure yt-dlp.exe is in a directory specified by your %PATH% environment variable. Otherwise, you must replace yt-dlp with the full path of yt-dlp.exe, e.g. C:\Users\Porkroll\Downloads\yt-dlp.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFTio5296w.

    I highly recommend running any interesting videos through yt-dlp for archival purposes. Who knows when the Silicon Valley platforms will remove them?

    Unfortunately, I don't know a good way to do this on Android / iOS.

  • So apparently Nintendo is sueing the US government

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  • Nazbol Mario

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  • Are you winning, son?

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 6th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Third Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • They may be, but I've seen larger convoys of APCs and Humvees rolling down the interstate in "peace time." If a ground invasion is happening, it will take a long time to move the needed hardware and personnel into place. On the order of months. And then the question is, where do you stage all these forces before making the charge? If bases throughout the Gulf are already being hammered by drones and missiles, a camp on the edge of Iran's borders would surely be turned into the moon.

  • What's only slightly gay?

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  • Convertables.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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    Men at Work - It's a Mistake

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    An x86 Emulator Implemented in CSS (no JavaScript)

    lyra.horse /x86css/
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    KDE Connect

    kdeconnect.kde.org
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    Fortress Friday update

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    FOSDEM was last weekend. What was your favorite presentation?

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 7

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    State of Mozilla (RIP)

    stateof.mozilla.org
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    TikTok's new TOS explicitly states they're tracking gender identity and immigration status

    www.avclub.com /tiktok-data-gender-identity-immigration-status
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    Godot 4.6 has been released

    godotengine.org /releases/4.6/
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    Escape from BCacheFS

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 6

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    US Regime Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter, Seizes Electronics

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 5

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    Los Prisoneros - Latinoamérica es un pueblo al sur de EEUU

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    The World’s Memory of the World: Disco Elysium and its fictions

    thebaffler.com /salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 4

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 3

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 2

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    Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 1