Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1
Big Tech’s war against “sideloading” continues. With Microsoft and Google not far behind. ⌘ Read more
25% of Google Code is AI Generated
Layoffs, lack of pay raises for engineers, but they’re not replacing programmers with Al. Wink wink. ⌘ Read more
Wayback Machine & Google Website Cache Go Offline Weeks Before 2024 Election
With a Presidential election days away, the biggest ways to record online statements are conspicuously broken. ⌘ Read more
I installed GrapheneOS for the first time on Wednesday last week on a used Pixel 7a, and I’m impressed. Installation was almost seamless, and I was able to do it from another Android phone. I’ve run into very few wrinkles, even using Google’s proprietary apps with GrapheneOS’s “sandboxed” version of Google Play Services. The main problems I’ve noticed: I can’t cast, and Google Timeline doesn’t seem to work (though I imagine the intersection between people keen to use GrapheneOS and keen to have Google log their location history is pretty small).
Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
The post [Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview](https://github.blog/news-in … ⌘ Read more
Wikipedia’s War on Israel, USA, & Truth
Pro-Hamas and Pro-Iran editors flood Wikipedia (& Google) with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more
Google May be Broken Up as a Result of Lost Lawsuit
Google has been ruled to be a monopoly, with multiple remedies being proposed… ⌘ Read more
pluja launches experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast
pluja1 has announced2 the launch of XMR.FAN 3, an AI-driven experimental weekly podcast that aims to deliver the latest insights and news from the world of Monero and privacy:
I’ve been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLM, voice generation (elevenlabs/piper), and other AI tools (SD, flux…). I discovered that these are really useful to produce very decent weekly news overviews, so I made this websi … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more
Google AI Notebook Turns Documents into Fake Podcasts with Fake Hosts Having Fake Discussions
Just what the world needed! Fake podcasts! With fake laughing! Thanks Google! ⌘ Read more
Kubernetes turns 10: a ditty dedicated to a decade of container orchestration
Member post originally published on Fairwinds’ blog by Stevie Caldwell It’s hard to believe, but Kubernetes, our favorite container orchestration tool, turned ten this year! It feels like just yesterday when it was just an internal project at Google spinning… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m not sure what this update does, but
https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://google.com&nick=lovetocode999
still exhibits the same problem, on your pod and on mine, after the latest update.
Is A.I. Programming Really the Future?
Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google & everyone else says Artificial Intelligence is the future. Is my anti-AI stance reasonable? ⌘ Read more
Time Traveler Causes of Death
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Is This The End of Mozilla? If So, Is That a Bad Thing?
What could a recent Google lawsuit ruling mean for the future of Firefox? ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2024
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of July 2024.
If you are interested to join the XMPP Standards Foundation as a member, please apply until August 18th, 2024!.
XMPP and Google Summer of Code 2024… ⌘ Read more
Join us as gRPConf returns this August 27!
Attention gRPC community! Mark your calendars for August 27th, 2024, as gRPConf returns to the Google Cloud Campus in Sunnyvale, California. The schedule is now live! This is your chance to dive deep into the world of gRPC, connect with fellow… ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2024
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of June 2024.
The XSF has been accepted as a hosting organisation at GSoC in 2024 again!
These XMPP projects have received a slot and have kicked-off with … ⌘ Read more
Have not tried any of them, but some of these seem to fit the bill:
Google Chrome will have Gemini LLM built into the browser.
The voice of Kubernetes experts report 2024: the data trends driving the future of the enterprise
Guest post by Rajiv Thakkar, Director of Product Marketing, Portworx, Pure Storage (LinkedIn) Today, June 6, marks the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes. Kubernetes originally began as a project in Google and was released as open source in June… ⌘ Read more
Google Drive censors files of Pfizer whistleblower
A PowerPoint file was censored on a o personal Google Drive… and Google’s stated reasons were obviously false. Why did this happen? Read the article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5682494/google-drive-censors-files-of-pfizer-whistleblower ⌘ Read more
Last week at The Lunduke Journal (May 26 - June 1, 2024)
GNOME’s Crazy Plan! Black Python Devs! Google Censorship! ⌘ Read more
How to Confirm Before Closing Windows with Multiple Tabs in Chrome, Edge, Brave
If you use a lot of tabs when browsing the web with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or any other Chromium based browser, you might want to enable an optional feature that asks to confirm whether or not you wish to close any browser window with multiple tabs open. This can help to prevent you … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/25/how-confirm-before-closing-windows-multiple-ta … ⌘ Read more
How to Search the Web (Minus AI Junk & Clutter) with Google on Safari for Mac
If you’re a Safari user, as many of us are, you might be interested in actually searching the web with Google and then seeing a list of actual web link results, without seeing any of the new AI junk, video and image recommendations, knowledge panels, related searches, suggested searches, or the other junky clutter that … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/24/search-web-google-no-ai-junk-clutter-saf … ⌘ Read more
Happy 7th Birthday, Istio!
Project post originally published on the Istio blog by Lin Sun, Solo.io, for the Istio Steering Committee Celebrating Istio’s momentum and exciting future. On this day in 2017, Google and IBM announced the launch of the Istio service mesh…. ⌘ Read more
How to Search Google Without AI Rubbish & Clutter
Remember when you used to use Google search and it would only return a list of links for web results, letting you easily find what you’re looking for? Google was once the best way to search the web, but as almost all Google users have noticed, the web search engine has become less of an … Read More ⌘ Read more
Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website
Image: Workshop in Barcelona.
Website technology is becoming increasingly complex and energy intensive, with big companies like Meta and Google leading the dance. Is this necessary? What does it really take to get our content online?
Low←tec … ⌘ Read more
App recommandation: Google’s Reading mode
Unexpectedly, I found a seemingly not so new app (it was first released in 2022) that I wish I had known about earlier. Google’s app Reading mode. ⌘ Read more
Google Solar Cycle
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How to Import Google Chrome Data into Microsoft Edge
If you’re making a switch from Google Chrome to the Microsoft Edge browser on your Mac, you’ll almost certainly want to import your Chrome data into Edge. Doing so will allow Edge to have immediate access to your saved logins and passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, settings, and more, allowing you to seamlessly transition from Chrome … Read More ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store
We initially shared this news on our social media page, thinking
this was a temporary issue. But we’ve had no response from Google for several
days, and want to explain the situation in more detail.
We merged some changes from our upstream project, Conversations, and we
submitted the new version to Google for review. Before responding, they
removed the existing published ve … ⌘ Read more
Even though the bridges that #beeper use are AGPL licensed, the beeper client is proprietary software 😭
This is big sad.
They almost had it.
It is also kind of limited on google-free android phones, since the QR code scanner for device verification key-signing depends on a google play services API (which microg doesn’t implement). This means that you can’t share message history between your google-free android and the beeper desktop client. ⌘ Read more
it’s a chat app that bridges to a bunch of networks seamlessly.
they bridge to signal, discord, whatsapp, fb messenger, instagram, linkedin, telegram, slack, sms, google chat, and IRC
it’s a #Matrix client, so you just get a @username:beeper.com matrix user, which works on matrix too.
the bridges are all open source. they hired tulir, who does the mautrix bridge stuff a couple of years ago.
beeper has people working on the open-source matr … ⌘ Read more
PSA: hvis du har en underlig ikke-rooted android (feks en google-fri android eller lineage OS) og gerne vil have det nye #mobilepay til at virke, kan du bruge det her workaround til en bug i deres elendige root-detection software
https://github.com/scottyab/rootbeer/issues/181#issuecomment-1735171558 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de For syncing notes between computers and phones I’ve been very happy with Simple Text - w Dropbox sync for some year, but transitioned to Joplin around new year. Both sync via Dropbox and for Joplin there are also more free options. I guess you could even use something like Syncthing
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more
If we call Alphabet “Google” instead, we could have:
BAG MAM
BAM GAM
If we also replace Meta with “Facebook” it could be:
FB-MAGA
FAB-MAG
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What? You are still using chrome? Firefox is where its at. But if you need WebKit there is always chromium which strips out all the google nonsense.
How to Search Reviews on Google Maps
Many people use Google Maps to find out about businesses, parks, locations, and destinations, by reading the reviews. While it’s one thing to browse through all of the reviews and read them, it can be very useful to narrow down reviews for something specific, like a keyword. Thus, it’s a desirable capability to be able … Read More ⌘ Read more
Using Authenticated Logins for Docker Hub in Google Cloud
Learn four best practices that your teams can implement to maintain a secure and reliable software delivery process with Docker Hub in Google Cloud. With these guidelines, you can leverage the benefits of open source software while safeguarding your development workflow. ⌘ Read more
I quickly played with OpenAI’s new Text-To-Speech model to check if it’s an alternative to Google’s API. And wow! English is fantastic and even German is not bad. Just some syllables in German have a weird English accent. But even then, it’s still good. But sadly, it’s also a bit costly. Let’s wait a few months until it gets cheaper and better, and you can enjoy my blog’s “Read aloud” feature even more. 😉 ⌘ Read more
How to Drop a Pin in Google Maps on iPhone or iPad
Dropping a pin on Google Maps allows you to mark a location on the map for sharing with others, for saving that spot for yourself to reference later, or even for getting directions to that pinned location. It’s a very useful feature of Google Maps that has wide applications, so if you’re a Google Maps … Read More ⌘ Read more
Doctor’s Office
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How to Install Safari Technology Preview on Mac
Safari Technology Preview is an optional web browser for Mac that is separate from the regular Safari browser, with the Tech Preview offering an early look at upcoming web technologies and features before they become included in the primary Safari browser. In this way, Safari Tech Preview is kind of like Google’s Chrome Canary, and … Read More ⌘ Read more
Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services
Secret scanning now performs validity checks for select AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack tokens.
The post Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse | Ars Technica
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WHY are these big companies treated as though they are the be all and end all of infosec? These are rookie mistakes Google’s making, at scale.
Unfortunately Google employs dark patterns to convince you to sync your MFA codes to the cloud, and our employee had indeed activated this “feature”. If you install Google Authenticator from the app store directly, and follow the suggested instructions, your MFA codes are by default saved to the cloud. If you want to disable it, there isn’t a clear way to “disable syncing to the cloud”, instead there is just a “unlink Google account” option.
Like, never ever put your multi-factor tokens into a single cloud storage location! The whole point of this being “multi” factor is that there is a separate, independent physical factor involved in the authentication process. If the authenticator app on your phone puts the tokens in the cloud, then it reduces the security that comes from having a second factor. This is basic stuff.
Of course, never ever use Google Authenticator. All it does is generate TOTP and HOTP codes, which you can do with any OTP app, preferably an open source one that’s been vetted.
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@adi@twtxt.net I think it is, and one benefit they have is that you can add third-party repositories to the F-Droid app as you discover them. So, for instance, if you know of a developer who pushes builds to an F-Droid compatible repository, you can add that to your F-Droid app and start tracking updates like you would for any other app in there. Can’t do that with Google Play!
F-Droid tends to focus on open source applications that can be built in a reproducible way, which limits the inventory (though of course tends to mean the apps are safer and don’t spy on you). There are non-free apps in there as well but they come with warnings so you’re informed about what you might be sacrificing by using them.
That said if you have a favorite app you get through Google Play, there’s a decent chance it won’t be in F-Droid. Many “big corporate” apps aren’t, and vendor-specific apps tend not to be either. But for most of the major functions you might want, like email clients, calendar apps, weather apps, etc etc, there are very good substitutes now in F-Droid. You’re definitely making a trade-off though.
What I did was go through the apps I had installed on my last phone, found as many substitutes in F-Droid as I could, started using those instead to see how they worked, and bit by bit replaced as much as I could from Google Play with a comparable app from F-Droid. I still have a few apps (mostly vendor-specific things that don’t have substitutes) that come from Google Play but I’m aiming to be rid of those before I need to replace this phone.
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@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net F-droid. Getting APKs from developers you trust and side-loading them. Some flavor of Linux. Some distro of the open source parts of Android.
There are lots of options. Bit by bit I divest from anything that’s distributed from Google Play. With my latest phone I find and download APKs so that I could have the app without all the Google crap woven through it. By the time I need to replace this one I’ll be fully free of Google Play. Most of my apps come from F-droid now. You can a perfectly functional phone/pocket computer unless you’re addicted to installing dozens of corporate apps.
@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net It’s worth bearing in mind that
- Fairphone has taken a considerable amount of VC funding so, sooner or later, that bill will become due: (see: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/fairphone-growth-capital-raise and https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fairphone)
- Fairphone comes with Google Play apps by default, so it’s also a spyware vector (see: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110978014080809471)
I used to have a lot of hope for them but these two ingredients mean that enshittification is virtually inevitable.