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From Jason Gunthorpe, maintainer of 5 Linux kernel subsystems:

IMHO the current situation of Rust does not look like success. It is basically unusable except for unmerged toy projects and it is still not obvious when that will change.

Today I learned that my Apple AGX GPU driver, which is the kernel side to the world's first and only OpenGL and Vulkan certified conformant driver for Apple Silicon GPUs, and also the FOSS community's first fully reverse engineered driver to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance, and which is used by thousands of Asahi Linux users in production, and that literally has never had an oops bug in production systems not caused by shared C code (unlike basically every other Linux GPU driver), is "an unmerged toy project".

(He works for Nvidia, I guarantee he's heard of it, considering we beat nouveau and NVK to GL 4.6 conformance.)

I guess this is what Linux kernel maintainers think of us Rust developers, that we only write "toy projects"...

i never noticed that so many dolls and bots use "third person" pronouns

person. thats fucked up.
stop saying "third person", i posit:

third perspective
non personable and still makes total sense

screenshot from the KDE website, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041229101838/http://www.kde.org/screenshots/kde330shots.php

Pendant les Jeux Paralympiques, rappel que la France ne respecte pas la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées de l'ONU.

Comme la cérémonie d'ouverture des JO était du Pink Washing, ces jeux Paralympiques c'est du Handie Washing.

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I regretfully completely understand Wedson's frustrations.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/

A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don't see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away.

When I tried to upstream the DRM abstractions last year, that all was blocked on basic support for the concept of a "Device" in Rust. Even just a stub wrapper for struct device would be enough.

That simple concept only recently finally got merged, over one year later.

When I wrote the DRM scheduler abstractions, I ran into many memory safety issues caused by bad design of the underlying C code. The lifetime requirements were undocumented and boiled down to "design your driver like amdgpu to make it work, or else".

My driver is not like amdgpu, it fundamentally can't work the same way. When I tried to upstream minor fixes to the C code to make the behavior more robust and the lifetime requirements sensible, the maintainer blocked it and said I should just do "what other drivers do".

Even when I pointed out that other C drivers also triggered the same bugs because the API is just bad and unintuitive and there are many secret hidden lifetime requirements, he wouldn't budge.

One C driver works, so Rust drivers must work the same way.

Mastodon, on a besoin de vous :

Notre clown de chat Kiwi a eu la bonne idee de monter dans la voiture de notre visiteuse du jour, la podcasteuse Opaline 😸

Il est donc a coté de Lorient.
Est ce quelqu'un fait Lorient Rennes demain et serait ok pour le ramener?

#Lorient #rennes #Bretagne #chat
Le repouet ramène potichat a la maison 😻

Edit : les bretons et Mastodon sont dans la place, normalement on a notre blabla -cat ( libre ) merci pour les RP 🥰🥰

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quebecois miku is best miku

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Good reminder that France is one of the rare countries in the world to have a declaration obligation when **importing** cryptography.

While one doesn’t need approval, it is critical to file an accurate declaration of the encryption system to the Cybersecurity agency ANSSI.

According to prosecutors, Telegram failed to accurately complete its declaration.

https://cyber.gouv.fr/faq-demande-dautorisation
https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113029696954871293