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petepete

7,413 karma · joined February 9, 2012

self-facilitating media node. building gov.uk things.
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petepete··on Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
You can do this with diff-highlight, which comes packaged with git. No extra packages needed.
petepete··on LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
Does Microsoft Office exist now? Looked like they've entirely rebranded it to Microsoft 365 Copilot App (according to office.com)
petepete··on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
Series 7 of The Crown will be fun.
petepete··on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Were you using Unifi VOIP or the enterprise Identity stuff?

They're the only subscription things I've seen if you have your own controller.

I haven't seen that writing on the wall yet, Unifi are one of a select few tech companies I trust.

petepete··on Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)
I'm nether a Mac or HomeKit user but this looks slick AF. Well done!
petepete··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
If you have to use Windows, just grit your teeth and use it.

Thankfully I don't.

petepete··on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
We're in Feb 2026.

I'm not used to typing it yet, either.

petepete··on Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies
It's still a craze but the people who want a nice keyboard to use daily found theirs and drifted away from the novelty/modding, I think.

I've used a HHKB Pro 2 since 2010 and it's still going strong. I have a replacement ready if/when it dies, but other than a shiny space bar it looks and feels like new.

petepete··on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
I love that 15 years before winning an Oscar she played the mother of a boy with an arse for a face, too.

NSFW, obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvH86wfrzk

And she was terrific in Fleabag.

petepete··on Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis
Thought this was about my favourite CalDAV server for a second there!

https://radicale.org/

petepete··on The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
Radio DJ William B Williams' on air greeting, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Williams_(DJ)

petepete··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
I recreated my several hundred line + several plugins zsh config in a few dozen lines of fish and one plugin (fzf.fish), about 8 years ago. It’s been a joy to use.
petepete··on Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order
This is an area I'm keeping an eye on - currently this 55" Gigabyte one is about as good as it gets, but it feels like it's straddling the line between monitor and TV, as it runs Android and supports CEC and eARC.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/S55U

Once a company like Iiyama, Dell or Philips releases a 65-75" model with Display Port, I'm just going to buy it. Fingers crossed they do.

petepete··on Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
They're pulling out all the stops. If you told me that whoever was in charge of the consumer versions of Windows was trying to drive it into the ground, I'd believe you.
petepete··on 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
The same thing's happening to books where being seen as 'a reader' is a much higher priority than being well read.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/booktok-tiktok...

petepete··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
Yet most people over a certain age probably have without realising. Haribo, Tropicana, lots of fruit juices, sweets and dairy products used Cochineal.
petepete··on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
> if you care about technical excellence

Or accessibility.

petepete··on More dynamic cronjobs
The GOV.UK website has a list of UK bank holidays on it. If you add a .json to the end of the URL you get this, a thing of beauty.

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json

petepete··on Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
Nothing.

fd, rg and ag all work how I expect them to work and the arguments and order fit in with my expectations for modern cli applications.

They're recursive, they ignore things I don't care about and I can just give them the string I'm looking for, no path, no -name or --recursive etc.

find and grep do similar things but work entirely differently and their args aren't even in the same format.

petepete··on Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
I think the same applies for many of the new breed of command line applications like fd and ag/rg.

Being able to use them intuitively trumps ubiquity, speed or features.

petepete··on Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
I've used tig just for this for as long as I can remember, probably 18+ years.
petepete··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
I have a 4k 42" OLED Phillips Evnia monitor on my desk.

If they sold a 4k 65-75" version of it, I'd buy it in a flash.

https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/42M2N8900_00/evnia-gaming-moni...

petepete··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
I'd rather buy a 65-75" computer monitor and put it in my living room.

I just don't care about the other things in a TV - I don't want smarts, I don't want speakers, I no longer need a tuner.

petepete··on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
This is true when you know what you're looking for, the icons are distinct and you have good eyesight.
petepete··on Perl's decline was cultural
I suspect it's because Ruby's ability to deal with strings is so heavily influenced by Perl.

When I first started using Ruby after years of Perl, it felt familiar but everything was just more... sensible.

petepete··on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
I used Policy Based Routing so only imgur.com/i.imgur.com are redirected, everything else is as it was before.

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12566175125783-UniFi-G...

petepete··on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
I was trying to follow a tutorial the other day and couldn't because the embedded images were on Imgur and it was so frustrating. It was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I caved, bought a 3 year PIA plan, had my router configured within about 2 minutes (actually impressed how straightforward Unifi made it) and now my browsing experience is fixed.

petepete··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
Kendra Gaylord released a video on the topic yesterday too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPGUTyo9Yk

petepete··on Don't Download Apps
They've gone an admirably long way to fuck up a text input.
petepete··on Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters
Probably going to give screen readers a hard time.
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