iwaslensis

For me, it is ironic that this article is on the BBC, my company is contracted to provide the playout of the bbc linear tv channels and their expectations have been higher than ever during the pandemic. I enjoy carrying out the work and like the BBC (honestly not criticising them at all), however it’s an interesting point about large corporations being a sum of lots of different people and ideas rather than a single ‘clean’ entity.

Born out of personal need for it, A system for automatic creation of on-demand/listen again episodes for radio stations.

Basically just takes the url of an existing stream and then segments it up into 10 seconds audio clips, then a second process stitches the clips together between two time stamps to give us a complete episode, the benefit being that if we forget to schedule an episode we can just post a job for it to be generated at any time.

Hippynet.com/AutoPod

To add my voice to this, sure it’s nowhere near the quality of the super fancy laser printer at work, but for home use the brother laser printer I got (entry level) has been absolutely fantastic. At this point literally the only printer I’m not scared to recommend to friends when they ask.

Edit: for documents and such, not photos.

In the tests I’ve done they’re achieving in the range of 700 up/down, for them though the big selling point has been the reliability - I can speak from experience (living on a farm myself) that sure the speed isn’t great, maybe in the high teens to low twenties, but the annoying thing is the constant dropouts

My Partners family were one of the originals on this (and live just outside the village). It has to be said that it is by far the best broadband I have experienced - even when compared to corporate internet that I work with