all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:22:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1ycqqbs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io859jsj.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:23:40 +0200")

Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:

> However it seems to me that you don't need a location service to get
> your location -- any app has basically the right privileges to grovel
> through things on its own, either through geo-IP things or via seeing
> what wireless hotspots are around, etc.  This is what Chromium does for
> example.  The model isn't "an app will never know my location unless
> geoclue authorizes it".  It's more like "users sometimes want their apps
> to know the user's location, and geoclue can do a good efficient job at
> it instead of making each app roll its own implementation".

Yeah, good point.  WiFi data is definitely available wide-open to
programs anyway.  Not so much we can do, it seems.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-24 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-15 19:36 [PATCH] gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service Andy Wingo
2015-08-20 15:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-20 16:00   ` Andy Wingo
2015-08-23 21:40     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-24  8:23       ` Andy Wingo
2015-08-24 22:22         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87d1ycqqbs.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=ludo@gnu.org \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=wingo@igalia.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.