Ayhon @ayhon@qoto.org

BitCraft Online will be open source (the backend is written in Rust)

https://bitcraftonline.com/blog/open-sourcing-bitcraft-online

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://bitcraftonline.com/blog/open-sourcing-bitcraft-online

#programming #rustlang

linkspam!

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python.

http://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/python.html

saved 2025-04-19 https://dotat.at/:/SO9A7.html

#CatsOfMastodon

I have been waiting for this book for 28 years (see the first version of https://third-bit.com/ideas/not-on-the-shelves/) - thank you @TartanLlama

Does anyone have any good resources around automata and how to model systems with them?

I've seen the cellular automata demos, and they're fun! I've also used / written finite state machine implementations, and I tend to model a lot of things with them.

But I know that automata can go a lot further than that. For example, I know that the peep magic peephole optimizer is/was based on automata, and it's what made it efficient. I want to learn more about automata like that?

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

If my hairdresser doesn't soon start to purchase some cryptography consultations, I'll have to charge myself an extra 50% every time I get a new haircut.

Help us create a vision for Rust's future, by taking part in our vision survey!

Check out the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/04/vision-doc-survey.html

Hell yeah https://maly.io/@MattiSG/114267173929565150

My cousin
who is young and angry
tells me at this point
she is waiting for the crash,
she is hoping for the crash,
she can only see a better world
built on the wreckage of this one,
so sympathetically
I try to remind her
that many of us
will be buried in that wreckage.

SILKSONG MENTIONED!

I feel like the brainwashing delivered by our Advanced Functional Programming course has gone pretty well, given two students turned up to the exam with Agda T-shirts.

** Speaker announcement ** Catch this talk at RustWeek 2025!

Speakers: David Barsky & Lukas Wirth
Title: Salsa in Rust-Analyzer

Info & tickets: https://rustweek.org/talks/salsa/

See you in Utrecht 13-17 May, 2025!

#rustweek #rustlang

When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...

The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.

Being confused about which account belongs to which person is known to security professionals as a state management problem.

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I'll see myself out

Which academic field has the best puns in paper titles? Examples welcome!

I've now published my blog post, "I want a good parallel computer." https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/21/good-parallel-computer.html . Thanks much to all the feedback on the draft, I'd like to think I've clarified some things that might have been confusing.

There are just a few days left now to register for the Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in Sheffield, 7-11 April 2025. Eight fantastic courses on category theory, type theory, coalgebra, semantics and more.

Registration closes on Monday 24th March.

https://tinyurl.com/MGS-2025

The first production ready version of The Rocq Prover 9.0 has been released today, see https://rocq-prover.org/releases/9.0.0 on our new official website! In the coming weeks, we'll migrate the Discourse, Zulip and Github organizations, please bear with us and don't hesitate to report broken links! Packages for opam and nix will be coming soon.