If you think that that orchestrated AIs creating Pull Requests is a problem, wait until they start trying to be LinkedIn influencers.

Phillip Hallam-Baker has defined the term "Superficial Intelligence" (SI), which better describes the artificial intelligence we are currently experiencing.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/HuQyJJHCF0y9Lrr543WQah63MQs/

I maintain pypandoc — 14M downloads/month, used by Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and many more.

I just overhauled my sponsorship pages. If you or your company depend on open source infrastructure (you do), here's how to help keep it maintained:

💛 https://github.com/sponsors/JessicaTegner

Open source has a free-rider problem. You can be part of the solution.

#OpenSource #Python #FOSS #FundOpenSource

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

Apparently I was not supposed to eat all the Girl Scout cookies. Some of these house rules are downright complicated.

I am noticing bot accounts hitting GitHub repos and approving (not merging, but approving) PRs. The GitHub docs on how to stop non-collaborators from doing this are difficult to understand. So far I have resorted to old-fashioned branch protection. Has anybody with a divining rod figured out the #github permissions to specifically address this issue?

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/trevors)

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs

#rustlang #programming #browser

There are now more RDAP queries than Whois queries:
https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/10/the-current-state-of-rdap/

The Internet Runs on Free and Open Source Software—And So Does the DNS

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-internet-runs-on-free-and-open-source-softwareand-so-does-the-dns-23-10-2025-en

Yes, it does!

We live an age of BS. And it is not even the old school, witty and artful BS. It’s just big-stick-in-the-poop BS.

I decided to screw around with an ESP32-C6 board I bought awhile back but never got around to playing with. So I decided to make the lights blink using Rust. That took entirely too long to figure out because a lot of the guides are out of date and the HAL has changed drastically. Out of frustration I started using Gemini but because its training data is a few months old, that was one false start after another. Then I went to OpenCode and that worked well because the tool-calling was able to iteratively get at the problem. An interesting experience.

@danyork

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/115906615259034425

New version of the ICANN RDAP command line software... https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/releases/tag/v0.0.26

#rust #homebrew #rdap

It's not just another monthly NoVaLUG meeting. I am usually just organizing, but this time I am giving a presentation on the Rust programming language. Come watch me throw down the snark on all the Rust-haters.

#rust

https://mobilizon.us/events/140c5c7c-01f3-4aaa-b218-58289c6b4449

Editing a Perl script you've never seen before in prod on a Friday before the holiday break should be fine, right?

Some of the older RFCs have algorithms specified in C and many newer ones do it in psuedocode. This one is using #rust: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-rift-kv-tie-structure-and-processing-06

Adding this to my list of things to check out. #Rust github.com/stoolap/stoo...

github.com/stoolap/stoola...

#Transistors—the bedrock of every smartphone, computer, satellite, and artificial-intelligence platform—did not emerge from a business plan or product pitch. By tracing their history, Julia R. Greer argues for the importance of investing in basic science.

What might the next transistor look like? And how do we make it happen?

Learn more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123214/opinion-basic-science-research-funding/
#technews #funding #computing #science

Caught an agent issuing a mount command this weekend. It didn’t work because the mount was embedded in another command that was all messed up, but still…

An Idiot with a YouTube Channel

It would seem ragebaiting against #rust (and by association, anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan), is a present-day, engagement-farming cash crop. Now comes a youtuber with his John Deere and field-hand commenters (no link, you are better off) to say “rust-bad cuz linked lists” and some other nonsense that you can’t use linked lists in the Linux kernel with rust.

I am not a Linux kernel developer, but I have a strong suspicion neither is this idiot. It took all of two seconds of googling to find on kernel.org the rust linked list. The upside to this is that I did learn something new today about rust and the linux kernel, even if it is the exact opposite message being given.

Now, if you are not familiar with Rust then this is probably all very puzzling. Here is the summary: writing a linked list in Rust is more difficult than it is in other languages, such as C or Java, because of Rust’s ownership model. More difficult… but not impossible.

So not impossible that there is an entire on-line book called Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists. It teaches Rust by walking through the creation of 7 types of linked lists. SEVEN! Like srsly, how many of you even knew there seven types?

But the best thing about that book is the intro:

Just so we’re totally 100% clear: I hate linked lists. With a passion. Linked lists are terrible data structures.

…

Linked lists are as niche and vague of a data structure as a trie. Few would balk at me claiming a trie is a niche structure that your average programmer could happily never learn in an entire productive career – and yet linked lists have some bizarre celebrity status.

And that is true. I can probably count on four fingers the 3 times I have needed one in my career. We probably all learn linked lists because they are a great teaching tool on the subject of pointers. But they really aren’t all that common in use.

Similar to my usage of linked lists are the number of times I have commented on a YouTube video. But I did on his video, probably because it made me dumber by watching it. My comment was straightforward and just a link to the rust kernel docs. He deleted it within 5 minutes.