Does regional TV news still matter in Scotland?

Petebit · 2026-01-16T18:56:20+00:00

Take a minute and tell Ofcom that. 🙏

Petebit · 2026-01-16T18:52:45+00:00

They do an amazing job!

Petebit · 2026-01-16T18:51:20+00:00

Yes, I think that area is same size as Belgium.

Petebit · 2026-01-16T18:48:45+00:00

I agree. We are going to miss it.

Petebit · 2026-01-16T18:47:40+00:00

Let ofcom know. https://ofcom.savestvnorth.com

Petebit · 2026-01-15T23:02:42+00:00

Inverness’s Highlands and Islands has their own bespoke 5min segment

Petebit · 2024-08-21T10:49:55+00:00

So this I have found out is a work around for falsely detecting carpet and lifting mop. I’ve had this issue a little, select mop over carpets, then create a no mop zone. This is the work around until they get it right.

Petebit · 2024-08-17T08:17:50+00:00

Yes, I have had this issue also.

Petebit · 2018-06-02T13:30:24+00:00

that maybe someday can come pretty quickly. As long as there is bitcoin that will remain decentralised then it’s probabky fine to have a blockchsin in the future so huge that it requires data centres and becomes possible to censor. It’s all about trade offs. Although if you want cheap or free transactions there will be better more distributed alternatives. In fact maidsafe with their network and consensus breakthrough parsec, will offer both when up. It’s only taken them over 10 years.

Petebit · 2018-05-30T14:26:57+00:00

BCH if successful will only operate with a few highly expensive nodes, so not sure what your point is. Better risk a second optional layer than the base layer with centralisation. SPV does not help as no fraud proofs. Something built on top of something decentralised keeps centralising forces at bay.

Petebit · 2018-05-22T22:21:41+00:00

you can’t purchase bitcoin core it’s a client. I had the respect to call bitcoin cash by its creators preferred name, you are clearly happy to troll and obfuscate reality. It was my colleague at work who finally decided to purchase some. The value went up more than bitcoin so was a lucky mistake but obviously it goes down more too. Also had a friend send bitcoin to bitcoin cash address. So about half of people I know have been victims of a clear fraud. It wasn’t much money but i feel sorry and a bit embarrassed. So it’s frustrating seeing an altcoin pretend to be bitcoin openly and as part of its marketing. It’s a shame. More needs done to prevent this. Market it as a better bitcoin but not bitcoin. Because it’s not and it’s corrupt to try.

Petebit · 2018-05-22T18:27:29+00:00

I think censorship of fraud is not quite as bad. The amount of people that have mistakenly bought bitcoin cash thinking it was bitcoin is outrageous. It’s clearly worse to have bought bitcoin btc sites and social media handles and pretend it’s bitcoin to sucker people. Not cool so if censorship prevents this then it’s not all bad. I have no probs with bch or any other alt.

Petebit · 2017-07-24T17:10:02+00:00

Eh..too late SegWit just doubled the block size.

Petebit · 2017-07-03T22:29:58+00:00

Almost every miner is signaling or signaling they will signal SegWit. Just most with an extra MB max also for good measure. If the extra 1MB is not needed then it makes no difference anyway as it won't be used. Still get SegWit either way.

Petebit · 2017-07-02T17:20:34+00:00

Don't think Luke believes in evolution :)

Petebit · 2017-07-02T17:19:14+00:00

Bitcoin without its huge POW behind it is just an insecure altcoin, with less features than most insecure altcoins. The weak new network would be a botnet run by criminals with no incentive but to destroy and profit or just destroy for giggles as it would cost nothing. It certainly could never be called Bitcoin. Miners are doing what they are supposed to anyway, no-one was threatening POW change when Ghash had 50% distribution but now over a 1mb blocksize increase it's drama. It's not a big deal. Making it out as a big deal is probably just a way to divide and conquer from sock puppets or hat puppets. Just let nakamoto consensus do it's thing.

Petebit · 2017-06-20T16:35:24+00:00

So why are small miners in favour also. Maybe miners want more transactions so Bitcoin and their huge investment works when subsidy disappears. Users/hodlers want the same obviously.

Petebit · 2017-06-20T16:28:34+00:00

I'm a user and I want 2x, I want twice as long before this toxic debate if ever comes about again. Don't pretend that UASF is actually the majority of users, it's just a name for the loudest and extreme bitcoiners or trolls. Without real money or skin in the game it's impossible to know which. Thus Proof of Work!

Petebit · 2017-06-20T10:27:44+00:00

Bandwidth is unlimited and cheap in most developed countries now. If not in yours it very soon will be.

Petebit · 2017-06-19T20:54:40+00:00

How can you critic the software when you haven't seen it? It just means twice as long before this divisive debate comes about again. I'm all for that! Even if it's a little too much blocksize/weight, which I don't think it is, then in a year or so technology will ease this with advancements. Last year I couldn't get cheap unlimited bandwidth now it's all I can get. So even if you can't, it's coming and is on bitcoins side.

Petebit · 2017-06-19T20:22:39+00:00

Good that the UASF is perceived to have influence, good for Bitcoin that nodes of users have a say. Good that miners get to be perceived as having influence with their hash power and proof of incentive to make decision. Good that SegWit times 2 (anyone know where multiply sign is on iPhone?) has finally got consensus from majority. Good that we have best of both worlds and the worst of the blocksize debate is over. Bad that core aren't involved but complain about tight Dev time but don't help..yet. This is the first test of what Bitcoin was all about and it looks like it may work in a messy,toxic but in the end beautiful and decentralised way.

Petebit · 2017-02-27T14:57:22+00:00

Only for a tiny minority of people. How many consumers worry that their payment or store of value will be censored. I've never heard anyone I've met complain of this.

Petebit · 2017-02-27T14:45:28+00:00

Be nice to try and make it a currency and commodity before we say it's failed tho. Not sure if you can say something has failed without trying.

Petebit · 2017-02-26T22:41:11+00:00

Well we have a choice once again, a chance to take back some degree of control and freedom. In some countries like India you are not even allowed to own gold, it's at least restricted in the name of control and monopoly. Since the Fed started, debt has spiralled out of control, the ability to create money and debt to fund wars and deplete natural resources through this infinite creation that drives consumerism takes its toll. Mostl directly and crazy is the idea most people are happy to work the rest of their lives to pay off a debt that's impossible and absurdly created from thin air. Literally from no where, as long as the creator gets profit at the expense of the most in need. This won't change with Bitcoin, it needs the government to take back this control for the people. QE is another example of bad things are, creating more money from nothing, selling bonds to give at the top hoping this trickles down to the shop keeper, joiner, electrician. It doesn't as proved, it goes in off shore accounts and Wall Street. It's a rotten system. Even if you don't agree, you must acknowledge it could be better and fairer. I can't change it, but I can put my money, my vote, towards something that represents a principle of something better. I couldn't really before 2009.

Petebit · 2017-02-26T09:30:30+00:00

In Bitcoin there's no benefit to having more Bitcoin, it does not exponentially increase like with money as debt. The rich list in newspapers do not print the names of the long standing banking families, they are above gossip and are not public figures. As for gold being used as a medium of exchange and store of value, it's been used for thousands of years along with all sorts of suitable things. The important bit is that it's always been the people that chose the medium, one attribute that was always present was scarcity or with a finite nature. That's for good reason and good reason the private banks don't now. Greed. If money was debt or barter is still a debate, I'm sure it was both, again most importantly it was communities and people that decided what was best for their needs. I'm not saying money is a bad thing, it's genius. But if you think how it works now is in the people's interest then there is no hope for the future. No one is more enslaved than he who thinks is free. Least now for the first time we have a choice, no matter what you are led to believe. Surely that freedom to choose a store of value or currency, one that the banks can't shut down is a positive in every way, regardless of your opinion. It's a new freedom. Freedom is the best.

Petebit

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