Bonum Certa Men Certa

Moving in Positive Directions

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 30, 2024

Flower pots on and below a balcony in Vrbnik, Croatia

Some news updates and causes for restrained celebration

THIS week was a very productive one for us, though it may not be visible or measurable in number of articles. Yesterday we added 50 pages to the sister site (loads of news about GNU/Linux; a lot more than 5 years ago because GNU/Linux "market share" has soared since pre-COVID-19 times) and next week we'll be finalising some long-form publications. We'll then (hopefully) have more time to cover EPO, prepare some long videos, and make further improvements to the site and the Gemini capsule. Speaking of capsules, the Linux Foundation's Let's Encrypt is dying in Geminispace. Now it is down to 45 capsules and quite soon the cartel (or this element of it) will be down to just "1%". Over the past day it has said: "2561 (89.7 %) capsules are self-signed, 45 (1.6 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 248 (8.7 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)."

For comparison's sake, Let's Encrypt used to be around 12% or more.

In other good news, "Linux Creator Torvalds Says Rust Adoption in Kernel Lags Expectations", there is much-needed backlash against Rust in Linux, and even a resignation in the Rust team. As I put it yesterday in IRC (language warning): "Linus Torvalds says Rust in Linux does NOT meet expectations. Torvalds CANNOT code it or properly read Rust! How can Torvalds properly managed a project whose code (recent) he DOES NOT UNDERSTAND? Cui bono?? Aside from Rust being controlled by Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and a great number of arseholes who censor critics (even Microsoft critics), why make Linux a project that demands developers know how to read and write in BOTH Rust AND in C? How does that improve entry barrier???? GAFAM lies! GAFAM: let's demand that people know TWO programming frameworks to do Linux development. YUS!! That'll make it easier to add developers! And of course Rust, which is bloated, grafts in its OWN stack of security problems! So Torvalds basically surrendered to "crybully" rapists who won't take "no" for answer. He should have kept saying, "NO!" My project, my body. Or is it? Is he STILL in charge?"

The language is informal (it's IRC after all), though it covers some but not all of the key points. A lot more we covered in this old video.

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