rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

If you personally use LLMs and want to contribute to the Rust toolchain, you *really* should read it.

The summary is "It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to *create*." Effectively, no other human should see LLM output, unless they ask for it, and LLM usage shall be disclosed.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/

#RustLang #Rust

📄 Need to extract text from PDFs without sending your documents to the cloud?

pdf-inspector is an open-source Rust library that classifies PDFs and extracts structured text locally. It detects text-based vs. scanned PDFs, preserves headings, tables, and reading order, and can export clean Markdown.

More details: https://www.digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pdf-inspector

#OpenSource #Privacy #Rust #PDF #OCR #FOSS #Developers

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Screenshot of the pdf-inspector GitHub page describing it as a fast Rust library for local PDF classification and text extraction, with support for detecting scanned PDFs, exporting Markdown, and bindings for Python, Node.js, and WebAssembly.

Today I'm releasing niri v25.11 with long-awaited config includes, Alt-Tab, true maximize, custom modes, and a bunch of other improvements! Enjoy the release notes :)

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.11

#niri #smithay #wayland #rust

Immich deployment is an exercise in a needless dependency tree walking.

By itself, Immich is a Node.js application, you might just run it with a node, using some knowledge bits from the official dockerfiles and scripts.

On the other hand, it is intended to be controlled by the `mise` tool (runtime polyglot manager), so I making some detours.

`mise` isn't in pkgsrc, so you'd need to build it in on illumos from sources on your own.

It is a Rust app, where its requirements `rattler`/`rattler_pty` (of Python/Conda) and `libdbus-rs`/`dbus-native-channel` fail to be built on illumos.

The fix for the first one was just submitted to the upstream, the second would require me to work in its requirement -`libc` crate.

I guess it's not going to go deeper than that (but it is three layers removed from the root already).

#Immich #Rust #illumos

#hackers IS OUT usenet_reborn is at 1.0.0 !!! 🎉

It now has all the features needed to run as a lite TUI Usenet client. Today I added X-post — forward an article you're reading straight to other newsgroups — which is what it needed to be fully usable for everyday use.

https://crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn
https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn

#usenet #rustlang #tui #foss #rust #hackerculture #nntp

note: remember also #reticulum as another mesh decentralized network we run now a RRC reticulum relay chat hub

Linus Torvalds on #Rust, #C, Bugs, and #AI Patch-Checking Tools

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/07/12/2126243/linus-torvalds-on-rust-c-bugs-and-ai-patch-checking-tools

#Linux #FOSS #cybersecurity

What we’ve learned about testing Rust for security, now available as a Testing Handbook chapter.

Inside, you'll find what Rust's guarantees don't cover, undefined behavior with Miri, property testing with proptest, Clippy lints, memory zeroization, and model checking with Kani.

We also released rust-review, a Claude Code plugin for automated Rust security reviews co-built with Aptos Labs.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/07/13/rust-proof-your-code-with-our-new-testing-handbook-chapter/

#Rust #infosec #appsec

Helix is a free, open-source code editor written in Rust with Vim-style modal editing, built-in LSP support, Tree-sitter syntax highlighting, and multiple cursors, no complex plugin setup required.

A fast, privacy-friendly editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=helix

#OpenSource #Programming #Rust #CodeEditor #Linux #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Helix project page showing the Helix logo, release and build badges, contributor count, and an editor preview demonstrating split-pane code editing with documentation popups.

So I am getting more and more into #p2panda - though I do not yet understand whether the "p2panda" crate is sufficient for what I am about to build or whether I need to go with "p2panda-net" and then use the other crates from the ecosystem and stack them.

#rustdev #rustlang #rust

𝗚𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗺:

#Framework #Rust

https://thewhale.cc/posts/gotham

Gotham is a flexible Rust web framework that promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

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Gotham is a flexible Rust web framework that promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

So the bad news is I have been laid off.

The good news is that I'll have a lot more time to write in the short term, both book stuff and code stuff.

...anyone need a #rust programmer?

#Arti 2.5.0 released: Stable #CounterGaloisOnion

https://blog.torproject.org/arti_2_5_0_released/

#Tor #FOSS #Rust #cybersecurity #privacy #anonymity

cargo-audit flags Rust dependencies with known vulnerabilities. A flagged crate, though, doesn't tell you whether your code calls the vulnerable function.

We added a feature that matches a binary's symbols against the functions named in each advisory. Any matches are labeled "Affected," separating real exposure from advisories that don't apply.

It's live in cargo-audit 0.22.2+. If you're behind, update with `cargo install -f cargo-audit`.

#rust #infosec #supplychain

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-audit

ZLUDA 6 release (run CUDA on non-Nvidia GPUs) https://lobste.rs/s/38nsyj #rust
https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zluda-update-q1q2-2026/

Pake is a free, open-source tool that turns almost any website into a lightweight desktop app.

Built with Rust and Tauri, apps created with Pake are much smaller and use less memory than typical Electron-based alternatives.

Perfect for ChatGPT, Gemini, GitHub, YouTube Music, DeepSeek, and more.

https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pake

#OpenSource #Rust #Tauri #Linux #Windows #macOS

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Pake project page showing the app logo and tagline “Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.” Badges display download count, commit activity, and project status. The page highlights support for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Screenshot of a website running as a native desktop application created with Pake. The interface features a sidebar, search bar, and a grid of content cards inside a clean standalone window on a desktop background.

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Dark-themed desktop music application generated with Pake. The interface includes album artwork, playlists, navigation menus, playback controls, and a music library displayed in a native application window.

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Terminal-inspired desktop application running in a standalone window. The interface shows podcast episode information, track listings, playback controls, and colorful text-based navigation elements, demonstrating how web content can be packaged as a lightweight desktop app.

An #AI Security Engineer in Residence for the #Rust Ecosystem

https://rustfoundation.org/media/an-ai-security-engineer-in-residence-for-the-rust-ecosystem/

#cybersecurity

A bad, unsolicited advice from an old, irrelevant #programmer:

• All programmers proficient in Standard ML, OCaml, Hope, Miranda, Haskell, or another member of the ML family of FP languages—and are interested in system #programming—should pick up Rust, at some point.

• None should touch #Rust without first mastering at least one member of the ML family of languages and also C.

Es muy rusty #rust

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Bottom of lock, very rusted

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Top of lock, rusty and putted

Hello collectible Coca Cola! (ps. Do not collect Coca Cola. I bought many cans of original Coca Cola right before the "New Coke" thing, stuck them in a closet, and very shortly after that they ate holes in the cans and spilled over everything in the closet. There's probably still Coca Cola in my childhood closet.) #cocacola #lock #rust

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Coca Cola bottle with faded label, canning jar, with a ding in the lip, making it useless for canning, and a rusty lock.

Oops, forgot about this lock! Three weeks in acid did not improve things. #rust

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Lock encrusted with green stuff

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Same lock with wet green stuff after rinsing

I'm thinking of writing a rust script to create an anki deck given a video file and a subtitle track.

One thing I'm not sure I should do, is how do I get a snapshot from a video file?

Does anyone know a good way to do this?

The script will go through all the timestamps in the provided subtitle file and take screenshots.

#tech #techsupport #SoftwareDev #rust

4 years, 65 versions, and now iroh 1.0. Here's to the next chapter and stability: a wire protocol you can depend on, with plenty of incremental features on the roadmap.

Dial keys, stay connected.

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1

#p2p #iroh #networking
#rust
#python #nodejs #kotlin #swift

𝗣𝗶𝗷𝘂𝗹:

#versionControl #Rustlang #Rust #Pijul

https://thewhale.cc/posts/pijul

Pijul, a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system by Pierre-Étienne Meunier and Florent Becker

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Pijul, a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system by Pierre-Étienne Meunier and Florent Becker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JAAF61AiE

"I warned you years ago that Windows 11 was the beginning of the end. Today, the door is officially closing on general-purpose computing. In this 24-minute manifesto, I am moving past the "ripping on Rust" memes to address a documented existential threat to your hardware. Between the $12.5M Big Tech "security" grants and the US government's memory-safety mandates, we are witnessing a coordinated execution of legacy systems."