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On the other side of the Channel, the French government has managed to create the "BAN" (Base Adresse Nationale - National Address Database), a database of detailed postal addresses in the country along with precise GPS coordinates: https://adresse.data.gouv.fr/base-adresse-nationale

On top of the database they have provided an interface to view the data, interfaces for towns and cities to keep the data up-to-date, free APIs to search addresses and performing geocoding or reverse geocoding (https://adresse.data.gouv.fr/api-doc/adresse) and the data is openly licensed and available to download.

Feeding the BAN has been enforced by law, localities are required to put together and upload their "Base Adresse Locale" (Local Address Database)

The original data was obtained from multiple sources, including "La Poste", the French Royal Mail equivalent, and OpenStreetMap !

They also use a similar mechanism for the "get me out of here ASAP" panic button [0] that staff place in your hand and tell you to squeeze if required, all it does is detect a change in air pressure on the other end of the tubing.

[0] https://www.mriequip.com/store/pc/MRI-Non-Magnetic-Magnalarm...

Car related deaths worldwide in 2018: 1.35 million (Source: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index...)

How would you feel if you had lost a loved one to a car, even if they engaged in walking around at night or another dangerous activity ?

I don't see any one rushing to eradicate cars...

Is there any particular reason for choosing a .fr domain name for this project ?

According to Wikipedia [0] the .fr ccTLD is limited to European Union residents (+ Switzerland, Norway...) and might possibly mean you have to comply with legal requirements (GDPR, mandatory information display: cookies / T&Cs... [1]) (IANAL)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.fr#Requirements

[1]: https://www.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprises/vos...

Tried signing up for Relay Premium (from France), Stripe is telling me that "The currency of this subscription isn't valid for the country associated with your payment"...

As for physical security, some are only protected by simple manhole covers before reaching the actual technical building, here's an example in Marseille, France where SeaMeWe-4 (and others) lands: 43.261938, 5.37276 [0] but the landing points aren't exactly secret [1]. Here are some photos [2][3] and a video [4] of Dunant's arrival in France.

[0] https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte?c=5.372494831681247,43....

[1] https://www.sigcables.com/index.php/cableliste/fiche_cable/5...

[2] https://twitter.com/jlvuillemin/status/1238414261774401537

[3] https://twitter.com/jlvuillemin/status/1238433769935319042

[4] https://twitter.com/jlvuillemin/status/1238479381145751553

Interesting, I was unaware of the fact that every mobile device has a unique radio fingerprint [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_fingerprinting

> See all of those microwave antennas on buildings and towers? A lot of them transmit around there.

But microwave links are P2P and directional, using narrow beams at a certain height so that humans (or other objects) don't get in the way. That will not be the case with 5G.

Wow you've done some great stuff. I work in the same industry in a company that has been around since 2007 and we don't have anything remotely similar to provisioning systems for client or backbone equipment, everything is done manually.

What kind of equipment do you use mainly ? Cisco, Juniper... ?

.gov is purely American, the French equivalent is .gouv.fr

I'm aware of the fact, it was just strange how they announced it in the video [0], as if it was a new feature. PoE has been possible on previous versions with a PoE hat aswell, so nothing really new.

0: https://youtu.be/i62xdD4QKtA?t=44

But PoE isn't actually built-in to the Pi, it requires an external hat, purchased separately, and using a PoE hat has been possible on previous versions, yet they decided to announce it now, it's confusing.

PoE support has always been available with a seperate PoE Hat [0], I found it to be a strange announcement.

0: https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-switch-hat-powe...

Wow that's dissapointing, such a shame. The most surprising example is in Reims, France where they provided 400 bikes in November 2017, only 20 fully functional bikes remained in January this year. The rest were either vandalised, broken or stolen.

Here [0] are some stats from 2016 provided by the French Home Office.

[0] https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Actualites/Insecuri...

Edit: More up to date stats from 2017 here: https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Actualites/Insecuri...

I used the Gobee.bike rental service in both Turin and Milan, and the only vandalism I encountered were two bikes that had been thrown into the Navigli canal, other than that it didn't appear to be much of a problem in Italy. For the French market maybe they need to look into attaching the device to a physical object (lamp post, docking station), other than just locking the rear wheel, to keep the oppurtunists at bay.

In France they have an ad campaign running on mainstream French TV channels at peak time [1], playing on the fact that search engines know everything about you from your age, family members, food preferences to who you talk to on dating websites as a married man.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evahh1PXJIg

Web App Developer

But you're still "managing umpteen million passwords", hence the name password manager.

OWASP [0] is a good resource for most things Web Security related

[0]: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/JSON_Web_Token_(JWT)_Cheat_S...

They do, and there is a CLI tool provided by OpenStack themselves: https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html

One search engine to consider is Searx [0], you can easily host your own instance locally or on a public facing server [1]. What it does is aggregate search results from multiple engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo...), proxying your request making tracking and profiling impossible.

[0]: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ [1]: https://searx.laquadrature.net/

They have basic IR "filters" which are used to reduce IR light, but they don't totally block it, which is why you can see a purple light coming from TV remotes and such [0]

0: http://www.wikihow.com/images/6/60/Check-if-a-Remote-Control...

I think you mean LogMeIn has been acquired by Citrix, no ?

IPFS seems to be posted at least once every two weeks, maybe they're looking for repo traffic.

Snapchat have a lot of "fraud protection" in the form of time sensitive tokens hashed with secret keys generated by strange .so libraries. This is used to keep third party apps from using their API, obviously a lot of user's devices have incorrect clocks, so when they reduced the secret token time frame lots of users probably started getting API errors, so this is their attempt at a solution.

Using Postmail's virtual aliases and a nice web interface to manage them, I create a random virtual alias (h9jle20gavs32@domain.tld) associated with a site name for every place I have to input an email address, it makes spam tracking pretty simple.

I've used an Arduino to do more or less the same thing, well I mean a cheap knock-off arduino mini from AliExpress, and an NRF24L01 module for data transmission, I get about 6 month battery life with 4 AA batteries (1200 mAh each) using the devices outside (also in harsh conditions) so Arduino isn't that bad. I would like to the next level and use ATTiny's directly but I have no real electronics experience, how did you get started ?

There aren't enough IO pins on an Attiny85 to measure the temperature and send it to another device wirelessly, right ?