Iris! 💛🛠️

somehow this doodle i did at like 2am popped off on the other site

a sketch of Mamizou from Touhou in her Forbidden Scrollery outfit

. @tanuki-computing.bsky.social requested a sketch of Mamizou from Touhou!

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

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npc guards in stealth games

finally finished those character designs for a little side obssession i have rn, it was fun to try a different anatomy style

#characterdesign

they should let you repost something multiple times without having to "undo repost"

psvita home menu icons for metal gear solid 2 and 3, with hatsune miku project diva f 2nd smacked inbetween

theyre good friends

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)

Magazine ad from an alternate 2003 promoting the brand new Xbox Gamepass service. For more information read the last sentence of the fine print.

Xbox Gamepass - 'Double the Fun' ad [alt.2003]

sorgy guys cloudflare is down because i thought it was celery
🥦 🐇

Centralized online infrastructure was a mistake

I could

Mockup screenshot showing Windows Vista's log on screen, stylized after Mac OS X Leopard.

Ditto, desktop. The Windows menu (Apple menu) can be seen open.

Desktop with Control Panel (System Preferences) and Contacts (Address Book) open.

Something's wrong with my Windows Vista install.

A photo of a really plump beige mouse with one paw on the trackpad of a PowerBook 540C. Below the small trackpad is a button almost as large, and behind that the keyboard. All the plastics are a mid-dark grey, and the lettering on the keyboard is white. The mouse looks somewhat confused; it's probably having some trouble using Excel or something.

A mouse using a trackpad.

screenshot showing BSIPA logs that say "Invalid installation. Please buy the game". in front of them is a Steam window, showing I am playing a legitimate Steam copy because i actually did buy the game

screenshot showing the contents of "Beat Saber_Data"/Plugins/x86_64, with an .ini file named "opencomposite.ini" in the folder

screenshot of BSIPA code - C# code to detect if a filename ends with .ini

really cool that the Beat Saber modding community have decided that ever having OpenComposite installed means you pirated the game

there are so many ways you can detect a modified Steam API, and they decide not to do that and instead decide any INI file existing means you are a pirate

hell yeah, PSP-sized or even Switch 1-sized Steam Deck Mini when

(The current one is getting too heavy for my hands...)

anyway i'm muting metroid for a month so i don't get any prime 4 spoilers

fox woman finds calendar going back to 1901 while penguin says: "I'm still using a signed 32-bit integer to store the time"

thats nuts

I couldn't resist

a video game character is surrounded by purple and green leaves with the word dysphoria above it ALT: a video game character is surrounded by purple and green leaves with the word dysphoria above it

this is maybe my favorite gif

Replacement component guesses
Frame Wireless Streaming Adapter: $29
Frame Controller: $89
Frame Controllers: $159
Frame Headstrap: $59
Frame Compute Unit 256GB: $479
Frame Compute Unit 1TB: $589

Let's see how right/wrong I am next year...

arbitrary guesses at new 2026 Steam Hardware canadian launch pricing:

Controller: $119
Puck: $14.99
Machine 512GB: $889
Machine 2TB: $1079
Machine 512GB+Controller Bundle: $999
Machine 2TB+Controller Bundle: $1169
Frame 256GB: $679
Frame 1TB: $789

I will say this for the Valve announcement: it is refreshing to see a product launch that is just "here's a product that you might want. here's what it is. here's what it does" with absolutely no mention of AI, mysterious future features that might arrive OTA, or some extractive business model.

fucked up in the crib playing the PlayStation Mors

Easy Anti-Cheat showing a "Launch Error" saying "Windows 11 version 24H2 or newer is required. Please upgrade your OS." This is because I am running on Windows on ARM64. EAC on Intel and AMD machines do not display this error. But let's see how many people even read this lmao

people are absolutely going to remove any and all context of this error message, spread a lil misinformation, and lose their god damn minds

please look at the cow from Hard Drivin’

Network adapter selection in os/2. The second one is called "DogShit Co. SHITASS network adapter

When you go insane enough to write your own inf files i feel like you can name it whatever you want