If you need a quick&dirty piece of code, you can generate it by firing some prompts into an LLM. You can get a decent result if you know what you are doing. It may not be production-ready, but often it’s a good starting point. This is NOT vibe coding.

Vibe coding is what people who don’t know what they are doing do when they try the process above, and think it’s production-ready.

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Using legit regular banks would be your best bet to avoid scams or being accused of fiscal crimes.

It depends on where the billionaire’s and your bank account are located (some restrictions may apply), but a normal bank transfer works perfectly for any amount. Of course for large amounts it’s better to contact the banks first because it may reject a large deposit if it comes out of the blue.

For donations there will be taxes and some bureaucracy, the anti money laundering will be triggered, but it’s nothing impossible to handle.

Building a filesystem essentially means linking a directory of filenames to physical blocks and handling CRUD operations. It’s not that hard. The hard part comes when you go beyond the basics to build something efficient with useful features. For example, fast access, journaling and fragmentation are all challenging topics. You can try without messing with the kernel by creating an in-memory filesystem (essentially a block of RAM) and playing with the I/O.

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There is the left and there is uncritically praising China and Russia as the best countries in the world (while probably not living there) ignoring a whole series of facts.

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Go ahead and use the tool that works for you. But don’t forget to test your tools on things you know every once in a while.

Ok boomer.

It’s the equivalent of a “beware of the dog” sign: sometimes it’s just a puppy, but sometimes it’s rabid.

Debating online is as important as doing the rest of the things you say are “real” worthwhile pursuits.

I love debating because, with time, I became aware of angles I had missed. However, I stop when the other side embraces extremist, black&white, and childish positions. “Fuck the system” works when you are a teenager or listening to punk rock, but otherwise it is just ridiculous.

For instance: How can we pursue a cure for cancer if the political climate ensures scientists are scorned and distrusted?

You can’t. However, you also can’t if you are not 100% in the system and aligned. Anything requiring funding or permits most likely becomes harder the less aligned you are since you’d clash with politics, you’d never meet people with money, you’d become a liability, and so on.

I’m all in to go to protests, to vote with my wallet, and to preach my values. I’m also conscious of the negligible impact that I will have since large organized movements can barely move the needle, and that there are so many other ways to change the world.

Yeah, but Matrix has bridges for almost anything.

But then you are simply using Whatsapp with extra steps.

Did you read it till the end?

we should be doing something

Ok, let’s dive into it. What does “doing something” exactly mean? I’ve been into this since before I could vote, so I saw quite through it.

“Doing something” means a lot of different things for different people. Signing a petition, going to a march, writing on a wall, you name it. For some people “doing something” means sitting all day discussing about socialism and revolution in a living room. For others it is more biking together with Critical Mass against oil on weekends. There are those seeking small daily actions like recycling, and then there are the activist jumping on a boat with Greenpeace to save the whales, and the terrorists doing anything from damaging something to placing a bomb.

What does it mean for you “doing something”? Once you determine that, determine how much of that something would be adopted by the general population and what level of change could that reasonably achieve. I’ll anticipate the result of you exercise: the bigger is your something and the smaller will be the adoption, but the product in terms of impact will be always “very small”.

Take Occupy Wall Street to make an example. I loved the whole thing, I love the work of David Graeber, and it was a massive success, but what did they achieve in practice? The expression 99% entered in the general culture and there may be a bit more awareness of the problem of billionaires, but looking at cold metrics it was like a big storm, then the sun came back and a few days later the last puddle evaporated.

you argue that you are not going to do anything just out of spite all because OP personally may not be doing anything but their words are a bit preachy

Who said I’m not doing anything? OP said “You still work. You still buy. You still support the system.” to which I replied that I’m no more a naive 16 years old who shouts fuck the system and dreams to live off-the-grid avoiding the rat-race… and then goes back home to have dinner with mum.

If you are an adult and you want to go for it, be my guest! You may become Greta-Thunberg-famous, and people will follow you on social media. You will convince some people that, I don’t know, we should buy durable and reparable things to save the planet and fight consumerism. You will have an impact, albeit very small, and that will be a massive achievement if you dedicate your whole life to that.

Just, please, stop with idiotic replies accusing people to be enslaved in the system because it’s an insult to anyone who is currently looking for a solution for cancer, saving lives as a firefighter, building houses where people will live, growing crops, and even keeping up internet so people can praise the revolution against the machine from their bedrooms.

You’re asking the wrong guy. I don’t think it makes sense either even if I’m a (moderate) self-hosting guy.