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32 votes
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US police are using GPS tracking darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
34 votes -
Historic covered bridges in the US are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
37 votes -
G3 geomagnetic storm watches issued for 24-25 March 2024
17 votes -
A data breach at Christie’s revealed exact GPS coordinates of collectors’ artworks
25 votes -
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
79 votes -
Is there a digital compass app (Android) for walking around?
I'm spending time at a new city and Google Maps is shit for walking. It's hard to say exactly what's wrong with it, everything feels wrong. Car centric logic just doesn't work for walking I guess...
I'm spending time at a new city and Google Maps is shit for walking. It's hard to say exactly what's wrong with it, everything feels wrong. Car centric logic just doesn't work for walking I guess (yes I'm using the walking mode). It feels bad, unreliable, and I'm lost all the time. Yesterday I ended up 2 hours away from my destination and had to call an Uber (big humiliation!). Walking is my preferable way of urban exploration and I hate talking to strangers.
What I want is a simple compass that tells me "go to that general direction and you'll get there". No map, no street names. Just an arrow and a linear distance (like, in a straight line). Like a videogame. Without foreknowledge, street names are just confusing and unnecessary. I can handle the route myself.
Does such an app exists?
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Are there any android 13 apps that can successfully spoof location (or otherwise thwart stalkerware)
(apologies if this isn't the correct place to ask, I'm just a bit out of ideas) (content warning for abusive parents) I have a friend who's abusive parents track her location using the stalkerware...
(apologies if this isn't the correct place to ask, I'm just a bit out of ideas)
(content warning for abusive parents)I have a friend who's abusive parents track her location using the stalkerware app life360.
she currently runs graphene os (android 13) on a pixel 7 pro.
in my past android experience there are plenty apps that can spoof your location via developer settings. however they all crash on android 13 (or at least on graphene..)
see below (none of these work, and they also crash on my android 13 phone, but they have worked for me in the past on like android 9):
https://github.com/mcastillof/FakeTraveler
https://github.com/wesaphzt/privatelocation
https://github.com/warren-bank/Android-Mock-Location
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps&gl=USif there are no functioning apps that will do this. do you know any other solutions? on other android roms or with root with magisk / xposed? obviously this is less secure than graphene os but the current problem is her parents more than anything else.
we r also considering a secondary phone just for the stalkerware which can be opportunistically left in innocent places. or just killing the life360 app on occasion when needed. or just letting the phone die when it needs to. But not sure how obvious this might be to the abusers. any insight is appreciated.
(suggestions like "leave her parents" are good but far easier said than done and while it will eventually happen its not feasible at the moment. That being said if you can provide detail suggestions are welcome)
Thanks :)
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Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’
12 votes -
Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes
8 votes -
Is there an open-source version of the Garmin Connect app for Android?
I am considering the purchase of a Garmin GPS watch, but I don't want to run the bloated Garmin Connect app on my phone. Really all I want, is the ability to pull coordinates from my watch (.gpx...
I am considering the purchase of a Garmin GPS watch, but I don't want to run the bloated Garmin Connect app on my phone. Really all I want, is the ability to pull coordinates from my watch (.gpx files) and put them on my phone or computer. Does a privacy-respecting app like this exist?
6 votes -
Geocaching: The world's largest treasure hunt
6 votes -
New 2021 GPS accuracy issue impacting some Garmin, Suunto, other GPS devices
12 votes -
The proliferation of GPS interference is a major reckoning for military and defense systems
5 votes -
Space Force more receptive to reusable rockets as it continues to review SpaceX missions—GPS III-3 launch scheduled for end of June, first stage to attempt landing
8 votes -
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
18 votes -
Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, Indiana Supreme Court rules
13 votes -
New South Wales and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
10 votes -
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
15 votes -
The July outage of the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System - What went wrong and the problems behind it
8 votes -
Five things you didn’t know GPS could do
13 votes -
Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain.
19 votes -
Chicago’s ankle monitors can call and record kids without their consent
7 votes -
GPS uses ten bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019
32 votes -
Telcos sold highly sensitive customer GPS data
4 votes -
Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms' A different view - the Australian...
Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'
A different view - the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students
11 votes -
Robot-soldiers, stealth jets and drone armies: the future of war
8 votes -
GPS monitoring of great white sharks reveals previously unknown feeding ground and strange diving behaviors
11 votes -
The world economy runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan
16 votes