Jon Lamont
@jonlamont.bsky.social
He/him - Sometimes I write stuff - EIC @mobilesyrup.com - Views my own - jon@mobilesyrup.com (I try to read it all, even if I don't answer)
Very good overview of Canada's Bill C-22 and the horrible privacy implications it will bring. You know its bad if Meta, the king of privacy violations, is raising concerns.
@gamersnexus.bsky.social · last wk.Canada's new bill seeks to force companies to retain metadata on users, including Signal, VPN companies, Tailscale, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7x...
Hey, Canadian friends. 👋 Canadian Blood Services is reporting a 20% drop in blood supply -- "well below" the usual summer dip. That's a weekly shortage of 1,500-2,500 appointments. Please consider donating if you're able! It's quick, smooth and helps save lives! www.blood.ca/en 1-888-2-DONATE
There is so much AI-generated slop in this Samsung Unpacked
Gotta love when companies jam AI features into their apps and fill them with incorrect info. Like, Google Health wished me a happy birthday the other day... It wasn't my birthday.
Oof, this one hurts. I had my issues with OnePlus, but the company made some great phones over the years. I fondly remember getting the original OnePlus One back when it was only available via an invite system (as well as the limited bamboo backplate!). One of the best phones I ever owned.
MobileSyrup@mobilesyrup.com · 3w agoPour one out for the flagship killer. mobilesyrup.com/2026/07/16/r...
Had a great chat with @digitalextremes.com president Sheldon Carter about weathering the live service storm with Warframe and Soulframe. Lots of valuable insight into messaging and community, the importance of multiplatform, and fun in-game Canadiana, including a hypothetical Canadian Warframe. 🍁
How the Canadians behind Warframe and Soulframe keep going strong as other live service games struggle
Sheldon Carter, president of London, Ont.-based Digital Extremes, on how it's managed to grow even as other popular games have floundered.
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Fairly confident that if carriers wanted to deal with theft/fraud issues, they could do so without locking phones.
MobileSyrup@mobilesyrup.com · 4w agoTelus claims Bell's 60-day phone locking made it a bigger target for theft and fraud.
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Sue Smith@suesmith.lol · 2mo ago"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...
If there are any Canadian devs who are doing anything at Summer Game Fest or surrounding events, please feel free to reach out! 👋 I've already done a couple of interviews and plan to do my usual big Canadian games round-up, so any emails/DMs would be really helpful! (Since I'm not in LA this year.)
Connected my Pixel Buds Pro 2 to a MacBook one time and they just... stopped working. Pairing with other devices kept failing, and only the right earbud would work when reconnecting them to my phone. Reset fixed the issue, but it was strange after years of use with virtually no problems like this.
Reviewed Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2. If you can put up with a *lot* of pop-in (especially with NPC jump scares) it’s a solid port. Understandable concessions given Rebirth’s scale and beauty, though, and otherwise, the game remains absolutely incredible!
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2 is a solid port of a must-play RPG
A variety of smaller technical concessions don't get in the way of preserving what counts in this port of Square Enix's masterful action-RPG.
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I gave up on Destiny 2 a long time ago, but it was still my favourite game for many years. Sad to see it go. www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...
(1/4) By now it’s unsurprising that Carney’s Liberals are openly anti-worker, repeatedly caving to corporate interests and violating the right to strike through Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Carney government eying curbs on right to strike, labour leaders warn
The Carney government is contemplating changes to Canadian labour law that several unions say aims to designate more workplaces as "essential services" and curb the right to strike while undermining
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It's the 15th anniversary of Montreal-based Outlast developer @redbarrels.bsky.social, so to celebrate, I spoke with co-founder Philippe Morin & other Canadian industry figures. 🍁 A deep dive into how a relatively small Canadian indie team has built a popular original franchise over all these years!
How the Montreal studio behind Outlast has kept horror fresh for over a decade
Red Barrels and other Canadian industry figures reflect on how the studio created a popular and original horror IP -- all while remaining independent.
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A trio of BioWare veterans have formed Edmonton-based Studio Reset, and their first game is a neon-noir mystery set in Canada. 🍁 Had a great chat with them about their X-Files inspirations, managing the scope of both their games and the studio, representing Canada in this debut project and more!
Former BioWare devs open new studio, making noir mystery set in Canada
Edmonton-based Studio Reset on how they're building on their experience working on the likes of Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
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Public telecoms would fix a lot of what's wrong with Canada's telecom industry. perspectivesjournal.ca/rebuild-publ...
Why Canada Should Rebuild Public Telecoms | Perspectives Journal
SaskTel and Thunder Bay Tel are living proof that the “public option” can operate successfully today in a competitive market, delivering service, employing union workers, and returning revenues to pub...
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really love how if I don't print anything for a few days, my printer requires hours of troubleshooting before it will work again
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford and UCLA observed how critical thinking ability declined once people had AI taken away from them. mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/08/a...
Study shows 'heavy cognitive cost' of relying on AI for even 10 minutes
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford and UCLA observed how critical thinking ability declined once people had AI taken away from them.
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“We like to imagine we are immune somehow from whatever it is that has torn the American polity apart so violently over the past 10 years, that what is happening there could never happen here. I promise you it can. In Alberta, it already is.” Essential read here from Richard:
Richard Warnica@rwarnica.bsky.social · 3mo agoI went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
The labour union says the deal poses threats to both Canada's massive gaming industry and national security as a whole. mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/07/c...
CWA Canada calls on feds to investigate Saudi acquisition of EA
The labour union says the deal poses threats to both Canada's massive gaming industry and national security as a whole.
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The CRTC's response here has a few too many might and maybes in it for my liking, but at least it's responding to this.
MobileSyrup@mobilesyrup.com · 3mo agoThe commission encouraged Bell to address the issue before it needs to take "formal regulatory action."
As someone with a love-hate relationship with smartwatches, the screenless Fitbit Air is quite appealing.
MobileSyrup@mobilesyrup.com · 3mo agoGoogle officially unveiled its screenless Fitbit tracker alongside a major overhaul of the Fitbit app, which will soon become the Google Health app. mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/07/g...
Bell says its new fee "fully complies" with the incoming CRTC rules that ban activation fees.
MobileSyrup@mobilesyrup.com · 3mo agoGoodbye connection fee, hello device handling fee. mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/05/b...
Is taxing the rich a climate solution? Yes, according to tech entrepreneur Avi Bryant. He's a member of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group pushing Canada for a higher tax on wealthy people like him because, "Society is better off if everyone has their basic needs met." thenarwhal.ca/canada-wealt...
This Canadian millionaire wants to pay higher taxes | The Narwhal
Avi Bryant made millions in the tech industry. Now, he’s part of Patriotic Millionaires and says a wealth tax could help Canada achieve climate goals
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SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky — every day The solar panels, plastic, metal, batteries — it’s all getting melted and deposited in the upper atmosphere. And sometimes they leave debris on the ground. thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f...
SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky | The Narwhal
As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private satellites in low orbit
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