Killed by Google
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Killed by Google:
@izzion said in Killed by Google:
The discontinuation comes at a curious time for the Google Glass lineup, as the platform recently gained an early access program to test deeper integration with Googleâs Pixel phones through a new companion app.
Suckers
My doctor used to use Google Glass. I noticed in our last appt (in Jan) that she had stopped. (I forgot to ask about that)
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Un-killed by Google: the stuff you thought you redacted.
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https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html said:
Google was passing "w" to a call to parseMode(), when they should've been passing "wt" (the t stands for truncation). This is an easy mistake, since similar APIs (like POSIX fopen) will truncate by default when you simply pass "w". Not only that, but previous Android releases had parseMode("w") truncate by default too! This change wasn't even documented until some time after the aforementioned bug report was made.
The end result is that the image file is opened without the O_TRUNC flag, so that when the cropped image is written, the original image is not truncated. If the new image file is smaller, the end of the original is left behind.
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@Zecc Me, until they find the same exploit in pasting images into the browser:
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@hungrier Me, until they find the same exploit in Photoshop that isn't being updated for... uh, very specific reasons:
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@Zecc Doesn't apply to the snipping tool in Win10.
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@Carnage said in Killed by Google:
@Zecc Doesn't apply to the snipping tool in Win10.
But the snipping tool has a banner for a while now that you should move to Snip & Sketch, and that one is vulnerable.
Though if I understand the vulnerability correctly, you need to start a snipping action, save the file, change your mind and crop the image in the snipping tool window, and then try to overwrite the previously saved file.
Personally when I use the snipping tool I select the right window or even part of the desktop using the rectangle tool, so who even does it with that many steps?
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@JBert said in Killed by Google:
@Carnage said in Killed by Google:
@Zecc Doesn't apply to the snipping tool in Win10.
But the snipping tool has a banner for a while now that you should move to Snip & Sketch, and that one is vulnerable.
Though if I understand the vulnerability correctly, you need to start a snipping action, save the file, change your mind and crop the image in the snipping tool window, and then try to overwrite the previously saved file.
Personally when I use the snipping tool I select the right window or even part of the desktop using the rectangle tool, so who even does it with that many steps?
Yeah... That Snip and sketch program is shit, and I hate it.
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@Carnage said in Killed by Google:
Yeah... That Snip and sketch program is shit, and I hate it.
Why? You don't ever have to see it. Just use win+shift+S, select a rectangle, release mousebutton, and it's on your clipboard.
I didn't even know I have been using Snip & Sketch for years, until literally 5 minutes ago when I explicitly started it to find out.
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@nerd4sale It's a pet peeve of mine that I can't configure it do not clobber the clipboard, actually, and just about the only reason I turned clipboard history on in the first place.
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@TimeBandit News from February last year...
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@dkf
I blame the lack of coffee
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It's a proof that nothing ever changes.
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@Zerosquare said in Killed by Google:
It's a proof that nothing ever changes.
Including the lack of coffee.
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@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@Zerosquare said in Killed by Google:
It's a proof that nothing ever changes.
Including the lack of coffee.
Pervert.
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Old accounts
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Throw them back in the 10 more years pile.
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Not killed by Google, but at least they are trying.
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German computer magazin "c't" was deemed a source of spam by Google. For one month, they were not able to send emails to Google hosted accounts - in the hardest way, i.e. the mails did not even make it into the spam folder of the recipient.
Article in german:
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@BernieTheBernie The best part:
Hypothesis: Google lost the reputation data and the system decided to simply devalue the domain.
You know, just lost some data, as it happens. Didn't know themselves that they had or did; you bet they wouldn't admit either way. I mean, what are you going to do about it?
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@Applied-Mediocrity Uhm, what? Just be fĂźcked? Looks like that.
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@BernieTheBernie guilty until proven innocent. The future of the tech oligopoly.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Send some angry emails toâ .
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@Zecc Wouldn't work anyway. Google doesn't do customer support. It isn't part of the company ethos, and never ever was.
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@dkf said in Killed by Google:
@Zecc Wouldn't work anyway. Google doesn't do customer support. It isn't part of the company ethos, and never ever was.
It would require dealing with meatsacks which are imperfect and incorrect.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Killed by Google:
German computer magazin "c't" was deemed a source of spam by Google.
Wow, does c't still exist?
I remember occasionally reading it. Must have been in the late eighties.
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Hypothesis: Google lost the reputation data and the system decided to simply devalue the domain.
A lot more probable hypotesis: the magazine published something crutical of google.
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@MrL how about something câtical of Google?
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Google Domains. Not exactly killed, but gotten rid of by fobbing it off on a third party.
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@dkf Relying on Google for anything has always been a game of Russian roulette. Itâs only a matter of time until you land on the loaded chamber(s).
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@Zenith said in Killed by Google:
@dkf Relying on Google for anything has always been a game of Russian roulette. Itâs only a matter of time until you land on the loaded chamber(s).
There are the products that Google cans because their internal culture produced them and no-one is left to defend them, and then there are the products that their internal culture sabotages to the point where they're increasingly becoming dead to me.
The fact that online stores can push crap to Google via API which all get promoted over anything of any value (no, Google, I do not want to go fucking shopping for every single search I make) makes it borderline useless to me.
But since it continues to print money via ads, they won't fix it.
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You were too good for this world.
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Pre-emptive entry:
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7 years, or until the manager in charge of Pixel phones gets promoted, whichever comes first.
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I think Google is trying to kill off YouTube now...
Firefox with uBlock Origin.
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@dcon So far, at least, I can just click the and continue watching videos with no further interference (at least in that tab).
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@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@dcon So far, at least, I can just click the and continue watching videos with no further interference (at least in that tab).
Maybe I should have tried that... (re-enabled uBlock - oh, good.)
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I can only recommend the value of Premium here.
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@Zerosquare fewer ads including on mobile, plus ability to play it in the background while doing something else on the device.
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I'm still using regular Youtube, with uBlock Origin on desktop, and NewPipe on mobile, without issue
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@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
I'm still using regular Youtube, with uBlock Origin on desktop, and NewPipe on mobile, without issue
You can use the SponsorBlock extension with both and then you don't even have to watch the ads that are embedded in the videos. There's a NewPipe build out there that has SponsorBlock built in.
I may have wasted too much of my life watching YouTube videos but at least I didn't waste even more of it.
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@Placeholder said in Killed by Google:
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@PleegWat said in Killed by Google:
@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
fewer ads
Sounds like more ads than I'm getting right now.
Well, the only ads I get are the ones embedded in the video and SponsorBlock seems a bit for me right now.
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@dcon said in Killed by Google:
@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@dcon So far, at least, I can just click the and continue watching videos with no further interference (at least in that tab).
Maybe I should have tried that... (re-enabled uBlock - oh, good.)
It's an ongoing battle (multiple changes per day) but so far the ad blockers are holding.