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I am not aware of a live location sharing function in OsmAnd.

No, OSM should focus on what it is and what it does well. Reviews and photos are bound to attract a lot of garbage and problems. Navigation sure, there is lots of that available on OSM data already. Street view is also already covered by mapilliary and openstreetcam.

aw3c2on Big tech lobbying gutted a bill that would ban recording without consent

Wikipedia is not a good example. It is freely licensed, available to download in its entirety and easily fits on a 30$ memory card.

In other cases those personal assistants could first ask permission to query an API or search engine.

aw3c2on Geolocalized Open Data for Marketers

It's just a fancy frontend for OSM data extracts.

aw3c2on IPFS Project Roadmap

I would love to try that, can you share a quick and easy breakdown of how I would do publish that?

aw3c2on Funlinkat

F·unlink·at ;)

aw3c2on Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costing Apple $900k

*Two students. Current title makes it sound like there was a widespread phenomenum.

aw3c2on Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver

Hell yes, device drivers and related tools are a cesspit of demon-worshipping excrements from outer space.

aw3c2on Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R

http://0x0.st/zHb2.7z

All I did was place the file in a ramdisk.

aw3c2on Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R

Oh nice!

`sort -u` is just as fast as `sort | uniq` for me but good call :)

aw3c2on Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R

> We’re talking about 31 million lines of data here (all lines with Swiss email addresses in the leak). On our workstation, reducing this to the distinct email addresses (approx. 3,3 million) took a mere 10.099 seconds (4 + 6 + .099).

That's just 700MB of data... On my 5 year old middle-class PC this took 12 seconds with sort and uniq.

    $ wc -l email30m
    31000000 email30m
    
    $ time sort email30m | uniq > email30m.uniq
    
    real 0m11.498s
    user 0m33.833s
    sys 0m0.933s
    
    $ wc -l email30m.uniq 
    2172320 email30m.uniq

This automatically split the task into all available CPU cores.

aw3c2on 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

I use my own 10€/month 2TB server with OVH but also have it synced to Google Drive.

aw3c2on 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

And like homeopathy, this should be scrutinized scientifically. There is nothing wrong with eating tiny bits of sugared balls, but don't tell others they are somehow of special powers.

aw3c2on 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

> Online backup? This seems like the only real option, but for me the risk/reward just doesn't fit.

What risk? You can privately store your music anywhere, it's completely legal to do so.

aw3c2on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties

well, the username is "dau" which in good old German computer slang is the Dümmster Anzunehmender User -> dumbest user possible.

aw3c2on CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)

Same author :)

aw3c2on AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

For some humble self-reflection: You just brought the spotlight on his apparently-noteworthy appearance here. This was not discussed by anyone here and at least for me, nothing that would have come to mind.

aw3c2on OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes

But wouldn't that have the same problem that GP mentioned, that this traffic would be easily identifiable as NNTP? If you were the only person using NNTP, then whammo...

aw3c2on Flightradar24 – how it works

Not open data :(

> for non-commercial use, all of this data is freely accessible to anyone!

> Any commercial users are required to license the data from ADSBexchange, contact here for terms.

Commercial use is a thing very hard to define so I avoid that even for personal projects (which could be consider advertisements for my commercial offers).

aw3c2on Flightradar24 – how it works

Is there a site that offers truly open data, as in a download of all their collected historic data under a open license and without other restrictions (like having to query an API)?

aw3c2on [dead]

Cheap listicle in own-domain Medium blog post, submitted by author. Author never did anything else than submit their own posts on HN. Including zero-content keyword drops like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18774917

Skip, there is nothing but shallow advertisement here and that should not be rewarded by even visiting such posts.

aw3c2on Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro [video]

A touch interface can make editing much easier than doing it with mouse and keyboard (proper hardware excluded).

aw3c2on The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera

This is not a dupe, it is an additional, new article.

aw3c2on Software ideas are born: step-by-step guide on generating one for 2019

It's just some SEO linkbait garbage written by a "Content Marketer". So nothing you are missing out on.

aw3c2on Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems

Also give https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/ a try

aw3c2on Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)

Not at all! All that does is redirect you to Google.

aw3c2on Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

That is quite far fetched. You made it sound like they specifically identify and monitor sci-hub usage somehow.

aw3c2on Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

Please provide some citations for that claim.

aw3c2on Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (2017)

Imagine such device but with a colored e-ink screen. It would be pure bliss!

aw3c2on Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they are a piece of art

Any developed country has a long-range radio time station.