So This Isn't Exactly New But Yes It's Horrifying And Also It's Actually Much Worse. Have A Phone With

So this isn't exactly new but yes it's horrifying and also it's actually much worse. Have a phone with bluetooth turned on? That means that it will periodically scan for bluetooth accessories that it knows. But to do that, it has to send out a signal (containing your phones name, among other metadata) that all bluetooth devices in range will receive, regardless of if your phone knows them or not. This is how bluetooth device "discovery" works.

So, all that you'd have to do to turn this into something invasive is program a bluetooth device to keep a list of phones that it's seen and when it saw them. This can be used to figure out who's been in a location at a given time, or even pinpoint locations more precisely if you use multiple bluetooth devices.

Anyways, turn off bluetooth, use wires, I like wires om nom nom I'm eating wires ok goodbye.

Scientists turn WiFi routers into ‘cameras’ that can see people through walls

With the help of AI, the researchers were able to detect the movement of human bodies in a room using Wi-Fi routers -- even through walls.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have repurposed a common piece of tech present in virtually every household to function as a tracking technology. By utilizing WiFi routers, they have developed a method for detecting the three-dimensional shape and movements of human bodies in a room, without the use of cameras or expensive LiDAR hardware.

I spent last night looking at Neocities sites and here are my takeaways:

There's a real push to keeping the internet weird, open and less corporate-driven -- info on bypassing paywalls, protecting your data, archiving web media and basic coding/tech literacy.

(I found one tutorial on how to make a pop up that detects whether someone has an ad blocker and suggests they install one if they don't! Love that.)

There's also resources on finding the kind of internet that isn't the default experience anymore - alternate search engines I hadn't even heard of, human-made link lists and webrings. (Webrings! Turns out they never went away!)

If any of that sounds interesting to you, by the way - sadgrl.online has a lot of it and is possibly the best thing on the internet????

The "90's web" aesthetic is really fun and nostalgic, but I particularly loved seeing some people bring the better parts of the "modern internet" into it. What if we had weird, eye-searing personal sites BUT with plaintext alternatives for accessibility purposes? CW for flashing lights and unreality triggers?

(Again sadgrl comes in with a lot of resources for making your website accessible.)

Most of all, I'm honestly emotional about all the sites I found that were like, "hi! I'm 14 and this is my website where I talk about stuff I like haha."

It's so good that so many kids and teens who never experienced the "old internet" are still finding stuff like this and making their own weird stuff! Not just because weird websites are more fun, but because these skills are being passed down.

Anyway it's great and who knows maybe I'll make my own site sometime to keep horror media recommendations or something.

To expand on that idea, I think that when you reblog a poll, everyone reading your reblog (or reblogs of your reblog) should get to see what you voted for.

i think when someone votes in a poll you reblogged you should be able to see what they voted for. this will solve nothing and make everything worse

Happy ace day!!!

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i cant figure out how to make this go away and im going to do a murder about it. a non-dismissable notification right next to where i am actually checking for notifications is literally the worst thing you couldve done tumblr