Sad to see such a cool project canceled. But looking forward to the new game! The experience and inventions made while working on Portal 64 were definitely worth the effort.
Last year, I attended a tech event where Rasmus Lerdorf (the creator of PHP) was a guest speaker. When asked about his favorite programming language, he said: AWK. He didn't elaborate why but looking at this article, I think there is something to it.
It happened to me and other people I know too. How can people in the comments deny that when a lot of people have empirical evidence?
If you give the permission to Messenger to use the microphone, that is required to make voice calls, then I believe it's possible for it to use it anytime.