2025-10-08 06:40:08
»Digitale Souveränität — Diese Alternativen zu #Google Docs und Microsoft 365 müsst ihr kennen:
Egal ob Google #Docs oder #Microsoft 365 - Das klassische
»Digitale Souveränität — Diese Alternativen zu #Google Docs und Microsoft 365 müsst ihr kennen:
Egal ob Google #Docs oder #Microsoft 365 - Das klassische
This is bizarre - I made a typo and accidentally ran a #Google search for a comma. Not the word, the punctuation mark.
And yet, somehow, Google thinks that is:
1. A valid enough search to be showing a bazillion results
2. A search that needs short-form vertical videos at the top from a bunch of white women (who are they? Why them? What in the world is relevant to a singular punctuation mark that makes them pull up these videos?)
3. A search with enough inferred intent to show me a whole Q&A interface?
I know we complain about the state of #search online a lot these days and I've been part of the #SEO industry for years but something like this is so blatantly ridiculous it's hard not to stop and wonder.... what the actual fuck?
Apple gibt Siri bald ein Google-Hirn: Statt auf Privacy-Purismus setzt Cupertino in Sachen KI auf Milliarden-Deal mit Gemini. Von Revolution keine Spur – Apple kämpft gegen Rückstand, testet Konkurrenz, will aber mittelfristig wieder unabhängig sein. Revolutioniert wird erstmal nur die Bilanz. #Apple #Google
Incredible that #google makes it impossible to smoothly delete all your photos, either making you scroll select for hours or forcing you to use 3rd party tools like https://github.com/mrishab/google-phot
The nightmare of the #Google case,
"As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale."
The Google AdTech monopoly trial is a really big deal, bigger in my mind than the search monopoly.
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/its-groundhog-day-for-a-google-breakup
Every now and then I check my #Google account quota (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota) to make sure its not pulling any sneaky shit like automatically uploading my
"Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid"
#Google #Technology
https://www.
So what do you do when your "privacy search engine" gets in bed with Microsoft?
Google, you are now the lesser evil!
Humanity: 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️ 🤦
#Google #Microsoft #Joke
Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol
How Google is beating Apple
#google
Nachdem ich eine Straßensperrung in #GoogleMaps gemeldet hatte, wurde sie schnell für jede*n aktiv. Dann wurde die Sperrung aufgehoben. Aber wie kann ich die Sperrung in Google Maps wieder entfernen?
Neuer Beitrag auf guerda.de
#Google setzt auf #Kernenergie der nächsten Generation und schließt mit dem US-Versorger #TVA einen Stromabnahmevertrag für den geplanten
I use a Google account on my secondary user profile with GrapheneOS to download apps from Google Play, and I have my subscription list is public over there:
#Google …
#GoogleCloud #Observability Adopts #OpenTelemetry Protocol for Native Trace Ingestion
Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends
#Google is planning a #sideloading-ban and is selling it as a measure to enhance security.
But wouldn’t this “security measure” also affect app stores that are already more secure than Google’s Play Store, like @…
Kiedy kupiłem telefon #Pixel, wydałem trzykrotnie więcej niż normalnie. Uznałem, że to uzasadnione, bo w końcu będę miał dobre wsparcie oprogramowania (#GrapheneOS).
Przez ostatnie pół roku, #Google:
1. za…
"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate
2025 and I can't pay a creator directly for an ad-free experience of their work... I have to give £12.99 to Google instead.
How screwed up is that?!
#Dammit #Google #TheWorstTimeline
#Gboard Japanese team’s April (ROT6) Fools project of this year, Gboard Dial Version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4
(Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a landing page this year.)
#Google
I asked Google "What is a tank in gaming?", and I just *love* the picture Google selected.
#Google #googlesearch
I usually quite like Google Drive, but for some reason my work account is not accepting a change in interface language.
This seems to be a known problem.
#Google #GoogleDrive
Burying #GoogleDrive’s ham-fisted UX design decisions is possibly my favorite feature in #MacOS 26 Tahoe.
Upgraded image editing in Gemini is jaw dropping ,
#ai
Die Bundeswehr schließt einen Millionen-Deal mit #Google – Kritiker wie Kiesewetter, von Notz und Schönbohm warnen zurecht: Wer sicherheitskritische Systeme an US-Konzerne auslagert, macht sich erpressbar. Technologische Souveränität? Fehlanzeige. Statt „Fort Knox“-Marketing wäre Eigenständigkeit die sicherere Wahl. |
Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Clou…
What motivation would there be for #Google to be honest? Their claims are just advertising, just like their claims about “productivity,” “creativity,” or, for that matter, “intelligence.”
https://mastodon.social/@verge/11506…
What motivation would there be for #Google to be honest? Their claims are just advertising, just like their claims about “productivity,” “creativity,” or, for that matter, “intelligence.”
https://mastodon.social/@verge/11506…
Oh, Jings. Both #Google and #Amazon are revealed to be #complicit in the #GazaGenocide. In an extraordinary…
"Freie Alternative zu #Google und #Apple: Free Software Foundation plant #LibrePhone"
So apparently there's a thing called "#Google Classroom" and I've only learned that because it's used to send #spam en masse. And Google "can't control" these people, so everything's fine!
https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/thread/192735343
»Die Macht der Tech-Giganten — Trumps Waffe gegen #Europa:
Deutsche Behörden und Unternehmen sind fast vollständig abhängig von US-Tech-Giganten wie #Microsoft, #Google oder
Looking up Christina Chong on #Google after watching an episode of #STStrangeNewWorlds. 2 questions in Google changes the output to Christina Chang, a completely different person, age and nationality. If a human did that we'd call them racist for thinking all Asian people look al…
Kann man es eigentlich irgendwie schaffen, #Familylink zu deaktiveren oder zu deinstallieren, ohne alle Daten zu verlieren?
#Google #Handy
Not being allowed to install what I want on a phone is like being told I cant make a sandwich with the bread I bought.
#Android #Google #FreeSoftware
"Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"
#Google #Climate #ClimateChange #Technology
Google gibt den Suchenden oft schon in der KI-Zusammenfassung Antworten auf ihre Fragen zu Symptomen, Medikamenten oder Reisezielen. Außerdem sind Reichweitenverlierer der neuen Google-Suche in Europa Nachrichtenseiten und Community-Plattformen #Handelsblatt #Google
"We associate your Google Account with a region so that we can better provide our services to you. Your region association will change within 30 days.
Current: Spain
New: United States — Virginia"
What? The? Fuck?
#Google
Was könnten diese Firmen und Menschen gemeinsam haben?
#Google, #Meta, #Apple, #Blackrock,
#Google und #PayPal wollen gemeinsam die Bereiche Einkauf und Bezahlung auf Basis künstlicher Intelligenz voranbringen. Dazu seien beide Unternehmen eine auf mehrere Jahre ausgelegte Partnerschaft eingegangen, heißt es in einer Mitteilung von Google und PayPal. Sie sprechen von einer »Revolution im H…
The contrast between Google AI search results, which are terrible and totally unreliable, and NotebookLM is amazing.
I think it is irresponsible from Google to integrate AI search results in Google Search...
#ai #googlesearch
"Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’"
#Google #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange
Klage gegen #SocialMedia-Plattformen
New York City hat #Google #Bytedance und #Meta, die Betreiber von
Die #EU verhängt fast 3 Mrd. Strafe gegen #Google – Trump nennt es „Diebstahl von US-Jobs“. Im Kern hat er recht: Europas Milliarden für Google fließen zurück in die USA, stärken Abhängigkeiten – und Trumps Wahlfonds. Wer googelt, gmailt, youtube’t, zahlt also doppelt: mit Daten und mit Einfluss.
Ko…
Always fun/challenging to read new AI (pre)papers like this. "Base models know how to reason, thinking models learn when".
#AI #Google #reasoning
#google plans to forbid that I may install any app I like on my #Android #smartphone.
New #Pixel phones cost as mu…
When I bought a #Pixel phone, I've spent three times as much as I usually spend. I figured out it's justified, since I'm finally going to have a phone with good software support (#GrapheneOS).
Over the last 6 months, #Google:
1. locked down the device tree,
2. increased embargo to security updates to 3 months,
3. broke battery charge limiter.
Won't recommend this to anyone.
#Android
Did Google Maps and Apple Maps search get worse in the past year?
I keep having a ridiculous amount of trouble locating places to eat or stores in #NYC lately unless I know the precise name of a place - even very similar keywords like “burger” for a place that’s called “Blue Collar Burger” - and it doesn’t come up.
Let alone searching for nearby open restaurants or something by category… most places just don’t come up and instead I see completely irrelevant businesses.
I feel like it’s deteriorated a lot since 2024 but I also might be misremembering how easy it used to be.
#tech #Apple #Google #askfedi
I am old enough to remember when Android was still cool!
#Android #Google #GrapheneOS #CalyxOS
Good points well made by @…:
"It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe. ...
"For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works."
#tech #privacy #law #USPol #Apple #Google
"Google shares new data on energy consumption of Gemini AI prompts"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy
#SteadySupporter
Mit Klicklauten und Pfeifen kommunizieren #Delfine seit jeher. Jetzt will #Google mithilfe von #KI
#Perplexity legt 34,5 Mrd. auf den Tisch und will Chrome – symbolträchtiger geht es kaum. #Google schweigt, Regulatoren schauen genau hin. Die KI-Revolution ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten, schreibt FAZ – aber wer rettet eigentlich das Web vor den Rettern?
Unpopular opinion (yes, I know y'all going to ban me now): #Microsoft #Teams is not the worst videoconferencing tool I've used at dayjob.
#Slack: tested screen sharing before the job interview using the browser. During the interview it turned out that the test mode is different than the actual "huddle", and had to install the app real quick.
#Google Meet: "Meet doesn't work on your browser". Tells me to install one of the support browsers, e.g. #Firefox. Except that I'm using Firefox. 🤦
#Zoom: "install our app".
Teams: miraculously just worked.
Die #EU verhängt Milliardenstrafe gegen #Google, #Trump nennt das laut #Tagesschau gleich „Erpressung“. Aber …
Do you use #Orbot?
#Android #GrapheneOS #Privacy #Security #Tor #TorBrowser #Google #Apple #iOS