@ncoca@social.coop2026-02-04 07:02:09
Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
https://newrepublic.co…
@ncoca@social.coop2026-02-04 07:02:09
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-01 11:12:48
😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱
Große Tech-Konzerne wie #Google, #Meta oder #Microsoft machen den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Pflicht.
KI-Kompetenz fließt in Bewerbungen, Leis…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-02 07:23:00
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2026-02-04 14:02:33
irrregular reminder that you can ask google to unlock books that are in the public domain but not openly available via the feedback form. It usually takes them one or two days to review the request.
#googlebooks
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-01-27 23:30:28
On May 1, 2026, #Google CDN Interconnect, Direct Peering, and Carrier Peering prices go up by as much as 2x in one region (i.e., NA $0.04 -> $0.08 / GiB).
https://cloud.google.com/consulting/cl
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-03-23 06:05:05
«#Suchmaschine'n-Ergebnisse — Google soll mittels KI Schlagzeilen ersetzen:
Google soll damit begonnen haben, mittels künstlicher Intelligenz Überschriften in seinen Suchergebnissen zu verändern, die so nicht von den Verfassern vorgesehen waren. Hinweise darauf gibt #Google allerdings nicht, …
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-03-02 19:06:18
@paun@digitalcourage.social2026-01-31 09:48:34
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-27 17:59:52
Once upon a time when work was using its own email servers, I had to periodically archive my email accounts. I would create a new gmail account and just throw it up on there so the emails were still searchable in my mail client if the account was included…
Now I have a bunch of gmail accounts that have tens of thousands of emails form twenty years ago.
This is dumb... especially with storage the way it is these days.
So now I'm logging into those accounts, downloading the emails and any other Google data, and deleting the accounts from Google.
Fun Times, this long-time-digital-life life.
#Google #Data #KeepItOnYourDevice
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange2026-02-27 15:32:26
Really excellent, easy, working, guide to self-hosting OnlyOffice if you want to break free of #Microsoft or #Google
https:/…
@bici@mastodon.social2026-01-05 02:40:55
fuck all social media websites!
a putz on you all! !
#meta #google #Facebook #instagram <…
@stf@chaos.social2026-01-30 12:40:46
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-05 07:51:38
Google gaat het eventuele klappen van de "AI bubble" gewoon overleven lijkt me, #google
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-03-10 16:18:45
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-20 16:17:23
Ah, #Google möchte noch mehr #Profiling.
Google beschränkt den Funktionsumfang von #GoogleMaps für Nutzer ohne Anmeldung.
Ohne Konto fehlen
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-02-17 06:11:34
Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2026-02-11 15:16:57
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-01-22 10:34:41
Ja, scho recht...
#ki #aioverview #google
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-03-10 16:56:28
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-07 07:43:06
#Android #OpenSource Project "is already on life support, and with this latest move #Google is firmly gripping the plug." 😯🫣😞
Google takes next big leap in killing
@qbi@freie-re.de2026-02-22 15:10:44
DNS-Eintrag für #Wordpress gäbe. Ich habe so das leichte Gefühl, dass nicht
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-02-24 16:11:48
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-02-15 19:17:03
While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-13 08:01:09
Fugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks
@filmfacts@social.tchncs.de2026-01-24 20:17:57
Weg von #Google: #MailboxOrg von @… scheint eine gute Alternative zu sein!
Die Kontakte und Kalendereinträge waren problemlos von Go…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-02-13 07:21:55
@j_honegger@swiss.social2026-02-22 15:18:08
Von @…
🧵 👇
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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-13 13:54:29
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange2026-01-24 18:01:11
@padraig@mastodon.ie2026-03-06 15:02:27
I hope...wherever he is, that Vic Gundotra ('Father' of Google ) is having a nice day!
It was probably one of the last 'good' Google products.
#google #googleplus #noxp
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-01-05 16:57:44
Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:
- I am not interested in L…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-16 15:30:52
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-01-17 10:07:48
Finally managed to hook my #GoogleNest in #HomeAssistant.
If you are in the same situation, remember to remove *all* Google credentials first. Home Assistant doesn't allow org accounts, only regular ones. I had Google Drive with my main account, which is in my own org.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-01-08 00:38:58
And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-01-08 00:38:58
And on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-03-12 11:00:17
"Amazon, Google and others pledge $100m to cut ‘highly warming’ superpollutants"
#Amazon #Google #Technology
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizza2026-03-12 18:40:21
@ncoca@social.coop2026-02-20 02:15:19
One of the biggest reasons now that I think I may stay as a freelancer and not job hunt is that I don't want to be forced to use some "productivity" suite like #google #docs or #microsoft
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-12 15:46:08
Logged into Google using Chrome at work and found it's become a Kakfa-esque experience where I had to log in five times before I realized what was going on with "profiles" I've never asked for. Reminds me of the time I did a shoot-out of ten visual recognition APIs and I got demos of the others done in 20 minutes each but Google Cloud Compute took two hours because it trashed my Python #google
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 19:33:15
Tech 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…
@JBrickelt963@framapiaf.org2026-03-09 23:24:29
Quand j'étais encore en études j'avais fais une espèce de lettre pour présenter les alternatives Š #Google que je commençais Š découvrir.
5 ans tard et quasiment 0 apps gogol j'ai fais ce petit site : https://myapplyope…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-05 09:45:56
My local Python installation on my Windows 11 laptop was a complete mess and i am not an experienced developer/programmer (far from it). I used Google Antigravity to fix and improve this. It fixed problems , installed "uv" and my life is simpler now... Agents have a role to play i think.
#google #antigravity
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-01-24 00:28:07
🎯 Zero accuracy loss - preserves what matters: errors, anomalies, high-scoring items & query-relevant content using BM25/embedding similarity
✅ Full provider support: #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-14 13:34:57
Is anybody using #Google Calendar with an included external ics-URL?
I've got a #freebusy-list on my web page and someone using it doesn't get any entry in #GoogleCalendar.
After adding …
@ncoca@social.coop2026-02-19 02:16:05
All these people who claim they can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or
@zudn@theres.life2026-01-07 17:30:38
Any open-source options for an event registration form? Do I really have to go to #Google? Don't suggest self-hosted, please ...
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-09 10:40:26
»Punkt MC03 — Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne #Google:
Die Schweizer Firma #PunktDesign hat mit dem #PunktMC03 ein neues, besonders stark auf die
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-13 07:10:16
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-20 16:17:23
Ah, #Google möchte noch mehr #Profiling.
Google beschränkt den Funktionsumfang von #GoogleMaps für Nutzer ohne Anmeldung.
Ohne Konto fehlen
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 07:05:11
VMA till alla ägare av androidtelefoner - håller ni med? #googlepixel #mobiltelefon #android
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange2026-01-12 14:49:00
@to3k@infosec.exchange2026-02-17 09:03:14
🇵🇱 Nowy wpis na #blog!
#GrapheneOS - uwolnij się od #Google i #Apple
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-19 14:11:18
There used to be a Google provided cli tool that allowed you to script the uploading of videos to YouTube. (Google-CLI I think?). They pulled support a few years ago.
Two questions:
1) does anyone know of any such tools that might exist today?
2) Are there any similar tools for PeerTube?
#video #cli #oss #tools #youtube #google #peertube
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de2026-03-18 20:57:02
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-25 07:08:49
#Google plant in #Minnesota ein #Rechenzentrum, das mit 1,9 Gigawatt sauberer #Energie betrieben …
@nelov@social.linux.pizza2026-03-05 06:43:24
I came to the realisation that #flutter is the better tech stack, but because of heavy #google involvement - #reactNative is the safest bet.
So going forward with
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-11 02:21:54
For #google, #microsoft, #adobe, #facebook and others...
When I turn off location trac…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-01-27 05:42:53
Landmark social media trial to begin over addiction claims - BBC Business
#TikTok #YouTube #Google #Snapchat #Meta #Instagram #Zuckerberg #Facebook
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-01-14 15:01:25
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-02-13 09:10:39
I added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-11 17:13:22
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-02-17 16:44:34
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-06 06:07:01
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Mit Klicklauten und Pfeifen kommunizieren #Delfine seit jeher. Jetzt will #Google
@ncoca@social.coop2026-03-11 04:26:45
Curious why they included #China on this list of regulators to target #keepandroidopen
Do they not know that #Google #Play
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-03-06 10:47:55
Addicted 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
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-01-13 18:17:21
Check out the map for Digital Independence Day! 🚀
👉 #Dresden #Chemnitz #Berlin #Dortmund #FFM #München #Karlsruhe …
It's time to switch from #X #WhatsApp #Google #Amazon etc. to digitally independent services!
👋 Dear neighbours, join in! @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @…
#DIDit #IDIDIT #DigitalIndependenceDay #DutGemacht #SaveSocial #DIDaySupportCommunity #DigitalSovereignty #Grok
