keverets @keverets@librem.one

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like #WhatsApp to get around the end-to-end encryption? #TeleMessage provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

#e2ee #FreeSoftware

We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.

Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.

Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html

This is classy.

https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge/

#Programming

🚉 🚍 🚲 Transport should be available, accessible, and affordable for all.

We have adopted recommendations to tackle transport poverty, so no one is left behind.

Transport poverty is more than an economic challenge. It is a barrier to social inclusion – potentially blocking people’s access to essential services, such as education or healthcare.

By working together, we can build a more sustainable and inclusive transport system that benefits everyone.

More info: https://europa.eu/!tHdmff

#deltachat Desktop can now run on Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-browser-edition

The "move fast and break things" era is over. "Move thoughtfully and fix things" is up.

Right, time for a next step. I sold my car last year and I haven’t really missed it at all. I manage fine with pt and the ocasional taxi or car service but I think I’d like to get a bike. Probably electric and, while not necessarily a cargo bike, something I can carry groceries and other stuff on easily. Now for the hard part, I’m 4 foot 9 inches and that definitely restricts me from lots of makes and models. Would really appreciate feedback from anyone who has experience with electric bikes who has found something that work for super short people! #ElectricBicycle

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies FOSS

Exhibit 1: a paper explaining how C)2 concentrations in offices are associated with significant measurable cognitive decline.

https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-db2a-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content

Exhibit 2: Aranet sensors are on sale right now.

https://aranet.com/en/home/products

Putting these together, I would like to propose that anyone championing the mandatory-commute, return to office approach to management who isn't carrying one of these on their person at all times is engaged in professional negligence.

Conference organizers planning events in the US should either be offering virtual attendance or consider moving their event elsewhere

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

French food seems a lot less fancy when you realise that a Croque Monsieur is literally a "Mr. Crunchy".

For those younger, Nazi shit used to be siloed in places like Stormfront. In the 2010s the Silicon Valley techbros discovered that hate&rage was very addictive and started feeding people more and more fringe content to addict them to their sites.
Pervasive hate was normalized to maximize profits.

1930s nazis relied on IBM.
Modern nazis relied on Google and Facebook and Twitter.
Capitalism unmoored from morality always delivers horrors.

welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports

I feel seen

@rlounsbury @Daojoan I'm in the midst of transitioning away from as much big tech as possible; it's definitely possible and not nearly as much of a compromise as it might have been a decade ago.

It isn't just an issue of morality, an issue of privacy, and an issue of being able to own your data.

Sure, trying to go 100% cold turkey is daunting, but you don't have to do it all at once. Setting up your own homelab or a hobby server outside the US has never been easier. If you can migrate away from even one big tech online service, you're one step closer.

The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.