Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@bigcalm Loosely, one per server realm per client, so I can rotate/upgrade the algorithm of any without worrying about breaking anything unexpected.

@skymoo For music, https://lyrion.org/ is still doing the job for me. My ancient Squeezebox 3 hardware player with fluorescent screen is still working, which is a reason to never investigate anything else. Raspberry Pis for multi-room, these days.

@GarethDennis I found myself moving from (declassified) first class to standard on a London Midland Desiro the other day, because the cushioning had collapsed on the fancy (and presumably more expensive) first class seating. The standard padding in standard was still fine.

Overheard:
Shop assistant 1, trying to explain what she's just seen to a colleague: "You know when it's really hot out, so you take your top off and that?".
Shop assistant 2, with revulsion: "No!!"

Just seen my first shirtless man with a beer gut of the year. And people still doubt global warming.

Kabaddi World Cup

@skymoo In the days before ubiquitous mobile Internet, I had to decline to dial in from Glastonbury Festival to help recover from a flood.

@brucelawson You probably already know this and it’s no good for your situation, but just in case:

`git clone --depth=1 …`

@skymoo Not that it was ever bad enough to throw it away and go looking for something else, mind. Mgmt (https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt) looked like it had great potential, but it’s a shame it got cancelled by Red Hat when they bought Ansible.

@skymoo It’s been a while since I’ve done a lot of Ansible, but I was finding that the more I used it, the less I liked it. It’s super-easy to get started, but after a while, minor issues like https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/53402 started to grate, and more fundamental issues such as long playbook runtime with no restartability became tiresome.

My automatically-give-every-host-a-unique-terminal-background-colour script now works with Ghostty and kitty. https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/

Someone on this train carriage is playing an ocarina (badly, in case that didn't go without saying). Everyone but me is pretending not to be able to hear it.

The inaugural Birmingham Light Festival.

https://www.birminghamlightfestival.co.uk/

@sil Is the problem here that the non-Latin characters are being swapped in from a different font that has different metrics?