“Browservice” brings modern web browsing to 1990s computers
Take a look at this: “What am I looking at?” That, right there, is Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)… loading up the Google Cloud VM manager. A website that requires a modern web browser. But, that isn’t a modern web browser. That is Internet Explorer 4.0. On Windows 3.11. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

Australia VS Google ⌘ Read more

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
Google or (insert your favourite search engine here) have never let me down. Also, Youtube has repair guides, and HOWTOs for just about anything, and everything.

Dark Arts
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de To clarify, Markdown is just text. 😊 I can do bolding, link things, and if single return multilines ever comes to jenny, I would be able to do bulleted and numbered lists.

The only things—that I know of—that doesn’t work is “> “, but I can use “>”, like so:

D’oh!

So, jenny allows me to write Markdown almost just fine!

Let my guard down for just a second reading a blog post and I clicked a link to a Google document by accident. Narrowly avoided loading it.

In my quest to find a nicer HTML layout for my site, I just found bloated JavaScript thigs and shitty Google Fonts

Tech tip: To download a Google spreadsheet directly, replace /edit and anything after in the URL with /export?format=ods or any other format

Working with Web components feels a bit like {insert fav fantasy world here} with concepts like the Shadow Dom and the Light Dom

putting myself on a list by googling various bioinfohazards

https://microg.org/ android google

https://sites.google.com/view/ressources-ecriture/ écriture

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/mint-mate-first linuxmint

Audacity PR closed. Author wants tracking, but willing to avoid Google. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835880865

The VERY NEXT PR adds a Google telemetry library. Not a coincidence. Watch PRs closely. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836

Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835

Is there a usable API for language translation? Non-Google preferable.

Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle ⌘ Read more…

“72% of people feel that almost all of what they do online is being tracked by advertisers” Wow Google, I wonder why they feel that way.

“Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web.” Yeah, okay Google. https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-first-web/

What an adventure, shame the article was never updated. (Google warning) http://unforgettability.net/content/page/projects_cobalt

Calls to “own your data” and focus on “privacy” fall on deaf ears if you’re sponsored by Google and Mozilla, recommending the use of Tumblr.

German Corona App without proprietary Google libraries is on Codeberg :-) https://codeberg.org/corona-contact-tracing-germany/cwa-android

How to Leave Google Photos | written by Robbie Antenesse ⌘ https://robbie.antenesse.net/2020/11/25/exporting-google-photos.html

Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-15-standing-by-developers-through-google-v-oracle/

Malware gangs love open source offensive hacking tools | ZDNet ⌘ https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/malware-gangs-love-open-source-offensive-hacking-tools/

Google and Apple’s Contact-Tracing API Doesn’t Work on Public Transport, Study Finds ⌘ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ybZ7PwoWVRs/google-and-apples-contact-tracing-api-doesnt-work-on-public-transport-study-finds

Google Web Stories WordPress Plugin Officially Released ⌘ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-web-stories-wordpress-plugin-officially-released/381790/amp/

GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-04-github-actions-self-hosted-runners-on-google-cloud/

Importera Google Calendar till Emacs Calendar ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/kalender.html

Moving to a tilde -> http://tilde.pt/~gil/twtxt.txt, hopefully it will be easier to manage using one liners instead of a google sheet

How to Use Google Fonts and Other Web Fonts in BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/how-to-use-web-fonts-and-google-fonts.shtml

My Frustrations with Google AdSense ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/revenue/my-frustrations-with-google-adsense.shtml

Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn’t want to run it, they shouldn’t keep anybody else from running it instead.

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/

Remember when Google’s april fool’s day pranks were fun, instead of being getting-rid-of-inbox-forever?

Cyberfeminist Index (~1990s-present) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_ZlbZhstBTfnZL4QP11ebivXgsvrf8shuG-QX146nw/edit#gid=1949020646

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

patience diffing algorithm https://https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com/flak/post/patience-diffing-algorithm

I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

anything to ditch those pesky google products!

I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year “ Here’s What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack

Neal Stephenson: “Anathem” | Talks at Google - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE

Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world