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

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

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Update @beasts Dynamic DNS, using systemd timers:

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4887108

Trying to run an AlmaLinux 10 container on older x86 hardware, and getting the following?
Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v3

The incantation you're looking for is, from the command line:
podman run --variant=v2 quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux:10

Or, from a Dockerfile:
FROM --platform=linux/amd64/v2 quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux:10

Notice that these don't (currently?) work with Docker's container repository, so Red Hat's it is.

In idle moments I have thought that I should try to cut down on semicolons, because, if one day I decided to a crime, they would somehow use them to catch me.

Overheard:
Shop assistant 1, trying to explain what she's just seen to a colleague: "You know when it's really hot out, so you take your top off and that?".
Shop assistant 2, with revulsion: "No!!"

Just seen my first shirtless man with a beer gut of the year. And people still doubt global warming.

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