Tag: enshittification
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Solved-Ish: Screen Mirroring/Casting Requires Location Permissions
TL;DR: Strange technical quirk rather than datamining techbro shenanigans (okay, only a little techbro shenanigans). This is “Miracast” under the hood, which (sometimes) requires scanning for and connecting to a dummy WiFi Access Point to make a direct connection, and baddies can use access to your nearby APs for location tracking, so this scan is…
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Electric Monks: AI User Agents and Agency in the AIPocalypse
I’ll begin this rant with a tiny bit of history: look at the HTTP(S) headers a modern Web browser sends with its requests, and you’ll notice that for historical reasons it refers to itself by an odd name: not a browser, not a program, not an App, but a user-agent. While the term may have…