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Individual Climate Action

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Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.

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Suffix your SSID with _optout_nomap (self.climate_action_individual)
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Apple and Google are no friends of environmentalists, in part because:

  • Apple demonstrates contempt for #rightToRepair.
  • Google uses AI to help Total Energy find new places to drill for oil.

Including “_optout” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Apple to keep track of your wi-fi access point. Including “_nomap” in your SSID expresses your non-consent for Google to keep track of your wi-fi access point for streetmap purposes. I believe “_nomap” must be at the very end, but Apple supposedly treats “_optout” appearing at the end OR penultimate position in order to not force mutual exclusivity with Google’s string.

Anything we can do to avoid feeding Google and Apple are a form of individual climate action -- however minuscule in effect.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I approve of the message of this post.

I didn't know about the Apple one, but ever since I found out that Google was mapping Wi-Fi networks (many many moons ago), it has infuriated me that this is opt-out rather than opt-in.