Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/02
I used the tips in [Wayback/Archive] How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News to check out why I would get errors on invited family members that they were not in my country. Somehow my better half could join, but my brother and others could not.
Well, bummer as for all accounts:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29
From [Wayback/Archive] Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22
Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”
This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”
or in list form, differentiate between:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.
Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.
They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API
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Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.…
It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:
- Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
- Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
- Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
- Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
- Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
- Test Chrome Extensions.
Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.
Repositories:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24
Reminder for me to check if Google Photo’s allows you to tag people in individual photo’s.
[WayBack] https://twitter.com/dflieb/status/1146174112890408960:
Yes, I am aware that Google Photo’s apps (on at least Android) allow you to attach names to photo’s is selects as unrecognised.
I mean the other way around: have photo with one or more faces on it, then tag each face by hand.
Via: [WayBack] Google Photos will let you manually tag faces it doesn’t recognize
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11
Many articles have been published on the Google Leaks earlier this year including a Twitter Thread by Henk van Ess. I will mention his and the original starting article which should give anyone hand and feet to dig deeper and assess for themselves how fast Google might be able to change this and get a feeling on much of it is still relevant over time.
A final note: I wasn’t aware that Google search used the Elixir (programming language) – Wikipedia. Cool!
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03
Very useful Web Browser extensions (which you can also use in Edge, see [Wayback/Archive] Add, turn off, or remove extensions in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support).
Via [Wayback/Archive] 𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 on X: “Sick of seeing the web just locally when using Google? Use Google Search location changer to end this problem. Chrome: … Firefox: …”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31
Having been a avid uBlock Origin user since when it came out in 2014 even before both Adblock and Adblock Plus headed over to the dark side.
I need to check out if [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin Lite is good enough now that Google is phasing out Manifest V2 (on which uBlock Origin and other ad blockers depend to provide full functionality).
When it isn’t, I might switch to Firefox or Brave as it should still support Manifest V2 as per
Firefox for instance has some drawbacks with input handling when editing WordPress posts which Chromium based web-browsers (including Brave) don’t have.
Via:
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28
No matter if it has switched to AI or not, Googl Search will show the “not a pipe” image first.
[Wayback/Archive] William Gerrard on X: “Google is so broken that the first image it gave me for a pipe is something that is not a pipe 🙄 “
[Wayback/Archive] GOIFP6casAAhOd_.jpg (1170×1085)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/17
In the past (pre-2020) syncing shared Google Drive content was easy: Google Backup & Sync was still there and the web-UI of Google Drive was straightforward.
Syncing is important for me as it allows off-line working. Not all places have 24/7 internet access and not all cloud services are up 24/7.
So in 2020, with the mandatory (and often failing!) migration of Google Backup and Sync to Google Drive File Syncing and the new web-UI, things became a lot harder: Workaround to add a Shared With Me folder to your Google Drive (Google made this a lot harder in 2020).
Further into 2022 I discovered that way had become impossible for:
Old shares that you had set up syncing for kept working, and I hope they will for a long time, but I doubt they will.
Note this is not about free vs paid Google Drive data: the new situation fails for both cases.
For new shares or old shares you have not set up syncing for there basically seem to be two solutions, neither of them which is nice:
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