Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly

  • B312@lemmy.world
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    32 minutes ago

    The linux part is cringe. Just move if you don’t want to use apple’s os

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    5 hours ago

    Honestly - this is from a playbook used by every autocratic administration: “Take the attention away from the more important things”. Seen it in EU constantly: Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, etc. So sure, report it, but be aware this is a charade.

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      2 hours ago

      It is the main thing Trump is good at:

      Creating some drama/infuriation to keep news noisy in order to hide his fascist dictator playbook moves

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    7 hours ago

    Wrote App Store review, then deleted maps. Installed Organic Maps to replace.

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    I can’t be the only one who feels like this is the absolute lowest priority of dumb shit to resist the regime over. It’s just filler. Another thing he is doing to flood the zone. But one that really doesn’t hurt anything. It’s a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

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      8 hours ago

      I get what you’re saying but, as someone observing from outside, stuff like this is all I can do to resist.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah, I mean it’s just books those nazis are burning, it doesn’t hurt anything, no need to discuss it. /s

      US fascists are fucking rewriting the world map and eradicating historical name, I consider it actual damage.

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        To be fair, the entire history of humanity is full of exactly that. These are mostly just aimed at and recognized by the US. Same as Russia currently renaming occupied villages. Nobody else recognizes those, it’s just not that special or important at this point, with all of the other shit going on.

        Ultimately, the names of places change. All the time. And will continue to change. It’s just what we do as humans. Somebody uses force and swings their dick around and locally others have to either accept it, silently or whining, or punch the fucker. Elsewhere people fight similar fights and care very little about the other dickswingers far away.

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          2 hours ago

          But google shows this imaginary trump name around the globe, not just in America. That is different to how google handles the fantasy names for lands China and Russia claim they are theirs…

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    7 hours ago

    lol, the iOS app won’t let me submit a ‘name is wrong’ report.

    I’m dumb

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    9 hours ago

    You should abandon Apple for Linux anyways. Apple doesn’t care about you, your privacy, or anything but them making more money, from you. This has been proven time and time again by evidence and whistleblowers.

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      4 hours ago

      Eh, out of all my own traffic I’ve MITM’d it’s mostly been third-party SDKs in apps doing creepy shit.

      Down to hate on Gulf of America but when it comes to privacy it’s debatable.

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    9 hours ago

    Shout out to the menial workers at Apple Maps who are going to have a crap day at work tomorrow because of the thing their boss made them do, so they don’t get fired and replaced by someone else who would do it.

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      4 hours ago

      That’s why they made Apple intelligence so minded numbingly stupid. Job security. If it were capable Apple management would have replaced everyone.

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    10 hours ago

    It says my report is “in review” and I’ll be notified when they review it.

    I wonder how that will go, and how fast.

    I assume they have mechanisms to just push mass reports into a black hole. Or similar.

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      10 hours ago

      Don’t worry. They can send the reports to /dev/null where they will be read by Tim Apple himself when he checks it.

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    That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.

    Unlike Google Maps/Earth….

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    10 hours ago

    I don’t really know how to feel about this.

    Was it decreed by an absolute narcissist for no reason other than the kind of blatant arrogance Americans are notorious for? Absolutely.

    Was it also completely legal? As far as I can tell. It’s not really these companies’ place to resist map name changes, it’s the citizens’ and our representatives’.

    Does it have anything at all to do with fascism? No.

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      All he can dictate is what official American maps call it. But he can’t make everyone else rename it, Apple and Google did not need to rename it they could have ignored him who has no legal power to do anything to them but they are kissing his bronzed arse so of course they did.

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      At the same time it’s the map’s job to describe the world. Even for something like nation states where there’s an official name, the map uses the common name. Our maps say France, not French Republic.

      Changing the displayed name for a body of water shared by several nations doesn’t make much sense, especially when the common name has yet to follow.

      At least that’s from the perspective of one of the goals the map ostensibly wants to serve.

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      9 hours ago

      fascism is when i don’t like something, right?

      isn’t it best when we water down terms to meaninglessness? /s