Notices by Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social), page 2

@libreoffice er, that seems to have introduced a bug: When typing new text at the end of a paragraph that's fully-justified, when the text crosses over the halfway point along the line, it keeps trying to justify the (incomplete, last) line on typing each space.

Excuse typing errors, it's really made me self-conscious how frequent they are, but...

@sabreW4K3 @GreenSkyOverMe good enough to bang some sticks together then…

@ColesStreetPothole @mekkaokereke @ddritter @benroyce if that's the behaviour it's also misnamed. Followers only should *mean* followers only.

i want to think it's a bug. because it's mis-named, as if the mismatch between name and function isn't deliberate. Maybe submit it as a simple bug report on that basis. 😅

@goatsarah i wanted to find, like, a least-impressive snake species to name this. (context: Elite spaceship models, especially in that era at least, have snake-based names). but i couldn't. there's no snake i can think of that deserves the comparison.

@dgar I’ll give you points for being plucky…

@siege @Gaelan i know it's an impossibiilty ;-) my "exist in the shadows" wasn't intended as an acceptable outcome...

More to the point, I know it's an impossibility, you know it's an impossibility, but do *they* know it's an impossibility?

@siege @Gaelan do they try to find a compromise between people who want to exist and people who don't want them to exist? Maybe we'll be allowed to exist in the shadows...

@goatsarah was just an unquestioned aphorism for me until recently, and then only heard the opposite in passing, so vague enough i still had to check with a few sources before posting that reply just now :-)

@goatsarah (and a reminder that mussolini making the trains run on time was a myth)

@Lazarou @goatsarah not even kidding, but wondering if starmer wants to be forced to do it.

@cstross with some seriousness i'm beginning to think they really are pushing to replace the conservative party as the main party of the centre-right, the idea being to push the tories into the far right fringes forever.

which may not be a bad outcome tbh, but only if a new centre-left arises. they really need - or we really need them - to have some care of their left flank.

@CloudyMrs it’ll be a sign of the end times to go a summer in Scotland with no such cancellations. Followed shortly by the arrival of acclaimed Scottish sparkling wine…

@libreoffice ... but it gets worse. Because it turns out, the Accessibility Check was faulting *every single paragraph* for the same thing, even for the majority that had no direct formatting, or even character styles, in them at all that could be revealed by the user interface.

So basically, that's useless. Useless false positives unless it can explain to me what's wrong.

Accidentally hit (and discovered) the Accessibility Check feature in @libreoffice At first it seemed, every time I used italics, it faulted me for “The text formatting conveys additional meaning." I'd be quite happy to use something more semantic. there is an “Emphasis" character style, for instance. I can even set it to turn on when I do cmd-I. But not turn off again. So that's useless. Unless someone can tell me how cmd-I can toggle it. (and bold/strong-emphasis for that matter)

@libreoffice ok, maybe I've wrangled the cmd-I, cmd-B to toggle emphasis and strong-emphasis respectively (it being necessary to restart the app for the toggle to work). Let's try living with that for a bit.

It's customary to also use italic text for certain foreign or out-of-context words. Semantically I wonder what that should be called? Emphasis seems wrong.

@libreoffice accessibility check faulting every single damn paragraph when all you've been doing is typing, is useless. the only sane reaction is, "sod that then”.

@libreoffice I mean, it would mark a whole paragraph and say "there's direct formatting in here" and I'd be thinking "no there bloody isn't; nothing that I've done, and nothing visible” But if I do a manual clear direct formatting, the warning disappears, so there *was* something. But it was nothing *I* did. So wtf? *Any* manual fix for this is unscalable. The default action should be correct.

@goatsarah @cstross this country is basically becoming as bad as the reddest of red states in the US on this issue. And Labour aren't going to do anything. And Scotland isn't going to be a refuge.

Being older it hasn't affected me directly yet, but it's still making me increasingly anxious and depressed. for one thing, i'm sure they’ll get around to us that transitioned years ago. and for another, i mean, what a shithole this place is.

@grayface_ghost @goatsarah there's going to be a trans british expat community in portugal before long isn't there...

(she says slightly hopefully, though it would be better not to need it)

@grayface_ghost @goatsarah i have an irish passport. i think in principle that means i could just go.

the practicalities are likely large though… Only speak English, retired (a bit early, but still…)