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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 16:22:42 JST clacke
   In Hong Kong, with concrete and steel surfaces and weird radio reflections everywhere, it's not at all a safe assumption to make that my tablet in my left hand and my phone in my right would report me as being in the same place as myself, or even within 100 m of myself.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 16:22:43 JST clacke

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     If you are creating routes to follow in a geolocation-based game, please please please set up your start point and your end point outdoors, not indoors where, depending on the device used, it may be impossible to ever be detected as being located.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 18:20:02 JST Blurry Moon

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     @clacke now I know what you're talking about.
     
     What game?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 18:20:05 JST clacke

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     If you play on a Samsung, the game will complain all the time that it lost your location.

     Play on a Huawei instead. It will happily report that it knows exactly where you are, even if exactly where you are right now is 200 m west of where you were a second ago, and your 500 m straight line walk was in fact a 1700 m long zig zag walk.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 18:23:45 JST clacke

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun Pokemon GO
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     Kuba =)K (kuba@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 19:26:47 JST Kuba =)K

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     @clacke Real-life rooftop jumper game?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 19:26:54 JST clacke

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     • Kuba =)K

     @kuba I have a location I can easily reach because I happen to live on top of it, so I have access to the podium where that location has open sky above it.

     If you don't live here, your phone may or may not be able to say that you're at the spot inside the mall.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 00:53:34 JST clacke

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     • Kuba =)K

     @kuba Yeah you were joking, but my comment is that there is a tiny bit of truth to it, as some "rooftops" are walkable "ground" five floors up from the "natural" (not actually natural) ground.

     The GPS info is what you get from the OS in the phone. The manufacturers have different approaches to handling uncertainty.

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     Kuba =)K (kuba@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 00:53:35 JST Kuba =)K

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     @clacke I was kidding a bit with the previous comment.
     It seems game is either "smart" or "locals"-only. Maybe you can use external GPS module that will be able to provide the milimetre-precise fake location =D

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 00:56:58 JST clacke

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     • Kuba =)K

     By "if you live here" I mean if you're a resident of this particular tower block and have physical access to the podium and its open sky, not whether you have residence in the city or not.

     @kuba

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     Kuba =)K (kuba@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 11:18:47 JST Kuba =)K

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     @clacke amusing myself with an idea that some game would accidentally/randomly put one of stops somewhere in the Kowloon Walled City (TIL it was demolished more than 30 years ago) requring 1m precision =D

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     Kuba =)K (kuba@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 11:18:54 JST Kuba =)K

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     @clacke so, ... external modules are obviously thing of past =/ (at least for Android)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 14:24:43 JST clacke

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     • Mans R
     @mansr I've been thinking that two players in a party could have their shared center of gravity as the party's location, but instead what it does is that if you stray too far apart it dissolves the party.
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     Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 14:24:44 JST Mans R

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     @clacke Could accuracy be improved by linking two phones with the promise that they will be within, say, 1 m of one another?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 14:25:03 JST clacke

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     • Mans R
     @mansr Outside the game, as a general idea, yeah, that should work and I would want it.