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My Favorite Tools (2025)
A quick rundown of tools I enjoyed using in 2025.
Our Machines, Their Map
_nomap Please Recently, I learned a bit about Wi-Fi Positioning Systems (WPS) that are used by major players like Apple and Google. These systems commonly use nearby Wi-Fi access points (APs) and their received signal strength indicator (RSSI) to locate a device. This technology is built into most flagship devices today and opting out usually means losing the ability for your device to know its own location 1. Owners of APs are able to opt-out of being tracked by appending _nomap to the end of their network鈥檚 name (SSID). Apple, Google, Mozilla, and some independent crowd-sourced projects like beaconDB, the self-described public domain wireless geolocation database, all support this suffix for opting out. This is, however, not a universal standard and some other major players like Microsoft, who enjoys their individuality, do not support this. ...
Let Your Models Think
Remember to explore your configuration options and let your models think!
Sound Detection/Analysis for Firearm Safety Solutions
Exploring the use of representing sound through spectrograms to enable machine learning-driven sound detection.