Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC.
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@mcc I wonder how locked down the hardware will be. In a couple of years, maybe these things will be cheap, and they can be wiped and have Linux installed on them.
@mcc @BoloMKXXVIII If it's anything like Android phones, and if it ships with AluminumOS, which I assume it will, it'll be extremely locked down on all fronts. -
Since the Google announcement wording also poses this as not just the future of Chromebook but the future of Android, this raises serious questions, for me, about how much longer using Android will continue to be an option. Google's been escalating removal of Gemini opt-outs and Android is almost the only one of their products I haven't yet dropped as a result. (This is, of course, happening at the same time governments worldwide are making citizenship contingent on owning an Android or iPhone.)
@mcc I’m a huge fan of Android and was quite involved in the development / xda community back in the day. Made friends I still talk to this day over building Android. Now it makes me anxious to think about using it. Gemini buttons are everywhere, my photo data, health data, messages, apps, keyboard and app usage and I could go on continuously builds a massive mind map of my life for the benefit of?
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@mcc I’m a huge fan of Android and was quite involved in the development / xda community back in the day. Made friends I still talk to this day over building Android. Now it makes me anxious to think about using it. Gemini buttons are everywhere, my photo data, health data, messages, apps, keyboard and app usage and I could go on continuously builds a massive mind map of my life for the benefit of?
@mcc When I accidentally click the wrong button in photos because they are changed, reordered and renamed one a month and instead of choosing a filter I’m sending a family photo up to Gemini to add to its knowledge of me.
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@mcc I feel like we have two choices, and they both really suck.
@GeePawHill @mcc The return of the regular phone. No not basic, regular.
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
@mcc “…moving from an operating system to an intelligence system”
Yeah I stopped reading
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@mcc @BoloMKXXVIII If it's anything like Android phones, and if it ships with AluminumOS, which I assume it will, it'll be extremely locked down on all fronts.
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@otte_homan @mcc you do realize that the state at this point fundamentally relies upon the very same advertising/capital surveillance apparatus you openly note Google for possessing for their own surveillance against their citizens? The state, thanks to the liberal world order, 'on paper' must respect personal privacy, but has left an intentionally wide open loop hole for companies to not only transgress that privacy, but for the state to buy that information for their own use, whatever it may be? This isnt limited to the United States, and EU is moving to essentially force all of this upon us with their multiple bills relating to it, most recently, the Digital Services Act.
The state wants this, do not be confused. They want to have their loophole, and they ideally want it to be totally explicitly legal. If you're at all paying attention to how globally we are having these laws pass, and how Meta (undoubtedly others are as well) was show giving millions to lobby to do so, and recognize the root needs and necessities of the state structurally as a hierarchical, centralized organization, then its very clear that all of this is part of the plan. The best part is it doesn't even have to be conscious or intentional on part of the majority in government, as sometimes theyre being tricked too.
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@jrdepriest @kkarhan @mcc indeed, what's wrong with graphene?
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
@mcc I think it's time to grab an old Pixel 3a or 4a for peanuts off eBay and slam GrapheneOS on it and take it for a test drive. Can I get an amen here?
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@mcc I assume the boot loader will be locked in such a way we can't replace the OS with anything useful, as well, so that'll be great.
@Unlikelylass@mspsocial.net @mcc@mastodon.social False, they will continue to use coreboot like chromebooks. Anything else wouldnt make sense considering they very actively contribute new boards to coreboot, which happens very early in their development cycles.
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
@mcc Seems like the long term plan is to cut costs on the hardware and offload all functionality onto the AI cloud. Your data is the real money-maker for them.
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
@mcc lerfkhv eorj erjf re348d 0ew04kdfe4
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
@mcc no, yeah, that does seem like a worthwhile mitigation to think about
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Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high
I believe you are correct. I have yet to enable it on my computer.....and won't.
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@mcc lerfkhv eorj erjf re348d 0ew04kdfe4
@tekwim33 Is that true
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@mcc Seems like the long term plan is to cut costs on the hardware and offload all functionality onto the AI cloud. Your data is the real money-maker for them.
@polinamials on some platforms tho they seem to be trying to offload the computation of the "AI" cloud onto local devices. It's hard to tell what they're doing exactly or if there's even a unified direction
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@mcc no, yeah, that does seem like a worthwhile mitigation to think about
@mcc we hate that it's at this point. we've stayed away from implementing UA-specific behavior or UA detection, ourselves, because it feels surveillancey and controlling. we've seen how that stuff plays out too many times to trust ourselves with it... good intentions don't even count in Horseshoes.
but we also believe in diversity of tactics and think you should pursue whatever strategy you believe in, after you've considered everything you can
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@mcc we hate that it's at this point. we've stayed away from implementing UA-specific behavior or UA detection, ourselves, because it feels surveillancey and controlling. we've seen how that stuff plays out too many times to trust ourselves with it... good intentions don't even count in Horseshoes.
but we also believe in diversity of tactics and think you should pursue whatever strategy you believe in, after you've considered everything you can
@mcc and the risks are severe enough now that it's worth revisiting
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Since the Google announcement wording also poses this as not just the future of Chromebook but the future of Android, this raises serious questions, for me, about how much longer using Android will continue to be an option. Google's been escalating removal of Gemini opt-outs and Android is almost the only one of their products I haven't yet dropped as a result. (This is, of course, happening at the same time governments worldwide are making citizenship contingent on owning an Android or iPhone.)
@mcc
> governments worldwide are making citizenship contingent on owning an Android or iPhoneElaborate on that.
