Silver Owl

@SilverOwl
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Computer engineer, bookworm, board game enthusiast, night owl.
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Rustup 1.29.0 has been released! 🦀

Rustup, the tool for installing and updating Rust, will now download files concurrently and unpack them in parallel, which makes updating Rust much faster. ✨

See the blog post for all the changes to rustup: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/12/Rustup-1.29.0/

Announcing rustup 1.29.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

GNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art

#krita #speedpainting #discworld

Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

The latest Signal and WhatsApp breaches targeting German and Dutch government officials prove that consumer apps have no place in government.

❌ As European governments pursue digitally sovereign strategies, they should take the next step: Ban the use of consumer apps like Signal and WhatsApp for government-related conversations.

Secure government communications need infrastructure designed for the public sector - not repurposed consumer tools.

https://element.io/blog/latest-signal-and-whatsapp-breaches-show-that-consumer-apps-have-no-place-in-government/

Latest Signal and WhatsApp breaches show that consumer apps have no place in government

On Monday the General Dutch ⁠Intelligence Agency (AIVD) and Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) announced a sustained Russian-backed campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp users.  It follows a similar warning in February, from Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Agency (BfV) and Federal Cybersecurity Office (BSI). The attacks are based on

Element Blog

Last day to respond to the Sovereign Tech Agency Survey on Standards Engagement!

Open standards are key to a digitally sovereign future, we need ways to support the contributors and maintainers building them. Time to share your experience with the STA!

➡️ https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/999999

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This Month in Redox - February 2026

This month was very exciting as always: COSMIC Compositor, COSMIC Settings, NodeJS, Vulkan, Complete POSIX Signals, Fixed Nushell and Helix, More Boot Fixes, Better Multi-threading, Better Package Manager, Orbital Performance Monitor and many more.

https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-260228/

The Artful Corvid #oldknees
Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. release 28 "Boiorix" is live

The first release of 0 A.D. that doesn't have an "Alpha" label attached, as the free and open source RTS has grown up with their faster release schedule.

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