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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me a lot of after 9/11 when they tried to change French Fries to Freedom fries. That stuck about as well as water on teflon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Anytime I hear someone complain about cancel culture I bring up freedom fries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now US can start claiming islands just like China does with the South Sea

[–] [email protected] 224 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

"Gulf of Trump" just go for the gusto you fucking spinless pussies.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

I thought that name was already taken by the chasm in between his ears.

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[–] merde 175 points 1 week ago (22 children)

https://www.openstreetmap.org

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/ or https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. 

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ or https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

This project aims at providing comfortable map viewing and navigation (routing) application for mobile devices. Particular stress lies with complete offline features (via pre-loaded offline map data) or economic internet usage.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/akylas.alpi.maps or https://github.com/Akylas/alpimaps

Alpi Maps is a map application to help you prepare and enjoy your hike! Get all the info you need before you go, then enjoy all the data offline during your hike.
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I used Organic Maps on my CalyxOS phone a few days ago to navigate a 200 mile car drive home to the Scottish Highlands, and it worked flawlessly. The first 50 miles were through parts of Fife that I was not familiar with. I left it on for the rest of the journey just to track my progress and test it out. Very impressed with it. Maps are detailed and downloaded to the device for offline use. I've finally managed to deGoogle my life completely and will never use another Google product or service again.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Everyone report an error every day.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago

Give it negative reviews

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Pathetic. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't follow suit. Renaming it just for one of Trump's ego trips is not a good reason.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is so pathetic by Google.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (16 children)

They all bend the knee. Just wait until the persecution of political opposition becomes a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is super dumb.

How are these morons so offended about the name of a body of water?

Their fragile ego is so completely shattered because Mexico "has a Gulf" and they "don't"? Little men with too much power.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

California should just change Gulf of California to Gulf of Mexico

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Another day another issue that completely doesn't matter at all to distract from the fact that our politicians are incapable of actually fixing any of our problems.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

incapable of actually fixing

Or making them worse. He just upped taxes on the lower classes and gave the rich tax breaks... again.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago

They should change it to Gulf of $30 Eggs.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 75 points 1 week ago

Jesus fucking christ

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Keep reporting it as a bug.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Cowards and sycophants. But this is a problem I, as a Chicagoan, am already familiar with. You see we have this building called the Willis Tower. But everyone here knows that Willis is correctly spelled "Sears."

So you see, the correct spelling of the America in the context of the Gulf is "Mexico."

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vote to change it to Gulf of Luigi

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can't imagine wanting to work for big tech these days lol. These companies had insane reputation in the 2010s. People thought working for Google was like working in willy wonka's chocolate factory. They really squandered their brand.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Don't be evil"

What about we be evil anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Open Street Maps needs more contributors!

Been playing the StreetComplete game, which is very much Pokemon Go but helping OSM data.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm old fashioned. It's still the Gulf of Mexico and Pluto is still a planet.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I disagree on the Pluto stance because it being classified as a dwarf planet makes sense for various reasons and isn’t about the ego of a racist megalomaniac.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the hell. No one’s going to call it the Gulf of America, except for the magas, the rapist and his useless offspring.

This is 4 years of drivel and it’ll always be knows as the Gulf of Mexico.

The man in charge is the biggest moron to ever be given power to lead.

Electing a rapist seems like a very American thing to do, who also married an immigrant, which is very odd since he’s doing his best to stop immigration.

Something something racist rapist hypocrite.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Why not get right down to it and call it exactly what they want it for?

Gulf of Oil...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I've been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

Edit: I've tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn't annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I'm not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven't found it yet.

I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why is it that when Prez Asshole farts from his mouth, so many race to inhale the stench and call it a rose?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

well google always displays the locally official names and borders. so just business as usual.

but why does the president of the usa get to decide what places are called? isn't there a cartography department or something?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I've been sitting on moving off Gmail. Not anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This idea originated as a Stephen Colbert joke in 2010. As always I'm sure some will call this some sort of self-aware troll by Trump, but what are the odds of that.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Why not change it back to “Freedom Fries” while you’re doing dumb shit? Gives us something to laugh about for the next 20 years at least.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They can name it how they want. They could name it piss puddle and the rest of the world wouldn't care, it'll still be Gulf of Mexico.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

I propose eveyone rename it to "Gulf of low egg prices"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any chance there's a place we could all start submitting bug reports about the incorrectly named body of water? Once the change goes into effect we should post that everywhere and see if we can swamp Google.

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