I don’t understand the IP location criticism at all. At least for my experience across Europe all locations that are being reported by the common databases are within 250km of the actual customer.
IP locations work great for probably a reasonably large chunk of services.
But it's the edges that get you.
I moved home a few years back, connected a new service with the same ISP.
They have an IP pool that is labelled as for one state (Victoria, Australia) but is also used for their services in Tasmania.
So now I have to fight every major website (Google, Amazon, Maxmind, etc) that does GeoIP lookups that I'm not in Victoria, I'm 500-800KM away.
Google was very confused for about 12 months because when I moved I also brought my wifi gear and so it would give me a precise location of my old address because it used wifi geolocation.
Maybe this is very european of me but 250KM is outrageously far. Dublin to Belfast is like 130KM. If it says they're in Seville (in Spain) within <200KM they could also be in Portugal, Morocco, or Gibraltar. If it says you're in Brussels within <200KM you could also be in France, England, Germany, Netherlands, Lux. If you're in Vienna (Austria), you could also be in Germany, CZ, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia or Croatia. Maybe you're in Vilnius? You could also be in Latvia, Poland, Russia or Belarus.
It's short by Australian standards. I was born 1000km away. It's a 12 hour drive. I've done it numerous times. It was a regular thing when I was young.
Uni students have been know to drive for a drink at the pub at the next Uni north (at the time) over the weekend for a lark. That's 2000km, one way.
A serious undertaking by Australian standards is a drive to Perth. That's 5000km in a straight line, but of course you can't drive in a straight line to Perth.
I met a guy once who was the last leg of circumnavigating Australia on his push bike. It had taken him years, and it looked like it. I've never seen someone so wirey, so obviously fit. Yet he rode at a slow measured pace. That was no doubt a habit forced by the trailer his bike towed. I guess the trip was around 15,000km.
As long as you pass Apple's arbitrary rules, you can make your own browser for iOS. Ladybug uses Apple's test suite as an arbitrary measure of completeness.
However, no browser engine has bothered so far because they'd need to upload a separate app to the app store specifically for EU users, and non-EU developers cannot debug the application on a real device so manpower is region-restricted unless you hack around the limitations.
> As long as you pass Apple's arbitrary rules, you can make your own browser for iOS. Ladybug uses Apple's test suite as an arbitrary measure of completeness.
The browser is called Ladybird and it isn’t Apple’s test suite, web-platform-tests is a collective effort all the major players contribute to. Almost two thousand people have contributed to it:
Am I the only one who thinks that this post-mortem for a margin of email users worldwide is a pure marketing gimmick to attract more "technical" users?
It depends on what you mean. If you mean "to be disseminated throughout the whole damn company" then hell no. What kind of privacy is that? I don't care that Edge and Bing belong to the same company. Microsoft is a huge company.
My main reason to move from Mail-in-a-Box[1] to AWS WorkMail[2] to finally Microsoft Office 365[3] was that there is no other implementation which supports all MS Outlook features like native MS Exchange.
Are there any (Self-Hosted?) alternatives nowadays?
"European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who is responsible for the EU internal market covering more than 450 million people, spoke to Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings on Wednesday and again on Thursday about the strain video streaming was placing on networks."
Apparently the EU thinks it's a problem.
The truth is that this will probably make little difference, but it makes sense for Netflix to do this since it doesn't cost them anything and now they are owed a favor by a regulator.
