<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sgillies" class="u-url mention">@<span>sgillies</span></a></span> I wouldn&#39;t have the slightest idea. &quot;require&quot; certainly seems to be doing a lot of work here though.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> The CSA can require open source maintainers to take necessary security measures, right? Is prevention against slopsquatting a required measure?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sgillies" class="u-url mention">@<span>sgillies</span></a></span> What is the scenario you&#39;re thinking of?</p>

<p>I&#39;d love to know if laws hold me, a package maintainer, responsible for slopsquatting. I&#39;d like to think no, but clearly our governments support AI companies more than they support open source maintainers.</p>

<p>One thing I will say about Rust, is that simply learning it has made me a better programmer. Similar to how a static-typed language teaches its users concepts about types, (which you may take for granted if you learned programming with Java and have never met a python developer,) Rust has taught me a lot of concepts related to memory safety and concurrency simply from using it to write software.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rust</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/softwaredev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>softwaredev</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Cool. I should try it out. Currently playing Nordhold which is my current top TD game.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> </p><p>GOG does not feel well right now :Twitch_xdd:</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> Playing god by running things on the most cursed stack of rube-goldbergian hacks with tons of dead code for ancient benthic horrors just in there because why not.</p>

<p>4A Games are giving away Metro 2033 Redux free for 48 hours <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/4a-games-are-giving-away-metro-2033-redux-free-for-48-hours/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/4a-g</span><span class="invisible">ames-are-giving-away-metro-2033-redux-free-for-48-hours/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metro2033" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Metro2033</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Metro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/4AGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>4AGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FPS</span></a></p>