"Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but #Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed #openstandards (except when they didn’t), supported #opensource projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like #dontbeEvil (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
See tagged statuses in the local BookWyrm community
App del mese: https://f-droid.org/packages/page.ooooo.geoshare
#GeoShare è un semplice tool che decodifica i link di #GoogleMaps traducendoli in link geo: (ovvero coordinate standard) quando possibile senza connettersi ai server di #Google.
In questo modo, quando dei poveri succubi vi mandano una posizione su Google Map, voi potete aprirla su #OrganicMap senza informare Google.
E sì, Google Map dovrebbe essere obbligato per legge ad usare link geo: per interoperabilità, ma...
TOR doesn't collect your data at all, unlike #Google #Chrome https://u.fsf.org/46s
#Google is a California corporation. What's its stance on Trump's ICE Gestapo invading the state?
There are changes that #Google 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.
TOR doesn't collect your data at all, unlike #Google #Chrome https://u.fsf.org/46s
Just noticed that #Google finally got around to obscuring the #StreetView 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
#media #Google #SearchEngines #AI
'New research reveals that Google’s AI Overviews tend to favor major news outlets.
The top 10 publishers capture nearly 80% of all news mentions. Meanwhile, smaller organizations struggle for visibility in AI-generated search results.'
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.
#AndroidWearOS #Apple #AppleWatch #ct #ctuplink #Garmin #Google #IT #Journal #Mobiles #Samsung #Smartwatch #Tizen #Wearables #news
TOR doesn't collect your data at all, unlike #Google #Chrome https://u.fsf.org/46s
Der Mangel an Medienkompetenz in der #ErwachsenenBildung ist wirklich sowohl faszinierend als auch erschreckend.
Früher dachte ich, wer auf #Google nach Google sucht, damit dann was bei Google gesucht werden kann, wäre wirklich hilfebedürftigt. Heute wäre so jemand quasi der Einäugige unter den Blinden.
Alter Falter ...
My Take on Digital soverignty and the urgent need of it in EU.
My first blog post be respectful thanks
#Apple #Dependency #Europe #Facebook #FOSS #GAFAM #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Privacy #Russia #Security #Software #Soverignty #Technology #USA
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 #Google 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.
#Petition
"Kein Techkonzern sollte eine solche Monopolmacht besitzen, wie Google sie bei Suchmaschinen oder in der Online-Werbung innehat."
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/google-zerschlagen?source=rawlink&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rawlink&share=584e04fb-21c6-4ecf-bb5c-4b83d2f9b27c
Gern boosten. Danke.
Nell'oscurità delle lande di Mordor: racconti distopici di quel periodo in cui mi sono venduto a Google
«È stato a #Google 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»