google

Good morning to everyone who says “searching” and not “googling”. 🤝

#Google #Technology #Search #BigTech #Tech

I have to admit we do have great food for lunch at work.. most of the time...

Cuban sandwich with Yucca fries
English Sunday roast, mashed potatoes (under the veggies stew)

#food #sandwich #yucca #work #google #foodporn #lunch

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***** WARNING REGARDING GOOGLE/ALPHABET *****

#Google (#Alphabet) is reinstating the worst of #YouTube creators who were "permanently" banned for COVID-19 and election integrity misinformation. Alphabet is now saying "Biden made them do the bans."

Clearly, billionaire CEO Sundar -- who we've seen palling around with Trump of course -- has gone full MAGA. Google is purposely conflating -- that is, purposely confusing -- necessary moderation to protect people and elections from masses of misinformation designed to mislead them, often in devastating ways -- from censorship created to suppress specific valid points of view.

There is an enormous difference -- Sundar and his Alphabet minions know this full well. They also know that their Gemini AI is a source of often dangerous misinformation on a planetary scale, and it's likely this has also entered into their recently (in a letter to Congress) announced changes.

Given Google's enthusiastic embrace of MAGA, I do not consider my past statements applauding the security and privacy of user information at Google to be reliable guidance moving forward from now. I have no confidence that Sundar would not quickly (or ultimately) agree to virtually any demands made by the Trump administration, however invasive or illegal they might actually be.

I do not have specific recommendations for alternatives to Google or their services, so please don't ask me for them! But I do recommend keeping the obvious shift in Google's behavior in mind, and you would be wise to assume that they are fully and completely in bed with fascist Trump in many ways -- or soon will be -- absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.

If Google/Alphabet wishes to discuss any of this with me and point out any errors in my analysis, they know my email address.

Take care, all.

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AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.

https://flip.it/6VypfN

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Slop #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry #Google #Technology #Tech

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.

Last month, Google said that from next year, but with a gradual rollout, Android certified devices will only install apps that are registered by verified developers, even when sideloaded, meaning that they are installed from a source other than the official Play store.

Users should have the right to run whatever software they want on a computer they own, Prud'hommeaux said.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/

#Fdroid #Android #Google #WalledGarden

Another #media group capitulates to the #tyrant

#YouTube Settles #Trump Lawsuit for $24.5 Million

Trump sued #Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube & #Google, & other #socialmedia companies after the platforms suspended his accounts in 2021.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/technology/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Google só poupa empresas na verificação de apps e pouco se importa com usuários

Segundo o site OS News, os planos do Google são tão terríveis quanto se imaginava.

Os desenvolvedores terão que pagar para enviar os dados pessoais para o Google antes que possam ter o app instalado em celulares Android.

A nova exigência é completamente incompatível com o funcionamento da F-Droid.

Somente estudantes e hobistas estão livres das taxas, mas ainda precisam entregar dados e terão enormes burocracias e restrições na distribuição dos apps.

O Google ainda jura que não vai compartilhar os dados com governos, mas essa é só mais uma mentira em tudo o que diz a respeito das novas imposições.

Só empresas receberão colher de chá, com o Google terceirizando os cuidados com a "segurança" para o time de TI delas.

https://www.osnews.com/story/143467/google-details-android-developer-certification-requirement-and-its-as-bad-as-we-feared/

Precisamos fazer barulho antes que seja tarde demais porque nem os EUA e nem a falsa fada sensata União Europeia vão fazer algo a respeito.

@tecnologia

#Android #Google #sideloading

US Supreme Court allows order forcing #Google to make #app store reforms

#SCOTUS declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring #Alphabet's Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit brought by "Fortnite" maker #EpicGames.

#law #tech
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-supreme-court-allows-order-forcing-google-make-app-store-reforms-2025-10-06/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Google plan to limit ad-blockers kicks off next week.

If only there were a way we could fire Chrome so we could out-fox Google's plan 🤔

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

#Firefox #Chrome #Google #AdBlock #uBlockOrigin

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#Google’s #YouTube Capitulates to dictator #Trump 🤮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5l8esK8iY

#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction

#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

⚠️🇺🇸Google becomes alt-right fascist’s largest advertiser: Orban's party becomes Google's biggest advertiser in EU (more) https://kyivindependent.com/orbans-party-biggest-spenders-of-google-advertising-in-eu/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #UnitedStates #Google #EU #EuropeanUnion #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#EUVote #SaveEUfromFarRight
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BoycottPolishAgriculture
#BetterOldThanSeditious

So I went to F-Droid and attempted to download the public transport plugin for Kvaesitso.

And I got a Google Play Protect popup message warning "harmful app detected".

It gave no further details about why this app is harmful.

Does anyone know if this app is harmful? If so how?

Or is this Google being a monopolist and blocking competing open source apps?

#Google #Android #AskFedi #FDroid #GooglePlay #degooglization #degoogleyourlife #Kvaesitso #infosec

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JesusGPT…

Former CEO of Intel Building Special AI to Bring About Second Coming of Christ

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-ceo-intel-ai-christ

#religion #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

pensando o que deu na cabeça das pessoas que ditam o rumo de empresas como o #google

visto que é uma empresa que já teve "don't be evil" como lema.

hoje em especial to incomodado com respostas de IA acima dos resultados de pesquisa, tradução automática forçada de páginas, tradução de áudio forçada de vídeos no YouTube.

na real eles só não fazem um absurdo estilo #recall da #microsoft porque não tem um OS de desktop tão popular quanto o windows.

parece que essas empresas entraram, coletivamente, em uma fase "que se foda o cliente, nos importamos ainda menos do que antes".

Don't send #Bluesky an image of your government photo ID just to get "verified" with them. Seriously. And especially not via a #Google Form. Unless you're a serious masochist, I suppose.

🚨 World's first social media ban begins: Australian & under‑16? Your social media account is now locked. 🚨

What's next? From Dec 27 #AgeVerification checks for search engines like #Google.

BUT - Once your data is in the system, what's stopping it from being used for surveillance?

And what happened to #Privacy? 🧐

#DigitalID #Australia

YouTube already has it ➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-youtube-ai-age-verification

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I spent 15 mins vibe coding with Google Gemini and made my first chrome extension showing train arrivals at Kendall/MIT......

And I still don't know anything about JavaScript... All I know is cars with the number greater or equal than 1900 are new ones...

#LLM #AI #VibeCoding #MBTA #Google #GoogleGemini

U.S. judge rules #Google broke antitrust law in search case - https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-google-broke-antitrust-law-search-case-2024-08-05/

According to the "Terminator" film franchise, TODAY is the day that Skynet became self-aware, took over, and started its campaign to destroy humanity. The good news is that instead we have garbage like #Google Gemini that can't even answer questions like "When was Kamala Harris born?"

So we're probably safe from Skynet for now.

U.S. tech giants' dominance in cloud services threatens digital sovereignty, prompting Europe to break monopolies and build its own infrastructure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/19/world/europes-cloud-scares-and-us-tech-dominance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #amazon #google #microsoft #europe #cloudservices #it #bigtech #cybersecurity

In case you missed the previous announcement, I've published the second part in my series about #Google killing the #openWeb (by proxy, via their forced deprecation of #XSLT and a fortiori #XML

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web-2/

The previous chapter, with a strong historical review of the last decade plus of events, is still at

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

One thing I would like to add to this second part is a directory of interesting #indieWeb examples of XSLT usage. Suggestions welcome.

一张图片有感：飞飞鱼和PDF的斗智斗勇

使用chrome，然后选择电脑视图即可。
编辑pdf可以使用wps，但是你可以下载wps高校政府定制版，或者使用https://tools.pdf24.org/zh/edit-pdf 或者他的离线版，ilovepdf等等。
既然你都去咸鱼买了wps会员，为什么不再花个1/7美元买个百度网盘会员把你的下载时长缩短100倍。
看到这我明白了，这是下载手机版wps？为什么不用bing，再不济用baidu搜索下，官网下载，都不至于在百度网盘下载一个半小时。
在简中互联网，能下载到国际版wps也蛮厉害了，你能有Google帐户和tz也蛮厉害了，但是谷歌登录不上和你使用什么邮箱注册没关系的，特别是你只是登陆wps而不是chatgpt、Claude。
然后是胡言乱语##¥@/～%a/#，看懂了的可以去解说费城枪击案了
现在的Google注册已经不是以前那么容易注册的了，对你的ip纯净度，浏览器语言cookies，地理位置都有着很高的要求，不然就是不给过，还可能收不到验证码。
pdf确实是固定格式，pdf出来就是为了便于分享而不是便于修改，那是markdown或者docx的事情

当然不知道这些操作很正常，谁也不是出生就知道一切的，人一生都在学习的路上。
主要是这种混乱的描述和反差很难不让人难绷。
当然大学这种比赛对我来说就是大奋

#pdf #gotosocial #wps #google #mobile
@worldboard @board

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#Android is dead and we’d better all leave the ship before it sinks entirely.

Earlier this year #Google already took bold steps in moving the development of several AOSP components behind closed doors, removing the open-source foundations of the project one component at the time.

Options to unlock bootloaders on Android devices are also narrowing down. Xiaomi removed the ability to unlock the bootloader entirely in MIUI in August (after months spent making it ridiculously difficult), same for OnePlus, Samsung did so in July, and probably Google devices will soon follow suit.

And let’s not mention the nightmare of the Play Integrity API that forces all Android developers to register through the Play Store and use Google’s signing keys, even if they don’t intend to distribute their apps through it.

Sure, officially Google has taken a step back and has pledged to provide a way for developers and power-users to bypass those restrictions. But we can all expect it to be a cumbersome and change-prone process filled with ridiculous amounts of frictions at every step - and I wouldn’t even expect such a morally bankrupt company to keep maintaining this “sideloading” option.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with. And the EU, the biggest opposer of its anti-competitive acts, is also becoming softer with Big Tech - both because Vestager has left the job, and because being soft with trillion-dollar monopolist tech titans is seen as a sign of being “technologically competitive”.

Your best bet is to purchase a Pixel 9a now, before more manufacturers decide to block bootloaders, and immediately flash it with #GrapheneOS.

The long term plan would instead be to throw all of our efforts and energies on Linux phones. The folks at GrapheneOS are doing an amazing job and fighting against all kind of pressures, but at some point we should probably all just acknowledge that anything that is tainted with Android, or runs on a device intended only to run Android, is a liability, and we should no longer build solutions on top of hardware and software that we can no longer trust.

Sailfish, PostmarketOS, UBPorts, MeeGo or whatever comes next must succeed. No matter the cost.