The final products will likely be built by or integrated into downstream companies' services.
The Overture Maps Foundation's main aim seems to be to release comprehensive geodata with a consistent structure (schema).
"""Overture is dedicated to the development of reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data that will power current and next-generation map products."""
The data and accompanying schema are primarily oriented toward the developer community and can be found on the Overture Maps Foundation website's downloads and documentation sections.
This sounds like such a cop out. I've lived in low socioeconomic areas my whole life, went to school in them, played sports in them, been in communities in them. How many of these people have I met? 5? 10?
The majority of people can, and should try and embrace good habits. Some structure, sleep, sunshine, exercise, community, etc.
To some extent, yeah, we have 'free will'. I can chose my diet. I can chose to exercise. I can't chose my immune system or whether or not my temperament is predisposed to depression or asociality. Even if you try to fight against it, sometimes you're simply going to be swimming upstream your entire life. That's admirable, but tiring.
At some point, you need to stop blaming (or giving power to) others for your situation, and take control for your own wellbeing. Who you marry is well within your control, and not the 0.1%. Take some responsibility, it's a good first step to improving your, and your community's situation.
>Everything stems from this.
No, not it doesn't. If you think that wealth distribution is the cause of all of today's problems, you need to do more exploration.
This is the 2nd time this word has been used to describe the Linux desktop in this thread, and it's disingenuous. FOSS doesn't do any of the things described with enshitification article: it doesn't sit between buyers and sellers and screw each of them in turn. That's not what's been happening. Maybe the software goes shit, but it is not "enshitification". At every turn there's been alternatives (GNOME3 -> Unity/Xfce, KDE4 -> Trinity, Pulseaudio -> Pulsewire, systemd -> upstart, Debian -> Devuian, etc)
Stop misusing the word, you're discrediting the good work of FOSS.
I am not misusing the word. I don't know what their incentives are, but they are just progressively making things worse and more locked down in the name of "progress".
Bland, corporate, utterly inoffensive and lifeless "design"? Check.
Trying to remove theming from users? Check.
etc....
The only reason why they haven't succeeded like other OSes is because it's FOSS. But they really want to take away the user's choice, shift the Overton window, and pretend like things were always bad.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
>shift the Overton window
You're all over the place. This has nothing to do with enshitification.
It is enshittification because they are making the software worse in opposition to the users. They don't care that the users hate the changes, they still do it anyway, deliberately.
Have you considered that many users do like the changes, and you just aren't one of them?
I first used desktop Linux in 1996 and liked it well enough. I remember using GNOME 2 and Xfce around 2010ish and liking both of them well enough, too. And they're still around if I want to use them.
But honestly? I don't use them because I like modern GNOME better. I use it every day, everything just works, and I like it more than the alternatives.
> But honestly? I don't use them because I like modern GNOME better. I use it every day, everything just works, and I like it more than the alternatives
Same here, but with KDE - and I'm a former XFCE user, and before that I was a Gnome user...
Yes, I have, but fundamentally, using old stuff is usually quite hard. If I could revert to it, it would be great, but those are usually not too compatible with today's technology.
I use those despite their horrible UI, not because of their horrible UI.
I respect that, and I hope my question didn't seem like criticism.
I suppose we're fortunate that options like Xfce and MATE are around, but I can relate re: compatibility. Truthfully I'd be just as happy with MATE as with GNOME 3.x, but last time I tried I ran into issues with high DPI and mixed DPI and didn't want to invest time trying to get it all working to my satisfaction.
Thank you very much, and you are amazing! Personally, I am just happy KDE exists and they actually listen to users. There is not much out there in terms of desktop environments like this, sadly:)
I disagree, use the word more to complain about GNOME and what they did to their UI. Even my 512GHz Windows XP Laptop runs more smoothly, and that without SSD.
Absolutely wrong, stop trying to rewrite history. Look at what happened in Melbourne, Australia. 1 hour of state mandated "outside" time per day, restrictions on gatherings, 5KM restrictions, 9PM curfews, park and gym closures, restrictions on shopping, public transport shutdown to stop protests, get the jab or lose your job. All that to "help" us, and we're living with the consequences to this day. Groceries 50%+ in the last 3 years. House prices are off the charts. Inflation that the government will blame on Russia, COVID supply shocks, aliens, but never their actions. The policies you backed well and truly fucked us. Own up to it.
Australia had 22,000 deaths for these minor inconvenience imposed on them. Australians got to go shopping? There were rumors about people in China starving in their quarantined homes.
>Groceries 50%+ in the last 3 years. House prices are off the charts. Inflation that the government will blame on Russia, COVID supply shocks, aliens, but never their actions.
The cost of goods and housing and inflation have all gone up outside of Australia too. My US state did little Covid prevention besides allowing us to order alcoholic drinks to go; why are groceries and housing up in my little US city, not to mention the US Dollar inflation? Is it Australia's fault?
>you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.
This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's taboo, but gatekeeping communities is absolutely required to stop mass adoption and the downward spiral. Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.
Went through a long list of them. I was confused on which to pick, and if that decision mattered, and what would be the security implications of it.
I finally picked one reluctantly. The server was down.
Not a great feature. Feels more like a bug.
> Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit).
Nonsense. Mass adoption means it's the place to go to consume and produce content.
If the feature of Lemmy you single out as being better is that no one uses it then I'm not sure what would be the point of joining, or why are you promoting the service so that others join.
> Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.
No it wasn't. At best, it was different.
And people like me are leaving 2023 Reddit, not 2010 Reddit. What we want is an alternative to today's service, not nostalgia.
This is already a failure. There is no need to join unless you find a topic you want participate in. And you event don't have to, you can even use a mastodon (pleroma, friendica, e.t.c.) account if you already have it if you just want to leave a comment in a thread.
>No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C.
Sure thing buddy. One of the ways the "little guy" can push back against big banks and big government needs to have its plug pulled because of some imaginary 2 degrees panic. What the hell happened to "Hacker" in "Hacker News", this place is a cesspool of the mainstream rhetoric. Note: I have $0 invested in crypto, but I don't deny its usefulness in "keeping the bastards honest".
>"government spending" does not cause companies who are making record profits to increase their prices. That's just greed.
It absolutely does. If people have "extra" money (e.g. COVID payments), they can bid higher on limited resources (i.e. inflation). If there's more employed (i.e. government jobs), that's again, more people with more money, for limited resources (i.e. inflation).
While I'm sure companies are taking advantage of the fact, they must also realise that there's more demand for their limited resources, which causes them to raise prices.
These companies are making "record profits", but you also need to consider that the purchasing power of your dollar is being debased, and these companies are (at least partially) trying to keep up with inflation.
So, between three years and two years ago I got a pre tax total of $2200 (some states had them as taxable income).
How is that amount still causing inflation?
You say "While I'm sure companies are taking advantage of the fact" - that's a present continuous tense... I used the past tense for when I last got a stimulus check.
So why present continuous? Why not say "while I'm sure companies took advantage of the fact?"
> Another round of price increases on household products like Gillette razors, Dawn dish soap and Swiffer dusters bolstered Procter & Gamble’s bottom line last quarter, the company said on Friday, a sign that stubborn inflation may linger as companies defend their profit margins.
> Procter & Gamble, a consumer goods bellwether, said its profit grew in the first three months of the year after it raised prices 10 percent across its brands. That rise was the company’s second consecutive quarter of double-digit increases. Its profit margin expanded in the quarter, with price increases more than offsetting the rise in what it paid for raw materials.
> Revenue rose 4 percent last quarter from a year earlier, even as sales volumes — the number of rolls of Charmin toilet paper and boxes of Tide detergent — fell 3 percent as consumers traded down to less expensive alternatives or bought less. In other words, Procter & Gamble made more money even though it sold fewer products. Sales volumes at the company have declined in the past four quarters.
So, can you explain why my $2000 two years ago is still contributing to the increase of dish soap today, and why the prices are going up, and why the company is making even more?
I can't tell if this is a disingenuous question. Your $2200 is a very, very small amount of the total pie. Have a look at how the money supply changed during the pandemic. At the very start of the pandemic, when money was being printed there were experts saying "we will see inflation in the next 2 years", that's what we're seeing now.
I'm taking issue with "If people have "extra" money (e.g. COVID payments)" and that you're saying that this is now a very small amount of the total pie.
I additionally take issue with "If there's more employed (i.e. government jobs)" - and here's the total government jobs numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USGOVT and those numbers are lower than the value in January 2019.
And yes, we were going to have inflation. I believe it is fair to criticize the fed for not raising rates sooner.
> With the Fed’s main tool for stimulating the economy—interest rates—virtually useless right now, the problem becomes one of how to help the economy recover without it. But there is a solution. Under current conditions, fiscal policy— government deficit spending—is likely to be a very powerful tool for stimulating the economy. After all, with interest rates likely to stay at record lows, more federal borrowing is not going to affect investment spending by raising the cost of capital. That means that government spending financed by borrowing is likely to be particularly effective, since it won’t be offset by lower investment spending.
> The bottom line: To help cushion the crisis’s impact, the Fed has done its job and done it well. Now it’s up to the rest of the government to act to support the US economy.
And that's been weathered. So, the next question: why is inflation not responding well to the monetary policy?
In part, that appears to be that companies are locking in the higher prices (and increasing them) at a higher rate than inflation is growing while at the same time recording record profits on even lower sales.
Also https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/long-covid-has-underapprecia... "About 18% of people with long Covid hadn’t returned to work for more than a year, according to a report by the New York State Insurance Fund, state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer."
So lets not blame government jobs for the tight labor market but rather a substantial decrease in the number of immigrants for the prior half decade and an estimated 4M US citizens that have left the labor market as part of long covid.
The problem is that people don't have "extra" money, they have record amounts of debit and rising homelessness. The depressingly small amount of money people got in aid from the government kept their lights on, kept food on the table, and helped them transition to working/schooling at home at a time when they couldn't go to work and had no income at all.
What little "extra" money made it into the hands of regular Americans isn't and never was the problem and while most people here are well insulated from the hardships, Americans are seeing their quality of life decline and are having to struggle in ways they never had to before. The American people are not sitting on huge piles of free government money while bitching about the price of eggs. The middle class is struggling (and sliding into poverty) and poorer Americans are even worse off.
You're right in that (some) people don't have "extra" money. Most people can't print themselves money.
However, some people do have "extra" money, particularly people who have access to the money printer, or who are bailed out by the people with the money printer. Guess who buys most of the government debt, allowing the government to overspend? The Fed.
Government spending isn't in a vacuum either. Every dollar the government spends goes into someone else's pocket, who they go on to further spend it. And the government doesn't spend it's money equally, meaning not everyone gets that "free money" equally, which means, some people are getting the short end of the stick, as others are getting richer because of it.
If you want to know how the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer, this is how.
I can't argue that government spending isn't a problem. It really is. In particular it's where the money is going, how it's being accounted for, and how much benefit the average American sees from that which is way out of whack.
The pandemic had the government printing a ton of money and handing it out to some very rich people, but does giving more money to a person who already had enough money to afford whatever they want really drive up the prices on a gallon of milk?
It does. Think for example, if you had worked hard 30 years to acquire a $250,000 house, and the government just gave everyone $500k overnight. Would you think it's fair they could pay $250k for your house for not having worked for 30 years, while you had to? Probably not. Instead you'd likely raise the selling price of your house to protect the value of your hard work. Same goes for companies that produce milk.
Obviously an oversimplified example, as again not everyone is benefitting the same amongst other reasons, but that's basically the principle behind it.
People don't save money, they save value. I don't know anyone who would recommend saving up $250K to make a down payment entirely as cash, because of course you're losing money to inflation. Given the huge run-up in equities over the last 30 years chances are you'd only have had to save up a small fraction of that had you invested it. And the more fiscal stimulus that went out, the more stocks went up.
I never mentioned about saving up $250k to buy a house entirely in cash. I said working 30 years to acquire a $250k house. It's about protecting value of your hard work - your equity. And regardless, it was hyperbole to show why prices rise when money is freely given out.
