My flag is just a dot.

[Cortez]

Why is my flag a dot. The one under country. Hovering over it says Germany.

Two problems with this.
I live in Italy.
Last I checked their flag was colored lines.

Please help.

Very Respect
coretez

 

[nec]

yeah well this is cool and all but first mind explaining why i'm apparently from singapore?

 

[Scouser]

cheap prostitutes

 

[Cortez]

No, Singapore has too strict laws, Nec couldn't live there...

Nec, have you noticed your friends slowly disappearing and being replaced by Asians?

 

[Disorder]

Shows I'm from Netherlands.

Hahaha I'd wish.

 

[toastmatic]

ITT people realize netblocks aren't reliable ways to work out geolocation.

 

[Cortez]

Ah, hell. It explains everything.

toastmatic We're too late.

The temporal sedation during time dilation is fading quickly and the Chinese have figured that out. We're peering into a mirror world where nec is from Singaproe, Disorder from the Netherlands, and I'm actually stationed in Germany. Just like the Chinese wanted in the first place.

Or maybe somethings fucked up with the host idk

 

[nec]

No, Singapore has too strict laws, Nec couldn't live there...

Nec, have you noticed your friends slowly disappearing and being replaced by Asians?

i went to melbourne cbd and that's happening with the population

i stepped into the city and my first thought was "where are the white people??", it's like 80% asians 20% everything else

 

[toastmatic]

:^)

It's literally what I just said... netblocks are only a quasi-reliable method of determining geolocation, and things get particularly confusing in Europe where there are a lot of countries smashed together.

 

[Cortez]

God damn Anri is working with the Chinese. Unless... I too am @Anri

 

[Cortez]

So why we using this Netblocks stuff. Is it anti-DDOS protection, or whats up.

 

[Nerdbird]

who cares

 

[toastmatic]

I'm going to assume you've got a next hop in the town I've blocked off because there's an air base there and you're connecting from a military facility. It makes sense that the DoD has their own WAN out there.

Netblocks are used because they're normally accurate, but won't help in situations where you're on a private WAN that hops between countries or when the ISP happens to span between countries and reuse their finite pool of v4 addresses. That's why a lot of users from the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands get lumped in together.

E: I should note that I'm saying netblocks, but it could be leveraging autonomous system numbers or a regional internet registry database - the concept is roughly the same either way. It doesn't look up your specific IP, it looks up the larger system your IP is associated with; if the larger system has more accurate bookkeeping, your location will be more accurate - if it has less accurate book keeping, your location will be less accurate. For instance, my IP geolocation has me pinned 20 zip codes over from where I actually am.

To get a completely accurate geolocation, you'd have to ask an ISP which customer has which IP allocated to them, and look up their personal account information to find their street address - that's how feds do it.

 

[nec]

who cares

sounds like something a singaporean spy would say

 

[Cortez]

nec Yes. That makes sense.

 

[Scouser]

sounds like something a singaporean spy would say

she does listen to an awful lot of that k-pop...

we're onto you birdnerd

 

[wester]

cortez is actually from the moon, hence the gray dot....

xeno????

 

[Robe]

I can wave my flag PROUDLY wherever I go.

 

[moatilliatta]

USA USA USA USA

 

[Nerdbird]

she does listen to an awful lot of that k-pop...

we're onto you birdnerd

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