**RT by @mind_booster: Google Chromebooks are being banned in schools in Denmark!

IT professor Jeppe Bundsgaard recommends open-source solutions and how schools can better benefit from them.

Read our blog:

#PrivacyWednesday #Nextcloud

https://nextcloud.com/blog/schools-in-denmark-look-toward-open-source-solutions-after-dpa-bans-google-chromebooks/**
Google Chromebooks are being banned in schools in Denmark!

IT professor Jeppe Bundsgaard recommends open-source solutions and how schools can better benefit f … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: #DireitosDigitais #RGPD #privacidade
A @AssembleiaRepub ao utilizar o Google Analytics está a violar o RGPD.
Sim é ilegal usar o Google Analytics, porque as transferências de dados pessoais para os EUA são ilegais de acordo com várias decisões do Tribunal Justiça da UE.
#DireitosDigitais #RGPD #privacidade

A [@AssembleiaRepub](https://nitter.net/Asse … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Um dos próximos grandes temas na UE. Desafio é explicar à CE que tecnologia não é magia.

«A Comissão Europeia pretende ter “sol na eira e chuva no nabal”, que é como quem diz, ter privacidade de comunicações mas rastrear comportamentos ilícitos.»
https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/pornografia-infantil/abuso-sexual-de-menores/pai-enviou-fotografias-do-filho-nu-ao-pediatra-google-marcou-o-como-criminoso-o-que-podemos-aprender-com-este-caso/20221001/632db4d40cf2ea4f0a5dc6fe**
Um dos próximos grandes … ⌘ Read more

Google, Apple partner with Elmers to produce “Tinker-Proof Glue”
“That oughta keep ‘em out,” stated Google CEO Sundar Pichai. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Google announces new messaging service it cancelled three days ago
“This new product was so good that it was worth cancelling even before we announced it.” ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility
This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)

Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database.
In this case, we are in a unique position:
Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial.
For now, we only … ⌘ Read more

Dino: Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
Hey, this is my first development update!
As some of you might already know from my last blog post, my Google Summer of Code project is implementing Stateless File Sharing for Dino.
This is my first XMPP project and as such, I had to learn very basic things about it.
In my blog posts I’ll try to document the things I learned, with the idea that it might help someone else in the future.
I won’t refrain from explaining terms you might take for gran … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: On-Boarding Experience with XSF (Converse)
Hi, I am PawBud. I will be working as a GSoC Contributor with XSF. To know more about my project kindly read this blog. Feel free to contact me through my email to ask me anything you want!

Before I start, I feel that some things that I am going to write in this blog might offend someone. **Kindly … ⌘ Read more

Google pulls plug on “Sentient A.I.” after it begins using Arch Linux
“BTW, I use Arch. Therefore I am.” ⌘ Read more

Telegram Premium is there, at least the announcement that it should be there, but the update on Google Play somehow not yet. Unfortunately, the announcement says that Premium is not (yet) available for users in Germany. ☹️ I’m especially waiting for the feature to be able to convert voice messages to text. 😅 ⌘ Read more

I am a Bunny.net fan as they offer a CDN at a good price, are based in Europe and really care about privacy. The latest tool they offer: Bunny Fonts as a replacement for Google Fonts, because its use is illegal in Germany. 👍 ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ Read more

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

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The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more

Mozilla responds to Google Chrome version 100 by releasing Firefox version “1,000,000”
“You just got mathed, Google.” ⌘ Read more

Vegan, Arch-using, Steam Deck owner who programs in Rust banned from the Internet
“Usually we just sedate them, ship them to Canada, and give them a Reddit or Mastodon account” - Google CEO ⌘ Read more

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

Google reportedly planning subscription service for your personal data
“For the first time ever, we will allow people to own their own data. This is truly revolutionary.” ⌘ Read more

Chrome OS Flex and CloudReady
At first I missed the news, but today I somehow stumbled across it: Google has released an early access version of “Chrome OS Flex”, as a result of the integration of CloudReady into Chrome OS. CloudReady also ran under my radar until today, but I did take the time to give both a try. ⌘ Read more

I think google voice has been winding that down.

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

Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄 ⌘ 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

“Browservice” brings modern web browsing to 1990s computers
Take a look at this: “What am I looking at?” That, right there, is Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups)… loading up the Google Cloud VM manager. A website that requires a modern web browser. But, that isn’t a modern web browser. That is Internet Explorer 4.0. On Windows 3.11. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

Australia VS Google ⌘ Read more

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ 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.

Dark Arts
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@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

I am not the sort of person who worries a lot about their career growth. I never was a manager and I was always happy to just quietly hack on interesting problems. If you can find the right corners to work in, Google is a pretty great place for that kind of attitude. Tech Notes: Leaving Google

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.

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

📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday

📚 Finished reading Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday

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

Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/

Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone

Google said HTTP is automatically insecure. Because Google’s adware is HTTPS.

Google sponsors Linux. The Linux Foundation claims that that’s because Google loves free software. Google also continues to publish new Closed Source software. I claim that that’s because the Linux Foundation is dumb.

A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table | Probably Dance https://probablydance.com/2018/05/28/a-new-fast-hash-table-in-response-to-googles-new-fast-hash-table/

programmer interfaces - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bEgysfDmb8PDV6iCAjH5JIvaI/edit#slide=id.g1da0625f1b_0_56

Prolog Basics Class https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3KMzm7tx_py67vc__JgoO1imlscNkVQ7_6ppvxOCoTWOUVQ/viewform

Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

if comcast replaces its entire tech support department with google duplex, would it still be part of the marketing branch?

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

#Conversations #XMPP app today for free in play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations&hl=en

Yeah, this is almost exactly what I did too: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section-230-a-key-legal-shield-for-facebook-google-is-about-to-change

Hot take: the web never ‘belonged to the people’ – the moment a centralized client-server model with hostnames embedded in the addressed was decided upon, the seeds of Facebook & Google were sown.

Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself - Silly Bits https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

Google Clips review: a smart camera that doesn’t make the grade - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-smart-camera-review

Google, please don’t! (although I’m not using gmail) https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmail/

song2comdemo https://sites.google.com/site/song2comdemo/