Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/20
Since a few days, oo my desktop systems, Chromium based browsers cannot completely load the Google Chat progressive web app any more.
Symptoms:
- Google Chat Android app works fine from my mobile devices
- This link works fine on my desktop in Chromium based browsers: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#chat/home
- This link fails to fully load on my desktop in Chromium based browsers: chat.google.com/u/0/app?wr=1
The failure is that the green progress bar under the Google Workspace logo quickly almost fills up to become fully green, but then stalls without any network activity.
What I tried but does not fix:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Chrome, Google, GoogleChat, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/13
On my list of tools to play around with: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client
With a warning though from the documentation (emphasis mine):
Gdrive saves your account credentials and tokens under $HOME/.config/gdrive3/. You don’t usually need to use these files directly, but if someone gets access to them, they will also be able to access your Google Drive. Keep them safe.
and from the gdrive2 prior version more elaborate documentation [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – prasmussen/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Console (command prompt window), Google, GoogleDrive, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Terminal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, CSS, Development, Google, GoogleDocs, HTML, HTML5, Infrastructure, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, TypeScript, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17
It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.
In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).
That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.
This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.
Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Chrome, Chrome, Chromium, Development, Edge, Firefox, Google, Google AI, GoogleSearch, LLM, Mastodon, Power User, Reddit, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, URL Encoding, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.
I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.
So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in About, Awareness, Climate change, Google, GoogleImageSearch, GoogleSearch, LifeHacker, Power User | Tagged: shareholder | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
Need to figure out where the ArchiveTeam will be uploading the below archive, as this will help me figure out which links in post blogs I will need to update.
Also, Google never got back to me with an answer what to do with various map and image related shortened URLs for which they themselves also use the goo.gl domain.
[Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links – hckrnws
Related:
Query: [Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam goo.gl at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
Posted in Google, Power User | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 