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New comment by mojo74 in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

mojo74 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:10:13 +0000

This is the first year I have cancelled all my subs. Used to be a TPB regular around the time it took off. Years later I tried to go legit and have had subs with all the major streamers (netflix, disney, amazon etc) But the way you get squeezed year on year for what was standard before e.g. 4K or no ads to be gradually offered worse terms and degraded output quality just bites after a while. I can't justify spending €20-30 per month on what isn't the best quality available for the content on offer.

New comment by mojo74 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

mojo74 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:28:42 +0000

"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."

New comment by mojo74 in "Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer"

mojo74 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:49:00 +0000

https://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/ File Find games… Jetpac Enjoy

New comment by mojo74 in "Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer"

mojo74 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:47:50 +0000

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New comment by mojo74 in "Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)"

mojo74 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:11:13 +0000

I liked it. It was strangely hypnotic viewing. Travis Himmel looked like he was stoned in it (his acting style?) and the plain weirdness of it reminded me of old Heavy Metal comics of the seventies. The nearest I have had to that was reading the Prophet series. Themes of religion and general human weirdness https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/prophet

New comment by mojo74 in "-2000 Lines of code (2004)"

mojo74 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:41:08 +0000

The Perverse incentive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

New comment by mojo74 in "First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor"

mojo74 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:54:21 +0000

You might change your mind if you read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel) or you might not.

New comment by mojo74 in "Telephone Exchanges in the UK"

mojo74 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:47:19 +0000

Shout out to Milton Keynes Museum for their archive of handsets old and new as well as interactive examples of telephone exchanges:

https://miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/collections/view-our-colle...

New comment by mojo74 in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"

mojo74 — Thu, 29 May 2025 11:43:21 +0000

Let's have a chuckle…

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/website-hacker

New comment by mojo74 in "Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence"

mojo74 — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:01:25 +0000

Now even Hacker News isn't a safe space for us Spurs fans :(

New comment by mojo74 in "The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm"

mojo74 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:10:16 +0000

Used to happen to me when I played a lot of tetris on the gameboy back in the day. When reading any books afterwards I would see the tetronimoes slotting in the spaces between the lines of sentences and words. Goldeneye (N64) had me eyeing security cameras in the real world and making silencer noises in my head for quite a while too.

New comment by mojo74 in "How many ants live on Earth? (2022)"

mojo74 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:08:23 +0000

Great answer. However if this was 2014 I would have had the pleasure of proving you wrong:

http://yourwildlife.org/2014/01/ants-take-over-space-station...

New comment by mojo74 in "It's time to get back to our roots around free expression"

mojo74 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:03:38 +0000

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

So say X, FB and the company they keep.

New comment by mojo74 in "Perplexity got ads"

mojo74 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:12:08 +0000

I don't know where you're based but I would offer the BBC

TV - take your pick of classic shows. Radio - 6 music for me. Education - provides resources for all school key stages in line with the UK curriculum. Sports - a bit sporadic but you can get everything except baseball at some point in the year. Arts - broadcasts the Glastonbury festival. Live shows you can attend and be in the audience.

All for £170 a year and no ads.

New comment by mojo74 in "Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)"

mojo74 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:28:54 +0000

A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little people… unduly divorced from the slow processes of nature, in whom every vital impulse withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

—Bertrand Russell

New comment by mojo74 in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

mojo74 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:56:54 +0000

I can't believe this comment didn't get the attention it deserves.

New comment by mojo74 in "[dead]"

mojo74 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:40:31 +0000

Looking on Google Maps there don't appear to be any planes at all in the satellite view of Heathrow. How can this be? Nothing at the gates. Nothing on the runway. No big planes or small planes. Not even the planes that just sit there doing neither. Is it a security thing?

New comment by mojo74 in "Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would"

mojo74 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:07:41 +0000

I agree. Having worked on the shop floor I don't like my time being wasted and I'm careful to add detail for my colleagues so that they are engaged from the outset with my query. All I ask is 'give me half an hour' or some similar response so I can manage other people's expectations.

New comment by mojo74 in "Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would"

mojo74 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:01:14 +0000

I'm all about the compromise. I don't mind waiting for an answer but I'm often hassled for a response in my role and then I need an update from another member of the team. If that response is not forthcoming guess who gets the follow up? Now I'm badgering people who are probably busy but have neglected to tell me and I'm now the block in the pipe to those above me. I don't mind a pat response that they're busy but someone somewhere always needs a status update.

New comment by mojo74 in "Working from home isn't going away, even if some CEOs wish it would"

mojo74 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:41:31 +0000

Having worked 30+ years in various office environments (some good, some bad) I believe that hybrid is the sensible option for everyone. And that should be optional as well. I had a great job working for a company that was one day a fortnight in the office. Pretty much everyone who could make it in did and they came from 50-60 miles (some more) but the expectation when you got there was 'hello let's do a bit of work together, chat, have a nice long'ish lunch and leave before the trains get too busy'.