When Trump and his crime family comes for your data, American tech won't save you. They'll hand it over because they have no choice. European and Canadian alternatives aren't perfect, but at least they aren't under Trump's thumb.

Here's my post-Trump tech stack.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/american-tech-is-compromised-heres-my-replacement-stack-2/

Happy 50th Birthday, #TCP!

"A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" by Vinton G. Cert and Robert E. Kahn

Published May 1974 in IEEE "Transactions on Communications" and including the definition of 16 bit port numbers, relative sequence numbers, buffering and retransmission based on window size and other flow control.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf

Via Patrik Fältström on internet-history@lists.isoc.org:
https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-May/009758.html

Rust 1.75.0 is now available! 🦀✨

Traits now support `async fn` and `-> impl Trait` (with some limitations), the compiler got faster, `version =` in Cargo​.toml is now optional, and many small functions have been stabilized!

Check out the announcement:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/28/Rust-1.75.0.html

UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is… a what user? • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken_thompson_is_a_maccie/

«I have for most of my life – because I was sort of born into it – run Apple. Now recently, meaning within the last five years, I've become more and more and more depressed [...] And I've come, within the last month or two, to say: even though I've invested a zillion years in Apple, I'm throwing it away, and I'm going to Linux. To Raspbian, in particular».

#Linux #Raspbian #RaspberryPi

In my talks and discussions about the role of Open Source maintainers, I usually list a number of reasons why maintainers might quit or otherwise reduce their involvement.

"The Russian army destroyed my house" hasn't been on that list yet 😐 🇺🇦

Source: https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3

#OpenSource #maintainer #freesoftware #FOSS #ukraine #StandWithUkraine