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Search results for tag #google

[?]Gareth Halfacree » 🌐
@ghalfacree@mastodon.social

Happier news from , of all places, next, with initial patches designed to get mainline up and running on the Pixel 10 family of smartphones. Yeah, I was surprised too.

hackster.io/news/google-releas

    Chewie boosted

    [?]Fabio Manganiello » 🌐
    @fabio@manganiello.eu

    Imagine being one of the most valuable companies on earth, making billions thanks to open-source software like #ffmpeg, without contributing financially to it, without contributing to its codebase, and even expecting those unpaid volunteers to fix bugs for you in a timely fashion as if they were your own employees.

    Imagine contributing to a huge piece of software like ffmpeg that works behind the scenes on literally any device that can either play, record or transform media, a project that has become a critical piece of our digital infrastructure, and doing so unpaid, uncredited and stressed out by companies that make billions thanks to your work.

    This is the current state of open-source today.

    A bunch of burned out, unpaid and uncredited volunteers building free stuff in their spare time that trillion-dollar freeriders feel entitled to use without contributing back.

    ffmpeg developers are right. Either #Google contributes back, or they won’t even look at their bugs anymore.

    And, in an ideal world where free software licenses weren’t written by good Samaritans, either trillion-dollar companies contribute back, or they shouldn’t be allowed to use free software for profit.

    20 years ago I used to have discussions with fellow engineers whether open-source would have won over commercial software.

    Now I can firmly say that open-source won. There’s no doubt about it. Linux, Apache products, Python, ffmpeg, curl etc. power all of today’s technological stack. But it’s not the win that I expected. It’s the kind of win that happened because corporations realized that open-source is just a way for them to cut on internal engineering costs.

    https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/

      Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK boosted

      [?]Jack Yan (甄爵恩) » 🌐
      @jackyan@mastodon.social

      And at another domain of ours (lucire.com).

      A list of 25 Google bot attempts to access lucire.com, met with Cloudflare challenges.

      Alt...A list of 25 Google bot attempts to access lucire.com, met with Cloudflare challenges.

        Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK boosted

        [?]Jack Yan (甄爵恩) » 🌐
        @jackyan@mastodon.social

        Blocking a ton of bots from crooked . Blimmin’ thieves.

        A list of 24 Google bots trying to get into Autocade (and one Tencent bot).

        Alt...A list of 24 Google bots trying to get into Autocade (and one Tencent bot).

          WTL boosted

          [?]Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️ » 🌐
          @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca

          When you do a search on but instead of getting to you just get the information. That's Google other peoples information and presenting it off as their own.

          holland-cycling.com/blog/321-h

            Ian Betteridge boosted

            [?]JdeBP » 🌐
            @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk

            @ianbetteridge

            People have been asking for workarounds for this for at least 9 years. Most of the workarounds seem to be, as here, to use a third-party tool to process the document into HTML.

            webapps.stackexchange.com/q/94

              WylieCoyoteUK :verified: boosted

              [?]Aral Balkan » 🌐
              @aral@mastodon.ar.al

              Damn, y’all, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar People Farmer that’s helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine…

              Maybe we should talk to their Chief Ethics Officer or something?

              daveverse.org/2025/11/07/gmail

                Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK boosted

                [?]Jack Yan (甄爵恩) » 🌐
                @jackyan@mastodon.social

                I wish I was surprised by Googleʼs conduct but even 20 years ago I warned that relying on its ad network was a very bad idea. Declining online ad rates saw us create a print edition of a website in 2004. I hope this and other sites harmed by find other funding models.

                mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1155

                  [?]Gabriela Salvisberg » 🌐
                  @gsalvisberg@mastodontech.de

                  an oder User in der , die sich von lösen wollen: Was verwendet ihr als zu , etwa für Wegfindung in einer Stadt? Navigation, aktuelle Karten (zu Fuss), inkl. ÖV.
                  Ich habe derzeit OsmAnd (play.google.com/store/apps/det), bin aber damit nicht so richtig happy. Ich möchte manchmal Gehdistanzen messen, ohne gleich eine Route zu erstellen oder Navigation zu starten.

                    [?]Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 » 🌐
                    @midtsveen@social.linux.pizza

                    Ah yes, tries @GrapheneOS.

                    youtube.com/watch?v=gDR6V5OdnYg

                      Gary Parker :party_porg: boosted

                      [?]Paul Chambers🚧 » 🌐
                      @paul@oldfriends.live

                      Google pulled the plug on Nest Thermostats, but you can now bring them back to life thanks to a community-led project that offers custom firmware to restore remote control and online functionality for these devices.

                      :github: No Longer Evil Thermostat
                      Breathe fresh life into your bricked Nest Gen 1 & 2, now with 100% less evil!
                      github.com/codykociemba/NoLong

                        Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 boosted

                        [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                        @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                        says Search Mode will know everything about you

                        bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog

                          [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                          @metin@graphics.social

                          JesusGPT…

                          Former CEO of Intel Building Special AI to Bring About Second Coming of Christ

                          futurism.com/artificial-intell

                            Mike Cox boosted

                            [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                            @metin@graphics.social

                            When someone cites something from an "AI" chatbot as a fact, point them to this site:

                            stopcitingai.com

                              Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 boosted

                              [?]Fabio Manganiello » 🌐
                              @fabio@manganiello.eu

                              Imagine being such an irredeemably enshittified trillion-dollar company that makes bad products that you need to resort to dark patterns or straight out ostracism (#Immich is only the latest example, anyone remembers when they pulled K9-Mail from the Play Store?) in order to discourage people from using open-source software that competes with your products.

                              With all the resources it has, #Google could simply make Google Photos better.

                              But I guess that scaring off those who use its open-source alternatives is much easier and doesn't even cost development time.

                              https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

                                Wen boosted

                                [?]Simon Brooke » 🌐
                                @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

                                Oh, Jings. Both and are revealed to be in the . In an extraordinary twist to the story, are shown to be (slightly) more scrupulous and to have withdrawn services this August, as the scale of the crime became obvious.

                                Disentangling my life from Google is going to be hard.

                                theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o

                                  [?]Rastal » 🌐
                                  @Rastal@mastodon.social

                                  @nixCraft This is a good idea BUT

                                  Alternatives exist like and a bunch of others that will allow you to actually own your device and it's data, that will allow you to sideload apps until your heart is content, that will empower you to screw Google.

                                  If you continue to not be able to sideload because of , use that as motivation to explore these alternatives.

                                    Chewie boosted

                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                    Regarding the last boost: Google has been found to be an illegal monopoly multiple times, and so far no judge has had the courage to impose a significant enough penalty that Google actually changes its ways. Its monopoly behavior is frequent, obvious, and damaging.

                                    Anyway, check your Google Drive, if you use that: go to drive, then click the gear. Choose Settings -> Manage Apps, and make sue "Use by default" is checked OFF on everything you don't like, especially Gemini (Google's AI that they're pushing on everyone). This was added and turned on by default for most people, it seems.


                                      [?]Autocade » 🌐
                                      @autocade@weird.autos

                                      How wrong is “”? Here’s one example. The next Year of Cars will again have a top 10 table and Google claims and have a combined 4,664,634 (2,129,807 + 2,534,827) units sold (YTD September). Doing the actual maths from their respective spreadsheets, it’s 4,076,936 (1,704,412 + 2,372,524). That’s quite a big margin, and yes, we are looking at sales, not units produced. Lesson once again: scroll past the ‘AI overview’, it’s useless.

                                      Google overview, reading, 'For the period of January to September 2025, the combined Hyundai-Kia sales figures are not available, but individual company sales data shows Kia sold approximately 2,129,807 units, and Hyundai Motor sold roughly 2,534,827 units based on their reported monthly sales data up to September 2025. This indicates a potential combined total of over 4.6 million vehicles, though a combined year-to-date total is not officially reported by the companies.'

                                      Alt...Google overview, reading, 'For the period of January to September 2025, the combined Hyundai-Kia sales figures are not available, but individual company sales data shows Kia sold approximately 2,129,807 units, and Hyundai Motor sold roughly 2,534,827 units based on their reported monthly sales data up to September 2025. This indicates a potential combined total of over 4.6 million vehicles, though a combined year-to-date total is not officially reported by the companies.'

                                        [?]Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄 » 🌐
                                        @paco@infosec.exchange

                                        What is the world coming to? You have to click AND READ to figure out something is fake? I thought you just looked at the headline and rage posted it on all channels without reading. I’m with this guy. We should totally sue any company that expects people to click links.

                                        “Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed a defamation lawsuit against on Wednesday after the company’s allegedly generated links to non-existent news articles…”
                                        “‘For each source, Google’s AI provides a URL…’…he said. ‘The only way to discover that these URLs are fake is to click on them.’”

                                        yahoo.com/news/articles/lawsui

                                          [?]boredsquirrel » 🌐
                                          @Rhababerbarbar@tux.social

                                          @Androidauth

                                          Version number 68469120 still works. People can enter that one in and hopefully it is still cached.

                                          If your camera still works, install an app like github.com/ghmxr/apkextractor and extract the , share with others!

                                          Otherwise checkout or

                                          Look for version 9.9.106.77...

                                            Stefano Marinelli boosted

                                            [?]Dendrobatus Azureus » 🌐
                                            @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                            It seems to be quite convenient that google flags immich.app site as dangerous, since immich is an environment in which you can host your own photographs in a safe manner without Google.

                                            immich.app/blog/google-flags-i

                                              [?]Ethan Black » 🌐
                                              @golemwire@fosstodon.org

                                              I just got hit by 's age verification. Besides this annoying "we've changed some of your settings" without being up-front about what they were, it was surprisingly noninvasive. I let Google share my email address (the same address I was signed-in as) with a third-party verifier, and I was good to go.

                                              # We've changed some of your settings We couldn't verify that you're an adult. [Learn more].

                                              Alt...# We've changed some of your settings We couldn't verify that you're an adult. [Learn more].

                                                [?]James Baker » 🌐
                                                @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org

                                                An Iranian YouTuber was censored by Google after Islamic extremists mass reported her for being a minor. The lesson here is well intentioned censorship in the name of safety will be weaponised to silence people by bad actors. youtube.com/shorts/nW0fWpFsvrw

                                                  Stefano Marinelli boosted

                                                  [?]Pete Orrall » 🌐
                                                  @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  I use but may be enforcing registration in soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new OSes.

                                                  is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to .

                                                  theregister.com/2025/09/29/goo

                                                    Jean Clean boosted

                                                    [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
                                                    @majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com

                                                    Coming to a Snapdragon phone near you...maybe...

                                                    GrapheneOS will drop Google Pixel exclusivity with 'major' Snapdragon-powered devices coming

                                                    9to5google.com/2025/10/14/grap

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