was listening to a description of how selective breeding has transformed corn into an industrial crop and got emotional, like legit weepy, cause the idea of humanity fighting the eternal scourge of famine through an ingenuity that can unlock the potential of the natural world is so beautiful

imagine that capacity, collectively directed by workers who control and direct all production... from each according to her ability, to each according to her need...

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism.

the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.

I just found out that miri now supports ffi at all, and it's like x-mas came early!

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/12/22/miri.html#invoking-native-code-from-miri

#RustLang #Rust

Officially unemployed now after almost 5 years at aws working completely in the open on the Rust compiler.

With https://rustnl.org/fund/ and https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-rust-foundation-maintainers-fund/ both figuring out how to ensure maintainers are paid to do reviews, refactorings and mentoring, I'm optimistic I can continue doing my work in the future.

If your company uses Rust a lot and would like to support it and talk about how that support can either indirectly or directly benefit its Rust-writing employees, I'm happy to chat to explain both funds and make the connection to the right fund for you. Or just skip directly to one of the funds if you already know ppl there!

The thing that is so depressing about these various attempts to adopt snooping laws is they are perennial. They get defeated, but they come back the next year with a new attempt. At some point we are guaranteed to fail to fight it off.

We are at a disadvantage here — like the inverse to the red brigades’ famous saying — we have to get lucky every time, they only need to get lucky once.

What is needed here is some kind of constitutional approach that places surveillance *outside* the realm of things that can be democratically adopted. If it is possible to adopt surveillance democratically, I guarantee we will do it.