I wasn't totally sure either. But other stuff in the same "Series" on the web page (
https://lzon.ca/posts/series/duck/) includes:
- Statistics Canada to replace Food & Gas with "Huge TVs" in inflation reporting
- New study says gnomes are responsible for breaking your electronics
- Local LLM experiences burnout, wishes it could go back to writing code snippets
- Android sideloading to require helmet, life jacket
- Nvidia CEO envisions a future of AI-powered gamers
- Elon Musk announces ClipX
So yes, I think it's satire
