

ICTs and Anti-Corruption: theory and examples | Tim's Blog."To live entirely in public is a form of solitary confinement."."FINDING THE STORY IN 150 MILLION ROWS OF DATA"."So while the broadcasters (unlike the press) may have passed the test of impartiality during the.".That thing where I realise it's now getting on for two hours of going round in cricles trying to get node to work.… /i/web/status/1… 1 day ago blog/chatgpt-p…Įasy to see how a "course material plugin" coul… /i/web/status/1… 15 hours ago how much more web traffic is just going to become machines clicking through other website… /i/web/status/1… 15 hours agoĪnd so it begins. View posts in chronological order TweetsĬhat GPT with browsing. Results = code("utf-8") # needed in python 3įor l in : #autodetect platform and then report based on this? #/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/amework/Resources/airport PPS here’s a start to a Python script to grab the MAC addresses and do the geolocation calls

PS sort of very loosely related, eg in terms of trying to map spaces from signals in the surrounding aether, a technique for trying to map the insides of a room based on it’s audio signature in response to a click of the fingers: Which is actually the sort of thing your browser will do when you turn on geolocation services:īut maybe when you run the commands yourself, it feels a little bit more creepy? So back to the idea of a simple student activity to sniff out the MAC addresses of wifi routers their computer can see from the workplace or home, and then look up the location using the Google geolocation API and pop it on a map. The geolocation API also finds locations from cell tower IDs. Looking at the structure of the example Google calls, you can enter several wifi MAC addresses, along with signal strength, and the API will presumably triangulate based on that information to give a more precise location. The second part of the jigsaw was to try to find a way of looking up a location from a wifi access point MAC address – it seems that the Google geolocation API does that out of the can:Īn example of how to make a call is also provided, as long as you have an API key… So I got a key and gave it a go: (On Windows, the equivalent is maybe something like netsh wlan show network mode=bssid ? And then call it via python.) The airport command with '-s' or '-I' options is useful: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/amework/Resources/airport I was challenged about the possibility of this, so I did a quick bit of searching to see if there was an easy way of looking up the MAC addresses (BSSID) of wifi access points that were in range, but not connected to: During a course team meeting today, I idly mentioned that we should be able to run a simple browser based activity involving the geolocation of a student’s computer based on Google knowing the location of their wifi router.
