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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28
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“To protect your privacy” this invisible app automatically scans all your images: Google System APK Transparency | Android Binary Transparency | Google for Developers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Remember [Wayback/Archive] Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos | MacRumors Forums?
Google now forces a similar thing.
Uninstall this as soon as it appears on your Android phone: [Wayback/Archive] Google System APK Transparency | Android Binary Transparency | Google for Developers
Via [Wayback/Archive] jack: “You remember #Apple scanning a…” – Mastodon @ SDF:
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn’t appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same – scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so “to protect your #privacy“.You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
For more information, see:
- [Wayback/Archive] Guys help some app called android system safetycore installed automatically : antivirus
- [Wayback/Archive] What’s new in the November 2024 Google System Updates [U: 11/25]
- [Wayback/Archive] Google Messages adding ‘Sensitive Content [nudity] Warnings’
- [Wayback/Archive] android system safety core – GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
Query: [Wayback/Archive] “Android System Safety Core” – Google Search
--jeroen
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G+ now has completely stopped working: “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21
This is getting ridiculous: G+ now completely stopped working. No CAPTCHA every couple of seconds after my laptop wakes up, but the screenshot below.
The “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help isn’t helping much either.
My computer isn’t sending automated queries. The Google related tabs (some 50+) in Chrome are, as they frantically try to refresh themselves when my laptop wakes up.
This is a Google and Chrome design decision:
- each tab runs in a separate process
- each tab keeps being active even when not visible
- Google chooses to have each Google related tab to talk to Google Plus
It’s not my choice that this overloads the G+ system, so don’t bug me with that!
–jeroen
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Some more Chromecast development notes and links
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Some notes and links for Chromecast development:
- Streaming to URL that is based on IP-address or a publicly visible hostname (i.e. the DNS entry must be accessible from Google services).
- You can host in a public directory on a Google Drive.
- Lots of examples at Google Cast; start with googlecast/CastHelloText-chrome and googlecast/CastHelloVideo-chrome and googlecast/CastVideos-chrome..
- Android development is not yet possible as it requires the Google Play Services library version 15, which will become available when the Google Play Services version 4.2.39 has been rolled out to enough Android devices.
- Join the Google Cast Developers – Community – Google+.
- Wrap your Googlecast JavaScript loading logic up like Gerwin Sturm – Google+ – Google Cast SDK Chrome Loader Being my “lazy” self I’ve… and read Gerwin Sturm – Google+ – In an ideal world where everyone is running Chrome with the….
- The Google Cast team monitors even more resources. I’ve mentioned most already, except for:
- Google Cast on StackOverflow.
- Shawn Shen – Google+ – Public beta channel for the Google Cast extension (for Chrome)….
- Mathieu Gosbee – Google+ – I added a local video streaming Chrome App….
- Leon Nicholls – Google+ – Web Audio API Protip….
- Icon resources can be downloaded from Google Cast Downloads – Google Cast — Google Developers.
- The First Wave of New Chromecast Apps Is Here – ReadWrite.
- Leon Nicholls – Google+ – Closed Captioning protip.
- Beste practice: testing for library availability.
- John Affaki – Google+ – Publishing Apps..
- Leon Nicholls – Google+ – Sender Protips Based on our experiences with helping launch Cast apps….
Some nice apps:
- PhotoCast for Chromecast – Android Apps on Google Play.
- Vignesh Venkat – Google+ – Chromecast URL Player. Casts any video/image given a URL.
–jeroen
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Google Play Services 4.2 versions I saw in the wild on Android
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/14
Now that the Google Play Services 4.2 have been rolled out to enough Android devices, and the Google Play Services Library version 15 is out, this is my list of Play Services 4.2 versions I have seen in the wild:
- 4.2.34
- 4.2.39 (997510-038)
- 4.2.42 (1013934-034)
Sorry, I didn’t note the build number for 4.2.34.
Anyone that can help complete this list?
–jeroen
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Google 2 factor authorization: “The code you entered didn’t verify. Learn more Tip: codes are time-dependent…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/18
Not sure what went wrong, but I could not use 2 factor authentication, but somehow the codes generated by the Google Authenticator didn’t work at all. When entering the codes, I got this message:
“The code you entered didn’t verify. Learn more Tip: codes are time-dependent. Make sure your phone is set to the correct local time.”
Of course both devices were having the same time, were in the same time zone, etc.
The “codes are time-dependent” – Google Search got me on the right track.
The fix was the second steps from this article (I updated the steps as some of the UI changed): Read the rest of this entry »
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Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/19
A while ago, I posted Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet? indicating this about Feedly:
PRO: GR imported posts contains all history (even from blog feeds that are now defunct)
Well, I was proven wrong by this Feedly posting about the migration to their own cloud: [IMPORTANT] Preparing to be upgraded to the new feedly cloud | Building Feedly.
The one part we did not migrate from google reader is your history (too much data) so you have to expect that you are starting from a blank history and your unread counts will be reset. This is a one time issue.
Is there any Google Reader replacement that imports full history?
–jeroen
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Google Nexus 4: How to Undo “Android sync of Google Contacts will sometimes auto-merge contacts with the same last-names”
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/05
On my brand new Google Nexus 4, I had this problem that some contacts were merged based on their last name.
They were merged only on the phone: at the Google Contacts web page, they still were separate.
The issue was very much “in my face”, as one of the merges was my brother and mother. For which I am pretty sure they are separate entities, both alive and kicking.
Browsing for a solution, I found these links (the first one got me to the others):
- sync – Why were some of my contacts automatically merged without notice? – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange.
- Issue 4979 – android – Contacts is merging 2 separate contacts – Android – An Open Handset Alliance Project – Google Project Hosting.
- Comment #10 in Issue 4979 – android – Contacts is merging 2 separate contacts – Android – An Open Handset Alliance Project – Google Project Hosting.
- Gmail Contacts with same last name merging.
The issue is still there (I synced 3 weeks ago).
The solution is per device (the sync breaks on your device, not on Google Contacts).
The steps of the solution were not completely clear, so below are screenshots. Click on each screenshot to get a larger crisp 768×1280 HD image. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (awesome 25 minutes, via: Scott Hanselman – G+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21
A couple of weeks ago, Scott Hanselman posted a great Windows 8 instructional video.
It contains all the stuff that geeks like me will find out themselves over time, but in a well paced and complete manner:
… to give new users to Windows 8 a near-complete understanding of the major features including the Start Screen, Hot Corners, Full Screen Apps, Desktop Apps, The Store, Browsing, Doing Social Stuff, using the Mouse effectively and exploiting keyboard Shortcuts.
It also shows what a power user like Scott uses besides the standard Microsoft Windows/Office combo.
Oh: and it includes the “Windows-X” shortcut (:
(no: not the mobility center any more)
Recommended watch!
–jeroen
via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes….
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Brochure “Is het dementie?” van Alzheimer Nederland (directe link; http://10signalen.nl)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/07
Met diverse mensen in mijn omgeving die al redelijk op leeftijd raken vroeg ik me af: wanneer gaat vergeetachtigheid nu over in dementie.
Gelukkig was er vanorgen op de radio een spotje over dementie die verwees naar 10signalen.nl.
Via een ingewikkeld proces* (handig voor dementerenden!) kun je daar een brochure aanvragen. De naam ervan is “Is het dementie?“.
Voor het gemak: je kunt de brochure ook telefonisch aanvragen via 030-659 69 00 of 0800-5088.
Omdat de brochure toch via Google search gevonden kan worden, hier de directe link: http://www.alzheimer-nederland.nl/media/460524/is_het_dementie.pdf.
Vanaf pagina 23 staan er in de brochure 2 interessante vragenlijsten (van respectievelijk 25 en 16 vragen) die je helpen te beslissen of je (voor jezelf of iemand anders) een afspraak met een arts wilt maken.
Pas op pagina 11 begint de folder over de 10 signalen. Die staan gelukkig ook apart on-line: Alzheimer Nederland – Tien signalen van dementie.
–jeroen
vergeetachtigheid Read the rest of this entry »
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