VintageTech
@VintageTech@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
Standard in 2008 If the auto manufacturer offered OnStar or Sirius, earlier.
I wish it wasn’t true, and I definitely feel like a nut job when I bring it up.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
GM’s OnStar, I believe, was just EDS’s tech at the time of their rollout in '96ish
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
Originally the D.A.I.R. project (Driver Aid, Information and Routing) was conceptualized in the 60’s. It wasn’t until Hughes assisted EDS in the 90’s that they were able to create a beacon that could communicate via Satellite and Cellular.
I myself didn’t realize this was a thing until about a decade ago when I was trying to create an automation for my lights to turn on when I pulled into my driveway. I kept getting a ping about 5min after my phone connected to my WiFi. The MAC matched nothing I had in the house, I just blew it off.
When an associate stopped by to work on a HoneyPot project we started seeing a bunch of random MACs attempt to connect to the open wifi, we wrote that noise off as people walking by my house and their cell phones were just trying to connect. It wasn’t until the garbage man showed up and stopped to talk to me that I was able to find his truck listed with an address connected to the open wifi, sent a few packets, then left. We made the correlation that the MAC’s could be from cars so we started researching the manufacturer of those device MAC’s
That pretty much opened a weird rabbit hole leading us to find out that almost every car has been tracked since the mid-90’s.
Joking aside, I would move to Amish country if it weren’t for the whiskey and bitches. But in all honesty; my family lives a much more comfortable life than I ever imagined I would with working in the IT field.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think enough people have mentioned that Auto manufacturers have been able to locate vehicles since the 90’s.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 4 months ago:
thank you for the visual representation ☺️
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central 4 months ago:
CoPilot with Gemini plugin did.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 6 months ago:
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a decentralized git so I can release a pokemon rom hack.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Best part. Once it returned errors… I almost cried.
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 10 months ago:
Pilot shortage? I know more unemployed pilots that tech workers.
- Comment on ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity 11 months ago:
Haha… many other developed countries.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
I’m calling HR
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- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
Once we’re able to synergize the increased throughput of our knowledge capacity we’re likely to exceed shareholder expectation and increase returns company wide so employee defecation won’t be throttled by our ability to process sanity.