Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@mjg59 Duvet yes, cover no.

The New Street Station mice are getting bolder. When they were scurrying in and out of Costa and Upper Crust, that was one thing (I never buy anything from those kiosks anyway), but now they're sharing the seating I'm not so keen.

Slow clap for RWG Mobile, who decided to implement an email verification before topping-up data credit. Somehow receiving this email without mobile data is left as an exercise for the customer.

Re https://x.com/mavit/status/1546912578789675010, the answer was yes. I think I'm impressed that they light up after five years sitting in a cupboard somewhere.

@xanadu Oops, only just saw this. Should have written it on a sticky note and added it to the bottom of the schedule!

@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.