Stuart Langridge

@sil

Web consultant and custom developer. Opinionated. Believer in the web. A misanthropic Father Christmas. Thou look’st like antichrist, in that lewd hat. He/him.

Birmingham, UK
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Joined March 2007
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  1. 14 hours ago

    Look at this! This is amazing looking! I like the Library of Birmingham now, and I like this. I do not like the horrible concrete thing that destroyed this, and was in its turn destroyed for the much cooler new one. See the thread for a picture from inside it!

    The world we have lost. Birmingham Central Library - opened in 1882. Almost a renaissance palace but inside there dwelled not a Medici or a Lombardian banker but......
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  2. 17 hours ago

    Note that Gnome Tweaks lets you set what the Compose Key is (and put this in the default keyboard settings too). On my machine that's set to Scroll Lock, and indeed the Scroll Lock key works as Compose, the same as Shift+AltGr! So you can Scroll Lock, ', e to get é!

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  3. 17 hours ago

    Can someone explain to me why there are long lines at US polling places? There aren't in the UK. Logistical answers please, not political, so not "cos it makes it harder to vote". I agree it does! Why aren't there more booths? Money? Legally prohibited? Not enough volunteers?

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  4. 17 hours ago

    Also, people, can anyone explain to me how I can easily add new compose key combinations? And maybe we should make it do emoji characters and so on too? Compose ' e to make é and < + 3 for ♥ and Compose : ) for ☺ are cool; let's add more for everyone!

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  5. 17 hours ago

    If you really get into this Compose key thing, then will teach you a bunch of compose key combinations for stuff; you pretty quickly learn how they think, so if you want ® you think "that's an R in a circle, so it's Compose, O, R) and can guess.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    Ubuntu people, Shift+AltGr, then hit hyphen three times. Not quite the same as having a dedicated key, but the Shift+AltGr trick (the "Compose" key) lets you type all sorts of stuff by guessing. Shift+AltGr, /, O types Ø by combining them.

    PUT AN EM DASH KEY ON NORMAL KEYBOARDS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
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  7. 18 hours ago

    The thing they don't say here is that it's not them moving the Avebury stones because the clocks changed. No, all the clocks in your house need changing because they moved the Avebury stones. Doing so alters what time is.

    Putting the clocks forward at Stone Circle. National Trust staff repositioning the stones for the start of this weekend
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  8. Mar 27

    a bit more freeze peach

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  9. Mar 26

    I hear the shipping company apologised because the world is being held back by a million stuck containers and then got sued by docker for trademark infringement

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  10. Mar 26

    Britain's staff are calling on Rishi Sunak to stop trying to force them to go back to the office before everyone's vaccinated

    Rishi Sunak is calling on Britain's employers to end working from home and allow staff back in the office - or risk them voting with their feet and quitting
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  11. Mar 25

    I am glad that Public Health England's Variant & Mutant Taskforce track altered versions of covid to keep us safe. And I know their biggest consideration in naming these is not that it sounds like we're in the X-Men universe. But... that sounds like we're in the X-Men universe.

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  12. Mar 25

    "Your future as vulture; his future as carrion." from his upcoming poetry collection Please Do Not Touch at , about a pair of brothers, one rich from theft and now dead, the other living on the proceeds.

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  13. Mar 25

    chilling out listening to the extremely groovy "stream starting soon" music for . I expect will do an meetup about it once we're allowed back into pubs

    the brumtechtapas hold screen
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  14. Mar 25

    ooh two hours until !

    Today's the day of our first ever BrumTechTapas event, we cant wait for you all to join us tonight!
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  15. Mar 25

    I don't agree with all of this from , but: , you're a perfect example of more harm than good. You've been coasting on your legacy for years. Now you've discredited yourselves to where people justifiably question not just you but your entire philosophy as superseded.

    A number of people have been commenting about the FSF recently. Here’s my take.
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  16. Mar 24

    people: destroy the banks ship on the Suez canal: right you are everyone: not like that

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  17. Mar 24

    Although I now suspect that it isn't that nobody brought up that "Slack Connect" could be used for harassment, it's that even if someone had brought it up it would have been ignored because it's being built so C-level execs can read more employee messages

    note that Slack has apparently explained why it wants to become a messaging app -- because its corporate buyers want more comprehensive surveillance of their employees
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  18. Mar 24

    it is so much easier and less embarrassing to listen to the people who bring this stuff up while you're designing these things than it is to "receive valuable feedback from our users" after release. If nobody brought it up while designing: hire someone.

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  19. Mar 24

    now starting to wonder which government minister's brother runs a flag selling business

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  20. Mar 24

    Just chatting to someone who seemed quite appealing in a fresh, kinda innocent way. "I'm in a contest to count all the toilets in this building," they said. "There are 26! But I don't know whether I was first to answer or not!" "Ah," I said. "You winsome, you loo sum."

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