Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:49:28 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the package

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Apr 2020 at 07:49:28 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the pack

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the package lists > > are already signed, so there's no gain in trustworthine

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything >> is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster >> switched to using https for downloading updates?) > > The apt-tran

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:45:45 -0400 Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > >>Hi. > >> > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 07:32:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything > > is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster > > switched to using https for downloading updates?

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Reco
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05AM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> Right. The ISP can't see what names the user is looking up but > >> Cloudflare sees every single one. On the other hand, take a look at > >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy > > > > An interesting declaration. For in

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:48:24PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05 -0400, Lee wrote: > > Is there some other DNS provider that has a published privacy policy? > > That's anywhere near as good as CloudFlare's? > > > > To be clear - I'm not saying you should trust

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread nito
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05 -0400, Lee wrote: > Is there some other DNS provider that has a published privacy policy? > That's anywhere near as good as CloudFlare's? > > To be clear - I'm not saying you should trust CloudFlare. It's just > that I don't see a whole lot of options & quite po

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything > is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster > switched to using https for downloading updates?) The apt-transport-https package is available, but is n

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >> >> > trust >> >> > your local resolver.

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 > Reco wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > ... > >> > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart TVs >> > using DOH. >> >> Probably because they aren't there yet. A t

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, tomas wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > Agreed. But how many home users have a local sys admin? That knows > how to configure the local resolver? > > OK .. on this list, probably most. But

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not > >> > trust > >> > your local resolver. > >> > >> Mozilla claims it's a pr

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: ... > > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart TVs > > using DOH. > > Probably because they aren't there yet. A typical smart TV is based on > the Androi

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, tomas wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > [...] > >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https >> Benefits > > Yes, sure [1], but *not in each and every friggin' application*. I prefer apps that d

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >> > trust >> > your local resolver. >> >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dn

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Apr 2020 at 09:47:25 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:03:30 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > > > > > Note that I'm not recommending that site. It was just one > > > hit in the search engine. > > > > I found another outfit that nailed me within a 50

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 16:19:55 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Whether Do

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Michael Howard
On 13/04/2020 14:53, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in thinking that you are located in your DC? So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali,

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/13/2020 08:53 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in thinking that you are located in your DC? So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of C

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > >> > > >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > >> > thinking that you are located in your DC? > >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. >

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:03:30 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > > > Note that I'm not recommending that site. It was just one > > hit in the search engine. > > I found another outfit that nailed me within a 50 meter radius (if that > demonstrates anything). > > > https://ww

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > > > Yup. T

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:28:51AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > > GeocodeNominatim * > > geocode_nominatim_get_gnome (void) > > { > > GeocodeNominatim *backend; > > > > G_LOCK (backend_nominatim_gnome_lock); > > backend = g_weak_ref_

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using o

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:57:54PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using only free software. ...and that is why I want the apps on my box to

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 apr 20, 08:47:22, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > > How many people use a dnssec validating resolver? > > > > See above. Besides, DNSSEC is for integrity of zones,

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 08:47:22, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > How many people use a dnssec validating resolver? > > See above. Besides, DNSSEC is for integrity of zones, not privacy. > You need DNS-over-TLS if you need last one. > > > > At least Cloudflare

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https > Benefits Yes, sure [1], but *not in each and every friggin' application*. It'd be OK for the local DNS caching resolver to forward

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not trust > > your local resolver. > > Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https It's a privacy issue along

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Lee
On 4/12/20, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing >> >

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > This very much ISP dependent. My current one will allocate new IPs (v4 > as well as v6) on every re-connection, so the only way to keep the > same IPs is connection uptime. > The only benefits I can think of from their side is less management > overhead and charging for fixed IPs

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 09:39:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems > > to me that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a > > plain dns lookup. >

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I was only trying to point out that just querying an external geoip > database has similar privacy implications as any regular internet access > (the server will learn your IP and can, at will, get your aproximate > location from a geoip database). > > The

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:43:08, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the > > internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using > > That's not my understanding. I understood the OP explicitly

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > This simple

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems to me > that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a plain dns > lookup. No, that's not how it works. When the browser wants to resolve a name

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 02:03:55PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > [1] That's not a rhethorical flourish, it's genuine. I know too > >little about DNS-over-HTTP to be of any use at this point. > > The questionable idea behind D

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > >> Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the >> internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using >> this information for (internal only or prov

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > problematic

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 06:35:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > prob

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > name resolution over HTTPS. This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this problematic feature for good for Firefox (basically it creates a bogus

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the > internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using > this information for (internal only or providing it to other software). Wha

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote: >> Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to >> determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the >> OP's privacy settings are being respected or not. It does appear, >> thou

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote: > > Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to > determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the > OP's privacy settings are being respected or not. It does appear, > though, at any rate, that a 50 m radius geolocat

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:05:49AM -, Curt wrote: [...] > Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to > determine what it is doing and how [...] Shudder. I just had some quality time stracing Firefox -- and don't want to imagine how stracing Gnome is like. I have some ne

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Do you have your own static IP, or do you use an IP from your ISP? >> >> Yes. > > Did I ask the wrong question? I don't understand -- you have both? > > I have a static ip (I think) attributed by my ISP (the one not precluding the other). This sit

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, Joe wrote: >> >> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site >> >> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address >> >> and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I >> entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into >> Google's search engine, whi

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 apr 20, 20:31:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I have discovered a way to have a fixed IPv4 address. My router's mac > which I have cloned into a second emergency router, is how they assign > an ipv4 address to me, net result has been a fixed dns address, so I am > now on my 3rd 5 year

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 April 2020 19:14:22 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > And I live in the easternmost London Borough. So much for accuracy. > > My ISP's national HQ is in Sheffield, but where the hell Washington > > comes from, I don't know. > > GeoIP usually (though not always) puts me in Elk Mou

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 04:09:46 PM Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:48:00 AM Curt wrote: > >> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site > >> > >> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address > >> > >> and it nails my location approxim

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > And I live in the easternmost London Borough. So much for accuracy. My > ISP's national HQ is in Sheffield, but where the hell Washington comes > from, I don't know. GeoIP usually (though not always) puts me in Elk Mound because that's where the CenturyLink concentrator that I connec

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > >> > > >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > >> > thinking that you are located in your DC? > >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia.

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:48:00 AM Curt wrote: >> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site >> >> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address >> >> and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I >> entered the latitudinal and l

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:48:00 AM Curt wrote: > BTW, I fed my IP address to this site > > https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address > > and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I > entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into Google's > sear

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:32:31 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would > >> say, always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > Hello Curt, > >>BTW, I fed my IP address to this site >> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address > > That puts my IP in West Sussex. Still a long way off from where I am. > Based on where my

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > Note that I'm not recommending that site. It was just one > hit in the search engine. I found another outfit that nailed me within a 50 meter radius (if that demonstrates anything). https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo I'm not recommending these people either, BTW.

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:32:31 - (UTC) Curt wrote: Hello Curt, >I wanted to try this myself but got a > > 403 Permission Denied > You do not have permission for this request Worked for me. Apparently, I'm on top of Nelson's Column (London, England). In reality, I'm about 160 miles west(is

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC) Curt wrote: Hello Curt, >BTW, I fed my IP address to this site > https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address That puts my IP in West Sussex. Still a long way off from where I am. Based on where my ISP connection is located, I think. -- Regards _

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 03:32:31PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would say, > >> always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: >> > >> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in >> > thinking that you are located in your DC? >> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. >> And >> Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > [...] > >> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would say, >> always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise for IP >> based location. > > Just for kicks, I entere

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > This is precisely my issue. I set Location Services to Off in Gnome > settings. And then a Gnome app, like Gnome Maps, provides me with my > location. If you can advise me on how to report this to the Gnome At what level of granularity (country/city/neig

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:28:51AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > > It's jus

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Anil writes: > Location Services are set to Off This may mean that requests for location service by a browser or a script started by a browser will be declined, the intent being to prevent your location from being given out to Web sites. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: [...] > I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would say, > always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise for IP > based location. Just for kicks, I entered my external IP address into https://

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> > > > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > > thinking that you are located in your DC? > So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. > And > Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter radius > of > my actual location. That i

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 10:33 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise > > location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all. > > As far as I can tell it depends a lot on t

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:37:34AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Perhaps just a misunderstanding, and Gnome simply calls > > "geolocation" [...] > > I just don't know. > Just fyi. I am on a machine with a newly installed Deb

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 09:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Apr 2020 at 07:49:46 (-0500), Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even > > though > > my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to > > Off), > > when I enter the

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one'

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:35 +, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > > > > > > It does and can quite often depend on *user configur

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 14:27 +, Curt wrote: > The paradox or enigma here might be the fact that the OP complained > in > this forum that his Night Light feature had gotten his location > rather > wrong by what we can only assume was the same, IP-based method > (before he > presumably manually fe

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the oth

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the other

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-11, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: >> >> I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise >> location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all. It would be interesting to know if there is an appreciable diff

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise > location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all. As far as I can tell it depends a lot on the ISP. My current one apparently maintains its database down to

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Anil writes: > Is there any way I could check to see exactly where Gnome Maps is getting > the location from? What is the default geolocation service installed by > Gnome or Debian? I misread Gnome Maps as Google Maps. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, mick crane wrote: > > What I'm not understanding is why there are these complex window manager > things. You're hijacking the thread (and trolling). Please refrain. > Presumably people want an easy way to click on a picture and make use > some software ? > > > mick --

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Reco writes: > I'm saying that it can. Too lazy to dig into the Javascript that GNOME > Maps is written. Explains the behaviour OP's seeing IMO. It can also be explained by IP-based geolocation being accurate in that particular case, as it sometimes is. If the OP has a Google account Google has a

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread mick crane
On 2020-04-09 13:49, Anil F Duggirala wrote: hello, I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my location on the map. thank you, W

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Apr 2020 at 16:11:16 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, wrote: > > > >> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in > >> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in his > >> privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings? >

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 04:11:16PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, wrote: [...] > > Perhaps just a misunderstanding [...] > > I just don't know. > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/privacy-location.html.en > > Geolocation, or location services, uses cell tower positioning,

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, wrote: > >> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in >> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in his >> privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings? >> That is really an egregious bug, then, and should be reporte

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: >> > >> > And GNOME Maps has this neat library as a dependency that can use >> > geolocation regardless of the said setting. >> >> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in >> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > >> On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > >> > > >> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > >> > >> It does and can quite often depend on *use

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Reco
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > >> On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > >> > > >> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > >> > >> It does and can quite often depend on *use

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: >> On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: >> > >> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. >> >> It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and the >> OP I >> believe has informed u

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Reco
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > > It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and the > OP I > believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation ser

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and the OP I believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation services. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/privacy-locati

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Apr 2020 at 08:24:41 (-0500), Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually > > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than > > not. > > > I don't belie

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually > > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than > > not. > > I

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-10, wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: >> > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually >> > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than > not. Anil Felipe Duggirala writes: > I don't believe this is the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software -- John Hasler jhas

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually > > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than > > not. > > > I don't bel

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-10 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often than > not. > I don't believe this is the case. It's putting me right on the spot where I am. I live in Col

  1   2   >