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Well in theory every tech possibility is a “yet”, but the way I read this it seems like a person or object’s interference pattern is particular to the local signal environment - not like a fingerprint a different system could recognize at the airport.

A sufficient fix is not letting your wifi devices connect to your neighbor’s network so their router can detect you walking between it and them.

The motion sensing is more accurate in terms of fundamentally detecting movement, but if you’re going from that to assuming it can identify who you are, no it doesn’t do that. It can recognize a person as the same person it saw in the room yesterday, based on their gait and their effect on the local wifi signal, but it has no way of knowing if the pattern belongs to Old Man Wilson or Old Lady Jenkins, because there’s no database tying those patterns to people’s identities. And besides, the patterns are specific to that one signal environmnent anyway. It’s not like a fingerprint or a facial image you could record at home and then match to someone walking around in a store, which has a different signal environment.

Fascinating project! Definitely sounds like at best it might detect that somebody probably fell down, but not that Old Man Jenkins is having a bowl of Lucky Charms instead of Raisin Bran and his blood pressure is a little high - which seems to be the conclusion people are jumping to here.

I was referring to the many people who support the idea, who are individuals with a whole set of motives, some of them no doubt malicious and sinister and others who sincerely (even if cluelessly) have the of protecting their children from evil, exactly as you personally have the goal of protecting everybody from the evil you personally see.

Good points, and well put!

The whole idea of age verification at the OS level is a foolish means to a well-intended goal.

The principle that Bullshit, sprayed around often enough, becomes Air Freshener.

LOL - verification? Yeah, I got your verification right here! Here’s your verification!

I appreciate the info and the time and effort you took to pass it along. I certainly might get around to using Docker. If you work with node you might be interested in create-api-lite, an npm package (which I haven’t used yet) that generates a basic node project structure, including dockerfile.

Just like it’s never really about FREEDOM™

Niiice.

Tbh I’ve never used Docker, but the idea that it’s a perfect bulletproof solution to environmental issues has always seemed overly rosy to me.

Exactly. Managers live in a golden age right now where social media automatically blames their fuckups on AI.

This phenomenon was around eons before LLMs. You have to figure out how conditions are different when the problem happens in the wild and when you fail to duplicate it.

“The problem just went away.”

As a fellow dev used to say, “Any problem that goes away by itself can come back by itself.”

You wouldn’t - what they’re describing is called “SQL injection” - a way to fool poorly written web server code (regardless of what language it’s writen in) into executing SQL code. The poorly written server code takes what’s entered in a form field on a web page and pastes it into a skeleton of a SQL statement - in this case the text in the input field is SQL that ends the intended statement, followed by a new statement that deletes a table. For this to even work, the SQL skeleton on the server would have to be structured in just the right way so the modified version with the pasted-in text still makes sense. For this reason, hackers attempting SQL injection usually have to do a lot of trial and error to get something to happen. The only way it can work at all is if the server software handling the web page sends SQL commands to a database server as text, as if they’re being typed in, and the server executes them. You can’t inject C in this way because unlike SQL, C code isn’t just executed, C programs have to be precompiled.

Former dev here, can confirm on occasion it does.

Wrong. You can print in LAN mode, or use an SD card without even a wifi connection. Here, I googled it for you.

The need for a constant signal to scan movement is a good point. Makes sense that nearby wifi devices can’t just be sitting there, they have to be actively transmitting to the router or there’s no signal for the target to interfere with. I must have gotten CSI and wifi scanning confused. Tbh I’m not even sure why CSI is in the article except for history, but I found the principle fascinating. In your research did you turn the intererence into anything like a heat map of a person standing in the room, or is it more of a signal fingerprint, like chromatography or spectrography?