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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Some consider it a hassle, others of us obsessively enjoy manually downloading and sorting our files into our folder structure.

    I’ve got a collection going back to a 128k MP3 from a Napster download in 2000. Hundreds of gigabytes of lossless music.

    Bandcamp is great, but I use Redacted for those I can’t easily find.






  • Ten, twelve years ago this exploit was the shit. I was in the military at the time and used Backtrack r5 lots while traveling around to get internet when I didn’t have access. All it has to do is guess a 4 digit code and a 3 digit code separately, once you hit success on the WPA PIN you get the SSID and password. Takes a couple hours if it’s not a default PIN IIRC. Coolest script kiddie thing I did since sending Sub7 to people back in the early 00s.

    These days I don’t really bother. You might be able to pull it off on some really old hardware which does exist, but anyone who got a router in the past 6-8 years likely wouldn’t be susceptible. Might as well try exploiting your own router just to see.










  • How many times a day are you shown ads that are completely irrelevant?

    Me personally, I’ve never once experienced the “they’re listening to my mic for ads” phenomenon. I think someone would notice by now either by seeing increased upload usage or a hot device- at least with current technology. On device machine learning will make this much easier to analyze without having to upload audio.

    Not that I don’t think it’s entirely possible to listen right now, I just don’t think it’s occurring to unimportant people. I’m not particularly important or rich nor is anyone I know. It seems much more plausible to me that we’re just seeing conventional web tracking get a lot better + a healthy dose of confirmation bias.