Will Thompson @wjt@mastodon.social

my name is dril
all day they aske
for leave to do
a sordid task
i must agree
it is a dragg
they will not lett
me fuk the flag

Back pain computer pals: any positive or negative experiences with kneeling chairs? (I already have a sit/stand desk but standing up all day is not enjoyable.)

This is truly the moment I entered middle age.

Our predecessor ran flat Cat-7 cable between various rooms but never attached connectors or sockets.

• Can I get away with any old RJ45 connector, rather than the 2–3 Cat-7 specific ones?
• Can I use any old crimper?

TFW you have a bot idea while cycling home, then realise what you actually have is a half-memory of a @darius bot from 7+ years ago (namely 4myrealfriends)

I read How The Leopard Got His Spots with my (currently) pescetarian three-year-old, who was confused as to why the leopard would eat the animals. “Are antelopes made of meat? Are giraffes made of meat? Am *I* made of meat?!”

I'm probably doing it wrong, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor lose something of their impact when played on a very low volume to avoid waking the kids.

3-year-old did not appreciate this homage

The boat
She destroyed her canal
Yes
YES
The boat is out

Or, I suppose, non-UK peeps also have televisions!

UK peeps: what (if anything) do you use as a PVR to record live TV? I have a smart TV which can record to an external hard drive. Asking for my dad who has non-smart TVs, one of which is even pre-digital(!).

(Sadly all the extant Little Blue Truck × Suez Canal dad meme content is on birdsite.)

My three-year-old wanted a bedtime story, so I told one involving a giant cargo ship, a canal in the desert, and a plucky little digger. I had to make up the ending though…

@nolan re. your wish that native app stores would list PWAs: is there a decent open index of "good" PWAs that an app store could draw on to do this, whether curated or automated, without having to implement an entire web crawler?

Paging free-software-inclined icon designers! I'd love an icon for https://github.com/flathub/flatpak-external-data-checker. One idea might be, the Flatpak icon (from https://flatpak.org/press/, CC BY 3.0) adorned with a gear or some other indication of "automation", or the box dissembled for repair?

Git experts: I have a repo URL and a tag I've found with 'git ls-remote URL'. Is there any way to pull the tag's metadata – specifically its timestamp – without pulling ANY of the content? (GitHub and GitLab have API for this; I think the answer is otherwise "no".)

Parasite (2019): good, lent itself surprisingly well to being watched in instalments across three evenings, definitely features abrupt tonal shifts.