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"Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed (except when they didn’t), supported projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like (until they,in a true dark comedy move, retracted that motto).
I was always an anarchist, abstractly, but in many ways Google was my political awakening."
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

App del mese: https://f-droid.org/packages/page.ooooo.geoshare

è un semplice tool che decodifica i link di traducendoli in link geo: (ovvero coordinate standard) quando possibile senza connettersi ai server di .

In questo modo, quando dei poveri succubi vi mandano una posizione su Google Map, voi potete aprirla su senza informare Google.

E sì, Google Map dovrebbe essere obbligato per legge ad usare link geo: per interoperabilità, ma...

There are changes that could make in their generative AI deployments that would vastly reduce the amount of AI Slop and be enormously positive for users. But since Google has never had an "AI Ethicist" role not a member of the engineering teams actually building these systems, the voice needed to address these concerns to power just has not been present. AI Ethicist is a full time job now, and needs to be an individual NOT also involved in building the systems, but in a position to evaluate them fairly without fear of retribution from above.

Just noticed that finally got around to obscuring the of my house on Google Maps after multiple requests. ☺️

Don't know how long this took but it took more than a couple of days which is suggested in some articles about the process. I've made the request multiple times over several years but haven't checked on the last those requests for at least a year. Stopped checking because nothing was done I checked on earlier requests. 🤷

If you'd like to do this for your house, there are many articles telling you how to do it. This is just one of them:

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-maps

Wo Smartwatches tatsächlich nützlich sind | c’t uplink

Was die smarten Uhren mittlerweile können, wie sich die Modelle unterscheiden und wie Google Fossil verprellt hat, darüber sprechen wir in c’t uplink.

https://www.heise.de/news/Wo-Smartwatches-tatsaechlich-nuetzlich-sind-c-t-uplink-10435003.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

One of my favorite (now ex-) Googlers is Matt Cutts. He's a really great guy. Lunch with him on Google's MTV campus was always enjoyable. For a long time he was arguably the most public face of Google Search and often of more generally. When he left Google for a public service stint heading up the U.S. Digital Service (which is now unrecognizable as DOGE) it marked in retrospect the beginning of Google's decline in significant ways.

Nell'oscurità delle lande di Mordor: racconti distopici di quel periodo in cui mi sono venduto a Google

«È stato a che ho imparato che no, i capitalisti sono letteralmente la stessa cosa dei cattivi di Captain Planet. Non siamo abbastanza fortunati da vivere nella realtà Ghibli, i proprietari di capitali ci hanno costruito una realtà da cartone animato americano trash degli anni '90»

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

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