Happy non-51st states day to all of my fellow Canadians. Elbows up!

Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/959899/meta-ai-glasses-paywall-rate-limit

Wow I want to play this. A piano with electromagnets inside, one per note, so you can do all sorts of weird and wonderful things. It's like it has 88 e-bows controlled from the keyboard as well as the hammers.
You can hit a key and have it sustain indefinitely, play harmonics, bend notes, make notes swell...
Amazing.
The Magnetic Resonator Piano: an electromagnetically augmented acoustic grand piano - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed6pSAxVEts

@gtbray @bmoore123 Got my new headset, the one you posted about. I snuck them into the house and checked them out. Exactly what I was looking for. They don't make your ears sweaty and they sound amazing.

I made a thing that makes your computer produce random beeps when you type, like in the movies. It's just as annoying as in the movies.

How do hens stay fit? They always egg-cercise!

@BorrisInABox @nblr I swear one of them is the NeoSpeech Julie text to speech voice

It feels like Friday because tomorrow is vacation Wednesday, but then Thursday is going to feel like Saturday, even though I'm working and then Friday will be all weird. But at least there's the weekend to look forward to.

So, mystery solved. Old dog kept getting sick. He started making vomit noises again today and promptly deposited one of his flat plushy toys. No idea how he ate that thing, but at least it's out of him now. It was all puffy, full of bile and stuff. Oh and warm to the touch. So gross!

Guess whose on vacation again. Well, only for a day, but still. Mini vacation?

(10) What They Don't Tell You Before You Walk Into a Body Farm (with Patricia Cornwell): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKaZ0xE9wI

I used to have one of these. My dad marked up the board, brailled the schematics in the book and then also read the book on tape for me. So cool! RadioShack Used to Sell Kids This Madness - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0pEayJs1c

I give to you, USB Monitor. This little utility will let you know via speech what USB device that you've connected/disconnected by its name. Just execute the USBMonitor.exe and it will run in the background. I only tested it in Windows 11. https://1drv.ms/u/c/262c3049ee9fc3ca/IQC7kIpbYis_RaopAF8r4ua4ASHQs3C4Q6LZq3lWD-BmLt8?e=vFdVq0

Play Palace, why not Play Aural: PlayAural is an audio-first online multiplayer gaming platform designed for blind and low-vision players, while remaining welcoming to anyone who wants accessible, speech-friendly games. It combines spoken feedback, structured sound design, multiplayer tables, and synchronized game logic across desktop, web, and mobile clients.

PlayAural is built upon the open-source foundation of PlayPalace. https://github.com/Daoductrung/PlayAural/releases

I am a consultant in emergency medicine. I understand the horny teenage lads with rectal foreign bodies but not why there's another group: middle-aged guys shoving stupid things up their bum. What's up? Are they trying to reclaim the lost idiocy of youth? I can hardly ask them.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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Hey @FreakyFwoof idea for you. Sometimes, I hear the sound of a USB device being disconnected, but I've done nothing. it would be nice if there was a utility that would explicitly say, "This device name has been disconnected." It's difficult to troubleshoot something wehn you don't know what it is.

The dude bringing our dinner via Uber Eats is deaf and on a bike. I should answer the door and let the comedy begin!

I like answering the door with an eye missing. It's a great conversation starter. Well, mostly, it makes people feel uncomfortable, but at least they don't stay long.

Lololol, really? Ontario uses fancy drones with thermal cameras to hunt down invasive pigs: https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/06/ontario-drones-thermal-cameras-hunt-down-invasive-pigs/