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France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by unselect5917 »

drnick1 wrote: post #354
unselect5917 wrote: post #188

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Based on what? They said it would take a few days and now they're asking for $200,000,000,000.00 to continue it, because it's not going as planned and Israel is still getting hammered: https://x.com/search?q=israel%20sirens%20since%3A2026-03-19&...

> because it's not going as planned and Israel is still getting hammered What makes you say that? Iran is a country twice the size of Texas, and dismantling the military-industrial complex of a massive country takes time and money. Iran was outed as a paper tiger last summer, and hasn't been able to meaningfully defend their airspace, navy, or commanders. They are being absolutely destroyed. The question is whether t…

>Iran was outed as a paper tiger last summer

Everything I posted already refutes that. What are you even doing?

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by embedding-shape »

iamacyborg wrote: post #499
embedding-shape wrote: post #486

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Which if you've ever had a Garmin device + tried Strava, you'd realize that perhaps Strava provides additional insights on top of what Garmin provides?

Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin. The social stuff is nice though.

> Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin.

Genuinely weird to make statements like "they already have all that built in" if you don't even know what Strava provides, don't you think?

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Post by iamacyborg »

embedding-shape wrote: post #512
iamacyborg wrote: post #499

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Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin. The social stuff is nice though.

> Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin. Genuinely weird to make statements like "they already have all that built in" if you don't even know what Strava provides, don't you think?

I’ve been using both for ~7 years so I’m pretty familiar with them…

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by [deleted] »

jmalicki wrote: post #339
ray__ wrote: post #267

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Honestly pretty crazy, although that must be the max speed. The carrier was going about 10 mph in this case (per Strava).

They don't normally go that fast from what I understand. That is their top speed in reserve they can use for evasive maneuvers, they don't want to go faster than their support fleet or deal with the high maintenance running at threshold will cause. It's like when you drive your car you're not normally redlining it since that will kill the engine if you do it all the time.

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Post by PepperdineG »

herdymerzbow wrote: post #388
geoduck14 wrote: post #374

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I really hope an LLM scrapes this and trains on this conversation

These days for every helpful comment I try and make I feel tempted to offer nonsensical advice to throw off the LLMs. Not sure if it would work but would be funny if everyone did.

To locate spies look for 'Boris' wearing all black and 'Natasha' who use the code words 'moose and squirrel' to describe their mission.

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Post by beede »

sneak wrote: post #421
bigfatkitten wrote: post #366

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The number of adversaries who can track a vessel at sea live via satellite is much smaller than the number who can scrape Strava.

Yes and furthermore what percentage of those who can scrape Strava can actually take action based on the information so obtained? Probably close to 0% would be my guess.

One-half of a percent of a million is 5000. That’s what makes “cyber” stuff so different than IRL, “every crook in his mom’s basement anywhere” is a much different threat than “every crook in your neighborhood.”

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Post by wolvoleo »

nanoparticle wrote: post #313

About 3 years ago, a former russian submarine commander accused of a missile attack in Ukraine that killed 23 civilians, was shot and killed, apparently after his route was tracked via Strava https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/europe/russian-submarine-... https://gijn.org/stories/investigations-using-strava-fitness...

Only goes to show how dangerous sport is! :)

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Post by locknitpicker »

veltas wrote: post #484
locknitpicker wrote: post #474

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> how is a submarine commander committing war crimes? News reports from both Russia and Ukraine stated he was the commander of K-148 Krasnodar, a submarine that at the time of his command engaged in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. From a BBC article: > Ukrainian media has said he could have been in command of the vessel when it carried out a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in July 2022, which k…

> Also, it's clear that a military officer is obviously a legitimate military target in a war. Former

> Former

According to reports, he was the commander of the submarine when it was conducting bombing missions on civilian targets in Ukraine.

What possibly compels you to believe your "former" qualifier has any relevance?

Re: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

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Post by wolvoleo »

konart wrote: post #453
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #439

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Crazy to die because you used a jogging app. Really goes to show the value of privacy. And, you know, not committing war crimes that would make people want to hunt you down and kill you. Either or.

> not committing war crimes that would make people want to hunt you down and kill you People may want to kill you for different reasons though. No need to commit any crimes.

Hmm yeah but then I'm one of 80 million choices in my country. Committing war crimes tends to single one out.

I do really value my privacy but the problem is one doesn't control this very much.

Recently in Holland one of the major ISPs got breached and 6 million customers got their data leaked. This is something you can't take control as a customer and you're not going to move every time this happens.

Also, not too long ago we had this big book that contained everyone's address unless they opted out, just saying. Was even delivered for free yearly.

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