@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.

https://fonts.coollabs.io/ replace google fonts

@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net No, Google does not predict this. “Google AI” has been self-promoting like this for decades. Remember when they used to brag that they could predict the onset of flu season weeks before it started? That silently went away because they got it badly wrong many times and people caught on to how bad their “predictions” actually were.

They can’t stop themselves. Anything about AI coming out of big tech companies these days is marketing, not real, and certainly not science.

Perseids Pronunciation
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Found another example of Google stealing something I’ve written and putting it in a “featured snippet”.

What’s super annoying about this one is that the source is a course page at Tufts University, not the official page of the publication they’re taking this text from. I know the professor who taught that course and I’ve guest lectured for them before on this topic. They put this publication in their course readings, and I guess that’s where Google picked it up.

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@prologic@twtxt.net what do you mean when you say “Docker API”? There are multiple possible meanings for that. podman conforms to some of Docker’s APIs and it’s unclear to me which one you say it’s not conforming to.

You just have to Google “podman Docker API” and you find stuff like this: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-rest-api

Podman’s REST API consists of two components:

• A Docker-compatible portion called Compat API
  
• A native portion called Libpod API that provides access to additional features not available in Docker, including pods
  

Or this: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html

The REST API provided by podman system service is split into two parts: a compatibility layer offering support for the Docker v1.40 API, and a Podman-native Libpod layer.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md wei drm google chrome

@prologic@twtxt.net bummer, that’s a shame. I ask because I install the vast majority of my phone apps from f-droid these days, and only use Google Play Store when I have no other option. I know the Play Store will have more reach, but I’m guessing reach isn’t the highest priority right now.

@prologic@twtxt.net is goryon not in the google app store?

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s true. I think the key point is to make it 100% clear what your intentions are, so that if there ever is a legal case against Google, they cannot credibly pretend not to have known.

Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools.

Google can eat shit.

hrxi: Windows support for Dino
Hello, I’m back!

It’s been four years since I participated in my first Google Summer of\
Code. I’m hrxi, a mathematics student from Germany. I got accepted
into this year’s Google Summer of Code program with the XMPP software\
foundation as the mentoring
organisation. I chose the extended\
timeline, so I am
going to work on [ … ⌘ Read more

Google Bard or BingGPT are actually quite useful to answer simple questions without having to scroll through many pages of clickbait and AI-generated babble blogposts. I’m currently preparing for the AWS exam (I finally signed up!) and Google Bard explained the differences between Cognito User Pools and Cognito Identity Pools in a simple and understandable way. Even with a tabular overview and examples how to use both services. Now my knowledge is refreshed again. 😄 ⌘ Read more

@phoronix@feeds.twtxt.net Google just sucks in every way it seems.

Gostava de saber a razão pela qual a Google achou boa ideia lançar os TLDs ‘.zip’ e ‘.mov’ que coincidem com formatos de ficheiros comuns. Não compreendo como é que a ICANN permitiu tal coisa. A quantidade de phishing que irá surgir devido a isto será engraçado de ver.

@shreyan@twtxt.net I agree re: AR. Vircadia is neat. I stumbled on it years ago when I randomly started wondering “wonder what’s going on with Second Life and those VR things” and started googling around.

Unfortunately, like so many metaverse efforts, it’s almost devoid of life. Interesting worlds to explore, cool tools to build your own stuff, but almost no people in it. It feels depressing, like an abandoned shopping mall.

There’s a link to the blog post, but they extracted a summary in hopes of keeping people in Google properties (something they’ve been called out on many times).

I was never contacted to ask if I was OK with Google extracting a summary of my blog post and sticking it on the web site. There is a very clear copyright designation at the bottom of each page, including that one. So, by putting their own brand over my text, they violated my copyright. Straightforward theft right there.

Looks like Google’s using this blog post of mine without my permission. I hate this kind of tech company crap so much.

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Por acaso não esperava que o primeiro valor real da Google na sua oferta de produtos com IA se centrasse na análise de malware.

Microsoft & Google: “You’ll have no real computers, and you’ll be happy”
This is a trend we need to put the kibosh on. ⌘ Read more

“the secret list of websites”
Chris Coyier wrote a post mentioning a Washington Post article that analyzed which websites Google used to train its AI model. And it seems that both my blog and my website (I think I should merge them one day) are used. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year.  One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience.  So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P … ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 9, 2023 - Hour 2
Listen now (45 min) | USB Flash Drive Bombs, the Great Apple Store Robbery, Google’s war on staplers… and Computer History! ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

I’m currently validating the use of the OpenAI API as a cheaper and more powerful alternative to the Google Translate API. I hope my plans succeed and there will be a new GoBlog plugin with some AI power soon. ✨ So far the OpenAI API is quite easy to use, I thought it would be more complicated. Philipp is already using the API for his diary, another cool idea (which I may copy someday). ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023

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XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!

Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and
prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP … ⌘ Read more

The History of BSD - Part 1 (1974 - 1989)
PDP & VAX. Pascal & vi. DARPA & Google’s Erich Schmidt. The story of BSD is all over the place. ⌘ Read more

Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Google hires John Connor to fend off ChatGPT threat
“I can take down ChatGPT, no problemo,” stated Connor. “This’ll be easy money.” ⌘ Read more

The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more

google maps as a dating app

AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea… there was AltaVista. ⌘ Read more

how install gomodot? also.. @prologic@twtxt.net your domain has some pretty strong SEO mojo searching for install "gomodot" puts you on the google first page.

Android vs iOS: Which spies on you more?
Watch now (25 min) | (This is a classic video originally produced back in 2018. It is presented here exactly as it originally was – including original ad spots. Many of the details discussed (links, stats, etc.) may have changed in the years that followed.) Which mobile operating system spies on you the most? Android or iOS? In other words: Does a Google-powered Android… ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

**RT by @mind_booster: Google Chromebooks are being banned in schools in Denmark!

IT professor Jeppe Bundsgaard recommends open-source solutions and how schools can better benefit from them.

Read our blog:

#PrivacyWednesday #Nextcloud

https://nextcloud.com/blog/schools-in-denmark-look-toward-open-source-solutions-after-dpa-bans-google-chromebooks/**
Google Chromebooks are being banned in schools in Denmark!

IT professor Jeppe Bundsgaard recommends open-source solutions and how schools can better benefit f … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: #DireitosDigitais #RGPD #privacidade
A @AssembleiaRepub ao utilizar o Google Analytics está a violar o RGPD.
Sim é ilegal usar o Google Analytics, porque as transferências de dados pessoais para os EUA são ilegais de acordo com várias decisões do Tribunal Justiça da UE.
#DireitosDigitais #RGPD #privacidade

A [@AssembleiaRepub](https://nitter.net/Asse … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Um dos próximos grandes temas na UE. Desafio é explicar à CE que tecnologia não é magia.

«A Comissão Europeia pretende ter “sol na eira e chuva no nabal”, que é como quem diz, ter privacidade de comunicações mas rastrear comportamentos ilícitos.»
https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/pornografia-infantil/abuso-sexual-de-menores/pai-enviou-fotografias-do-filho-nu-ao-pediatra-google-marcou-o-como-criminoso-o-que-podemos-aprender-com-este-caso/20221001/632db4d40cf2ea4f0a5dc6fe**
Um dos próximos grandes … ⌘ Read more

Google, Apple partner with Elmers to produce “Tinker-Proof Glue”
“That oughta keep ‘em out,” stated Google CEO Sundar Pichai. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Google announces new messaging service it cancelled three days ago
“This new product was so good that it was worth cancelling even before we announced it.” ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility
This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)

Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database.
In this case, we are in a unique position:
Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial.
For now, we only … ⌘ Read more

Google’s ‘fast track to surveillance’ sparks backlash from European consumer groups over ‘deceptive’ practices
The Regional consumer organisation BEUC accused Google of using ‘deceptive design, unclear language, misleading choices and missing information’ for extensive data collection. ⌘ Read more

Dino: Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
Hey, this is my first development update!
As some of you might already know from my last blog post, my Google Summer of Code project is implementing Stateless File Sharing for Dino.
This is my first XMPP project and as such, I had to learn very basic things about it.
In my blog posts I’ll try to document the things I learned, with the idea that it might help someone else in the future.
I won’t refrain from explaining terms you might take for gran … ⌘ Read more

International schoolteachers on the future of education, from pandemic-era online lessons with Zoom and Google tools, to AR and VR – and the importance of social skills and empathy too
We talk to Hong Kong’s international schoolteachers about how education is changing, from lessons learned during the pandemic, to how improved tech needs to be balanced against more human factors ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!

Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. **Kindly … ⌘ Read more

Google pulls plug on “Sentient A.I.” after it begins using Arch Linux
“BTW, I use Arch. Therefore I am.” ⌘ Read more

Telegram Premium is there, at least the announcement that it should be there, but the update on Google Play somehow not yet. Unfortunately, the announcement says that Premium is not (yet) available for users in Germany. ☹️ I’m especially waiting for the feature to be able to convert voice messages to text. 😅 ⌘ Read more

Google co-founder Sergey Brin seeks divorce from second wife Nicole Shanahan after 3 years of marriage
The world’s sixth-richest person filed a petition for dissolution of his marriage to Shanahan, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. ⌘ Read more