At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...

So I’d argue that they were moving first!

You should probably get a cheap IoT camera to keep an eye on that printer!

not "get", build it with an esp32 & Tasmota (or whatever).

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010326236256.html

And then bug a camera to monitor the first camera

Exactly. All my IoT stuff is on it's own wifi network and VLAN because I don't trust the initial or long term security of some of these manufacturers.

In the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday

Well that just seems like a completely different thing that share a few letters

I'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton

That's how the date is determined, it's the third Sunday of Lent, "mothering sunday". Hence why the date changes every year (as the dates of Lent move because Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Equinox).

Add a few more letters and you get my favorite day of the year

I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!

~20 years ago for me... I remember finding it when I first started working as a sysadmin. That and the story of the first "bug" report. That was a fun time.

https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...

I’m optimistic too, but I can’t help wonder if the post scarcity world, like the future, won’t be evenly distributed.

I was around in the 80’s in the UK and this was a real thing:

https://newsthump.com/2026/01/28/uk-on-verge-of-return-to-he...

The ZX81 had that too, at least the UK ones did.

The keyboard itself, er, takes some getting used to. But they are a little cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81...

Good job the Brits are asleep as they’d be cracking up at these comments.

Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”

Not serious, and you got it.

Obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

But Unifi should be able to implement this with zero extra hardware, just with VPN-style clients on phones and laptops?

I'm just surprised this needs an extra device. It would make sense if the device provided its own connectivity (with global wireless service, say), but this doesn't seem to be the case here. It still needs an uplink.

That's already an option, too.

Like DCC (1992)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette