Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?

• Ranslite@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wtf

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Ranslite@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It basically takes your IP address, looks up an estimated town based on some free geoip database you can download, and renders that as text inside an image.

      OK, less magic than expected.

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There have been tools to generate little images like this that people have been sticking inline in forum posts for decades. Literal decades. The world has not yet caught fire because of that, either.

        If you’re old enough, you’ll remember seeing oodles of people’s forum signatures containing a smiley face holding up something like this:

        Image Image Image

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• StephniBefni@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s crazy, it knows where I live.

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• paradiso@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  im scared

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• UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  im just south of okotoks, kind of a small world out here.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah i seen your other comment. still kinda funny to me tho. I use a vpn router, multi wan, so not really too worried.

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