Notices by Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social), page 6

@teleclimber he did (after a month, and after being hassled to do so), but to say "I'm not on that committee, but I'll pass your comments on", so I don't know if anything more came of it, annoyingly.

@switchingsocial Prey, at preyproject.com, is what I use

wrote this up in a stack exchange answer so hopefully future people will discover it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/466757/191170

Grr, systemd-resolved and dnsmasq are having a war to use all my CPU. Most of the SO answers (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/304050/how-to-avoid-conflicts-between-dnsmasq-and-systemd-resolved) are "disable systemd-resolved! manage DNS yourself!" which I don't want to do; I didn't install dnsmasq because I care about running my own DNS server, lxd installed it and so I can't remove it. But this seems to be a lxd problem, and there's a lxd solution! This seems to work: https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-users/2017-April/013158.html

@matthew @mala that's exactly what the Compose key does :) é is Compose, ', e (and è is Compose, `, e). https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2013/10/17/smart-quotes-for-smart-ubuntu-people/ has more detail.

@mala Yup! You can practice at https://kryogenix.org/random/compose/ too. The thing I like most about Compose is that it's not arbitrary; I can often guess what the sequence would be for a character I've not explicitly remembered, like, say, ⑩

@si same reason government systems and enterprise internal systems are always terrible; there's no motive for those providing to make it better, because they have a captive market, and people who know how to make it better won't work for them because they won't put up with the BS (and don't know how to get that kind of client). You won't switch schools over this; your boy won't switch over the VLE's UX; so you have to put up with it.

@mala but then when people write "but Danny, capitalism _is_ the devil, it really is" you will just see it as "the devil is the devil" and not understand!

@cubicgarden I stopped in an airbnb flat in Manchester before last Christmas, and I heard it suggested then that a whole bit of the city centre is hollowed out now because it's nothing but posh empty airbnb flats. Is that true? You'd know about the city, I imagine.

Excellent piece from Ethan Marcotte about accessibility on the web. Accessibility is not a problem that a framework can solve for you; it's like the quality of the writing in your copy, not like automatically compressing your images. Expecting software to do the accessibility work for you is like expecting the MS Word grammar checker to make you Jane Austen, and it won't. It's a craft, not a build step.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/accessibility-is-not-a-feature/

@sergiusens @manik yeah, it's a carrier thing. I spoke to Three, my operator, and they only let Android do it if you bought the phone from them themselves. So I have to use their terrible terrible Three In-Touch app instead :(

Darn. There is a secret phone settings menu on my Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, obtainable by dialling *#*#4636#*#* in the phone app, and in there is a "Wifi Calling" switch which I can turn on. But it doesn't stay turned on; if I exit the app and go back in it's off again. Bah.

@directhex the fact that there are proper-range EVs now, plural, is kinda an improvement in itself, I think -- having more that people can actually afford seems good (and from what I hear the Tesla is actually terrible)

@ben I'll trade you that for the ability to remember which order the insertBefore parameters go in

@Ld00d another visitor!

@sri Organising them better, yes. Actually cutting them out... they're all in there because someone needs them, I think....

@Ld00d yeah I just saw that twitter friend finder thing. Useful!