Yeah, it’d be a live monitoring footprint limited to, say, wherever you have/bring a personal device plus maybe wherever there’s a wifi network it knows. But you’d be able to see where the tag was when it last pinged you, so you could return to that location to search for it and get a more accurate location fix.

The only case my example doesn’t cover is if a third party moves the tag away from your typical footprint and networks.

I don’t want an even higher level spyware device.

but I use […] AirTags regularly

Hmm…

It might be time to move on from the mass-surveillance-on-every-single-device style of object location tracking.
Are there localising/tracking bluetooth tags available which only connect to your network/devices?

you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules

Just searched for “Sodium-ion BMS” on Aliexpress:

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A few years ago I was using “Call Recorder” which seemed good at the time, but right now hasn’t had any work done on it since 2023.

It was on f-droid, but the author threw a tantrum at f-droid about donations.

[…] shortly after the press conference, Reuters quoted a Hamas official as saying that the group had not received a “written Gaza peace plan” as yet.

One prominent example in Australia is via one of the two biggest nationwide supermarket chains, Coles: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/coles-to-run-palantir-analytics-suite-across-its-supermarkets-604698

Switchmode power supply.

Huh, first I’ve seen that writeup. First in-depth well-reasoned set of criticisms I’ve read on the XMPP+OMEMO setup, which is my goto and usual recommendation (and what I still find most power-efficient on a degoogled phone, most usable and reliable despite its stagnation).

Gives a good overview of the accumulated technical debt/chaos beneath the surface. Really hope that conversations and omemo can sort out their mess, or that other clients like kaidan can rise up and push omemo forward, because xmpp itself has been a solid foundation.

https://tosdr.org/ for summaries.

“Instructions unclear…”

• https://budgetlightforum.com/ flashlights et cetera
• so many automotive forums
• https://eevblog.com/forum electronics engineering
• https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/ audio, lots of diy
• https://www.finishing.com/ - metal anodising/plating/finishing. This incredible forum has been running since before the internet, originally a BBS.
• https://www.automaticwasher.org/ washing machines and dishwashers
• https://elektrotanya.com/ electronics repair

Tl;dr: TSMC

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor

Whittaker’s phrasing is ambiguous. Could be read as expressing one of a number of things:

• The paper/article is misleading and distracting from meaningful threats to privacy.
• That the original tweet is using misleading accusations to distract us from the article’s revelations of meaningful threats to privacy.
• That Appelbaum’s authorship of the research is an unwanted negative association which undermines the attention deserved by the threats documented in the paper which are misleadingly justified as necessary by eg. governments.

It’s difficult to know without a better understanding of Whittaker’s position on the various matters at hand, so I don’t know.

What ideally I’d like is some sort of good encrypted email […], which can achieve decent Android integration. Proton apps are pretty useless to that effect […]

Don’t need provider-specific apps if their services use standard protocols:

• IMAP: Fair Email or K-9 Mail(/Thunderbird)
• CalDAV: DAVx⁵

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