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Really excellent, easy, working, guide to self-hosting OnlyOffice if you want to break free of #Microsoft or #Google
https:/…

@… wants to have the #sherman act (anti-trust) invoked against the #google #monopoly

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

Update Pricing information for Cloud CDN Interconnect
Google Cloud pricing update: CDN Interconnect and Peering (May 2026).

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

Last month I switched from Google Workspace to proton.me for hosting email for my domains.
It went smoothly, but if you're considering it, here's some things I wish I'd known when I was starting to move my old email.
#protonmail #google_apps #google_workspace

Ah, #Google möchte noch mehr #Profiling.
Google beschränkt den Funktionsumfang von #GoogleMaps für Nutzer ohne Anmeldung.
Ohne Konto fehlen

Googles Kartendienst: Google Maps ohne Anmeldung nur noch eingeschränkt nutzbar - Golem.de
Wer Google Maps auch mal ohne Anmeldung nutzt, muss sich neuerdings auf etliche Beschränkungen einstellen.

Everytime someone asks me to "please leave a #Google review" at this guesthouse/restaurant/etc, when I say "Sorry, I don't have a Google account" they seem so flabbergasted that they don't know how to respond.

Really need to find a new search engine with @Google going all in on clanker slop for math. The difference of an additional zero:
#google #LLM #clankers

As of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the #Android platform without first registering centrally with #Google. This matters to you if you use or are dependent on the #Android

Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

#Bateria w #Google #Pixel9a jest świetna! A może to wpływ #GrapheneOS bez zbędnego syfu? Myślę, że…

Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech

DNS-Eintrag für #Wordpress gäbe. Ich habe so das leichte Gefühl, dass nicht

Google gaat het eventuele klappen van de "AI bubble" gewoon overleven lijkt me, #google

Moederbedrijf Google boekt recordomzet
Het techbedrijf behaalde het afgelopen jaar een omzet van meer dan 400 miljard dollar.

Ja, scho recht...
#ki #aioverview #google

Even if you tell Google to not save your videos, they still do. Please, don't use Nest cameras
"But Nest still saves around three hours of “event-based” video history for free before being deleted. That data lives in Google’s cloud and servers. "
#google #nest

How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN.

"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

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

GitHub - PMassicotte/gtrendsR: R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries
R functions to perform and display Google Trends queries - PMassicotte/gtrendsR

«#Protest gegen US-Regierung — Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken:
Das Ministerium hat #Google, #Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschi…

Protest gegen US-Regierung: Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken
Das Ministerium hat Google, Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschickt, um Daten von Nutzern zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde ICE kritisieren. Die Konzerne kamen einigen Anfragen nach.

Weg von #Google: #MailboxOrg von @… scheint eine gute Alternative zu sein!
Die Kontakte und Kalendereinträge waren problemlos von Go…

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

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

#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

Wrong.
#google #ai #slop

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

Just returned my brand new #Google #WiFi Pro.
So many issues with dropped connections on Android and MacOS. Turns out they are known issues. Going back to my ancient Google WiFi mesh which actually works.

Natürlich ist eine #KI in deinem Browser bequem. Vor allem auch für den Daten- und Werbekonzern, der so noch viel mehr Einblick in dein Innenleben erhält.
#DNIP #Google

"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

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

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…

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism

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

Wieder ein Schritt näher am #Universaltranslator. 😁
#Google öffnet seine Live-#Übersetzungsfunktion für alle

Google Translate: Echtzeit-Übersetzung jetzt für alle Kopfhörer - Golem.de
Google öffnet seine Live-Übersetzungsfunktion für sämtliche Bluetooth-Kopfhörer. Bisher war das Feature auf die Pixel Buds beschränkt.

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…

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…

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

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.

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.

#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

🎯 Zero accuracy loss - preserves what matters: errors, anomalies, high-scoring items & query-relevant content using BM25/embedding similarity
✅ Full provider support: #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google

»Punkt MC03 — Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne #Google:
Die Schweizer Firma #PunktDesign hat mit dem #PunktMC03 ein neu­es, besonders stark auf die

Punkt MC03: Schweizer Smartphone, made in Germany - ohne Google
Die Schweizer Firma PunktDesign hat mit dem Punkt. MC03 ein neues, besonders stark auf die Privatsphäre des Nutzers ausgelegtes Smartphone auf Basis einer abgesicherten Android-Variante vorgestellt. Das Gerät wurde in der Schweiz entwickelt und ist "Made in Germany".

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

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 …

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. ¬¬

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

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…

Any open-source options for an event registration form? Do I really have to go to #Google? Don't suggest self-hosted, please ...

Ah, #Google möchte noch mehr #Profiling.
Google beschränkt den Funktionsumfang von #GoogleMaps für Nutzer ohne Anmeldung.
Ohne Konto fehlen

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

VMA till alla ägare av androidtelefoner - håller ni med? #googlepixel #mobiltelefon #android

#Google plant in #Minnesota ein #Rechenzentrum, das mit 1,9 Gigawatt sauberer #Energie betrieben …

Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery | TechCrunch
Form Energy's iron-air batteries will store wind and solar power to keep the data center running 24/7.

#Google #Android Recorder telling me not to spy on people. Funny.

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 😅

Ich hoffe ja, dass sich z.B. #Google an "Don't be evil!" erinnert. Das wäre ein Anfang.

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

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

StreetComplete
#OSM #Fdroid #GooglePlay

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…

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

For #google, #microsoft, #adobe, #facebook and others...
When I turn off location trac…

Landmark social media trial to begin over addiction claims - BBC Business
#TikTok #YouTube #Google #Snapchat #Meta #Instagram #Zuckerberg #Facebook

#risque #santé avec #Google #IA : #AI Overviews put pe…

#Großbritannien plant laut Medienberichten, #Apple und #Google aufzufordern, #Nacktfotos sys…

Bericht: Großbritannien will Apple und Google zu Nacktfotos-Blockade zwingen
Das britische Home Office will Apple und Google auffordern, Nacktfotos systemweit zu blockieren. Entsprechende Pläne sind laut einem Bericht in Vorbereitung.

It is kinda interesting how eager #Google and #Microsoft are to demonstrate the sunken cost fallacy.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

fuck all social media websites!
a putz on you all! !
#meta #google #Facebook #instagram <…

Erstmals fließt jeder zweite deutsche Werbe-Euro an #Google, #Amazon & #Meta, titelt #Horizont

#Apple and #Google must enforce their stores' terms of service
💥and remove X Corp's #X and #Grok apps from their app stores
over recent in…

I added a quote from the #TechOversightProject:
"The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that #Meta, #Google, #Snap

#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

#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

Airbus will seit Jahren weg von Microsoft Office – schafft es aber einfach nicht
Kompatibilitätsprobleme sorgen dafür, dass ein großer Teil der Mitarbeiter zwei Office-Lösungen parallel nutzen muss. Dabei wurde der Umstieg schon 2018 beschlossen

Antena #GSM w #Google #Pixel9a jest duuużo lepsza od tej w #Samsung

🇵🇱 Nowy wpis na #blog!
#GrapheneOS - uwolnij się od #Google i #Apple

#Steady-#Klimacrew
Mit Klicklauten und Pfeifen kommunizieren #Delfine seit jeher. Jetzt will #Google

Mit Delfinen sprechen: Googles KI will den Pfeif-Code knacken
Du hast Dich schon immer gefragt, was Delfine sagen? Google will es jetzt mit dem KI-Projekt Projekt DolphinGemma herausfinden.

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

Hejka! Piszę do Was z nowiutkiego #Google #Pixel9a z wgranym #GrapheneOS. Od teraz wracam na ścieżkę #privacy