Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, South Korea, Japan were all essentially private booths. Should be standard.

UK was a bit of a cluster, Philippines had doors sometimes, Italy was almost like America at least around Florence when I was there 20 years ago

While I don’t hate it as much as I’ve disliked some of the smaller assistants in the past, it’s still not as useful as basic assistant was in say 2017 before they killed the shopping list in favor of the grocery delivery app they ran for 6 months, or killed a number of integrations over the years.

While the Google Home scripting interface is great, there are no variables or saved states so you can’t do interesting Home Assistant level stuff with them.

Gemini still hallucinates so much I can’t call it reliable.

I have to listen to any of the LLM assistants with the same skepticism I use when watching a White House press conference cause a huge amount of what they say is just bullshit.

Yeah, but… Might get a shot at Rosamund Pike.

YC can die in a fire and it wouldn’t be karma enough.

Damnit, if that happens Trump will actually be making America great again.

Curse you for making me think that.

The Product Manager made the mistake of having the keyword be overtly banned by the SWEs.

What was intended was an algorithmic change to hide the content entirely and divert to “acceptable” topics while obfuscating the ban.

It will be corrected shortly.