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[โ€“] 26 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's divided into the Soviet Republics I believe.

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago

    Why is there still yogoslavia and the GDR on the map

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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