Yeah I suspect the actual number of games people care about has stayed largely the same, there’s just a torrent of slop that’s skewing the numbers. It’s easy to hit 50% when you more than double the number of games being submitted by spewing even more garbage than there already was. It’s so bad Valve is actually having to adjust their store algorithms and systems to try to keep the slop tsunami from drowning out the good indy devs.

Article linked elsewhere seems to indicate it didn’t go to German users because the German QA team found the issue before it was sent, but due to an internal communication breakdown the issue didn’t make it back to the international team before the emails had already been sent. GOG immediately apologized for the mistake and changed their internal processes to catch these types of mistakes sooner.

It very much reads like an honest mistake, and even then it only impacted a subset of GOG users because it’s entirely dependent on the font used to render the email subject. The actual Unicode character used was a curved S (a letter from the Greek character set), but certain fonts render it looking more like the infamous SS symbol.

I’ve been very happy with Bitwarden for password management. Their hosted service is pretty good and if you want to retain complete control you can self host.

I’ve been a professional programmer for over 30 years with some of the biggest companies in the world. I’ve worked with assembly, c, c++, c#, java, kotlin, perl, lua, haskell, rust, javascript, typescript, coffeescrpit, dart, php, python, and I’m sure 3 or 4 other languages I’ve just forgotten about at this point. Some of those languages are terrible and I hope never to touch again, others were great and I’d be happy to work with.

PHP should have been retired as a language 20 yeara ago, but WordPress has kept it alive all this time. The rest of the industry has moved on and learned lessons from what came before, but the sheer momentum of hundreds of thousands of WordPress installs has somehow kept PHP alive. The language started as a hack, and it remains a hack. It’s gotten faster over the years, but it’s still just as badly designed today as it was when it was originally created.

Of course it’s Primeagen. I haven’t watched this particular video, but I’ve seen enough of his videos to know he’s an idiot. I wouldn’t trust anything he says about programming, at least half of everything he says is wrong.

Most of the things wrong with PHP can’t be fixed, at least not without completely breaking all the existing PHP apps in such a fundamental way it would be tough to argue it’s still the same language.

It’s wild to me that people are still using PHP in 2026. It was known to be a god awful trainwreck of a language all the way back in like 2005 and it certainly hasn’t improved much since then. I guess that’s what happens when a language peaks right at the height of the dotcom bubble.

I’d assume many do, although some are likely just entirely out of their depth and are just listening to what the lobbyists are telling them.

There’s broad support for stopping predatory behavior by corporations that are targetting kids (and adults, but mostly kids). This is mostly the same stuff people have been complaining about for a decade or so at this point. Loot boxes, gacha mechanics, ad infested (and therefore stuffed with spyware for “marketing”), complicated multilayered digital currencies, battle passes, daily login rewards, etc. Basically all the well known dark patterns.

However rather than addressing the bad behavior directly, politicians either through malice or incompetence (likely at the behest of corporate lobbyists) keep putting forth these ID laws that just make things worse instead of actually solving the problem people have been complaining about.

At this point unfortunately both are needed. There should absolutely be official PSAs and news reports, but they also need to rope in influencers so that the brainrotted idiots who listen to people like Joe Roegan also get on board.

Yup, this is a golden opportunity for China. There’s a few hurdles left, but if they can clear them we could see this as the start of China absolutely dominating the memory market and these greedy morons are handing it to them on a silver plater.

Article provides 0 real details outside of saying they identified a certain number of sites. The only name they provide is highly suspect as they only explicitly name Cloudflare and that was only as an infrastructure provider for these sites which considering the nature of Cloudflare and how many sites they support is about as revealing as saying that they can be found using Google. Not a single AI provider or even model is actually called out.

More like its corpse will be reanimated in an attempt to scam people using nostalgia. Wouldn’t be the first time this trick has been pulled, remember when LimeWire got resurrected to shill a scam cryptocoin?

Determinism is one of the greatest properties of a computer and should be the gold standard of any program. Guess what LLMs fundamentally can’t do?

And thus the stage is set for the first mass casualty event caused by AI.

Doesn’t do jack to Firefox on Android.

Setting aside how blatantly illegal this is, this seems like it would hurt Republicans more than Democrats? A lot of immigrants live in southern states that are historically Republican strongholds. If you exclude non-citizens it seems like Republican states have a lot more to lose from this than Democrat states do. Is this going to play out like a lot of recent Republican gerrymandering attempts where they think they’re pulling a fast one but end up hurting themselves instead?

Does anyone still consider Fetterman a Democrat at this point? He’s consistently supported and voted with Republicans for years now. He may have run as a Democrat, but policy wise he’s 100% a Republican.

It’s Trump promsing to pay something. If you believe he’s actually going to pay anyone you’ve not been paying attention to literally anything Trump has done in the last like 40 years. Trump IOUs might as well be toilet papsr, at least that way they’d be useful for something.

LG owns an advertising company. Just like Google tracks everything you do on the internet via their analytics and search products and then feeds you targeted ads, LG tracks everything you watch, all the electronics in your house, and any conversations you have nearby, then feeds you ads through their TVs.

Just like google is an advertising company first and everything else second it’s probably a good idea to think of LG as an advertising company that happens to have a consumer electronics company bolted on. Their TVs are nothing but trojan horses these days, designed to spy on everything they can and get ads in front of your face.

Papermono Lite looks interesting. Really good price point. The only things I’m seeing I wish it had are physical face buttons and bluetooth support (for a page turn remote). Aside from that it looks like it has everything I could want, or is at least as good as the X4 Pro.