If Only Someone Warned Us About This...
About a week ago: Rust People: Drain the Swap, You're Holding It Wrong
6 days later:
When a youngster from the British Army, where he did mass surveillance, takes over decision-making in Canonical and specifically inside Ubuntu, what outcome can be expected?
Ubuntu is committing suicide with Rusty code (GNU had 42 years to mature; this Rust stuff is experimental) that's controlled by Microsoft and is developed using proprietary software.
As Dr. Andy Farnell put it in 2022: "We tried to train new hackers, but those kids weren't interested, ambivalent now towards technology that only seemed to control their lives. It was "no fun to compute". The excitement of possibility, of "making a difference", was gone." █