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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • All of what the other two commenter’s said + the following:

    • wear a helmet (kind of obvious, but depending on the culture people frown on road safety for cyclists)
    • wear a high vis shirt
    • put a back mirror on your handle that sticks 20cm or so.

    The last one makes the difference in Munich between riding my normal bike and my ebike. With the mirror you see them coming, making it less uncomfortable when they pass + they automatically keep some more distance as they don’t want to hit the mirror.

    Finally, depending on how fast your bike goes, look into tuning it to higher speeds? Mine is an s-pedelec and goes 45km/h, that means in city traffic I am able to swim with the traffic and not get passed often (this will probably trigger some debate and is a suggestion you should think about carefully, as it has other implications)


  • Turns out a large excellence cluster technical university can do the same and bring down an entire campus for 2 days. Everything is in one big intranet, has main lines with high throughput routed to a large network node and one backup line from the local internet provider. It killed the main lines and thousands of staff plus some tens of thousands of students were connected through a household class fiber connection. That was fun :)















    1. Keep it turned off.
    2. If you are good with tools and know how to hard solder, dismantle the housing, find the leak and close it. Once closed, run the fridge for an hour or two standing freely in the room and check whether it works properly. By the amount of cooling you found it can well be a goner.
    3. For your food get another fridge off FB marketplace, Craigslist or whatever else people in your region use to sell used stuff locally. You can often get them for free. In case you manage to repair your fridge/get it repaired it’s probably gone again as easy as you got it.
    4. Keep the room well ventilated, coolants often becomes a gas at room temperature, so you won’t find much liquid residue of the actual coolant. Also they don’t smell. They are not dangerous to you imminently AFAIK (only really bad for the environment) but nobody likes breathing industrial chemical agents :)
    5. Refilling a fridge with new coolant requires a professional, there’s some tricks and special pumps involved to get something that is a gas at room temperature into those pipes and also to get any air out of them. If it’s necessary to refill, don’t try on your own.