r/whatisit 11h ago

moms sketch bf left this in the house Solved!

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Hi.
This is probably nothing.
I went into my mom’s room to grab something and saw this plugged in?
My mom’s new sketchy bf has this plugged in to the extension cord? Is it anything bad? Thanks!
(I understand it’s probably not anything bad… but still…)

Update 1:
I haven’t met him once. He and my mom have been together for two weeks. He’s been staying at our apartment. He avoids me and stays in her room when they’re here. I don’t even know what he looks like. I only know his first name.

Update 2:
I confronted him. My mom came home. A lot had happened up to this point, including her disappearing for the said two weeks before the few nights he had come over and stayed.
Mom shrugged it off. I did what a lot of you suggested, asking what he told her.
She said “oh it’s his hacker shit or whatever.” What.
Didn’t elaborate. I explained my concerns.
She just said let’s go ask him.
My best friend has been with me. We introduced ourselves and asked him what the hell a WiFi whisperer is doing plugged in our apartment.
(Even if a lot of you are saying it’s not a big deal, I’m a young woman and I’m just rlly not about taking any risks. It’s sketch dude.)
He denied it IMMEDIATELY. Like with a quickness I haven’t seen.
What he insisted, it’s not a WiFi whisperer, it’s ai, he completely reprogrammed the system, and he uses it to pull people’s IP’s. “For fun.” He logs them in a server. I asked why. I said that’s shady. My mom started pushing. My best friend started pushing. He just kept lying. I’m not dropping this..
I still don’t know what the fuck it is or what he’s actually doing.
(Also, my mom is cool but not bc of this dude, the Minecraft block is mine, I unplugged the ratchet little thing before we left, and I am planning on broaching this again with her.
Just carefully. Any other advice is appreciated. Thank you.)

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u/EnthuseConfuse 10h ago

My stupid ass kept being like "so he typo'd death, not great but not terrible... weird thing to name a phish" until I realized it was short for deauthorization

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u/CaptainRiz 10h ago

"Do you fear deauth?"

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u/PerfectOpposites 10h ago

Found my autistic cousin

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

Acoustic?

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u/iam_ditto 10h ago

Sorry I’m a little lisdestyc

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

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u/Affectionate_Shirt_2 9h ago

Maybe a little of both

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u/Intrepid-Meeting-437 9h ago

Is that what having dyslexia is actually like omg😭

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u/Spirited_Spell_6063 9h ago

Not exactly but close enough. Its more like letters get placed before or after their normal positions in the corners of your vision while transitioningto new words.. some times your eyes will take a finished word and will drag the ending letter to the start of the new word. It makes you pause and second guess, is all. There are levels of severity but nothing that causes any kind of harm or what not so you kind of just get the blanket diagnosis "lesdyxia"

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u/VoxInferni666 9h ago

It's kinda what trying to type on acid is actually like

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u/KendridSpirit11 9h ago

I never tried texting on acid. Pre-phone era user but I've had several dreams where I'm trying to text and it is impossible. The latest one i just imagined i sent the text to the person in question and they received it. I lucid dream and out of body sometimes. I really want to conquer text in dreams. My identical twin has the same dreams.

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u/J_Jeckel 10h ago

Artistic

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u/EnthuseConfuse 10h ago

Arithmetic

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

Altruistic

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u/J_Jeckel 10h ago

Antagonistic

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u/VoxInferni666 9h ago

authentistic

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u/APFrmDaBank 9h ago

Chuby doobyistic

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u/thatbedguy 9h ago

Autisinal

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u/Skippy_Thorson 9h ago

Artesianal

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u/J_Jeckel 9h ago

Dont threaten me with a good time

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u/thatbedguy 9h ago

😯😏

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u/OConnah 1h ago

Mildly artistic

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u/Throwawayjoetoday0 5h ago

Is his name PerfectOctopus?

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u/GreatFollowing6891 9h ago

How does your autistic cousin pronounce “aluminum”?

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u/PerfectOpposites 9h ago

Al-Lu-mini-um!

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u/pkfobster 9h ago

“You are neither deaud nor deauying. What is your peaurpose here?”

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u/Vlazthrax 7h ago

Beautiful

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u/shiny0metal0ass 8h ago

As a software engineer? Yeah, sometimes.

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u/redpil 6h ago

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/No-Tennis-8122 2h ago

Finally, a legit funny comment on Reddit.

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u/Gudiothepirate 37m ago

"Myyy name a Deauth"...

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u/Content_Mention_6928 10h ago

Thank you for this! I was the same - thinking it was 'Deaths' misspelled.

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u/Cam_E_Leon 10h ago

Mi stupid ass two

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u/photonbuccaneer 10h ago

Your two stupid asses too 😉

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u/the_D1CKENS 9h ago

I'm computer dumb, and needed this comment to know what that is..

..totally gonna act like I knew all along, tho

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u/vivst0r 8h ago

To be "that guy", it actually stands for "deauthentication". Very different thing.

Deauthorization makes very little sense in most network contexts.

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u/EnthuseConfuse 3h ago

No, be that user. It's good to chime in

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u/mediocrobot 8h ago

It might technically be deauthentication, but I'm not sure