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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2w ago

The shrinking right to roam for children. This graphic of area that members of a British family were allowed to roam around age 8 shows the dramatic change that kids have been given to roam over generations. #parenting https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/01/162079442/do-you-know-where-your-children-are-is-that-always-a-good-thing

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Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing?

Decades ago, kids were encouraged to play outside and explore the outdoors. Nowadays, protective parents have reined in their children, leading to strictly structured (and supervised) playtime. The kids don't seem to be fighting it, but do these new rules stymie childhood creativity?

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2w ago

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@esoltys@social.vivaldi.net Thank you, and looking forward to 3.0 with Navidrome support! https://github.com/esoltys/luminous/issues/916

GitHub

Feature: OpenSubsonic API client support for Navidrome, Nextcloud Music, and compatible personal cloud servers · Issue #916 · esoltys/luminous

💡 Description OpenSubsonic is the community-maintained, backwards-compatible modernization of the Subsonic API specification, supported by popular personal cloud music servers including Navidrome, ...

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

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@arstechnica@mastodon.social Or maybe we should close the markets instead of playing too-slow legislative whack-a-mole with the infinite things to bet on vulnerable to manipulation and fraud.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 1mo ago

Boosting to #imadethis @misternineham@mastodon.social

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

A dark pattern scam targeting older folks. Targets invest 20 minutes in a dementia quiz only to find at the end they have to pay for results, while a countdown clock ticks down from 15 minutes until the results expire. Cost appears to be $2 for 7-day access, but fine print is that it auto renews at $40/month… forever. #scams

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

UNA is introducing a particularly repairable GPS smart watch. I suspect the success will hinge how fast *software* features get added, like maps and navigation. Because the hardware looks great. https://unawatch.com/ #cycling #running

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

Why take a 20-minute power nap when 7 will do?

Rachel Entrekin Wins 250-mile, 56-hour running race outright by taking only 3 micro-naps totalling 19 minutes. https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a71240926/rachel-entrekin-wins-cocodona-250/

#running

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

JMAP is a newer HTTP and JSON protocol that replaces IMAP, SMTP for sending as well as contact and calendar syncing.

This 20 min “Destroy All Monsters” talk on it by @rjbs@social.semiotic.systems from @fastmail@mastodon.social is both imformative and entertaining.

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3JQKHF-jmap-for-everything/

#email #opensource

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Jugglers have joined the chat.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@viq@social.hackerspace.pl @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I’ve drummed while juggling. It wasn’t pretty.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

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@pft@infosec.exchange UNA exposes the USB port- is invitation to get it filled with mud or dirt. For example see: https://mark.stosberg.com/how-to-replace-the-battery-in-a-garmin-fenix-5-plus-watch/ Garmin keeps their charging port underneath where it's much more protected. That's my own blog I'm linking to, which deals how old Garmin Fenix watches can be bought inexpensively used, are durable and can be repaired yourself with a ~$20 battery found online... plus Garmin software is very advanced. I'm cheering for UNA to succeed, but they have challenges ahead.

How to replace the battery in a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch

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How to replace the battery in a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch

The Garmin Fenix 5 Plus was released in 2018 and is still a great running watch in 2023. Some features include heat rate tracking, VO2 max, recovery advisor, payments and offline music. There's also my favorite: offline maps and navigation. When I bought a used Fenix 5 Plus on

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

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@pft@infosec.exchange Hmm, I see that it's not advertising that, but I expect it will get that certification. The basic construction with rubber gaskets and bolts is exactly how the waterproof-and-repairable Garmin Fenix lines have been made for years. Lately, thanks to the EU, even more entry-level GPS watches from other brands are gaining replaceable batteries.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 7mo ago

For #Niri and #Hyprland users, if you experienced a flicker when launching Fuzzel with certain decorations or animations, this release may fix it. @dnkl@social.treehouse.systems

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

A bank website I designed in 1999 vs the (since merged) bank website today. The original design constraints involved designing for a 640x480 screen size, and a page weight of 100kb. #webdev

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@yy ideas to improve urban grocery bike parking:

Make it plentiful
Make it convenient
Install good racks
Accommodate all bikes
Cover the racks if possible
Make it visible and well-lit.
Connect to the bike network.
Build for the future

https://yyahn.com/wiki/Bike-parking-at-urban-grocery-stores/

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 7mo ago

For running Linux apps on macOS there's now this Wayland compositor that's native to Mac. The demo video features Fuzzel by @dnkl@social.treehouse.systems and Niri by @YaLTeR@mastodon.online

https://youtu.be/VS3vQp5i8YQ?si=u52YycbIYc5458GK

Looks like the expected way to use it is to run Linux apps on a remote machine and use "waypipe" to display them natively on macOS.

It's novel in that's there's no VM involved.

#Linux

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 8mo ago

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@qdot Try adding SHARED-CODING-STANDARDS.md, putting your ideas for less annoying practices in there and submit a PR for the the team to review. Coding to avoid every team member's individual annoyances is not the way.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@thomas And if you have multiple laptops with Sway or switch between home and work with the same device, kanshi is helpful for managing multiple monitor configs.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@noahm My Hammerhead Karoo bike computer recently got a firmware update so it can alter the dampening mechanics of a paired smart fork while riding. I had trouble exiting the mandatory tour of how to remotely control the >$1,000 smart fork that I don’t own. #bicycle

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@x_hace @yy To solve the large grocery trip problem, there's now a wide variety of electric cargo bikes available, as well as trailer options. A number are now also compact or folding, so they are more compatible with apartments. Flagship models in this category would be Yuba FastRack and Tern GSD. https://store.ternbicycles.com/products/gsd-s10-gen-3-electric-cargo-bike

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@mimarek There's a ~15 minute interview with the paper's authors here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdIqsbtqhcA An interesting detail from their experiment is that they manipulated ChatGPT's responses to be less accurate in some cases. That might be a useful hiring tool in the age of #AI, where employees are expected to use AI, but you want to filter for the ones that understand or verify the output vs blindly trust it and adopt it as their own work.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 8mo ago

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@david_chisnall @csstrowbridge @SallyStrange Same. I was once paid with a bitcoin when it was worth $20. There was nothing to spend it or or really donate it too then so I lost track of it.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 4mo ago

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@themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt You could get 烤豆 tattooed today and have knuckles to spare.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

"It's convenience vs principles. And it's not an easy thing to weigh. I live in this world with you and I constantly have to ask myself when interacting with products and services, "can I really say I hold this value if I support this company?" And sometimes the answer is uncomfortable." https://ryanleesipes.me/convenience-vs-principle/

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 7mo ago

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@fiend_unpleasant @joe Surly Big Dummy or Surly Big Fat Dummy might fit the bill. Yuba Mundo is also great brand and fun to ride non-electric. I have some reviews at https://mark.stosberg.com/bikes/

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 8mo ago

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@kagihq@mastodon.social You convinced me to sign up for a Kagi account. So far, so good.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@indium114@mastodon.social @YaLTeR@mastodon.online Niri release is out now.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@swat@fosstodon.org For Sway there a couple of options. If you add comments for keybindings formatted in a particular way, you can use Remontoire to view them: https://github.com/regolith-linux/remontoire Sway doesn’t support introspecting th keybindings via IPC, but the sway-scroll fork supports that. By using that, keybindings could be grabbed and formatted for Fuzzel or similar. Using sub-modes to organize key binds can also help. Finally, you probably don’t really need some and you can remove ones you don’t really need

GitHub

GitHub - regolith-linux/remontoire: A keybinding viewer for i3 and other programs.

A keybinding viewer for i3 and other programs. Contribute to regolith-linux/remontoire development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@paoloredaelli @balloob @mozilla It seems like somewhere during the ongoing Chromebook era there was a mentality shift that a web browser should be able to do practically everything an OS could. At this point, what's left in terms of what a web browser /can't/ do? The framing has helped Linux because apps now seem as likely to be created for the web as they are for the dominant desktop OS.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@footsteps @yy That's a common pattern-- we have the same problem here, where a Kroger fronts to a massive parking lot and busy roads with apartments directly behind it.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 7mo ago

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@mwichary@mastodon.online Excellent write-up of Apple keyboard history.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 9mo ago

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@ecodiv@fosstodon.org Do you happen to have a screenshot of how you used the Merged Features renderer? Sounds interesting.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@dnkl Thanks for the report. I’ll stick with the scroll fork of sway for now.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@Bellingen@mastodon.au @alpinefolk@sunbeam.city Amsterdam has a strong incentive to act on climate change. The city is very vulnerable to the sea level rise that comes with it. https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-2100-amsterdam/

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 8mo ago

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@gonzalofergo@mastodon.social @kagihq@mastodon.social Between Kagi, DeepL and Google Translate, only Google Translate explains that there are masculine and feminine options when translating “Hello friend” to Spanish. It’s time that translation apps move beyond assuming masculine is acceptable. Google gets that right. Catch up, Kagi.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

nytimes.com

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 5mo ago

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@marcin_kras @jon Because Chromium is open, if there are parts of it that don’t meet Vivaldi’s needs, it can be changed.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 8mo ago

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@system76 Frosted glass? Emulating iOS?

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 1mo ago

Wow, repeatedly capturing lightning strikes in scenic areas.

https://www.mikaljakubal.com/prints/ @Mikal@sfba.social

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@MisuseCase @yy Sometimes in those situations I walk in to politely tell an appropriate seeming person that I’m here as a customer, I’ve locked my bike to a tree, and is there some bike parking I’ve missed? I can’t say for certain this has ever manifested a bike rack but I like to think if they meet enough customers arriving by bike face to face, something might happen.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 2mo ago

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@Plumbert@thecanadian.social @pft@infosec.exchange Not sure why it doesn't run WatchOS or a fork, which would have given them a lot more apps and features out of the gate.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 9mo ago

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@ecodiv@fosstodon.org Whoa, so like for a heatmap, it might visually merge cells that would be colored the same?

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@rj@mas.to Warsaw, probably.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@dnkl Have you tried kwm’s scroller mode? Is it like Niri?

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 6mo ago

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@rj@mas.to Then Łódź.

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Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social

· 3w ago

"Companies Seek to Hide Indiana Data Center Details with NDAs"
https://limestonepost.org/companies-seek-to-hide-indiana-data-center-details-with-ndas/?ref=mastodon

#ai #indiana #DataCenters

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