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> TL:DR; Apps can access the nearby Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and MAC addresses through an API that is intended to help with connecting to hotspots. Then they can use

by ghusto 3y ago

> TL:DR; Apps can access the nearby Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and MAC addresses through an API that is intended to help with connecting to hotspots. Then they can use this info to look-up in databases that collect SSIDs based on their locations. This is the whole story. Thank you for writing it, and sorry that you're getting downvoted for it. > I'm sorry you don't like it but that's the truth, the author left out crucial details to make it juicier I wish there was a way to know when people had downvoted with "this is true but I don't like that it's true".

mrtksn 3y ago
I wish too. I hate it when I don't know why I'm downvoted.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  That's the only thing about getting downvoted here that irritates me -- I rarely know why people are downvoting. Sometimes I can infer why, but most often it's just a complete mystery. Knowing why the downvotes are happening could be a useful signal to help me improve commenting in the future. Not knowing why just makes the downvotes informationless noise.
  - ghusto 3y ago
    Maybe a choice from a small number of reasons after clicking the downvote could be good? Something like "inaccurate, antagonistic, rule violation".
- Keejazz 3y ago
  I did not downvote you, but I did react a bit negatively to the comment about the language (we know it is chatgpt, at least in part) of the article. I was curious about the prompting, so I used a regular translator to get a feel of the original article, and I feel the original language seem OK (if my translators are half decent). I also reacted negatively to the last sentence in your comment, because to me, it felt like a truth-declaration based on an assumption (the author deliberately did not include...) - however, after translating the original and not being able to find anything about it there, either, I agree your assumption might very well be the truth, but this would still be intention-guessing, and that put me off a tiny bit. (if you read Chinese, all this would be an unfair assumption from my part, and I apologise :) I would never downwote for such things, personally. I found your TL:DR to be good (including more information as well as replaying the mains of the article is great value, thank you!) to care about small stuff mentioned above. But you seemed to want to understand why some have downvoted, and as I got a bit of negative reaction from the parts mentioned, I thought I could explain my feelings for them, in the hopes this might actually be useful for you.
  - mrtksn 3y ago
    Thanks for this detailed feedback!

by ghusto 3y ago

mrtksn 3y ago

I wish too. I hate it when I don't know why I'm downvoted.

JohnFen 3y ago
That's the only thing about getting downvoted here that irritates me -- I rarely know why people are downvoting. Sometimes I can infer why, but most often it's just a complete mystery. Knowing why the downvotes are happening could be a useful signal to help me improve commenting in the future. Not knowing why just makes the downvotes informationless noise.
- ghusto 3y ago
  Maybe a choice from a small number of reasons after clicking the downvote could be good? Something like "inaccurate, antagonistic, rule violation".
Keejazz 3y ago
I did not downvote you, but I did react a bit negatively to the comment about the language (we know it is chatgpt, at least in part) of the article. I was curious about the prompting, so I used a regular translator to get a feel of the original article, and I feel the original language seem OK (if my translators are half decent). I also reacted negatively to the last sentence in your comment, because to me, it felt like a truth-declaration based on an assumption (the author deliberately did not include...) - however, after translating the original and not being able to find anything about it there, either, I agree your assumption might very well be the truth, but this would still be intention-guessing, and that put me off a tiny bit. (if you read Chinese, all this would be an unfair assumption from my part, and I apologise :) I would never downwote for such things, personally. I found your TL:DR to be good (including more information as well as replaying the mains of the article is great value, thank you!) to care about small stuff mentioned above. But you seemed to want to understand why some have downvoted, and as I got a bit of negative reaction from the parts mentioned, I thought I could explain my feelings for them, in the hopes this might actually be useful for you.
- mrtksn 3y ago
  Thanks for this detailed feedback!