Notices by Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social), page 7

@seb_ly very different cultural vibe, I think, though

@ted fair! Both -- you can't use an app they didn't build, and they won't take any sort of a stand -- demonstrate, hopefully, what makes this different, so it may be a combination of the two

I'm seeing a lot of new followers here in the last day or two; more so than normal. I assume this is because of Twitter's latest move to kill off third-party clients, which is again causing people to think, hm, this is yet another annoying thing, what was that other place that someone mentioned? maybe I'll give that a try. Anyway, welcome, new people. Tell me a thing about yourselves, if you'd like to!

How much storage does one get from various @pixelfed instances? Or is it my job to run my own instance and provide it with whatever storage I like? pixelfed.social's about page says "Features" and then doesn't list any :-)

Hey Internet Friends. I have a question - a bit of research. What "system" from the past had the best / coolest / most interesting boot sequence. Specifically what you got on screen. I mostly grew up on 8-bit micros and DOS PCs. Are there any other systems which evoke "feelings" when they boot?

Bah. I have been updated by @popey and @JoeRessington. The Chromecast has to be on a wifi network, or it just sulks and won't let you cast to it. That's really annoying to have to set up at a meetup. So it doesn't do what I want after all. :( Looks like @craigmaloney was right and Google have indeed done something to break it.

@craigmaloney ha! and this is on my Mark 1 Chromecast too

@craigmaloney it's an official thing in the official Slides app! I was pretty impressed; the thing I've wanted for ages, and Google have basically taken the idea and made it happen. Well pleased :)

Google Slides now allows presenting to a Chromecast, and saves presentations offline, and shows on the phone screen a presenter console with speaker notesm and a Chromecast can happily be powered by the slim external battery that I always have in my pocket anyway. Excellent. This is what I wanted to build Splinter for, and now I don't have to. Never need to take a laptop to a talk again, hooray.

@paragate yeah. In return, you may like Henry Dudeney books, which are nicely out of print and so free :) https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/02/08/sorry-henry/ has more details...

@paragate Hmph. I dropped a vertical from the top of the triangle and then calculated the angle at the bottom left of the square with multiple applications of trigonometry to get 15, in about five minutes, including looking up arctan 2+root3. My daughter looked at it and said: the long triangle is isosceles, and the top angle is 60+90, so the other two (including the one we want) are 180-(60+90)/2=15, in about ten seconds. No points for me. All points for her :)

Delightful evening at 1000 Trades in Birmingham. And including much interesting tech discussion about functional programming, PWAs, slack time in work and management acceptance, and snaps.

A little bit of a call for help, or maybe just a suggestion, for a quick thing that an open source graphic artists could do easily that would make graphviz nice for everyone
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/03/25/squares-and-prettier-graphs/

@gamingonlinux this game is mighty. I love it.

@cubicgarden I was crushed to discover that they haven't done it for the remake!

@cubicgarden did you mod it to give it the spring action? :)