Those of us who helped make the metaverse possible have mostly stopped working on it. Neil's vision has been buildable for decades, but the hardware gatekeepers are more interested in building the IOI version of it from Ready Player One. Until that changes there are a few great games, but no new commons...

Doesn't it take 5-7 years to complete the red tape to connect any new power to an existing grid?

From the FAQ @ https://overturemaps.org/resou... Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.

They've been scanning everything on windows boxes and anything else on the local network they can access for "your security!" for years (in perfect accordance with the EULA you read, right?), they've probably just figured out how to increase advertising or government surveillance revenue by increasing the accessible file packages.

Tragedy of the commons, yet another example.

This is a fight RMS can't win, you can't buy enough GPUs on the salary of a waiter to compete with a Wall Street or Sand Hill Road funded data center. The best we can do is to continue to advance the tools and open training data sets so that academia and non-corporate models and training are usable. I look at Open Street Maps - Google and Garmin may have better maps due to their funding, but most of the interesting stuff is being built using OSM since its actually open.

This is only an announcement that some people may begin using a new feature as part of a suite of proprietary products. The product technology with its model, weights, etc, are NOT being "released to the public" in any of the previous meanings of those terms. But hey, marketing... (sigh)

The SEC seems to have time to go after insanely creative & risky financial bundling systems that are made accessible to the normal person. Those are supposed to only be available to what they call the "Accredited Investor". Us serfs need to stay in our lane.

they just asked ChatGPT to write it for them?

FWIW no connection to the company other than being a relatively happy customer after me and my team were unable to find anything remotely close in the foss world. Its UX is awkward, very steep learning curve, you pretty much have to already understand responsive web design to use it, but once there its a nice WYSIWYG editor & UX demo/refinement tool that emits usable code.

Is there a foss equivalent that generates reasonable bootstrap or react scaffolding? I haven't found one, almost everyone I talked to in the UX space recommended Figma, its what I ended licensing for myself and my team. Love to know if I missed something...

... a great (paid) tool to build trivial and non-trivial web user interfaces, including prototyping interactions with static data. It can (sometimes with additional third party tools) auto generate much of the front end files, ready to wire up to your back end. Think of it as an IDE for modern web targeting HTML/CSS for Bootstrap, React, etc.

If you think inflation is rising because the economy is strong for anyone but the 1% crowd than you need better sources of news and information.

Like most of their products, everything is being re imagined as a marketing opportunity, you are the actual product, and like their OS they reserve the right to ignore and change any setting you have made at their whim. And there is nothing you can really do about it other than to install one of the knows fixes from the Linux world. Mint is an easy transition for Windows users... And GitLab is not only a nice alternative to GitHub, its CI/CD pipelines are far more advanced, and unlike GitHub you can self-host the Community Edition and all the runners you need without a license. I manage both for many users, and greatly prefer GitLab.