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by bflesch 9mo ago
You are incorrect. Google offers IP geolocation service at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation... Of course they don't share the final database, because it is their core asset. And i
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Oh come on please stop this insincere false narrative. IP-to-geolocation works extremely well even with semi-public databases, and Google has spent billions on collecting a very powerful database of it. Google is internally fusing data from
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Unfortunately extending benefit of the doubt towards US tech companies is a luxury not everybody can or wants to afford. There is a clear pattern of enshittification of their products. As you assume that GP has not read the post, how about
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Jitsi is about audio / video where this would make more sense, not about geolocation. Geolocation based on IP address is always done in the background, so they already know what city you are from. But Google wants to have the nice high
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It explicitly pops up the confirmation dialog even though user has previously DENIED that geolocation permission dialog. The whole thing is only created because they see "high denial rates" and want to create a way to permanently
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Main purpose of this seems to offer a way for undoing "previously blocked location access" by the user. > If a prompt appears unexpectedly, users may block it reflexively or accidentally, unaware that this decision creates a pe
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Maybe for tracking purposes, because most google-affiliated CDNs are widely blocked and unpkg might be small enough to not immediately raise eyebrows with devs. Unpkg removed their SPONSORS.md file recently, and their README claims to be ho
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by bflesch 9mo ago
It also happens with extensions and Firefox adblocker disabled. Might be connected to one of the Firefox anti tracking features, but I was unable to figure it out. The profiler shows an infinite loop. I've found several reports about t
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by bflesch 9mo ago
You're hitting an important point. I might go on a tangent here. It's up to operating systems to offer a content consumption experience for end users which reverses the role of platforms back to their original, most basic offers.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
When using their web UI with Firefox and ublock origin it regularly freezes the tab when the answer is written out. Someone at Anthropic had to create a letter-by-letter typing animation with GIF image and sentry callbacks every five second
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Sounds too good to be true. What are the downsides? You say that it reads a location that was calculated, but then also checks the crc32 and if it doesn't match it will move to the next calculated position. Why is reading the crc32 nee
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Sorry this might be an extremely stupid question, but can you please explain the benefits of this and what other (larger?) alternatives are? I understand that this "exokernel" provides more performant hardware access for software
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I'd mix in some IPv4 of course, maybe pipe some of the connection via VPN interface so the physical route is not same for all packets.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Packets with fake source address can easily be spotted, and will raise an alert. In terms of using multiple interfaces for a single service it might be easy to hack together in a python script, but last time I checked the linux kernel suppo
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Yes, and if your host has access to several IPv6 addresses and maybe an IPv4 address it'd be nice to have something like wireguard actually utilize all of them in some random order. Same on the receiving end, wireguard server listenes
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I want to ask you something: I understand that with IPv6 the idea is that every household receives several of IPv6 addresses so that every single IoT device has their unique IPv6 address and there is no NAT needed. Would
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by bflesch 9mo ago
So this surely means that in the medium term Google will siphon off all of the iCloud data. A dark pattern here, a new EULA popup for the user to accept there, and just like with copilot on windows the users will "allow" Apple to
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by bflesch 9mo ago
that's actually a reasonable point.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Ivan from St. Petersburg calls himself "Heinz Müller" and creates a Telegram group that reports about immigrant crime in my neighborhood, trying to fool elderly citizens with lack of social media experience into believing his fake
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Thanks for calling that guy out, it's ridiculous how confidently they spew such nonsense.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
I was trying to say that even though the US administration is actively escalating with Europe, I don't think the point in time has been reached where they want to go full berserk and cut Europe off from services by US tech companies. C
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by bflesch 9mo ago
The act of threatening unrelated customers just because they are in the same country is extremely stupid. Businesses might not care whether he tweets at JD Vance or Taylor Swift, but the risk of having your website shut down because the CEO
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by bflesch 9mo ago
You are confidently incorrect, very impressive.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Good point.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
That's a very good example.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
There is a big difference between right to free speech by citizens of a certain country vs. someone working in the military propaganda unit of a foreign country who artificially amplifies their opinion thousandfold while masquerading as a c
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by bflesch 9mo ago
US owns the registrars, they just deregister domains they don't like and show some sort of FBI logo instead.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
No, haven't heard that story. Can you share a source?
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by bflesch 9mo ago
Yes, I didn't want to say it is a good thing.
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by bflesch 9mo ago
DNS lookups via 1.1.1.1 are also directly fed into the US surveillance state so peter thiel can use his palantir dashboard to see if you are the antichrist or not.

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