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A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night (www.runnersworld.com)
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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 76 points 2 weeks ago

The one thing he didn’t plan for was that auto-uploading the files this way required a paid account.

“There was really only one reasonable solution: my hamster now has Strava Premium,” de Buck said.

Love the commitment to the bit. I was unsurprised to learn that the owner is a physicist and an injured runner meaning he has both the time and motivation to geek out on data and live vicariously.