Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play.

Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore.

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/

#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #OpenSource #Google #GooglePlay

Don’t expect the #techbros to tell you when their apocalypse seeking LLM has almost reached its goal…

#Google
#OpenAI
#Anthropic
#AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/google-gemini-ai-hack

AI is TERRIBLE for the #internet

If we like it or not, traffic has always been the currency on the web. Many news outlets and #journalists would not be able to do their work without it

A lot of this traffic was coming from search engines like #Google, again like it or not. Nowadays Google uses their AI to pull info from sites making visiting websites for info obsolete and in turn killing traffic and a lot of sites

For the love of the internet, please DO NOT use the #AI summary but browse!♥️

I'm beyond gone crazy, please help: I NEED an Android gallery app that can show photos and videos SEPARATELY. I've tried over 30 apps. This is in-fucking-sane. Clearly no one at Google has ever used an Android phone to take and share photos and videos.
#Android #Google #fedihelp #askfedi #photography

@rl_dane @jperkin

#Google is suffering from a problem of its own making. It's the WWW scrapers feeding LLMs that are creating a lot of this traffic.

#GoogleGroups

It's really time for everyone to just admit the truth:

#RCS is just #Google's iMessage.

It's not a replacement for #MMS, let alone an update to it. You can say it's an "open spec," but it's as closed as iMessage is in practice.

We've been sold a bill of goods.

I've had admin powers at 5+ companies' Google Workspace/G Suite over the past decade or so. Every single one had groups which were misconfigured, often so anyone in the whole company could join without approval or see the message history at https://groups.google.com without being a member at all.

This is because for any sensible configuration of Google Groups when using it for email groups you have to use the "Custom" permissions mode. The default Public mode doesn't allow external people to email the group, but does allow the whole company to see all the messages. The default Team mode, has the same problem of everyone being able to see all the messages.

Also let's not forget that dangerous little "Anyone in the organisation can join" toggle at the bottom which is on by default. So any random new starter can join your confidential company directors group and get all the emails sent to it.

Giving Google the benefit of the doubt here, I think the reasoning might be that Google Groups is intended as a kind of company forum, not for private email groups. However that isn't how anyone uses it in my experience...

#security #infosec #google #googleworkspace

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Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

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Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode