Notices by Christian Lawson-Perfect (christianp@mathstodon.xyz)

I have an Apple AirTag attached to my cargo bike. My android phone keeps warning me that an unknown AirTag is following me. How do I tell it that the AirTag is mine?

I feel like this is just training me to ignore the warnings.

We've limited notifications from mastodon.social again because we're getting a lot of spam from them, again.

@julesh how much of what I'm looking at is intentional?

@julesh it's still quite common to have USB-A at one end though, isn't it?

@ryanc that is fascinating!

I have a dataset of first names given to babies in the UK between 1996 and 2015, from the ONS. The probability that two people with the same first name have different recorded genders is about 4%, which isn't far off the number you were given.

Does anyone else play my game JIGGRAPH?

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/jiggraph/

It's never the wrong time to look at my wobbly clock http://wobble-clock.glitch.me/

@tmalsburg YES.
I have an almost unique job dedicated to developing assessment software in a university, with no publishing or teaching requirement, but almost all other research-level software is the responsibility of precariously employed people, on contracts that lead nowhere. Universities really need to work out how to employ and reward these people properly.
The "research software engineer" job title framework seems to be fairly successful at this.

I think that the will is there from managers, but they often can't employ people on good terms because HR doesn't recognise the role.

So on my Mastodon server, when I run `tootctl --help` and it takes half a minute to produce any output: what's it doing?

@alisonkiddle it's one of my life's ambitions to smile as often as Howie does. Truly, #SmileGoals

I've lost pretty much a whole work day to this: when #Docker is running, it messes up DHCP or routing or something and all networking on my LAN stops working.

I'm using #Ubuntu 24.04 and installed Docker from the official Docker apt repository.

This has happened before and I fixed it, but I've forgotten how.

I've googled around and found answers that say to set some things in /etc/docker/daemon.json, and to do stuff with NetworkManager and iptables, but none of it seems to work.

Has anyone else encountered this recently, and fixed it?

@Gargron is this the percentage of users or the percentage of posts?

I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.

Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.

An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.

I think I'm largely preaching to the converted about this on the fediverse, but I have a reason:

Many of you, at some point, will be involved in the planning of an event. Please be the person who pushes the other organisers to *really* justify running the event in-person only. If there's any way remote attendance can be accommodated, please fight for it!

@horse as far as I know, the ones I used had the correct lenses for protanopia, and I can't find anything on the enchroma website to say they've got an extra strong version, just "protan lenses".
Since they work by partially blocking the colours you *can* see, they'd have to block out almost everything to have an effect on me.

@wj I took part in a study to measure their effectiveness; they did less than nothing for me. Thanks for trying to be helpful, but almost every time I mention my colourblindness someone asks me if I've heard of them.

I'm severely colourblind - my eyes can hardly detect red light at all.
So, working in web development, picking colour schemes is hard.
There are tools around to help you pick accessible colour schemes, but they assume that you can tell by looking that a colour is the one you want, and the only information you need the computer to calculate is the contrast ratio.
I realised I need a tool that will take the name of a colour and find a shade that gives a target contrast ratio.

Here it is: https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/

It uses the new APCA perceptual contrast algorithm and the Oklab colour space to help me find colours that people with better colour vision will interpret correctly, while ensuring there's good contrast for as many people as possible.

#accessibility #a11y #WebDev

Sometimes just making a thing with @glitchdotcom is quicker than reading the documentation: https://do-datalist-autocompletes-update-while-typing.glitch.me/
I wanted to know if the autocomplete list for an input element would update automatically after I change the contents of the <datalist> element it uses while typing.
The answer is yes!

@Gargron North-East England, not far from the Rington's factory

@Gargron oh, are you in my bit of the world? 👋