• itsame
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    1265 months ago

    As a (former) map contributor, I will -and I hope many others with me- report it as a mistake. Of course Google will not change it back, but it does not matter.

    USA and it’s oligarchs have gone mad.

  • VodkaSolution
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    I’ll send soooo many new wrong names and places everywhere I go if they do that

        • FundMECFS
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          75 months ago

          Wait really?

          Fuck… I thought they were becoming a good non-profit.

        • @cybervseas@lemmy.world
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          45 months ago

          I run my own email server since August and I’m never going back. I use the mailinabox.email open source software stack.

          • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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            75 months ago

            I have heard that it can be difficult to get emails sent from a self-hosted server accepted by the big email providers. Have you experienced any difficulty with this? And how is spam filtering?

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              25 months ago

              I haven’t had deliverability issues. Might be for a number of reasons:

              • mailinabox does a huge amount of modern email security
              • I’ve owned my domain for many years
              • Contabo probably has fewer cases of reused IP addresses than the big cloud providers

              I don’t get spam, but that might be because anything that might generate spam I use Gmail for. Mailinabox includes a number of spam reduction systems, too.

        • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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          35 months ago

          Well, I don’t recall that but he did express support for Gail Slater, a nominee by former President Donald Trump for a position in the Department of Justice antitrust division.

          However, I may just not possess this information. I don’t not trust you, but is there something specific you can link to? Or do you recall where you heard that?

          • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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            People are putting a spin on this, but Proton has explained that it considers the Republicans more likely to tackle “Big Tech abuses” until the Democratic Party sheds its corporatists. So on this issue the company seems to officially support the Republicans. People are understandably skeptical and think that, given the Republicans’ past record and the many other awful things they promise to do under Trump, this is a misjudgement by Proton:

            https://archive.ph/quYyb

            Here’s the original post by the CEO:

      • VodkaSolution
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        25 months ago

        Not a war, but everyday guerrilla is fun, that has not to be the goal of my life, just something that makes me feel better

    • @homura1650@lemmy.world
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      By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming

      That policy is surprisingly on point.

    • @Murdeth@lemmy.world
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      “In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.”

      Uh-huh.

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    This is already going to cost taxpayers a fortune in governmental redrawn maps, of which there are a ridiculous number across federal and state departments, and that’s before you go into even more costly things like replacing all the road signs that mention the Gulf of Mexico.

    Which makes me wonder how much it is going to cost all these tech companies that reference it to do the same. Some of it is just changing a word in a database, but I have a feeling that’s only some of it.

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    Omg lol. They’re all just licking the boot like it was covered in piss (because they were told it was good).

    They’re abandoning Linux users to the cops and global responsibility in one day.

    Edit: Facebook and Google. But really they’re all in the domed city together now waiting for the ship to be built.

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    So… I have no intention to use google maps as a result of this. Not like I used it much to begin with, but I’m going to do my part to not enable these ignorant cowardly pissfarts to cartographically troll an entire planet.

    No sir, not on my astrolabe!

    • @pageflight@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      For trails I already use OSM, how is it for navigation?

      Apple maps? Other preferences?

      I wonder what the options are no buck Google Navigation on my EV’s infotainment console.

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        I’ve used Organic maps (which I think uses OSM navigation) exclusively and it hasn’t let me down yet. Especially when walking it knows a lot more routes than Google. One thing Google has going for it is it knows where there’s a lot of traffic and routes around it, OSM doesn’t have the data to do that.

        Organic Maps also has an Android Auto version, though I don’t have anything to try that.

  • @TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    Do the Trump dipshits realize they’re just renaming it after the continent? The continent that Mexico is also on? There is no country named ‘America.’ There are the United States of America: a federation of semi autonomous states that are almost exclusively located on the North American continent.

  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    We just call it the Gulf Coast here.

    But if they really wanna get nitpicky, might as well rename it to the Gulf of Oil.

  • @Hugin@lemmy.world
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    Getting groups to go along with your stupid minor lies is the first step. That way when you start doing the bigger important lies they are already used to just going along with your lies.

    This is straight from the authoritarian play book and Trump is not doing this without purpose.