> What happens if a train has to stop in the middle of the tunnel, and you phone for help? [...] the system has been deliberately configured to transmit the location of the nearest tube station, where access can be arranged. That’s why sometimes you might check your smartphone map, and it will display the “wrong” location, because that’s the best one for a 999 call to use.

This doesn't seem correct - cell towers don't just transmit a location that phones then pickup and use? Unless this is some emergency specific feature I'm not aware of?

> This doesn't seem correct - cell towers don't just transmit a location that phones then pickup and use?

I think it works like this: Towers transmit location. If the phone has no other source of location data, it'll fall back to "probably within radio range of this only tower I can hear"

> Bom tried to explain that the site's refresh - prompted by a major cybersecurity breach in 2015

A perfect example of the state of IT in Australia.

That's neat, could you explain how you achieved that?

I tried a year or so ago and had to round trip to my Android over mobile data so it was too high latency for what I needed. If there's a way to connect to a phone on the same LAN/WiFi but scrape using its mobile network I would be very interested.

You can pick up a pulled laptop modem like the T99W175 from China for a low price, drop it into a USB enclosure (you’ll be limited to USB 2.0 speeds), and hook it up to OpenWrt. Or grab a GL.iNet GL-X3000 - the Quectel RM520N is already on board and runs over PCIe, so it’s quicker.

Then you can have basically unlimited IPs.

Android messes with your traffic far more than a bare modem (there's unavoidable NAT for one), and it has tighter thermal limits, so higher latency is expected.

You can run an ssh server in termux and run whatever programs you want from there.

There's several options for storage, as well: - connect an external drive via USB (The /Android/media directory on both the internal and external SD card is generally accessible from both termux and other apps on the phone) - if you're rooted you can mount a network storage in termux (or system-wide, but then you have to figure out sandboxing) - if you're not rooted, mount in reverse (mount your phone storage over the network)

Yes, if you're interested its not too difficult, but I don't really want to put it here on HN (my business kinda relies on these methods, and I'm increasingly worried they will start working on this problem). If you email me at [email protected] I'll send you details.

This is the most impressive demo I've ever seen - no app download, no account sign up, no crap, just works instantly. Well done.

Thank you! Very appreciated kind stranger :)

> Point-of-Sale Systems — process transactions regardless of internet connectivity

Mentioning this as an example use case is simply untrue, right?

I think this might be true in an invoicing based world but I agree that PoS is a misnomer. But I can imagine e.g. a field sales rep in construction taking orders on site in a rural area then syncing up when they return to connectivity.

> “OpenAI used 600 IPs to scrape data, and we are still analyzing logs from last week, perhaps it’s way more,” he said of the IP addresses the bot used to attempt to consume his site.

The IP addresses in the screenshot are all owned by Cloudflare, meaning that their server logs are only recording the IPs of Cloudflare's reverse proxy, not the real client IPs.

Also, the logs don't show any timestamps and there doesn't seem to be any mention of the request rate in the whole article.

I'm not trying to defend OpenAI but as someone who scrapes data I think it's unfair to throw around terms "like DDOS attack" without providing basic request rate metrics. This seems to be purely based on the use of multiple IPs, which was actually caused by their own server configuration and has nothing to do with OpenAI.

Why should web store operators have to be so sophisticated to use the exact right technical language in order to have a legitimate grievance?

How about this: these folks put up a website in order to serve customers, not for OpenAI to scoop up all their data for their own benefit. In my opinion data should only be made available to "AI" companies on an opt-in basis, but given today's reality OpenAI should at least be polite about how they harvest data.

If you're lucky a neighbour may already have a compatible weather station nearby, which you can freely collect data from as long as you're in range ;)

Anyone aware of public archives of videos like this? These are so cool and I imagine that in the future this would be an incredibly valuable peek into history given how raw it is.

You can achieve the exact same thing in Firefox using the Sidebery extension: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

I love sidebery but I don’t remember how I originally set it up. I believe I was in some manifest files doing some css tweaks awhile ago. So my biggest issue now is how do I replicate my current bespoke setup on my other systems. Anyone know of any tools to assist?

Or this extension called Simple Tab Groups - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

Does it also nests tabs? This one looks just like tab groups, like those in Safari. For me it is enough but above plugin and the topics are about nested tab groups.