Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@jezhiggins 1000 Trades Square, just now. Middle aged man with dark hair and dark jacket seen buying cone for small boy of similar description.

@sil What a relief, then, that you still have plenty of time to crack this before you turn 40 and become ineligibile for a Fields Medal.

Finally, if your terminal’s ANSI yellow isn’t readable, maybe see https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/ or https://www.mavit.org.uk/tango-putty/

Another alternative would be to set a background colour for coloured text, but some people would consider that ugly. I don’t think there’s solution that makes everyone happy.

The question remains, is it a good idea to have an “unbreak this broken behaviour” setting? One alternative would be to make SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16 the default, but that fails for people who don’t have the ANSI colours in their terminal configured for good contrast (some well-known terminals, such as PuTTY and XTerm, still have poor defaults for this use-case, for one colour or another).

This will be available from systemd version 260 (but you can set it now; it won’t do any harm). Full documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/systemd.html#%24SYSTEMD_COLORS

Can’t read the yellow warning text on your light coloured terminal, outputted by the various systemd utilities such as journalctl, systemctl, hostnamectl, etc.? I got fed up with copy and pasting this text into a text editor to make it legible, and added a new environment variable, SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16, which causes it to use your terminal’s ANSI yellow (which presumably you already have configured to a readable colour). #systemd260

@bigcalm A friend was once given a sausage maker for his birthday, and went through a phase of bringing home-made eccentric recipes to every barbecue he was invited to. Chilli con carne sausage was a hit, as I recall.

@brucelawson I’ve pretty-much given up on best-ofs. Even when the artist has the depth of back catalogue to justify the title, I do not want to listen to 20 to 40 of their songs in a single sitting, thank you.

@sil I was thinking of Nick Cave's earlier band, The Birthday Party, but I don't know the story either.

@sil I think people mostly used to prefer third-party apps for services for the things they did that that the official offering did not. We seem to have moved firmly into a world where people prefer unofficial apps for what they do not do.

@sil If you're using Reddit often enough to justify installing a mobile app, third party ones such as https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader still exist.

@sil Richard Hawley. Frank Turner.

@sil Nick Cave. Björk.

@sil OTOH, if I don't need to know the backstory, how about Sophie Ellis-Bextor?

@sil In most cases it's hard to be sure why the the band split up, but there's a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Our Most Brilliant Friends, about Rebecca Taylor leaving Slow Club, and it's because she wanted to be a pop star.

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Unicode's Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement will be fun, once there's wider font support.

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