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MAS956 04-10-2021 07:38 AM

Just.trash.shiny
 
Have we discussed this app here before? Brits with too much time on their hands have developed a three word generator to define all three meter square plots on the planet:

https://what3words.com/just.trash.shiny

Pretty cool.

herr_oberst 04-10-2021 09:45 AM

That's kind of cool. You could tell your lyft driver to take you to "fallen.trace.chest" and he'd know exactly where you wanted to be.

MAS956 04-10-2021 10:51 AM

Or search and rescue on a mountaintop. Or finding friends at a concert (if they ever have those again). Of course, you'd have to agree beforehand to use the app. I've already encountered resistance at home - I have Google Maps, why do I need this?

KFC911 04-10-2021 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by herr_oberst (Post 11291981)
That's kind of cool. You could tell your lyft driver to take you to "fallen.trace.chest" and he'd know exactly where you wanted to be.

"smokin.hot.wimmins"

I'd still be lost in the wilderness tho :D

ZOO 04-12-2021 03:29 AM

I have it for when I am biking the trails. Apparently our local paramedics all have it. Thankfully I haven't had to use it.

red-beard 04-12-2021 04:08 AM

My pool is chopsticks.bathing.advances

GH85Carrera 04-12-2021 05:08 AM

OK, but why?

All smartphones have a GPS, and the coordinates of X, Y & X will bring you to within inches of that spot. Those coordinates have been established for many years, as in a century or more, and it even has the elevation included.

chopsticks.bathing.advances may be Readbeard's pool area, but no human will guess that without the app. Why not stick with what has worked for many years and can be sub millimeter accurate?

cstreit 04-12-2021 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11293652)
OK, but why?

All smartphones have a GPS, and the coordinates of X, Y & X will bring you to within inches of that spot. Those coordinates have been established for many years, as in a century or more, and it even has the elevation included.

chopsticks.bathing.advances may be Readbeard's pool area, but no human will guess that without the app. Why not stick with what has worked for many years and can be sub millimeter accurate?

Seems like a solution looking for a problem? I can see minor benefit in that it’s easier to remember than a strong of gps coordinates... ...but is that needed?

If you already need a smart phone for it, then why not just cast the gps location to the other device?

GH85Carrera 04-12-2021 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 11293615)
My pool is chopsticks.bathing.advances

It might be a great way to make up new passwords. chopsticks.bathing.advances is not something one would guess as a password. Just add in for symbols in place of the periods.

chopsticks&bathing#advances!2021 would be a good password.

masraum 04-12-2021 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11294054)
It might be a great way to make up new passwords. chopsticks.bathing.advances is not something one would guess as a password. Just add in for symbols in place of the periods.

chopsticks&bathing#advances!2021 would be a good password.

Absolutely. Three long random words stuck together is a decent password, at least, until/if the list of every location on the planet from the app is added to a dictionary attack.

1990C4S 04-12-2021 09:58 AM

I will try logging into NostrilCheese's account with Mustang.PoolCue.Skidmark

wildthing 04-12-2021 10:38 AM

On the off chance that you're about to run out of batteries and could only call grandma who couldn't be bothered to write down GPS coordinates... richest.enthusiastic.upholding ... but of course there's no cell service there so, you'd be dead by the time they find you.


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