Google – Paolo Redaelli https://monodes.com/predaelli A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:20:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 91795679 Too much power https://monodes.com/predaelli/2020/03/16/too-much-power/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2020/03/16/too-much-power/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:30:00 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=6911 It may seem silly to point out such a new in these times, but I can’t understand what benefit we could gain from letting Amazon and Google know when we turn on a bulb or whatever: Amazon and Google Now Require Continuous Data From Other Smarthome Devices – Slashdot.

Too much power corrupt and they are seeking too much power.

]]> https://monodes.com/predaelli/2020/03/16/too-much-power/feed/ 0 6911 A little too much https://monodes.com/predaelli/2015/06/15/a-little-too-much/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2015/06/15/a-little-too-much/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:37:00 +0000 http://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=342 In a middle of typical morning I saw the battery of my smartphone quite lower than what I expected so I looked at power usage :
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Hey, wait a moment, I haven’t used Google Play Music! It must have been working under the wood:
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Dear Google,
I understand that you strive to provide refined, responsive, polished services yet three gigabytes of data in two weeks are an order of magnitude or two bigger than what I would consider a fair usage of my bandwidth for a program I haven’t run in months, for music that I haven’t listened to since last autumn.
So thanks for all the fish, I’m going to un install Google tunes. I’ll use it properly confined into a browser I trust which incidentally is not Chrome.
Your truly
Paolo Redaelli

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