Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@sil Reminds me of a gambling mechanic in the board game Istanbul, where you say a number, then try to roll at least that on 2d6 to earn the amount you said. Applying this gambling idea to your hand management idea would be a layer too much, though, I suspect.

@pid_eins Nice! Regarding hashed colours, https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/ exists for people who want this today. It’ll certainly be neater to be able to do it in the terminal emulator, without trying to individually hook/wrap everything that might change the context, though.

Trying to run an AlmaLinux 10 container on older x86 hardware, and getting the following?
Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v3

The incantation you're looking for is, from the command line:
podman run --variant=v2 quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux:10

Or, from a Dockerfile:
FROM --platform=linux/amd64/v2 quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux:10

Notice that these don't (currently?) work with Docker's container repository, so Red Hat's it is.

In idle moments I have thought that I should try to cut down on semicolons, because, if one day I decided to a crime, they would somehow use them to catch me.

@pete Well captured: I feel exhausted just looking at these.

@bigcalm Ah. Android has per-app monthly data usage statistics, but I'm guessing from this comment that iOS does not, which is why this isn't trivial.

@bigcalm But at least you get an upper bound, which might be sufficient to answer your question.

If you're not using the phone's storage for anything else, you can pre-download maps for the whole of UK.

Watch out for software updates, though, if you never bring the phone onto an unmetered network.

@bigcalm But actually, I think how much data is included in the plan will turn out to be pretty irrelevant, and the cheapest you can find will be fine. Can't you get usage stats for these apps from your existing phone?

@bigcalm Smarty offer 12GB/month for £6/month. http://referme.to/3YPXCsx

@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 …`