• itsame
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    1052 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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          62 months ago

          Wait really?

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

        • @cybervseas@lemmy.world
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          32 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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            22 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?

            • @cybervseas@lemmy.world
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              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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          22 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?

      • VodkaSolution
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        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

  • @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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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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    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.

    • @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.

    • Phoenixz
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      Eh, their policy currently is “make as much money as possible, nothing else matters”

      Making money now requiring stuffing their noses up Trumps ass, so here we go

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      Pretty much any mapping software will follow suit as It’s an official name change, so until it’s reverted (if ever, because I could see a future Democratic President just leaving it as is because they don’t want to be called anti-American on Fox), you’ll just have to deal with it, unfortunately.

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          After Trump kills himself in a bunker they’ll get Jill Stein? It’ll end somehow, unless Trump nukes us all.

          • Flying Squid
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            I sure as hell hope the U.S. doesn’t trade one Putin-lover for another. Plus, she isn’t a Democrat.

      • @Joeffect@lemmy.world
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        It’s not an official name change… They have a governing body for name’s and unless they change it, which they won’t only the us will recognise the change… Whole things a pissing contest like trump himself… He’s a bully and not a very good one

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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!

  • @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.

  • @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.

  • Phoenixz
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    Yei, another service I’ll dump and self host. I’ll just get a nice big server, dump everything there, and then get rid of all my last Google crap

    The only thing I’ll miss is YouTube, not for the site, but for the content

  • Chozo
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    They also renamed the Sears Tower on the map, but still nobody uses the new name. This will always be the Gulf of Mexico.