Notices by andyc (andyc@mastodon.me.uk)

@dick_turpin @Paul @morph Get that paddling pool out!

@evan Quick update on this. Just received a boosted post from @tagspub re. Hugo (a hashtag I follow).

The poster was on the popular @mastodon.social instance but I don't follow a single user from there so I got to see useful and relevant contact that would have missed otherwise.

@evan Back to tags.pub. If I follow a popular hashtag like #emacs where 5,000 people spread across 10 instances post with the emacs hashtag, I see all posts from any instance I am currently linked to but miss any folk on (small, personal) instances I may be unaware of.

However, for the tags.pub emacs stream to match (or surpass) following hash tag it would need all 5,000 emacs minded folk to consciously sign up for tags.pub. Is that correct ?

Not trolling, just trying to understand fully.

@evan I'm running a controlled test (follow hashtags vs tags.pub). I'll let you know when we reach the crossing point !

@sean @evan /me goes to convert my hashtag follows to tags instead.

#tagspub

@evan After #fosdem, you can settle back and enjoy 'The Traitors (Ireland)'.

Watch different people crying at the departure of a close, dear friend they voted to banish. Marvel at the looks of absolute shock and horror at the breakfast table ! 🙂

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q8sr/the-traitors-ireland

@kevie My wife uses a Linux Mint laptop heavily - almost exclusively for browser (Firefox), email (Thunderbird) and the odd document (LibreOffice).

@evan I retired in September. One of the biggest benefits was I no longer have to use Word, Excel or PowerPoint . I still write documents and spreadsheets but exclusively in LibreOffice.

Gnome 49 hits the Arch repos.

@morph

'I am not a number. I am free man'....but look how tightly he is holding my arm.

@morph I didn't. I'm still in there !

Had an enjoyable week in North Wales and Anglesey.

@kevie @beersofmastodon Have you got shares in the Leon brewery ?

The most English thing ever.

BBC News - Gloucestershire cheese rolling: Two people taken to hospital - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkdz3zv5nno

@evan Still working for the evil borg (Oracle) working on DB cloud migrations and studiously avoiding AI/LLM's.

Still clinging to the distant, forlorn hope of becoming a billionaire 🙂

@katyswain @evan

Err. I think Evan was looking for other revenue streams to keep the identi.ca service going for enthusiastic and loyal users (like me and you). He was undoubtedly subsiding the costs of providing that service for a long time (probably out of his own pocket).

Not harbouring dreams of becoming a 'billionaire'.

I don't quite get the hype. It's yet another Teriminal app. You enter commands and look at the output. You can configure tabs and profiles.

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/ghostty_1/

Inspired by @jwildeboer I am re-visiting #podman I'm a casual user (idiot) so really need a management GUI

I didn't really warm to podman-desktop but pleased to see I can use Portainer (although it needs some root privs). Will look at 'pods' too.

@jwildeboer pods looks cool and appears to be a native Gnome application. Unlike podman-desktop, it doesn't use the bloatware known as Electron.

One of my favourite things about FOSS is choice. You don't like A. Fair enough. Feel free to choose to try B or C. Or even choose to write D.

#podman

https://github.com/marhkb/pods

I use emacs and org but sometimes I just want to make one or more quick notes. Sometimes it's genuinely a disposable, transient thought so I viewed org-capture as overkill. Sometimes, I might want to remember what I jotted down and extend it the next day.

I tended to use the scratch buffer and then save (if necessary) to '~/tmp/xxx.txt'. This was clearly sub-optimal.

The built-in #Emacs remember package is much better. Can't believe I've only just discovered it.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/remember.html