I'm happy to say that a new open-source game automation utility that I've been working on for the past 2 years is now coming to Steam!

It has a website at automat.org/. That website might be a little hard to parse - so here are are some links:
* you can check it out on video here: (I usually do a short intro on every development livestream)
* GitHub is here: github.com/mafik/automat
* an article about Automat: automat.org/live2025 (if you have any questions - check this out first!)
* and the Steam page is here: store.steampowered.com/app/412…

While Steam version is still in "coming soon" mode, you can grab a release from GitHub.

One word of warning - it doesn't play well with Wayland (it's fairly hard to interop with other apps on Wayland) - but I'm optimistic about this bit in the near future.

Automat on Steam

Tired of games that waste your time? AUTOMATE THEM 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕥 is a tool that knows how to use your 🖱️ & ⌨️! It's optimized for frame perfect input replay 🎼, can recognize text 🔎, is scriptable with machine code ⚡️.

^{store.steampowered.com}

okay, first off: hey, what the fuck?

mozilla has a A THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS of dollars? what were all them cookie sales for thunderbird? oh yeah, they have this shell game of interlinked but not really entities so you can play whack-a-mole till the death of the universe.

and they wanna burn it dicking around with AI? fuck each and every ghoul steering that ship into the abyss, and they can take Gnome's fucking shaman or whatwasit with them.

is everybody insane, "silicon valley" was supposed to be a satire, these cretins make mike judge seem like a prophet...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html

Tight supply forces electronics makers to cut forecasts and scramble for chips

B.C. Transplant is encouraging more British Columbians to consider signing up to be organ donors after 2025 saw a record 575 people receive life-changing surgeries in the province.

“It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security.”

Canadians In ICE? Neither Canada Nor U.S. Keeps Track

^{Alex Cosh (The Maple)}

I’ve just moved my z-wave installation over from Indigo and to a happily surprising extent, the transition has gone very well.

However, several different PIR sensors from different brands (homeseer, Ecolink, VisionPro) are detected as lights by HA, even if they have, in some cases, configuration options that are related to a PIR. HA assigns them a bulb icon, and the only control shows as a switch with the name “Basic.”

Is this a known bug, and is there any way to get HA to reassign the correct sensor type to these devices short of un-including and re-including them? Is that likely to get them working?

I’m also seeing a ZP3102 PIR sensor by Vision Security that’s showing only as a “basic” sensor.

Any advice? These sensors showed up fine in Indigo.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/59551152

“I know China very well, President Xi is a friend of mine, I know him very well…The first thing they’re going to do is say you are not allowed to play ice hockey anymore. That’s not good. Canada’s not going to like that,” the president added.

Archive article: archive.ph/JAX75#selection-144…

Panicked Trump, 79, Ramps Up Deranged Hockey Warnings to Canada

Asked about talks held by a totally different ally, Trump swerved into a bizarre rant about Canada’s favorite sport.

^{Isabel van Brugen (The Daily Beast)}