No matter how many times #Google pushes modal pop-ups at you that you HAVE to answer, just say NO! to all of the "smart features in Workplace" choices. They're all Google's Gemini AI sucker bait.
just small circles 🕊
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Mooi nieuws! De TUDelft kiest eindelijk voor meer digitale autonomie 
https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/digitale-autonomie-is-onvermijdelijk-maar-vraagt-meer-dan-een-quick-fix
Wel is er nog een lange weg te gaan: "bedankt voor uw aanmelding, zet het in uw Google-agenda of uw Microsoft agenda" 
#DigitaleAutonomie #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #TUDelft #Google #Microsoft
Mooi nieuws! De TUDelft kiest eindelijk voor meer digitale autonomie
https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/digitale-autonomie-is-onvermijdelijk-maar-vraagt-meer-dan-een-quick-fix
Wel is er nog een lange weg te gaan: "bedankt voor uw aanmelding, zet het in uw Google-agenda of uw Microsoft agenda"
#DigitaleAutonomie #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #TUDelft #Google #Microsoft
Nicolas Fressengeas
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#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...
#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...
This summer a US judge Google to allow third-party app stores & billing in the Google Play Store. Google asked for a temporary stay during the appeals process, but the Supreme Court said no. So expect changes starting Oct 22. https://www.theverge.com/news/793610/google-epic-android-supreme-court-stay-denied #Epic #Google #Antitrust #GooglePlayStore
Alex Akselrod
and 3 others
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***** An Open Letter to the CEOs of #Apple and #Google: Would you have supported the Nazis during WWII? *****
Dear Tim and Sundar,
Hi. I'd normally start a letter like this asking how you were doing, but since you're both billionaires who have been palling around with Donald Trump, I think we can dispense with that formality this time.
I've got a question for you guys. I don't really expect an answer, but I feel that it needs to be asked anyway. Here we go ...
"If Apple, Google, and apps had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis, either explicitly or implicitly?"
As you probably know, IBM has been raked over the coals for decades for the technological assistance they provided the Third Reich, helping them tabulate "undesirables" for a "final solution."
Which brings us to you two! Yeah, you knew this was coming. I have to assume that your dramatic decisions to remove apps that helped the public legally determine the location of ICE operations was approved at your level. If not, you're still ultimately responsible, of course.
Word is that DOJ requested Apple to pull the apps, and that Google pulled them proactively without waiting around for a request. These of course were completely legal apps, breaking no laws that I'm aware of. Banning them from your apps stores effectively bans them virtually completely in a practical sense. Sideloading in iOS has always been difficult, and Google has announced upcoming restrictions that would make sideloading much more difficult for Android as well.
The parallels between your decisions regarding those apps and what went on during WWII in Nazi Germany are very troubling indeed. The Nazis legally (under then current laws) rounded up their target populations: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a range of other "undesirables", then "disappeared" them with minimal or no due process, whisking them off to concentration camps. This included cripples, mothers, children -- an enormous range. Many were never heard from again. Millions were exterminated.
I don't need to spell out the parallels with what Trump's ICE is now doing -- they're obvious on the daily news. And before you protest that you're not killing anyone by banning those apps, I'd argue that you indeed are very likely contributing to deaths.
The large majority of people being deported via these ICE raids have no criminal record and their only "crime" is being in this country illegally -- sometimes for decades raising families of U.S. citizens. Many are being deported to countries where they face the high likelihood of horrific treatment including torture and death.
I don't really need to go on any further, do I boys? You're both intelligent and informed. You both know exactly what you're doing. So I come back to the original question. If your firms had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis? If not, your apparently enthusiastic embrace of the current administration's fascist behaviors seems inexplicable.
But hey, perhaps you have logical explanations that aren't obvious to those of us in the non-billionaire class. If so, we'd love to hear them!
Sincerely,
L
Alex Akselrod
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So, what’s the most effective way to tell #apple and #google that we don’t approve of their caving to the DOJ and removing #ICEblock from their app stores? ICEblock is an important tool but it’s not currently available for download. See the website for further info. https://www.iceblock.app/
So, what’s the most effective way to tell #apple and #google that we don’t approve of their caving to the DOJ and removing #ICEblock from their app stores? ICEblock is an important tool but it’s not currently available for download. See the website for further info. https://www.iceblock.app/
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Today massive protest in #Amsterdam against the #genocide on #palestinians .
Google is complicit, so:
🟥🟥Draw the redline also online!🟥🟥
Tim Chambers
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Security News This Week: Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure – WIRED
Security News This Week: Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure WIREDLegal experts condemn Apple bowing…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Apple #China #cybersecurity #Google #Privacy #Russia #scams #Security #securityroundup #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/165151/
***** An Open Letter to the CEOs of #Apple and #Google: Would you have supported the Nazis during WWII? *****
Dear Tim and Sundar,
Hi. I'd normally start a letter like this asking how you were doing, but since you're both billionaires who have been palling around with Donald Trump, I think we can dispense with that formality this time.
I've got a question for you guys. I don't really expect an answer, but I feel that it needs to be asked anyway. Here we go ...
"If Apple, Google, and apps had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis, either explicitly or implicitly?"
As you probably know, IBM has been raked over the coals for decades for the technological assistance they provided the Third Reich, helping them tabulate "undesirables" for a "final solution."
Which brings us to you two! Yeah, you knew this was coming. I have to assume that your dramatic decisions to remove apps that helped the public legally determine the location of ICE operations was approved at your level. If not, you're still ultimately responsible, of course.
Word is that DOJ requested Apple to pull the apps, and that Google pulled them proactively without waiting around for a request. These of course were completely legal apps, breaking no laws that I'm aware of. Banning them from your apps stores effectively bans them virtually completely in a practical sense. Sideloading in iOS has always been difficult, and Google has announced upcoming restrictions that would make sideloading much more difficult for Android as well.
The parallels between your decisions regarding those apps and what went on during WWII in Nazi Germany are very troubling indeed. The Nazis legally (under then current laws) rounded up their target populations: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a range of other "undesirables", then "disappeared" them with minimal or no due process, whisking them off to concentration camps. This included cripples, mothers, children -- an enormous range. Many were never heard from again. Millions were exterminated.
I don't need to spell out the parallels with what Trump's ICE is now doing -- they're obvious on the daily news. And before you protest that you're not killing anyone by banning those apps, I'd argue that you indeed are very likely contributing to deaths.
The large majority of people being deported via these ICE raids have no criminal record and their only "crime" is being in this country illegally -- sometimes for decades raising families of U.S. citizens. Many are being deported to countries where they face the high likelihood of horrific treatment including torture and death.
I don't really need to go on any further, do I boys? You're both intelligent and informed. You both know exactly what you're doing. So I come back to the original question. If your firms had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis? If not, your apparently enthusiastic embrace of the current administration's fascist behaviors seems inexplicable.
But hey, perhaps you have logical explanations that aren't obvious to those of us in the non-billionaire class. If so, we'd love to hear them!
Sincerely,
L
Today massive protest in #Amsterdam against the #genocide on #palestinians .
Google is complicit, so:
🟥🟥Draw the redline also online!🟥🟥
Security News This Week: Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure – WIRED
Security News This Week: Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure WIREDLegal experts condemn Apple bowing…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Apple #China #cybersecurity #Google #Privacy #Russia #scams #Security #securityroundup #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/165151/
Reading the shocked reactions that Apple and Google removed ICE warning apps from their stores, I think that more should probably read about the role of IBM during the holocaust. Can we please finally get rid of the fairytale of social corporate responsibility in big tech?
Instead of talking about everything that's stupid about #Apple and #Google, we should be promoting #opensource #smartphones and #Fdroid and co.
SyncThing + Immich
Having a fever dream where I combine SyncThing and Immich and can say goodbye to Google nagging me to buy storage forever (today I am at 99.6%)
Theoretically I only have to do Google Takeout once too.
Just need my ADHD brain to actually buckle down and do it.
Also docker. Blech.