@chesheer --posted on 12-17-25.

The past is now the present again. AI broke the arch of inevitable progressive history for the digital demos. The data centre AI aristocracy are probably pleased nonetheless.

RAM and SSD (NAND) chips are very expensive today in May '26. Would "AVX" extensions improve compile performance on rotational HDDs? I am looking for a kernel parameter that would allow rust to function reasonably on the more affordable rotational HDDs.

How do you like Redox? Are gnu utils all in rust on Redox yet?

#MemoryCrisis #Linux #rust #rustlang #ChipsAct

#Firefox Quietly Adds #Brave’s #Rust-Based #Adblocker

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/04/24/firefox-quietly-adds-braves-rust-based-adblocker/

#adblockrust #privacy #FOSS #Mozilla

👈 Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.

The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.

This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.

#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining

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A massive, rusty bucket-wheel excavator, an industrial relic, stands abandoned in a vibrant green field under a cloudy sky. Its sheer scale is emphasized by a distant person.

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition

[…] Cryptography is everywhere and as a developer you will need to upgrade your projects with post-quantum algorithms, whether because you care about the security of your users, or for compliance reasons. […]

🦀 https://kerkour.com/post-quantum-cryptography-recommendations-rust

#rust #cryptography #rustlang #pqc #itsec #itsecurity #security #coding #PQCryptography #postquantum

Nestled deep in the Highland forests of Scotland lies an abandoned Opel Olympia. Trees and undulating ground surround the car; it is a considerable distance from the nearest road. A strange scene, but a beautifully photogenic one.

More photos and my article about my visit - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/abandoned-opel-olympia-in-the-woods-scotland/

#Scotland #Highlands #Adventure #Photography #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCar #Forest #Rust

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An old, rusty Opel Olympia car sits abandoned in a Scottish forest, surrounded by moss and trees.

ICMYI: Someone created a GTK4 version of Rhythmbox music player (written, ofc, in Rust).

Called Tributary (it's a tribute), it also supports Jellyfin, Plex and other streaming integration.

Worth checking out if Rhythmbox is your groove (sorry/not sorry), but its aging GTK3 codebase isn't.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4?v1

#rust #opensource #linux

#Google shoehorned #Rust into #Pixel10 modem to make legacy code safer

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/google-shoehorned-rust-into-pixel-10-modem-to-make-legacy-code-safer/

#cybersecurity #Android

#Linux Kernel 7.0 Released, This Is What’s New

https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-7-0-released/

#FOSS #cybersecurity #Rust #PQE #MLDSA

Has the #Rust #Programming Language's Popularity Reached Its Plateau?

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/2329229/has-the-rust-programming-languages-popularity-reached-its-plateau

#cybersecurity

Over the last week, I've rewritten my static website generator in #rust. I'm happy with the results: https://flavigula.net though I'll probably be tweaking it over the next few epochs.

I used this opportunity to actually learn Rust, as I only knew it sketchily before. I can't claim I'm any sort of expert now, but I've certainly climbed that ladder quite a bit.

The code is at https://codeberg.org/flavigula/flavigula_net_rust if anyone is interested! :)

rss: https://flavigula.net/rss
atom: https://flavigula.net/atom

#Ente: Our #Rust crypto was audited. The real find was the auditor.

https://ente.com/blog/rust-crypto-audit/

#cybersecurity #cryptography #audit

Tucked away in the woodlands of Pennsylvania lies a unique fleet of streamlined 1930s and 1950s streetcars. These St Louis and Pullman-Standard carriages have glorious vintage Americana vibes.

Many of these date to the height of the Streamline Moderne era. At this time, streamlined aerodynamic forms replaced the geometric shapes and excessive ornamentation of the earlier Art Deco style.

#Streetcar #ArtDeco #Pennsylvania #Transportation #Moderne #Photography #Trams #Rust

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A row of heavily rusted streetcars, covered in graffiti, sits abandoned in a lush woodland.

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Interior of decaying streetcar

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Two lines of abandoned, graffiti-covered streetcars rust on overgrown tracks in a desolate forest

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Seats inside streetcars, covered with leaves

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."

#Canonical joins #Rust Foundation

https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/canonical-rust-foundation/

#Linux #Ubuntu #cybersecurity #FOSS

We’ll be talking more about the progress on the CHERIoT port of Rust at CHERI Blossoms next week, but here’s a teaser:

The embedded graphics crate rendering an image on Sonata. This currently using a (memory-safe) C function to draw pixels (that can go away with a little bit more work) but the current compiler is able to build this crate and run it in a CHERIoT compartment.

#Rust #CHERI #CHERIoT #CHERIBlossoms

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A Sonata board (CHERIoT FPGA dev board) showing the Rust logo on the LCD screen.

Abandoned cars shot on 35mm and medium-format film - Part 2

I wonder who the owners were; what precious memories led them to keep the car, and what happened to them to leave their beloved vehicle forgotten and decaying.

Do you have an old car you are keeping hold of? I would love to hear your stories and thoughts 🩵

#ClassicCars #Barnfind #FilmPhotography #ClassicCar #WeirdCarMastdon #Rust #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration

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A rusty, vintage car is reclaimed by nature, surrounded by dense trees and ferns in a forest.

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Two abandoned Citroën 2CV cars are overgrown in a forest setting. One car is red and black, while the other is multi-colored and covered in vines.

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A front view of a dark blue, abandoned car, surrounded by dry weeds.

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A black and white photo shows an abandoned, overgrown vintage car in a forest.

It's been a while I refreshed my pinned #introduction toot, and I figured today will be a fitting day to write a new one.

Hi! Despite the avatar, I'm not a furry

1

, I'm a boring cishet white dude. Despite my privileged status, I might be considered a "terrorist"

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in some weird jurisdictions, and some companies

3

will consider me a "malicious actor", because I built myself a crawler defense system that serves them an infinite maze of garbage. To them, I say: fuck you. I'm a Vengeful Mouse.

I also have the privilege of being able to admire the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: , not to be confused with the , an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish this was the norm, rather than a privilege.

I'm a serial drive-by contributor, I have my fingerprints all over the internet. I have code in #QMK, #Kaleidoscope, and #Chrysalis, but I contributed to #Forgejo, #niri, and a whole lot of other things too. I find great joy in playing with new things, and submitting patches or other contributions. I used to be a #Debian developer, I've put #Hy in production, and lately I've been building #NixOS configurations not only as a literate #OrgMode document, with with #OrgRoam. I am extremely normal and neurotypical.

Apart from these very normal things, I use #NixOS to boot into #Emacs, which is the real operating system I use, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would. I also tend to live-toot (very verbosely) all kinds of shenanigans I'm up to, because I always forget I have a blog.

While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (in whatever language necessary, I'm a generalist! But if I can choose, I turn to #Rust, although #Lisp languages are also very dear to me), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kinds of words

4

than programming language symbols. Sadly, we're not living in a world that makes possible, so I had no choice but become a #luddite and so can you.

But I'm not all about tech

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! I'm also Dad to wonderful Twins, and Husband to my Wife, who not only puts up with my crazy, but gently

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fans the flames too. I may occassionally toot about #parenting, too.

I may or may not have an unhealthy addiction to footnotes

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.

1. Nope, I'm not in denial stage, I do not work in infosec. ↩︎

2. I'm anti-fascist. ↩︎

3. Like Anthropic. ↩︎

4. Short stories like this toot, or The Tragedy of Byr (which might need an explanation to really understand what's going on). ↩︎

5. I wish I could leave tech, really. ↩︎

6. Where "gently" is either an eyeroll and more wood thrown onto the campfire, or straight up lighting up the neighbourhood, figuratively speaking. ↩︎

7. ...if you haven't noticed yet... ↩︎

Neurodivergent devs: what languages actually *click* for your brain? Not popularity — what feels kind, predictable, low-cognitive-load? Why?

I'm building a framework for ND devs and want real experiences. Rust? Go? Odin? Python? Something else?

Tell me what works (or doesn't) for you.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent #Programming #Rust #Go #Odin

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#Rust #AIEngineering #LLMs #PlatformEngineering

I have a really big software project which is stalled because I'm hitting bugs I can't resolve trying to write it in C. So I've been thinking for some years about using a different implementation language, and was leaning towards #Rust. Recently, I've started looking seriously at #Zig.

Comparisons between Rust, #Go and Zig:

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
https://dev.to/dev_tips/zig-rust-go-i-tried-3-low-level-languages-and-heres-what-im-sticking-with-4gpp
https://betterstack.com/community/guides/scaling-go/rust-vs-go-vs-zig/
https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

/Continued

My boat!

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #rust #linux #art

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Penguin is freaking out: "Oh no! Oh God! Not here too! No! By Linus! It's all rusted!" Fish finds sleeping girl next to a book. He examines the book. It's the ABC of RUST animals.

Arti 1.9.0 released with SOCKS proxy dynamic port support, relay circuit data handling, and directory authority key certificates for Tor's Rust implementation. 🛠️
Progress on relays and onion services advances next-gen privacy infrastructure, though still experimental for production use. 🔒

@torproject

🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_9_0_released/

#TechNews #Privacy #Tor #OpenSource #Rust #Security #Anonymity #FOSS #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Internet #Linux #Censorship #Development #Networking #Arti #Mozilla

Mullvad rolls out GotaTun, a Rust-based WireGuard implementation after wireguard-go caused most Android crashes.

Crash rate dropped to 0.01% post-deployment. Desktop & iOS planned for 2026.
https://www.technadu.com/gotatun-rollout-marks-major-wireguard-shift-at-mullvad/616309/

Is Rust becoming the safer default for VPN cores?
#WireGuard #Mullvad #Rust #VPN #InfoSec

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Mullvad rolls out GotaTun, a Rust-based WireGuard implementation, after wireguard-go caused most Android crashes

Rusted Transport - Abandoned and forgotten vehicles from around the world.

Transportation technology is constantly evolving. For every advancement made, there is a relic that falls by the wayside.

Old cars are taken for one last drive, and dumped in forests are left by rural roadsides. Trains and planes are relegated to redundancy.

Some lucky few are left in a barn, protected but still forgotten. Awaiting a chance to ride again!

#Photography #Abandoned #Transport #Rust #Cars #Trains #Planes

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three rusted old cars in the forest

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steam train in desert

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blue scooter in ruined house

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old metal fighter plane

A first of its kind Linux CVE dropped and in kernel code rewritten in Rust. The Rust rewrite introduced a race condition in a multi-threaded doubly linked list implementation leading to memory corruption.

This is the first formal CVE located in the Linux Rust code, a bit of an auspicious milestone.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-Linux-Rust-CVE

#Rust #Linux #cybersecurity

An old rusted steam train, bearing a bold red star on its front. This beautiful locomotive was seemingly left abandoned inside an old train depot, languishing for years facing an uncertain future. A few years ago, the train was removed! Budapest, Hungary.

#Hungary #SteamTrain #Train #Locomotive #SteamLocomotive #History #Rust #Photography

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A rusted locomotive sits in an abandoned warehouse, paint peeling and glass shattered. The front of the train displays a red star.

ahah so The Cloudflare Incident seems to come down to the old haskell bitching of are you allowed head :: [x] -> x in a type safe language?

#Haskell #Rust #DoNotUnwrapYourMonads