Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

It was a left! I'll be wearing odd gloves from now on, which, whilst not ideal, is definitely an improvement on having one cold hand.

Lost one glove for the second time this winter. Can't wait to get home to find out whether the other was a left or another right.

@sil Mounting disks could take quite a while. Would you wait until that completes before painting the screen?

Mounting the disks could happen quickly. Would you set a placeholder background and then flickerly change it immediately?

Sounds complicated.

@sil Too busy dancing, I'm afraid.

@sil How about everyone agrees not to object to your natural odour, and in return you give us a pound every time we meet?

@sil As a listener to More or Less, I am mystified not to see a quantification of your loyalty as a reader of the column.

@sil Being happy with your existing podcast hosting aside, in an ideal world would the microblog for the podcast really be hosted independently of the podcast itself? Is this one of those situations where you ask a user how the new system should be designed, and they describe to you the old system?

@sil Is Mastodon the right tool for the job? Should you be looking at a federated service that specialises in podcasts? https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

@woo Mobile phone calls are VoIP these days. "WiFi calling" is when the data gets sent over the Internet rather than the cellular network.

@sil Smarty are Three but cheaper and more flexible. £10 voucher with promo link https://i.smarty.co.uk/3YPXCs.

With the recent spike in fediverse activity, I wonder if now would be a good time for someone to set up a https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ or https://gancio.org/ instance to replace the sadly missed http://livebrum.co.uk/ local event listings site.

@mattandrews On mobile I've been using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mariotaku.twidere because it supports both Twitter and Mastodon at once. Bit fiddly to set up personal API keys for Twitter to avoid rate-limiting, though.

This used to be built in to the Mastodon UI, but got removed because users found it too confusing (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/8127). Let's hope they figure out a way to re-add it, because the current process for following someone on another instance is uncomfortably clunky.

Want to be able to click on those web+mastodon:// links you sometimes see? Browse to your Mastodon web interface, hit F12, then enter the following into the JavaScript console:

navigator.registerProtocolHandler("web+mastodon", new URL("/intent?uri=%s", document.location.origin), "Mastodon");

Click allow on the banner that pops up.

@sil Peter Capaldi did actually win an Oscar, but disappointingly it was for best short film, not best long insult.