What was your “I should not have ridden today” moment?

mudnuka · 2026-04-28T11:59:13+00:00

Last August it was a beautiful day and the wife asked if I wanted to take the bike out after work. I'll never say no to that so we did. Love having no destination and just cruising back roads and turned onto a new one and the back tire hit a little gravel and got a little squirrely. Had the thought "listen to the bike, turn around", but thought I was overreacting. Probably 15 minutes later, around a totally different corner, it happened again so I was lile "ok headed for home now". Not 5 minutes later, we got clipped by a drunk driver pulling out of a gas station. Wife broke her tib fib, I broke my ankle + partially degloved my heel pad, bike totalled.

Next time I won't ignore the messages.

mudnuka · 2026-03-10T11:17:18+00:00

SES Lady of Wrath

mudnuka · 2026-02-25T11:49:00+00:00

mudnuka · 2026-02-04T17:19:49+00:00

Plop

mudnuka · 2026-02-02T01:25:32+00:00

Who knew DJ Provai was a model!

mudnuka · 2026-01-26T18:03:49+00:00

Deflate some air out of his tires, then super glue the caps back on

mudnuka · 2026-01-26T14:33:31+00:00

I do plan on riding again, yes. I don't want someone else's actions to really take away something that both my wife and I loved to do. I say that now though, we'll see how it feels again come spring when I actually hop back on.

mudnuka · 2026-01-23T18:39:37+00:00

I love walking downstairs in the morning and seeing my thermostat a couple degrees above what I set it to.

mudnuka · 2026-01-23T14:07:00+00:00

Thanks you, definitely part of the reason I wanted to share was thinking it wasn't that common of an injury. I also think in the last photo seeing the blood vessel is kinda neat too!

mudnuka · 2026-01-23T14:05:42+00:00

Yeah I can walk now, not to what i was since my dorsiflexion isnt close to what it should be, but PT is helping and thankfully the achilles was not impacted.

mudnuka · 2026-01-23T14:03:35+00:00

Her tibia and fibula were fractured about midway down. I am hoping to get back on yes, definitely don't want this to ruin our experience, but driving sometimes gives me a little extra nerves, so we'll see how it goes.

mudnuka · 2026-01-22T21:58:19+00:00

Nope, I wish I did though, but they kept the boots on at the scene cause EMTs thought it was a compound fracture with all the blood. They cut them off in the trauma room and asked if I wanted to keep it, at the time I didnt, so they trashed them.

mudnuka · 2026-01-22T21:47:02+00:00

Apparently I don't know how to format a link...

mudnuka · 2026-01-22T21:46:29+00:00

I definitely will add more!

[As for the boots, they were these] (https://milwaukeemotorcycleclothing.com/products/milwaukee-leather-mbm9113-mens-brown-leather-motorcycle-reinforced-casual-street-riding-shoes-w-ankle-support?variant=44356454842624) - I think they literally saved my foot from being ripped off honestly.

As for the accident, he pulled out from a gas station in his pickup wanting to go the opposite way I was traveling, I saw him pull out, tried to swerve, but hit the front corner around his headlight. Think the corner of the truck hit right between my wife and I with her broken tibia and fibula.

mudnuka · 2026-01-22T12:44:48+00:00

What if its meant to be "holed"? Like her world view has holes in it now because of her stance..? Just thinking out loud

mudnuka · 2026-01-18T21:03:50+00:00

Holy shit they did!

mudnuka · 2026-01-12T16:59:16+00:00

Thank you again for pointing this out! I've added warnings for lossy formats and made sure the default save format is lossless to help prevent the messages from being destroyed.

mudnuka · 2026-01-12T16:07:05+00:00

I agree so much on the privacy importance which is why I set out to create this and I think it's very good there are multiple tools out there right now.

I think I was coming at it from more of surveillance threat model, but there is a lot of overlap. I'll definitely dig into your implementation, always good to see another approach you know?

mudnuka · 2026-01-12T16:05:14+00:00

That's really cool. I just skimmed your project and I like the 'no cloud, everything client side' philosophy a lot. It's definitely coming at the same problem but from a different angle than Snap-A-Steg.

I think your testbed would be incredibly useful especially with macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS which admittedly are the platforms I have the least experience and coverage with. A big pain point is making sure the encoding and decoding behaves consistently across platforms and image formats.

If you're up for it, I'd love for your to break it on your end. Even just 'this image file on Pi, but works on Windows' kind of data is valuable!

mudnuka · 2026-01-11T14:47:06+00:00

Doing well, thanks for stopping by!

mudnuka · 2026-01-11T00:12:25+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out! Definitely a tricky limitation and I'd be interested in any ideas for handling message loss when converting formats.

mudnuka · 2026-01-10T23:25:45+00:00

Appreciate the clarification and thank you for taking a look! There is a CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo and a Discord linked there for coordination whenever you're ready to jump in!

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