Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social
Joined Nov 2022
Peter Oliver
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Join us on Sunday 6th April for and afternoon of board games. We’ll be back at our new venue, The Rolling Mill in the Jewellery Quarter, from 2pm onwards.
https://afternoonplay.co.uk/post/779189430483386368/afternoon-play-april-2025
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.
@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.
Peter Oliver
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Join us this Sunday afternoon, 2nd March, for boardgames at our new venue, @therollingmilljq. Do please help spread the word that we've moved!
https://www.facebook.com/events/967657611990538
https://www.facebook.com/events/967657611990538/
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.
Peter Oliver
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dear applications,
please stop automatically adjusting my mic volume, i set it at that volume for a reason. i’m not clipping.
that includes you zoom, teams, skype, and edge (edge! wtf! why is this turned on by default behind a hidden flag??)
The inaugural Birmingham Light Festival.
@sil Is the problem here that the non-Latin characters are being swapped in from a different font that has different metrics?
Peter Oliver
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We have a new venue for March! We’ll be at @therollingmilljq in the Jewellery Quarter. Please help spread the word to your boardgaming friends that we’ve moved.
https://afternoonplay.co.uk/post/774842962727354369/afternoon-play-march-2025-at-the-rolling-mill
Peter Oliver
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Join us this Sunday, 2nd February, for a friendly afternoon of boardgames. We'll be upstairs at Tilt, the pinball bar, in Birmingham city centre, from 2pm until whatever time we reluctantly concede it's time to go home and prepare for the week ahead.
Full details at https://afternoonplay.co.uk/post/772307552574865408/afternoon-play-february-2025
@sil I'd imagine each database table has a "what site(s) is this row relevant to?" column, that searching and browsing respects (but direct references do not). Notice that Honey Heist can be found on BGG at https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/68128
Peter Oliver
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#emacs symbol-overlay-mc is now on MELPA https://lmno.lol/alvaro/symbol-overlay-mc-now-on-melpa
Thanks to @mavit!
@sil Incidentally, if I was emperor of the universe, I would ban percentages. They look like a number you could add, but are really a fraction you should multiply, and people find that confusing and difficult. You get people saying things like "The X party are ten percent ahead of the Y party in the polls", when 20% to %10 is actually double (that is, 100% ahead).
@sil I'm not sure what "percentage in their favour" means in this context, but could we see a photo of the typesetting of "10-1/123"?
Joined Nov 2022
