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Reading the MLS retirement issue[1] it seems that multiple established organizations (e foundation, Graphene) are also interested in providing an alternative service. Does this mean that we're now in a situation where multiple open source location service providers are competing, or is this the only publicly accessible project in this space for now? This project is cool and all, but seems to just be a one person effort with not a lot of engagement on GitHub[2]. Are you in talks with other people with similar goals to expand and collaborate on the project? Having the backing of an existing developer community could really bring this to the next level. 1) https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 2) https://github.com/beacondb/beacondb Edit: the actual project seems to be on Codeberg[3], where there is a bit more engagement from others

No, that's sadly not true. With the stepping down having been cancelled and the recently repeated paranoid accusations in https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-... the present situation of GrapheneOS is far from good, it's an "absolutely do not use and do not recommend the project"-situation. This maintainer being active and continuing his bullying is way too risky for the users of the project (and the FOSS android ecosystem as a whole). But let's indeed let it be here, it gets OT for the ASUS topic. The GrapheneOS warning just had to be mentioned as it was related to the bootloader re-locking.

He just made it on-topic: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-.... For real, that's acceptable to you?

The rather troubling part of this announcement in a GitHub issue is that this nugget comes out in a seemingly innocuous comment[1]: >> Firefox still uses MLS for `browser.region.network.url`; will that also move to Google Location Services? > This endpoint will be migrated to another service (classify-client) that will return the expected response. We'll adjust DNS entries when it's time to make that move so firefox won't see any difference. What exactly is this "classify-client" service? Note also this led me to discover for the first time that this is a thing[2]: > Geolocation for default search engine > In order to set the right default search engine for your location, Firefox will perform a geolocation lookup once by contacting Mozilla's servers and store the country-level result locally. This connection happens on the first start of