My husband is presenting in an all-day #ADHD virtual conference with other experts in the field, including Dr. Edward Hallowell, for an #ADD/ADHD audience.
He put his slide deck on #Google Slides as required. Then technical glitches occurred (slides weren’t fully loading) during the test run. The IT person asked him if he was on a Mac (he is). According to the IT person, they have trouble with Mac users being able to run slideshows when there are multiple presenters.
When Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down early yesterday, it took down a number of services with it, including ChatGPT search, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo — all of which rely on the Bing API to operate.
With the majority of Google search alternatives taken out in one fell swoop, it highlighted the lack of competition that Google search truly has, and the implications that has on our online experience. Is there another way? @arstechnica has more.
☝️ Yes, the #Internet was not broken yesterday, only #Bing from #Microsoft and therefore these so-called alternatives, which apparently resist #Google. You should expand your naive belief and behaviour via #SearXNG and/or #Stract search. You can find it by #search'ing for the corresponding hashtags in #Fediverse.
It seems that Google is failing again with the first attempts of integrating AI into search or are we just seeing the terrible mistakes and is 98% of the experience great ?
In marketing/PR terms , things are not going well i think. For OpenAI it's easier they don't have a userbase with billions of users (Gmail, Search, Drive etc.). #AI#Google
If you are trying to #degoogle your life, be aware that one of the unpleasant side effects is that a shit ton of people will not be able to receive #email from you. I've been on an email address handled by my shared server provider for like 15 years now, and I can attest that #google and #yahoo are both pretty bad for blocking anything from a #domain outside the big providers.
23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️
Koniec swiata - juz nawet #Linus z #LinusTechTips (tak, wiem, ostatnio jego reputacja jest mocno nadszarpnieta) tworzy serie "Jak sie odciac od #Google", bazujaca wlasnie na tym, ze Google bez pytania bierze sobie nasze dane i wykorzystuje w swoich algorytmach
Funktionieren #Startpage und #DuckDuckGo bei euch?
Ich hab da schon den ganzen Tag Probleme und Fehlermeldungen. Nur #Google funktioniert normal. Erst dachte ich, das liegt am Arbeits-PC (der hat nur Google-Chrome und allgemein nur Google-Gedöns), aber auf dem Handy mit Fennec zickt Startpage auch.
To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.
(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)
"A bill submitted by the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would compel the dominant platforms to allow third parties to launch their own app markets and to offer more payment options, while banning the technology giants from giving preferential treatment to their own products."
Imagine what an anti-abortion red state or a fascist Trump administration (or some other future evil administration) would do with features like #Microsoft's "recording everything you do on your PC" and the #Google and Microsoft plans to listen in on your private phone calls.
I don't give a damn if these firms claim the data is stored on the devices. Devices can be confiscated, stolen, or courts can order pretty much anything done with that data.
These firms are selling us all down the river with this stuff.
I was triggered at first as well, but after giving it more thought, I agree with Redmond.
#Microsoft#Recall rightfully CANNOT blur or encrypt your passwords because doing so would require that Microsoft be a content moderator, returning your data to their Seattle mothership in order to do so.
That is a level of surveillance no one should be comfortable with.
Then again, you have given #Google 20 years access to your email inbox, so...
"A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely. "
Was dies genau bedeutet und wie man es verhindert mit Updates oder Alternative #API's gibt muss ich mir noch ansehen.
»Fluent Bit – Schwere Sicherheitslücke bei vielen #Cloud-Anbietern entdeckt:
Das #OpenSource-Programm #FluentBit wird unter anderem von allen großen Cloud-Anbietern wie #AWS und #Google genutzt. Bei der #Protokoll-#Software wurde jetzt eine kritische #Schwachstelle entdeckt, die mehrere Angriffe (#DoS) erlaubt. Ein #Update wird dringend empfohlen.«
#YouTube has blocked at least three videos that show viewers how to evade military service after it received a request from the Russian authorities, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.
Removing content related to human rights at the request of the Russian government and not because it violates Google’s content policies marks a “new trend,” Agentstvo said, citing an unnamed cybersecurity expert.
This is fun!
Because I have my History turned off on the #Youtube app they are refusing to show me an Algorithmically generated feed.
I'm not sure they understand how many people see this as an absolute win!! #Google
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