Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@dracos Good stuff. When the prices are a few pence out, I worry the ticket machine/booking system is trying to sell me the wrong tickets again.

If I want to get back into reading RSS, what software should I be using these days? I've tried a few things since Google Reader shut down, but nothing's stuck.

@sil Remember how in the old days WiFi was an unreliable hassle, and now it mostly just works? Well, consider how in the old days printers were also an unreliable hassle, and now... they are still an unreliable hassle. You don't want printers stinking up your WiFi.

@rythie Browsers could block the domain. Maybe if you needed to see where a particular link pointed, you could find it at archive.org, if you were lucky.

But yeah, don't use third-party link-shorteners. I guess a combination of Twitter improvements and QR codes have replaced the main use-cases for them anyway, which is good and bad; if they're largely abandoned then they're more at risk from malicious takeover.

@alex I jest, of course. I assume what actually happens is it loses acceleration, and chargers slower?

@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?