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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@UnionizedNetizen @netizenronda It would be great to have this as an epub (or a single HTML page) to read off-line. Excellent publication in any case.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The OS on the Pebble was updated in the past day or so. One of the news items says that there is now an "Extra Large" text size option, supposedly under "Display" settings. I cannot find it. Anybody else seen this? I have noticed, however, that the "Large" text size setting is now applied […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Quasi New Bike Day After 10000+ km, I thought it was time to properly service my bike. New chain, chainset, bottom bracket, disk pads. Rides like a new bike! Thanks to Balfe's in Crawley for an excellent service. #BikeTooter #UKCycling #NBD #WorthWay […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Blue Trek mountain bike leaning against a gate to a green field with trees in the background.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@ctietze Yeah, that's the next logical step... but it's one I've resisted for some years now.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@enobacon Back in the day, I loved my Psion 3s (,a,c,mx) and my Palm Pilot but that was before Emacs subsumed my whole digital life (I blame gnus and org mode amongst other things for that). :-)

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So, in my quest to simplify my life, I have started to decouple myself from the large privacy invading cloud and AI based services (Microsoft and Google, I'm looking at you), especially with regards to calendars. Emacs has built-in calendar, diary, and appointment capabilities. As I live in […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: techhub.social/@LinuxToday/11730715… It's good to see another potential phone with hardware keyboard. Running Android although I would prefer Linux... but better than nothing. #PDA

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ed Davey. Not a friend of the climate. Even after record breaking heatwaves and exces summer deaths. We need to be getting people to drive less and burn less fuel, not making it cheaper. Christ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ed Davey calls for immediate 10p cut to fuel duty

Sir Ed blamed Donald Trump's war with Iran for damaging the UK economy and pushing fuel prices up.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This 10+ year old phone (Planet Computers Gemini) might be stuck on version 8 of Android but termux and Emacs continually get better and better. I've just upgraded to Emacs 31.1! #Emacs #termux #PDA #PortableComputing

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Webinar announcement (29 September 2026) and (free) registration link: # Digitally enabled sustainable metals recycling for circular economies As demand for critical materials continues to grow, efficient and sustainable recycling processes are becoming essential to the transition towards a […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@knirirr @kerravonsen What are your experiences with Gravel? I've not tried it yet but it looks appealing (de-Googled etc.). #Pebble #PebbleWatch #PebbleOS

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The incremental updates to the PebbleOS are definitely having a positive impact on battery life: currently, the estimate for the watch is 28 days from battery full to 0%! #PebbleWatch #Pebble #BatteryLife #PebbleOS

Pie chart showing breakdown of battery use by features with the operating system using 35%.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Cádiz is a beautiful very old city (there's been a settlement continuously here for over 3000 years). The food is excellent as are the views from the cathedral (photos yet to be processed). #Photography #Cádiz #España

White building with bright yellow roof with a low wall along the left and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side of the wall. Deep blue sky.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@svw For some of us, it was a natural and desirable progression, without trauma, starting with ed, moving on to ex, and then getting access to a monitor (not a paper based terminal) and finding out that there was a visual screen based mode in ex, aka vi. :-) Emacs came later. #Emacs #Vi

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Excellent new default weather app for the Pebble Time 2! Well designed layout, making good use of the space and colours. #PebbleWatch #Pebble #WeatherApp

Weather app showing forecast for five days with each described by the day of the week, a weather emoji, and maximum and minimum temperatures.

Weather app display of the hour by hour forecast for the next 12 hours, drawn in a circle.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@gnomon Living in Edmonton (Canada) back in the 70s, Spanish friends phoned at 4am to say that Franco had died and that they were coming over with a bottle of Cava. So, yes, having a bottle handy for When It Happens (sooner rather than later, please) is a good idea, especially if you share.

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Grassroots for Europe🇪🇺 @grassrootsforeurope.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

‘Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled… we must rejoin the EU’ – Sadiq Khan www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/… #Brexit #Britain #EU #Europe #rejoinEU

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

“Understand what almost happened Friday night. A foreign government attempted to acquire, by contract, control over #Canada’s trade relationships, cultural protections, official languages policy, auto industry, and provincial procurement, with a unilateral-enforcement whip attached, and they […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@Brownian_motion I'm old skool so go to physical (bricks & mortar) shops near me. I hate online shopping. #BikeTooter

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Open mic session at The Old Duke in Bristol. Some of the acts were excellent; all were good and really enjoyable. Lovely evening. #LiveMusic #TheOldDuke #Bristol #Photograph #Photography

Man playing guitar with a blackboard to the left showing the acts for each day of this current week.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Yesterday, we went down to Eastbourne to watch *The Beachy Head World Championship Penny Farthing Hill Climb Time Trial*. I hate to think how these riders must have suffered towards the middle of the route when the inclines are seriously hard. I don't have […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Rider wearing a flat cap on a Penny Farthing bicycle with a view of the sea in the background.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

My friend (the photographer in this case) and I went for a ride along the Downs Link, from Christ's Hospital to Shoreham-by-Sea and then on to Brighton. Absolutely lovely day for it: warm but not too warm and sunny. #BikeTooter #DownsLink #Sussex #Selfie

Gravel path leading into the distance. Cyclist (me) coming towards the photographer in the foreground with another cyclist in the far distance. Blue sky with some (few) clouds. Fields on either side of the gravel path.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

I knew, intellectually, that Africa and Europe are close neighbours. But I was amazed at how close they really are. This photo was taken (as a passenger) while driving north and east of Tarifa (Spain). #Africa #Europe #StraitsOfGibraltar #Photography

Mountain in the distance (in Africa) with the Straits of Gibraltar in the middle distance and an out of focus shrub in the foreground.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Lovely cycle ride yesterday with the Horsham & Crawley Cycling UK group. Train to Chichester, cycle in a loop with a picnic along the way, and back home by train. Warm day but not too hot. #BikeTooter #CyclingUK #Chichester #Horsham #Crawley

Map of ride showing a loop start and finish at Chichester. Text at bottom: 39.04km Mountain Biking and yesterday's date and time.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I use exwm (the Emacs window manager) on a Debian stable system. As far as I can tell, I have customised everything I can to bring up either eww or firefox when I need to browse the web (eww preferred but some sites need a graphical interface with javascript, e.g. my bank). Annoyingly, for […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Part of the afternoon wasted (not really; it's raining so having fun inside 🙂) tweaking my Emacs configuration due to some really good posts about version 31 (soon to hit the high street near you 😉): karthinks.com/software/even-more-ba… […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Weather was not great when I woke up this morning but, a little while later, the sun came out and I couldn't resist going out on my bike (for a short-ish 15 km ride along the Worth Way). Lovely ride until the skies opened on the way home. I got absolutely drenched... but you can only get so wet […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

New blog post for this month's Emacs Carnival on underappreciated built-in Emacs features although I'm cheating because I'm talking about a feature that is not actually built in (and I missed the chance when a previous Emacs carnival was on packages... 🤪). The blog post is about rec mode, an […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Another ride in Madrid, this time northwards and to the west. Followed the river for 12 km. On the way back, I decided to follow the *anillo verde ciclista* (the green cycling ring, a 64 km loop around Madrid). This route is very well done but is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Map of West Madrid, with route taken highlighted in red.

Cobblestone path on a bridge with sentinel statues on either side and green trees in the background.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

I've spent a few days in Madrid, exploring the cycling infrastructure. There is an excellent network of paths, especially along the Manzanares River but elsewhere as well. This ride to the south of the city was 15 km each way, completely on cycle paths. The […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Map of south Madrid with route cycled highlighted in red.

View of tall buildings in the distance with mountains in the background and green bushes in the foreground.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

The frustration lasted only a couple of hours! :-)

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Thank you! Good idea. Definitely looks better that way. :-) And, yes, it's good!

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Yesterday, I went out for a (50 km) ride with the Horsham & Crawley cycle group, a relaxed Cycling UK group which often explores the quiet lanes around both towns in Surrey and West Sussex. Lovely day with two stops: at a café (Cadence Club Cafe, 50.953023° […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Map of area between and south of Horsham and Crawley showing route taken.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

It's Saturday, it's raining outside, and the humans are home. Time to sit comfortably above eye level and make them uncomfortable by staring at them. Oh, and listening to Radio Caroline. 🙂 #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #RadioCaroline

Black cat sitting on an upper level of a cat tree, staring at the human taking the photo.

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

So, yesterday I had the pleasure (?) of using the Southern Rail service on the Three Bridges to London Victoria line. I had my full sized bike with me. On previous occasions, the bike carriage was indicated by a bicycle logo near the door, next to a wheelchair logo. On yesterday's train, the […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Just got my electricity stats from the energy company. April was a good month. Imported 34 kWh (average of just over 1 kWh per day) but exported 284 kWh (almost 10 kWh per day)! #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

I will be examining a PhD student soon. I have to read their thesis. I brought out my reMarkable e-ink tablet to use it to read and annotate the thesis. So much better than using a laptop or (even worse) printing it out and carrying 200+ pages around... I am continually impressed with this […]

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Anybody here have any experience on taking a bicycle (full size) on the Guildford-Gatwick route (via Redhill) with Great Western Railway? #BikeTooter #Rail #GreatWesternRailway

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs: @ericsfraga.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Went out for a ride this morning. I started on the Worth Way (old rail line) and, as it was a lovely day, I just kept going, passing through East Grinstead and then down the Forest Way (yet another old rail line). Before I knew it, I was 25 km from home. So […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Path going into the distance with a bicycle in the middle and a picnic table on the right.

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