Notices by Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org), page 7

@beni @jezra @NYbill We both go to a guy who runs a small business in the locality. He drives over, collects your car, and does whatever's necessary at some local 'host' garages. He's old-school and does a very good and fair job, but gives you a hand-written invoice at the end 😉

@NYbill Full Scottish. I'll run oot and catch a wee haggis in the mornin'

@NYbill OK, I'm going to bed...

@NYbill Strange stuff that Scottish steam!
My son just messaged me from Tokyo (where it's coming up to 7am) to say that there's a heavy rainstorm there too.
World wide wet weather!

@NYbill Yes, I know, I'm in deep. It's past my bedtime too! I'm sharing my frustration as a way of letting off steam. 😡

@NYbill #TIL I haven't a clue when it comes to GPG 😞

#TIL (3) In the scenario where you have deleted an obsolete gpg key from your keyring, checking to see it it has gone with gpg --list-keys <dead_key_id> might be unwise because you'll get a trustdb rebuild which might be very slow.

#TIL (2) If you use gpg and someone on your keyring with two keys has merged them, you might need to delete the old key with gpg --delete-keys <key_id>
If you don't Enigmail might keep using the old 'dead' key to encrypt mail to them when you don't want it to.

#TIL (1) If you use gpg and you've been to a key signing event at some point and have a lot of keys on your keyring, running gpg --refresh-keys can take a very very long time. Also, if you haven't been managing your (bloated?) keyring regularly there'll be even more work to do.

@jezra @NYbill @beni My son had his car serviced recently and brought me the hand-written invoice for translation ... so probably, though you might need an old geezer to do it.

@beni @jezra @NYbill Isn't that just having illegible handwriting?

@NYbill @jezra I grabbed the key from the keyserver and added it to my keyring using Enigmail's key management menus. It seems to look OK from my end, but success depends on whether my email(s) are readable at the other end I guess.

@jezra My key is on a keyserver (the default keyserver?) pool.sks-keyservers.net. I just searched for your name, found it, and added it to my keyring. Alternatively, you can send it in an email. I have just tried that by sending you a message. Hope it works!

@jezra You said it! I am just in the throes of trying to communicate with a friend who is using Thunderbird on top of Microsoft stuff (Exchange and IMAP?). He generates messages that are reported as broken, needing "repair" at my end, and when I send to him my T'bird/Enigmail keeps using his old key!
I thought I had a grasp on this but obviously I'm what they call in Scotland a numpty.

It's a full moon and a so-called blue moon today, 18th May at 21:11 UTC, I discover. It's "an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year" to quote Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon for details. Before finding out about this I thought the blue moon thing was just an expression. It's overcast and rainy here in Edinburgh, so nothing much to see.

My two kids, one with his partner & the other with her friend arrived in Tokyo not long ago and messaged to say they were OK. They are spending a three week holiday there, all being Japanophiles. They all did Duolingo courses on Japanese in the past year or so, so I wonder how that will help them there.

@clacke Oh, interesting. I also follow this podcast. This episode is number 12 in the playlist on my Sansa Clip+. Probably get to it tomorrow.

@clacke @cstanhope That's pretty much how I work too. I still develop stuff in Perl from time to time and use one-liners to verify stuff when I can (especially weird Perl regular expression stuff).

@clacke @cstanhope I hardly ever use REPL stuff myself. Possibly because I learnt Algol 60 on a punched card system originally and probably never really shed that mindset in the past nearly 50 years.

@clacke Intriguing question (though I assume not yours?).

Is repl.it worth looking at?

I tend to use 'set +x' and 'set -x'
or just print stuff to debug scripts