#RustRant

Ok, I get it.Rust is cool af.

I'm a programmer who has been programming since around 1980; self taught in just about everything except assembler and TRS-80 BASIC, and at 62 still a productive professional programmer programming in python.

I've just come from PyPI.org, where I find that many packages listed there are drop-in replacements for python packages written in Rust, or new bits of work written in Rust but wrapped in a python binding.

Lets be clear: I am not a Rust hater. I've started taking an online course to learn some Rust, because the products of the toolchain are undeniably amazing.

I'm finding the language to be more than a bit difficult, however, because like most new and effective advances in computers science, its very different, and that makes it challenging.

What I am finding I don't like however, is the behavior of the community. Just because you *can* write rust code that will e.g., fit into the linux kernel, or be easily wrapped into some sort of binding, doesn't mean I want to discover that my python package repository, full of lovely python programs, done pydantically, and all according to the PEPs we know, love, and depend on, to be supplanted with a bunch of python wrapped rust code. Its unfriendly, unnecessary, and most importantly, dilutes the effectiveness and maintainability of the index and the code found there.

By all means, write Rust apps, if you're able.

Just keep them out of my python
reposititory.

Just my 0.02$

To reiterate: I have nothing against any programming language. They're all useful in some respect, yes ALL of them.

I just want my python repository to be pure python, with very few very notable exceptions.

#python #rust #rant

I'm being bombarded with this again today and I've had enough so please forgive me some yelling.

THERE IS NO WAY TO USE AI ETHCALLY.

(Regarding, of course, the most popular uses of the term 'AI' today.) Stop saying you're using it 'ethically' or 'responsibly'. There is no such thing. It is built on massive theft, the undermining of humanity, and the willingness to give up food security, among other major issues. Stop pretending. Stop trying to force others to use it. Just fucking stop! The only way you're using it 'ethically' is if your ethics are bad.

And no, I don't give a shit how you want to reply to this, whine your way out, or excuse yourself as some shining exception.

#rant #AI

I'm being bombarded with this again today and I've had enough so please forgive me some yelling.

THERE IS NO WAY TO USE AI ETHCALLY.

(Regarding, of course, the most popular uses of the term 'AI' today.) Stop saying you're using it 'ethically' or 'responsibly'. There is no such thing. It is built on massive theft, the undermining of humanity, and the willingness to give up food security, among other major issues. Stop pretending. Stop trying to force others to use it. Just fucking stop! The only way you're using it 'ethically' is if your ethics are bad.

And no, I don't give a shit how you want to reply to this, whine your way out, or excuse yourself as some shining exception.

#rant #AI

Once again had to download a stupid app and spend ten minutes by the side of the road faffing with my phone to charge the car. This is such a huge barrier to entry for so many people, I do not know why you cannot just plug your car in and swipe a bank card, it is ridiculous. No wonder people stick to petrol cars, at petrol stations you can just swipe your card and fill up. It's inexcusable that it isn't the same experience for electric, there's no good reason for it. #ev #rant

Once again had to download a stupid app and spend ten minutes by the side of the road faffing with my phone to charge the car. This is such a huge barrier to entry for so many people, I do not know why you cannot just plug your car in and swipe a bank card, it is ridiculous. No wonder people stick to petrol cars, at petrol stations you can just swipe your card and fill up. It's inexcusable that it isn't the same experience for electric, there's no good reason for it. #ev #rant

We really do live in the most objectively vapid and insulting dystopia ever. I looked up, what I thought was an obscure thing, I got a whole entire page of fucking generated answers. I had to go to page 2 of multiple search engines to get away from the crap. I can’t express how much I hate this timeline. Putting aside every unethical thing about AI, I’m just annoyed that I have to be subjected to it. It’s the most obvious way for companies to extract money from you, and it is least complicated algorithm ever. It’s based on tokens and what’s the most plausible next word. Even the grift is fucking stupid. It’s the most obviously low effort grift ever and people using it as a tool? Paying for it? You absolutely deserve to have your money completely wasted I really don’t care anymore. I can’t wait until your tool gets taken away because this shit is ridiculous. #Rant #AI

｢ Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines ｣

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

#ai #aislop #rant

｢ Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines ｣

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

#ai #aislop #rant

With this photographic memory I fully understand how someone can become delusional and seem like they have schizophrenia now.

You get so stressed it corrupts your picture and you stop registering logical context because all the information you're working with is corrupted.

Your basic files are wrong and lead you somewhere made of nonsense.

Stress causes this if great enough, and my brain makes whole worlds that never happened if I don't sleep well.

#writing #mentalhealth #neuroscience #rant

If Qualcomm has no chill to screw both MS and Apple with patent BS, what makes you think they'll give two flying f*cks about the hobbyist community around Arduino.

#arduino #rant #opensource

With this photographic memory I fully understand how someone can become delusional and seem like they have schizophrenia now.

You get so stressed it corrupts your picture and you stop registering logical context because all the information you're working with is corrupted.

Your basic files are wrong and lead you somewhere made of nonsense.

Stress causes this if great enough, and my brain makes whole worlds that never happened if I don't sleep well.

#writing #mentalhealth #neuroscience #rant

Of course it does not mean that ActivityPub is bad on itself.

It just necessary to admit these things before even thinking about some software project:
1️⃣ Each tech has limits of applicability
2️⃣ Each design decision would either limit your audience (by demanding some tech knowledge to get started) or make your project more vulnerable to censorship or other treats of forced closure.
3️⃣ IT solutions can't solve political problems

#rant #softwareDev #p2p #ActivityPub

Whoever designed the Avanti West Coast train seats, may your pillow always be warm, your tea cold and your shower never just right

Most unfomfortable shit ever, these things. At least 3/4 of me is in pain. #UK #trains #rant #avanti #ergonomics

Whoever designed the Avanti West Coast train seats, may your pillow always be warm, your tea cold and your shower never just right

Most unfomfortable shit ever, these things. At least 3/4 of me is in pain. #UK #trains #rant #avanti #ergonomics

Spent my morning figuring out why Nginx was dead on a server with many days of uptime. No reboot, no kernel panic. Just... down. Ubuntu 24.04.

The cause? An automatic unattended-upgrade of libc6. This prompted systemd to work its magic, wisely deciding to restart every running service to apply the patch. Fine.

The problem is, in the exact same minute, the systemd timer for certbot decided it was time to renew certificates.

The result:

- systemd stops Nginx.
- Port 80 becomes free.
- certbot, in standalone mode, immediately grabs it for validation.
- systemd tries to restart Nginx, which fails with "Address already in use".

The web server was knocked offline by its own certificate renewal script.

I swear, this is the kind of cascading failure that has never happened to me in years of running *BSD. With a classic cron job, certbot would have failed, logged an error, and tried again the next day. The web server would have remained untouched.

systemd was doing its job, but something failed because of the interactions.

Sometimes, too much automation and too many interconnected parts just create more spectacular ways for things to break.

#SysAdmin #Linux #SystemD #Rant #KISS

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2025. Autos fahren selbstständig, Kühlschränke bestellen eigenständig Milch, und mein Toaster hat wahrscheinlich mehr Rechenleistung als die Apollo 11. Aber wenn ich eine SMS mit Umlauten verschicken möchte, fällt die Nachricht sofort zurück in die Steinzeit mit 70 Zeichen Limit. Also schreibe ich wieder „ue“ wie 2003, als wäre ich auf einer T9-Tastatur gefangen. Fortschritt ist, wenn die Zukunft schneller kommt als die Umlaute.

#rant

Spent my morning figuring out why Nginx was dead on a server with many days of uptime. No reboot, no kernel panic. Just... down. Ubuntu 24.04.

The cause? An automatic unattended-upgrade of libc6. This prompted systemd to work its magic, wisely deciding to restart every running service to apply the patch. Fine.

The problem is, in the exact same minute, the systemd timer for certbot decided it was time to renew certificates.

The result:

- systemd stops Nginx.
- Port 80 becomes free.
- certbot, in standalone mode, immediately grabs it for validation.
- systemd tries to restart Nginx, which fails with "Address already in use".

The web server was knocked offline by its own certificate renewal script.

I swear, this is the kind of cascading failure that has never happened to me in years of running *BSD. With a classic cron job, certbot would have failed, logged an error, and tried again the next day. The web server would have remained untouched.

systemd was doing its job, but something failed because of the interactions.

Sometimes, too much automation and too many interconnected parts just create more spectacular ways for things to break.

#SysAdmin #Linux #SystemD #Rant #KISS

This is where I'm often told that a product needs to stand out, that it needs to be eye-catching, visually separate itself from the rest. Maybe that's true, I can't judge that, nor do I have the background, or senses, to properly refute or dispute that. I do have a viewpoint on this, though, and it is thus:

How helpful is your eye-catching, outstanding, visually separate design if through its very presence, users can't actually get the task done they're paying for the product to complete? Are you truly so uncertain about your product's capabilities that you need to "trick" a user into staying around by throwing pwetty pictures at them? Does nobody realize how pitiful that is?

For this and more viewpoints that often go unseen, hit me up at https://youtube.com/@ViewpointUnseen 😜 #rant

Can you guess Hanna’s feelings about AI in email? 🤯 What are your thoughts on this?

#ai #rant #artificialintelligence #email #privacy #chatgpt