@nelson@tech.lgbtMoving my primary domain somebits.com from Porkbun for DNS and Google for mail forwarding to Cloudflare for both. First time using Cloudflare and so far it's a good experience. I'm hoping their mail forwarding works more reliably than Google's: Google's own servers keep blocking mail it forwards to itself as spam.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThose Nest cameras keep videos for three hours on their backend servers even if you're not a subscriber.
How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/tech/google-video-nancy-guthrie
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/google-says-anthropic-remains-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReach reports 2025 revenue down 3.7% YoY to £518.4M, adjusted operating profit up 2.4% YoY to £104.7M, and Google Discover traffic down 46% YoY in H2 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/plunging-goo…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it8yo: "Dad?"
me: "I'm going to leave in a minute."
8yo: "What?! Why??"
me: "Because you keep talking to me. Go. To. Sleep."
8yo: "I haven't been talking!"
me: "Yes, you have. You *just* asked me to google sushi restaurants in DC"
8yo: "Okay, but this time it's important."
me: "Fine. What?"
8yo: "What does 'FOMO' mean?"
me: "A…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialKeep Android Open
Im August 2025 hat Google angekündigt, dass es ab September 2026 nicht mehr möglich sein wird, Anwendungen für die Android-Plattform zu entwickeln, ohne sich zuvor bei Google registriert zu haben.
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@theodric@social.linux.pizzaJust in case anyone was hoping GrapheneOS would support face unlock, even as an option disabled by default, even for the Google Pixel devices with busted-by-design fingerprint sensors: lol keep fuckin' dreaming, noob. Much like Linux in 2026, GrapheneOS isn't about choice. It's about you quietly falling in line and adjusting your expectations, you ungrateful fuckhead leach deserving of mockery and derision and the questioning of your virility and political alignment.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-he…
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@haayman@todon.nlik mis heel erg dat google keep geen notificaties op locatie meer verstuurt ('herinner me hier aan, mocht je weer eens op kantoor zijn')
Ben op zoek naar een selfhosted alternatief voor google keep, maar die kan ik nog niet vinden :-(
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizzaKeep Android Open and Stop Google from limiting APK file usage
https://keepandroidopen.org/
Direct link to the petition (one way of action ):
h…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesIf you live in #Willowdale two journalists are starting a new initiative to bring a new news outlett to the neighborhood.
They want to hear from the community, fill out this Google survey
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@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialGoogle hat ein gigantisches #Rechenzentrum angekündigt, mit einen 1,9 Gigawatt Stromanschluß (soviel wie 1,5x AKWs).
Zur Versorgung soll die größte Batterie der Welt mit 300 Megawatt Leistung entstehen, die bis zu 100 Stunden Strom liefert. Sie wird mit 30 GWh ein vielfaches an Energie speichern können, wie alle Großspeicher in Deutschland zusammen.
Nur um mal die irrsinnigen Dim…
@cdarwin@c.imTech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars
to influence California politics
in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol.
Behemoths such as #Google and #Meta are getting involved in campaigns for November’s elections,
as are venture capitalist…
@hanno@mastodon.socialWhy does this keep happening? Grammarly recently introduced an AI chat, and also, their spell-checking service, which previously was their main product, suffers from constant reliability issues since them. I'm paying for this service, because it used to be good, I never asked for an AI chat. I can go to ChatGPT, or Google, which used to be a search engine and is now an AI chat with a worse version of the search engine attached. Not that I'd want any of that.
@haayman@todon.nlIk ben een beetje gefrustreerd dat ik geen enkel selfhosted alternatief voor google keep kan vinden. Er zijn best veel notitie-alternatieven, maar ik heb nog niets gevonden waarbij ik een notificatie krijg op mijn telefoon.
Heb jij een goed alternatief?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (David Nield/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-killing-pop-and-gmailify-access-what-it-mean…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza"Try to research a topic that hasn't been investigated before." Ok, google scholar, lets see what I can find. So my topic MIGHT have been done before, but it will cost be $56 to find out. WTF?! Journal articles are insane. I keep having to ask my wife (works @ an ivy) to get articles for me I can't get myself.
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@pre@boing.worldBattery drain on GrapheneOS here the last couple of days has definitely been worse than stock Google Android.
Battery-monitor says Molly is the main culprit.
Apparently Molly, the Signal client, keeps an open connection to the Signal server.
You can't just have the app check every 10 minutes if it has to ring like a phone upon call request. You need actually persistent connection.
On Google's android, google's play-servers do some kind of kung-fu to keep that modem mostly asleep despite this persistence.
Without Play Services, that don't happen.
But, there is a thing in F-Droid called "Sun up".
That does a similar thing I guess? Called "unified push". It uses Mozilla's servers instead of Google's. And does so anonymously apparently, but who knows for sure really? Not me.
End to end encryption means worst you'd be leaking is timing data really.
So install Sun Up from F-Droid and change Molly's settings / notifications / delivery-method to "Unified Push"
We will need a MollyServer too apparently as a bridge from Signal to Unified-Push at Mozilla.
All the cool kids are using molly.adminforge.de - there's the QR code you need at the site there. Maybe molly.notify.dykes.ca or some other one is better? I dunno. Can always use a different one if yours goes away.
We will find out over the next few days if that actually makes any difference to battery consumption.
Might save more if you have lots of other things also using open connections that can use unifed-push too. Emails and Matrix or whatever. Mux all those connections into one.
I don't do those things on my phone though, so it's just Molly, so we'll see.
#grapheneOS #molly #signal
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Google plant in #Minnesota ein #Rechenzentrum, das mit 1,9 Gigawatt sauberer #Energie betrieben …
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI'm afraid that's all I wanted help with
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@kingconsult@berlin.socialAddicted to the algorithm – New research exposes how #BigTech lobbies to keep us hooked on #SocialMedia
Olivier Hoedeman, @… research and campaign coordinator:
> The addictive design of social media has become a major societal problem with serious impacts on public #health and endangering the future of #democracy.
05.02.2026 #DiDay #ChildProtecion #SocialMediaBan #DigitalFairnessAct #DFA #Meta #Google #Bildung #FediLZ #Demokratie
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.
"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
− According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…
"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
− Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people."
"AI has its uses."
− So does asbestos.
"Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
− "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…"
"I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
− "I do not keep slaves myself…"
#NoLLM #hyperbole
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