mojo74

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.

"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."

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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

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

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

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...

Let's have a chuckle…

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

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

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.

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...

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

So say X, FB and the company they keep.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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'.

The comms thing is a bit of a bug bear for me too. I like to respond quickly to messages/emails because I believe the person at the other end appreciates having their questions answered quickly so they can get one with their day. When I have to wait an hour (or whatever timeframe feels disproportionate) for a reply to my message it grates. Still, I can live with it if I don't have work in a noisy shared space.

Makes my nostrils tingle just reading it

Isn't that depressing though? The desire to feel persecuted is stronger than the desire to just get on with their lives and celebrate what they have.

'Failing miserably and dangerously' is the new 'Move fast and break things'

Funny, this was may take on the article too. I suppose one could download x amount of files from one cloud storage and upload it to another to see if there is any obvious discrepancy. Perhaps Apple are still using their old file system format for icloud? It's been around for a good few years now and perhaps they simply haven't bothered to ever change the type of storage format they use. Maybe those with older accounts have their images / videos on the 'older' drives?

Added to my reading list. Thanks

After working WP for quite a few years the problem as I see it it that it 'needs' to be all things to all people. Can't code? Not a problem. WordPress.

Before even considering working with a client with a WP site I have to look at what plugins they are using. If they don't have a developer on board (or at least a competent one that built it originally) you know that that it will be stacked with 'useful' plugins. And this is the bit where the issues arise as working out the provenance of each and every one of them and whether they are still supported and/or won't break the functionality of another plugin is pure guesswork. Case in point enabling a nondescript plugin on one client's site broke the main image slider.

If anyone here has a Truth Social account I would like them to Truth(?) this on their account and see what the reaction is. In particular I would be keen to see if the post then becomes shadow banned. I don't have an account but am interested in testing the waters on this considering nothing is off the table for Trump's fee speech platform. And we know how sensitive he is to questions about his business acumen.

Thanks. I can't look at the leaning tower of Pisa now without smirking.

The mention of Decentraland in this article reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

The comment one viewer seems to sum it up:

They made a virtual world so boring that you can't even find weird perverts in it.