veryroundbird

mary oliver stan account

i hate the internet but at least my wife is here


website ๐Ÿ 
birdwrongs.sh/
dreamwidth ๐Ÿ““
veryroundbird.dreamwidth.org/
ko-fi โ˜•๏ธ
ko-fi.com/veryroundbird
games ๐ŸŽฒ
smallbird.games/
mastodon ๐Ÿ˜
digipres.club/@ruiyi
ham radio mastodon ๐Ÿ“ก
mastodon.radio/@kd9vdm
twitch ๐Ÿ“บ
twitch.tv/veryroundbird
gemini ๐Ÿ”ญ
gemini://tilde.pink/~smallbird
gopher ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธ
gopher://tilde.club/1/~smallbird/

xeph
@xeph

if you post a picture of a funny nearby wifi name that's unique and been around for a few months or so, i can tell you the gps coordinates where you found it to within a few hundred feet.

if you aren't comfortable posting your approximate location, don't post the wifi name!

if you want to know how, then let me tell you about wigle


margot
@margot

i love it when posts read like they could be a 2600 article


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in reply to @xeph's post:

theres been a game of thrones reference ssid near every apartment ive lived in and hotel ive stayed in in this city. none of them are on wigle though

i'm curious what'd be the opsec pros and cons of renaming your wi-fi SSID "xfinitywifi", which has 18,851,957 noted instances and counting.

one thing is more randos would mistakenly be trying to connect to your network.

back in extremely the day I used wigle to write a PC app GPS substitute

before, y'know, phones had GPS you could just use, or you could have your phone triangulate you through either towers or wifi on-device

but more to the topic, there is a lot of stuff people just don't realize gives information about themselves away, and I'm not sure there's a good way to resolve it :(

Okay, going to add "rename wifi" to the checklist of "things to do when moving".

Though that won't change the router's MAC address. Damn; better upgrade that to "get new wifi equipment".

Not that wigle would be all that useful at correlating my old and new addresses from the unique SSID; it doesn't know the new location yet despite it being over four years, and it places the old location on two spots on nearby busy roads where I guess someone once got a tiny bit of signal.

I have to say, this is quite fascinating. I know someone who's into privacy things and he might find this interesting, if he hasn't found it yet. But dang, our wifi name is pretty unique. I wonder if anyone's found it yet.

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