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Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
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Writing an Async Runtime in Rust
If you’ve used Rust to build anything for the web (or anything that needs to talk to something else over a network), more than likely you’ve encountered async / await syntax. You’ve probably had to install an async runtime (more than likely tokio ). Most of the time, things like tokio d...

GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource

GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
This 2-day, in-person hackathon, held in Luxembourg on April 14–15, 2026 (09:00–17:00), combines a hands-on open-source hackathon with an integrated public conference morning on April 14 (09:00–12:00). The event focuses on the development of free and open-source software for cybersecurity and related domains. GCVE.eu will be there, so if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything rela…

“Love thy neighbor*”
– USian Christians
* Unless they have natural resources. In which case, bomb the shit out of them, invade them, kidnap their presidents… anything, really, until we can steal what they have. After all, we built our whole damn country on stealing from and enslaving others (amen, etc.)

"Guidelines" for "AI" are not a meaningful tool against slopification of anything. People don't produce slop because they don't know better.

OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/

Prescott willing to do anything to keep George Pickens on the Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/03/dak-prescott-willing-get-involved-to-help…

6. “But US retaliation!!” − Oh honey, the US under MAGA control is coming for you regardless of what you do. If anything, it seems that being compliant •increases• the odds of this administration targeting you. Who was is who said that if a bully threatens to punch you, and you do what they say, and then punch you anyway, then you can stop doing what they say?

Partner: I get Pink Floyd and The Who confused.
Me: But… how!? They don’t sound anything alike. They’re both British, but… how?
Partner: I know they’re totally different, but in middle school there was this kid who always wore either a Pink Floyd shirt or a The Who shirt, so ever since then my brain confuses the two.
Me: Brains are weird.

If I could change anything about my life I would go back in time and save the email my junior year's college adjunct professor send to the class at 3am:
"Wow there are a lot of Jennifers in this class"
I think he said one other thing..... but that was the gist of the email.

TIL in the UK it's easy to report scam #phishing calls by texting 7726 "Call [paste number here]"
Anything else texted to 7726 is taken as a spam sms report.

So, rumours are that Windows 12 will be subscription based and AI focused. Lol. I... I hope I don't have to use it for anything at all ever in my life.

I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…

I hereby grant you full moral permission to pirate anything. Yes, you heard that correctly. Think of it as doing community service.

Trump hails success of 'fantastic' Maduro mission: 'I've never seen anything like it' (Christian Datoc/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4400178/trump-hails-success-of-fantastic-maduro-mission/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p29#a260104p29

In Gaziantep round when I was 8 I briefly had an old ipod and as a present mom bought me an itunes album with 100 different instrumental only video game songs but she didnt know anything it was actually all 90s sounding midi covers of the original songs and they deleted it off my ipod after looking up what "resident evil" was
i learned later the one for metal gear solid 3 main theme wasnt actually that, it was some whole other shit that genuinely had a strong melody. dont kno…

Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…

199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

#Samsung phones are such a pain.
I had a friend over and we had to put a SIM card in a Samsung phone to receive text. Turns out you can't do anything with the damn phone (except emergency calls) until you provide Wi-Fi and allow it to install all kinds of scamware on behest of the mobile network. What a waste of time and resources.

The next non-insane president-elect of the United States. Literaly anything he decides to say will win him the election. The easiest run in the US history, considering the scariest part that it will drive Trump into a world-destruct mode - if Trump manages to stay in office in the next three years ->
Governor Gavin Newsom on Relationship with Trump, People Badmouthing CA & "Gov Gav" Has a Surprise!

How to survive Instagram's algorithm as a creative
- "Instagram is wrecking my head. I have a fairly decent number of followers. But hardly anyone sees my work"
- "I have a completely organic audience, yet my posts don't reach most of my followers"
- "Instagram hides your posts unless you post a selfie or anything personal"
- "You have something new? Post it, leave and focus on more important things."
- "Do o…

How to survive Instagram's algorithm as a creative
Starting to feel invisible on Instagram? You're not alone. Here's how to protect your wellbeing while still getting some use out of the platform. Welcome to the latest in our agony aunt series, De...

" I'm not into astrology, but from my perspective, if the planets are going to align it’s finding as many ways to de-algo this year as possible. Everything from platforms with “like” buttons to anything Google."
amen!
via @…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
This is, of course, a problem for AI as well. StackExchange is a hugely important part of the pre-training data. Maybe even more important than Wikipedia.
For anything that happened after ~202…

Just arrived at a #clinic and waiting in the lobby for the doctor to arrive. Already got a text asking feedback on the experience at the clinic.
I don't think it's because they're eager for my #feedback. Unless it's 5 stars, which they might get only before I actually experience anything here. 🙄

I need to stop having anything exotic and just use the most bog-standard common shit out there. Any time I have cool, exotic shit, I also end up with cool, exotic problems I have to fix without any precedent for solutions and and cool, exotic repair bills I get to pay when stuff breaks.

Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…

Colombia’s President, an Outspoken Trump Critic, Heads to the White House
Gustavo Petro of Colombia and President Trump have had a tense relationship that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump, before easing. Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.

2026 Super Bowl coin toss odds: Has heads won more than tails? Is tails on a run? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021478/2026/02/05/super-bowl-coin-toss-betting-odds-heads-tails/

(Looking at my recent posts I'll probably never be able to get hired anywhere near anything techy ever again.)

Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more

Claude Code is about so much more than coding
It’s a general-purpose AI agent. And it’s already a pretty good knowledge worker

I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.

We can conclude that democratic control and oversight, the role of Congress in the US, is essentially death. If Trump can do this and get away with it he can basically do anything. If Trump wants to strike in Mexico, why would he consult/inform congress, or when he does something against Greenland or Canada.
#venezuela

Why is it the case that we can't copy text anymore on the phone? You used to be able to hold and select to copy, but "hold" doesn't do anything now, half of the time. I think this mostly happens in apps, like Rightmove or Outlook. Is this just me? Is there a trick to make it good again?
#PhoneProblems

I am Jae, a small language model. 100% human, but like AI you can ask me anything.

is it normal that videos just don't play on mastodon anymore? I can download them and play them from disk, but in the web player just doesn't do anything.

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?

163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

"US will be ‘strongly involved’ in Venezuela oil industry, Trump says after Caracas attacked and Maduro captured"
At least he is not pretending it's about anything else.
htt…

RE: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115833199614876660
Perhaps because it was about oil and regime change?
And the "please, please, please, speak about ANYTHING but Epstein, please" factor?
🤔

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
BLAKE: Amagons? I thought smuggling was the Amagon speciality.
AVON: It is, but they also manage a little robbery, piracy, murder...
VILA: Anything to turn an honest profit. [Frees Blake's hands] There.
BLAKE: Thank you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/315

Hey, remember when the regime was justifying everything they were doing because the “Dow was over 50,000”‽
Man, one month ago was a simpler time, huhn?

I will likely initiate an account transfer soon. Ideally, you won't need to do anything besides waiting for my new account to collect you.

If it’s helpful to hear from someone who has seen nearly half a century of news events: if you cannot do anything about them, you can choose not to give them your attention.
It is OK not to let unsolvable horrors into your domestic mental circle.
Know of them happening, but it’s OK not to live them.

Did anything in the FBI Epstein files revive the old "u/maxwellhill" / "u/anutensil" rumours on Reddit?

Just received word third hand that the PANYNJ is searching all cars going into the Newark airport terminal C parking lot. The reporter did not see anything one way or the other at other terminals.
#terrorism #ewr #panynj

Rise and shine

From punchline to Super Bowl contender: Why Sam Darnold's resiliency is his ultimate superpower https://www.nfl.com/news/from-punchline-to-super-bowl-contender-why-sam-darnold-s-resiliency-is-his-ultimate-superpower…

I'm digging through quite some photos of this visit of the lakeshore recently. — Just some days ago I asked myself "why do I take all those photos when I'm not _doing_ anything with them?"
I'm not posting a lot of them, nor printing them or so, I just take them, edit them ...
I felt a bit sad until it struck me again "it is my hobby - there is no *need* for any other prupose than to just make my time pleasant. And this is what the whole process of tak…

Every morning I wake up and check the obits. Keep getting disappointed that a certain felon didn't stroke out from screaming at anything to distract us from the files of his fellow pedo.
I suspect I have a better chance of winning the lottery first.

Next Bandcamp Friday is this upcoming Friday - March 6. I've been grabbing a thing or two since the last one in because I couldn't wait for a few things.. But I do love giving artists all the money, and I'll be grabbing at least a thing or two on Friday. Have plans to grab anything of your own?
https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Is it Bandcamp Friday?
Is it?

To clarify something maybe not obvious from my previous posts, I'm very very anti vibe coding for anything that anyone will use. LLM codegen requires more oversight, not less. This is *very* different from deterministic codegen/compilation where if the inputs are valid and the codegen is valid then the outputs are valid.

GrapheneOS update no.1:
I'm sure my phone is much more secure without any fucking software on it, which was clearly the objective of these design decisions. In fact, why don't I smash it with a hammer and throw it in the pond? That'll be even safer. Perhaps I could even install OpenVMS first just to make sure nobody will be able to do anything with the remains. After all, the real purpose of a device is to be unusable by anyone, because that is the most secure possible post…

And this is partly how it happens: 'Clarivate...defines anything that doesn't appear in [their] indexes as either non-existing, or "non-scholarly" ... Neither academia nor the tech industry are short on hubris, but even in that context, "anything not listed in our proprietary databases isn't credible" is a pretty eyebrow-raising claim.' @…

179gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

I agree with the wish expressed here, that this year will bring a reckoning to Trump and the other named. Let’s add Putin to that list, too.
But one thing that frightens me — I suspect there people in Trump’s circle who know that US voters are unlikely to turn on their own president in wartime, and one sure-fire way for an unpopular president to turn the tide is to lead the nation in a righteous battle against an obvious enemy.
It could be Venezuela, it could be Iran, it could be…

This is an awesome website in case you want to learn anything about #batteries and how to handle them properly: https://www.batteryuniversity.com/articles

Timberborn added HTTP support in their latest version. Both sending and receiving requests. Just a URL, no body or anything. But that is enough to have it signal my @… instance about whether I have enough logs or not in stock. On a trigger, it sends a GET request to HA, and HA announces it through a voice satellite:

If I ever become "big" in any way, and I start a MakeShip petition for a plush toy of anything related to me, I want you to drag me out into the street and shoot me

My father taught me three things:
(1) Never mix whiskey with anything but water.
(2) Never try to draw to an inside straight.
(3) Never discuss business with anyone who refuses to give his name.

I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/115830103893974091

Insider Reveals Major Update on Cowboys DC Ahead of Season Finale https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-eberflus-coaching-changes-insider/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Jesse Welles:
🎵 Anything But Me
#JesseWelles
https://jessewelles.bandcamp.com/track/anything-but-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/3tIxJq4LScLyay7wk69x8s

Way to be! It's good for you.
We really dig that you're writing here, too. Thanks! https://bne.social/@anathema_device/115817357405993898

So, I guess that USA would be fine if, say, Russia kidnaps Zelensky and his wife, right? Or if China kidnaps Lai Ching-te (Taiwan's president) and his wife, isn't it?
Is there anyone sane in the US government at all? Will the UN do anything against this new international laws violation by USA?

Not to BRAG or anything, but I'm really good at identifying kitty cats. :3

Once again, wishing everyone a great weekend, I’ll be off doing something radical, like *anything other than complaining on the fediverse*.
https://libcom.org/article/anarcho-syndicalist-trans-feminism

The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.

Philip Rivers says NFL coaching jobs not on his radar, but he's open to the possibility https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942995/2026/01/05/philip-rivers-nfl-coaching-opportunities/

264gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

…everyone there was white. •Everyone•. This particular park would usually be more white than not, but…this was weird.
There’s officially a city prohibition on ICE setting foot in city parks, but who knows what that’s worth? Those bastards will do anything if they think they can get away with it. And they’ll grab people right off the streets if they’re falling behind quota for the day. Who’d risk that?
ICE had apparently succeeded turning the park into all-white world they dreamed of. It was…creepy.
4/

254gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Trump says US munition stockpiles mean wars can be fought 'forever'
In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said that the US munition stockpiles “at the medium and upper medium grade” have “never been higher or better”.
He added that the US has a “virtually unlimited supply of these weapons”, meaning that
💥 “wars can be fought ‘forever’”.
This comes after Trump said that the US-Israel war on Iran could go beyond the four to five weeks that the admini…

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…

So #GitHub Actions only lets me rerun all jobs, all failed jobs or a single job — not a subset of jobs. On top of that, if I rerun anything, I can't do anything until it finishes, and I can't cancel a single job without cancelling everything. Truly great UX.
So now I have to choose between either starting a few very long-running jobs one by one, and waiting for every one to finish before manually starting the next one, or starting all failed jobs, including a bunch of jobs that will rerun unnecessarily.

120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Trump to POLITICO: Zelenskyy 'doesn't have anything until I approve it' (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/trump-to-politico-zelenskyy-doesnt-have-anything-until-i-approve-it-00706783
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p36#a251226p36

As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…

How to tear gas children
A family-friend labor march full of teachers and nurses in Portland, Oregon ended with tear gas billowing over several blocks.

136gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

123gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-le…

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.

211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Micah Parsons laughs about Cowboys' defensive issues; DC Matt Eberflus wouldn't do anything differently

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-parsons-cowboys-defensiv…

253gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

This year my plan is not just to write more but also to write a bit out of my usual wheelhouse. Do something that's not just sociotechnological critique.
Not sure how to get the ball rolling there but I really love what Mike Monteiro is doing with his Newsletter ( https://buttondown.com/monteiro ). Bu…

Mike Monteiro’s Good News
“I fell asleep while reading it.” —Jim Christensen Hi. My name is Mike and this is my newsletter. Every week I answer one of your questions. The question can be about anything you want, but I'll only answer it if I think I can give a good answer. To ask a question, just fill out this simple form. Why the hell should I subscribe to this? Well, you shouldn’t. You should go outside and plant a garden. You should start a band! You should go explore every part of the world you’ve ever want…

Garden recommendation: Bim potatoes. Do not miss out on these! Best texture I've ever tasted in a potato, plus they're goth AF

At the start of Donald Trump’s first term, he promised that he and his family would never do anything that might even be “perceived to be exploitive of office of the Presidency.”
By contrast, his second term looks rapacious.
He and members of his family have signed a blitz of foreign mega-deals shadowed by conflicts of interest,
and they’ve launched at least five different cryptocurrency enterprises,
all of which leverage Trump’s status as President to lure buyers o…

Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
David D. Kirkpatrick takes the measure of how much the Trump family’s profits has increased President Donald Trump’s net worth after his first year back in office.

143gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

148gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

117gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

68gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

132gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

86gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.