• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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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!

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      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.

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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.

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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.

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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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        I doubt OSM will change it. Its not a land mass in the US, the US has no authority in changing its name.

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        OSM treats official names as tertiary to signage and local usage. It’s also not chiefly American so doesn’t have much reason to favour their usage over other countries’.

        Mind that you can also have many names for one thing in OSM so it will probably be noted in there somewhere.

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            There is also an ongoing discussion about the executive order.

            Absolutely disgusting how many people there are taking this at all seriously

            Use Facist_Name as the tag, as is accurate, and be done with it

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          I guess the Gulf of Mexico is different from Denali in that it’s outside of the US, so I’m not sure how that’s decided. I guess American map makers (or anyone localising for the US) will use Gulf of America, while everyone else will continue using Gulf of Mexico.

          FWIW, it’s still Gulf of Mexico in my Google Maps, and so is Denali (using it from Australia).

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    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.

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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.

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        I was about to switch to Proton until the Proton CEO outed himself as a Trumper.

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

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            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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              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.

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          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?

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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:

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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

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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.

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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.