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Ben Stewart

@obsidian@milliways.social

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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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Joined January 17, 2025

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Hem, Netherlands

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He/Him

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https://obsidian.pitchstone.wtf

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @voorstad@mastodon.nl

@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!

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 29, 2026

Cars are dumb.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 22, 2026

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.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 21, 2026

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

#emfcamp

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 12, 2026

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

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 09, 2026

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

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jun 08, 2026

RE: @jonty@chaos.social

10/10. No notes.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jun 06, 2026

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)

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · May 19, 2026

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

mastodon.social

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Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @sancla@infosec.exchange

@sancla this is it, this is the bad take that keeps this shit going.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @Dany@hsnl.social

@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.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com

@majorlinux Heard and seen. You're not alone.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Apr 21, 2026

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.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Apr 18, 2026

RE: @obsidian@milliways.social

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.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Mar 22, 2026

RE: @obsidian@milliways.social

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

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Mar 18, 2026

RE: @obsidian@milliways.social

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

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @cmccullough@polymaths.social

@cmccullough Happy with @zenbrowser here

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Mar 10, 2026

I am absolutely knackered.

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @mcfly@milliways.social

@mcfly jokes on you, it was DNS anyway

Ben Stewart @obsidian@milliways.social · Jul 20, 2025

Replying to @emf@social.emfcamp.org

@emf Yay!

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