mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Rustacean 🦀 with a Computer Science degree 🎓
I write Rust and Python, and maintain lots of RPM packages for Fedora Linux. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and Packaging Committee (FPC) member. AI Luddite.
Fluent in English and German. He/Him. 🏳️🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺
"we can't allow the unethical orphan crushing machines to win ... so we need to work with the orphan crushers on ethical, responsible orphan crushing machines, or we'll be left behind"
- what "AI" discourse in the FOSS space sometimes sounds like nowadays
been refactoring a #rust project to use the typestate pattern for 4 hours already, plz send help 🙃
gah. 99% of my "restore previous session" usage in firefox is caused by Ctrl+W (close current tab) and Ctrl+Q (close application) being less than a finger's width away from each other ...
RE: @thomas_zahner@mastodon.social
problems with OpenSSL itself aside, I don't think it's great that as the responsible package maintainer for Fedora I have to find out about these vulnerabilities over social media - because the project only filed GitHub security advisories, but there's no RUSTSEC or CVE entries for them (yet?)
people should be able to distinguish between the snoring emoji 😪 and crying emoji 😢 right?
the frequency at which I get asked "what's wrong?" just because I sent 😪 to indicate that I'm tired / falling asleep is ~worrying~
@alexanderkjall@mastodon.social to be fair, I had a university course where we used OpenMP in C and that was pretty nice too (#pragma omp parallel for go brrr) ... but yes, that doesn't come with any of the memory / race / thread safety guarantees that Rust + rayon comes with
