More slipping of #privacy and #security - with #secret #gagorders by the #us #government to inflict #google https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrews.. Scary stuff.
That's something - the entire #google #language of *all* #machines on #campus - irrespective of #os - have switched to using #chinese as the #default language... There was some kind of #reset #workaround , but not even that worked when I went to #login to #gmail ... I've never quite seen a #bug like it. Perhaps the entire #infrastructure was #compromised ?
Interesting #idea by #google #chrome to #preconnect #preload #prefetch #prerender #resource https://web.dev/speculative-prerendering.. Kind of feels like something the #browser should do #automatically anyway, with the hints being largely #redundant ...
Ouch, looks like there is an extremely #lowhangingfruit of a #bug that allows for very easy #crashing of the #google #android #chrome #browser https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/iss.. It is completely locking up some #phones as when it crashes it attempts to re-open the problematic #url again!
Well duh, #google were always asking for trouble #supporting an old #linux #kernel for #android #development ! They should never had wondered so far from #mainline https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n.. Apparently this point might be mute though if they eventually switch to #fuschia #os ... A non- #google #kernel still sounds like the best option for me...
Fuck me #google #chromium #chrome eats #ram ! 6GB for just 15 or so #tabs in a #web #browser ! Insanity. Meanwhile #firefox is running some 1k tabs and using 1.4GB of #ram - how on earth can #chromium get is so wrong?
Interesting work by #google #research for #indoor #autonomous #navigation https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/09/pathdr.. #entropy is a very good cross- #agent measure, even when #sensors and #actuators differ.
Nice work by #google on a new #jpeg #format named #jpegxl https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/0.. One of the really interesting parts is in initially displaying something for the end user to see whilst the rest of the data is loaded. One of the things that can be done is displaying #polygon #svg #approximations of the image: https://coffeespace.org.uk/projects/poly..
Interesting offering by #google in the near future, with a $50 USD #smartphone with decent #specs aimed at the #lowend consumer: https://www.globalvillagespace.com/googl.. People are saying this could be particularly interesting if you are able to load custom #rom 's onto it, such as #lineageos ... I wouldn't mind full-fat #linux either.
This is why I always advise #ublockorigin to everybody I know: https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/ublock-o.. Unfortunately #google #chrome and #chromium disabled the functionality it uses *on purpose* because it was too effective at blocking their main #ad #revenue stream.
Interesting, apparently #google #email is automatically opening any #url it finds embedded: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/1.. For all I know, this has happened to me too. Very strange.
Further attacks by #google on #rss #feeds https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/g.. Apparently #googlegroups no longer supports it. I suspect this systematic disappearance of RSS by Google services is entirely on purpose, as it allows people to scrape content without interacting with their #darkpattern #ui ...
Interesting, there has been a #police #raid in #london because somebody found a #link on #google https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/p.. Apparently the #meetingminutes were " #breached " - but it appears they were simple #unsecured and #cached on #google #search ...
The reason people are so annoyed with #larrypage the #google #cofounder being let into #nz is the #hypocrisy of it all: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-c.. It appears that during #covid #pandemic times, only #elites are allowed to travel unimpeded...
Looks like #google will #require #vaccination evidence to work in the #office https://blog.google/inside-google/compan.. So much for "my body, my choice". I don't suppose many people at Google will push back against getting a #vaccine - but the fact there is no choice to begin with is significant.
And now we see #microsoft , #alphabet ( #google & #youtube ) , #facebook and #twitter working with the #un to classify #wrongthink - quite literally: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclu.. People 'sympathising' with #whitesupremacy - with such groups as #proudboys will now be classed as #terrorists and banned from all platforms. So much for #freespeech ...