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Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:54AM (#49932994)
Ah great! and thank you for your kind words.
Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:53AM (#49932972)
infra, for now, is relatively cheap. Eventually i hope the community will contribute to maintain the website. Moderation will be interesting, hopefully partial automated, partially by the community, partially my own time.

it is truly my intend to keep it ad free and true platform for the cycling fans.

I registered a non-profit company to make sure those believes are captured and part of the website.

Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:51AM (#49932952)
great! I e-mailed you
Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:44AM (#49930902)
the daily digests on the "HUBS" section are already in English, and you can sign-up for automatic message (per e-mail or push notification). I'm considering translating all news headlines into English using AI. working on that.

And yes, proper live races would be great with content from people along side the road as well. Currently i think sporza.be is best in this (live race report), but it is all in Dutch.

Thank you for your feedback!

Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:09AM (#49930659)
I’m building a non profit cycling website, perhaps you are interested: https://cyclohub.cc

It is still in the early stages. i want to gather news from across all channels and make a place for cycling fans, without all the ads.

Also check out my dad’s biography at https://championwillpower.com

Great to see cyclist fans on here!

Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:15AM (#44796667)
doesn't seem to be available in the Dutch app-store.
Re:Wind Knitting Factory on Thursday July 03, 2025 @05:46PM (#44459440)
you could, but the (original) website is from 2009...so probably not enough interest to keep that up. The old link is dead: https://windknittingfactory.bigcartel.com/
i've been using a rather 'rare' two letter tld for my e-mail address since forever. besides the typical autocomplete in forms to suggest to change it to a more common tld, it seems to work quite well for me. People also don't seem to have an issue remembering the tld as it seems to match closely with the common tld used within my country, but distinctive enough to not forget. .party as tld might not be the best idea of course, considering you might want to be taken seriously in your future e-mailing endeavors.
Re:The book Kubrick tried to kill on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:35AM (#40282675)
So, why can they publish it now? His death doesn’t nullify the agreement, does it?
Re:What Was ISDN? on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:24AM (#38991783)
it was shell-scripting (bash). And i'm not sure, but it i think i was mandrake linux distro. It was quite the work to get ISDN working properly, especially to use two lines at a time (one dialing, while the other one was in use).
Re:What Was ISDN? on Sunday January 14, 2024 @02:39AM (#38988336)
Got ISDN as a previous job as parttime helpdesk employee at an ISP. Together with the rise of numberous dail-up providers, including the legendary Superweb. It would allow free internet against a fix rate, not paying per minute, which was something new for the Netherlands. It would only allow one or two hours after it would disconnect you and you had to redial. Due their succes getting dialed in again could take quite long (too many users, not enough lines). So I wrote code/script and made changes to the Linux distribution to allow me to dial with my second line as part of my ISDN, starting ten minutes before I would get disconnected, and “transfer” the connection to the new connection when it was finally able to dial-in, hence having internet 24hours a day. Good times! Superweb didn’t exist very long…
Re:24 Hours of Lemons on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:12AM (#38936828)
For people in Europe/the Netherlands there is a race based on the same concept but somewhat different: https://www.jyr.nl

Edit: short description in English: https://www.jyr.nl/index.php/general-information/

Re:Memories from Old LAN Parties on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:09AM (#37453564)
The outdoor lan parties that quickly popped up in the Netherlands is where I have my best memories of. Also, modding levels of Shadow Warrior or Quake and then telling your friends that they had to copy this newer version as it had a patch and then pranking them for an hour in game by completely destroying them with hidden passages and explosions… all the while hearing them in disbelief.. and then sharing the secret… also FTP Servers with more music, movies and games you could ever put on your own hard drives..
what a crazy stupid idea... thunderf00t [1] already outlined why all of this is a horrible idea.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezF7NmwQZs&ab_channel=Thund...

Re:Bike as a Service on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:37AM (#36710928)
VanMoof bike manufacturer is going bankrupt. People should export there private keys otherwise their bikes might get locked for ever..
Re:Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:25AM (#34676949)
i can only attest on personal experience, but yes...
Re: on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:38PM (#34634930)
it seems that they didn't migrate the video. https://players.brightcove.net/5387496921001/default_default... is unavailable, but the old wordpress images are still online and available: https://www.msgnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chamb...
Re:Taking jigsaw puzzles to infinity and beyond on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:11PM (#33958807)
Yes, there are 6 in total now.
Re:Taking jigsaw puzzles to infinity and beyond on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:02AM (#33955334)
Re:My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:09AM (#33863598)
ay yes, uploading crap to get download credits.. or paging and sucking up to the sysop for credits..
Re:Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:28PM (#33438484)
I wouldn’t mind paying a premium instead of a monthly insurance fee to get this resolved. And I have time, it doesn’t need to get resolved today.
Re:Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @08:18AM (#33434520)
Yes, free account. And having lost the ability to do 2FA I probably won’t be able to upgrade it. I’m fine paying for support, but that is not even provided as far as I know (for free accounts).

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