The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

I’ll probably shut it down.

Nobody cares about privacy. The reasons I bring up in discussions are “too nerdy”. They put all their stuff to Google or Apple, so why would messaging be any different? (We’re not even using all those Matrix crypto stuff … That would be insane.)

It’s a lost cause. I’m frustrated.

Will I give in and use WhatsApp instead? Not sure yet.

Have not tried any of them, but some of these seem to fit the bill:

• https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/Redirector
  
• https://libredirect.github.io/
  
• https://requestly.com/products/web-debugger/

Google Chrome will have Gemini LLM built into the browser.

Japanese ‘My Number Card’ Digital IDs Coming to Apple’s Wallet App
Apple today announced that support for national My Number Card IDs in Japan will be coming to Apple’s Wallet app “late next spring,” marking the first expansion of digital IDs in Apple Wallet beyond the United States [ [Google translation](https://www-apple-com.translate.goog/jp/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announc … ⌘ Read more

Google 官方發佈 Go 語言編碼規範
在現代軟件開發中，代碼的可讀性和一致性是至關重要的。尤其是當團隊規模擴大時，遵循一致的編碼規範可以顯著提高代碼的可維護性和團隊協作效率。本文將深入探討 Go 語言的 Google 編碼規範，並結合具體示例，幫助你在實際開發中應用這些規範。爲什麼需要編碼規範？———-編碼規範不僅僅是 “如何寫代碼” 的指導方針，它更是團隊協作的基石。遵守編碼規範可以：提高代碼的可讀性：一致的代碼風格使得 ⌘ Read more

How to Confirm Before Closing Windows with Multiple Tabs in Chrome, Edge, Brave
If you use a lot of tabs when browsing the web with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or any other Chromium based browser, you might want to enable an optional feature that asks to confirm whether or not you wish to close any browser window with multiple tabs open. This can help to prevent you … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/25/how-confirm-before-closing-windows-multiple-ta … ⌘ Read more

How to Search the Web (Minus AI Junk & Clutter) with Google on Safari for Mac
If you’re a Safari user, as many of us are, you might be interested in actually searching the web with Google and then seeing a list of actual web link results, without seeing any of the new AI junk, video and image recommendations, knowledge panels, related searches, suggested searches, or the other junky clutter that … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/24/search-web-google-no-ai-junk-clutter-saf … ⌘ Read more

How to Search Google Without AI Rubbish & Clutter
Remember when you used to use Google search and it would only return a list of links for web results, letting you easily find what you’re looking for? Google was once the best way to search the web, but as almost all Google users have noticed, the web search engine has become less of an … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Import Google Chrome Data into Microsoft Edge
If you’re making a switch from Google Chrome to the Microsoft Edge browser on your Mac, you’ll almost certainly want to import your Chrome data into Edge. Doing so will allow Edge to have immediate access to your saved logins and passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, settings, and more, allowing you to seamlessly transition from Chrome … Read More ⌘ Read more

Google 孵化了 3 個 Go 安全庫，推薦使用！
大家好，我是煎魚。Google 作爲一家用戶體量很大的企業，有非常多的產品，經常會被黑客攻擊或被拿來練手。因此其設計的產品、編程語言、工具庫等都會要求考慮安全性相關的內容。例如：各種供應鏈攻擊、CWE 等安全的查缺補漏等。我們作爲用戶（使用者），可以 “白嫖” 這些功能實現。直接複用在自家的業務上就可以了。這樣每年在護網上都能省不少勁。三個 Go 安全庫———本次 Google 輸出了 ⌘ Read more

從零到生產：Go 在 Google 的歷程 [譯]
2007 年 Go 誕生於 Google，2009 年 Google 正式對外宣佈了 Go 語言的開源！時至今日，距離 Go 開源已經過去了近 15 個年頭了 [1]！Go 在 Google 公司內部究竟是怎樣的一個狀態呢？前 Google 員工 Yves Junqueira 近期撰文從其個人所見所聞談了 Go 在 Google 的歷程 [2]！這裏簡單翻譯，供大家參考！ 最近，Jeremy Ma ⌘ Read more

Go 通過 grpc-protobuf 實現高性能用戶服務實戰，從 0 到 1 超級詳細流程！！
基礎知識準備在在代碼實戰 gRPC 之前，我們需要了解一些基礎知識：RPC（Remote Procedure Call）：遠程過程調用，是一種通信協議，允許應用程序在不同的計算機上請求服務而不需要了解底層網絡細節。 gRPC：gRPC 是一種高性能、開源的遠程過程調用（RPC）框架，由 Google 開發，並基於 HTTP/2、Protocol Buffers 等技術實現。 Proto ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de For syncing notes between computers and phones I’ve been very happy with Simple Text - w Dropbox sync for some year, but transitioned to Joplin around new year. Both sync via Dropbox and for Joplin there are also more free options. I guess you could even use something like Syncthing

I came across Google Summer of Code

This one looks interesting, I’ll apply soon, and perhaps is interesting for you as well
https://kiwix.org/en/google-summer-of-code/

Would ‘twtxt’ be a good project for the next one? 🤔

Creepy spot you can only visit on Google
There are some places that just don’t belong on a travel itinerary; but that’s not to say you can’t go there. ⌘ Read more

Hilarious detail in Google Street view
There have been some truly peculiar moments in time captured by the Google street view cameras. But this one has people scratching their heads. ⌘ Read more

Chilling discovery on Google street view
Eagle-eyed viewers have discovered something unsettling in this passing snapshot of a cemetery in Texas. ⌘ Read more

AllSides study finds left-leaning bias in Google News, other aggregators
An AllSides Media study reveals Google News favors left-leaning sources, with 63% of 2023 content leaning left, an increase from 61% in 2022. ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds Has ‘Robust Exchanges’ Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List
Linus Torvalds had “some robust exchanges” on the Linux kernel mailing list with a contributor from Google. The subject was inodes, notes the Register, “which as Red Hat puts it are each ‘a unique identifier for a specific piece of metadata on a given filesystem.’”

Inodes have been the subj … ⌘ Read more

Anyone here, who loves Jesus or searches his help. Read or listen to 5fi.sh or 5fish.com or use 5fish app from Google App (in every language or dialect of the world)!

What? You are still using chrome? Firefox is where its at. But if you need WebKit there is always chromium which strips out all the google nonsense.

Google Chrome Gains AI Features Including a Writing Helper
Google is adding new AI features to Chrome, including tools to organize browser tabs, customize themes, and assist users with writing online content such as reviews and forum posts.

The writing helper is similar to an AI-powered feature already offered in Google’s experimental search experience, SGE, which helps users draft emails in various tones and lengths. W … ⌘ Read more

原來可以這麼使用 Protobuf
*1. Protobuf 簡介1.1 Protobuf 是什麼Protocol Buffers (簡稱 Protobuf) 是 Google 公司開源的一種輕便高效的結構化數據存儲格式, 以及用於序列化和反序列化結構化數據的代碼生成器。它可以用於通訊協議和數據存儲等領域。Protobuf 是以 .proto 文件形式定義結構化數據的方式和格式。並且通過代碼生成器生成各平臺 (Java、C++、Py ⌘ Read more

Go 語言與 gRPC 的完美結合
*一、gRPC 簡介gRPC(Remote Procedure Call) 是一種遠程過程調用技術, 通過壓縮和序列化數據來優化網絡通信, 可以顯著提高服務調用的性能和效率。gRPC 的概念gRPC 是一個高性能、通用的開源 RPC 框架, 是一個由 Google 主導開發的 RPC 框架。其以 HTTP/2 爲基礎通信協議, 支持多種語言, 通過 protocol buffers 數據格式來實現 ⌘ Read more

How to Search Reviews on Google Maps
Many people use Google Maps to find out about businesses, parks, locations, and destinations, by reading the reviews. While it’s one thing to browse through all of the reviews and read them, it can be very useful to narrow down reviews for something specific, like a keyword. Thus, it’s a desirable capability to be able … Read More ⌘ Read more

After seeing Google’s Gemini video, will everyone now need to invest in one of this pointing-downwards camera stands for the home?

17 個開源的 Go 語言博客和 CMS 解決方案
Go 語言，也稱爲 Golang，是一種爲構建高效、可靠和可擴展軟件而設計的開源編程語言。它於 2007 年在 Google 開發，現在廣泛用於開發 Web 應用程序、網絡工具和系統軟件。爲什麼使用基於 Go 的 CMS 解決方案？———————-這些優勢使 Go 成爲開發可擴展、高性能應用程序的熱門選擇。在使用 Go 構建基於 Web 的解決方案時，其速度是其中一個主 ⌘ Read more

DeepMind AI can beat the best weather forecasts - but there is a catch
By using artificial intelligence to spot patterns in weather data, Google DeepMind says it can beat existing weather forecasts up to 99.7 per cent of the time, but data issues mean the approach is limited for now ⌘ Read more

First issue I ran into is rapidjson, there is no package for it, but it compiled from source without google tests. But I did not check what version I had on my debian machine, so I need to check that and compile the same version on openbsd. Ill work on that tomorrow.

How to Drop a Pin in Google Maps on iPhone or iPad
Dropping a pin on Google Maps allows you to mark a location on the map for sharing with others, for saving that spot for yourself to reference later, or even for getting directions to that pinned location. It’s a very useful feature of Google Maps that has wide applications, so if you’re a Google Maps … Read More ⌘ Read more

The amount of shady Android apps in Google’s “Play Store” is so large, it makes me want to write my own software instead. 😖

How to Install Safari Technology Preview on Mac
Safari Technology Preview is an optional web browser for Mac that is separate from the regular Safari browser, with the Tech Preview offering an early look at upcoming web technologies and features before they become included in the primary Safari browser. In this way, Safari Tech Preview is kind of like Google’s Chrome Canary, and … Read More ⌘ Read more

Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services
Secret scanning now performs validity checks for select AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack tokens.

The post Introducing secret scanning validity checks for major cloud services appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Anyone testing bard.google.com?

Came across a twitter post claiming that there is a UFO in a building, meaning the ufo crashed, and then the building was built to cover it.

The tweets are here:
https://twitter.com/realityseaker/status/1677744254918049794
and here:
https://twitter.com/UAPodcast850/status/1678855434705182721

I wish it was true, but I have doubts about it.
It’s easy enough to find the building on google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B024’48.5%22N+126%C2%B055’44.4%22E/@37.4134617,126.9264272,572m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d37.4134617!4d126.9290021!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu

And if you zoom out you see that it’s not even remote. So a UFO crash here without any pictures \ videos is extremely unlikely.

Also, the antenna on the roof got me thinking, I’ve seen that before, and that is where I often walk our dog, see here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@58.0845749,7.9084282,63m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu

@prologic@twtxt.net is goryon not in the google app store?

@prologic@twtxt.net it’ll be nice to get away from google for a while. also moved all my cloud files to proton drive (got tired of self-hosting). I want a mac too, the m2 laptop. But that will be later. but Im unsure how software development is done on it, if its easy to for example code your own stuff (c++), and also I have no idea how gui realted things are handled. but that makes it fun as well - figuring out all that stuff.

GTK4 libraries are not detected by cmake, even though I have it installed on my system. I’ve googled a bit - and others have solved it a bit differently. So I’ll try a couple of things to see if I can get it to work.

Gostava de saber a razão pela qual a Google achou boa ideia lançar os TLDs ‘.zip’ e ‘.mov’ que coincidem com formatos de ficheiros comuns. Não compreendo como é que a ICANN permitiu tal coisa. A quantidade de phishing que irá surgir devido a isto será engraçado de ver.

Por acaso não esperava que o primeiro valor real da Google na sua oferta de produtos com IA se centrasse na análise de malware.

Sometimes being in a webinar with Google™ engineers makes you feel quite dumb and that you just realise how much you don’t know 🤣

Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app. ⌘ Read more

google maps as a dating app

how install gomodot? also.. @prologic@twtxt.net your domain has some pretty strong SEO mojo searching for install "gomodot" puts you on the google first page.

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

I guess Google Hangouts is finally dead.

Why is Google such a mess at making messaging apps? This has more or less been a solved problem for decades. Google Talk worked well enough, and since it was based on XMPP and Jingle it was perfectly suited to become a large-scale text/voice/video messaging system. If they’d run with that they’d have been able to dominate that space, I think. Instead, they’ve created and shitcanned half a dozen messaging apps and platforms, flailing around copying someone else’s app (now they’re trying to copy Slack I guess).

Have you heard about the guy who worked on the Google AI chat bot? It is more than a chat bot and the conversation he published (got put on paid leave for doing that) is pretty scary : https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

About a week ago I have switched from Google to DuckDuckGo and… I feel fine. However, sometimes I still have to search on Google

I think google voice has been winding that down.

Thanks, I’d forgotten about that. I’d rather avoid Google Voice, and I’m okay paying (reasonably). Looking like Twilio might have most of what I want natively.

Cloud Computing and Virtualization Company Citrix To Be Acquired for $16.5B
Citrix, a cloud computing and virtualization company used by companies including Microsoft, Google, and SAP, has revealed plans to be acquired by affiliates of global investment firm Vista Equity Partners, and an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management called Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation. From a report: The all-cash deal i … ⌘ Read more

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. ⌘ Read more

GoCN 每日新闻 (2022-01-08)

1. Go 1.17.6/1.16.13 版本发布https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/95ZD3rKn4DI/m/93cyN8F1BAAJ
   
2. 高效的 Go 错误处理https://earthly.dev/blog/golang-errors/
   
3. 从零实现一个 RedisClient 了解 Redis 协议https://mauricio.github.io/2022/01/07/redis-protocol.html
   
4. Golang 简洁架构实战[https://zh … ⌘ Read more

GoCN 每日新闻（2021-12-05）

1. Go 在 Google：服务于软件工程的语言设计（翻译） https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3F9WAcxuCNCs7aNn5gjnew
   
2. 详解布隆过滤器原理与实现https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5zHQbDs978OoA3g83NaVmw
   
3. 令人惊叹的软件架构[https://github.com/mehdihadeli/awesome-software-architecture](https://github.com/mehdihadeli/awesome-software-archite … ⌘ Read more

How to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project. ⌘ Read more

Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
Google or (insert your favourite search engine here) have never let me down. Also, Youtube has repair guides, and HOWTOs for just about anything, and everything.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To clarify, Markdown is just text. 😊 I can do bolding, link things, and if single return multilines ever comes to jenny, I would be able to do bulleted and numbered lists.

The only things—that I know of—that doesn’t work is “> “, but I can use “>”, like so:

D’oh!

So, jenny allows me to write Markdown almost just fine!

In my quest to find a nicer HTML layout for my site, I just found bloated JavaScript thigs and shitty Google Fonts

Working with Web components feels a bit like {insert fav fantasy world here} with concepts like the Shadow Dom and the Light Dom

putting myself on a list by googling various bioinfohazards

Is there a usable API for language translation? Non-Google preferable.

Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle ⌘ Read more…

YouTube Channel Deletion

by Luke Smith

Google is prepping to delete my YouTube channel.
As of today (March 26, 2021), I now cannot post for another two weeks.
YouTube “strikes” which are functionally unappealable (automatically rejected) last for 3 months.
If they give thee concurrent strikes, you channel is permanently deleted.

If YouTube Jannies delete my YouTube channel, remember that
**100% of my videos are still easily viewable, includi … ⌘ Read more

German Corona App without proprietary Google libraries is on Codeberg :-) https://codeberg.org/corona-contact-tracing-germany/cwa-android

How to Leave Google Photos | written by Robbie Antenesse ⌘ https://robbie.antenesse.net/2020/11/25/exporting-google-photos.html

Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-15-standing-by-developers-through-google-v-oracle/

Malware gangs love open source offensive hacking tools | ZDNet ⌘ https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/malware-gangs-love-open-source-offensive-hacking-tools/

Google and Apple’s Contact-Tracing API Doesn’t Work on Public Transport, Study Finds ⌘ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ybZ7PwoWVRs/google-and-apples-contact-tracing-api-doesnt-work-on-public-transport-study-finds

Google Web Stories WordPress Plugin Officially Released ⌘ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-web-stories-wordpress-plugin-officially-released/381790/amp/

GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on Google Cloud ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-04-github-actions-self-hosted-runners-on-google-cloud/

Importera Google Calendar till Emacs Calendar ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/kalender.html

Moving to a tilde -> http://tilde.pt/~gil/twtxt.txt, hopefully it will be easier to manage using one liners instead of a google sheet

Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn’t want to run it, they shouldn’t keep anybody else from running it instead.

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/

Remember when Google’s april fool’s day pranks were fun, instead of being getting-rid-of-inbox-forever?

Cyberfeminist Index (~1990s-present) - Google Sheets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q_ZlbZhstBTfnZL4QP11ebivXgsvrf8shuG-QX146nw/edit#gid=1949020646

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

patience diffing algorithm https://https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com/flak/post/patience-diffing-algorithm

I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: mechanical locks, mechanical windows, routers using OpenWRT, no smart home crap, no Alexa/Google Assistant/…, no internet connected thermostats

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/

anything to ditch those pesky google products!

I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year “ Here’s What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack

Neal Stephenson: “Anathem” | Talks at Google - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE

Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

How to Backup Your Allo Conversations Before Google Shuts it Down  https://lifehacker.com/how-to-backup-your-allo-conversations-before-google-shu-1830922541

The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/

Tech Workers Need to Keep Organizing https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/tech-worker-organizing-google-union-walkout

Methodology of Win… https://books.google.com/books?id=xcmoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=sapphire+window+manager&source=bl&ots=50tzrFiQ5a&sig=-sbIxpX70y7IySSJZKD4WR98GCA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_0cXakcjeAhWwneAKHY9kCNIQ6AEwAXoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=sapphire%20window%20manager&f=false

Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Google Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.unix.wizards/QX_dxElrVNs

Thread by @morganknutson: “Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I’m still pissed about the ba […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1049523067506966529.html

Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/

Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.

Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies