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What's the difference between this and Sonobus [1], which is open source and also supports iOS/Android? [1] https://www.sonobus.net/

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…

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…

Fair enough, "same" is overstating it - edited.

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.…

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...

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.…

Gotcha, so Cloudflare One = Access (BeyondCorp) + firewall/filtering/Wireguard VPN/logging/... ?

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.) [0] https://cloud.goo…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301332

Regenerative braking largely minimizes conventional braking on Teslas.

Question: Is it possible to uninstall Safari on macOS? (without shell commands)

> 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 autho…

Context: All internet companies in China operate under China's Cyber Security Law [0]. Among its consequences: "Companies could be asked to provide source code, encryption, or othe…

DuckDuckGo "most commonly" uses Bing for link search results, so it would mostly be redirecting queries to Microsoft: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so..…

Ah got it. Maybe the first-person part can be added to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ?

Tom Scott, an educational YouTuber. (I am not him, the title was changed by a mod I think)

Edit: title was changed, I am not Tom Scott I am not too familiar with how Brave and BAT (Brave Attention Token), so please chime in. Here's how Brave describes the BAT YouTube don…