Stuart Langridge @sil@mastodon.social

So... not bad, I thought. Which is a good start for a new Doctor, since they always take a while. Felt a bit like mid-season monster-of-the-week filler rather than a Big Intro, which turned me off a bit since Whittaker doesn't seem as cool as 12/11/10 yet. And the crane-top "we can honour who we've been while choosing who we will be next" speech seemed a bit blunted by Chibnall using it to have a go at critics; he's justified, but don't ruin big speeches with it. 1/2

Had a brief look at Solid, TBL's decentralisation thing on the web. First impressions: I don't really get it, it needs UX design, and TBL's icon skills haven't improved since the early web in 1993 :)

It's healthy masculinity to admit to liking Toxic? It's about her second best song, behind Oops I Did It Again. Sadly, like Rihanna, I like her early stuff more than the later.
https://pinafore.social/statuses/100810895084731139

Today I discovered that people play RPGs online! By video! I had no idea such a thing even existed. Of course I seem to have discovered this just as some massive scandal has erupted around the roll20 site, so it's hard to get a sense of what's good and who I might play with. (Also, I'm a serious beginner, since the last time I played was in about 1990, which means I'd need a group who were OK with that, and don't play in US evenings. Which is hard to find.)

@nolan Pinafore bug report. While replying to a toot, either hide the new toot button, or (better) make it be a "send this reply" button. I've wrongly hit it loads of times :(

Have just finished both chapters of Cube Escape: Paradox. If you haven't played the other Cube Escape games (which are free) the storyline won't make a lot of sense to you, but the puzzles are still fun. Give them a try. Best surreal room escape Flash games I know. http://www.cubeescape.com

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/