Notices by Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social)

@oranje @popey @Wimpy @marxjohnson thank you for the compliment, but I rather like Jono and Jeremy, myself!

@gamingonlinux no problem! I was just checking :) There's no rush on my side; just confirming I can still help.

@gamingonlinux did you get a chance to look at https://github.com/stuartlangridge/sorttable/issues/25 ?

@gamingonlinux did you get a chance to look at https://github.com/stuartlangridge/sorttable/issues/25 ?

@scottjenson now, the experience on my phone (Android 7) isn't perfect, but it seems reasonable:
long-press on image in web browser, say Download image
Open Photo Editor app, which opens the Recent Files list, in which saved image is the most recent
Edit photo as required and hit Save
Open Twitter (I use the PWA) and hit new tweet, image icon
choose "documents" (not "camera" from the popup)
choose Recent
edited image is the most recent; pick it, and it's included in the tweet.

Seems OK to me?

@ted that's nonetheless cool though; thank you pal!

@ted huh, really? OK; will it also _close_ the app if the key goes to false?

@ted but that's "start this up when the desktop starts running, if the key is set at that time", right? Not "start this up any time that key changes".

@ted I'm confused. What do you mean by "the key name"?

Anybody know what I have to do to have GSettings launch a particular app when a GSettings key changes? Apparently when the screen-magnifier-enabled key changes, gsettings launches your configured desktop magnifier. What I don't know is: how does gsettings know what your configured desktop magnifier _is_? how does a magnifier app register itself to be the one that's invoked when that gsettings key changes?

@Groosha @Gargron so there is! Thank you for that; I have now tried it. 🙂

@Gargron Since I've been active, I presumably keep the standard layout, but... how can I switch to this new "simplified" layout to test whether I like it?

@notabene @nolan ya, Swift was good at satirically ridiculing arguments over minor differences by choosing the minorest possible difference, and we ended up naming two different types of computing architecture after it 250 years later ;-)

@nolan nice Gulliver's Travels ref to tie it back to technology :)

Yay, there was a homebrew competition on one of the Discord servers I'm on to make a magical item with some sort of eldritch horror connection, and I won! With the Lantern of Leng, which I plan to use in a future game.
Light up your life -- or your enemies' lives -- with the Lantern.

@scottjenson and "delete this, are you sure" is terrible even for local stuff, rather than providing unlimited undo forever...

@RAOF @directhex otoh, having just read through the act and the guidance, I can't see anything about this in particular, so maybe we should start it as a tradition :)

@RAOF @directhex oh, certainly. But UK electoral law is really, really strict, and errs very much on the side of "if there might be anything bad about this, you can't do it", to protect the secret ballot. That's why we don't have exit polls. You can't wear a rosette unless you're a candidate. Stuff like that. Nobody sane thinks it'd be a problem to sell sausages, but the Electoral Commission would think "some bugger will sell Brexit Bangers if we allow this, so we'll just say no", I reckon

@directhex @RAOF huh, it might. I hadn't thought of all the rules around impartiality at polling stations.