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Hey! I'm looking for work, preferably contracting. I'm an experienced Rust dev (9+ years hobby, ~6 years professionally) and I'm interested in backend, embedded, cryptography or security work (loosely, I've done a very wide range of work). I've mostly done development work professionally with some security on the side. I've won a few international CTFs and I'm part of the #1 global CTF team Kalmarunionen. You can contact me at pollyboutet@gmail.com. I'm based in Copenhagen, mostly looking for remote.
Boosts welcome! #GetFediHired #FediHire
btw for anyone interested in the history of unwrap, rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0430-fi...
note that all four of those words are links
0430-finalizing-naming-convent...
YES IT WORKS #CANADA #QUEBEC #WEEOOOWEEOOOWEEOOO
X線の偏光観測！すんげえなあ
ブラックホール「はくちょう座X-1」のプラズマの形がわかった - アストロアーツ
https://www.astroarts.co.jp/article/hl/a/14301_cygx1
What Killed Perl?
Link: https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977900
Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/samsung_emergency_call_failure/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981608
I forgot how tedious it is to chase code coverage when writing tests.
However this was part of the reason that made me include the "boring" parts of building a robust library into the goals set for the #nlnet grant.
So after a couple of days of work I finally got the first of the storage backends for the #GoActivityPub library go past 80% test coverage.
I hope I can reuse some of the test logic in the other backends, as they need to perform identically.
I was a judge in the Independent Games Festival again this year - here are some of my highlights from 2026. Not a "who I think's going to win" prediction, just "here's some games I think are cool!" https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/11/19/igf2026.html
#PyConUS 2026 needs mentors!! We have 40 more proposal submitters seeking support than volunteer mentors. Help us close that gap and sign up for the Proposal Mentorship Program today!
🗓 Deadline: Nov 21, 2025
👉 Sign up: https://forms.gle/wtuXm1Jvqj8iDEBf9
ℹ️ Info: https://us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/mentorship/
so uh can you do anything with an Ouya these days?
I was a judge in the Independent Games Festival again this year - here are some of my highlights from 2026. Not a "who I think's going to win" prediction, just "here's some games I think are cool!" https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/11/19/igf2026.html
それではそろそろ寝ますね…！
病院から帰ってくるのは夜になるかも…
Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/servo_002_arrives/
As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine
<- by me on 
@theregister
"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water"
"Oh, how much water is it?"
"That's a secret"
[ https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115575889086562703 ]
I’m so ashamed …
This week, the UK Home Secretary proposed shocking #asylum reforms that could seize the possessions and jewellery of people seeking #safety, cut off their support and tear apart #families who have built their lives here.
This is performative cruelty reminiscent of #Nazi Germany.
Sign and share this urgent letter to stop the #UK government punishing #innocent families fleeing #war.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/dear_home_secretary_1_0_ol/?utm_source=fediverse
#ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #ToxicReform #HumanRights #theft #fascism
I just got a customer satisfaction survey from GOG, and I have to tell you that the questions are completely unhinged
New Yorker Comic
Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980117
I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already
Link: https://verdikapuku.com/posts/i-am-just-so-sick-of-ai-prediction-content/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982542
Reached this year's goal of 6000 km bicycling just in time before we get the first snow here in Stockholm, Sweden. Counting down the last 30 km in the cold was kind of tough and sweet at the same time. For some reason, my toes got cold, but I did not want to give up before reaching the goal. At the same time, I was super content to keep the level of bicycling for many years now. I wonder how much longer it will last.
https://blog.lauramichet.com/thoughts-about-interfaces-acting-like-people it's honestly not hard to imagine a world where people are legally forbidden from selling software or hardware that refers to itself in the first person or is referred to as a person by any supporting materials (eg marketing), and where the intent embodied in such software is always explicitly attributed to the human beings who produce it and set its policies. i don't think that would fix everything but it'd help. that's a moderate position IMO.
DMCA違反を日本の裁判所が認定したってことなのかな？そんなことできるの？
https://blog.lauramichet.com/thoughts-about-interfaces-acting-like-people it's honestly not hard to imagine a world where people are legally forbidden from selling software or hardware that refers to itself in the first person or is referred to as a person by any supporting materials (eg marketing), and where the intent embodied in such software is always explicitly attributed to the human beings who produce it and set its policies. i don't think that would fix everything but it'd help. that's a moderate position IMO.
Mad respect for Eugen. Imagine a world where the CEOs of social media platforms regularly stepped aside when they realized they weren't cut out for the job.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
Mad respect for Eugen. Imagine a world where the CEOs of social media platforms regularly stepped aside when they realized they weren't cut out for the job.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
Enlightened self interest but it's just me arguing that marginal tax rates should be so high that I personally never have conversations this dumb hit me in the eyes again.
Steve Jobs rotiert im Grab und zwar in zwei nicht aufeinander abgestimmten Kurvenradien, aber nur eine davon entspricht dem iPhone-Screen, weshalb es Blitzer gibt am Rand der Tastatur. Es kann doch nicht sein, dass das niemandem aufgefallen ist.
猫との日本語での会話がYouTubeには韓国語に聞こえるらしく勝手にわけのわからない機械英語に吹き替えられてしまうので、Preferred languagesの設定で全部の言語をチェックしてみた。機械は黙っててくれ。
I have autocompletion on the command line for git branch names, tag names, commit hashes... basically any commits or named commit pointers.
A lot of my working branches start with my username, "dariusk"
Sometimes I get very lazy and type "git checkout da" and then tab for autocomplete and get a list of every commit hash starting with "da"
Some solutions: have a different username. Have a different first name. Type more than two characters before hitting the autocomplete.
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Link: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649
Fucking GROSS.
So because »gestures at this timeline«, the first appliance from Cory Doctorow's ( 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow ) "Unauthorized Bread" is now on the market. A 'smart oven' you buy and subscribe to the company's meals, which bear a QR code you scan so the oven, amidst its ongoing datastream to the mothership, 'knows' how to cook it. The company, which I will not name (and you please won't either), claim you can use the oven to cook your own food, too. But you have to have their app and a wifi connection to set it up and to operate most of its controls, which means at any moment the company can go "lolnope" or put controls (or the ability to cook unauthorized food) behind a paywall, or brick the thing deliberately, or sell your food logs, or do any of the other things Doctorow described better than I, which is why I've linked the story here.
카제나는 또 시나리오라이터가 동덕여대 학생들 지지하고 '빨간띠' 계정 팔로하고 어쩌고 페미니스트 관련 계정 여럿 '팔로' 했다고 대대적인 공격 시작됨............... 개인 SNS 팔로를 하나하나 뒤져봤다고 한다.
Swift apps can be built with many settings:
* Concurrency checking: minimal/targeted/complete
* Language mode: 5/6
* Approachable concurrency: yes/no
* Default isolation: main/none
Never been a better time for us to discuss concurrency on Point-Free! 😅
https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-dependencies/discussions/404#discussioncomment-15015461
Who can guess what my upcoming #Python article is about?
‘Claire Sharpe, a cycling guide and coach from Bristol, said: “If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of”.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3epyl4pddwo?app-referrer=deep-link
@macfranc per cortesia si può avere l'opzione "traduci" dei post?
vibesdk: An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack via 
@tiff https://lobste.rs/s/1ckynu #vibecoding
https://github.com/cloudflare/vibesdk
Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support
Link: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978423
Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
Link: https://www.thedrive.com/news/gymkhanas-1978-subaru-brat-with-9500-rpm-redline-and-active-aero-is-one-super-ute
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45890898
Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3m5xghszlus2t
Tech workers!
Open Source now powers just about every technology out there.
If you find yourself in that magical position of having more money than time to donate, please reach out to the projects you use and the projects you love.
The global to do list ranging from coding to documentation and more is endless but we all do our part.
I can guide you on OpenZFS, bhyve, and several aspects of FreeBSD.
❤️
EU Digital Omnibus Supposedly Simplifies Digital Privacy Regulation
EU Digital Omnibus Supposedly Simplifies Digital Privacy Regulation
The EU Commission has put forth their Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal, which aims to simplify the GDPR in order to foster competitiveness.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: 
Privacy Guides@privacyguides@neat.computer
@bri_sevenLuci Scissors 
@futurebirdmyrmepropagandist if our rods are sensitive in a different bit of the spectrum, why aren't we using them as additional colour information? Something to do with their sensitivity or where they are located?
@guigsyDave Mc @futurebirdmyrmepropagandist rods are only sensitive at low levels of light. they deactivate at the light levels cones are sensitive at, so it’s hard to get them to activate at the same time
it is possible though- if you’ve ever been in a dimly lit room with an alarm clock with a red light display, and noticed how the vision of the room doesn’t quite line up with the red lights.. like it’s… lagging! that’s your rods responding at a different rate from your red cones
Fullmetal Alejandro
just small circles 🕊
Python Software Foundation
Servo
Jenniferplusplus
Chris Siebenmann
Darius Kazemi
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
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