oranges, bananas and other “Southern Fruit” were mostly a Christmas special
It was true for most of Europe afaik, unless you're speaking about like the 80s I suppose, but oranges being a christmas thing was true for my grandparents as well (not in Germany)
Farmers are often depicted as a profession done by poor people, the reality in the US is that the poor people got bought out decades ago, most farmers are actually gigantic land owners and often millionaires
Some other people said it's in the github but obfuscated as base64
In a bubble, I'd agree with you on Steam vs. Sony vs. GOG.
But you can't just analyze purely based on principles and logic, there are real life precedents for Sony removing content people purchased with no refund nor any form of customer outreach.
This has never happened on Steam, so in my view you can't equate Sony and Steam. I would say GOG is better than Steam if GOG didn't send nazi shit to people.
Except the US economy is already dead, and only AI is keeping it "alive". If AI companies die, the US economy enters a true recession, and rich people would lose a lot of money
I tried Linux multiple times (out of curiosity / contrarianism I guess) until Windows pissed me off enough, while the Steam Deck proved I could reliably run games with minimal tinkering (frankly not any worse than what I had to do on windows).
So I made the jump, and I have not looked back
My issue isn't with Rust as a language at all, I quite enjoy making my projects with it. My issue is with "Rust rewrites" of GPL software, only to have those rewrites be licensed under MIT/Apache. To me it signifies that these rewrites were never about the safety features of Rust, but that they are attempts at pushing out the GPL
Rust often ends up just being an excuse to rewrite software with corporate-friendly licenses without copyleft. That's not necessarily true though, Lemmy itself is Rust & licenced under AGPL
today’s system of survival Capitalism
it's not "today's system", this is not a different kind of capitalism we are living through; it's simply the logical continuation of capitalism.
Capitalism means profiting from owning. This systematically means, as the meme says, "line goes up". The line must go up, otherwise owning stops being profitable, and capitalism stops. We're just at a point where the avenues to keep growth going are becoming harder and costlier to reach, and each time those avenues are explored, they make the next ones costlier. So we're all getting squeezed, both as workers (mass layoffs, multiple jobs etc), and as consumers (enshittification, product quality deterioration, price increases).
This is unavoidable; European countries that are currently more livable than the US will inevitably face this as well, they just took the scenic route
I love rust, but I absolutely hate how it's used to jam MIT licenses where GPL belongs. Maybe it's time we consider using corpos tools against them, and use an AI to rewrite GNU utils to Rust, so that people can continue contributing to Rust while not feeding corps?
Edit: Though licensing AI software is iffy at best, you've got to own the copyright to something to licence it: Non-human productions are legally non-copyrightable. Also it might be better to just have humans do it anyway. The intent of my message was just that maybe we ought to deprive MIT-licensed projects from FOSS-motivated developers by providing Rust GPL alternatives to MIT/corporate Rust projects
China literally just put out an open weight model that verifiably beats the unverified Mythos claims in some scenarios; the reality is that they most likely want the US to "win" the AI race (which they cant, closed models will always be beat by open weight, which is what China is doing)
They're already on shaky finances, having an export ban would just pop the bubble sooner (and what remains of the US economy along with it)
If the code is GPL they'll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though