Der #diday war zwar letzten Sonntag, aber besser spät als nie!
Nachdem ich jahrelang unterwegs und im Supermarkt mit PayPal und Google Play/Wallet gezahlt habe, stellte ich dank #DigitalIndependenceDay fest, dass meine Bank (@glsbank ) selber eine solche Funktionalität zur Verfügung stellt. Damit ist ein großer Anwendungsbereich für #Paypal weggefallen und #Google war aus der Kombination ohnehin schon raus.
Ein weiterer Schritt für mein persönliches #UnplugTrump

#Meta #Amazon und jetzt auch #Google in der Tonne. Fehlen noch #Microsoft und #Apple

Das #iPad ist schon an #wirkaufens versendet. Das iPhone X ist leider nichts mehr wert, kommt aber dann ins Recycling, wenn Banking, SecureGo und AusweisApp auf dem #fairphone mit #eos funktionieren.🤞

#did #dut

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Löschantrag für einen Google-Account

The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

#BigTech #GAFAM #Google #Meta #TikTok #Snap #teens #mentalhealth #privacy #surveillance #addiction #drugs

Switch today, choose European

#BuyFromEU #Europe #Google #Ecosia

Google's Project Genie experiment allows creating interactive worlds with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/googles-project-genie-experiment-allows-creating-interactive-worlds-with-generative-ai/

#ProjectGenie #AI #GenAI #Google

Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

#bigtech #degoogle #techgiants #Gmail

The #MelaniaMovie is the rewritten history of how a con man met a hooker on board Epstein's plane, the Lolita Express.

(Interesting fact: I've had this image on my phone for a while now and used it a lot. But suddenly #Google is repeatedly removing it from my phone, and it's getting harder and harder to find a copy on the internet. It's a real photo, not AI. But it looks like some of that $75M grift included getting Donald's billionaire data pals to clean up the internet of her #Epstein past. I'm curious to see if they can or will delete it from Mastodon. So I'm hoping this is a way to safely archive it.)

#Melania #SocialMediaManipulation #MelaniaEpstein #Truth #TruthMatters #MelaniaIsInTheEpsteinFiles #BigData #EpsteinMelania #MichaelWolff

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A meme showing a very trampy-looking Melania Trump in a skimpy black outfit and excessive eye makeup, seated closely next to a young Donald Trump. He has his hands all over her and she looks possibly inebriated. Someone else's hand is off to the side of her leg, wearing a yellow sleeve. This might look like an AI error, but it is a real male's hand. Based on other photos from the time, it is possibly Jeffrey Epstein, as the shirt seems to match one of his. Meme text reads: "The first time he slept with her was on my plane (aka the Lolita Express)." -- Jeffery Epstein to author Michael Wolff, Aug. 2017

I’m not a huge fan of Scott Galloway, but this is a really good idea. The president doesn’t care about citizens getting mad about his policies. He only cares about the stock market. So… here is an idea I think might actually work to create a lot of pain with the tech companies currently complicit in supporting the administration and force them to start pressuring republicans to do their damn jobs. In February, unsubscribe to as many of these services as you can. Email the company and tell them why. I am really looking forward to a new show on Apple but I’m going to cancel my Apple TV subscription because Tim Cook went to the screening of that stupid new movie just to kiss Trump’s ass. Pass it on. Edit: Scott is well known in economist circles and says he's already heard from some tech CEOs who are mad about this so it's an even better idea. #EconomicBlackout #Unsubscribe #Resist #Fascism #Apple #Google #Audible #Kindle #Microsoft #Paramount #ICEOut #AbolishICE #Boycott

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

Really, the only thing you need to know about Google's agentic #AI #Chrome "Auto Browsing" feature is that #Google says YOU are responsible for all actions the agentic AI takes on your behalf.

That's the whole ballgame. Right off the cliff. Don't touch it. Don't use it. Don't get anywhere near it.

We've been working with the UK CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) on the review of "Google's general search services".

Proposed changes (published yesterday) would oblige Google to provide dedicate ways for content publishers to opt out of being used for AI model training & for grounding whilst also providing much better transparency & attribution.

I've suggested that the mechanisms need to be generic, not specific to Google but this looks positive.

#AI #Google

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6979d0bf75d44370965520a0/Publisher_conduct_requirement.pdf

New, from me: Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating they'd compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0, a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software that comes pre-installed on many Android TV streaming boxes. Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea about that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/who-operates-the-badbox-2-0-botnet/

#infosec #botnet #IoT #Android #Google #threatresearch

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A web-based control panel, allegedly for the Badbox 2.0 botnet, at the ip address 45.134.212.95. This users panel lists seven authorized users, all but one of which have email addresses ending in the chinese email service qq.com. Two of the users on this list map directly to domains tied to the Badbox 2.0 botnet.

NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.

“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations

#News #trump #transportation #government #safety #ai #artificialintelligence #GoogleAI #google

Quote-boosting @ami (minus the alt-text-less slop)

Every time you #verify through the likes of #cloudflare #hcaptcha #captcha #google etc, your unique device fingerprint is being stored.

Your device is a form of #identification and it is being used against you. There’s hundreds of data points they collect.

Crapflare and craptcha together cover over 90% of websites. They know where you go, what pages you visit and how you interact with the sites.

#PII #privacy #data #surveillance

Recherchen des +972 Magazins zeigen, wie Amazon, Google und Microsoft dem israelischen Militär Dienstleistungen und Kapazitäten zur Verfügung stellen, um ein Massenüberwachungsprogramm und Angriffe in Gaza durchzusetzen.

'According to multiple sources, the exponential capacity of the AWS public cloud system allows the army to have “endless storage” for holding intelligence on almost “everyone” in Gaza. One source who used the cloud-based system during the current war described making “orders from Amazon” for information while carrying out their operational tasks, and working with two screens — one connected to the army’s private systems, and the other connected to AWS.

Military sources emphasized to +972 and Local Call that the scope of intelligence collected from the surveillance of all Palestinian residents of Gaza is so large that it cannot be stored on military servers alone. In particular, according to intelligence sources, much more extensive storage capabilities and processing power were needed to keep billions of audio files (as opposed to just textual information or metadata), which compelled the army to turn to the cloud services offered by tech companies.'

https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/

#Amazon #Google #Microsoft #Gaza #Israel #Surveillance #Antireport #KI

At least today's awful weather made me happy to complete my #download of all my #photos on #Google followed by #deletion from Google's servers.
Another removal from big tech completed!

Next, more daunting, task is to find and delete all the #duplicates that are already on the NAS!

#NoBIGTech

Ask your MP to support a #UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy

The UK’s #digital backbone that underpin govt, public services, democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a few of foreign tech companies

Most of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as #Amazon, #Google, #Microsoft, and #palantir whose services are embedded across government and the public sector.

Sign:

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act

#Japanese translators have nothing to fear yet from #AI

A friend of mine living in Kyoto asked me to choose the tea products that she will bring on her next trip to Europe directly on the Akamon Chaya website.

It's incredibly funny to look at the #Google automatic translations!

#Translations #LanguageLearning #Tea

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Screenshot of the automatic translation. " 玉露 first 【Hatutuyu】 70g ¥5,000 First stop 【Hatutuyu】 Introducing weight：70ｇ It is good to eat and drink tea. It's hard to breathe and it's hard to breathe. When you drink tea, you can drink it and drink it..." "玉露 first 【Hatutuyu】 35g ¥2,550 First volume 【Hatutuyu】Inner weight: 35g It's good to have fun, and it's good for the first time.お茶。華やかな香りと旨みが凝縮されています。 When you drink tea, you can drink..."

Multi billionaire landlord John Christodoulou seems to be a serial offender…as evidenced by the reporting he’s sought to get de-indexed in #Google.

How many other billionaires living a life of luxury use the tactics explained in the Novara piece to stop us knowing about the law catching up with them?

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/john-christodoulou-minions-get-boot-canary-riverside/

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/billionaire-john-christodoulou-lawyer-david-marsden-accused-little-short-harassment-court-appointed-managing-agent/

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/john-christodoulou-lamentable-lack-of-transparency-over-excessive-1-6m-insurance-costs-at-canary-riverside/

https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/john-christodoulou-fails-to-dump-355000-gym-debt-onto-the-canary-riverside-leaseholders-insurance-commissions-to-be-disclosed-and-judge-criticises-his-extremely-unattractive-approach/

How many times have you been sure you’ve read about something nefarious by the very rich, only to find maybe just a short while later it’s disappeared from #Google search results?

John Christodoulou, who is British-Cypriot (but resides in the tax haven of Monaco) likes to see himself more as a philanthropist than rogue landlord. Well who wouldn’t? Except, he flouts UK laws and hasn’t paid the fine of £263,555.69 he owes to his tenants. But he doesn’t want you to know

https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/this-billionaire-landlord-bullied-journalists-into-deleting-negative-coverage-of-him/

🧵 #Propaganda via #GooglePlay: I couldn't sleep last night, so I played on my mobile phone for a while. The #game occasionally shows a short ad. I couldn't believe my eyes: an ad for a fake #AI video on #YouTube, pro-Trump propaganda about Iran. It was impossible to skip this advert, an extreme bombardment of filth. Again and again.The pseudo-drawn staging of #Trump, a mixture of Big Brother and Nazi cult guru. Caused almost physical nausea.
I tried to report it on #Google and at the game 1/3

Can someone in the loop clue me up on what the latest is with GrapheneOS? I’m potentially getting a Pixel 10 as a business phone in the next week and I’d love to know if it’s still viable. I know there were some uncertainties recently due to Google shenanigans and a crucial developer no longer being around, but heard nothing further? Boosts appreciated if you’re within that sort of circle

#GrapheneOS #GooglePixel #Google #FOSS

So, now they know how real creators feel after having been ripped off by "AI"…

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

Oh sweet, Google is adding Prompt Injection as a Service to Gmail! 💩

Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/google-adds-gemini-features-to-gmail-message-summaries-proofreading-.html

#Google #FuckGoogle

google hates you & hates the planet. (video: @tonystatovci)
#google #ai #climateChange #water

This is going to massively speed up my project to reduce my use of Gmail

"Google announces the future of Gmail with AI Inbox & new AI Overview search"

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/08/gmail-ai-inbox/

#google #ai

If you’re using #US #Cloud services in 2026, a migration plan is no longer sufficient, you need a disaster recovery plan.
#microsoft #azure #aws #google #Office365 #Windows11

Digital independence will be critical. It was always critical, but dumbasses refused to see it. Now, that democracy is being lost in chunks at the digital front, they might wake the fuck up and see it for what it is.

Countries will either go for digital independence, or forfeit their sovereignty. If a non-US government is still using #MicroSoft for their OS and productivity suite, if they are still using #Amazon or #Google for hosting their services, they are fucked.

#FOSS saves.

Still no 50% peaks.
But 2 weeks not lower than 45%.

https://www.google.com/ipv6
#ipv6 #google #statistics

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49.23 % 2025 12 31

Nothing says "professional" quite like replacing real photos with fake ones.

That's what #Google is highlighting as a feature in this ad for "Gemini in Slides". The prompt was to "create a professional, engaging slide" from a bland one.

Google shows how this #AI replaced a real photo of the chair with a fake one taken from a different angle. The fake chair is a different color and unlike the original, the chair arms don't go all the way to ground.

Just what professionals asked for!

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Screenshot described in post.

Immer, wenn ich in der #google-Suche das “#AI”-Geschwafel durchlese, ist es vage falsch:
Entweder der Zusammenhang ist Vervierfachung (Quadrat,hoch2) oder Versechzehnfachung (Kubik,hoch3).
Was Google hier zusammenschwurbelt, widerspricht sich auf engstem Raum und zeigt, dass in dieser Maschine keinerlei Gedanke oder gar Verstehen vorhanden ist.

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Screenshot aus einer “AI”-Antwort auf eine Google-Suche: Kraft/Druck: Die Kraft des Windes auf einen Ballon wächst mit dem Quadrat der Geschwindigkeit. Verdoppelt sich die Windgeschwindigkeit, vervierfacht sich die Kraft nicht, sondern steigt sogar um das 16-fache an (Faktor 4^2).

@karen @bkuhn Six years on, and with these companies now openly standing with Trump and complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, do you still support your decision to have Google and Microsoft as sponsors at your conference? Would you do so again today?

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#fsf-and-the-software-freedom-conservancy

#SFC #softwareFreedom #FOSS #Google #Microsoft #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

There’s no need to depend on Google as your default search engine. Qwant and Ecosia are already viable alternatives, and together they’re building the European Search Index (Staan). It’s currently implemented in France and will roll out to additional European countries in 2026.

#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU #Google

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Qwant is a French based search engine focused on privacy Ecosia is a Germany based search engine focused on ecological impact

A remarkably prophetic 1923 cartoon depicting how a creative process would be automated in 2023.

#cartoon #tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

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A 1923 newspaper cartoon, showing a cartoonist making use of an electrically driven machine that draws his cartoons for him.

More examples of subsidised American interference in Scotland

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25724191.msp-writes-google-free-ads-anti-abortion-groups/

But they are not threatening to annex us. Yet. Got to get Canada and Greenland first,

#Google #UkPol #Scotland #USA

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From the linked article. A photograph of a mobile with a google insignia on it, and on the other side, one of MSP Monical Lennon with the text MSP writes to Google over free ads for anti-abortion groups