Just open an issue on the github suggesting the feature. You can also make a ko-fi donation as someone suggested. Doing something like that as straight-up paid work is legit, but it would cost a heck of a lot more than $20, as everyone has already said.

I think it is best to have some understanding of how an OS works, and how Python works, before asking whether you can write an OS in Python.

Python is basically a scripting wrapper around a bunch of C functions (“builtins”) and there are means of installing additional C functions if you need them. Without any of the builtins, you really can’t do much of anything. For example, “print(2+2)” computes the string “4” (by adding 2+2 and converting the result to decimal), then calls a builtin to actually print the string on the console.

For an OS, you will need quite a few more C functions, mostly to control timers and task switching, the main functions of an OS. Given enough C functions though, in principle you can write an OS.

It’s not on trillions of devices, just billions. But e.g. a typical android phone has 1000s of sqlite db’s for different purposes.

It’s difficult to know that for sure, which is why (e.g.) the US government wants to make sure that there is domestic chip manufacture with a completely controlled supply chain to make hardware for classified communications. It can help to consider the difference between targeted surveillance (spending millions to tap the President’s phone, to get big juicy national secrets) and dragnet surveillance (tapping everybody’s phone so that you can have dirt on Joe Schmoe if he does something interesting later, even if he is of no particular interest right now). Hardware backdoors would be used mostly for targeted surveillance.

Stuff like VPN’s and encrypted apps can be of considerable help against dragnet surveillance, which is what the civil privacy community mostly cares about. If you think you might be a subject of targeted surveillance, you have to be much more paranoid. Not just hardware backdoors in your computer, but suspicious white vans on your street, microphones in your flower pots, FBI agents under your bed, the whole bit.

There are some countermeasures you can take against hardware backdoors (electromagnetically isolate a computer from the network and transfer data from it by floppy disc or similar) but basically you’re in a different world if you’re dealing with this.

You mght like the book “Security Engineering” by Ross Anderson (older editions free online and still very good: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/book.html and scroll down). It goes into this stuff, has lots of good overviews even if you gloss over the technical parts, and will generally help you see clearly in the topic.

Check this out, it is amazing: https://github.com/nineties/planckforth

You start with a working Forth and then bootstrap, sort of like writing a C compiler in C. There is an additional trick that Forth calls metacompilation (note, that term has a different meaning outside of the Forth world). See: https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving4.htm

I don’t bother with a proxy host or with LetsEncrypt, though I guess you could use LetsEncrypt perfectly well. Back when I was doing this, LetsEncrypt didn’t exist and you had to actually pay for public certificates, so using locally generated free ones saved money. It also had a minor(?) security advantage in that if the private server key somehow leaked, it wouldn’t let people impersonate our internet domain.

For the private CA I simply used the crappy CA.pl script that comes with OpenSSL or did at the time. There are much better ways to do it, especially at any kind of scale, but CA.pl sufficed dealing with a few development machines.

Proxy host out on the public internet? Usually I just use a local private CA for this, and install the CA root in my browser.

Traditionally Forth is implemented completely in Forth. Jonesforth is kind of non-traditional in that sense, because it is in assembler.

Doing that in Java sort of misses the point? I guess the enjoyment still counts if course.

Nextcloud might handle what you want. There are a zillion places that offer hosting for it, or you can self-host it. MediaWiki is another possible choice, that despite the name is more document oriented and less media oriented than NextCloud is. Again, you can self-host, or there are commercial hosts for it. Lots of VPS providers also offer one-click installers for it. I haven’t run a MediaWiki instance myself, but am familiar with it as a user through editing Wikipedia. I’ve run Gitit, which has a similar UI, but is backed by a Git repo.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_one_better ?

Isak Andic, the 71-year-old fast-fashion mogul from Turkey and Spain, was traversing across the cavernous area of Coves del Salnitre in Montserrat when he “slipped and fell from a 500-foot cliff.” His son, who was with him, called emergency services at about 1 pm on Saturday, but Andic died at the scene.

E5 because it supportsECC memory.

Someone suggested AWS S3 but that is ridiculously expensive. How much viewership do you expect? Self hosting is not that expensive unless you have big volume. Or you could just seed some torrents. I would stay away from “platforms” since afaict they all have the same disease as youtube, just in its less advanced stages.

Thanks, that’s good info, though I was never really interested in the movies to begin with. I saw the first one mostly through getting dragged along by some friends. I don’t have that big a problem with deviating from the finer details of the book’s plot lines. It’s mostly that the movies couldn’t (or anyway didn’t) capture the books’ sense of grandness.

I liked this a lot, a fanfiction where Harry Potter finds himself transported to Middle Earth. There are actually quite a lot of those but this one is particularly good. Warning, it’s unfinished, though it doesn’t stop on a cliffhanger or anything like that. It captures Tolkien’s writing style and sweep pretty well.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23628394/chapters/56706448

This one is also complete and is one of my favorites, but in a totally different style from Tolkien. It says LOTR is revisionist history / elf propaganda, and that Sauron and Mordor were actually the good side of the war. The main character is an orc:

https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition

I didn’t see the movie but semi remember that scene from the book. Pippin saw Sauron, and seeing Minas Tirith would have revealed Sauron’s location, always good intellligence. I don’t remember what Pippin reported about it though.

The book is a momumental classic and I highly recommend it if you like reading fiction. I saw the first of the three LOTR movies and thought it was ok considering what it was trying to do. It could have been lots worse. But still, I didn’t feel particularly interested in seeing the other two movies. Maybe I’ll re-read the books sometime. It’s been ages. These days, lots of fanfics are longer than the LOTR books, since they no longer have the limitations of printing on paper.

Old joke: Conspiracy theorist Ted Tinfoil dies and goes to heaven and gets to meet God. God welcomes Ted to the afterlife and asks if he has any questions. Ted wants to know who killed JFK. God says “it was Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone”. Ted says “oh no, the cover-up goes all the way to the top!”.

If your management can’t understand “I’m not an extravert”, they are the ones who lack empathy.

I’ve been around medical people a fair amount over the years. Nurses vary but yeah they do tend to be outgoing or at least solicitous. Doctors on the other hand are often total nerds, almost like the stereotype of programmers. Of course, being a programmer, that’s the type of doctor that I like. If you want to stay in the health field, maybe consider medical school for when you can swing it.

There is such a thing as empathy training: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/efforts-to-instill-empathy-among-doctors-is-paying-dividends/

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/11/feature-cultivating-empathy

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/how-to-show-empathy-to-patients-even-when-youre-stressed

https://www.nursingprocess.org/empathy-in-nursing.html

There is a specific article I remember from one of the KFF sites and those links came up while I searched for it. Unfortunately I didn’t find the one I was thinking of, but maybe it will turn up later. What I liked about it was that it was aimed at nerdy doctors (it was from an internal newsletter for KFF workers, though on their public site), so it was expressed in precise terms. I learned useful things from it myself.

You can find plenty more with fairly obvious web searches.

Cute meme but wrong community.