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Ah - kind of like scrumping in British English.


Yeah - I can't be the only one left wondering why this URL was submitted to HN as news???


Reposts are fine after a year or so! (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and historical material is always welcome here. Links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers.

(Whether the current submission was a good repost or not is a separate question of course.)


See also: 'look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them' - https://alexwlchan.net/2024/emptydir/


> fence

Had never come across this term before. Huh.


I feel like this post gets posted to HN every few months.

Not as frequently as that, but a bit:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


When accessing from UK: "This content is not available in your country/region."

Holy moly. How is this even still a thing?


Yeah - it kind of blew my mind when I picked up a cheap DVBS satellite receiver box recently, tuned my dish to a satellite that carried German services, and found plain old Teletext running beautifully well on HD TV channels, rendered pixel perfect on my TV via HDMI. Mind boggling!


Ah thanks for this clarification - I was wondering what the need was for the RF modulation and if it was necessary for just plain old TV use. Great project and thanks for bringing the possibility to my attention!


Had to look up Insomnia - hadn't heard of it before in the UK. Seems to be only in Ireland and across the English midlands. https://www.insomnia.ie/nearest-coffee-shop


I've never seen it in the UK, but having seen it in Cyprus, I will have to check out Greek Cypriot stores in London now...


Fio's usually seems to stock it from what I've seen, they have a few locations around North London.


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