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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:47:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   @whitequark @mcc how do you cryptographically lock a motor?

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:47:49 JST mcc

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     When the AK-47 is discussed as an object or a "design" what people seem to consider most important is it is a "low-tech technology". The design optimizes, to the exclusion of all else, being cheap and easy to manufacture & easy to service in the field by its user. Modern ebikes are standardizing on the opposite of this. Ebikes seem to usually contain multiple microcontrollers running proprietary code and proprietary connections to batteries—made by startups that will not outlive the ebike itself

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:47:49 JST mcc

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     What it seems like we want is for someone, somewhere to invent a standard, reusable design for an ebike that multiple vendors can target manufacture of each individual part and a user could learn to service and substitute the parts of. Possibly a government could do this. Possibly a government could be incentivized to do this by the way in which an ebike and an AK-47 are already similar: It has a component that can erupt in fire and kill people

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:47:49 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • mcc

     @mcc also, the government remark is not true--Shimano and Bosch e-bikes are atrociously bad, with cryptographically locked motors and stuff, _because_ of government regulation (on power and speed)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:47:50 JST mcc

     The phrase "I want someone to invent the AK-47 of ebikes" keeps drifting through my head