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Re:Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your n... by lxgr on Sunday July 20, 2025 @10:23PM (#44631233)
Ah, cool, this should incorporate location data at least as good as what the networks self-report! (I suspect that these databases, on top of ingesting all geofeed data, do something similar to Wi-Fi positioning, i.e. correlate the IP address of various GPS-enabled devices with their physical location to try and deduce undocumented/non-public allocation patterns.)

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