No problem! I'm happy it got some attention since it a neat mix of tech stuff and other scientific disciplines. Thank dang too since the second chance pool saved it from discoverability limbo.
What is unclear to me is whether a special phone app is required or not. One of the web pages indicates that it piggybacks onto the infrastructure for airtags/android tags (not clear which). Certainly, if I was building these, that is what I would do as getting a custom app in enough phones would be extremely difficult.
Having said that, the claim is also that these tags report temperature as well — but there is a field (personalized name) that could be used to transport that information. In any case, it is an impressively small tracker!
The FAQ at the bottom of the article says it'll default to off for people in the EU, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and South Korea. Are you in one of those places?
Ah thanks for the correction! And yes I'm on that list. I just heard that and was coming back to make a correction so I'm happy to hear someone got to it before me.
I'm always so conflicted about editing article titles like this for posts. I stick to original titles since that's the rules but it's tempting not to every time I see a post hit front page with good hooks edited in. These edits clearly work and rarely seem to be punished.
It's a bit long but a clearer title might be:
German police launch investigation after 2 teens allegedly grope teenage girl using remote controlled robot
That isn't even the headline for me. This is what I see:
Far-right bot accounts ‘fall silent’ as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
This is the second time today that an article on this subject was submitted to hn with an adulterated title. It's too bad too because it's an interesting subject even without the incorrect/bait titles.
Ah thanks I overlooked that this time. I guess I was still feeling a little unimpressed with the previous post and that influenced my impression of this one.
I'm really loving the little descriptions with pics included. Is there any chance we might be able to get an rss feed for these posts? I know there was mention of maybe getting on mastodon too but in this case mastodons lack of pics in their rss feeds would reduce the charm a little.
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