2026-02-17 06:11:34
Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech
Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech
Jestem w ciężkim szoku jak wierną kopią #iPhone15Pro jest ten mój nowy #Google #Pixel9a. W ślepym teście można by się było pomylić jakby nie wyspa aparatów 😅
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.
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
Wieder ein Schritt näher am #Universaltranslator. 😁
#Google öffnet seine Live-#Übersetzungsfunktion für alle
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…
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
Google gaat het eventuele klappen van de "AI bubble" gewoon overleven lijkt me, #google
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 …
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
#Großbritannien plant laut Medienberichten, #Apple und #Google aufzufordern, #Nacktfotos sys…
"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate
In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism
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:
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
#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
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.
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.
Hejka! Piszę do Was z nowiutkiego #Google #Pixel9a z wgranym #GrapheneOS. Od teraz wracam na ścieżkę #privacy
»Punkt MC03 — Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne #Google:
Die Schweizer Firma #PunktDesign hat mit dem #PunktMC03 ein neues, besonders stark auf die
#Google en #Microsoft houden energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters geheim voor de overheid.
Hoog tijd om water, energiegebruik en piekvermogen op te nemen in de E-PRTR richtlijn. Dat is net zo bedrijfsgevoelig als omzet, winst en eigen vermogen. Gewoon publiceren dus. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid-a4915848?gift_token=4915848~1767956111~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~THiRtzTxzPB96nOLMWppa8Cr74u0NDFtyT-lMSZyukQ
A #google sabe tanta coisa a meu respeito, ela deveria saber que eu sei inglês o suficiente para preferir que minhas buscas e as pšginas que eu abro não sejam automaticamente traduzidas desta língua para o português. ¬¬
Any open-source options for an event registration form? Do I really have to go to #Google? Don't suggest self-hosted, please ...
AI translation can't get any wronger: The Kannada word "ಪ್ರಾಣಾಂತರ್ಗತ" (ISO prāṇāṁtargata) or the variation ಪ್ರಾಣಾನ್ತರ್ಗತ (prāṇāntargata) actually means "resident in [part of] breath [life]".
1: #fail #AI #translation #Kannada #English #languages #Google
Florian Harms fordert das Offensichtliche: Gewinne, die von #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft und Co in Deutschland erwirtschaftet werden, müssen hier besteuert werden – nicht in irischen Daten-Oasen. Punkt. Nur…
Ich hoffe ja, dass sich z.B. #Google an "Don't be evil!" erinnert. Das wäre ein Anfang.
🇵🇱 Nowy wpis na #blog!
#GrapheneOS - uwolnij się od #Google i #Apple
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
Ja, scho recht...
#ki #aioverview #google
Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends
VMA till alla ägare av androidtelefoner - håller ni med? #googlepixel #mobiltelefon #android
#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware
By the way,
StreetComplete
#OSM #Fdroid #GooglePlay
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
Whether you like or dislike Chrome, the fact that ChromeOS is "just a web browser" is a positive. I don't want to see them mess that up. Putting Android on these things seems like a bad idea.
#AluminiumOS #Google
So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding
When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…
For #google, #microsoft, #adobe, #facebook and others...
When I turn off location trac…
Weg von #Google: #MailboxOrg von @… scheint eine gute Alternative zu sein!
Die Kontakte und Kalendereinträge waren problemlos von Go…
"Das Ergebnis ist ein Internet, das sich zunehmend anfühlt wie ein riesiger Basar voller Marktschreier, die alle um deine Aufmerksamkeit buhlen. Die kleinen, authentischen Stimmen gehen unter. Originalität wird bestraft, weil sie schwerer zu skalieren ist." | Wer hat das Internet kaputt gemacht? Die Wahrheit über Google, SEO und den Niedergang der Suche - Jörg Schieb | #Google
I added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap
Hmmmm, ja klar.
Ist das jetzt Überschätzung oder gehen die #Massenentlassungen noch 5 Jahre weiter?
#Google plant, seine #KI-Infrastruktur alle sechs Monate zu verdoppeln, um der steigen…
LLM-guided development is making #autobahn truly great. Now it decided to arbitrarily start "vendoring" flatbuffers. Except that by "vendoring", they actually mean installing their own top-level `flatbuffers` package as part of `autobahn` (and therefore overwriting the original `flatbuffers`). I wonder how #Google feels about that…
#NoLLM
fuck all social media websites!
a putz on you all! !
#meta #google #Facebook #instagram <…
Wczoraj przy stole świątecznym próbowałem rodzinie wytłumaczyć o co chodzi z tym, że używam z degooglowanego systemu na telefonie od #Google i wydaje mi się, że poległem 😅
#GrapheneOS
#Airbus will seit 2018 weg von der Abhängigkeit von Microsoft Office.
Schafft es aber aus Kompatibilitätsgründen nicht.
Dachte erst: Aha, #LibreOffice oder so.
Weit gefehlt: Man möchte zu #Google
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
🎯 Zero accuracy loss - preserves what matters: errors, anomalies, high-scoring items & query-relevant content using BM25/embedding similarity
✅ Full provider support: #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google
Przede mną pewnie jeszcze sporo szukania odpowiedników FOSS do tego czego używam na co dzień, ale póki co po pięciu dniach chyba doszedłem do kropki (a przynajmniej przecinka) z konfiguracją #GrapheneOS pod siebie. To co najbardziej mnie boli to fakt, że musiałem do profilu z usługami #Google pr…
Google pimpt Maps für E-Auto-Fahrer:innen: Freie Ladesäulen werden angezeigt und KI soll jetzt voraussagen, wie voll die Ladesäulen bei Ankunft sind. Klingt praktisch – aber macht uns erneut abhängig von Googles Daten-Ökosystem. Komfort gegen Kontrollverlust, die x-te Runde.
#googlemaps #Digitalisierung
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Mit Klicklauten und Pfeifen kommunizieren #Delfine seit jeher. Jetzt will #Google
#Bateria w #Google #Pixel9a jest świetna! A może to wpływ #GrapheneOS bez zbędnego syfu? Myślę, że…
Landmark social media trial to begin over addiction claims - BBC Business
#TikTok #YouTube #Google #Snapchat #Meta #Instagram #Zuckerberg #Facebook
#Bolt działa bez usług #Google, ale #Uber już nie... #GrapheneOS
#mObywatel działa świetnie bez usług #Google, brawo! Natomiast #mojeIKP już działa tylko na profilu z #GMS
Die Konferenz der 🇨🇭 #schweizerischen #Datenschutzbeauftragten (#privatim), hält die Auslagerung von bestimmten #Personendaten an #Cloud-Dienste von #AWS #Google #Microsoft etc. für unzulässig:
➡️ oft fehlt #E2EE
➡️ zu wenig #Transparenz
➡️ erheblicher Kontrollverlust
➡️ #Rechtsunsicherheit
➡️ #CloudAct
24.11.2025:
#SaaS #M365 #TeamDatenschutz #privacy #digitalesouveranitat #eusummit25 #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #BigTech #ms365