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I still loathe that Elon fucked up one of my favourite words; grok.

It took me a couple decades to separate it from the fucker who coined it too.

It's a grand word. a perfect word. It filled a necessary void - and now it's been stolen. boo.

EFFecting Change: Get the Flock Out of Our City Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. But Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) erode civil liberties from the moment they're installed. While officials claim these

While Flock claims ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) cameras keep neighborhoods safe, the evidence tells a different story. Join our livestream "Get the Flock Out of Our City" on 2/19 at 12pm PT to find out more! www.eff.org/livestream-...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

ON THE DESIRE AND INABILITY TO ACQUIRE A TAUTOLOGICAL OBJECT

M. Patton et al.

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Hey hey @thebaldgeek.bsky.social welcome to the Top 100 on the @wiglenet.bsky.social stats board!

#allTheWifi #wardrive congratulations 🎉 💯

I’ve had many cases where my OSS was used with zero attribution, and even entire tools/designs were copied; sometimes down to the wording of the algorithm explanations.

I’m very pro-reuse, but this kind of thing honestly makes me hesitate to open-source some work. What would you do?

hey FOSS advocates and practitioners: any opinions on MapLibre for Android?

asking for a friend.

🎉1,000,000 New Networks Found!!! Milestone Unlocked! And We’re Just Getting Started!!!🎉
#wardrive #wardriver #N3rdSec

Stay safe, WiFriends. Things are bad out there.

the edge-to-edge forced migration in Android should be a textbook example of how NOT to do it. So much effort and code required just to keep the app working.

[BUG] Navigation Bar may occlude bottom elements Database and Settings Activities · Issue #787 · wiglenet/wigle-wifi-wardriving When using the legacy Navigation Bar (instead of the gesture bar), Android's edge-to-edge layout changes may result in partial occlusion of the data/controls in the Settings and Database Fragments.

github.com/wiglenet/wig...

That’s the navigation bar. Android is phasing it out in favor of the gesture bar. You can switch to gesture if it’s interfering, switch back after clearing.

What’s an “application fan button?”

Was 'Internet' First Used For A Transistor Radio? - Mark Hill | Antiques & Collectables Expert | Author & Publisher Although it’s not something I specifically collect, I’ve always had a fondness for early technology. It must have developed out of working with scientific and optical instruments when I worked at Bonh...

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That’s why HAVN designed the EMF-blocking beanie. Powered by our proprietary WaveStopper™ Technology, it forms a barrier that blocks over 99% of WiFi, 5G, and Bluetooth radiation right where it matters most: your brain.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

patent drawing for the armatron

Every bit of this project was an absolute delight. From researching the patent drawings, reaching out to Takara Tomy to try and find Wantanabe-san, and collaborating with photographer Jim Golden on the deconstructed Armatron shoot...I loved it all. ter.li/JKeegan (gift link)

A snapshot of the Wigle.net stats board shows pejacoby at position #50 with 2,556,780 geolocated access points

Wooot! Brought in the strategic reserve of #allTheWifi and made it to the @wiglenet.bsky.social Top 50!

Now just gotta hold it for 6 more days 😎

#wardrive #wifi #alwaysBeWardriving

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

Holy cow - just noticed that #ccie4526 has passed 50,000,000 geolocated APs on @wiglenet.bsky.social, continuing to dominate the number 2 position on the big board!

Not bad for nearly 23 years of contributions!

#allTheWifi #wardrive #warfly #warboat #warwalk #warbike #warwalk #warbike

Did AI invent “liquid glass?”

A reminder Wi-Friends: check your AI slop-tigrations *before* deploying if you don't want to get categorized as a bad actor.

You keep the path to the wigleKittens intact, we’ll keep feeding them data!

#allTheWifi

Guess we should keep those uploads working, eh? ;)

Crashing through the top 100 with purpose, it’s @thebaldgeek.bsky.social on the @wiglenet.bsky.social big board!

Congrats on being #99!

#allTheWifi #wardrive

Fix rolling out in production

@thebaldgeek.bsky.social @wiglenet.bsky.social @bobzilla42.bsky.social posted on the forums:

“Thanks for the bug reports, this is an issue with updated TLS certs that require a library bump in the client. We're pushing it out now”

Japanese Monk Racks Brain For Haiku That Will Knock Them On Their Asses

Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers Portugal has modified its cybercrime law to establish a legal safe harbor for good-faith security research and to make hacking non-punishable under certain strict conditions.

Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation