Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

Finally, if your terminal’s ANSI yellow isn’t readable, maybe see https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/ or https://www.mavit.org.uk/tango-putty/

Another alternative would be to set a background colour for coloured text, but some people would consider that ugly. I don’t think there’s solution that makes everyone happy.

The question remains, is it a good idea to have an “unbreak this broken behaviour” setting? One alternative would be to make SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16 the default, but that fails for people who don’t have the ANSI colours in their terminal configured for good contrast (some well-known terminals, such as PuTTY and XTerm, still have poor defaults for this use-case, for one colour or another).

This will be available from systemd version 260 (but you can set it now; it won’t do any harm). Full documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/systemd.html#%24SYSTEMD_COLORS

Can’t read the yellow warning text on your light coloured terminal, outputted by the various systemd utilities such as journalctl, systemctl, hostnamectl, etc.? I got fed up with copy and pasting this text into a text editor to make it legible, and added a new environment variable, SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16, which causes it to use your terminal’s ANSI yellow (which presumably you already have configured to a readable colour). #systemd260

@bigcalm A friend was once given a sausage maker for his birthday, and went through a phase of bringing home-made eccentric recipes to every barbecue he was invited to. Chilli con carne sausage was a hit, as I recall.

@brucelawson I’ve pretty-much given up on best-ofs. Even when the artist has the depth of back catalogue to justify the title, I do not want to listen to 20 to 40 of their songs in a single sitting, thank you.

@sil I was thinking of Nick Cave's earlier band, The Birthday Party, but I don't know the story either.

@sil I think people mostly used to prefer third-party apps for services for the things they did that that the official offering did not. We seem to have moved firmly into a world where people prefer unofficial apps for what they do not do.

@sil If you're using Reddit often enough to justify installing a mobile app, third party ones such as https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader still exist.

@sil Richard Hawley. Frank Turner.

@sil Nick Cave. Björk.

@sil OTOH, if I don't need to know the backstory, how about Sophie Ellis-Bextor?

@sil In most cases it's hard to be sure why the the band split up, but there's a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Our Most Brilliant Friends, about Rebecca Taylor leaving Slow Club, and it's because she wanted to be a pop star.

Alt text: Man runs, pursued by pixelated snake.

Unicode's Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement will be fun, once there's wider font support.

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@sil Don't they say designed, rather than written? In any case, I think the interesting part of that story is "... because he thought he was going to be implementing Scheme, but then Marketing said it had to look like Java", and we have to try to imagine a world where we're all Lisp programmers, VSCode is considered a straight-up Emacs rip-off, etc.

@sil I did something along these lines once with Cairo/Pango (varying the font size and the number of lines to fill the space vertically, rather than horizontally as you're doing, but still). This was so long ago that I don't think GI was a thing yet, mind.