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Transplanted West Australian. Mediocre wrist spinner. Coding troublemaker. Sidekick to a golden retriever.

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Pleased to announce that I will be Quantifying Nebraska at North Bay Python next month, where we'll try to find protects in your dependency graphs that might be in need of a little help.

(Also, I hear tickets went on sale today. Come for the cutest conference in Petaluma, stay for the friendly barn cats.)

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Regurgitator are still a thing, and their new stuff is quite good? Who knew?

https://youtu.be/8gvREi0Txpg

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@chrisjrn Nevertheless, I like their old stuff better than their new stuff.

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(did I toot something so comprehensively correct that people are boosting it everywhere and not feeling the need to reply? weird.)

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@chrisjrn Now you've openly taunted them, you're going to get even more Reply Guys.

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The coolest thing about Rust Nation UK 2024 confirmed all my worst fears about software supply chain security (and then xz made things worse) https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/746402277639782400/supply-chain

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@timClicks @carol I'm working on something kinda like this, albeit more for suspicious new crates than large ones. (You know, in amongst the 20 other spinning plates I'm trying to keep spinning.)

Practically, though, resourcing is a huge problem here โ€” it's one thing to say "this should be audited" and quite another to actually have it happen.

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The pkgx.dev thing was doing the rounds yesterday and today, and it turns out that it's related to something else I've seen this week, which is tea.xyz, which tries to incentivise FOSS contributions with magic beans cryptocurrency.

Anyway, it turns out that if you make that incentive, you also make an incentive for spammy PRs and hamfisted attempts to fork and typosquat known packages to get some of those magic beans based on hopefully tricking people into installing your fork rather than the upstream.

At least the crates.io typosquatting detection seems to be doing its job. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

(hat tips to @web3isgreat and @molly0xfff)

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Rust is participating in the Google Summer of Code!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/21/Rust-participates-in-GSoC-2024.html

If you're eligible as a student or FOSS beginner, I highly recommend looking into applying for this, whether for Rust or another project. I took part in GSoC in (gulp) 2007, and it was totally worthwhile. You get experience, the FOSS world gets code, and you get paid. Win, win, win.

a, to rust
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The Rust Foundation is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to work on... well, shockingly enough, Rust infrastructure.

A fringe benefit is that you get to work closely with @jdno. He's great! (You also get to work less closely with me; YMMV on that one.)

Details: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/careers/ (make sure you click through to the actual vacancy, since it includes a bunch more detail on the specific position)

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Willow TV had a nice, subtle snow effect on their Christmas "watermark". (I'm not sure it's a "watermark" if it's an animated, opaque overlay, but whatever.)

Their New Year's version isโ€ฆ less subtle.

Can't imagine this being annoying at all over the next few days.

A clip from a cricket match, featuring an animated firework display behind the channel logo in the top right corner. It is not small.

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@chrisjrn We must just be lucky up here in the great white north.

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@chrisjrn Old fashioned cable.

a, to rust
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Getting some New Year's resolutions in early by blogging about the 's plans for supply chain security improvements in next year:

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2023-12-21-improving-supply-chain-security/

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I can see a wi-fi SSID from here called "Searching...", and I'm kind of in awe.

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Looks like I have a tutorial (Writing PHP Extensions) and a talk (Better Debugging with @Xdebug) accepted for php[tek] 23! (I hope they meant 2024 ;-) ).

/cc @phptek

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@derickr Maybe this is just their way of asking for https://bugs.xdebug.org/view.php?id=888.

@Xdebug @phptek

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It's rare, but sometimes the Orange Site is... good?

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    @josh Nice! I also did that last month.

    I... uh, should probably unbox and build it soon.

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    @josh An UPLIFT V2. What did you get?

    a, to random
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    OK, so there's this toot from @mhoye showing that Bing doesn't think Australia exists: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111455407450469108

    What's not in that toot are that there are follow up questions you can ask about Australia's non-existence!

    And now I weirdly feel bad for an LLM, because all the answers start with an apology for the previous response.

    A Bing Chat response, which starts with: "I apologize for my previous response. It was not accurate and | should not have said that. Australia is a real country and it does exist." It goes on with citations to describe some evidence that Australia does, in fact, exist.

    a, to random
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    Time marches on.

    (Not dunking; the original blog post is literally from over 16 years ago, but it's a good reminder that almost everything in tech is ultimately ephemeral no matter your intentions.)

    The Firefox error screen showing that the cvs.mozilla.org domain doesn't exist.

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    A water-filled weekend for Stanley, who is now very tired and happy.

    (Yesterday: fetch at the New Brighton dog beach; today: hiking Lynn Headwaters up to the debris chute.)

    The same golden retriever stands in shallow water in Burrard Inlet, with one tennis ball under him and another a metre or so in front of him. He looks mildly annoyed that nobody is wading into the cold water to pick them up and throw them. In the background, a large blue cargo ship is tied up at a grain silo just out of shot.
    The same golden retriever wading in the obviously glacial Lynn Creek, which is considerably wider and faster moving than the name "creek" would imply. Trees with the last of their leaves frame the shot, and a small hill looms out of the general mist and fog on the other bank of the river.
    The same golden retriever stands on the opposite bank of a small mountain stream, which is crossed by a wooden footbridge next to him. He is obviously considering whether he wants to swim across or go back to the bridge. (For the record, he swam.)

    a, to random
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    It's the small things that are nice about being home after being on the road for five of the last seven weeks:

    • Over ear headphones.
    • Better internet.
    • The greatest shower in the worโ€ฆ oh no, our sewer is backing up again.

    Well, two out of three ain't bad.

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    @chrisjrn I guess I'll have to go to the land of meatballs some time to try it out.

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    Rust has poisoned my brain: I can't help but immediately assume any project with a name starting rs* is obviously written in Rust.

    (Spoiler: not always true.)

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    Chesterman Beach.

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    It has just occurred to me that listening to the new Explosions in the Sky album on my flight back from Albuquerque is tempting fate just a tiny little bit.

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    Conference 1 of 4 in the next month and a half. ๐Ÿ˜…

    Today: at , where I'm on the Rust Foundation tech team panel at 11:20. (Spoiler: I'm the Australian one.)

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