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markstos

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Interests include #TranspoEquity, #UltraRunning, #BloomingtonIN, #DevOps, #UrbanPlanning, #Mapping, #SelfHosting, #HelixEditor

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markstos, to linux
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The more complex a system becomes, the greater the likelihood that you eventually won't be able to print on Tuesdays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fPfwixNLk

And it will take you a year and Steve's wife to figure out why.

markstos, to keyboards
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Starting a 🧵about getting my new keyboard working.

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markstos,
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I've gotten all the features I wanted to work on the Cocot46plus keyboard with the latest firmware including:

  1. Trackball works, with "speed" adjusted to my taste.
  2. Trackball works as scrollwheel with button held.
  3. Buttons below trackball work as mouse buttons
  4. Knob is programmable, currently set to Page Up, Page Down with clicking it set to middle click.
  5. Modifiers are "one shot"-- tap them then tap the key they modify.
  6. Chording-- pressing JK emits Escape and DF emits a dash.
markstos, to ai
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Are #AI search engines doing this yet? Converting my search terms into other languages, searching for foreign language results and then translating the results back to a language I know?

I wonder many interesting alternative perspectives I by getting primarily single-language results.

markstos, to privacy
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I got this email today from Google that I can "now managed my saved addresses."

A careful reading is that now Google is going to be sharing my home/work and other addresses across all their services (YouTube, Android, Maps, Gmail... ) and putting them in a central location.

It's hard to say if I already agreed to that of if they are now announcing m location is going to shared more as "feature".

markstos, to transit
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Seattle finishes first Dutch-style protected intersection. To turn left, cyclists first go straight across, then turn left— unlike typical treatments in the US, cyclists don’t have to mix with cars during left turns.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-goes-dutch-with-a-new-bicycle-intersection/

#urbanplanning #bike

markstos, to rust
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I don't understand this error message:

 Updating crates.io index  
error: failed to select a version for the requirement `bindgen = "=0.69.4"`  
candidate versions found which didn't match: 0.65.1, 0.64.0, 0.63.0, ...

If I run crate search bindgen, it shows that v0.69.4 clearly exists.

Cargo.toml contains:

[build-dependencies]
bindgen = "0.69.4"

markstos,
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@kornel Thanks. rustup update caused rustc to update from 1.75 to 1.80, which appears to have resolved the issue.

I got started down this path trying to resolve an error about "edition = 2021", and updating rustup/rustc appears to have resolved that as well.

To bad there wasn't clearer error message about what the real problem was.

#rust

enobacon, to random
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chromebook unlock screen... WTF is it doing that it can't take input? If you just woke up and the screen is still locked, you only have that one job. Yes there are 150 tabs in the background, why are they activating first?

markstos,
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@enobacon To be fair, when I first wake up, I can’t always take input either.

Normally during resume everything is being restored from memory or disk, blocking some resources. Chromebooks may automatically move from suspend-to-memory to suspend-to-disk AKA hibernate due to low battery. Waking from hibernation is notably slower.

markstos, to cargobike
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In 2023, word was it would be the last production season of the Surly Big Dummy (non-electric) cargo bike. It's still for sale today. https://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_dummy But they have made some changes that not everyone is happy with, including using a single chain ring up front and removing the mount points for a centerstand like the one that Xtracycle made for it originally.

I think it's a great around-town pick up truck. I wrote a long-term review here: https://mark.stosberg.com/surly-big-dummy-long-term-review/

#bikes #cargobike

markstos,
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I started a blog to promote the idea of electric cargo bikes a decade or so ago. At that time, many electric bikes and cargo bikes were still made from kits. The combination was even rarer.

The idea caught on so much that it seems non-electric cargo bikes on their way towards to extinction. It's true that cargo and electric pair very well on a bike.

It's also true the non-electric Surly Big Dummy is joy to ride whether it's around town for a long bike tour. #bike #cargobike

markstos,
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@enobacon I'm not sure what you mean by acoustic, but with built-in motors. Are you describing buying electric cargo bike frames but without the components and then adding your own kit?

markstos,
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@enobacon We have a Yuba Mundo with a Bafang kit, and our electric cargo bike before that was also a kit.

I have bought my last electric kit.

Electric drive systems put a lot of torque on the whole system that standard bikes that they weren't designed for.

With a purpose-built e-bike, everything from the drive-train to the brakes, tires and lights are built with electric in mind.

#electricbike #cargobike

markstos,
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@enobacon I'll give an example: Our Mundo with a Bafang kit skips above 4th gear, but only under the load of the motor, not human pedaling. I've swapped out about everything in the system, and had 2 or 3 mechanics look at, but the loads aren't visible in a bike stand, so it's hard to repro for them.

And, of course, warranty doesn't cover the combination.

Other kits just outright broke while riding, sometimes in traffic.

User error, sure.

I'm glad #ebike kits exist, but they are not for me.

markstos, to javascript
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Is EventEmitter the GOTO of #javascript ?

markstos, to random
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I got very basic syntax highlighting working for CSV files in #HelixEditor -- mostly it highlights the commas so far. I left my how-to notes here:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/10190

But someone who knows tree sitter grammars better than I do could perhaps build on this and make progress towards better-looking "rainbow" CSV coloring.

markstos, to webdev
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For those who do and , there's a PR proposing to be v4 of the popular httpie testing tool.

It includes features like:

  • Viewing the TLS cert
  • Forcing custom DNS resolution for testing pre-launch sites
  • Explicitly forcing IPv4 or IPv6 DNS resolution
  • Support for HTTP/3

Overall, it closes more than 20 issues filed against httpie:

https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531

If you use the tool and care about one of these, test the PR and leave some feedback.

chronicallydave, to transit
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Stop signs at intersections on Bloomington's 7th Street: Dunn for now

https://bsquarebulletin.com/2024/05/17/stop-signs-at-intersections-on-bloomingtons-7th-street-dunn-for-now/

@bloomington_in

#Bicycle #BicycleLane #7-Line #Bloomington #CityCouncil

markstos,
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@chronicallydave @bloomington_in “Dunn for now”— love the pun!

DrTCombs, to random
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Look. I know I'm cynical, but I'm just not comfortable using my credit card to pledge money to a private company that will then coerce my child to run laps around a gym while calling it a "Fun Run" in order to increase the amount of money said company 'gives' back to my child's school.

But I'm trying to keep an open mind.

Anyone out here ever heard of a company called "My Booster" or maybe "Boosterthon" (it's unclear)?

#SchoolFundraisers

markstos,
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@DrTCombs It be more effective to donate directly to the school.

markstos, to fediverse
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Why I prefer reading #GhostBlog blogs to #Medium and am looking forward to their #ActivityPub networking. I'm not sure if Medium authors remember this is the first impression that many of their blogs will see-- a good part of the page covered with a popover.

markstos,
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@heybran Ha, the same screen essentially says “Please sign up” but also “we are going to log your user activity if you do”.

DrTCombs, to random
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That blissful sweet spot between 'we don't need to pay for childcare anymore' and 'competitive youth soccer costs HOW MUCH???!!!" did not last nearly as long as I hoped it would

markstos,
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@DrTCombs But are they old enough to mow the lawn, should a lawn exist?

markstos, to random
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#DesirePath Found on Lemmy.

https://lemmy.ml/post/15541346

markstos, to Indiana
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The water wars are coming to The Indiana

Besides big data centers planned by Facebook, Google and Amazon, there’s a fourth site planned by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation estimated to pull 100 million gallons per day from an aquifer.

https://steadystate.org/water-theft-in-the-heartland-the-case-of-tippecanoe-county/

@bloomington_in

#Indiana #Climate

capntransit, to random
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RT @lynn4nyc We Saw...We Heard...We Acted! Scaffolding on a stretch of Austin Street, near 72nd Rd., was impeding pedestrians, particularly older adults and those with disabilities. Glad to report that my office was able to get NYC Buildings to remove the scaffolding

markstos,
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@capntransit @lynn4nyc Did they put up the scaffolding for a valid need like upperstory construction and then just never removed it?

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