Stuart Langridge @sil@mastodon.social

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

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/

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.

Hooray: you can embed fonts in a LibreOffice document so when you send it to someone else it'll definitely look the same. Unhooray: you do so by going to File > Properties > Fonts > Embed fonts, which is really obscure.

Video explaining why the EU's Article 13 about copyright changes is a bad idea. (Warning: nsfw language.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZkydX0FPw
I wrote to one of my MEPs to outline my problems with Article 13 (basically, it defends big copyright holders but not small ones, and it completely screws small websites to stop big ones like YouTube from violating; it's a good goal but a bad implementation) and my letter is at https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/07/03/article-13-mep/ if you'd like to write your own.

Making silhouettes of emoji with pure CSS, a brief little exploration: https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/08/28/emoji-silhouettes-with-css-a-second-approach/

@popey I suspect you will like the look of http://goose.game -- it looks comedy :-)
(via @directhex, @CoralineAda)

Heh; Fabrice Bellard's jslinux will happily run Windows 2000 in a browser window (webasm! hooray!). Someone commented "where is your god now?" and I can't stop giggling about it.
https://bellard.org/jslinux/

Trying out @nolan's Pinafore Mastodon app. I like PWAs, so this is an encouraging start.

Conan! What is best in life?

Enchiladas? I think it might be enchiladas.

Reviewing #lowrezjam games...

I'll say this: one of the advantages of having loads of clients installed is that you can see who's fastest at notifications. Although the downside is indeed that my phone turns into Thunderbird 2 whenever someone replies, as expected

Trying out Tusky and Mastalab as well as Tootdon, so I assume that whenever I get a message my phone will erupt like a supernova. Still, that's a stress test, as if having to pass the stringent Langridge one-strike-and-you're-out UI gauntlet wasn't enough