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- Finally. Someone noticed 🥹
- Joke's on you. IP geolocation where I am is an unreliable mess and your image got it wrong by about 1000km!
  
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- Location is right, but I highly doubt anyone near me is using Lemmy (dictatorship here).
  
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- Great, hot milfs near my location
- I’m not using a VPN or anything and it got my location wrong by 700 kilometers 🤔
  
  Are you sure you are where you think you are? When's the last time you looked outside?
  
  Oh no! I've been kidnapped!
- Woah this is really cool. Though I was way off for me and I'm not on a VPN right now.
  
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- Thanks for the heads-up.
  Routing my Lemmy mobile app through orbot from now on. Seems to have fixed the issue.
- You can run Geolocation with images now? What the heck? How?
  
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  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.
  
  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.
- I wonder why the Baltimore community is so dead, then.
- My location is accurate, to give some good feedback on your program too lol
  
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- You have the code for this? Very interested in how you implemented it
- 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.
- This is great, because it located me about a full day's drive from where I live, so I'm still pretty anonymous :-)
- Thought about adding the user's location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people. A great demo though!
- Hah, not my town, but close. That's where my ISP is located though.
- I'm not using a VPN and the location isn't accurate.
- It’s got me about an hour from where I actually am
- 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
  
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  Yeah, app cache had to be cleared. We good
- Hey. I wanted to do this tomorrow.
  Well I have a new idea which is pretty similar
  
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  I'm plannig to make one of these "dox'd memes" where someone says something controversial and another one answers with the ip address.
  
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