15 minute video, I’ve watched about half, will finish it later, it’s interesting. Basically the money was transferred from free software to the now trendier area of AI.

A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I’ll defer to others.

Look up “British Commonwealth” on Wikipedia. They rebranded from “Empire” post WW2 or so. It’s a voluntary association now, and some countries have in fact withdrawn. No revolution needed any more. Just some paperwork, more or less.

If you have to ask this question you should probably be using a garbage collected language. Manual memory management is quite tedious and it’s easy to make mistakes. Rust’s novel contribution is reliably catching the mistakes at compile time so once you have fixed all the compile time error messages you have a safe program. But it doesn’t ease the tedium that much.

GC does it automatically and is way more convenient, but inflicts a cost in runtime performance. That’s almost always fine on today’s computers, thus Python’s popularity. Rust is best for systems work where you need more precise control of machine resources. It is probably used more than necessary right now, because it’s new and exciting and programmers like that.

The safest language is probably Ada but it is less flexible than Rust. They are working on extending it to be comparable. Right now Ada isn’t well suited for programs that do lots of runtime allocation.

I don’t think anyone shifted right. They just didn’t want whatever it was that Harris was selling.

I might get an inkplate 10 (same size as Boox) but really want something bigger, like 14 inch or more, to read arxiv.org PDFs.

I’ve bought a few of these bundles but could never get into reading the science or tech books on my small laptop. And they are useless on a phone. They might be best on a big desktop monitor, especially in portrait orientation. I have an easier time with narrative ebooks. History, fiction, etc.

Some of the books in the bundle do look good.