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First off, I am sorry if I came onto you but the questions you were asking while fair and square was incredible naive and a bit wishy washy so I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you were a firm supporter of the traditional extremist left wing camp.

Everything about the wikimedia scandal can be viewed either by their own documents or most of the important parts is in the twitter thread posted by me and others in comments.

Most of the costs regarding the websites is probably due to the high salary costs of having developers maintain stuff. This is fine IMO but when you run a not for profit org maybe you should respect peoples money and open an office somewhere else than one of the most expensive cities in the world or simply hire remote developers and other employees.

In their donations campaigns, they make it sound like most of the donations go to fund the site while it's almost less than 2%. If they were to employ cheaper developers not working in the city centre of SF and stuck with the pure operational costs (Wikipedia is driven by people working for free for the most part anyway) it would be significally less than it is today.

Even if they change nothing how the site is developed and the actual engineering costs, the funding pages are still dishonest since most of the funding does not go to Wikipedia itself.

> What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

They give money, a lot of it, more than double than the operational costs to highly controversial funds that are politically driven and does not lean on anything else. Thus, they fund specific (extreme left wing) political agendas and therefore are pushing politics.

> Why is the cost of web hosting so important? Do any comparable organisations spend a more appropriate proportion of their revenue on web hosting?

Because they make it sound like this is the main reason that they need additional funding when they ask for it on their webpage. It is what they claim (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fex9854WIAIHSun?format=jpg&name=...) they need in order to operate the site. If they strictly just used the funding to operate the site they could do so for many years to come.

> What is ruined?

The sense of having an actual free community that governs factual information for free for everyone. A site where everyone can rejoice over and take pride in the common knowledge of humanity and the accessability that it provides for people in countries that can't easily get this information otherwise.

This is slowly being ruined by people, like I assume yourself, that are so blinded by the current political agendas that they cannot see the damage they're inflicting on the community. I understand that people always have had different political agendas but you used to be able to talk to people on the other side of the spectrum and accept basic physical facts about the world.

Now it seems like we've thrown everything out of the window. People can't even get along over well established scientific facts and this is true for extremists on all sides.

It is hard to trust a source of information if you know the people that controls the information are political extremists. I would want to live in a world where I can trust that the articles on Wikipedia is as objective as can be.

That is the twitter thread that started the uproar, all the info you'll need is in there.

According to their own site, https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goe... about 43% goes to the websites. This is less than half. I imagine that most of these salaries are ridicolously high where they could employ cheaper devs and get an actual good representation they chose a SF office with SF employees and give them huge salaries. And since I have learned about this fund and other controversial topics about their employee count etc I question this figure as well. I am not convinced that they have devs for about $50 million per year.

It's fine if you operate a for-profit company but when it's a not for profit organisation the ridicolous spending seems a bit disrespectful to the people that help shape wikipedia to what it is today.

2021 website hosting cost $2.4 million - which is less than it did in 2012. Most of the money they recieve by donations goes to something else. As you may see, the site hosting costs are less than what the spend on that controversial fund.

2021 the hosting costs were $2.4 million and they spend well over $100 million each year.

If they were to use their funds to actually drive the site they have enough to fund it for years to come. Most of their funding goes to stuff that has nothing to do with Wikipedia. This is yet another example of an org that has been taken over by political extremists that don't care about the core product and ruins everything.

I am a bit upset about it because I used to donate monthly until I learned about how they actually used the donations. I think this is a very important topic and urge that everyone that donates to Wikimedia stop immedietly.

She called Dell and they sent a new one so she could transfer her work over to the new machine and picked up the other one a few days after. All and all it was a good customer experience.

In my view, it seems like it has good build quality (in general, stuff can happen) and good customer support. Although she will never run linux on it. This website reads like a frustrated developer who decided to take matters into his own hands. I am very doubtful that this is the common experience, at least if you order directly from them. Sure it may have driver issues but at least they have an option to ship it with linux and without paying the windows tax, most companies don't even do that.

I personally use a Thinkpad t460p from 2013 that runs Ubuntu and still works great honestly, even the battery life. I will soon upgrade to a desktop instead of a laptop so that I can run more heavy duty stuff like training models.

I guess that it is a backend library for doing websocket communication for node and perhaps also bun?

Of course, I have checked Ktor before, but I don't know if I particularly fancy the way they are structuring stuff.

My main issue with the java ecosystem is that it's way to enterprisy for my taste. Everything is so unnecessary complex and hard to reason about, but I will take a good hard look at Kotlin before making my decision. The thing is that I am really interested in the native compilation that Kotlin offers that would be very beneficial for me and the only reason behind picking Python otherwise would be that it is a nice language and already installed on the linux environments it will run in.

Basically I will have a big api and drop (preferrably) a single binary to some machines that will talk to the api. These machines will generally be outside of my control. I have looked a bit on Rust but it seems a bit too low level and hard to work with. I have looked at Deno because it can compile down to a binary but using javascript for this project seems like a bad choice. So I chose Python at first because it seemed easy to get going with, had great tooling and is already installed in the environments I will be dropping a script in.

Sometimes, the tooling is even more important than language features IMO. It makes developers move quicker, find bugs easier and so on. I like the idea of Kotlin, that it can compile to jvm bytecode, javascript and native.

So in essence, I can use the same language everywhere in the true meaning of the word.

I have rather seen the opposite. Each time I have switched companies I've always gotten big pay rise. If I wouldn't I would still be earning like half of what I make today.

The issue is that companies rewards moving every 2 years and as long as that is the case, that is probably what I will do.

- the office is almost always in the middle of a larger city, no nature nearby

- the office is almost always an open office space that is depressing as hell

- the office is hard or expensive to go to due to it's central location

- I am not allowed to bring my dog to the office

- the screens at the office has low resolutions and my desk is most likely located in a depressing part of the office and not by a window with a view

- the commute sucks and I have to go up 1,5 hours earlier because that I need to look nice and fresh and I get no reward other than perhaps some colleagues to speak to during my 30 minute lunch break

That's why I chose remote every day and hate going to the modern office.

The only way of being really sure of what is going on is to own it yourself. Unfortunately that has become more and more important.

The issue is that the app itself will not really be needing maximum performance and I much more concerned about the safety aspects Rust brings. But I guess the safety aspects would be the same with me using Python for example.

Why I want to learn Rust is because it could help me in the front end aspect and I think it's a language that has a bright future.

Am I crazy to spend the time to get effecient in Rust and write my app I want to write in Rust instead of Python? Is there any other benefits of using Rust that I don't see as a beginner? I am afraid that I'll just waste a bunch of time just because I want to learn Rust and think it's cool but ultimately it will slow me down to such an extent that my app never sees the light of day or that it increases general development time.

Thanks in advance for all potential responses

There are big pushes behind wasm and Rust is leading the way here in a big way. I think you underestimate people and their will not to run javascript. Rust and WASM in particular will make it so that you can bring whatever language you want to the front end.

I believe that while it's very impractical now, wasm will slowly take over and in the future basically no one will use javascript except for basic things and most sites will use wasm for front end logic.

Why? Because it just makes sense for many reasons. You can use whatever language you want both on the server side and in the browser, you can achieve near native speeds and we're already sending big minified javascript blobs anyway so we may as well just send a binary instead. yes it's very hard to make a SPA with Rust today but it is possible and the tooling will become better over time and especially with other languages joining in.

To me it's clear that using javascript on the front end will become slowly irrelevant as more and more devs ship a binary blob. Right now, we need javascript as a glue but I think that will change as well with time.

I haven't had the same issues with android brands like Samsung even if of course the battery gets worse over time, it is nothing like iPhone.