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Kornel

For a programming language that is definitely not a religion, this looks suspiciously like a church:

#rustconf #rustlang

inside of tall ornate conference hall with a giant R projected on a wall

Like 11 September at 13:27 | Open on mastodon.social

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@kornel in rust we trust, ...but crafting in C. (joke)

11 September at 22:34 | Open on infosec.exchange

la gleki mlatu

@kornel all hail the borrow checker 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

11 September at 23:33 | Open on rheinneckar.social

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Milena Zen

@kornel as a former Jehovah’s Witness I’ll tell you: That’s pretty culty.

12 September at 0:57 | Open on mstdn.social

Kornel

Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

This is a very good news for web standards:

https://mastodon.social/@kornel/113078862354601952

and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.

The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.

Like 4 September at 10:52 | Open on mastodon.social

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Pixel Doge

@kornel what happened about that thing of building native libraries to Wasm, then doing AOT compilation and running the resulting code in a sandbox that Firefox was supposed to be doing? Sounds like the perfect solution to to add support while avoiding directly using the C++ implementation, yet having a complete implementation today:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again-fine-grained-sandboxing-in-firefox-95/

Saying “we want to support JPEG-XL but we won't until $X that somebody else had to do” sounds like moving goalposts in an attempt to silence the people asking for the feature without really committing to work on it.

@kornel what happened about that thing of building native libraries to Wasm, then doing AOT compilation and running the resulting code in a sandbox that Firefox was supposed to be doing? Sounds like the perfect solution to to add support while avoiding directly using the C++ implementation, yet having a complete implementation today:

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4 September at 17:06 | Open on oldbytes.space

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Frost, Wolffucker 🐺:therian:

@kornel *sighs* Of COURSE this'll just fuel the Rust Cult people.

JPEG XL is cool though.

4 September at 17:46 | Open on masto.brightfur.net

feld

@kornel okay, but they didn't seem to have any issues with supporting the Widevine DRM modules which aren't written in Rust

Cisco's OpenH264 is 150,000 lines of C++. When are they gonna eject that?

4 September at 17:51 | Open on friedcheese.us

Kornel

#WebStandards need two independent implementations of every feature.

This proves that the spec is actually possible to implement, and makes it possible to verify that the implementations are interoperable.
It makes uses in the wild much less likely to depend on bugs in a particular implementation, which makes it possible to upgrade or replace implementations without creating painful bug-compatibility problems.

Like 4 September at 10:41 | Open on mastodon.social

Exa :calim:

@kornel Actually three would make more sense to have a quorum.

4 September at 16:15 | Open on share.elouworld.org

Kornel

Photo libraries should have a "cats" / "not cats" toggle. I can't find any non-#cat photos.

Like 17 July at 19:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Kornel

Random cat befriended (that's a cafe cat, not a cat cafe) #caturday

Smol gray cat is rubbing its cheeks against my hand in a cafe backyard

Like 13 July at 10:44 | Open on mastodon.social

Kornel

Authentication with U2F keys (AKA Fido or Yubikey) works well for me. It's phishing-proof and as easy as tapping a button. I'm not in a rush to try #Passkeys.