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  • Didn’t click on your links. But LEA does this move against any network that may offer anonymization. Don’t use Tor hidden services. Don’t go near I2P. Stay away from Freenet…etc. This even includes any platform that is seen as not fully under control, like Telegram at some point.

    In its essence, this move is no different from “Don’t go near Lemmy because it’s a Putin-supporting communist platform filled with evil state agents”.

    Does any network that may offer anonymization (even if misleadingly) attract undesirable people, possibly including flat out criminals? Yes.

    Should everyone stay away from all of them because of that? That’s up to each individual to decide, preferably after seeing for themselves.

    But parroting “think of the children” talking points against individual networks points to either intellectual deficiency, high susceptibility to consent-manufacturing propaganda, or some less innocent explanations.


  • Apologies if I was presumptions and/or my tone was too aggressive.

    Quibbling at No Moderation = Bad usually refers to central moderation where “someone” decides for others what they can and can’t see without them having any say in the matter.

    Bad moderation is an experienced problem at a much larger scale. It in fact was one of the reasons why this very place even exists. And it was one of the reasons why “transparent moderation” was one of the celebrated features of Lemmy with its public Modlog, although “some” quickly started to dislike that and try to work around it, because power corrupts, and the modern power seeker knows how to moral grandstand while power grabbing.

    All trust systems give the user the power, by either letting him/her be the sole moderator, or by letting him/her choose moderators (other users) and how much each one of them is trusted and how much weight their judgment carries, or by letting him/her configure more elaborate systems like WoT the way he/she likes.



  • Not only is IPFS not built on solid foundations, offered nothing new to the table, and is generally bad at data retention, but the “opt-in seeding” model was always a step backwards and not a good match for apps like plebbit.

    The anonymous distributes filesystem model (a la Freenet/Hyphanet) where each file segment is anonymously and randomly “inserted” into the distributed filesystem is the way to go. This fixes the “seeder power” problem, as undesirable but popular content can stay highly available automatically, and unpopular but desirable content can be re-inserted/healed periodically by healers (seeders). Only both unpopular and undesirable content may fizzle out of the network, but that can only happen in the context of messaging apps/platforms if 0 people tried pull and 0 people tried to reinsert the content in question over a long period of time.






  • In case the wording tripped anyone, generators (blocks and functions) have been available for a while as an unstable feature.

    This works (playground):

    #![feature(gen_blocks)]
    
    gen fn gfn() -> i32 {
        for i in 1..=10 {
            yield i;
        }
    }
    
    fn gblock() -> impl Iterator<Item = i32> {
        gen {
            for i in 1..=10 {
                yield i;
            }
        }
    }
    
    fn main() {
        for i in gfn() {
            println!("{i} from gfn()");
        }
        for i in gblock() {
            println!("{i} from gblock()");
        }
    }
    

    Note that the block-in-fn version works better at this moment (from a developer’s PoV) because rust-analyzer currently treats gfn() as an i32 value. But the block-in-fn pattern works perfectly already.


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    While you missed the mark here since typst has all the important stuff open (I wouldn’t use the web interface even if it was free/open source), I appreciate that you’re keeping an eye open.

    If you were in r*ddit’s rust community a few years ago, you probably would have been banned, just like me😄

    A blog post from M$ mentioning Rust with zero code

    => straight to the top

    A news article regurgitating the same thing a week later

    => straight to the top

    Another news article two weeks later regurgitating the same thing, possibly with the addition of a random tweet from some M$ dev

    => straight to the top

    Anyone not sucking nu-M$'s ****

    => banished to the bottom, or worse.

    Things got so silly to the point where I made this jerk post (archive link) about one of these silly posts.


  • I wouldn’t correct you if this was a general community where the internet gantry hangs in numbers like the multiple !linux communities, but let’s keep things more factual here in !rust.

    After Wedson quit months ago, no one from the Rust-For-Linux effort has quit/resigned/whatever. No one quit who is relevant to current mainline kernel development in general, either.

    There is a difference between the actual Rust-For-Linux team, and Rust proponents who may write kernel code out-of-tree, or may happen to still be listed as maintainers in a dead poor GPU driver. Confusing the two is good for drama, but let’s not do that here.

    And the bad boy maintainer is entitled to his opinion (which I disagree with of course). An opinion which will always be more informed and relevant than 99.999% of whatever the internet gantry has been contributing.








  • Sure, there were/are still some bits and pieces of hardware support missing, but the overall experience rivaled or exceeded what you could get on most x86 laptops.


    But then also came the entitled users. This time, it wasn’t about stealing games, it was about features. “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).

    how many levels of dissonance is that?


  • Traditional server-based self-hosting will have lower average uptime, will be easier to attack, and will have a much higher chance of disappearing out of nowhere (bus factor event, or for any other reason).

    A decentralized or distributed solution would make more sense as a suggestion here. Radicale (this one) is such an effort I’m aware of, although I never tried it myself or take a look at its architecture.