Chi cerca trova? – ovvero come la ricerca di #google sta diventando sempre più una merda
Le dita nella presa del 23 febbraio, su @ondarossa
https://www.ondarossa.info/newstrasmissioni/dita-nella-presa/2025/02/chi-cerca-trova
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Interesting discussion in the EU parliament right now: while @EUCommission and #MEP Andreas #Schwab celebrate the #DigitalMarketsAct as a success, #Google competitor #Ecosia slashes it as "utter failure" and calls for a revision #DMA 2.0 to "step up the game".
Their argument: one year in the law has led to zero change on the market.
Keep ‘em coming
“ #Mexico will take #Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, Pres Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday, arguing that #Trump ’s order to rename it only applies to the part of the continental shelf under US control”
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Is #YouTube reducing the average bitrate on 1080p videos for non-Premium users? I always hear about compression artefacts but rarely noticed them, until recently.
You'd think higher compression is good for #EnergyEfficiency. The impact of delaying the expansion of networking hardware is hard to assess. Energy spent on client-side decoding and new client hardware probably dominates.
Results of encoding settings are not obvious:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09854
![Excerpt from "A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming" by Afzal et al.
«With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has
increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83].
[...]
Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead.
Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the
CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the
same resolution [217].
Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from
30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For
other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»](/images/status/3bb4df3f-d47f-42ab-a6dc-042b5d8d2e23.png "Excerpt from \"A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming\" by Afzal et al.
«With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has
increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83].
[...]
Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead.
Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the
CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the
same resolution [217].
Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from
30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For
other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»")
![Excerpt from "A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming" by Afzal et al.
«With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has
increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83].
[...]
Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead.
Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the
CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the
same resolution [217].
Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from
30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For
other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»](/images/status/3eb41a63-fc96-4929-a980-9f35acf201e3.png "Excerpt from \"A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming\" by Afzal et al.
«With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has
increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83].
[...]
Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead.
Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the
CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the
same resolution [217].
Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from
30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For
other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»")
Google is a company of sellouts with no principles.
For no reason whatsoever a reminder that @openstreetmap is a good alternative to #Google. And not influenced by the whims of a senile Caligula
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html
Can we cadge together the internet archives and wikipedia into a real search engine news site?
Can we build self repairing free public utilities?
#wikipedia #intetnetArchives #searchEngine #trith #liars #killers #nazis #Google #techBros
Consider this: The #EU has just won 2 court cases against big tech. Yet these do not get continuous MSM attention. The USA banning #TikTok is wall-to-wall even here in Europe. We need to celebrate our wins more, not obsess about USA (frankly) incompetence.
"**the European Court of Justice gave the Union's regulators two major victories in their ongoing battles with tech giants, judging that #Apple and #Google must pay over €15 billion in total"**
#Google will build new DCs near Oulu, #Finland, and bought 1400 hectares of forest from the state. Both locations are near a 400 kV power transmission line, judging from openinframap.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20128014
The state should rent this land to Google, not sell it. The value of this land for Google is determined by the amount of public investment around it. Now every further public investment will be an untaxed gift to Google.
(Yes I'm an hypocrite. My apartment building owns its own land plot.)
Time for Vivaldi to check their couch for 20 billion $ spare cash?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
GOOGLE FILTRA IL TUO PENSIERO
Google filtra i risultati delle ricerche e le raccomandazioni YouTube per studiare le tue reazioni e rinchiuderti in una bolla algoritmica
APPLE SA DOVE È TUA MADRE
Un telefono con iOS o Android permette a Apple, Google e le loro applicazioni di registrare la tua posizione senza sempre dirtelo o lasciarti la scelta
FACEBOOK SCEGLIE QUELLO CHE TU LEGGI
Facebook filtra i contenuti della lista di notifiche per analizzare le tue reazioni e rinchiuderti in una bolla algoritmica
AMAZON SA CHE RAEGALI AVRAI
Ha analizzato su vasta scala comportamenti apparentemente triviali che svelano la personalità tua e di quelli attorno a te.
MICROSOFT FORMATTA I TUOI FIGLI
Microsoft fa affari con scuole ed università per potere spingere insegnanti e studenti ad usare solo i suoi prodotti
#GAFAM #NOGAFAM #Google #Amazon #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft #BigTech
ingegneri = mercenari?
La domanda e' stata posta da GSoA e dal sindacato Syndicom rispetto alla collaborazione di #google con #israele . Nell'ambito del #genocidio in corso, la tecnologia cloud svolge un ruolo centrale, Israele non ha sufficienti risorse interne, e si appoggia a #aws #gcp e #azure I lavoratori del data-center di Google a Zurigo chiedono l'applicazione della Mercerary Law svizzera in modo da obbligare Google a essere trasparente (e controllata dal governo)
https://www.republik.ch/2024/10/24/was-zuercher-google-ingenieure-mit-dem-gazakrieg-zu-tun-haben
When will people stop believing high minded #billionaire rhetoric?
#Google is, in fact, evil despite *saying* "Don't be evil."
#WaPo is, in fact, draped in #democracy killing darkness despite saying "democracy dies in darkness."
You are not, in fact, "in good hands" with Allstate. You're in cold, methodical, deny your coverage for any excuse hands.
#Facebook does not, in fact, "bring the world closer together." It isolates people while bringing them closer to advertisers and extremist content.
X does not, in fact, allow you to "Blaze your glory" whatever that #AdderalAddledNazi owner was thinking the motto meant when he thought it up in an amphetamine haze.
Pro tip: Every #corporation shares the same motto: "Maximize shareholder profit by any and all means."
Ho letto che #PiracyShield ha bloccato un server di #Google Drive e il pensiero è andato a quella volta che ho pestato una merda di vacca entrando col piede fino alla caviglia.