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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Google and Apple both have WiFi geolocation databases. As far as I can tell there's no way for an AP to opt-out of Apple's database.
Interesting tidbit from [1]: "In older versions of Apple's mobile OS (1.1.3 to 3.1), Apple relied on Google and Skyhook Wireless to provide location-based services -- so Apple left data collection to them. But ever since April 2010, starting with iPhone OS 3.2 and continuing into the current iOS 4 software, Apple has started using its own databases to provide location-based services to iOS devices."
Comment · 5 years ago
I remembered that Apple has such a database too, and interestingly, here's a project that reverse-engineered queries to Apple's Wi-Fi geolocation service: https://github.com/zadewg/GS-LOC
Comment · 5 years ago
Fair enough, "same" is overstating it - edited.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting, similar to Google[1]...
I wonder if 3 days in-person will be the new paradigm for big tech companies.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22422518/google-hybrid-wor...
Comment · 5 years ago
To be clear, the FDA has not approved the vaccine yet, but an FDA advisory panel has endorsed it [0].
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pfizer...
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh interesting, lots of good discussion on HN about that post too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887276.
Particularly someone asked whether Uber could scale the approach. I couldn't find how many cities in which Uber uses corrected GPS, except a 2018 Verge article that says "15, launching soon globally". Either way, seems like the answer is Google has the data to do it. And Google can bring it to every (non-China) Android phone.
But yeah, Google's post is very light on technical details. It'd be interesting to see if their approaches were similar.
Edit: also of note, Uber used server-side correction (at least in 2018), while Google downloads 3D tiles to the device.
Comment · 6 years ago
Gotcha, so Cloudflare One = Access (BeyondCorp) + firewall/filtering/Wireguard VPN/logging/... ?
Comment · 6 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, my read is that this is a competitor to Google's external BeyondCorp solution[0]? (They reference the BeyondCorp papers in the post.)
Comment · 6 years ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332
Comment · 6 years ago
Regenerative braking largely minimizes conventional braking on Teslas.
Comment · 6 years ago
Question: Is it possible to uninstall Safari on macOS? (without shell commands)
Comment · 6 years ago
> The employees revolted so strongly the project was cancelled.
Exactly - the buck stopped at company leadership beholden to internal/public reputation, rather than a central authoritarian government with the power to make you disappear.
[1] https://www.sonobus.net/