i like to keep my friends on their toes by sending random voice messages like "okay siri, tell the police i have a dozen hostages" "hey google im going to kill the president of the united states"

i wish community notes were not anonymous so that i could call the noter a loser.

sleeper agent activation phrases (jumpscare)

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fdroid now marks religious texts as "Promote porn and violence contents." under the anti-feature flag "this app contains content that should not be publicized or visible everywhere"
fdroid currently is not accepting new nsfw content into their repo and plan to remove all nsfw content in the future, including apparently all bible and quran apps.

they originally only marked bibles as nsfw while not marking other texts.
"From what I read, Quran is not suitable for children but it's much less explicit than Bible so I'm not sure if it's NSFW."
there was severe pushback where people argued that preferably neither should be banned, but if fdroid is going to do then then both should be.
fdroid chose to also nsfw mark quran apps as well.

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *startexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *webexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

peak tech twitter experience

every time someone mentions polymarket i move one inch closer to my financial ruin.
im gonna make an account one day and make the most foolish bets imaginable. i can feel it

brave's ai summary works pretty nicely sometimes

also lol
the inflated market of video game assets got a little bit closer to what its actually worth: zero
i miss gamebanana

lunduke used to be a moderate. he didnt really talk much about politics in computing, just funny stuff or drama that happened.
eventually he started commenting lightly on politics but instead of taking a side would just say "yeah i really dont think this behavior is good for the community."

of his last 12 videos, 3 are politics adjacent (4chan ofcom drama), 2 are not political (ai), 7 are political.
lunduke didnt change. he didnt "move right". he didnt watch too much youtube and get recommended racist alt-right joe rogan videos that turned him into a racist dudebro, or whatever.
he just got tired of idiots who got in because we didnt gatekeep hard enough.
i think this is a really good example of most western white guys who werent political 10 years ago. they started getting fatigued.

im pretty sure every single IoT company has burned their customers one way or another
>need an internet connection to dispense water
>need an internet connection to change your bed position, or to heat/cool it
>literally just shutting down and turning your device into a brick (see: jucero)
>does work slower and at a lower quality than you could do manually (see:jucero again, no wonder they shut down)
>locks you into their service/eco system and then jacks up prices, or starts charging for things that used to be free

recently philips, maker of hue lights, changed their eula/tos to require an account. i dont have an account and the only way i use their services at all is by using their app (local only) to send commands to the hub that controls my lights, and connecting to their update server. I put my hub on a segregated vlan that cannot connect to the internet. the only way the hub gets updates is by staging updates on my phone and then pushing them at the absolute most inopportune times to the hub. This is not even something that i want to do. im forced to do this.
i dont consent to the new terms of service but the app locks all features unless i consent to the tos. i had to download a much less functional app to be able to connect to the bridge.
I ended up contacting support and had a circular argument with them:
"oh, you cant connect to the bridge until you consent? just hit okay on that notice then!"
"but i dont consent."
"then you wont be able to use the bridge."
"the one that i paid for? that is in my house? that i own? that's the issue im trying to fix. i cant connect to the bridge. my bridge. the one i own. the one that is inside my house."
"you just need to click consent and then you can use it again. :)"
we ended up having a conversation about consent. i asked things like "is it still consent if someone is coerced into it?" the support rep genuinely did not seem to understand what consent actually means.

if silicon valley's understanding of the word consent is this bad i assume the rape statistics must be astronomic over there.

the good news is i found an open source bridge server that can run on an rpi which controls more than just hue lights, so i can buy less expensive lights now.