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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

My WiFi is ‘Secret Rebel Base’.

My neighbours have added ‘Jabba the Hub’, ‘Obi Lan Kenobi’, and ‘Red WiFi-ve Standing By’. This makes me happy.

Anyone else live in a neighbourhood that embraces this kind of WiFi silliness?

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Sadly in my apartment complex they seem to all use the default name given by the router (like Carrier-randomnumbers).

I have a friend who named his WiFi "Connecting..." which is diabolical

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Mine is "network unavailable".

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Ours is “Unsecured WiFi”

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Three top SSIDs!

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

We had a bunch of “surveillance van #X” at an old apartment. I joined in.

This was before surveillance vans were a real threat though. Not as funny with all the ice shit these days.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

All my neighbors are lame but I have two routers, giving me a total of six SSIDs to play with. So I have wifi names like "Trump Fucks Kids", "Charlie Kirk was a Literal Nazi", and "Where are the Epstein Files"?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Forgot to mention that I live in a red state too.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The "All my neighbors are lame" part makes sense now.

Love it

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My network is named "Hot Signals In Your Area". It used to be "Routers of the Lost Ark". My guest network is "Guesty McGuestface"

Unfortunately, no one else in my building has anything creative.

I've seen "Leader Desslock", "NSA_Hotspot", "Wicked Evil Jowls". In college someone in my dorm named their's "Business Isn't a Real Major"

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

"FBI Surveillance Van" was my favorite local.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

I should throw up a new "Antifa Countersurveillance Stationwagon" ssid

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Business Isn't a Real Major

Diabolical, love it.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

How about “Econ isn’t a science”

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[-] Elshender@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My phone hotspot is "Starbucks Free Wi-Fi" passworded of course.

My home is "Router? I hardly know her!"

A great password to use is "thepasswordtowhat".

Friend: Hey whats your wifi password?

Me: thepasswordtowhat

Friend: Your wifi

Me: What about it?

Friend: WHATS THE PASSWORD?

Me: thepasswordtowhat

Friend: Frustrated noises.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Lol mine is "Why?" for the same reasons

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

In a similar vein: idonotremember

[-] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I've been to:

"Never gonna give you up"

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

"And desert you"

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago

I cannot believe just how absurdly long that has endured - it's almost literally been an eternity in Internet time.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I think it helps that it's genuinely a really catchy, uplifting, fucking excellent song, with a fun music video, and the artist really seems like an incredibly wholesome sweetheart.

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."

And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don't want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/

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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

RCMP Surveillance Moose #1812 here

[-] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

A møøse once bit my sister

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[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Neighbors at my old apartment had KKK as their network name. They were huge pieces of shit who knew I could hear everything through the walls, so they would have entire conversations about me with slurs every other word. They were also armed, and talked about their guns constantly (again, knowing I could hear everything). Imagine laying in bed at 3am trying to get some sleep before a 7am meeting, and having to listen to two racist assholes literally yell through the walls just to harass me and make sure I couldn’t fall asleep.

Living there was so stressful.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

What the fuck is wrong with people.

[-] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm very sad that story didn't have a happy ending where they were both hit by a bus or got arrested in a drug sting.

I'm glad that was your old apartment friend.

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[-] meekah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called "gothcave", so I named mine "nerdcave"

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

So you... *ahem* ...caved in, then?

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[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Mine is: ITHertzWhenIP

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wu Tang LAN

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I wish to name it in a funny way. But there is a ton of devices that I have connected over the wifi and I dont have enough willpower to reconnect them all once I change the name.

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to "Stop, we can all hear you having sex"

So naturally, someone changed theirs to 'I can hear you NOT having sex'

at that point it was on lol.

[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Abraham Linksys

John Wilkes Bluetooth

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had a bunch of Trek Nerds living near me it seems:

Enterprise-D

Borg Cube

Deep Space Nine

Federation Satelite or something

It was wild

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I went with it_hertz_when_IP but have yet to see anyone with similar naming...

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Be safe guys. Because of SSID location mapping services it's possible to pinpoint the location of many people in this thread.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

"shout 'penis' for password"

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 month ago

Mine is "Untrusted Network"

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not Spying On You

Covert NSA Surveillance

I Got Hacked

Connect to AOL

Skynet Mobile Operations

We Didn't Start the Firewall

[-] Zyrinth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Sadly no, but mine is named: My Wi-Fi Left Me

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[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Ive seen "FBI Surveillance Van" a few times.

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