https://briansmith.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3mdgi5qlqwk2oI will go to the Rust Los Angeles meetup event in Santa Monica tomorrow (Wed) evening: https://www.meetup.com/rust-los-angeles/events/31226719427 Jan 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgi5qlqwk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lr7uu23fus2kTried macOS 26 beta in a VM. I like the glass effect. The default icons in dark mode are like the ones on iPhone, but the clear icons look good. It seems like a stepping stone toward touchscreen Macs. Lots of big UI elements & more of an emphasis on interactivity. Needs refinement of the layering.10 Jun 2025 02:46 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr7uu23fus2khttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lorsqd7hns26@watchmarquee.bsky.social @mlb.com Would love to get the Cubs games in 5.1 audio through MLB.TV.10 May 2025 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lorsqd7hns26https://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3ljorn6nb2c2oIt’s the time of year where we re-read ComodoHacker’s pastebin. Props to pastebin.com for keeping this up for all these years. pastebin.com/u/ComodoHacker https://pastebin.com/u/ComodoHacker06 Mar 2025 05:37 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljorn6nb2c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3li3zatlbbk2kReleased *ring* 0.17.9. X25519 is about 20% faster for GCC users (clang got it in 0.17.8). AES-GCM is slightly faster. Auditing the code for memory safety and panic-freeness should be easier now. Expect 100% compat with 0.17.8, but MSRV was raised from 1.61 to 1.63; still Debian-Stable-friendly.14 Feb 2025 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3li3zatlbbk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lhkpf6avo22uI wish I wasn’t the kind of person to question whether a language’s mutex implementation guarantees acquire/release semantics.07 Feb 2025 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhkpf6avo22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lfuqsl72zc22Time to deprecate & remove wasm32-unknown-unknown. It is basically the same as a WASI 0.2 environment that exposes no components. It’s easy to create a minimal WASI 0.2 environment that implements wasi-random—or whatever—by delegating to the host (browser, etc.). This would simplify many libraries.16 Jan 2025 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfuqsl72zc22https://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lfqujs3fuc2eThinking about switching to RedNote Actions for CI. I heard it has native loongarch64 support.15 Jan 2025 03:53 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfqujs3fuc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3leroor3nh22aIf magic links work well for signing into your website then passkeys are probably a poor alternative for improving sign-in convenience, as they are overkill and the costs associated with them are high, especially end user support costs. Why not OpenID Connect w/ Discovery using the email address?02 Jan 2025 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3leroor3nh22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lecony2p3s2mSaw Wicked, the stage production, in L.A. last night. It was truly a masterpiece of art. I usually avoid musicals of all sorts, and I seem to annoy people with my Hamilton review (“absolutely not worth the ticket price”). Especially if you have no interest in it, consider giving it a go.27 Dec 2024 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lecony2p3s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3ld7gzxijds2iWhen I order something from overseas on eBay I reliably (100% of the time) get a phishing text related to my package being stuck in customs. Receiving this message is the primary & only mechanism by which I learn my package has arrived in the US before it shows up at my door a few days later.13 Dec 2024 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld7gzxijds2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lcnr5sng4k2dIf you have chopped down a tree, drug it into your home, placed it in a pot of water, and decorated it with lights, then it is highly likely that you plugged it into whatever outlet that room has. If it isn’t a GFCI outlet, you can get an “inline” GFCI cord/wall-wart for this.06 Dec 2024 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnr5sng4k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lcnqt5gews2dAFAICT, the best defense against disasters (e.g. fire) caused by water (rain/sleet/snow/hose overspray) in electric decorations (e.g. Christmas lights) is the exclusive use of GFCI power outlets. If you don’t have conveniently-placed GFCI outlets, inexpensive “inline” GFCI adapters are available.06 Dec 2024 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnqt5gews2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lcmy6euvm22dThis was stabilized in Rust 1.81 as std::hint::assert_unchecked (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/hint/fn.assert_unchecked.html), while the functionally equivalent `if !cond { std::hint::unreachable_unchecked() }` has been stable since Rust 1.27, released in 2018. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Dec 2024 10:32 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcmy6euvm22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3lbc34n4oak2uMany Californians seem to feel too overwhelmed by the daily grind to do anything to make this world more beautiful. But there is something you can do, no matter how busy you are: You can remove the compliance stickers from your cars’ driver side window. Please! Encourage others do the same.19 Nov 2024 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbc34n4oak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3k7z6awhdrl2lLet's Build a FIPS-validated Rust Crypto Library: https://briansmith.org/lets-build-a-fips-rust-crypto22 Sep 2023 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7z6awhdrl2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/briansmith.bsky.social/post/3k5j2ewjrso2dAs a matter of principle I keep my car’s top down unless it is raining. I usually park it top down windows up. I found some auto insurers cover a car that is parked with the top down only if it is locked. Most seem to require the windows to be up too. The worst further require the top be up.22 Aug 2023 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:4fty4j6sufhlqikcnrowirbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3k5j2ewjrso2d