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Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

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Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#81

I don’t know if this is true. But to everyone dismissing the idea that a military would ever use Google Maps to co-ordinate, you may have missed some news stories about what a shitshow the first few days of the Russian invasion has been. Major breakdown of their digital systems and lots of improvisation.

C.f. the US military removing the degradation of the civilian GPS during the first gulf war due to a lack of military receivers.

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#82
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> “Out of an abundance of caution, we are removing user contributions like photos, videos, reviews and business information and all user-submitted places from Google Maps in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus since the invasion began, and are temporarily blocking new edits from being made,” a Google spokesperson said. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/russia-goo...

How nice of them to take this opportunity to remove all the anti-war propaganda added to Google maps in Russia.

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#83
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Actually, I have been trying to find some good in-depth sources. If you can share, I'd be much obliged.

Here why they are using civilian walkie talkies: https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619303717142529?t=...

If those comms are cleartext, that also means its possible to start sending disinformation.

Start talking about hold-ups at cross-roads that are clear. Tell them about shortcuts that actually lead through marshes. Tell them "the attack we discussed earlier will actually happen 43 minutes earlier". Tell them, "hey we have run out of food here". Tell them, I heard that 10 miles back they are serving hot food, damn I wish I was there.

Just fuck with their comms, making them either make wrong decisions, demoralize them, or make them abandon these comms for something even worse.

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#84
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beside the large painted marks on the roofs/etc., on Ukranian TV 10 minutes ago they shown some marks which are kind of plastic stick-on 1 inch square with the same cross-in-circle image. The stick-on are reflective and have numbers. Some people think it is a mark of the houses with police, military residents, etc...

Do you mean survey markers/targets? Theyre used in civil construction etc to track changes relative to an established datum https://www.berntsen.com/Surveying/Smart-Targets-Datums-Refl...

looks like it. There had some time ago been warning that some civil markers may be mistaken for suspicious one, and looks like that is what happening in this case. Sent them email about these ones.

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#85
I was trying to check if this is happening also on OpenStreetMap, I searched for "фермерське господарство" which returned results in Ukraine, but I wasn't able to restrict them to a single city so I don't know if those are actual farms or not. Somebody who knows OpenStreetMap better could check this?

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#86
post #83

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Here why they are using civilian walkie talkies: https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619303717142529?t=...

If those comms are cleartext, that also means its possible to start sending disinformation. Start talking about hold-ups at cross-roads that are clear. Tell them about shortcuts that actually lead through marshes. Tell them "the attack we discussed earlier will actually happen 43 minutes earlier". Tell them, "hey we have run out of food here". Tell them, I heard that 10 miles back they are serving hot food, damn I wi…

Well, the word was already out before I posted this ofc.

But I would have hoped that this was kept a secret and that I didn't knew about this.

Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?

#88
post #70

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If it's an update to the Docker images, that normally takes a couple minutes, if it's a rolling deploy. It is possible to turn off the rolling deploy, but there will be downtime.

Google uses neither k8s nor Docker internally. From my knowledge, a change like this can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to a few hours to roll globally, depending on how much support was already in place.

>>If it's an update to the Docker images

>Google uses neither k8s nor Docker internally.

It's so weird when people just go on the internet and lie about how things work with such utter confidence. No 'I believe', no 'if things are still done that way' just pure lies typed as fact.

Should be an account ban, really.

(Them, not you.)

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