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Archive for April 7th, 2025

SwiftOnSecurity on X: “Fun Fact: Your WiFi access point needs to know what country it’s in because of law about specific radio powers and channels and other functionality. It can be super-complicated! For example, DFS detects radar pulses and switches frequency for safety.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07

Not just for safety: if you keep blasting your WiFi radio at frequencies used by weather radar, you are highly visible on the weather map causing predictions to fail.

[WaybackSave/Archive] SwiftOnSecurity on X: “Fun Fact: Your WiFi access point needs to know what country it’s in because of law about specific radio powers and channels and other functionality. It can be super-complicated! For example, DFS detects radar pulses and switches frequency for safety. “

[WaybackSave/Archive] db.txt – kernel/git/wens/wireless-regdb.git – wens’s fork of wireless-regdb.git

(there are non-fork version of it is as well, but this one is good enough for the point)

Weather radar effect image on the right from

[WaybackSave/Archive] Wes on X: “@SwiftOnSecurity also fun fact: if you set this up incorrectly, you can show up on the weather radar”

[WaybackSave/Archive] GbE3lNkW4AAOb2S.jpg (675×1200)

[WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON

Related: Dynamic frequency selection – Wikipedia

--jeroen

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Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07

A while ago, I wrote two threads (one in English and one in Dutch) about using the Twitter Alt-badge to make pictures in tweets more accessible.

The English one had the correct quote, but a wrong link which I corrected below (we want editable tweets!).

Two bots that I mention in reply-Tweets usually helps to rudimentary restore the text:

@get_altText @AltTextUtil OCR

in the first Tweet and to the reply that @AltTextUtil gives, I respond with another

@get_altText

Here are the two threads:

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