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Google has quietly released an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and other apps (Ben Patterson/PCWorld)
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079523

Google makes Gmail, Drive, and Docs 'agent-ready' for OpenClaw
A new command-line interface for Google Workspace greases the wheels for personal AI assistants like OpenClaw to tap directly into Workspace documents.

Google Workspace is not forwarding my private domain email reliably to Gmail: I think they're screwing up the ARC and stuff gets dropped as spam. Have you used either of these two alternatives?

1. Use Cloudflare or ForwardEmail to be MX for my domain and deliver to Gmail. Do they get ARC right?
2. Use Google Workspace "address mapping" to forward as the admin (instead of a personal forward). Does this work better?

Let me just say that niri has awesome documentation. Just leafing through it now for workspaces et al and it is very extensive. Without being overwhelming.
#niri

Fork, Explore, Commit: OS Primitives for Agentic Exploration
Cong Wang, Yusheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08199 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08199
arXiv:2602.08199v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents increasingly perform agentic exploration: pursuing multiple solution paths in parallel and committing only the successful one. Because each exploration path may modify files and spawn processes, agents require isolated environments with atomic commit and rollback semantics for both filesystem state and process state. We introduce the branch context, a new OS abstraction that provides: (1) copy-on-write state isolation with independent filesystem views and process groups, (2) a structured lifecycle of fork, explore, and commit/abort, (3) first-commit-wins resolution that automatically invalidates sibling branches, and (4) nestable contexts for hierarchical exploration. We realize branch contexts in Linux through two complementary components. First, BranchFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that gives each branch context an isolated copy-on-write workspace, with O(1) creation, atomic commit to the parent, and automatic sibling invalidation, all without root privileges. BranchFS is open sourced in https://github.com/multikernel/branchfs. Second, branch() is a proposed Linux syscall that spawns processes into branch contexts with reliable termination, kernel-enforced sibling isolation, and first-commit-wins coordination. Preliminary evaluation of BranchFS shows sub-350 us branch creation independent of base filesystem size, and modification-proportional commit overhead (under 1 ms for small changes).
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Google expands its AI-powered Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search, letting them get information, organize plans, draft docs, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/889339/google-canvas-ai-mode-search-us-launch

Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search
Google is rolling out Canvas in AI Mode to everyone in the US. Along with using the tool for visualizing travel plans, users can now draft documents and view interactive prototypes, too.

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

Google Workspace bounced an email to my somebits email address. That stuff just forwards to my gmail account. I've learned two things today:

1. Google's own forwarding of messages breaks DKIM and can cause email to be marked as spam just because of its own forwarding process
2. Google leaked my gmail address in the bounce from the message sent to my somebits address. That's a major privacy violation!

Hello #Fediverse! Time for a proper #Introduction.
I’m a hobbyist developer and engineer (outside the tech industry) who loves building tools for education and personal use. I’m currently focused on:
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Bitbucket recently announced shutting down inactive workspaces.
I logged there, and my Ph.D stuff (mostly papers, some Python) were all there.
To preserve them, I asked #Copilot to write a script to move them to GitHub.
If you want to admire the slop, there’s now a post about it

Migrate Bitbucket repositories to GitHub · Technical inconsistencies blog
Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted. Almost 20 years ago, I created a Bitbucket workspace to host my university stuff (mostly for my research thesis and various papers). And while I have the final PDFs, I did not want all that LaTeX to go to waste, so I decided to migrate everything to GitHub (which, since 20 years ago, added private repositories to their free offering).

Left: launcher button. Then all my workspaces, even when they're empty. The active windows and on which workspace they are. Playerctl (when you're playing sth). Tools, tray. volume, clock. Showing the nwg-drawer (although I shortcut most applications) Bar at 99%, so it aligns with windows below. Everything can be adjusted very simply, before applying. Nwg-shell rocks!