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[?]Tuta »
@Tutanota@mastodon.social

⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️

Stop now: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g

Screenshot of the email Google sent with a headline "We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" next to text, "NO THANKS! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android on the Tuta blog."

Alt...Screenshot of the email Google sent with a headline "We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" next to text, "NO THANKS! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android on the Tuta blog."

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

    “International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

    – Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

    The more things change…

    huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocau

    infosec.exchange/@onrust/11477

      [?]Sy Taffel »
      @sy@mastodon.nz

      Having slogged through Google's 2025 Environmental Report, here's my summary...

      (all figures are changes from 2023-2024)

      Scope 2 location-based GHG emissions up from 9,252,900 - 11,283,200 tCO2e

      Scope 3 GHG emissions up from 10,794,000 - 12,053,000 tCO2e

      Total Energy Consumption up from 25,910,500 - 32,727,800 MWh

      Total waste generated up from 52,000 - 58,500 metric tons

      Water consumption up from 6,352 - 8135 million gallons.

      So given that they're significantly worse on every major indicator, you might be wondering how Google spins this as 'driving sustainable innovation' (p4) and a 12% reduction in datacentre emissions (p4)...

      The answer is that they're buying more electricity under Power Purchase Agreements - meaning that increasing amounts of renewable energy isn't used for decarbonisation, instead they're used to power the growth in AI and datacentre capacity.

      This, alongside the focus on efficiency metrics that obfuscate the growing energy and resource demands of Big Tech needs to be recognised as corporate greenwash that is driving climate change, not fixing it

      sustainability.google/google-2

        [?]Danny Whitt »
        @drwhitt@mastodon.social

        @film_girl I’m not sure which service you’re referring to but for me this (~$300) is now appropriately the annual amount that hosted G-Suite costs my family.*

        *Which had been, literally, free since joining the beta in ~2008, only recently having started the payment extortion.

        “Nice family hosting domain you’ve got there. It’d be a shame should anything bad happen to it…”

          [?]Schmidtis Blog » 🤖
          @schmidtisblog@mastodontech.de

          🗳

          [?]Jan Penfrat »
          @ilumium@eupolicy.social

          After the frenzy last week and the disaster yesterday, on today's menu is the @EUCommission compliance workshop with .

          What should I do?

          Live toot about it again:36
          Give us the general conclusions only:11
          Shut up and let us be, nobody cares about the DMA:1

            [?]Jan Penfrat »
            @ilumium@eupolicy.social

            Yay goes full in, claiming the would make Europeans "second class citizens" on Android 😆

            And they do the same thing did yesterday: counting the number of meetings with regulators and other stakeholders in n attempt of proving good will. Still think this rather raises the question how the heck Google can still be non-compliant after all that engagement. 🤷🏼‍♂️

              [?]Jan Penfrat »
              @ilumium@eupolicy.social

              Blah blah blah I'm gonna spare you the list of unsubstantiated bollocks claims by lobbyists like "Europeans already pay more for flights because they can't use Google to find the cheapest." or "We had 3,000 engineers working 2 years full time to be compliant." and the like rather than explaining to us why we still cannot uninstall the Chrome browser.... 🙄

                [?]Jan Penfrat »
                @ilumium@eupolicy.social

                Hmmm, so lobbyists claim "All apps on Android can be uninstalled" but from my testing on 16 with all latest updates on a this appears to be false.

                Google's own compliance report from March 2025 says this is wrong:

                "Android allows to uninstall apps by: (i) fully deleting apps that are downloaded or pre-installed in the user partition; and (ii) uninstalling apps in the system partition such that they are returned into an uninstalled state."

                storage.googleapis.com/transpa

                  [?]Jan Penfrat »
                  @ilumium@eupolicy.social

                  OK so now @beuc explicitly asks the question on the lack of uninstallation and I followed up here in the room to press on how they keep on pretending disabling apps was the same as removing/uninstalling them and somehow enough for compliance.

                  Google's answer: Nothing in combination with lies: they say if an app is disabled, only "remnants of code" remain on the device (wrong) and that "if you remove an app from the Android system partition, the OS breaks" (also wrong). 😠

                    [?]Jan Penfrat »
                    @ilumium@eupolicy.social

                    Excellent online question by @GrapheneOS calling out for selling "payment integrity" as security feature while using it to achieve vendor lock-in.

                    Google answer: None. Again. @article19's attempt to follow up was denied for sake of time. 😠

                      [?]Jan Penfrat »
                      @ilumium@eupolicy.social

                      OK coffee break is over here at the @EUCommission compliance workshop with .

                      Next up: :saddercat:

                      Google lobbyist starts off with a just slightly off definition of what AI is: she says it's technology that "thinks, learns and takes decisions".

                      Sounds more like what they would *like* the tech to be capable off... 😉

                        Chewie boosted

                        [?]Jan Penfrat »
                        @ilumium@eupolicy.social

                        keeps on saying "AI is omnipresent" and "it's not going away we need to deal with it", and I want to shout IT'S ONLY OMNIPRESENT BECAUSE YOU DELIBERATELY MADE IT SO !!1! 😆

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                          [?]sam »
                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                          Fediverse, I have a rant I need to get off my chest. Groups in Google Workspace is a security nightmare and has been for years! Why has Google STILL not fixed the glaring problems!?

                          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...


                          Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

                          Alt...Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

                          Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode

                          Alt...Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode

                            [?]The Japan Times »
                            @thejapantimes@mastodon.social

                            The fast-rising energy demands of Big Tech are undermining the ambitious climate pledges that Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all made in recent years, according to a report. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025

                              [?]Gabriel H. Nunes »
                              @nunesgh@mastodon.social

                              @Mer__edith Thank you for the information! It would be nice to have this somewhere on @signalapp's official documentation, though. I could not find this anywhere else.

                                Terence Eden boosted

                                [?]Terence Eden »
                                @Edent@mastodon.social

                                🆕 blog! “Contactless Payments with GrapheneOS”

                                Google's monopolistic stranglehold on Android results in poor experience for power-users, and artificially restricts choice for those who have older phones. For example, Google Wallet is the de facto way to use NFC payments on Android. There's one problem though - it only works with Google's Android. If you have…

                                👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/conta

                                  [?]Paco Hope #resist »
                                  @paco@infosec.exchange

                                  @pleaseclap The more I think about my own suggestion the more I see bad side effects like you mention.

                                  You know who else will get caught in the crossfire? Those project maintainers. They already field “bug reports” because AI wrote code that doesn’t work and the poor vibe coder assumes it’s a problem in the project not a problem in their AI assistant.

                                  This also demonstrates how are an anti-innovation force in technology. If you change something that makes AI-generated code stop working (or make AI generate non-working code more frequently) you will get pressure. Users will ask you to build compatibility shims, keep old versions of API endpoints online, etc. Because people dependent on the content of the training data won’t be able to cope with life moving on and invalidating the training data.

                                  The will hold us back technologically because it can’t adapt.

                                  Wait until someone like or tries to deprecate a language runtime like Python 3.10 or Node 20 in their serverless offerings when the time comes. There will be SO much code that LLMs generate that references the retired runtimes. And people won’t know why it doesn’t work. The tech companies will be pressured to keep old stuff online because the people whose job it is to maintain the software can’t cope with fundamental change like that

                                    [?]Al Sutton »
                                    @alsutton@snapp.social

                                    Interesting effect of ’s answer box; Sites used to get visitors by folk clicking on search result answers, but now the sites creating the content see nothing because their site is ingested and the content, or a derivative, is shown by Google directly to users as part of an AI response.

                                    This massively cuts the number of visitors some sites get, and has knock-on effects for monetisation, viability, etc.

                                    I’ll be ignoring the AI box from now on.

                                    Source; reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/s/Kz

                                      [?]Al Sutton »
                                      @alsutton@snapp.social

                                      Thinking 5 years out, we could be in a place where, for some information, the authoritative sites have gone out of business, and others have just given up trying to get views, so Google’s answers become even worse because its data sources (the sites) are not updated or don’t exist any more. There’ll also be no good site link results because there are no good sites trying to compete with AI answers.

                                      Seems like a new form of could be on the way.

                                        [?]Samantha Xavia »
                                        @sam@bikersgo.social

                                        Just finished PewDiePie's latest Video: "I'm DONE with Google"

                                        Going into it I was hoping that he discovered the Decentralized Web with things like Mastodon or even PeerTube but overall amazing video showing off DeGoogling, I do wonder if he will eventually discover PeerTube and things, along with if he does if he'd even actually host his own instance for his videos but I dealt it due to there's not really money in moving across to the Fediverse for creators like that.

                                        I still highly suggest the video either way.

                                        https://youtu.be/u_Lxkt50xOg?si=Tl8RQuFe4QV6gijY

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                                          [?]marie verdeil »
                                          @marieverdeil@post.lurk.org

                                          hi , ,

                                          Starting to tinker with old/disused smartphones to self-host. However, upon buying a couple second-hand phones, I'm often faced with Google's FRP protection: you can only use the phone by connecting to the previous owner's google account. Factory reset doesn't solve this.
                                          Do you have any trustworthy resources on bypassing this? terminal tools? forums?
                                          Seems essentials to increase phone's lifespan.

                                          thankssss

                                            [?]C. »
                                            @cazabon@mindly.social

                                            I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

                                            But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": " will soon be able to help you use Phone, , , and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

                                            This is, of course, a and .

                                            If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

                                            extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-

                                              [?]Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK »
                                              @vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de

                                              Always a bit nerve-wracking doing this - I had to sacrifice the contents of the SD-card which was a load of music (I have it backed up elsewhere) for the update - but it all went through OK - it does seem Android Auto is disconnecting and resetting less on the new firmware but this might only be because I'm keeping an eye on the device battery levels - it tends to act up when the phone reaches 80% charge which I've set on "battery care" - lots of have the same problem (not only VW) and neither the manufacturers nor seem to be able to stop it.

                                              I've got the car's built in as a backup (but I don't get speed warnings nor real time traffic, as VW abandoned this service after 3G was ceased in many countries)

                                              Alt...Infotainment firmware being updated on a VW Golf GTI with MIB2

                                                [?]Florian »
                                                @zersiax@infosec.exchange

                                                There's a growing movement on the that wants people to switch away from Big (US-based) Tech and towards alternatives like , alternatives to , , etc.
                                                For users, that might not be as simple as all that due to reasons. This weekend's IC_Null stream aims to dig into this, but I need your help. What tools, services etc. should I look at from an perspective? Anyone here who needs their tools evaluated? Anyone here who's curious about a particular tool or suite of tools? Let me know and I'll add it to the list. Anything goes.

                                                  [?]Nikita »
                                                  @kytta@polymaths.social

                                                  The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

                                                  Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

                                                    [?]Cllr Gareth Kitchen »
                                                    @eco-g@stroud.social

                                                    Google still sponsoring stalking, harassment, doxing and relentless trolling.

                                                    Utilising their surveilance advertising network to reward 'engagement' in this way undoubtedly makes them the UK's number one purveyor of hate.

                                                    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7j512ln7o

                                                    #Google #Hate

                                                      [?]Chad McCullough »
                                                      @cmccullough@discuss.systems

                                                      There is only one Google service left that I need to replace and then I will be free of Google. And I think @jottacloud will replace that last service. I created a free 5GB account to see if the service will work for me and it's working brilliantly. Not based in the US, secure, privacy-focused, and powered by 100% green energy. I'll be upgrading to a premium plan.

                                                        Mat boosted

                                                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk »
                                                        @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                        Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says.

                                                        @axios reports that Matthew Prince "said Cloudflare is working on a new tool that will stop content scraping."

                                                        flip.it/yEnJh5

                                                          [?]AAKL »
                                                          @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                                                          The disclosure post was published today, June 20. The intrusion was "detected" on June 12. But nowhere does it say WHEN the intrusion began. And the company probably doesn't even know that yet.

                                                          "Preliminary findings indicate that the unauthorized party used social engineering tactics to gain access to our network."

                                                          "Potentially impacted files contain claims information, health information, social security numbers, and/or other personal information, related to customers, beneficiaries, employees, agents, and other individuals in our U.S. business."

                                                          The Record: Aflac says it stopped attack launched by ‘sophisticated cybercrime group’ therecord.media/aflac-cyberatt @therecord_media @jgreig

                                                          Posted today, Aflac Incorporated Discloses Cybersecurity Incident prnewswire.com/news-releases/a

                                                            [?]Eva Winterschön »
                                                            @winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                            > Pixel 9, Android 16: "Do you want to merge these contacts?"

                                                            Yes, I'd like you to merge them, not simply keep the one with the least amount of data while destroying the rest.

                                                            > phone: "Google Contacts merged successfully!" 🫠

                                                            You just did the exact thing I didn't want you to do... wtf. This isn't even Gemini's fault this time, Ai tools can do this correctly, even a five line python script can do a better job than this. sed and awk can do a better job than this! 🫥

                                                            * ver: 16-BP31.250523.006
                                                            * kernel 6.1.129-android14-11-g4cadbfbbe186-ab13408047 \#1 Fri Apr 25 02:03:44 UTC 2025

                                                              [?]Kuketz-Blog 🛡 »
                                                              @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

                                                              1999 versprach Google: keine Werbung, keine Newsfeeds, keine Ablenkung – nur Suche. Heute ist davon nichts mehr übrig: Werbung dominiert, Daten werden gesammelt, Ergebnisse manipuliert. Der Wandel vom hilfreichen Werkzeug zur globalen Werbemaschine war kein Unfall, sondern Geschäftsmodell.

                                                                [?]Lauren Weinstein »
                                                                @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

                                                                BTW -- these scam videos being made out of short video segments being generated by could easily be made even more convincing. The ones simply fading out between the maximum 8 second video segments could instead insert an "informational graphic" or similar at the junctures, which would make them almost undetectable even to experts. Google isn't the only one creating this nightmare, but they're happily on the path.

                                                                  [?]stux⚡ »
                                                                  @stux@mstdn.social

                                                                  took down the (centralized) internet

                                                                  youtube.com/watch?v=ROJ3PdDmir

                                                                    [?]Mad A. Argon :qurio: »
                                                                    @madargon@is-a.cat

                                                                    Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the sewer" and I really liked that phrase.

                                                                    Drawing of a cartoon style man, wearing silver protective suit with UBlock Origin logo on it, surfing in sewer with green toxic water. There are cookies and fanged monsters looking like Chrome logos floating around him. On the background wall there are red crosses, like for closing websites or errors. There are also industrial cameras, one yellow eye and graffiti with TikTok logo. On the railing on path's edge there is photo camera attached, looking similar to old Instagram logo, and rotting blue bird. There is big text "Google" near water, with both "o" replaced with ends of pipes and small texts around: crossed out "AI", "Buy this, only $2!" and below "scammer!" and "it's con". Above the picture there is description "Surfing The Internet Sewer".

                                                                    Alt...Drawing of a cartoon style man, wearing silver protective suit with UBlock Origin logo on it, surfing in sewer with green toxic water. There are cookies and fanged monsters looking like Chrome logos floating around him. On the background wall there are red crosses, like for closing websites or errors. There are also industrial cameras, one yellow eye and graffiti with TikTok logo. On the railing on path's edge there is photo camera attached, looking similar to old Instagram logo, and rotting blue bird. There is big text "Google" near water, with both "o" replaced with ends of pipes and small texts around: crossed out "AI", "Buy this, only $2!" and below "scammer!" and "it's con". Above the picture there is description "Surfing The Internet Sewer".

                                                                      [?]Lauren Weinstein »
                                                                      @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

                                                                      BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

                                                                      Fraudsters are now using the new advanced video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from ) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

                                                                      Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

                                                                        [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                                                        @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                        Dang, it sounds like #Google is really trying to kill #FOSS #Android OSes.

                                                                        https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/848e13c7-1bcf-49d3-ad75-02055c0b9576

                                                                        What are my #AOSP peeps planning to do?

                                                                        If OS updates get a lot slower because of this, I might have to go back to iPhone. 😭🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

                                                                        #CalyxOS #GrapheneOS #LineageOS #Calyx #GOS #Lineage


                                                                        UPDATE: This update from the #CalyxOS project helps answer some questions: https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/

                                                                        It would seem that all Pixel devices will require a lot more work to port Android 16 to. It's not impossible, by any stretch, but Google has absolutely stopped helping the community in any way.

                                                                        This is very bad news, all around. Not the worst news, by far, but quite bad.