I haven’t been to a Disney park since the early 90s, and everything I hear about the experience now sounds like hell.

Nestle’s long history of sacrificing infants for profits continues strong.

I haven’t touched a facebook product in almost 15 years and my life has been nothing but better for it.

They’ve said publicly they intend to turn it into a MAGA-first platform. And now people are surprised?

Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case

A settlement is an admission no matter what Google says. Headline should read, “Google Admits To Using Its Consumer Hardware To Spy On Users.”

If its dealers choice there are almost certainly more robots than humans. Every washing machine, dishwasher, automatic garage door opener, and grill with an automatic rotisserie could be considered a robot, as they automate labor.

My old ring is in a box ready to go to electronics resell/recycling. Maybe it needs a meeting with my friend Sledge before it goes out, so it can’t hurt anyone again.

You should lock any app which you don’t want casual users on your phone to access.

children notwithstanding, what other users are people letting use their phone? No one uses my devices but me.

There’s the accelerated bleaching of coral reefs. The increasing rate of back beach erosion especially on the west coast of the US (now USGIS estiames say the Pacific Northwest won’t have any natural sand beaches left by 2100). The rapid weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Jet Stream. Mass-crab migrations started a couple years ago due to warming ocean temps. The Brazilian Rain Forest is probably past the point of no return. The Great Salt Lake might not make it 2040 (instead of 2100 - 2150) without another shift in weather patterns. Insect armageddon has happened way faster than anyone thought. And the massive ramp up in seasonal forest fires in North America has gotten bad far faster than expected.

When I was getting my bio degree in the late 90’s, early 00’s we learned a lot of worst case scenario models for climate change, many of which seem to be coming to pass. Those scenarios were for ~2080 - 2100.

Leaving NATO is part of Peter Thiel’s technofeudalist checklist. They want our overseas bases closed to end our status as a superpower, to hasten the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. And they want the money held by other nations be be transferred to the 1%.

Yeah, I hadn’t really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.

My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I’m not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.

That’s how I built my harmony hub replacement.

It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.

It being dumb was a selling point. I’ve wanted to dump it for ages but my wife used it (mainly for timers and unit conversions) somewhat frequently. But as someone who spends most of her day dealing with problems caused by LLM slop, she refuses to ever use them herself.

I also promised I’d do my best to get Home Assistant Voice set up so it can do math and unit conversions (sans Truthiness engine).

I convinced my wife this was coming a few months ago and its what finally convinced her we needed to drop Prime and Alexa.

So far on my work computer I’ve had a policy to indiscriminately uninstall anything that says copilot. If I hadn’t seen this post I may have nuked it, then spent the afternoon trying to figure out where excel went.

Yes, about everything awful.

But also oil extraction prices are between $15 and $70 per barrel depending on the conditions of the oil fields. And any significant oil extraction rate increase will drive already volatile oil market prices down so far that US oil fields (that average extraction costs of about $40/barrel) will end up shutting down.

Then stop being a slopmonger.

Would that be the station core that’s cracking, leaking, seemingly getting worse, and which they haven’t been able to fix?