You will also see this page if your smartphone is degoogled and you try to open the reCAPTCHA attestation URL in a web browser instead of in Google Play Services.
Yeah that's all it says ANYWHERE right now (https://status.canonical.com/, X, etc.), but so much of their infrastructure is down. Hoping for an update before too long.
That's not actually true: cell phone rx/tx power is quite low. We can get away with that because all they need to do is get to the nearest tower, which has a ton of power, sensitive antennas, and is very tall. Amateur radios have far more power available to them, but any "p2p" (i.e. simplex in amateur radio) runs into normal RF issues, like obstacles and interference. If you used the existing radios in cell phones to communicate directly with other cell phones, you wouldn't get very far. Even amateur radios, with all their power, use repeaters to the same effect as cell towers.
Why? That's kind of the whole point of this: they can cooperate entirely and give them everything they have. You think they'll get into legal trouble because they aren't gathering data?
There are a number of companies/products that operate under this principle (mullvad and signal come to mind). Are you saying all of those are futile and misleading? Or are you saying that you expect they all have significant money and legal teams to defend against a crooked cop's thirst for vengeance for not responding the way they wanted during an investigation?
Self-hosted gitlab here. Love it, and gitlab CI is excellent as well. Almost all product development revolves around some crappy AI integration that we don't use, and it worries me to see so much focus there instead of the core product, but the core product is still excellent.
