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peterbmarks··on Pine64 announce the Pinecil, TS100 compatible RISC-V soldering iron
I worry that they're doing too much. Surely shipping PineBook Pros in quantity should be the top priority.
peterbmarks··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
How does this work? I thought the whole idea of the torrent protocol was to prevent identification of who downloads what.
peterbmarks··on Humans Not Invited
I'm sick of finding traffic lights and trying to decide if the faring around the traffic light counts.
peterbmarks··on Mac sandbox escape
The author is right that controlling TextEdit seems harmless. It could be done in the context of showing the user release notes or something. AppleEvents must be a nightmare for Apple's security auditors.
peterbmarks··on Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?
Ever since Google Reader was killed I've run a https://tt-rss.org server.
peterbmarks··on Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
When an article talks about "thunderbold" ports and having a desk "littled" with cables I question the accuracy of the rest of it I'm afraid.
peterbmarks··on Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
Speech to text is certainly getting better but it makes mistakes. If the transcribed text was sent over the link and then a text to speech spoke at the other end you'd lose one of the great things about codec2 - the voice that comes out is recognisable as it sounds a bit like the person.

A few of us have a contact on Sunday mornings here in Eastern Australia and it's amazing how the ear gets used to the sound and it quickly becomes quite listenable and easy to understand.

peterbmarks··on F*EX – Frams' Fast File EXchange
magic-wormhole is a pretty neat solution and lets you transfer where both ends are behind NAT. https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
peterbmarks··on Hostnames
Planets mentioned in Star Wars is a good source (if you include books) although some can be hard to spell.
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