Capitalism is different from a regular market in that it is not just trying to make a profit in order to have enough money to exchange for useful goods and services.

Capitalism demands that your profit grows and grows and grows. It’s growth for it’s own sake. A capitalistic economy like our world economy needs to grow 3% or so every year or it gets into a recession. 3% doesn’t sound like much, but it’s exponential growth, doubling every 25 years or so. This growth doesn’t come out of thin air, but from extracting from value from other people, our world and so on.

And measuring an economy by GDP is incomplete, because it doesn’t take uncompensated labor, human happiness and wellbeing, and public goods (like a healthy nature) into account. When a factory owner pollutes and dries up the river while employees have no choice but to work 16 hour weeks, GDP goes up.

In nature, things grow until they are mature. That does not mean progress halts. Adults don’t grow anymore, but continue to learn.

My try to explain why money and markets are okay, but growth for it’s own sake (growthism you may call it) is destroying our societies, making us unhappy, and is also killing us with the climate and biodiversity crises.

Not enough people seed or distribute music. The only good way I know is downloading from YouTube, but YouTube is working hard on blocking this too.

That legal question is not yet clearly answered. I think absolutely yes, but the Megacorps and pro-ai people don’t seem to care.

Maybe it’s a layer 8 problem

I still host a significant part of my code on GitHub, despite moderately hating Microslop, because:

• Their CI is mature and super fast. My gorgeous instance has selfhosted CI, but some actions only work on GitHub (release-plz has bugs for forgejo), and their CI servers are fast as fuck.
• Visibility. People look for code on GitHub. Maybe maybe maybe they look on code on Codeberg, but without a doubt, nobody looks for code on my selfhosted forgejo instance. I am looking forward to forgefed integration sonce over a year, but it’s not there yet.

Also, GitHub has become an identity provider for many services, such as crates.io to release rust crates (packages).

Im German. English is not my first language.

I can’t pronounce this name even after trying a few times.

This is cool and I will try it out. Where did you get the data?

I once made a very simple “service” that provides me with Kanji and word of the day (and can be integrated elsewhere with a very simple “API”), https://plexsheep.github.io/sennen/index.html

I should revisit that some time, the detail view is a bit broken on mobile. And the Furigana is hacky and sometimes wrong.

I like putting the little pictures in my readmes sometimes. In my biologically generated repositories. Please don’t discriminate against neat little pictures you can just put in text 🐑.

Scientific Programming Language

Powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in 2D/3D plotting and visualization tools

Free software, runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Microsoft Windows

Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts

If this wasn’t 100% vibe coded, it would be pretty cool.

A c compiler written in rust, with a lot of basics supported, an automated test suite that compiles well known c projects. Sounds like a fun project or academic work.

Borg!

ITS JUST BECAUSE WE FEELY DTRONGLY ABOUT RUST AND ITS TRAIT SYSTEM

TRAITS ARE SO USEFUL AND STRUCTS ARE EASILY REPRESENTED IN MEMORY AND WORKED WITH, COMBINED THEY WILL TAKE OVER THE LINUX KERNEL AND THE WORLD

MIT: do whatever you want, I don’t care

GPL: You can modify this freely, but your product must also be FOSS if you modify this.

Others have said good things. Since you also mentioned programming drivers, I recommend you to try writing a Linux kernel module at some point. This is going deeper in software, rather than embedded or bare metal. Kernel space programming is different because you literally can’t use the functionalities of your OS, but you still have a lot of other things supporting you and get access to the inner workings of the OS. One idea would be for example, writing a module that lets you execute commands as root without having any privileges.

Another thing I want to mention is that Rust may help you learn low level code. Low level can also mean networking or command line software, and regardless, rust is in my opinion more ergonomic than C and C++, offers many advanced features, and will help you understand memory safety better.

It’s nice if you have two buffers side by side in vim

Im so confused

Very important point (VIP)

I like the German bird names much better than the goofy english ones. Blaumeise is just poetic.