Peter Oliver

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Show threadPeter OliverFeb 22
@jezhiggins 1000 Trades Square, just now. Middle aged man with dark hair and dark jacket seen buying cone for small boy of similar description.
Show threadPeter OliverFeb 17
@sil What a relief, then, that you still have plenty of time to crack this before you turn 40 and become ineligibile for a Fields Medal.
Show threadPeter OliverFeb 9
Finally, if your terminal’s ANSI yellow isn’t readable, maybe see https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/ or https://www.mavit.org.uk/tango-putty/
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Show threadPeter OliverFeb 9
Another alternative would be to set a background colour for coloured text, but some people would consider that ugly. I don’t think there’s solution that makes everyone happy.
Show threadPeter OliverFeb 9
The question remains, is it a good idea to have an “unbreak this broken behaviour” setting? One alternative would be to make SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16 the default, but that fails for people who don’t have the ANSI colours in their terminal configured for good contrast (some well-known terminals, such as PuTTY and XTerm, still have poor defaults for this use-case, for one colour or another).
Show threadPeter OliverFeb 9
This will be available from systemd version 260 (but you can set it now; it won’t do any harm). Full documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/systemd.html#%24SYSTEMD_COLORS
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Peter OliverFeb 9
Can’t read the yellow warning text on your light coloured terminal, outputted by the various systemd utilities such as journalctl, systemctl, hostnamectl, etc.? I got fed up with copy and pasting this text into a text editor to make it legible, and added a new environment variable, SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16, which causes it to use your terminal’s ANSI yellow (which presumably you already have configured to a readable colour). #systemd260
Show threadPeter OliverFeb 8
@bigcalm A friend was once given a sausage maker for his birthday, and went through a phase of bringing home-made eccentric recipes to every barbecue he was invited to. Chilli con carne sausage was a hit, as I recall.
Peter OliverJan 19
Afternoon PlayJan 19
We'll be back at Waterside Tap, Birmingham, on Sunday 1st February, for more boardgames.

https://afternoonplay.co.uk/post/806175359655641088/afternoon-play-february-2026
Afternoon Play, February 2026

Please join us for another relaxed afternoon of board games, on Sunday 1st February, from 2pm until the evening. We’ll be back at Waterside Tap on Gas Street Basin, central Birmingham. Afternoon Play...

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Show threadPeter OliverJan 5
@brucelawson I’ve pretty-much given up on best-ofs. Even when the artist has the depth of back catalogue to justify the title, I do not want to listen to 20 to 40 of their songs in a single sitting, thank you.