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It would be quite interesting to see how these “tire contact” motors will perform once it starts raining or your tires get really dirty.

I think there is a reason, why crank or hub located motors are the norm now.

Kind of semi related: What do you buy if you want to do tape backups at home?

We switched from Google Maps to OpenMapTiles for the same reason. Running OpenMapTiles via Docker was pretty easy. We bought a license for the Tiles (Europe) and it was a one time fee only.

It works great! I used the Pinboard API to download my bookmarks and used readability to crawl the original text from the source url.

I basically do the same. I work 4 days a week and I feel that I'm not really less productive. The fact that I have one day per week off, gives me a reason to procrastinate less and do more with the time I have.

I remember the time from an old job, were most employees did nearly nothing on Friday afternoons. They were burned out from the week and waited until the time was up to finally go home.

I work 4-day weeks for a few years now and I can say that I don't want to change this anytime soon. Having more time for friends and family makes me much more happy than a bit more money. And of course, I feel much more relaxed on Mondays since every weekend is a "long weekend".

Hoooly diiiiveeerr! \m/

By that i mean, that our decisions today, will effect everything that follows.

If we educate people that privacy is a privilege, they might not do things (sharing personal information) in the future, that they would otherwise do.

And i'm not talking about world-changing stuff here, it's the little things, like sharing very personal information on social media, like my party picture example from above.

The problem is, most people don't understand the implecations of their doing. And that's why we, who understand those issues, need to educate them.

Another thing is, social media is sold as this warm and cozy place where all your friends are. But in reality, you share your information with big corporations that want to make money (which is totally fine, they provide a service).

People just need to understand, that social media is not a private and social environemnt, it's a tool, provided by a company that has (in most ways) no interest in your personal privacy.

So what you're saying is, just because our governments collect everything, everybody else should be allowed to do it too, or stop worrying?

The fight for privacy is not for us, it's for generations to come.

That's the thing with personal pictures online. Most people can't imagine what is going to happen in the future. People on Hacker News well understand this issue, but ask your non-computer friends and family.

If you'd tell them, that you can take a picture of a random person and search that picture out of a pool of people and get their contact info (as a private company / random programmer with enough data), they won't believe you or tell you that something like this is only possible in movies.

Even today it's no problem to analyze the Facebook picture of some random person and calculate a chance of that person being an alcoholic in X years based on the number of party pictures they share.

Before sharing personal information online, people should not ask themselves what could be done with that data now, but what is possible with that data in the future.

If Facebook is going out of business (just as a thought), their data has a lot of value. Don't think that they will delete everything. It will go to the highest bidder!