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From the New York Post:

The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues such as how fast their app runs or how an image might load, according to data scientist George Hayward.

U2 announced last night they are going to be having a residency in Las Vegas at the new MSG Sphere venue. Watch the creative announcement below:

• MBTA Opens Up About Crippling Subway Car Delivery Days. Good grief.
• Nintendo’s First $70 Game is Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, always a bummer to see prices go up, but my friends point out the $60 game has persisted long past its life. Still a good deal.
• The Guardian reports people aren’t sticking around Mastodon.
• Facebook reports a 5% increase in monthly active users in Q4 of 2022. Who says you can’t go home?
• Nintendo surprise dropped a Metroid Prime remaster for Nintendo Switch.
• IGN Reviews Hogwarts Legacy. Seems like they finally made a good one. Nintendo Switch users will have to wait until July.

The foundation of the web used to be a large series of independent websites that linked to each other. Directories and eventually search engines would link you to these independent sites. These small sites were either labors of love, or supported by banner advertising. Social media killed the incentives and now ChatGPT threatens to freeze the state of web knowledge.

I have seen lots of noise about the Gulikit Hall Effect replacement joysticks online a few weeks ago, but few reviews. Yesterday Lon Seidman had a livestream of doing the replacement. It took a bit of time, but looks like they work pretty well. The only criticism Lon seemed to have is they were a bit more slippery than the stock joysticks.