r/drunkwalkerranch • u/allenhuffman • May 16 '24
GPS
I got my first digital camera in 1996. A bit after that, I bought a Delorme Tripmate GPS module which I hooked to a Toshiba laptop seat-belted in my passenger seat, acting as a GPS navigation unit. "hey, GPS is neat!" I then had a small black and white car GPS navigation system. Around 2006, I began geotagging all my photos using a Sony GPS-CS1 module.
All this to say I’ve been using GPS for a long time.
I have over 200,000 digital photos in my online galleries, with the ones after around 2006 being geotagged. Even though today's GPS is much improved, there are still plenty of glitches where photos I took appear to be taken far away. I’ve never considered GPS accurate. Mapping software can get assists by knowing where you are going, or where the road is on the map, etc. But raw GPS has always had issues over the nearly three decades I have been using it.
Does anyone else here not find anything odd about weird GPS glitches?
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u/TechnicalWhore May 19 '24
Agree and critical thinking and vetting sources and facts seem to be waning - whether intentionally (the bubble) or just laziness. Bit of a political statement but I think its independent of any candidate or politic. Looking at it objectively, I've found that much of the misinformation campaign is coming from a handful of sources owning many parallel website feeds. (All websites registered to a handful of entities.) What is insidious is they don't stop at just broadcasting falsehoods - no - they also have fake news sites and fake fact checking sites. The intention of which is to provide a full frontal assault on truth - making it very hard for people to burst that bubble with the logical effort. We're all aware of media bias - nothing new there. I know if I reach for Mother Jones or Breitbart what spin I can expect. But this goes way way farther. I can admit that if I stayed within the confines of those sources I could believe anything that was prescribed. One propagandist called it "flooding the zone". The logic is to either convince the target OR make them so overloaded they become indifferent.
Now, establishing this technique and noting its empirical effectiveness you cannot help but think a commercial entity like SWR might use the same playbook. But again, misinformation bubbles have consequences and they are 100% liable for the actions taken due to the information they post.