Killed by Google
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
@Luhmann said in Killed by Google:
You mean the evidence after @Polygeekery burns down your house?I wonder if any internet forum feuds have spilled over into real life.
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@jinpa said in Killed by Google:
I wonder if any internet forum feuds have spilled over into real life.
/me checks his IoT security camera's ...
Not yet!
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Not content with killing its own products, Google sets its sights on third parties.
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@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@Luhmann said in Killed by Google:
IoT
house_on_fire_theres_your_problem.gif
paging @Polygeekery
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@lolwhat Yes, that was (part of) the joke.
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I like how every one of these announcements is basically
Hey you know that thing? It's gone now
So what do I do now?
Well, you can either go fuck yourself, or figure something else out. Good luck
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@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
I like how every one of these announcements is basically
Hey you know that thing? It's gone now
So what do I do now?
Well, you can either go fuck yourself, or figure something else out. Good luckMy favorite thing in situations like this is how people foam at their mouths when Microsoft shuts down a service, but justify in every possible way when Google does it.
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@MrL said in Killed by Google:
how people foam at their mouths when Microsoft shuts down a service, but justify in every possible way when Google does it.
Who are those people?
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@MrL said in Killed by Google:
Microsoft shuts down a service
When did that happen? Are you sure they didn't just move the URL?
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@TimeBandit said in Killed by Google:
@MrL said in Killed by Google:
how people foam at their mouths when Microsoft shuts down a service, but justify in every possible way when Google does it.
Who are those people?
Mark and Steven. Especially Steven.
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Location permissions (kind of, possibly)
In order to prepare for more fine grained location permission controls that let you specify whether apps can access your location never, only when they're running, or whenever they want, they've done the most sensible thing and set everything to access location all the time. What are the odds that when the update officially releases, that's going to be the default setting?
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The Android naming scheme:
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@hungrier Also, some bullshit nobody has ever heard of or used:
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@hungrier Why on Earth? Now it'll just get confused with the API number.
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Multiplayer gaming
Now, two of these APIs, the real-time and turn-based multiplayer services, will shut down on March 31st, 2020.
So apparently "some of" the multiplayer APIs are kind of like the only two places in the world where you can find sharks: The northern and southern hemispheres
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@TimeBandit said in Killed by Google:
@MrL said in Killed by Google:
Especially Steven
Yeah, that guy is an ass
Fuck Steven.
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@pie_flavor said in Killed by Google:
@hungrier Why on Earth? Now it'll just get confused with the API number.
You're right, they should just skip to Android 37.
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URLs
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Chrome on Citrix, temporarily; probably playing music in a background tab more permanently
As complaints swirled, Google revealed the launch of its experimental change. The Chrome team flipped the switch on a flag — a hidden Chrome setting used to modify browser behaviour — which enabled the new ‘WebContents Occlusion‘ feature. It suspends Chrome tabs when you move other apps on top of them to reduce resource usage when the browser isn’t in use.
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@hungrier You know, I wonder if something similar is what prevents Chrome from running as a seamless app...
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Larry Page and Sergei Brin
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@topspin said in Killed by Google:
@hungrier said:
Killed by Google:
Larry Page and Sergei BrinShould have killed Zuckerberg instead.
Why not
bothall three?
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@HardwareGeek
Because that would have left us with Oracle?
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@Luhmann But we have Oracle anyway. Though I would have no objection to adding Larry to make it a foursome.
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@HardwareGeek Thanks for ruining my Sunday with that idea...
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@dkf You appear to be thinking of a different sort of foursome than I was think of, because I definitely wasn't thinking of the kind that would ruin your day. Thanks for giving me the idea.
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@HardwareGeek
It's all about balancing out evils dude
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@dkf said in Killed by Google:
@HardwareGeek Thanks for ruining my Sunday with that idea...
@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google:
@dkf You appear to be thinking of a different sort of foursome than I was think of, because I definitely wasn't thinking of the kind that would ruin your day. Thanks for giving me the idea.
I'd upvote both of these posts, but they each have 4 upvotes currently and I don't want to spoil that.
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Android in Turkey
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@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
Android in Turkey
Huh, interesting. From the headline I assumed, as per habit, this to be the result of Turkey being dicks. But really it seems like Google are being dicks here.
Well, also not surprising.
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@boomzilla IIRC there are/were restrictions on phones sold in China having access to Google services, so maybe that's related? Or maybe it's just something else that's been in the news lately.
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@hungrier sure, if the story was about phones in China, that disclaimer would make sense. But...
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@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
Android in Turkey
I remember when Google's motto was something like, "We don't do evil".
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@jinpa said in Killed by Google:
@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
Android in Turkey
I remember when Google's motto was something like, "We don't do evil".
It was "Don't be evil". It was abandoned in a stroke of self-awareness.
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@topspin said in Killed by Google:
@jinpa said in Killed by Google:
@hungrier said in Killed by Google:
Android in Turkey
I remember when Google's motto was something like, "We don't do evil".
It was "Don't be evil". It was abandoned in a stroke of self-awareness.
It appeared to be a command to their employees, but it was really just a suggestion to their competitors; trying to suppress the evil in others, because evil doesn't like competition.
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Chromium:
As reported originally in WTF bites, it's now completely unusable in my work VM. Chrome on my personal machine seems mostly fine, although it seems to briefly freeze up fairly frequently on GMail (!!). My version of Chrome is one release ahead of Chromium. I get Chrome directly from Google and Chromium from Ubuntu, and Ubuntu hasn't updated Chromium to 79.0.3945.88 yet (still on .79).
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Looks like other people are noticing it now too:
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@boomzilla Wait, that issue has been happening to me for months though. Was I part of whatever AB testing group got the buggy feature?
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@LB_ sounds likely. Looks like someone put it into the bug tracker:
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@boomzilla said in Killed by Google:
the bug tracker:
I strace'd it and it's apparently a bunch of futex=ETIMEDOUT, recvmsg=EAGAIN, clock_gettime, etc. that seems to happen during the freeze.
It looks like some kind of deadlock. I get the feeling that someone familiar with the code might easily see through this. It's really important to get it fixed and not let this update creep into more systems out there.
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@boomzilla It all sounds like the sort of thing where I would threaten to just back out the whole release and tell everyone that whatever it was that they thought they'd committed into the codebase for that release, it isn't there any more and they'll need to redevelop it. Which is draconian, but a good way to focus minds on the fact that collectively everyone done fucked up bad. I'd then round on QA for not spotting such a critical fault before it reached users.
I can get really annoying towards people when they appear to be not caring about things that are their responsibility. Except for mods here because
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@dkf I would support that.
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Print replica digital magazines, whatever that was