I am a Bunny.net fan as they offer a CDN at a good price, are based in Europe and really care about privacy. The latest tool they offer: Bunny Fonts as a replacement for Google Fonts, because its use is illegal in Germany. 👍 ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

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The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more

https://plexus.techlore.tech/ android app compatibility without google

Mozilla responds to Google Chrome version 100 by releasing Firefox version “1,000,000”
“You just got mathed, Google.” ⌘ Read more

Vegan, Arch-using, Steam Deck owner who programs in Rust banned from the Internet
“Usually we just sedate them, ship them to Canada, and give them a Reddit or Mastodon account” - Google CEO ⌘ Read more

About a week ago I have switched from Google to DuckDuckGo and… I feel fine. However, sometimes I still have to search on Google

Google reportedly planning subscription service for your personal data
“For the first time ever, we will allow people to own their own data. This is truly revolutionary.” ⌘ Read more

Google no longer allows in-app donations that don’t go through Google Play. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/3768

Chrome OS Flex and CloudReady
At first I missed the news, but today I somehow stumbled across it: Google has released an early access version of “Chrome OS Flex”, as a result of the integration of CloudReady into Chrome OS. CloudReady also ran under my radar until today, but I did take the time to give both a try. ⌘ Read more

I think google voice has been winding that down.

Thanks, I’d forgotten about that. I’d rather avoid Google Voice, and I’m okay paying (reasonably). Looking like Twilio might have most of what I want natively.

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. ⌘ Read more

Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄 ⌘ Read more

How to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project. ⌘ Read more

“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

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.