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  1. Tantek ()'s status on Sunday, 23-Aug-2026 16:13:00 EDT Tantek Tantek
    Discussed Venn diagrams with a couple of friends this morning, especially in the context of illustrating the utility of including all 3 or 4 of a specific set of design principles when creating certain kinds of things, and learned about the difference between Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams.

    In short:
    * a Venn diagram shows ALL possible relationships between different sets
    * an Euler diagram shows only some relationships between different sets, typically focused on conveying relevant or the more important relationships

    If you want to dive into their history and why these differences matter, bookmark (or open new tab) this Scientific American article to rabbithole later:
    * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/venn-diagrams-history-and-popularity-outside-of-math-explained/

    In pop culture and media, nearly any diagram of overlapping circles with labeled regions is (errantly) referred to as a “Venn diagram”.

    This is imprecise at best, outright incorrect in many cases, especially diagrams of four circles.

    A classic example is the “Ikigai” diagram:


    Many (examples below) call this a Venn diagram. It is not a Venn diagram. It is an Euler diagram.

    The Ikigai diagram fails to express two specific relationships between different sets, the two that contain opposing side circles but neither of the other two. The missing Ikigai sets relationships in particular:
    1. only “you are good at” AND “the world needs” (with neither of the other two)
    2. only “you love” AND “you can be paid for” (again with neither of the other two)

    If you Google web search for "examples of four circle venn diagrams", Gemini gets this wrong:


    And so do the majority of articles that Google shows in top results (which I’m not helping by linking here, but hey it’s Google’s job to fix its search quality, not mine. I was able to use Internet Archive links for two of them at least.)
    * https://web.archive.org/web/20260823204717/https://boardmix.com/knowledge/4-circle-venn-diagrams/
    * https://miro.com/templates/4-circle-venn-diagram/ (Miro’s own top template there is wrong, though others have contributed proper 4 set Venn diagrams)
    * https://web.archive.org/web/20260823205434/https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/venn-4-circles-diagram
    * https://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/EW_venndiagram_4

    This has interesting implications for expertise and trust.

    Clearly by this one example search result, we cannot trust the expertise of "design tool" websites (boardmix, miro), nor stock photo websites.

    Nor can we trust educationworld as a place to be educated.

    Nor can we trust Google Search (or Google Gemini) to surface expertise above popular misconceptions.

    Perhaps a good example of when to use Wikipedia search instead of Google (or other generic) web search.

    Personally I generalize this example to “all proper nouns”, that is:

    * Wikipedia search proper nouns instead of Google or other general web searching.

    You can make this more convenient by setting up “w” as a search shortcut for Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox

    For reference / more reading on Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams:
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram

    #Venn #diagram #diagrams #VennDiagram #VennDiagrams #EulerDiagram #math #maths #sets #setTheory #relationships #Ikigai #fourCircles #fourCirclesVenn #fourCirclesVennDiagram #misconception #popMisconception #Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleWebSearch #webSearch #search #Gemini #GoogleGemini #GeminiWrong #expertise #trust #webTrust #Wikipedia
    #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
    about 9 days ago from tantek.com permalink

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  2. Tantek ()'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 16:05:00 EDT Tantek Tantek
    Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.

    In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month

    Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.

    Solution: add " -ai" to your query.

    E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox)

    Type this into your Firefox address bar:

    b 2026 sep -ai

    or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai

    and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.


    Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024:
    * Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026.
    * Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026
    * 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th).
    * < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month
    * [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week

    Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.

    #search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month
    #CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia.

    #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
    about 23 days ago from tantek.com permalink
  3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2020 08:43:55 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    ♲ @emanuele@quey.org: Did you know #Google is collecting data from every page on the open web that relies on Google Fonts?

    Here you are some public stats: fonts.google.com/analytics
    (the best data, for sure, they will keep for them).

    #privacyMatters


    libranet.de/display/e7cf69fa-5…
    Thursday, 20-Feb-2020 08:43:55 EST from libranet.de permalink
  4. LPS (lps)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2019 17:45:37 EDT LPS LPS

    Google still keeps a list of everything you ever bought using Gmail, even if you delete all your emails

    Google tracks everything you buy using Gmail to gather the receipts for a Purchases list it saves. It says you can delete this by deleting the email, but three weeks after Todd Haselton deleted all his Gmail messages, the list is still there.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/05/google-gmail-purchase-history-cant-be-deleted.html

    #google #privacy #gafam #dataprivacy

    Saturday, 06-Jul-2019 17:45:37 EDT from fosstodon.org permalink
  5. zalandocalrissian (zalandocalrissian)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Jan-2019 20:50:59 EST zalandocalrissian zalandocalrissian
    • Federated Republic of Sean
    • André E. Veltstra

    @aeveltstra @freakazoid
    Here's a list of free tile servers:
    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles

    Here are the terms of use for the "official" one (first in that list):
    https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

    And here's where you can throw your money you saved:
    https://donate.openstreetmap.org/

    :)

    #osm #openstreetmap #google

    Tuesday, 29-Jan-2019 20:50:59 EST from ieji.de permalink
  6. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 11:16:40 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ MMN-o ✅⃠
    • Computer and Network Security
    • umehack
    Recently I had to bypass the Factory Reset Protection on a #Nexus6 #Android. I'm astounded how badly #Google engineers implement security considering the reputation of their excellence: https://umeahackerspace.se/2018/10/08/bypassing-frp-factory-reset-protection-on-nexus-6-and-other-relatively-modern-android-phones/ !security !umehack
    Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 11:16:40 EDT from social.umeahackerspace.se permalink
  7. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 14:54:30 EDT Bob Jonkman Bob Jonkman
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #GooglePlus is shutting down because of a data breach that #Google can't be bothered to make secure. No idea how bad the breach is, since Google deleted logs to hide from regulatory scrutiny. https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-data-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-user/ #Privacy
    Monday, 08-Oct-2018 14:54:30 EDT from gs.jonkman.ca permalink

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  8. Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Saturday, 24-Mar-2018 21:15:12 EDT Zed Ex Fuuma Zed Ex Fuuma

    Good evening #SDF and the wider #fediverse! Played some #Tekken today with friends and kicked butt with Kazuya, although shortly later I got my butt kicked by a Asuka player! Man I love #fighting games, always great fun to have tournaments with your buds. Anyways, today I saw an instance of #peertube setup and I thought that was awesome, eventually I'd like to setup my own instance of it. Lets keep fighting the good fight and not hand over our digital lives to #google and #facebook!

    Saturday, 24-Mar-2018 21:15:12 EDT from mastodon.sdf.org permalink
  9. Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Sunday, 11-Mar-2018 17:58:55 EDT Zed Ex Fuuma Zed Ex Fuuma

    Good evening #SDF and the wider #Fediverse! I'm still working on getting myself free from the clutches of #google and #comcast, but I feel like I'm 50% of the way there. I still use #twitter and #facebook, but feel bad about it. I can't give up facebook over night like I can twitter however, as it's the only way to really get in contact with family for now. How do you peeps deal with having to use a service you want no part of? Also, #MetaARPA is scheduled for next month at this rate :D

    Sunday, 11-Mar-2018 17:58:55 EDT from mastodon.sdf.org permalink
  10. Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2017 20:17:05 EST Zed Ex Fuuma Zed Ex Fuuma

    Updated my #phlog: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/mhj/phlog/2017-12-08
    This time I'm using a different #proxy because I heard the last one loads #google libraries. Anyways, I also got a #Jabber account! Also started using #weechat and #bitlbee recently, #terminal applications ftw!

    Thursday, 07-Dec-2017 20:17:05 EST from mastodon.sdf.org permalink
  11. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2017 15:49:28 EST Joshua Judson Rosen Joshua Judson Rosen
    in reply to
    • Self Hosting
    • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
    Every time a #GMail user is unable to receive my #email because #Google inexplicably ate it, and someone suggests I should give up on !selfhost'ing and just let Google manage *my* mail too, I can only think "are you insane!? Then *I* wouldn't be able to receive e-mail either! Why would I want that!?".
    Friday, 06-Jan-2017 15:49:28 EST from status.hackerposse.com permalink
  12. Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2016 14:14:23 EDT Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
    • Joshua Judson Rosen
    @rozzin Good link, thanx! I've got a bunch of people using #Google services on my roster. I still get their presence information, but can't chat with them. I suspect their access to XMPP was restricted when they tried Hangouts, which flipped some kind of internal switch on the Google servers.
    Thursday, 08-Sep-2016 14:14:23 EDT from sn.jonkman.ca permalink
  13. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2016 05:53:29 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠ MMN-o ✅⃠
    in reply to
    • MMN-o ✅⃠
    • pettter ✅
    @pettter Men då har ju #Folkbladet även #Google som mailleverantör, så man kan ju inte förvänta sig särskilt mycket.
    Friday, 02-Sep-2016 05:53:29 EDT from social.umeahackerspace.se permalink
  14. benediktg (benediktg)'s status on Friday, 01-Jul-2016 13:05:44 EDT benediktg benediktg
    • OpenStreetMap
    #Google has tightened the conditions of accessing their Maps APIs – a good occasion to switch to #Openstreetmap. ;) !osm
    https://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.de/2016/06/building-for-scale-updates-to-google.html
    Friday, 01-Jul-2016 13:05:44 EDT from gnusocial.de permalink Repeated by cmhobbs
  15. benediktg (benediktg)'s status on Friday, 01-Jul-2016 13:05:44 EDT benediktg benediktg
    • OpenStreetMap
    #Google has tightened the conditions of accessing their Maps APIs – a good occasion to switch to #Openstreetmap. ;) !osm
    https://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.de/2016/06/building-for-scale-updates-to-google.html
    Friday, 01-Jul-2016 13:05:44 EDT from gnusocial.de permalink
  16. Alberto (moshpirit)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2016 10:52:33 EST Alberto Alberto
    • gnusocial
    • Anonymity
    Legally, who's the organization that regulates Google and co?

    Is this organisation related with any kind of corruption?

    I'd like to know if we can trust in this kind of laws. I don't trust politics or Google but you know.

    !gnusocial !anonymity #Google
    Thursday, 10-Mar-2016 10:52:33 EST from quitter.es permalink
  17. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2016 20:42:51 EST MMN-o ✅⃠ MMN-o ✅⃠
    • Rymmargrisen, nöff said.
    • mikael
    @oemplojerad Haha, inte ok att säga att det är för Googles skulle! Det är för #IndieWeb och de fantastiska människorna, sådetså! Att javascriptifiera och interaktivisera sidladdningarna gör det bara svårare för #IndieW…
    Friday, 04-Mar-2016 20:42:51 EST from social.umeahackerspace.se permalink

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    1. mmn-20160305-ostatus-jdyf.html
  18. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Saturday, 13-Feb-2016 09:40:01 EST MMN-o ✅⃠ MMN-o ✅⃠
    Oh the irony that https://social.umeahackerspace.se/url/53316 is hidden behind a #Cloudflare #Google captcha for us who use Tor regularly.
    Saturday, 13-Feb-2016 09:40:01 EST from social.umeahackerspace.se permalink
  19. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Monday, 25-Jan-2016 08:34:58 EST MMN-o ✅⃠ MMN-o ✅⃠
    in reply to
    • Roland Haeder
    • gnusocial
    @roland No, !GNUsocial doesn't use an external reference to #Google. You do. Don't enable plugins if you don't want to use them.
    Monday, 25-Jan-2016 08:34:58 EST from social.umeahackerspace.se permalink
  20. Roland Haeder (roland)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jan-2016 09:34:11 EST Roland Haeder Roland Haeder
    • Roland Haeder
    #NoGo: !gnusocial uses external reference to #Google ! Please stop this. https://social.mxchange.org/attachment/53277
    Sunday, 24-Jan-2016 09:34:11 EST from social.mxchange.org permalink
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