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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/trevors)

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

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There are now more RDAP queries than Whois queries:
https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/10/the-current-state-of-rdap/
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Reply to @niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
@niqdanger sounds like you need one of the larger full size ereaders.
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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!

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Reply to @paulehoffman@infosec.exchange
@paulehoffman @b0rk @spamvictim @nygren
I am not a network operator, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.

My best guess is that the biggest impact these days is on the flexibility for routing. I hope nobody is actually exposing user hosts directly to the net anymore. RIPEstat says VNU is advertising 14 v4 routes, compared to MIT's (AS3) 123. VNU has on 1 bgp neighbor whereas MIT has 14, so quite a difference in connection diversity. Of course, VNU could help themselves out by getting a v6 prefix. https://stat.ripe.net/resource/AS45542#tab=routing https://stat.ripe.net/resource/AS3#tab=overview
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@adamhsparks @Codeberg beyond the technical benefits of Rust, there is the added benefit that it pisses of Brian Lunduke.
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Reply to @niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
@niqdanger I don’t get it. Do you not know where your house is? 😁
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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.
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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 That took entirely too long to figure out because a lot of the guides are out of date and the HAL has changed drastically.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.
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Reply to @mcr314@todon.nl
@mcr314 @mauve and anytime this comes up, the obligatory book on the topic.. https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/. 😀
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@danyork

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/115906615259034425
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New version of the ICANN RDAP command line software... https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap/releases/tag/v0.0.26

#rust #homebrew #rdap
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Andy Newton

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
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Reply to @pkw@snac.d34d.net
@pkw if only… what would lead you to even think that?
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Reply to @da_kink@defcon.social
@da_kink so if prod pulls the changes, that doesn't count, right? 😀
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Andy Newton

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

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

github.com/stoolap/stoola...

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Assn for Computing Machinery

—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/

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Edited 5 months ago

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…

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