Lunduke’s Thoughts of The Week

Yesterday was the 4th of July.

As such, time that I normally would have spent writing up some thoughts on the Tech News of the Week (tm) was, instead, spent eating hamburgers, watching fireworks, and generally goofing off with my kids.

So allow me to briefly summarize my thoughts using as little effort as possible:

Rust is weird, Sony sucks, and America is awesome.

… Yup. That just about covers it.

I hope all of my fellow Americans had a truly splendid Independence Day.

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Here are the major stories from the last week, with direct links to X and Substack.

See Lunduke.com for all other platforms (Rumble, RSS Audio Podcast, etc.).

• Git Takes Another Step Towards Making Rust Mandatory (X, Substack)

• 74 Million User Accounts Exposed in Breaches During June (X, Substack)

• BCacheFS Adding Rust Dependency Even Though “Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI” (X, Substack)

• Git Without Rust From Dev of XLibre (X, Substack)

• Sony Says No More Physical PlayStation Games (X, Substack)

• Ubuntu Sponsors Rust Clone Foundation (X, Substack)

• Like Computers? Thank America. (X, Substack)

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-Lunduke

 

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