Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

My automatically-give-every-host-a-unique-terminal-background-colour script now works with Ghostty and kitty. https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/

Someone on this train carriage is playing an ocarina (badly, in case that didn't go without saying). Everyone but me is pretending not to be able to hear it.

The inaugural Birmingham Light Festival.

https://www.birminghamlightfestival.co.uk/

@sil Is the problem here that the non-Latin characters are being swapped in from a different font that has different metrics?

@sil I'd imagine each database table has a "what site(s) is this row relevant to?" column, that searching and browsing respects (but direct references do not). Notice that Honey Heist can be found on BGG at https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/68128

@sil Incidentally, if I was emperor of the universe, I would ban percentages. They look like a number you could add, but are really a fraction you should multiply, and people find that confusing and difficult. You get people saying things like "The X party are ten percent ahead of the Y party in the polls", when 20% to %10 is actually double (that is, 100% ahead).

@sil I'm not sure what "percentage in their favour" means in this context, but could we see a photo of the typesetting of "10-1/123"?

@sil Re the same DB, compare https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1 with https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/1. They are the same game.

@ryantownsend Back when email was new and unfamiliar, you didn't choose. You just got given a mailbox by your university (which you would use as you're personal address, even if technically it wasn't), or your ISP.

By the time that independent email providers were really taking off, you had clear, concrete reasons for your choice, such as price (Hotmail), brand recognition (Yahoo!), or features (GMail). But Mastodon servers all look kind-of the same, so how do you select one?

The care instructions for this scarf are topologically problematic.

@pid_eins I'm sure there's a good (or at least, complicated) reason for this, but why not use the already-familiar ctrl-alt-del combination?

@sil There's definitely something weird and interesting going on here. You routinely damage the rings but not the keys themselves? Are you sure you're not just buying really bad rings?

I've been using the same ring for as long as I can remember (maybe as long as I've been using keys?) and it's as good as new.

I find myself today wearing double corduroy. Is this a fashion faux pas similar to double denim, or merely an appropriate response to the changing of the seasons (and the passing of the years).

@alex @sldrant They can all do it, according to https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/#:~:text=List%20searchable%20files%20that%20match%20a%20pattern