Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@bigcalm They're popping up all over, but I imagine @sil is talking about the one just off Victoria Square. There's been one near the Custard Factory for a while.

This year, a song I like won a Grammy, and a film I liked won an Oscar. Is this what it’s like to be middle-aged? Am I middle of the road now?

I dread the day that manufactures of hotel smoke alarms catch up with the rest of the electronics industry by discovering the ultra-bright blue LED.

Brand meeting: "Let's make our card purple, so it stands out from all the other cards in someone's wallet!"

My wallet:

@sil Some people, in far away places, will try to tell you that pancakes can be eaten for breakfast. Those people do not put lemon juice and sugar on their pancakes, and can be safely ignored.

@cjk @sil I did exactly this last time I changed editor. That was [checks notes] decades ago, so I'm still waiting to reap the benefits.

@sil I wonder how much the DSL helps vs hinders clarity. For people who are already familiar with shell scripting, which presumably most container builders will be, Buildah feels more direct to me. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/11/getting-started-with-buildah#building_a_container

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.