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Could you possibly care about my schedule? I hope not. But there is a not-insignificant chance that you do if you are reading this. I have a little note for you: github.com/briansmith/r...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

If you have an interest in *ring*, the 0.17.10 release is an important one to prepare for. A brief note to help you out: github.com/briansmith/r...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

In order to help people, especially packagers, update from *ring* 0.17.8 to 0.17.9, I’ve started a thread github.com/briansmith/r....

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Released *ring* 0.17.9. X25519 is about 20% faster for GCC users (clang got it in 0.17.8). AES-GCM is slightly faster. Auditing the code for memory safety and panic-freeness should be easier now. Expect 100% compat with 0.17.8, but MSRV was raised from 1.61 to 1.63; still Debian-Stable-friendly.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

New study on the effect of driver aids on crash risk: - Lane keep assist: -19% - Driver monitoring systems: -14% - Automatic emergency braking: -10.7% - Adaptive Cruise Control: +8% - Cruise Control: +12% No data on speed limit alerts though. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

I wish I wasn’t the kind of person to question whether a language’s mutex implementation guarantees acquire/release semantics.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Rust Rules! (Programming Language-Wise) www.eejournal.com/article/rust... Ferrous Systems has carved out a leadership role with respect to Rust solutions for safety-critical systems. Its flagship tool chain, Ferrocene, has achieved IEC 62304 Class C qualification for medical device software.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It's a big week for voting technology. We're launching VotingWorks, the voting system we've been hard at work on for six years. Transparent, secure, and easy to use. So every American can trust their ballots are counted correctly. voting.works/machines

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

You are: 🧑‍🎓 a prospective intern 🦀 interested in rust 🔒 and functional safety ☀️ available this summer 🇯🇵 to work in Japan 👇👇👇 woven.toyota/en/careers/d...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

submitted 43 days ago • 88 comments

Time to deprecate & remove wasm32-unknown-unknown. It is basically the same as a WASI 0.2 environment that exposes no components. It’s easy to create a minimal WASI 0.2 environment that implements wasi-random—or whatever—by delegating to the host (browser, etc.). This would simplify many libraries.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about switching to RedNote Actions for CI. I heard it has native loongarch64 support.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

NEWS: The massive Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms breached firms Charter, Consolidated and Windstream as part of a historic espionage campaign. Security vendor Fortinet was a key intrusion point. Investigators are still grappling with the damage. That and much much more: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

If magic links work well for signing into your website then passkeys are probably a poor alternative for improving sign-in convenience, as they are overkill and the costs associated with them are high, especially end user support costs. Why not OpenID Connect w/ Discovery using the email address?

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Saw Wicked, the stage production, in L.A. last night. It was truly a masterpiece of art. I usually avoid musicals of all sorts, and I seem to annoy people with my Hamilton review (“absolutely not worth the ticket price”). Especially if you have no interest in it, consider giving it a go.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

When I order something from overseas on eBay I reliably (100% of the time) get a phishing text related to my package being stuck in customs. Receiving this message is the primary & only mechanism by which I learn my package has arrived in the US before it shows up at my door a few days later.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

If you have chopped down a tree, drug it into your home, placed it in a pot of water, and decorated it with lights, then it is highly likely that you plugged it into whatever outlet that room has. If it isn’t a GFCI outlet, you can get an “inline” GFCI cord/wall-wart for this.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

AFAICT, the best defense against disasters (e.g. fire) caused by water (rain/sleet/snow/hose overspray) in electric decorations (e.g. Christmas lights) is the exclusive use of GFCI power outlets. If you don’t have conveniently-placed GFCI outlets, inexpensive “inline” GFCI adapters are available.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Supply chain attack via a shell injection in a PR branch name (!) due to unsafe use of GitHub Actions' pull_request_target. Inserted a crypto miner in the PyPI package. Paging @yossarian.net to the courtesy phone. Would github.com/woodruffw/zi... have caught it?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

This was stabilized in Rust 1.81 as std::hint::assert_unchecked (doc.rust-lang.org/std/hint/fn....), while the functionally equivalent `if !cond { std::hint::unreachable_unchecked() }` has been stable since Rust 1.27, released in 2018.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Many Californians seem to feel too overwhelmed by the daily grind to do anything to make this world more beautiful. But there is something you can do, no matter how busy you are: You can remove the compliance stickers from your cars’ driver side window. Please! Encourage others do the same.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Let's Build a FIPS-validated Rust Crypto Library: briansmith.org/lets-build-a...

submitted 525 days ago • 0 comments