@foone and they should've never been involved in any of these to begin with, much less since they scrapped their Canary "Don't be evil!"…
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116664159516809294
Proving again that the turn of the 21st century really was the peak of human civilization.
"The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so."
From "Stochastic Parrots" blog post on #TimnitGibru by There Are A Lot of Cats (justalurkr) / May 26, 2026
https://justalurkr.tumblr.com/post/817697390903607296/text-of-tweet-under-the-cut-because-it-is
The profit imperative means monopoly and then fucking us ever harder is inevitable. I'm all about a bit more socialism but ultimately we need a cultural embrace of sustainable market practices that support families and communities. Just big enough to do the job for your customers and the people who work there. Obviously no billionaires.
Google vient de lancer un puissant outil qui utilise l’IA pour créer de vraies applications Android natives à partir de vos prompts. Vous pouvez ensuite modifier le résultat et installer votre app sur un smartphone quand vous êtes satisfait.
'Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users'
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.
The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.
@masek
"Hey, we wanna be evil, too!"
"Googlebooks are designed from the ground up with Gemini intelligence...The AI can view screen content to make contextual suggestions, and it can pull in data from multiple apps."
um, no thanks.
#google #googlegemini #creepy #spyware #dontbeevil #artificialintelligence
Degoogle friendly organizations that I have found to be as useful resources: #FDroid, #GitHub, #Disroot, and #Monocles.
Here are some apps that I have found useful on my degoogled devices:
These are some of the basic apps I use. I do use other apps. This is just a general list of the apps I like that I can share. Everyone has different needs and how they use their device.
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