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Several major Linux distros hit by serious Sudo security flaws (techradar.com)

4 days ago | mustache_kimono | techradar.com | newest

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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin (simonwillison.net)

6 days ago | mustache_kimono | simonwillison.net | best

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Linus on bcachefs: "I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window" (kernel.org)

a week ago | mustache_kimono | kernel.org | newest

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Static Types Are for Perfectionists (mmapped.blog)

a month ago | mustache_kimono | mmapped.blog | newest

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Revisiting ZFS for Mac (mjtsai.com)

3 months ago | mustache_kimono | mjtsai.com | frontpage

2

Migration to rust-coreutils in Ubuntu 25.10 (ubuntu.com)

3 months ago | mustache_kimono | ubuntu.com | newest

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Council on Foreign Relations: Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China (cfr.org)

4 months ago | mustache_kimono | cfr.org | frontpage

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Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software (smallcultfollowing.com)

4 months ago | mustache_kimono | smallcultfollowing.com | newest

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Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles Around Rust Code (kernel.org)

5 months ago | mustache_kimono | kernel.org | frontpage

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Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" (kernel.org)

5 months ago | mustache_kimono | kernel.org | best

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Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping (lwn.net)

5 months ago | mustache_kimono | lwn.net | frontpage

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Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project" (treehouse.systems)

5 months ago | mustache_kimono | treehouse.systems | newest

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[flagged] Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project" (lwn.net)

5 months ago | mustache_kimono | lwn.net | newest

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I Was Canceled by Bluesky. and I Still Don't Know Why (politico.com)

7 months ago | mustache_kimono | politico.com | newest

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LPC 2024: Journey of a C kernel engineer starting a Rust driver (Nova) [video] (youtube.com)

7 months ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | newest

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A Promise Without a Remedy: Supposed Incompatibility of GPL v2 and Apache v2 (scu.edu)

9 months ago | mustache_kimono | scu.edu | newest

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I Am an Artisanal Attorney (mcsweeneys.net)

10 months ago | mustache_kimono | mcsweeneys.net | newest

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The Register: Rust for Linux maintainer steps down (theregister.com)

10 months ago | mustache_kimono | theregister.com | frontpage

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Asahi Lina: "Some determined to make lives of Rust devs difficult as possible" (vt.social)

11 months ago | mustache_kimono | vt.social | frontpage

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Rust Linux kernel maintainer steps down, cites "nontechnical nonsense" (phoronix.com)

11 months ago | mustache_kimono | phoronix.com | best

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Filesystem in Rust – Kent Overstreet [video] (youtube.com)

11 months ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | newest

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The Left Has an Authoritarian Problem (But Doesn't Know It) (pressermag.com)

11 months ago | mustache_kimono | pressermag.com | newest

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Oxide and Friends Podcast – Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | frontpage

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[flagged] Microsoft posted on the FFMPEG tracker that their issue is 'high priority' (ffmpeg.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | ffmpeg.org | newest

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Lawfare: NIST's Software Un-Standards (lawfaremedia.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | lawfaremedia.org | newest

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Mark Russinovich: "There is industry consensus on moving away from C/C++" (twitter.com/markrussinovich)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | twitter.com | best

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LKML discusses merging Rust access to filesystem APIs (lwn.net)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | lwn.net | best

2

Oxide RFD 26: Host Operating System and Hypervisor (oxide.computer)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | oxide.computer | newest

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Miguel de Icaza: What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012) (tirania.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | tirania.org | newest

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Cybersecurity's Third Rail: Software Liability (lawfaremedia.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | lawfaremedia.org | newest

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Standards for Software Liability: Jim Dempsey, Lawfare, UC Berkeley Law (lawfaremedia.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | lawfaremedia.org | frontpage

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Time Machine is insanely slow!: Run your Time Machine from the CLI (reddit.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | reddit.com | newest

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'Unmaintained' (open source) code represents an amount of value (utoronto.ca)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | utoronto.ca | newest

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Databases in 2023: A Year in Review (ottertune.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | ottertune.com | best

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Auto-snapshot is the future and Linux has the technology (reddit.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | reddit.com | newest

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A cross platform, filesystem independent Time Machine (kimono-koans.github.io)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge (theregister.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | theregister.com | frontpage

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All your snapshots, at your fingertips, enables NILFS2-inspired ZFS snapshots (kimono-koans.github.io)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust (github.com/microsoft)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | github.com | best

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My (Herb Sutter's) C++ Now 2023 talk is online: “A TypeScript for C++” (herbsutter.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | herbsutter.com | best

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Dangerous Liaisons – Software Combinations as Derivative Works? [pdf] (btlj.org)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | btlj.org | newest

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Oracle Attorney Disagrees That ZFS-Linux Combination Is a GPL License Violation (youtube.com)

a year ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | frontpage

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Supply Chain Security – MIT 6.5660 Computer Security (Guest Lecture) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | newest

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“The first cross-platform Sysinternals code will be in Rust” – Mark Russinovich (twitter.com/markrussinovich)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | twitter.com | newest

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Null block driver written in Rust (lwn.net)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | lwn.net | newest

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BlueHat IL 2023: Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | best

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Why the Rust Trademark Policy was such a problem (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | best

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The Unreasonable Fear of Infection [pdf] (rosenlaw.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | rosenlaw.com | newest

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ACLU: A ban on TikTok would violate First Amendment rights (twitter.com/aclu)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | twitter.com | best

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Temporary Lifetimes in Rust by Niko Matsakis (smallcultfollowing.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | smallcultfollowing.com | newest

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Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy (whitehouse.gov)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | whitehouse.gov | newest

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Fixing the Cyber Resilience Act for Open Source (webm.ink)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | webm.ink | newest

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John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (sevangelatos.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | sevangelatos.com | newest

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The unsafe language doom principle (yossarian.net)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | yossarian.net | newest

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Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with (2021) (yossarian.net)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | yossarian.net | newest

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FOSDEM 2023 - Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) (fosdem.org)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | fosdem.org | newest

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The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry (efinancialcareers.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | efinancialcareers.com | best

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Use `httm` to convert your ZFS/btrfs snapshots to `git` archives (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Rewrite it in Rust (github.com/fish-shell)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.com | best

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Why viral licensing is a ghost (2015) (europa.eu)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | europa.eu | newest

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Stroustrup, et al.: DG Opinion on Safety for ISO C++ [pdf] (open-std.org)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | open-std.org | frontpage

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Lawfare Podcast: Content Moderation and the First Amendment for Dummies (2021) (acast.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | acast.com | frontpage

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A Somewhat Opinionated Guide to ZFS Snapshots (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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New ways to make ZFS/btrfs snapshots Unix-y (again?) (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Stop writing shell scripts (2021) (samgrayson.me)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | samgrayson.me | frontpage

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ounce (codename: 'dimebag'): Dynamic File-Level ZFS Snapshots (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Imagine You're a Goofball: Dynamic Preventative ZFS Snapshots (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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Keynote, Open Source Summit: Linus Torvalds on Rust for Linux (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | frontpage

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Using httm and ZFS to detect file modifications (or getting a little sleazy) (kimono-koans.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | frontpage

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Rustc_codegen_GCC can now compile Rust for Linux (antoyo.xyz)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | antoyo.xyz | frontpage

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David Tolnay's Rust Quiz (dtolnay.github.io)

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest

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It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | twitter.com | best

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A Chat about Linus' (of Linus Tech Tips) ZFS Data Recovery

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | frontpage

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The Journey to Nanite – Brian Karis, Epic Games

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | youtube.com | newest

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An almost religious case for Rust

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | medium.com | newest

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Workflow: ZFS snapshot-ed file versions to tar and git archives with httm

2 years ago | mustache_kimono | github.io | newest