#wifi hacking apps

[pupsmailbox]

ROBOT ID PACK

NAMES ︰ aerobot.　agatha.　ai.　alan.　alethea.　alexia.　algernon.　alistair.　alpha.　amaryllis.　ambrose.　androbot.　androic.　andromeda.　angelica.　antenna.　arabella.　araminta.　arcade.　auto.　automaton.　axel.　axis.　badnik.　bionel.　bolt.　byte.　care.　celline.　cello.　chip.　chipique.　clank.　cloniste.　clonoid.　cobot.　codelle.　cole.　curiosity.　cy.　cyber.　cybette.　cybion.　cypher.　data.　dell.　della.　delpha.　delta.　digi.　dot.　droid.　droidess.　droidis.　dronette.　echo.　elektra.　euna.　eva.　eve.　fritz.　giga.　gizmo.　glitch.　grey.　gynoid.　helix.　holo.　holodir.　hydra.　ida.　jet.　kaput.　kinect.　krudzu.　linion.　mac.　mace.　machibella.　machina.　mal.　malware.　mation.　mech.　mecha.　mechael.　mechan．ace.　metal.　metalia.　metalish.　micro.　motherboard.　motor.　nano.　neo.　nucleus.　nyquist.　orbit.　parallel.　pip.　pixel.　prime.　primus.　proto.　quantum.　radar.　radius.　ram.　ray.　reflect.　reflectette.　robo.　robonaut.　rusty.　satellite.　scrappy.　selsyn.　sentiex.　servo.　shard.　siri.　solar.　sonar.　spark.　sparkie.　sparky.　sputnik.　steele.　sterling.　stochastic.　synchro.　synie.　synthett.　talus.　terra.　tin.　tink.　tobor.　ultramarine.　ultron.　unimate.　unit.　virus.　waldo.　zip.

PRONOUNS︰ ai/ai.　algo/algorithm.　android/android.　app/app.　auto/auto.　auto/automated.　auto/automaton.　axis/axi.　beep/boop.　bio/bionic.　bio/bioplastic.　blast/blast.　bo/bot.　bolt/bolt.　bot/bot.　buffer/buffer.　byte/byte.　cell/cell.　chaos/chaos.　chi/chip.　click/click.　clo/clone.　code/code.　coil/recoil.　command/command.　compute/computer.　core/core.　cyb/cyborg.　cyber/cyber.　data/data.　dev/device.　device/device.　dig/digital.　digi/digital.　droi/droid.　droid/droid.　e/exe.　electric/electric.　entry/entries.　exo/exoskeleton.　gear/gear.　gli/glitch.　glitch/glitch.　hack/hack.　ho/holo.　holo/holo.　hologram/hologram.　in/install.　intra/intranet.　link/link.　machi/machine.　mal/malfunction.　mal/malware.　mech/mech.　mecha/mechanical.　mechanic/mechanic.　metal/metal.　metro/metro.　motor/motor.　neo/neo.　neon/neon.　nuclear/nuclear.　propeller/propeller.　radar/radar.　retro/retro.　robo/robo.　robo/robot.　robot/robot.　rubber/rubber.　satellite/satellite.　sca/scan.　shard/shard.　shine/shiny.　signal/signal.　solar/solar.　steel/steel.　stem/stem.　swi/switch.　syn/synth.　syn/synthetic.　tech/tech.　techno/techno.　test/test.　text/text.　turing/turing.　vi/viru.　web/site.　web/web.　whirr/whirr.　wi/wifi.　wire/wire.　wired/wired.　⚙️/⚙️.　🔧/🔧.　🔩/🔩.　🛠//🛠.　🤖/🤖.

[czteryd]

My guide to Internet warfare and taking back control

By which I mean minimizing screen time and wasting your life on making Zuckerber rich. Scrolling Instagram doesn't seem to be dangerous, but there is probably nothing less hurtful than wasting time of milliards of people on things they don't care about. Using willpower to work on this is a lie — you will need real weapons, technologies and strategy.

^this is the lost future you are fighting for. Technology can be good.

Remember, that wars are rarely won in a week, I am in trenches since last summer when i ditched my phone, when i say "It takes time" i mean 5–10 months. It is still hard, but the improvement is amazing.

This is a list of things I have been doing for more than a year that improved my life. Ranked with ease (EAS) + effectiveness (EFF) from 1 to 10.

It is still not perfect, but this is a warzone and you will adapt and not be allowed to surrender, soldier!

Remove the smartphone – 5 eas + 15 eff

Sorry. This is a military grade weapon that milliards of dollars are put into to make you waste your time as easily as you can. You can move forward with your phone, but nothing is as effective in taking control back during your commutes, breaks, walks and free time etc. and it is a very important part of learning to deal with stress without mindless scrolling and games. There is no real phone hacks to help you. We and the enemy know that timers don't work. If you can enable all enemy weapons with one switch it is not enough.

You will need a dumbphone or a custom rom to use this technique and stay in society.

It is not as hard as it sounds, actually you don't need it that much. Check out #dumbphone or r/dumbphones for inspiration and support. Me and many of my friends who done it as well don't look back.

Buuut i can't – 9 eas + 5 eff

Yes you can. But if you insist, still, buy a dumbphone or find one in the drawers and put your sim card there; carry them both. Now you can use the Internet only when you have wifi, but you can use offline maps, listen to downloaded music and watch downloaded movies, read pdfs etc. Check your email, bank, messages, memes at work or at home. You will regain control over walks, commutes and socialising. But if you still have any social apps, at home or during breaks, you are still cooked. It is still a very good first step to moving away from phone dependence.

Smartphone substitutes

Email, socials, work, school – all will now be done on a pc or a laptop. This is good. It allows you to distance yourself from stress, tiring family members, school, work and problems of others and engage with them only when you want to. It allows you to take a break. It is not your duty, to engage all the time and the ability to do so at your own pace is the biggest advantage you can get on the battlefield. If something important is going on — someone will call you, don't worry. Just inform others that WhatsApp is not a place to discuss emergencies.

Fun, music, reading – you will need to get a dumbphone that supports some music, pdf viewing, photos and maybe light web browsing, they do exist. Or just buy an mp3 player, some books and a notepad. An e-reader and a camera for the high tech soldiers. Y2K is back in fashion anyway, and you will be much cooler and people will start conversations. Having everything in one place was convenient, but, if it means having time–wasting hazards in your pocket, it is not worth it.

Libraries are here to support you on your journey.

Block the feed — 10 eas + 4 eff

Hopefully you got rid of your phone, the biggest danger now is your web browser.

Use LeechBlock to block or regulate access to the biggest dangers – youtube, instagram, fb, reddit. On the weak side it is no better than the timer in your phone, supportive, but not really effective and fills you with guilt. Guilt is bad.

On the strong side you will block all access, allow very rare and short usage, put as many defenses as you can, put blockades on your blockades. Your brain is very effective at overcoming barriers, but they need to be put in place.

It is the first step, but it is not enough to win the war. Real psychological effects will show only after months of usage and well adjusted settings that acknowledge how your brain works and as you adapt your barriers will need to adapt as well. On the flip-side it requires no real conscious work or wasting your willpower if your filters are good.

You will sometimes need to bend the rules, to fix something or watch a lecture or a tutorial or just for some well deserved Forgotten Vines Compilation. Remember to put them back in place later and spot the times where you never did — and do it then.

Warning: nerd shit! (3-6) eas + (7-10) eff

If your friends sent you a funny video — don't unlock the site to watch it. Use external software like MPV or VLC to watch this video using only the link, without getting rid of your defense line. This is easiest on a linux machine.

You also have the nuke – block websites on your router and gate settings. You will need the support of the rest of the war room members in your house to use it and it will cut access to actually useful things. But this is a war for your life and every sacrifice is worth it.

Block the biggest hazards — 6 eas + 9 eff

Sorry, but you will need to use some nerd tactics.

Shorts, reels, tik toks, explore, for you pages. They need to be blocked immediately and for good. No access, no overrides, no fiddling in options. LeechBlock browser addon will allow you to block specific pages with harder barriers. Do it and never change them.

They are the biggest danger and you know it. Your brain will not be mad if it won't get dopamine this way, it knows you would never find the perfect 1 minute video that would make you happy. The urge to scroll some shorts will go away real fast.

This will allow you to fight only the easier fights — against the normal infinite feeds.

UblockOrigin

Is a double edged sword. Removing ads makes your life on the internet easy and fun. It is only a good thing to a certain extent – our fight is to make some parts of the internet as hard and painful to use – but it will help you keep your sanity.

Use it to block the feed! Click on Ublock icon and use the little pipette to add a rule that blocks the infinite feed on webpages of your choice.

Select the area and click the blue button to create a rule on the main page. Now you will not be distracted with algorithmic content, but you are free to not block groups important for you or your work or still see notifications, messages and other functions.

Cons: sometimes your rules will break with time, you will need to make many of them. Removing ads from youtube is dangerous as the reward is easier to obtain, thus making the boobytrap more effective.

Don't use apps and don't use the browser. 10 eas + 6 eff

Minimize a chance of getting distracted while doing something else.

For messages, school and work remove the browser from the equation. Use desktop clients for messaging, microsoft office, Teams, email etc. They have exactly what you need and are often more convenient to use. No chance of opening Instagram in excel.

For social media and online entertainment use the browser, don't use the apps! You are going into the warzone, you will need the armor – Leechblock and other addons are here to help you. Time wasting apps are engineered to remove your personal defense – never use them.

No Screentime before coffee – 1 eas + 10 eff

This one is behavioral and requires actual brain work, but give yourself some time and it will give you great effects.

Do not check memes, messages, mail etc. before waking up. Easier said than done.

Going to school or work will be easier, waking up will be easier, you will start to eat and have more energy during the day.

It will require you to plan your day in advance, check the calendar and your plan for the day the night before. I never learned it as a child and it is very hard to work on it, but the effects on my psyche are immense.

If you got rid of your phone, you are halfway there. If you can remove your laptop from proximity of your bed — do it. If you have an ability to put your pc in a seperate room — it would be perfect, but not many are able to, including me.

Separate your working, from sleeping, from entertainment spaces, we worked on it during COVID soldier, don't forget your training.

Remove the noise — 1 eas + 4 eff

somewhat. You probably don't actually need podcasts and music to work, walk or sleep and regaining your ability to focus there is also important. Maybe substitute them with white/pink/brown noise at least sometimes, especially for brain heavy tasks this is very helpful to get work done in a reasonable amount of time. Blanket app is a good desktop noise generator that won't require the browser.

But I will not blame you if you won't, this is the least problematic part and humans have always met to do menial tasks while hearing others talk and many conditions are easier to live with some background noise.

Pick your allies

Internet is a meadow and a minefield. Place for art and support and knowledge filled with weapons designed to use you as an revenue generator. Watch content only from curated, quality places and people you follow. Never look at the algorithmic feed. Tumblr is a prime example of a site that can be your ally, but don't trust it – block the For You page.

don't lose your steam

Do not engage emotionally with things beyond your control. This was the twitter's weapon of choice. If you do not have the money or time to support a cause, you know about it and you know all your mutuals already support it – don't let the algorithm put it down your throat against your will.

Do not follow war hashtags, do not look at pages when you can see hate and violence against your will. Educate yourself, do as much as you can, follow people who inspire you and do real work, but allow yourself to move on if it is beyond your abilities or strength. Your local anarchist group will do more good in a month, than you reading political posts for years. If you honestly care – join them and focus on real work. If you can't contribute, just learn about it and move on. There will be more opportunities in the future and then we will need all your strength. This is the sad part of winning the war. Some sacrifices have to be made.

^you soon

Wish you luck soldiers. This is a fight worth fighting.

share your weapons of choice if you can and tell me about your experiences.

[poorrichardjr]

Administration of Incompetence

Ok, I expect this essay will get little to no notes. Despite there being a lot of text posts here on Tumblr, I've noticed that anything that goes beyond three or four paragraphs quickly loses interest. It is actually one of the reasons I have considered more than a few times to just leave this site altogether. So, if you haven't guessed, this is going to be rather long, but it is an important one to read.

By now I am pretty sure that everyone has heard about the most recent debacle of our inept Trump administration. There was a top secret meeting about bombing a foreign nation where a civilian was part of the group and it was done on a public app instead of a government secured channel. There are so many things wrong with this it should end the careers of a number of people and haunt the remainder of Trump's time in office. Of course, we all know that isn't going to happen. None of the people who were on this meeting are going to have the humility to take responsibility for what was done and do the honorable thing and resign. There is no honor amongst these thieves.

So, let's start with the first and probably least problematic point. Why was this done on a public app? There are many reasons why we use secured lines, and secured locations when discussing any form of militaristic moves, not the least of which is the fact that we don't want unauthorized people finding out. Despite Signal being somewhat secure, it is nowhere in the same ballpark as what the government can provide. So why use it? Is it simply because these people are lazy and looking for the easiest solution? I doubt it. I am more of the opinion that these people are trying to skirt the record keeping laws that surround official acts.

After all, it is hard for the public to ever learn or subpoena the government for information if that information hasn't been kept. Seems like a fairly criminal way of doing business, but what can you expect from someone who was hired by a convicted felon? The next question that comes up here though is one that should worry people though is, what else are these people discussing outside of standard procedure so they can hide their actions?

Next lets look at the one thing that conservatives are screaming the most about. These people not only used an unauthorized app, they had an unauthorized civilian on the line. Of course, conservatives want to punish the reporter and ignore everything else that is wrong in this situation. This is an extremely important problem though. How many other important meetings using the signal app have had unauthorized people? I mean this guy was there in the group for quite awhile. This wouldn't have happened had they just followed procedure because the reporter would never have had the chance to do this.

Though I would like to move past this I need to explore it just a little more. Unauthorized personnel able to access these sorts of things and this particular meeting is almost a certainty. Let's say next time we are discussing war plans with China for Elon Musk in the Chinese embassy. Laugh all you want, but one of the members of this meeting was in the Kremlin, using their wifi, and there is no way in the world I will ever believe that Russian officials were so kind as to not spy in on that meeting. Our government has been hacked numerous times by the Chinese and the Russians. If we are stupid enough to hold this sort of meeting on unsecured channels in dangerous places we have to expect that sooner or later we are going to have these things thwarted.

Say we hold a meeting with someone close to a Chinese embassy. I can absolutely guarantee you the Chinese are going to take advantage of that misstep. Let's say we are having talks about doing some underhanded thing to Iran or North Korea that would put our military members in danger if the info got out. China may not really care to intervene, but they may really like the fact that our military gets embarrassed on the world stage, so they tell the targets of our military action everything they have learned. Or maybe, they decide to use the information they have to threaten and sway future decisions by someone within the administration. Do these people want to face the blowback of a military disaster or are they more willing to be at the behest of a political enemy? I'm betting they are too damn cowardly to admit they ever did anything wrong.

Okay, let's get to the last few points. First, all of these people should have known that using this app was against protocol, especially the members of the military. The fact that none of them demanded that they do the right thing means that they are all unworthy of their positions. If you are going to cut corners on something this serious, eventually those sorts of actions are going to come back and bite you in the ass. More than likely, our members of the military are going to be the ones paying the full price of their bad decisions.

Finally, let's move to the man in charge. He says he wasn't involved. He says he didn't even know about it until the news broke. Tell, me WTF is this man doing in office? You're telling me the president of the United States didn't know this was happening? He didn't know we were going to bomb a foreign country? Obviously, Trump is lying like always. But, what if he isn't? Is he so lost in the throes of dementia that he was informed but forgot? Is he so laughable as a leader that his people are just going behind his back and just telling him about what is going to happen? Or is he just so lazy and unconcerned that he just doesn't care what happens just so long as he is president and able to seek vengeance on the people he thinks have wronged him?

All of these issues are of serious concern. I am just mad that a week from now this whole thing will be forgotten because the Trump administration will do something else just as dumb, dangerous, or disastrous for the people of the country. Just how much more are we going to have to suffer because we have elected the most incompetent boob in history?

[saintlesbian]

is the retroid pocket a good investment? i saw your tags and am curious! :]

i'm probably biased bc i'm so used to buying retroid but yea. it's slightly pricier than some other options you might find due to the price creep of the gradually upgrading chipsets but its definitely worthwhile from my perspective, as someone who likes retro emulation and android gaming. all retroids have bluetooth support to connect extra controllers, headphone jack for audio, sd card slot to load up games from, wifi for downloading more games, and display out options to connect to a tv or somethin! you gotta bring your own games unfortunately, but it does come built in with some emulation apps to install during setup, and a choice between using the standard android OS, or the custom Retroid branded Launcher to launch games from! generally i use my retroid to play PS1, PSP, PS2 and GBA games, although im pretty sure it can handle N64, Dreamcast, NDS and 3DS too. basically if there's an android emulator or RetroArch core for it, the Retroid can probably handle it, YMMV.

the most recent model line, the Retroid Pocket 5/Mini, is still available on the GoRetroid website. generally if you're buying a retro handheld then make sure you buy it directly from the original site/source so you don't get ripped off by some offbrand seller trying to pawn one of those 100-in-1 knock off consoles on you.

time for an autistic ramble about my collection since i love these devices so much...

the original retroid pocket 2! this was the first device that caught my eye and my gateway drug into retro emulation handhelds, as it only cost $80 back in 2020. there were pink, yellow and cyan colorways too, but indigo was the most popular option :P it was a little awkward, what with the switch style analog sticks not having R3 functionality and only having one gig of RAM, but it got the job done. it also had micro HDMI out to connect to a display, kind of a hassle since micro HDMI isn't too common, but they used to sell micro HDMI cords on their site along with other accessories (screen protectors, grips, cases, etc...)

the retroid pocket 2+ was an upgraded model released a year later for $90, with 2GB RAM and a touchscreen added. still no clickable analog sticks but oh well! i bought the PS2 style colorway, a lot of their colors are styled after other retro consoles. the 4:3 screen was kinda cute! difficult for playing PSP games since it letterboxes the screen, plus you have to do some extra tweaking in the emulator settings to get it to work properly...

less than a year later, they made the Retroid Pocket 3! this one signalled a change in their release system in many ways, most notably the fact that now every retroid model comes in 2 versions: a cheaper model (with less storage/RAM) and a premium model (with more storage/RAM). personally i've never had any reason to go with the cheaper model, especially since the power difference can be so vast between the two sometimes, so every model i have is the premium model. this one cost $130, which is quite the price jump, but the added quality made it worth it for me :) the RP3 was Retroid's first foray into a 16:9 device, great for playing PSP/NDS, and easy to work with the 3GB RAM. any 4:3 games will have letterboxing on the sides now (unless you have a widescreen hack or something) but i never minded that much. also, this is the first Retroid model with R3 functionality on the joysticks! it might not matter much to most people, but i really wanted to play Ape Escape on the go :3

at some point GoRetroid realized the Retroid line kinda peaked with the RP2 form factor, so they brought it back with some added improvements for those looking for an updated 4:3 handheld, now now known as the Retroid Pocket 2S. idk what the S stands for! its looks pretty similar to the regular RP2, but with clickable hall effect joysticks on the bottom, a PSVita style DPad, and up to 4 GB of RAM. i loved this one! for a while i used to switch between the RP2S and the RP3, depending on if i was in the mood for PS1 or PSP gaming. the black crystal shell was also neat, i love clear electronics :3 price went to $120, more expensive than the original RP2 line but cheaper than the RP3. worth the price, considering the QoL improvements they made over the original RP2!

then there's the Retroid Pocket 4, released around the same time as the RP2S. this model has the same shell as the RP3 for those looking for a 16:9 form factor, while retaining the improvements from the RP2S (hall effect joysticks <3). this device is currently my go-to for portable retro emulation, with 8GB RAM and android 13 compatibility. this one can play some lighter PS2 games, but i mostly use it to play balatro these days. also, convenient feature; since the Retroid Pocket series is just an android with a built in controller, any android games with controller compatibility can be played with the Retroid controls. theres also a gamepad mapper to map button controls to other android games that don't have built in controller support, but i've never used it so i can't vouch for it -_- the RP4Pro was $200 on release, yowch! still definitely a worthwhile investment, but a far cry ffrom the original price tag of $80 back in 2020... there's still some discounted models of RP4 on sale on their website, although there's not many left, as GoRetroid is mostly clearing space for their newest model...

...the Retroid pocket 5! this model signifies another shift in Retroid's design, as they've shifted to a PSVita looking model with the rounded features and glass front panel. i got the gamecube colorway since i really liked the vibes it has... aesthetically this is the best Retroid Pocket model yet. the 3d hall sticks also have RGB LEDs built in than can be customized from a built in app, and an OLED screen that looks especially gorgeous on the black RP5 model, as the bezel screen blends right into the rest of the glass face. this one is their priciest model yet, clocking in at $200 for the RPmini and $220 for the RP5. this model also removed the micro HDMI port in favor of a display out USB-C port like how the nintendo switch does. they also released an official dock with HDMI and ethernet ports to go along with it! i haven't switched over to the new model yet since its still 8GB RAM like the RP4Pro and it'll probably take a while to move some of my android apps over, but i've heard good things about this model! it's also linux compatible from what i've heard (ROCKNIX, Batocera) but once again I Haven't Tried Those Yet

but yea that's my collection! Retroid has served me pretty well over the years, i give it the Saint Lesbian Seal of Approval

[thegiftedau]

I have a two more questions regarding call girl.

1. What is her powers/ abilities?

2. What is she? Human? Robot?

Call Girl's gifted powers is that she can 'digitalize'. She was born human but with the ability to fuse herself into electronics and mess with them or use them from the inside. She refined this ability with phones and computers, where she can take any form she desires.

With wifi, she can send herself like a file to various devices, like a rabbit hole to teleport elsewhere! She is the inate ability to hack any files, activate electronics, force open electrical locks, anything you can imagine that requires electronics, she can most likely do it!

Her app that can be installed on your phone allows to distress signal her any time. This app itself is like a home away from home, as the programming created a little room somewhere in cyberspace for her, so she can escape the real world and relax in a sort of safe space.

So basicaly, she's simply a normal human with a very unique gift. Though you will rarely see her as her human self, she always enjoys having a form that feels non human or robotic.

[pillowspace]

For the DCA being a computer virus, the idea that they're an extension like Helpie is, the function being to be installed into devices and meant to keep kids safe with accessing the internet and media, only to in truth be a danger themselves under the way they perform when adults are around.

More of an issue in a future with more smart-tech-devives to hack into, if they're brought home and access the router with wifi connection. The silly little guy from that app showing up on the fridge display doesn't seem so bad until it's not just waving hello its tracking what you put inside and take out. Tying into more and more devices, able to open or possibly obscure emails, redirect search results and reviews that would tell someone that someone that they're dangerous.

Smiling and colorful and associated with a jingle that distorts and stretches as its played through things not built for their presence but has to bear it until things overheat or burnout. Who needs to tell them your credit card when you make the mistake of using a tap-to-pay?

Fazbear would be scummy enough to make a program that worms into tech to manipulate children and get data to sell from adults + incompetent enough to underestimate how adaptable they are and lose them, letting them become invasive overtime . It is past 3am, sorry for typos or being incoherent, your post gave many thoughts! Hope you are well ^^)

YOU!!!!

THAT IS THE EXACT AU THAT WAS BEING OBSCURED FROM MY BRAIN, THAT IS IT. YOU UNRAVELLED IT. YOU PUT MY THOUGHTS INTO WORDS. THANK YOU!!!

Virus DCA... I'm so fascinated by the thought of it

[lolitakirstein]

Hey Neighbor PT 10

WC:1.3k~

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Toji

“So what exactly are you wanting me to do, sir?” the lanky male asks Toji. The computer opened and reflected in his oversized glasses.

“I am curious myself,” Shiu sits with his ankle over his knee, staring at Toji from across the kitchen table. “Your text from last night was quite unexpected”

Toji is seated with his forearms braced on the table, a slight frown on his face and a tiredness in his eyes. Which was to be expected since he hadn’t slept a wink the previous night. His mind spun from thoughts of you and this mysterious guy that had interrupted his owning up everything to you. He battled back and forth with his mind–should he really try to find out who this was or should he allow you to live your life and make your own choices? As the sun peaked over the horizon, he came to the middle ground, sorta. He’d find out who this guy was, but that was it! No background checks, no sending out people to his house, and definitely not wiping him off the planet and out of your life. Just a normal hacking of a phone.

“I need to see messages on y/n phone.” Toji answers.

Shiu’s eyes widen, taken back for a moment. Then, his face turns to one of joy. “Ah, already? The agreement must’ve been–”

“This isn’t about the agreement,” Toji interrupts, brusquely. He turns towards the hacker. “Just tell me you can do it.”

The hacker wrings his hands over his keyboard, clearly nervous in the presence of the infamous Toji Fushiguro. “Uhm, I can put spyware on it? Do you have the phone?”

“No, do it remotely. She uses an Apple phone and computer. I’m sure she has messages coming through her computer on the messaging app.” He demands.

“If we are in the range of her wifi, I can crack through her password, and then the software can gather all her credentials–logins and passwords. Then, we just enter those into the messaging app.” The hacker spoke quickly, clearly excited to show off his abilities.

“Do it,” he orders.

~

A day off work was never really a day off. Being so busy with work and honestly being lazy, the house chores had fallen behind. Though you have been living here for a few months now, the house still screams “Grandmother’s house.” You just hadn’t had the heart or the mental strength to get rid of things. Grief made you hang on to it as much as possible Until the smell of her house was replaced with your soft vanilla and lavender smell. You started in the bedroom, packing away old clothes to take to donation centers and replacing the bed sheets with ones that were more you—A soft purple comforter and an overabundance of pillows.

After folding the new bath towels and placing them in the upstairs hallway closet, you look up at the ceiling and the hatch to the attic ladder. You had been dreading going up there for a few reasons. Spiders, dust, dirt, mold, and the wild idea that someone might be up there living for all you knew. Another reason was what you DID know was up there. Pictures, memories of people you would never see again, and memories of moments you’ll never experience. But, today was the day. It had to be done.

Straightening your shoulder, you pull the string and allow the ladder to unfold to the floor. Surprisingly, no dead bodies tumbled down and no clouds of dust poured. You climbed the stairs, holding your phone as a flashlight. Once at the top, you notice it’s not the crypt you expected. It could be a spare room, the floors barely showed signs of neglect, neat stacks of books in the corner, and enough room to stand. Another string hung from the rafters to a light that still worked.

Getting to work, you pull dusty boxes from the corners, carry them to the floor below, gather the books to sort through and sweep the floor. Once satisfied with your cleaning, you gather your supplies and turn off the light. You switch all the supplies to one hand as you shuffle to the ladder.

The canister of furniture polish slips from your arm and rolls to the side of the attic. You chase after it, using your phone light again in the dark. The light bounced off the can and another glint of metal on the wall you hadn’t noticed.

Upon further inspection, you see a small gap in the wall, metal peaking out behind it. Using your phone light, a two-foot by two-foot section of the wall seems to be cut into the wall. YOu dig your finger into the exposed groove and gift it a sideways push. After getting stuck a few times, the panel recedes into the wall at the right, and the content behind it is revealed.

A silver safe about the size of a mini fridge sits behind the wall, a thin layer of dust coating it. A keypad blinks in the upper corner. You take a chance and attempt to pull the handle, hoping it would open—another part of you hoped it wouldn’t. Scared to see what was in it.

After 3 more tugs of the handle, you give up. It clearly needs a passcode. You try a few—1234, 11111, 2222 —-- before again giving up in case it had a system that locked it completely for an undetermined amount of time.

Finally, you climb back down the ladder, Confused, which seems to be your everyday emotion these days. You might as well have a giant question mark above your head

What the fuck is going on?

Toji

“I was able to hack into her cloud and find her contacts. I reverse-searched the number of the last message she received. It comes back to a Connor J. Falco but it appears he’s gone by a multitude of aliases. Here are some of the text messages I was able to—”

“I’m not going to read her messages, just give me what info you have on the guy,” Toji interrupts, slightly closing the laptop that the hacker had rotated around for him to see.

“Isn’t your concern that she is…involved with this man? Romantically?” Shiu chimes in from the living room where he is sitting on the floor with Megumi, playing with action figures. “ I believe I’d want to know what they were discussing, hmmm?”

“That’s—her business,” Toji replies, knowing how ridiculous it sounds.

“Doesn’t hacking into her phone inadvertently—”

“Just give me info on the guy,” Toji says to the hacker. He knows it doesn’t make sense. He tries to ease the guilt of spying by telling himself it’s only half spying. And it’s not spying on you, you were just the obstacle to get to the real prey. He wouldn’t read any of your messages or look through your photos and social media. That’s where he drew the line—the very thin one.

“Connor J Falco is an independent contractor, though I can’t find anything about what exactly he is contracted to do. Small online presence, just moved to town from overseas. No criminal records, no past traffic infractions.”

“See? An upstanding citizen.” Shiu laughs. “Completely harmless.”

“However,” the hacker clears his throat. “That’s just for Connor.”

“What do you mean?” Shiu stands behind the laptop.

“His other alias,” Toji answers. He knew this was what would happen. Whatever persona this guy was showing y/n was no doubt clean. It was his other personas that worried him.

“Correct. And Dmitri Sokolov?” The hacker nods and turns the laptop around for Toji to see. “He has quite a disturbing criminal history.”

Toji slides the laptop closer, clicking through the pages of court records and mugshots both international and domestic. From white-collar to violent crimes. His heart hammers in his chest. These weren’t petty crimes, this guy has experience.

“Shit.”

[itsbenedict]

From the beginning | Previously | Coin standings

Yes indeedy! That glue reminds you- just to the south of this market square in the medieval village, there's supposed to be a school of some sort. Since you VALUE LEARNING, you should head there next.

But first...

A DEMOCRAT spends a whopping 21 Coin and purchases a bevy of useful items from the fennec in the butterflies. How generous!

The WIFI ACCESS POINT can be installed in a particular area to gain access to the local network, allowing you to browse the files stored there and potentially communicate with users. Once installed, the access point can't be uninstalled, so choose your moment carefully- or save up for a new one.

DENIAL OF SERVICE is a gun! Wait, a gun?! Yeah, a gun. But like, a fake hacking gun that shoots highly concentrated packet bursts at glitches to overwhelm and stun them. It comes with six "bullets".

The SOFTWARE PATCH can be spent to increase your STINGY OUTLIER by 5% with no untoward side effects! It can even clear certain negative statuses.

You've also been delivered something from UBER EATS, a kind of overpriced food delivery app with a questionable business model. Still, beggars can't be choosers. What is this, tikka masala? It's pretty good!

But you are still hungry.

With all that out of the way, you make your way south.

You find something that might've been a school, once- but here it's nothing but a maze of overgrown ruins. Marble and brick buildings have been overtaken by gigantic trees that hungrily envelop anything they can get their roots on, and the halls, as usual, sit empty and devoid of life... that isn't a weird monster falling apart at the seams. You spot a toucan, except instead of a body it just has another beak, forming some sort of horrid banana that appears to be silently begging for death with two lungless mouths. Eegh.

What can you do here?

There's a couple of kids following you- creepy. These FILIAL TWINS are completely identical and finish each other's sentences, which is just plain spooky. Stop that!

There's someone else offering a tour of a factory that turns iron to sugary breakfast cereal. You don't know how that's possible, but you could find out on an IRON CANDY CHEERIOS TOUR.

Hey, an elevator! An elevator that's been booby-trapped to hell and back! WOO, LETHAL LIFT! You bet you'd be completely murdered if you got on this thing. Fun!

That mannequin's here, reminding you that you always have the option to use SECRETARY POSTURE to look your gleaming best for an EVIL DEVIL AGLEAM.

Continued

[reinedeslys-central]

anyone else want to see children of athena talented at weaving? like - I want to see more of the 'normal' talents. the hermes kids have their pranks, let them be really good runners? other things? secondary abilities? are all the athena kids rlly good at chess? settlers of catan? who weaves tapestries of every battle? who's the one all the little ones in the camp turn to for advice? who has tea with chiron and gets nicknamed the 'old soul'? who's obsessed with bad movies and good ones, too, because they love picking apart the plot, the direction, the cinematography, and everyone's like, if you dislike it so much, why are you watching it? but they don't get it.

I don't know, can't remember how much of this is expanded on in canon, but who's the one that painstakingly redoes textbooks for the others to read that are more dyslexia-friendly? who's the one working with the hephaestus kids to code apps for demigods, hacking, making interfaces, safe wifi access? sidenote what happened to daedalus' laptop. who's the one that also works in the infirmary because they wanted to learn how to treat a spider bite if they ever got one because they're terrified of them, that doesn't feel 'talented' like the other demigods, and hey, why is it only apollo campers mentioned in the infirmary anyway? how could that be fair? and they become a healer. they can't do the hymns - or can they? they pray so hard, they work so hard, they learn, they strategize care routines and supply runs and the filing system has never been so organised, will could cry. who's the one that makes sure the wood for the cabins is weather treated, that the old buildings get shored up, that has a little project making a whole replica of something on the side? a kid that grows up playing minecraft at home and turns to dioramas and small sculptures at camp, bored out of their mind. eventually they meet the dryads, and maybe they do something with landscaping.

who's the one that weaves the burial shrouds, tears dripping, fingers working almost on autopilot if it weren't for the tremble in their jaw and the pain climbing up their throat? who's the one that hears the calls of the owls in the night and strokes their back? who's the protector, maybe not the parent per se but the protector? who's the one studying for their LSAT? Who's the really impressive flautist who gets along with the apollo and hebe kids and maybe the satyrs too? 'Aria of the night' like a silly game post-campfire, or a mystical adventure in the middle of the night. who's the one that wants to learn, anything, everything? hyperfocused with an interest in language. in weapons crafting. in design. in architecture. in music. in weaving and knitting and throwing clay. maybe a disciple of hecate, baking enchantments into their creations, weaving illusions through their flute music, painting sigils on their dioramas, blending magic into their hymns in the healing center, getting called out for cheating at chess, making their tapestries seem alive.

I want to see more athena kids and their various abilities TT

[dwarf-vader-of-middle-earth]

My father ain't getting his Christmas present today. Everyone in the house will get presents, multiple. But he won't get a damn thing from me now or probably ever again for that matter. He doesn't even love me. Why should I spend anything on him?

When my brothers and I went to go get my wheelchair I bought, my father pulled me aside and didn't even look at me as he said, "You can become magically able bodied if you just exercise and lose some weight. If you buy that thing, it has to go into storage and you have to pay for storage. You're making a big mistake." I told him then and there I don't appreciate him and he does nothing for me. Then I left.

On our way home, my father tried to physically blockade my brothers from pulling into the driveway, and said we have to take the wheelchair directly to storage. We... don't have a storage unit anywhere, and it's New Year's Eve, so none are open. Additionally, we have a double garage which you can park 2 vans inside of. We've done it before. And here was father, yelling at us that we can't fit a wheelchair inside...

A few months ago, my father tried to obtain legally confidential information from my therapist which I legally signed documents to make sure he could never get. And he sent lawyers after her and her staff, angry phone calls, and it got to the point the staff texted me and asked for assistance. Twice.

What's more is, I've gotten dozens of blood tests from half a dozen different doctors over the years. All of them confirmed I have high numbers for lupus and arthritis. There's no denying it. And yet, my father said they're wrong. My doctors are wrong, my therapist is wrong, and science is wrong. There is nothing wrong with me. He asked me, "How did you get around Universal Studios?" I told him I limped and complained about my leg pain the entire time. He said, "I don't remember that." But considering he gaslights me on a daily basis, I can promise he remembers and is lying.

And then, I remembered something else. My father has a cousin who was born with a deformed spine. She cannot walk, never has been able to, and yet, whenever my family visits her or she visits us, my father will make offhand comments when she's not looking or isn't in earshot, that she doesn't need to be in a wheelchair and she could walk if she just tried hard enough and that it would straighten out her spine if she did. She... has a shifted spinal column that's missing discs. I uhh... I don't see how you can fix that by walking.

Anyway, yeah. I'm not going to give anything to my father today, tomorrow, next year, ever. He takes my money each month just to turn off my electronic contact with the outside world whenever he's angry (he disables my phone, wifi, TV, data, etc. on all devices). You know, I learned to hack so I could hack his account to gain that access back. He somehow found out, and set up 2FA which I don't know how to get around (my guess is he was tracking when the account was logged into, from which IP, and checking the trace logs).

There's a reason I send all my messages to friends through encrypted apps, or untracked accounts, and hide all my social media posts from my father. I've learned the sounds of everyone's footsteps in the house, so I know when to be silent if my father comes around. I know to lock my door if he does. I fear him and everything he says. Nobody should have to live this way. But I do.

And sometimes, I ask myself if it's worth it to live at all when these are the conditions I'm forced into.

Here's to 2024. Maybe, somehow, it'll lead me to freedom...

[kafus]

Is there any way to play Pokémon coloseum and get the ribbons from it WITHOUT needing to buy the actual console and game from it? I really badly want to do a ribbon challenge but the financial barrier for the ones on this game are way too high

WELLLLLLLL there are ways to (cough) do it with emulation or a hacked wii (COUGH)

if you have a hacked original wii with the gamecube ports on the side, all you would need is to run colo or xd off of nintendont with a USB stick (it's an installable homebrew app), make sure in nintendont's settings the game is set to use the native controllers instead of emulating them, and then purchase a gamecube -> GBA link cable which as far as i know are still pretty cheap, especially third party ones. then you can trade between those games and the GBA games like normal. of course this requires you to uh, go through the process of hacking your wii, which also may require you to buy a cheap ass SD card adapter if you don't have a computer that is able to read old big SD cards. but even if you had to buy a wii for all this i am pretty sure all of those four things combined (wii/cable/adapter/usb) are less of a price barrier than colo/xd which are insanely expensive for no fucking reason my god. for what it's worth i own authentic copies of colo/xd, but even i play it off my wii's nintendont sometimes, it's really convenient LOL

alternatively you could do this fully with PC emulation, just "trade" your pokemon into your colo or xd save with pkhex - you can literally open your colo save and your GBA save in two separate pkhex windows and drag and drop, the pokemon's data will be identical as if you had traded pokemon. if you're starting the challenge on physical gen 3 carts you'll need a way to back up the save files to do this in pkhex though - assuming you already own an original ds or ds lite, the cheapest way to do this is buy a ds flashcart/r4 and install a gba save file manager onto it and use that with the gba slot on the ds. there's also like, specially made devices for that purpose but they're usually a lot more expensive lol. if you do all of this on emulation up to gen 4 or 5 though, you could just use the dns exploit to trade your mons to an actual gen 4/5 cart ez with wifi

sorry for the really long ass answer i just wanted to give you the most options possible. sdfksfdl

[thegardenandthegrave]

New writing hack just dropped:

If you can find someone trying to harass you (ie a dude trying to get your number or a door to door version wifi salesperson) you can tell them you can't talk because you have a writing deadline.

Then open a note or writing app on your phone and proceed to write until they go away.

Results may vary.

[christanworkshop]

Adding GPS to Flipper Zero Wifi Dev Board

Another day, another new project to tinker on. I decided to mod my official Flipper Zero Wifi Dev board to add a GPS module for wardriving functionality in Marauder. The NEO6Mv2 module cost me $3 so it's a cheap hack. You can find it on Aliexpress, etc. First, I hooked up the GPS module to Flipper and ran the NMEA GPS app just to check that the module is working properly, and indeed it was.

The next step is soldering on some pins on the wifi dev board so that I can hookup the GPS.

It's just 4 wires to hookup the GPS module, so it's a pretty simple mod. With that done, I ran Marauder > GPS Data > Stream to check that it's getting GPS feed.

That's it, it works! I will have to redesign and 3D print a new case to fit the GPS and Wifi dev board together. I am also planning to mod the Wifi dev board to add an external antenna and micro SD card slot, so stay tuned.

If you want to try this mod out for yourself, here are some references below to get you started.

ESP32 Marauder: GPS Modification Flipper Zero Wardriving Rig: Upgrade Your WiFi

And this is how you can test the GPS module to make sure it's working. Flipper Zero GPS Receiver Module - NEO-6M

[sisididis]

Almost every day after work, I pass by the window of this older lady who lives in the apartment building next to ours, and, like clockwork, she never fails to show up when I walk by.

Most of the time I stop to talk to her about her cat or her Facebook group chat or a combination of that. But other times we talk about how her phone gets “hacked” because she doesn’t know how to work it properly and she perceives her not having WiFi or her calendar app not working as “getting hacked.”

[fibonaccisnail]

My grandma asks for my help when using her computer/phone all the time. These are my top tips! for helping your grandparents (or anyone). I am not an IT person and all my expertise comes from clicking things until they work

Accept the fact that your grandparent will tell people you are very good with computers because you minimized a YouTube video. Just roll with it

Computers didn't move to personal sizes until she was getting to middle age. I would guess anyone over the age of 70 has had the same experience. This means that they haven't grown up using computers, so keep that in mind when helping

The early computers really could be ruined because you clicked the wrong button. Understand that your grandparent is not "just clicking things" because they are afraid of destroying their computer

Panic is the biggest cause of mistakes. Half the time I can just ask my grandma to show me what she did. It turns out she just didn't read the popup or stopped as soon as there was text she didn't expect

If you can do so gently/subtly, ask the person to show you what they did or to read what is showing up

We grew up with computer-based lingo. Never assume the person you are working with did too

This is especially important when you cannot figure out why the person would be confused by the instructions. My grandma didn't know what a browser was, that Google Docs is basically Word, or that her PC is literally plugged into the wifi. Ask and/or explain along the way

Age affects dexterity in a huge way. My grandma has trouble double-clicking, typing on her phone, and swiping up from the bottom of her phone. It may take some thinking to find a way your person can do something that is easy for your young fingers

Judge if something is worth the tutorial. My grandma saw me use voice-to-text one day and really wanted to learn. It sounded like a great idea but she struggles to answer calls without hanging up. I just told her it was something only very new phones could do

On the other hand, she's great with her clock app? The calendar took some learning but now she loves it

I don't know jack about printers. I can turn them off and on and change the ink if I'm following instructions. If your pupil is trying to get you to fix the printer, try turning it off and back on again. If that doesn't work, try opening a drawer and pushing some buttons before returning it to normal and saying it is beyond your expertise. Sometimes they will hire a professional, sometimes they will just buy a new printer, sometimes this is just the broken printer they will live with

You can do this for just about anything. Sometimes the issue is more complicated but if you tell the person that immediately, they won't believe you. Open up settings, click to different places, close it down and tell them you've done all you can do. See above for how they might handle that

If something does go wrong, it is not your fault. The very lack of computer savvy that leads to 6,000 unread emails is the lack that leads to getting hacked

In a similar vein, the same panic that leads to not being able to get past a popup can catch you too. Try to take deep breaths and remind yourself that this isn't the end of the world

If there is any possible way that you can connect your grandparent to an IT person you know, do so. They don't have to be friends. Just having someone that you can call that your person also knows will make them more comfortable getting help for serious issues

Never ever ever yell at or belittle the person asking you for help. For many of them, asking takes a lot of courage. Be patient, answer questions, and let them take notes. This will not be a speedy process. If something is a repeated issue, see about writing down notes yourself and putting them somewhere easily accessible (not on a device)

I hope this helps!

[ausmartlock]

Smart Lock WiFi vs Bluetooth: What’s the Better Choice?

The smart lock wifi is one of the most practical developments in the ever-evolving field of home automation. Gone are the days of fumbling for keys; now, you can unlock your door with your smartphone, a keypad, or even your voice. But when it comes to choosing the right smart lock, a key decision revolves around its connectivity: WiFi or Bluetooth?

Understanding the Connection: WiFi and Bluetooth in Smart Locks

At their core, both WiFi and Bluetooth enable communication between your best keyless door locks Australia and other devices, primarily your smartphone. However, they operate in distinct ways.

WiFi Smart Locks: The Pros and Cons

Remote Control: This is the biggest advantage. You can lock or unlock your door from anywhere in the world using a dedicated app. This is incredibly useful for letting in guests, and delivery drivers, or checking if you remembered to lock up after leaving.

Integration with Smart Home Ecosystems: WiFi locks frequently work in unison with other smart home platforms and gadgets, such as Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa.

Activity Logs: Many WiFi locks provide detailed logs of who enters and exits your home and when offering an extra layer of security and peace of mind.

Bluetooth Smart Locks: The Pros and Cons

Enhanced Security: Bluetooth's short-range nature makes it inherently more secure against remote hacking attempts. Someone would need to be physically close to your door to try and tamper with the lock.

Lower Battery Consumption: Bluetooth generally consumes less power than WiFi, leading to longer battery life for your smart lock.

Offline Functionality: Bluetooth locks don't rely on an internet connection to function for basic locking and unlocking within range. This can be beneficial in areas with unreliable internet.

Smart locks with Bluetooth and WiFi both have strong advantages that are revolutionising home security. You can make an informed choice that fits your lifestyle and security needs by being aware of the subtle differences between each technology.

Source: https://ausmartlock.blogspot.com/2025/04/smart-lock-wifi-vs-bluetooth-whats.html