this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
595 points (96.6% liked)

Privacy

31783 readers
571 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works

An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 171 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] max@nano.garden 28 points 1 year ago

Finally. Someone noticed πŸ₯Ή

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joke's on you. IP geolocation where I am is an unreliable mess and your image got it wrong by about 1000km!

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Location is right, but I highly doubt anyone near me is using Lemmy (dictatorship here).

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Great, hot milfs near my location

[–] lFenix@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not using a VPN or anything and it got my location wrong by 700 kilometers πŸ€”

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure you are where you think you are? When's the last time you looked outside?

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Oh no! I've been kidnapped!

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah this is really cool. Though I was way off for me and I'm not on a VPN right now.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads-up.

Routing my Lemmy mobile app through orbot from now on. Seems to have fixed the issue.

[–] WndyLady@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder why the Baltimore community is so dead, then.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can run Geolocation with images now? What the heck? How?

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] lightstream@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the image, it's a normal image. The server does the hard work when you make the request, and then it just builds the image accordingly.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I saw OPs explanation in the comments. That is fucking cool! And scary! I've never needed to generate images with code before, so Ive never even considered something like this before.

[–] TriLinder@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thought about adding the user's location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people. A great demo though!

[–] remotedev@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My location is accurate, to give some good feedback on your program too lol

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is great, because it located me about a full day's drive from where I live, so I'm still pretty anonymous :-)

[–] Rinnarrae@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was wondering for a second why my town of all places was posted lmao. Also made me realize I forgot to turn my vpn back on.

[–] kabobglance@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have the code for this? Very interested in how you implemented it

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Hah, not my town, but close. That's where my ISP is located though.

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not using a VPN and the location isn't accurate.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey. I wanted to do this tomorrow.

Well I have a new idea which is pretty similar

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm plannig to make one of these "dox'd memes" where someone says something controversial and another one answers with the ip address.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] June@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It’s got me about an hour from where I actually am

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate this so much. Its super cool but MAN what the hell. I don't think I'm going to ever turn off my VPN anymore. I'm in a super small town and that image is correct.

It's cached somewhere because I can't get it to update. Maybe time for a new account too. Hmmmm

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, app cache had to be cleared. We good