If you value your freedom remember that YOU can control how you compute.

Do not comply.

"Dystopian worlds don't just pop into existence: they are built by the choices of those with substantial power, taking freedom from others. Free software has unlimited power for making our world actually better for people (not Big Tech), but we need to join together and ensure that freedom can thrive."

#FSF #Libre #GNU #Linux #Apple #Microsoft #Google #Resist #BigTech #Endof10

https://www.fsf.org/appeal/2025-spring/free-software-can-defy-dystopia

Google nutzt YouTube-Videos, um Gemini und Veo zu trainieren.

#YouTube als #KI-#Trainingsquelle 🤖 #Google nutzt einen Teil der 20 Milliarden #YouTubeVideos, um KI-Modelle wie #Gemini und #Veo3 zu #trainieren.

Unwissen bei #Creators 😮 Viele #YouTuber .innen und #Medienprofis wussten laut CNBC nicht, dass ihre Inhalte zur KI-Entwicklung herangezogen werden. (1/2)

Here's a crowdsourced list from the #CrustianDaily of #ICE agents, which #google have been removing from search results. Just in case you're wondering who's behind the masks. (And remember to search with #DuckDuckGo instead, as they don't suppress stuff like this.) https://icelist.info/

There's a growing movement on the #fedi that wants people to switch away from Big (US-based) Tech and towards #FOSS alternatives like #Linux, alternatives to #google, #Microsoft, #dropbox etc.
For #screenReader users, that might not be as simple as all that due to #accessibility 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 #accessibility 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. #selfHosting #blind #tech#EU

Ugh, everytime new #SmartGlasses are presented masses of people are crooning how absolutely cool that is. Think about it a bit more, folks, I'd say.

The moment smart glasses become well accepted and pervasive in society, is the moment we know that shite really hit the fan, and we are deep in dystopia.

It is not unthinkable we get a high adoption rate, if those #AR info overlays provide real use to people.

Compare to driving from A to B which hardly anyone can do anymore withouth #Google Maps.

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!

So now #Google#YouTube is pulling out all the stops to keep #ytdlp from working -__-

"Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected. Your account may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 for more details."

"Some web client https formats have been skipped as they are missing a url. YouTube is forcing SABR streaming for this client. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12482 for more detail"

Some hero is out there on GitHub working on an SABR implementation and even has a PR ready, but FFS. This is getting to the point where I'd rather just blackhole YouTube entirely and wait for the next big thing, to hell with whatever I might miss out on.

#archival #archiving #archive

😂🤣😂 The #Trump brothers are launching a smartphone to prove to #Apple & #Google that you can build a “Made in #America 🇺🇸” phone—but they are having problems due to many electronic parts being made overseas.

👉🏾 The Morning After: Can the golden Trump Phone actually be made in USA? https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111557952.html

Google is wholeheartedly embracing AI technology and its new tool could rejuvenate the internet or bring about the apocalypse for websites.

@tomgermain goes into detail in this BBC Future long read:
https://flip.it/KQXC3E

#Google#AI#Internet#Web#SEO#Search#Tech

"Google, on the other hand, argued that the government’s whole view of the market was contrived and not based in reality. Google’s tools help publishers and advertisers make money, and the fact that it has tools in different parts of the market just helps them work well together to consumers’ benefit, they said."

#EmmaRoth, #LaurenFeiner, 2025

https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

To paraphrase Rob Newman, the naiveté required to believe that, is seldom found outside of 1970s porn movies.

(1/2)

#Google

@thenewoil
> isn't dead, but #Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers

Depending on an OS controlled by Goggle has always been comprising. Maybe the EU will fund a fully open source mobile OS, to the level necessary to reverse engineer support for all mobile devices sold in the EU? Or even more ambitious, require companies importing mobile devices into the EU to supply enough technical specs for libre drivers to be written for any mobile OS.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

#privacy#FOSS#Calyx#Graphene#Lineage

So far this year we have seen nice growth in many European countries. We have doubled our userbase in Norway and Denmark, to name two.

More and more are looking for alternatives to Big Tech and we are happy to provide that alternative when it comes to browsers. We also provide a mail client, calendar and RSS reader on Windows, Mac and Linux.

If you have already switched to @Vivaldi, please invite your friends.

https://vivaldi.com

#Norway#Denmark#Greenland#Vivaldi#Browser#Windows#Macos#Linux#Android#iOS#Apple#Google#Microsoft#EU#Europa