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oh you want to use voice commands while driving? a thing that's been solid for like a decade? TOO BAD. you have to use AI now.

Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September

As expected, Google Assistant is going away in 2026, and the company just provided a September 4 date for Android phones.

9to5google.com

I wish I could move to Newfoundland.

everyone that works on slack should be arrested for the amount of time they've stolen from me with their bad software

we should start a pool on when EA sells itself for parts and then shuts down

LG pushed adware through windows update and I am going to become the fucking joker. It's on my work computer and a personal computer. I will die before I ever buy another LG product jesus christ.

there's going to be a new crater on the face of the moon tomorrow because SpaceX is incompetent.

this is legitimately the funniest "adult content" tag I have seen on this website blue sky is a serious company writing serious software

Ryan Markel@ryanmarkel.com · 2d ago

I have been working this evening at uninstalling a wire shelf the builder put in my extra bedroom (my office) closet when this house was built around 20 years ago. These mounting bits are SATANIC. There is no logical way to remove them without them taking chunks out of your drywall.

Diablo IV is better than I initially gave it credit for. I still wish the colors were more vibrant overall, the game is way too muted... but the art style itself is gorgeous and proves yet again that low fidelity coupled with art direction drastically outweighs photorealism.

It’s so funny you can just buy THC at the grocery store and it changed basically nothing about society

Still mad about seeing the argument that "PC gaming is thriving." It's true, because you can't kill art. But statistically none of the 1000+ games released in a month will pay devs a living salary, because you *can* kill industry. To think this won't eventually hurt players is willfully ignorant.

People out here dropping literature and I'm going to go hard left: My favorite is Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a novel about space vampires, aliens, and the evolutionary disadvantage that is consciousness. And it is *terrifying*.

David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 10mo ago

What is your favorite English-language novel? (Free spaces for Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby Dick -- what else you got?)

This morning, we'll: ✅ Store malware in a Facebook photo ✅ Store encrypted books on Spotify ✅ Embed hidden audio streams on Spotify ✅ Send encrypted ultrasonic messaging layer over FM radio ✅ Share free apps, code, and demos for it all ❌ Do an ad read or sponsorship www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhoJ...

There's a ZIP Archive Stored In This Video

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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I honestly can't wait until they fuck up so bad they destroy a city block. Seems like the only thing that might make the government step in before they doom us all with Kessler Syndrome.

Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon

Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday

theguardian.com

social media but you are immediately banned for discourse or dunking

I read this headline and just burst out laughing. "40 years, no floods. Now her Montreal home's been hit 3 straight years. What's changed?"

Knowledge is power CEOs can't control, so they hate it.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6d ago

If knowledge if power, why are game companies setting it alight?

this game is literally linked on steam's front page

Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT@molleindustria.org · last wk.

Update: Steam determined that Future? No Thanks! contains "Sexual content that is explicit or graphic and is intended for adults only" + "Frequent Nudity or Sexual Content" (not true) The achievement icon and/or title "Have Sex One Last Time" was deemed inappropriate. Updating and resubmitting...

Severian visiting the library of the Citadel and discovering that the rats have invented large language models

If his idea is that people get votes based on paid income tax, then I am all for it, as rich people avoid paying income tax, and immigrants pay income tax without getting a vote. I don't think this is what he meant though. guillotines.png

Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for endorsing stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke replied ...

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Make sure you correctly attribute the layoffs at DoubleFine to Microsoft because this is the only outcome when an internal studio is cut loose with little warning.

I love that the Canadian government has decided to just start yelling about carbon capture as if it's even remotely plausible at scale, despite there never being any project that has succeeded at its promises.

Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff | The Tyee

He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality.

thetyee.ca

The singularity has not arrived, LLMs are not sentient, and Sam Altman is a snake oil salesman who should probably be in prison.

what if your computer could only copy 90% of your files correctly, corrupting or losing one out of every ten what if the brakes on your car only worked most of the time what if your keyboard ignored every tenth keystroke and replaced what you typed with a random character chatbots are fine though

legitimately it was a special time and place.

rokashi@rokashi.bsky.social · last wk.

i miss toronto's 2010 era of indie game dev

Y'know the thing striking me about the "what did people think about anime in the 90s" conversation is that everyone's trying to collapse "anime outside of Japan" into a single experience, but the honest thing is it was really different depending where you were and who you knew

Lift locks are cool. This is the Kirkfield lift lock which is the second tallest in the world.

I spent my week on a lake. Touching grass is overrated. Touching water though? Can't be beat. Drinking morning coffee and afternoon beers on a dock kicks so much ass.

the folk who'd consider surveillance glasses to be acceptable in public are a tiny tiny minority - don't forget that