Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@alex Yikes. When my air-con fails, I shrug, and feel sweaty for the three days per year that is the British summer. When your air-con fails, your car catches fire?

@april Hurray for backups!

@brucelawson Tsk. Don't you know it's bad manners to outdress the bride?

@sil I was tempted to treat myself to a fancy mouse, but I ended up with a Logitech B100. Wired (so I never have to charge the batteries, or update the firmware when there's a security vulnerability), no unwanted side buttons I'd only ever click by accident, good shape for my (evidently pretty unusual) grip, no crazily high DPI I need to unconfigure.

I updated my terminal colour setter to be easier to use, and work with more kinds of terminal emulator. It changes the background colour to be unique per host (by hashing the hostname), making it easy to tell one terminal from another. It sets the foreground colours to contrast with the background. Run it from your .profile, or wrap it around, e.g., podman/docker exec.

Website: https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/

RPM packages: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mavit/termcolours/

Demo: curl https://bitbucket.org/mavit/termcolours/raw/release/script/termcolours | perl

@brucelawson I suspect they honour the request regardless of what you write. I bet them asking a mandatory question to which one can't reasonably know the answer puts a lot of people off from submitting, though.

@terry To bypass any potential hassle, can you get away with using a VM or a Raspberry Pi or something?

@jamesh @pid_eins This. If you’re going to have to get some of your Emacs packages using Emacs’ built-in packaging system, you might as well get all of them that way. Hence, there’s little itch for potential packagers to scratch, here. It’s not like, say, Python, where you need to turn PyPI packages into RPMs because they’re dependencies of other applications.

@adrianfry @sil Poll clerking is a job you can apply for. It's paid about 200 quid a day. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20097/elections_and_voting/867/information_for_staff_assisting_at_elections

@wootube@mastodonapp.uk I think perhaps "the steps" aren't as important as we assume. An observer mostly sees style and attitude. You probably can't *really* learn to dance from one of those charts with the footprints and the arrows you used to see in old cartoons: how it feels is what counts.

As someone who also struggles with steps, I'm going to keep telling myself that, anyway.

@wootube@mastodonapp.uk Now I wonder, what did you think it was?

@sil I found it surprisingly hard, in the UK, to find a wallet tall enough to hold a twenty pound note. I managed to track one down just in time for:
a) The introduction of those new shorter plastic notes.
b) People looking at you funny if you try to pay for anything with cash.

@bigcalm Seems wrong? 2.7 kg of fat stores about 25,000 calories, which is ten times a male's suggested total daily intake.

@sil Nope, $VISUAL has been around so long that their idea of graphical was that your serial terminal had a screen rather than being a printer.

@jmtd @sil Indeed, we covered this ground last time Stuart switched editor: https://bergamot.social/web/@mavit/109788582473206984

@sil Fair point; it doesn't need to run on a TTY (assuming you have a windowing system available), but it does need to be blocking. I was mainly trying to joke that typing $EDITOR would be more convenient than remembering the name of your chosen editor, though.