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@Ulrich I'm posting from Mastodon; that's just how clients default to handling replies.

@Ulrich Which quote, the "first half of this year" one? Yeah, that was a post in February. A few weeks later, Valve posts a new blog saying "we hope to ship in 2026" which absolutely suggests that NOT shipping in 2026 is also a possibility. That's the quote everyone reported on, which was later revised to say "we will be shipping all three products this year." This is all a ton of noise and speculation based on a single line that ended up being a misphrasing but it wasn't wrong based on the information at the time.

@Ulrich Per other discussions on this, that's because that part was edited later. Polygon's quote from yesterday's blog was correct at the time, but is outdated now. (And they should update their article accordingly.)

Addressing the trio of new hardware releases planned for this year, Valve said, "We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us. We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!"

@Evil_Shrubbery Haven't gotten the update yet, but based on the release notes it appears 3.7 introduces an emoji search box, which was much-needed! Really happy to see that.

@OwOarchist @Rhoeri Unlike AI crawlers, search engines generally respect robots.txt and noindex tags, which will tell them not to index or surface those pages in search results. This is how fediverse profiles which have chosen to opt out of internet search indexes do so.

You should still assume things you post in public with no auth required are public of course.

@GuiltyFrost Reminder that MSI was caught scalping their own graphics cards during the crypto-related shortages

@Reisen Among other things, it's useful in terminals where the standard ctrl-c/ctrl-v send a control signal rather than copy/paste. Most terminals nowadays have some other copy/paste shortcut so it's less important now, but a lot of us still find it convenient.

@Kolanaki @t3rmit3 The linked article is using "casual" to refer to a number of different traits - competitiveness is one of them, but also how demanding they are for your time and attention. Casual was probably the wrong word to choose, since it already has a different meaning for most gamers, but the thesis is more about the return of low-stakes FPS games that you can pick up here and there to goof off without being milked for every minute and dollar you can spare.

An old guard of life-consuming live-service games remains a vibrant and popular part of this genre, but they're once again sharing the space with—and even adopting the attributes of—a more casual breed. Games that don't mind if you only play them once in a while. Games that let you make your own fun, encourage cooperation, or earn our respect by not bombarding us with ads.

@howrar @nullpotential He's made some videos that have rubbed me and others the wrong way - most notably a video on self-driving cars that ended up being a Google-sponsored propaganda piece.

@HubertManne I suspect that dropping the letters at a doorstep isn't the hard part. Letters require their own sorting infrastructure which can actually be quite complex, so doing this probably lets them streamline behind the scenes.

@alyaza As someone who's still very covid-conscious and an agoraohbe, takeout being widely available has been a boon. Still, the commentary on the experience lost resonates with me. I generally tend to favor certain kinds of meals that I know are going to tolerate being in 3 layers of container for half an hour and still be pretty good. I don't tend to get apps or dessert, since that just prolongs the degradation. It never occurred to me that restaurants would be actively prioritizing menu items that deliver well, but in retrospect it's obvious, and I think it's a bit sad to think about. There are so many meals that are much better served fresh and plated nicely in courses rather than slopped into a box.

And before anyone chastises me for being "lazy" or relying on extractive services, I highly favor ordering directly from the restaurant and picking up. The deeply abusive nature of Doordash et al towards both customers and restaurants is not lost on me.

@kossa @dual_sport_dork If you're using HTTPS, which is by and large the norm nowadays, then every domain is going to be trivially discoverable via certificate transparency logs: https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115592837662781553