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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Scrolling through the list. The timestamps are too regular, meaning it is interpreting a lot of ambient noise as music.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or it's a contrived post with fake data

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Very possible. But wanted to presume bad coding over outright falsification.

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