A Lucky Hack in Ingress
I hadn’t opened the Ingress scanner for several years, and then decided to relive the old days.
A portal gave me 2 Quantum capsules at once!
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How to Connect MT7601U Wi-Fi from the Linux Console (Debian)
Connecting to Wi-Fi in a modern Linux distribution with a desktop is usually easy: as long as the hardware is supported, it’s just a few clicks.
Connecting to Wi-Fi from the Linux console is a bit harder, but entirely doable.
Here is how I got internet over Wi-Fi with a TP-Link USB Wi-Fi dongle based on the MT7601U chip on Debian. I originally did it on Debian 9; below is the up-to-date version for Debian 12/13.
I’ve Stopped Playing Ingress
Niantic has announced that the old Ingress scanner will stop working on September 30.
They’ll shut it down completely, and everyone has to move to the new Ingress Prime. As I wrote before, I, like many other players, don’t like the new version. And Niantic is making another mistake by forcing everyone onto Prime.
I finished off a couple more medals, and with that I’m ending my Ingress saga.
Platinum Engineer. It wasn’t easy to get that many mods — I had to save them up and multiply them in Quantum capsules — but I hit the round number: 20,000 mods deployed!
Niantic Bans Cheaters, Spoofers and Item Sellers
The official Niantic Labs blog reported that more than 500,000 cheating accounts had recently been banned in Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Aurora Glyph Hack Challenge — Ingress
New events in the augmented reality of Ingress!
The storyline: agents’ actions brought victory over Myriad — they failed to damage the Portal network. The July events gave a glimpse of who Nemesis is and what they might be after. Myriad was only one piece of the puzzle.
Aurora is the second piece — another person or organization that wants to harm our universe, searching here for a secret that no longer exists in their own world. To stop them, Niantic asked all agents to make as many Glyph hacks as possible from August 15 to August 26, 17:00 UTC.
So these are the peak days of the event, and if you didn’t know — now you do! Until August 26 you can earn one of three beautiful Aurora Glyph Hack Challenge medals.
