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Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete

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Ubuntu did invest in a security audit of uutils. It revealed issues that show fundamental misunderstandings on how to use posix APIs. If they cared about security they would have postponed the adoption at least one more cycle. Uutils are they not ready for general availability.

Plus after decades of bug fixing coreutils doesn't have lots of security issues.

The VP of engineering of canonical keynoted Rust conf about uutils and is pushing forward the project. My guess is for political capital inside canonical.

Will long term uutils or another coreutils written in Rust will be a great improvement. Today is not the day.

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Fediverse Growth?

I've been thinking about how to grow the fediverse in my neck of the woods as the global south has very little adoption. Besides hosting a localized (Spanish in my case) server, most people don't even know the fediverse exists. So maybe some old school flyer's and zines to get the word out about the Fediverse. As it stands, most people aren't making a choice to not be on the Fediverse, they don't even know it exists.

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Would anyone be willing to help working on a Spritely Goblins environment but for Rust?

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I know I’m not the brightest person

Never put yourself down!

If a Goblins implementation in Rust would effectively be useless

Not saying it would be useless, I'm saying I don't understand what you mean. Certainly a high-level API on top of OCapN would be useful. Goblins, afaiu, is a guile library. Given that there can't be a 1-1 correspondence between the API, it is unclear what would a Goblins in Rust would look like. Have you written some [non-working] example code to give a more concrete idea of what you are looking to implement?

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Understanding Embark in GNU Emacs (a bit) and some 'stupid' Embark tricks

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Interesting, what client is that? It displays properly in the latest mastodon web client (in addition to piefed.social). I checked in ActivityPubExplorer and it seems that the name is the title content is empty and the link is included as an attachment property.

Your client seems to display the name content and the the id property as the link.

https://activitypub-explorer.pages.dev/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpiefed.social%2Fc%2Femacs%2Fp%2F2127439%2Funderstanding-embark-in-gnu-emacs-a-bit-and-some-stupid-embark-tricks

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