Please go to Apple Maps and harass them mecilessly

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    2 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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    5 hours ago

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

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      2 hours ago

      is there an easy way to export all my map markers from google to organic? I’ve saved a lot of locations over the years.

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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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      6 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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      5 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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        5 hours ago

        Actual book burning is the scientific data and articles being purged and saved (for now) by the Internet archive

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    5 hours ago

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

    I’m dumb

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
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    6 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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      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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    7 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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      2 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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    8 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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      7 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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    9 hours ago

    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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      1 hour ago

      Just wait, they said they would enable it globally soon enough.

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        35 minutes ago

        From a UK or German IP address, Google maps has it as Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).

        We’re being dragged into this mess so will look to report it

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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        Irrelevant: Scared me for a sec, thought I had an IP leak as I VPN to Switzerland but remembered I explicitly allowed Maps to be routed through a US VPN.