petepete

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self-facilitating media node. building gov.uk things.

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Comment · 3 days ago

And his brothers /bin/bzcat, /bin/pacat, /bin/netcat and /bin/sqfscat.

Comment · 6 days ago

Protoweb might be of interest to you.

https://protoweb.org/

Comment · 8 days ago

I've been on Purelymail since last December and I can't recommend it enough. It does exactly what I want in the way I expect it to.

Comment · 9 days ago

Yep, we mix them up. Distance and speed in miles, fuel priced in pounds per litre.

Comment · 12 days ago

Other than commercial panels, I think buying a non-smart TV with decent picture quality is verging on the impossible now.

Comment · 18 days ago

Sorry no, I worded that badly.

I meant the one thing I'm missing from my current setup, not something that would be fixed by upgrading.

Comment · 18 days ago

I bought an Apple TV 4K a few months ago (Google TV's ads were too much) and there's nothing here that might even slightly tempt me to upgrade.

* Siri - no thanks

* Far field microphones - no thanks

* Faster performance - unnecessary for me (I watch TV, movies and YouTube - it's never not smooth)

* Home theatre with homepods - I already have Sonos surround

* Even smarter home hub - I have a non-Apple smart home

* Facetime, Fitness+, Apple TV app - just not for me

The one thing I feel like I'm missing (and would be missing even if I upgraded) is audio passthrough, but DD 5.1 is _fine_.

Comment · 23 days ago

Maybe the GP is friends with George RR Martin.

This is perhaps an indirect confirmation that The Winds of Winter is back on track.

Comment · 26 days ago

I have a mix of Sonoff and IKEA. Both work well for me, but the IKEA DIRIGERA API reports the IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE as two separate devices with different names, and it messed up my Grafana dashboard.

It's the most first world of first world problems, but purely for that reason any more I buy will be Sonoff.

Comment · 27 days ago

Same on the latest Chrome on Android.

Comment · 29 days ago

So as a non-Apple-using Kagi subscriber since Beta, I kind of wish they'd just concentrate on search - the thing I'm paying for.

Yes, it's good, and I'll keep using it for the foreseeable future, but it's not an unassailable lead.

Comment · 1 month ago

> M.R. Williams is advancing its IBM i modernization strategy with new mobile solutions and accounting system improvements, while leveraging IBM Bob to quickly interpret older RPG code, automate documentation, and streamline development workflows.

This is exactly the kind of endorsement I’d expect to see from an IBM customer.

Comment · 2 months ago

I listen to Radio 4 quite a bit and occasionally want to check the schedule (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_radio_fourfm)

On mobile, Googling 'radio 4 schedule' is the quickest way, and the only negative bit about the entire experience is the popup that tells me 'it's better in the app'.

It's not. Not by any metric.

My search and opening a webpage takes a second or two. Opening the app takes several seconds, then navigating to the Radio 4 page and scrolling down the schedule takes several more.

I submitted a bug report on the topic and they basically told me "we hear you but shush and use the app".

Comment · 2 months ago

As a T1 diabetic, can confirm.

Comment · 2 months ago

Just wait for someone at Google to read this post and then block the domain retrospectively.