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Offering the most recent update first is not a "dark pattern".

GPS has an altitude component so maybe it thinks either the AirTag or the tracking phone is really high up?

Nah, the altitude component is less than a rounding error at the scales involved.

It's clearly in a vaguely geostationary orbit above Guatemala City.

Can I broadcast my own 3G cell inside my house with some magic radio device?

Not legally. Where I'm from they sold off the old 3G spectrum and frequencies, mostly (all?) to established telcos to use in 4G or 5G mobile services. They will not be happy if you start interfering with their customers there (especially not after the money they spent at the auction for those licenses).

There are some weird bits of the 900MHz band that cross into the fairly free-to-use ISM bands in some countries, and I recall a CCC talk where someone demonstrated a SDR setup doing mobile phone base station stuff by sneaking into what were ISM bands in Germany where he was that handsets would talk to because they were allocated as cellular phone spectrum in other parts of the world. Here in Australia we are limited and can't use the upper end of the 920MHz ISM band with LoRa devices, because Optus bought that spectrum for their phone network.

(Here in Aust4ralia we have other cellular spectrum and phone network problems, where a lot of older devices that support some 4 and/or 5G cannot reliably call 000 (our equivalent emergency number to the US 911), because the fall back to 3G when roaming onto other networks... A few people have died recently, and all the telcos are busy blocking a growing list of phones, mostly older Samsung ones if the noise in mainstream media here is accurate. I know my old but still otherwise functional Galaxy S6 Edge is not on the banned list.)


The last paragraph definitely sums up how much of a bureaucratic and dystopian joke Australia is. Should have kept 2G up!

Europe can use 433 and 866 MHZ for ISM.


Yes, there was such a thing called Vodafone SureSignal and similar devices:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-075375-Sure-Signal-V3/dp/B...


Not sure about 3G, but here's an example of 2G: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWvA4Ty1Wk

Edit: same as already posted hackaday, oop!


> Another alternative would be that you get what you get at purchase time, and you have to buy a new car to get the newest update.

The Mercedes-Benz model.


Banning the disclosure of it is still an improvement. It forces the poster to take responsibility for what they have written, as now it is in their name.



Oh, so this is not the bidirectional file synchronization tool huh? Name collisions are inevitable, but unison (the sync tool) has been around and in use since 1998, so this one feels especially egregious.


It's literally a very common English word. There's probably a million things with this name.


It's surely much less of a problem than most non-technical users wondering why Wikipedia URLs start with "en" instead of "www".


I'd be surprised if anyone but the oldest non-technical users had any idea what the "www" was or why it would or wouldn't be at the front of a URL. It takes zero technical knowledge to understand "en" indicates the language and probably rarely comes up since you can use www or omit the en and links mostly just work.


They might wonder (although I doubt it), but it’s nothing actionable.

With m., they used to see a mobile layout that’s a really poor fit for a desktop screen and that they would have manually switch out of via some relatively obscure button.


> but it’s nothing actionable

Of course it is, they just need to drop the pretense that English is not the default.


English is the default.


Flirc makes a metal Pi case where the CPU is pressed against the metal body of the case, resulting in a huge thermal mass for passive cooling. I have a bunch of them and it works very well. No fan necessary.


This doesn't seem to work properly in Mac Safari. The map is blank except in a thin stripe at the top.


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