Notices by Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social), page 2

@RAOF what a cool idea! I wish we had that.

@si Wikipedia has them :)

@RAOF democracy sausage?

@scottjenson feels like a business model there. Just having something which is well-designed would put it way ahead of the pack; also not needing to install would put it right at the top. Although, presumably confs want it installed so they can send you notifications about stuff a year later. (Although although, a PWA could do that too, now.)

@klaatu I'm glad you like it! I have the PR, although I know nothing about spec files or anything like that. I've been meaning to package it up as a snap so I don't have to worry about all this sort of thing any more 🙂

@nolan definite yes. :)

@nolan you've tried the Kingkiller Chronicles by Pat Rothfuss, yes?

@nolan they're so hard for a couple of reasons:
1. every hardware platform is different, and undocumented, and locked, and out of date in one year, which means that most of the (small) effort dedicated to open phone OSes ends up going into hardware work, not design and foundations and UX
2. because it's so hard, the community are self-selected for "I want open even if it's crap UX", which means their desires are "let me change the wifi stack", not "make this nice for people who aren't hackers"

@Hdv all my talks get their own folder, and in that folder there is always a plain text file called "notes", which starts off being a random dumping ground for links and eventually evolves into a draft of the talk.

@nolan all that aside, I completely understand your point about tech cynicism. Of course, since I'm suffering exactly the same thing, it doesn't look like cynicism; it looks like the tech world has got materially worse, less friendly, more corporate, more money-oriented, more exclusionary, and less fun. I truly cannot tell whether it has or if it just looks that way to me because I'm putting a negative spin on it.

@nolan I'm honestly surprised there aren't already loads of such meetups. I'd have thought Seattle would have had a more vibrant tech scene than Birmingham does, but we've got plenty. It's definitely worth having more social meetups -- not "sit, watch a talk in an office, then everyone leaves" but things where the point is the "hallway track". Although the UK's drinking culture helps with that, I admit (and excludes non-drinkers a bit).

Gtk, stop trying to be clever and resizing my window after I've told you a size to make it. There seems to be no way of saying "make a window this size and don't alter it, regardless of how close it is to the edge of the screen or if I move a widget outside that size". Grrr.

@cubicgarden Utterly agreed.

@cubicgarden aaaaaand, I am wrong. :-) At elast according to https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1097863115352563712 where Juncker has said that nobody in Europe would deny a request for extension. So, you were right, let's do that!

@cubicgarden agreed entirely, except I don't think TM can delay without a good reason. If she goes to the EU and says "we want to delay because we have this actual plan but it'll take longer than 39 days to execute" I'm pretty sure they'll say "fine no problem". If she says "we want to delay because we can't make a decision" they're gonna say, pull the other one, it's got bells on. You haven't done anything for 2 years; what's different about the next three months?

@scottjenson doesn't look like it'll make the target, sadly, but https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool/

@deejoe "switching" in the context I used it means "changing the view in Pinafore between the two instances I am already a member of", not "leaving one instance entirely and creating an account on a different instance".