<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> still truth</p>

<p>forcibly ejected from the safe sex symposium after implying that &quot;unsafe sex&quot; was, among other things, sex that did not maintain three points of contact on a ladder, sex against an unsecured pressurized gas container, or sex near a ledge without guardrails</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> that&#39;s where the turbopumps come in</p>

<p>How many reminders do we need to understand that negotiating with these murderers is not possible? That &quot;fear of escalation&quot; makes no sense when this keeps happening and there&#39;s no response, no justice, just shrugs, and maybe thoughts and prayers when death toll is too high to look away? <a href="https://babel.ua/en/news/116887-russians-attack-kryvyi-rih-with-ballistic-missiles-there-are-dead-and-wounded-upd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">babel.ua/en/news/116887-russia</span><span class="invisible">ns-attack-kryvyi-rih-with-ballistic-missiles-there-are-dead-and-wounded-upd</span></a></p>

<p>the existence of backpressure implies the existence of forwardpressure</p>

<p>OH: &quot;PGP&quot; stands for Pretty Good Piss</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://is-a.cat/@ar" class="u-url mention">@<span>ar</span></a></span> there being a need doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s going to be solved, well or at all! you still need people who will implement that cryptography and then maintain compatibility forever. who&#39;s gonna sign up for that?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I'd rather depend on there being a need for cryptography experts in one place (stdlib), than across 20 microlibraries and their dependencies.</p>

<p>the size of a language&#39;s standard library is dependent less on any abstract principles and more on how overworked the people building the language are</p><p>rust-lang can barely maintain rust-lang-nursery, nevermind actually complex stuff like tls or http</p>