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Ben Stewart

@obsidian@milliways.social
mastodon 4.6.9
  • Open on milliways.social

Prolific lurker and beginner tattoo collector.
Home Automator. Architect of Networks and promoter of open observability platforms. WOSM Volunteer. Legal Alien. Frequently hanging out at Milliways. Proudly Antifa.

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118 Followers
164 Following
20 Posts
Joined January 17, 2025
Location:
Hem, Netherlands
Pronouns:
He/Him
Homepage:
https://obsidian.pitchstone.wtf
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@voorstad@mastodon.nl @signalapp@mastodon.world @AboutSignalNL@mastodon.social there's an open feature request to remove gmaps in favor of OSM from _2019_ https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-openstreetmap-instead-of-google-maps/5434 please add your votes to it!
Use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps
Signal Community

Use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps

When sending a location I noticed that Google Maps was used for selecting locations. Isn’t it true that Google tracks behaviour like searching/selecting locations? Let’s suppose you want to secretly meet up with someone, Signal will provide the privacy for that. However, if you select it though Google Maps, Google knows you selected that location. Plus, if the other person clicks that same link, Google might figure out that you will be meeting with that person at that location. Damn, this sou

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 3mo ago

See, the flaw in @milliways@milliways.social' plan of making me do logistics is that I inevitably manage to pack everyone else's stuff too, leaving no room for the actual gear that Milliways needs.

I wonder if I could put wheels and a floor on the dome and just tow that to @emf@social.emfcamp.org instead. It'd certainly fit everything.

#emfcamp

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 2mo ago

Cheers UK, cheers @emf@social.emfcamp.org .
It was a blast!

#emfcamp

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 4mo ago

RE: https://chaos.social/@jonty/116716621954701402

10/10. No notes.

chaos.social

Jonty Wareing: "I did not achieve everything I needed to achieve …" - chaos.social

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 3mo ago

Europe good. EU sometimes good. EU Parliament Bad. That is all.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 6mo ago

RE: https://milliways.social/@obsidian/116080032215806949

That being said. I did get to use my vote today. So that's a thing.

Milliways.social

Ben Stewart (@obsidian@milliways.social)

A great read about how our democracy isn't as democratic as people assume; https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/ Since my 18th, I have not voted in 5 UK General elections, 2 UK Referendums (Yeah, I "wasn't eligible" to vote in the brexit referendum), 7 NL General Elections, 5 NL senate elections and 4 EU Elections. I get to vote for my council and the "water board" And that's from my privileged position of "oh, you have all your permits, a job, you pay tax, you have a home" - there are hundreds

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@majorlinux Heard and seen. You're not alone.
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 4mo ago

alright, let's just say that for whatever reason, I don't wanna use the dutch 9292 or NS first party apps for my public transport needs.

I had a look round, but either my keywords are bad or it doesn't exist; what's a decent opensource public transport app that works?

Obvs; my needs are specifically NL, but bonus points if it works in parts or a lot of EU. Even a mobile optimised website that I can just pin to my home screen would do, it doersn't even need to be an app I guess (and yes, I guess I could do that to 9292 and NS, but that isn't my question here)

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 7mo ago

I am absolutely knackered.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@sancla this is it, this is the bad take that keeps this shit going.
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 5mo ago

RE: https://milliways.social/@obsidian/115910049351075107

another opensource project, another documentation store that gives a perfectly logical error at step 1 because the documentation was never updated to align with choices made in the actual project.

Milliways.social

Ben Stewart (@obsidian@milliways.social)

I should do some investigation on this and try to quantify it somehow. I know there's an audience for "angy brit on stage with funny rant" but I'm not aiming to be a comedian here, I genuinely want my friends and family to use the apps and services I like. I genuinely want my employer and local government to support platforms that will improve the communities I am a part of rather than rob them of their resources and data. But this current hellscape of "will-it-won't-it?" "is the documentati

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 6mo ago

RE: https://milliways.social/@obsidian/116043090856912439

lmao guess who's in VIRM 9478 without a working toilet again

Milliways.social

Ben Stewart (@obsidian@milliways.social)

Wish the NS (Dutch passenger railway operator) was on Mastodon. So I'm in VIRM 9508 from A'dam Centraal to Enkhuizen which left centraal at 23:23. It has two (2) toilets. Both of them are locked, give the audible 'defect' cue and are labeled 'DEFECT' Yeah. This is not a good situation to be in.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@mcfly jokes on you, it was DNS anyway
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 14mo ago
Replying to
@emf Yay!
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@cmccullough Happy with @zenbrowser here
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@Dany Theyll also do everything in their power to not reimburse you if you have fallen victim to some scam and lost money due to it while simultaneously fighting multiple government imposed fines for proven conviction that they knowingly aide large scale laundering. :) The ING has no redeeming qualities.
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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 5mo ago

I have an accessibility question from a family member that I don't have an answer for so I'm turning to you!

One of my family members suffers from Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo - (I'll just say Vertigo from now)

there are a few known triggers that can be avoided, but rather unhelpfully, there is a big one that severely impedes their work, namely sitting at a desk and looking at their screens (multiple).

Watching TV or using a phone does not trigger Vertigo so the logical conclusion was to try using only 1 screen at desk, but due to the employer's choice of programs and the tasks required for my family member's job etc this just introduces different impediments.

I know iOS has settings that subtly warp and distort the display when moving in a car to combat motion sickness, so I wonder if there is a software solution for this or a display configuration I haven't thought of but as I haven't encountered this before and just aren't very knowledgeable about this in the first place, I don't know what to look for or even where to look!

Yes, there are physical excercises one can do to help alleviate some of the symptoms, my family member is doing these, but this takes time. We are specifically looking at options to change the workspace.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 4mo ago

Please @Tutanota@mastodon.social please please let us turn off push notifications for the spam folder. It is driving us nuts.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 2mo ago

Cars are dumb.

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social
· 2mo ago
Replying to on milliways.social
@boreq@chaos.social I think I might put it in my calendar to have the fridge placed onsite exactly a day before the first orga arrives in 2028.
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