Killed by Google
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Issue 1279532: Can't attach tab to window or move tab window horizontaly
I noticed this just a bit ago when I tried to reorder tabs. Looks like they have a fix. Hopefully they'll update soon.
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@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
it seems Microsoft is doing that pre-emptively
It is actually a BHO (Brower Helper Object, AKA old skool plugin using COM) that is doing the switch to Edge. It is even visible as a active BHO in Internet Explorer. Edge installs it in Internet Explorer.
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@Rhywden anything that reduces the PewDiePie in the world can only be a good thing.
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@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
@Rhywden anything that reduces the PewDiePie in the world can only be a good thing.
Another one on the list of "successfully ignored its existence before Google killed it".
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@topspin Google has not yet progressed to actual homicide yet, and as far as I know PewDiePie is still alive. But in other respects, existence can be ignored.
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@Rhywden said in Killed by Google:
They must be redirecting their budget towards a new YouTube Rewind this year. They already hid the dislike count in preparation.
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@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
Google has not yet progressed to actual homicide yet
That's what they want you to think.
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@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
Google has not yet progressed to actual homicide yet
That's what they want you to think.
No no no, you're thinking of UBER.
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
Issue 1279532: Can't attach tab to window or move tab window horizontaly
I noticed this just a bit ago when I tried to reorder tabs. Looks like they have a fix. Hopefully they'll update soon.
Fixed in v98.
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@boomzilla It was still a thing??
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@Zecc yeah, they apparently didn't bother fixing it until the next major version (which in google versioning isn't too bad).
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Currents hasn’t gotten a lot of love from Google. I was only able to find three blog posts about it on Google’s Workspace Updates site — the one announcing it, one in 2020 announcing that it was widely available, and the one from Thursday announcing it was being shut down. [: link}
It died younger than this thread.
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@Zecc I’d never even heard of it, so maybe that’s part of the problem, a lack of marketing?
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@Arantor According to TFA, it looked like it was more like a refuge for people who clutched at the dying Google+ than anything Google wanted to support in the first place, which would explain while they kept it on the down-low.
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@Tsaukpaetra hrm..
It’s not hard to figure out what schedule explorer was supposed to do, given its pretty self-explanatory name, but as it turns out, its limited usage ended up becoming quite a concern for Google.
What, exactly did it do though, you fuckface journolist.
For those who rely on Metro Transit every day, the loss of Schedule Explorer is difficult. This feature allows users to see subway arrival times and how train arrival and departure times affect overall travel time. It was a very useful feature for those who needed it. But Google says enough people haven’t used it.
Hmm...interesting, but yeah...I have no use for it.
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Maybe if they told more people about it, more people would have used it?
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
Hmm...interesting, but yeah...I have no use for it.
I found it useful when arriving at an airport for a business trip where I would know that there'd be some sort of transit to my hotel, but wouldn't know what (and needed a range of options because I didn't know exactly what time I'd be there; air travel often has large error bars in its schedule).
Not used it much recently, but that's because I've done no business travel at all for a few years…
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@dkf I haven't used public transit on a business trip for over 15 years (and that was in Seoul).
But I'd like to pile on the idiot who wrote that "Schedule Explorer" is self-explanatory. Sure, if you already know what it does. I never use maps for public transit so its relation to that never occurred to me. I was thinking about the "Arrive By" feature when you get directions and you're trying to plan when you need to leave. I would have been sad to see that go, but I've also used it pretty recently so I figured it must not have been that.
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Apps permissions:
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@Zerosquare err...wait...it seems like you still see them when you install and presumably still have to approve them, but they're not showing the output of a scan like that in the store any more.
Which is weird and I'm sure has a explanation, but not the same as getting rid of the permissions. I think.
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Yes, my post was unclear. Permissions still exist, but from what I understand, now the store shows a description provided by the app author instead of an automatically generated list. It's unclear if you get the actual permission list when you install the app.
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Oh right, Google Cloud Print isn't a thing anymore.
Could have at least provided some info...
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@Zerosquare They appear to have changed course on this one.
Privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community. We heard your feedback that you find the app permissions section in Google Play useful, and we've decided to reinstate it. The app permissions section will be back shortly.
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@Zerosquare And while they're refunding everybody on the customer side - they obviously told absolutely no one on their team or the developers about it.
Which is a bit of a problem for some of these developers when their games was, in theory, supposed to launch in November and begin recouping the development costs.
Developer pixel.games told me that they’d spent weeks going through checks and onboarding requirements with the Stadia team, and finally been given the green light just yesterday afternoon to publish three games, including arcade-style platformer Donut Dodo, on the platform. Two hours later, Google announced Stadia’s shutdown. “It is clear that none of the people at Stadia involved in our onboarding process knew this was coming,” pixel.games told RPS. “We are now waiting for official news from Google.”
What a clown show.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Killed by Google:
Oh right, Google Cloud Print isn't a thing anymore.
Could have at least provided some info...
Did you check all the cloud printers? Maybe your document printed out fine. Somewhere.
ed. weren't you also killed by google?
I got better, Ed.
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@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
I got better, Ed.
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
I got better, Ed.
There's no such thing as coffee-lichdom. This isn't a ploy to obscure the location of my phylactery. They barely grazed me. I was never dead to begin with. Stay away from my coffee. I'm not the one on trial here!
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@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
This isn't a ploy
This sounds like something that someone would say if it was a ploy...
@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
I'm not the one on trial here!
Not yet
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@loopback0 We don't need a trial for @Polygeekery to burn @Gribnitwit's house down.
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@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@loopback0 We don't need a trial for @Polygeekery to burn @Gribnitwit's house down.
Excellent. (steeples fingers) All the cards are falling into place.
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
I got better, Ed.
However, I was reported dead by Google, I moved out of Chicagoland for awhile one time long enough that my friends posted obituaries for me. I only let that ride for long enough to see if I could convince one my ghost was haunting them.
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@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
I got better, Ed.
However, I was reported dead by Google, I moved out of Chicagoland for awhile one time long enough that my friends posted obituaries for me. I only let that ride for long enough to see if I could convince one my ghost was haunting them.
As long as it was only Google and not the government...
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@dcon it still makes filling out security clearances a pain, but yeah, not as much of a pain.
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Google finding "not enough interest from the entire ecosystem" around JPEG-XL is rather surprising considering that the bitstream was only frozen in late 2020 and the file format was only standardized last year and the coding system since earlier this year. While JPEG-XL has been available with Chrome, it's been off-by-default behind a feature flag, and so until that browser support matures (or were to mature), obviously web developers aren't aggressively pushing JPEG-XL. The libjxl tooling also remains in a pre-1.0 state.
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@Zecc so google killed off both the chicken and the egg.
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@Zecc said in Killed by Google:
Google finding "not enough interest from the entire ecosystem" around JPEG-XL is rather surprising considering that the bitstream was only frozen in late 2020 and the file format was only standardized last year and the coding system since earlier this year. While JPEG-XL has been available with Chrome, it's been off-by-default behind a feature flag, and so until that browser support matures (or were to mature), obviously web developers aren't aggressively pushing JPEG-XL. The libjxl tooling also remains in a pre-1.0 state.
It’s like they wanted to learn from the shitshow that was WebP adoption but misunderstood everything they could have learned from it.
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@Zecc said in Killed by Google:
JPEG-XL
What's that, a standard to take pictures of American-sized people?
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@TimeBandit said in Killed by Google:
@Zecc said in Killed by Google:
JPEG-XL
What's that, a standard to take pictures of American-sized people?
North American, yes. Soon.
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@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
North American, yes.
Most Canadians are not fat. We burn too much calories shoveling the snow
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@TimeBandit said in Killed by Google:
@Gribnit said in Killed by Google:
North American, yes.
Most Canadians are not fat. We burn too much calories shoveling the snow
Small engine technology will spread northward. Soon.
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Ok Google, play Death March
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@izzion said in Killed by Google:
Ok Google, play
Death MarchLast Post
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@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 Google’s Pixel phones through a new companion app.
Suckers