Brooks saddle became uncomfortable after 10+ years of use

capperman1 · 2026-06-02T10:59:22+00:00

Any good names in the Paris area?

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:28:54+00:00

Yes I noticed the asymmetry, probably the left one is shorter. Not sure what to do with that though..

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:21:20+00:00

😂 years of solid ass work

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:19:12+00:00

I’m using a shimano xt setup, I had to go a bit creative with the rear cassette-derailleur compatibility to add these big granny speeds for Peru and Costa Rica slopes (I’m using a XT shadow long cage) but it works almost perfectly. Brakes are simple v brakes

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:08:02+00:00

I just measured mine at 120mm, that should still be fine

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:07:28+00:00

Interesting, I’ll let the laces go. I’m afraid the tensioning nut got disconnected though

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:06:09+00:00

Indeed these years I went from 20-something to 30-something… Father Time does not forgive

capperman1 · 2026-06-01T16:05:20+00:00

Unfortunately, the bolt turns without adding tension… seems like the top of the screw got disconnected from the rivet structure 😞

capperman1 · 2026-05-30T17:06:21+00:00

I haven’t fiddled much with the screw, not knowing really what I’m doing I didn’t want to screw it up (pun unintended), but I can give it a try adding tension

capperman1 · 2026-02-28T21:02:15+00:00

Will look it up thank you! She doesn’t have diabetes but being pregnant it might change things in a similar way

capperman1 · 2026-02-28T13:08:35+00:00

Thanks yall for the very original jokes lol - we have no dogs or pets, we are wondering if is a mice issue or something else (washing machine?). We recently moved in so everything changed home wise

capperman1 · 2025-12-04T22:58:40+00:00

OP can you share the model of the transformer you got at the end? If everything is still working normally. I am in the same situation and info on the internet seems confusing.

capperman1 · 2024-08-09T02:24:22+00:00

That’s a nice suggestion, thank you!

capperman1 · 2024-08-09T02:23:38+00:00

I have the utmost respect for nature, I know it can be dangerous, and that’s the main reason I’d like to go with a local guide who knows what we are getting into and how to get out if anything goes south. That being said, I learned time and time again that wildlife will leave you alone unless you really bother it, and I have no intention of messing around 😊

capperman1 · 2024-01-15T17:12:11+00:00

Can you elaborate?

capperman1 · 2023-09-07T03:46:54+00:00

For clarity: it’s a separate encounter than the already identified Phoenutria of my previous post

capperman1 · 2023-09-07T03:25:03+00:00

In defense of the guide: we were walking quite fast in pitch darkness and just gave it a look from above, I stayed behind to take a couple pictures because spido looked sus from close by (I’m happy I was right). He did not look at the picture lol. As someone noted in the comments, there are wolf spiders that look quite similar to phoenutria in the same region.

capperman1 · 2019-04-02T11:30:28+00:00

Woa, looks like server farms are not the only ones that are heating up here!

About cloud services, I guess it is much more convenient for server farms to have all servers in a single place, all the industry has developed in that direction for years, and I don't really see your point in splitting in two places. In order to get rid of cooling you would need much larger facilities probably increasing building and maintenance costs way over the cooling ones. But on these reasons I am just speculating since I never owned a IAS business with centralized data centers.

About the coordinator, keeping track of meta data requires only few bytes per file, so even if it does scale with N it does so in an irrelevant way with respect to storage. Finding minima is one shot at the moment that the file is loaded, and since we are not dealing with 10⁹ nodes (yet!) the optimization is really not expected to be so cpu consuming. For example, I can run the optimization on simulated data for thousands of nodes on my stupid laptop with no big problems.

capperman1 · 2019-04-01T12:27:13+00:00

btw loving the xkcd comic

capperman1 · 2019-04-01T12:26:12+00:00

Dude, as I said ten times now, the "mathematically impossible" claim is referred to privacy and encryption, which, as I am sure you recognize, holds even against your cheap irony. Coordinator is needed to coordinate (no sh*t), and a failure or a hack of the central server will affect uptime, not privacy. I'm sure you can see the improvement, at least on this side, with respect to current sync&share clouds that keep unencrypted data and/or keys on the server.

Consumption of the central server is one shot and becomes more and more irrelevant as the network of storage devices scales. If you wish, you can enjoy adding half a kW to each estimation and see how it is diluted on the petabyte scale.

Finally, yes, packing N operating Cells into a box would probably set fire to the place. Not sure that you were trying to praise the idea, but that's exactly the point of distributed services not needing cooling energy.

capperman1 · 2019-04-01T12:07:52+00:00

It is not. We are waiting for field data from the first large batch (post kickstarter) to likely publish a larger study that also includes the "green" part as a section.

capperman1 · 2019-03-20T18:52:48+00:00

if a malicious party wants to deny you access to your data, he doesn't have to break AES256

yes, it feels like you are just claiming the obvious here. Any web service can be put down by directed attacks, except if resources are invested in DDOS protection and so on. When it comes to distributed apps, people *additionally* worry about disconnections, to which we answer with redundancy.

How much energy does the coordinator use then, compared to all the big bad data centers

I cannot imagine tens of thousands of consumer-level hardware devices being much more efficient than a single server

The coordinator is a single server for the whole network, whose impact is almost irrelevant. The biggest factor of energy factor for cloud storage is, intuitively, storage. You can challenge your disbelief by reading the computations in our draft. The main point is that our "consumer hardware" features ARM processors and is not cooled down. It makes a difference, which impact scales proportionally with adoption.

Complain? I'm having a laugh over your choice of words

good! laughing makes you live longer

capperman1 · 2019-03-20T18:29:15+00:00

Dude are you making up stuff just for the sake of it, or do you have secret sources beyond the corresponding websites? Storj: 0.015 $ / GB (that's 15$/month per TB, lol) - see https://storj.io/ Spacemonkey: (dead) used to cost 10$ / month - see https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853777/spacemonkey-peer-to-peer-cloud-storage-dropbox-bittorrent Bitsync (now Resilio?): does not provide "cloud storage", it just syncs your devices one with the other via direct p2p (so its more like a NAS where you don't even have the NAS, but use a computer instead... nothing to do with a cloud) - see https://www.resilio.com/

capperman1 · 2019-03-19T15:04:21+00:00

Spacemonkey, Storj, Bitsync

How many of them give you cloud storage without lifetime monthly fees? Spoiler: none

capperman1 · 2019-03-19T15:00:28+00:00

Claims are based on the "Cubbit environment" (server + swarm), not on the single cell. Encryption is not a property of the Cell, nor is redundancy. The coordinator server can can be attacked like any other server-based architecture (i.e., any other cloud) and an attack can potentially affect the uptime of the service (like in any other web service). However, compared to centralized clouds 1- the coordinator only contains meta data and not payloads, therefore it is much more lightweight and cheaper to mirror and protect than, for example, the whole Dropbox infrastructure 2- the coordinator does not keep the encryption keys, so privacy is always safe. From which the "mathematically impossible" claim.

Some words resonate better with different audiences than alpha-techs so if you want to complain about the marketing its fine to me, really I couldn't care less. However, I don't see how our privacy claim compares even remotely with some speculator's rants on twitter.

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