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[โ€“] TheTonDog@feddit.uk 27 points 2 months ago

Great initiative, terrible AI-written article with clickbait Elon ads.

[โ€“] gnash@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] TimeNaan@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd say 90s - no USSR but Yugoslavia is still on the map

[โ€“] Caves_of_steel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The USSR is on the map - that big greenish thing in the east ...

[โ€“] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't say USSR, it's divided into Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.

[โ€“] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's divided into the Soviet Republics I believe.

There's also Eastern Germany so the map cannot be from any later than 1990.

[โ€“] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that's exactly when this map was made. Before the official reuninification but when the USSR was already falling apart, with these countries quickly becoming separate.

It's not a very good map no matter the exact time period

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the countries were always separate within the union, it was a federation. they had their own flags and languages.

[โ€“] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Not really, they had separate flags but in reality they were completely subordinate to the central government. Local languages such as Ukrainian and Lithuanian were repressed.

Also they were named "Lituanian SSR" or "Ukrainian SSR" unlike on the map.

[โ€“] DeLancre@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

Why is there still yogoslavia and the GDR on the map

[โ€“] ckmnstr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I'd also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft... I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it's getting annoying.

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn't afford it to be seen as successful.

https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/

Now it's not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.

[โ€“] ckmnstr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I totally agree and I'm not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago

Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.