skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to google images of where we are locked down if you want to understand why it's only a minor annoyance. In Sydney you could be locked down in mosmon, manly, Bronte, Bondi, rushcutters, watsons Bay, Diamond Bay, coogee, clovelly, Avalon, palm Beach etc etc and you would be in one of the most beautiful places in the world full of sunshine, sea and sand. Today I'll be going to the beach in Double Bay, I'll go on a coastal walk (see some whales if I'm lucky) and over the weekend I'll go out kayaking and surfing - all within our lockdown rules.
Android with F-Droid and all the Google crap turned off isn't bad at all.
> white noise being generated between the gaps

Wouldn't that be easy to filter out because it's spectrally flat?

Why don't they use millions of pre-recorded bogus and bait radio signals playing on all the commonly used frequencies instead?
I'm not really surprised, illiberal tendencies have existed in Australia for a while, see e.g. the increasingly strict and rights-violating border checks:

https://micky.com.au/aussie-ex-pat-will-never-return-after-d...