If only I could Ctrl+Z seeing this comment…

You gotta throw in the /s

Tone doesn’t carry well over text.

I agree.

Halloween is the context.
I said it was fine without context.

As in, on a normal day where people are not trick or treating (and therefore expecting candy)… it’s fine.

As long as they wash their hands first.

Oh, right, that holiday.

Without context, this is just… fine? As long as they wash their hands first.

Can someone explain?

Just double-checking how long I’m supposed to boil this ramen for.

Yup. Still three minutes.

Signal CEO Whittaker said that in the worst case scenario, they would work with partners and the community to see if they could find ways to circumvent these rules. Signal also did this when the app was blocked in Russia or Iran. “But ultimately, we would leave the market before we had to comply with dangerous laws like these.”

This is why we need the ability to sideload apps.

Any chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?

We technically solved this problem years ago:

Look, strange men in forests shooshing lips is no basis for a game dev budget.

Launching October 1st, Gemini For Home is a suite of new AI-powered features for Google’s smart home hardware and software.

The biggest change: Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on all of Google’s smart speakers, all the way back to the original Google Home speaker. This LLM-powered upgrade, announced at Google I/O, will be available through an Early Access program at first, with a wider rollout planned for next year.

On smart speakers, Gemini brings an entirely new voice assistant that uses and understands natural language, can interpret context, and can pull in more real-time information. You still activate it with the wake words “hey Google,” but Google Assistant has been evicted.

“Gemini for Home is the intelligence for your entire home,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, tells The Verge. “It’s not going to just replace Assistant on speakers and displays, but it’s going to upgrade your other devices as well, your cameras and doorbells, where you interact with those devices, and bring those smarts collectively to your entire home.”

I’m not excited for Apple to invent smart homes after this, completing the duopoly of LLMs being in everyone’s homes even harder than before.

Long live Home Assistant

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I downvote because it’s paywalled.

Paywalled links are just ads with extra steps.

How long until parliament decides to push the undo button on this stupid law?

Corporations don’t have stable political identities.

They’ll promote trans people if it makes them money.

And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.

And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!

I feel like I grew out of Mushoku Tensei.

I think a Trash Taste episode convinced me it was going to be the GOAT of anime epic fantasy, and I bought into it. Watched every season of the anime, and then read the light novels.

I quit about ten volumes in, when I realized the women were not real characters.

Japanese light novelists just cannot write a woman into a scene without shining a spotlight on her boobs and her complicated feelings about a male character.

MDD is actually good, though

Never can be too sure with anime.