Yet some persistent media coverage of the prime minister’s comments – which were made last month on a podcast that encourages guests to shed any staidness – has elevated the matter to a crisis.

In what sense is i t a “crisis”? Right wingers went to the media out of desperation and the media is happily reporting on it because any controversy involving the prime minister, even a completely fake and manufactured one, brings in some revenue for them. No one who matters (i.e. Labor voters) actually cares about this.

He didn’t “brazenly” sexualise a lady.

Amid a lighthearted interview released late last week, in which topics included Albanese’s dog and gifts he’d received from world leaders, the host asked Albanese in a “rapid fire” question round to place Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Rhonda Burchmore in a “shag, marry, date” game.

Albanese was initially reluctant, responding: “I just got married, I’m only six months in.”

Osborne replied: “But if it goes tits up, let’s just pretend.”

Albanese then responded: “Kylie, clearly.”

Osborne persisted: “You’d marry Kylie, and shag her, and date her?”

Albanese replied “all of the above”, adding: “She’s terrific.”

He refused to answer initially and then reluctantly gave a pretty tame answer.

HERE WeGo, but it’s only an alternative in terms of navigation.

And Apple.

Sorry Antony, but you’re wrong. Bob Katter is clearly a satirical character invented by a comedian.

But if it’s anonymous how do they know you didn’t do it?

That’s why they ask for your name and address at the start - it’s to verify that you have completed the census. Thar section is not tied to the actual census questions that come afterwards.

Was that really two years ago? Time flies…

It’s a pretty consistent theme with these guys that get caught that they’re not even taking basic precautions. Many pirates have openly bragged about seeding or even selling pirated material under their real name prior to their arrest. I don’t think we have to brainstorm a million different ways the authorities might have tracked him down - he’s probably just stupid like all the others before him. Uploaders and providers often seem to develop massive egos that become their eventual undoing.

It’s referring to Episode 7, not Episode 8 (though I assume that one will top this week).

You are claiming a rollout that begun in September 2025 is the sole or major cause of a MAU count that was announced in August 2026. By your logic, nearly 1 billion people are still being tricked into using Gemini months or, in some cases, close to a year after it became the default option on their device. This obviously makes no sense and I still don’t think you read the article, but if you did then must be absolutely delusional.

If you used assistant then clicked on it expecting assistant but instead your phone switched to using Gemini without telling, then you’re counted as having used it. But did you willingly use Gemini?

Well yes, if you entered a prompt. As it said in the article, and as I highlighted for you in bold above.

Clearly neither of you read the article:

Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google’s flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming increasingly hard to avoid. The 1 billion-user metric has nothing to do with any of that, though.

These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that’s not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live. If you used Gemini only once in the past month, you are part of this cohort.

Good news, hopefully this leads to fewer accidents and deaths.

No, it was fine for me. We are a couple with no unusual living arrangements, though.

But this whole audio jack debacle has made it clear that despite very wide pushback (that they themselves admit), they don’t care about what users want and will prioritize profits.

Where are you getting this “prioritise profits” line from? They have reported losses for the last three financial years, and in 2022 (the last year they were profitable) Fairphone had a profit margin of 0.07%.

The sad thing is we all know this will actually work, too. So many voters are woefully uneducated about what they’re voting for, even if it’s a mainstream party.

Lemmy is disproportionately made up of Linux users and I think many of us appreciate how much simpler and easier Steam (or the work of Steam) has made gaming for us or people we know. Also, I think it’s a bit of a misconception on your part that because we have some level of interest in piracy we must therefore be stoutly against anything which appears to conflict with that. I pirate because it’s a way to save money and, sometimes, a better service too, but I’m not an activist or evangelical in my support for it. Piracy is never going to be the solution for everyone and having some simpler and less intimidating alternatives out there is a good thing, even if they are far from perfect and could deteriorate at some point in the future.

It’s really not that long ago that the internet was clamouring over a 24/7 AI slop stream on Twitch. This technology has gone from being the hottest new toy to the most hated thing in the world very quickly.

Yes, you can relock it. There is quite a bit of misinformation in this thread, I’m not sure why. As you can see from this chart, bootloader locking is available with iodéOS across multiple devices (including Fairphones), not just Pixels.

The major problem with this show for me is that it no longer has any likable main characters. I guess that’s the point, but it makes it less interesting than it otherwise would be. I wouldn’t say I’m entirely apathetic yet, but I increasingly feel like this will be a very forgettable show once the dust has settled.