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minus-squareSkull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI originally planned to do something based on the Referer header, but the browser doesn’t send those for linked images. In theory you can do a lot with this. Detect VPNs based on MTU, for example, or if you’re malicious, turn it into a tracker.
minus-squarenewIdentity@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI’m plannig to make one of these “dox’d memes” where someone says something controversial and another one answers with the ip address.
minus-squareSkull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAh, I see! I was also thinking of maybe using something like Google Earth to make a GIF that zooms into your local area but that was waaaaaaay to computationally expensive to render on the server.
I originally planned to do something based on the Referer header, but the browser doesn’t send those for linked images.
In theory you can do a lot with this. Detect VPNs based on MTU, for example, or if you’re malicious, turn it into a tracker.
I’m plannig to make one of these “dox’d memes” where someone says something controversial and another one answers with the ip address.
Ah, I see! I was also thinking of maybe using something like Google Earth to make a GIF that zooms into your local area but that was waaaaaaay to computationally expensive to render on the server.