And with SS7 they can get even more precise location, and you can't really hide from that if you want to use a phone with a phone number, what is the point. This is an interesting way of attack, noone really thought about this before, but it's not "oh-my-god everyone can be tracked via signal". I guess the closest server doesn't even selected via geographical distance, but much more depends on network infrastructure of your location, so Google Maps API can't really help here.
And again any VPN could defend against this, so if you want to hide which country you are in currently, it should be the 0th step to use a VPN.
Was posted yesterday to a lot of communities, it's very clickbait:
allows an attacker to grab the location of any target within a 250 mile radius
So it's a bit rough... In Europe it means basically which country the target is in. Also cloudflare servers are not evenly distributed in the world, so resolution can differ wildly worldwide.
With a vulnerable app installed on a target's phone
So it's not really zero click.
Sounds interesting though, nice writeup, but not as scary as it sounds from the title.
You have to selfhost bibliogram, working for me, I usually get rate limited but get all updates once or twice a week.
There is a facebook bridge in rss bridge, for a long time it worked, I don't follow its development nowadays, maybe someone with some php knowledge can resurrect it.
I tried that recently. I didn't like that it doesn't have a widget, and the downloads and current playlist are completely separate. Also there was no option to automatically continue when connecting to a headset (this was working in Ultrasonic 4.8, but not in 4.7.1 I hope they fix that bug sometime...) So after some weeks use I switched back to Ultrasonic.
Server: Navidrome but any music server supporting Subsonic API would work here. Navidrome has a nice UI, and reads MusicBrainz IDs, and can scrobble to ListenBrainz, that's why I settled with this.
Mobile app: Ultrasonic, on Fdroid. There are a lot of ways you can set up caching. I set up that it should automatically download everything from my "Now playing" playlist, at home on wifi I just add a bunch of albums and playlists to the "Now playing" list, it takes a while but it transcodes and downloads everything in a couple of minutes. It has very good Android Auto support, and a widget. Due to an annoying bug I had to downgrade to version 4.7.1, but otherwise I love it.
I was annoyed that Gnome didn't have a very basic "sound file player", everything polished wanted to be something more, like support for music libraries, etc. I downloaded a single wav file, I want to listen what's in it, there was no perfect app for that.
I hate physical media. I was growing up with the worst type, VHS, so subconsciously I associate every physical media with VHS. lt was bulky, you always had to roll it back. If multiple things were recorded on the same tape, you had to write down where they start and you had to stop seeking at the correct time. If you copied from one tape to another quality worsened.
From the shape I thought the screen has some 3D effect, or a curved screen or something like that. But on some development images you can see it's just a flat screen behind a curved glass. It's definitely android, you can see the icons on this picture:
OP uses it here: https://mastodon.social/@bluebbberry/113992874321283600
Maybe there is some whitelist so it can't reply to anyone else yet?