Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 76

Seems legit https://www.banggood.com/5W-Stereo-Digital-FM-Transmitter-FM-Radio-Transmitter-Mini-FM-Radio-Station-p-1043051.html?cur_warehouse=CN

Maybe it's me, but it feels like there's been a trend lately in the UK press, particularly the tabloids, of describing ordinary weather patterns as coming "from" somewhere.

The recent snow came "from Siberia". The hot spell over the past week was "African".

To me, it feels like a subtle attempt by the right-wing press to reinforce the notion that we're constantly being assaulted by the "other". It's foreign, and therefore bad. On its own, no big deal, but it's a drip-drip-drip...

@lizardsquid Perhaps because it might break compatibility with other software, like GNU Social?

Come to think of it, why not basic Markdown support, so we can *emphasise* things, or **really emphasise** them if they're ***super important***?

@RexfordGTugwell I think for £6.95 you'd get that bloke who presents Tipping Point. Or Nigel Farage.

Wouldn't it be great if you could paste code into a Mastodon toot and have it show up in a fixed-width font?

Also, I know we have issues with an aging population but roasting them is not the way to deal with them. https://social.coop/media/A_IAzcL048yeu7UIrYk

Finally a use for Hipsters https://social.coop/media/-s-T4a3GArso0d-UD0Y

@devurandom Move to Blackpool

@stsp "Captain, we're being hailed on all known frequencies! Audio only!"
"Put it on."
"Hi, this is Toby Anstis on Heart..."

@lizardsquid I'm not sure I understand the NixOS website! What do you like about, in terms that could be understood by a five-year-old who's been using Debian for a decade? ;)

@lizardsquid I've never felt comfortable hacking stuff together for the computer I rely on for work, which is why I've always used Debian. There are ways people have hacked together bits of Sid into Stretch to get Firefox updates, but it's never worked for me and Debian strongly advise against it.

At this point, having to use a nonfree browser is becoming a dealbreaker for me, so I may as well move across to Ubuntu. :)

@lizardsquid What do you use now? 99% of the time it's fine, I don't mind that eg. VLC is a bit out-of-date if it still plays all my stuff and gets security patches.

You used to be able to access https://mozilla.debian.net/ to add a repo to Debian stable to get an up-to-date Firefox, but they stopped that a year or so ago for reasons I don't quite understand.

@lizardsquid I'd switch to Firefox, but the version that ships with @debian Stable is so 'historic' that it doesn't work properly with sites like Mastodon instances.

I'm thinking of switching to Kubuntu when the new 18.04 version comes out, just so I get an up-to-date Firefox and I can dump Opera.

Not content with randomly adding ads to my 'new tab' page, #Opera has now taken it upon itself to change my default search engine to Bing mid-session.

I love this browser, I've used it for what feels like decades, but my patience is wearing thin.

Got woken up this morning by the Yorkshire Dawn Chorus through the wall. "I'll fucking smack you so hard it won't fucking hurt anymore."

@vfrmedia @mareklach Didn't realise they were looking to get rid of local TV. We have something called "Made in Leeds" which started off as an amateurish mess and has degraded over time.

Last time I saw it, they were trying to pass off random animal videos from YouTube as local content. It's just a 10 minute loop again and again.

@neil I use it and it works well. It doesn't seem to track people with "do-not-track" enabled in their browser, which means the stats on my site are slightly lower than they would otherwise be, but that's fine by me as it's their browser and their choice.

@tbeckett All landlords are mean. It takes a special kind of person to decide they want to make a profit from someone else's most basic needs. See also: privatised water.