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hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch & maker of snappy videos and articles at @bearcove.eu ✨ be kind, be curious articles: https://fasterthanli.me videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime podcast: https://sdr-podcast.com

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 8h

ohhh, zendesk.. that sucks :( bsky.app/profile/dami...

damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 8h

discord itself didn’t, but Zendesk did (in ticket messages apparently)

amos @fasterthanli.me · 8h

....why would they keep those around

The Verge @theverge.com · 8h

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

buff.ly

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 12h

Getting pretty excited for the @sdr-podcast.com recording with @fasterthanli.me at @eurorust.eu tomorrow :) :) :)

eurorust.eu/talks/sdr-po...

a slide that says "type erasure in rust in ergot"

a slide that says "rust is a strongly typed language"

a slide that says "but through unsafe anything is possible :)"

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 1d

Now live! Starting the Rust quiz in a bit

www.twitch.tv/fasterthanlime

fasterthanlime - Twitch

hi, i'm amos! rust & systems programming enthusiast, loves to teach - say hi, be nice!

www.twitch.tv

amos @fasterthanli.me · 1d

Gonna stream on www.twitch.tv/fasterthanlime in an hour or so — there'll be a Rust quiz, I'll need your help to test the quiz system!

fasterthanlime - Twitch

hi, i'm amos! rust & systems programming enthusiast, loves to teach - say hi, be nice!

www.twitch.tv

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

maybe a 6

amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

sherlock

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

I have a cat sleeping on my lap, AMA

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

mhh I wonder what they'll say

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 5d

dioxus really went "oh you won't let me implement Fn? alright, I'll Deref to dyn Fn() then"

docs.rs/dioxus-signa...

signal.rs - source

Source of the Rust file `src/signal.rs`.

docs.rs

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

...or was I thinking of Map Men? youtu.be/uYNzqgU7na4?...

(now I can't find WW music on GeoWizard's channel anymore)

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

youtu.be

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

If your childhood somehow didn't include Wacky Wheels, I strongly recommend watching LGR's review: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fOt...

LGR - Wacky Wheels - DOS PC Game Review

YouTube video by LGR

www.youtube.com

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

Also fun to learn that Wacky Wheels shipped with its own music format, KLM: moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/KLM_For...

KLM Format - ModdingWiki

moddingwiki.shikadi.net

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

In 2014, 3D Realms published the "3D Realms Soundtrack Re-Rockestrated" album for $10 which includes the Wacky Wheels theme, uhhh with more rock: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7KP...

08. Dream (Wacky Wheels)

YouTube video by signatux soundtracks

www.youtube.com

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

Okay so this Wacky Wheels fan site has music downloads, some of which come directly from the composer (Mark Klem): ctrl-alt-rees.com/archive/yell...

The "most lawful" way to listen to the Wacky Wheels theme seems to be.. myspace???

Phil’s Wacky Wheels Site: Game music

Downloads of Wacky Wheels music, including alternate versions, remixes, and recordings of live performances.

ctrl-alt-rees.com

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

I wonder if GeoWizard has licensed the Wacky Wheels soundtrack or if he's buddies with the person who composed is or something? I've been thinking about this for years

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

it's a fun failure though!

amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

the fact that you can impl Trait for Box but not for Rc etc. is still messing with me: doc.rust-lang.org/reference/sp...

Special types and traits - The Rust Reference

doc.rust-lang.org

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

"just" proc macros :(

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

I love when a Rust framework breaks if you use a type alias

mhhhhhhhHHh

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

ah also if you spawn a future from an event handler you get a magical "RuntimeError" that refuses to elaborate? that's.. cool, that's okay.

amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

rust on the frontend is so cool because you can have a closure be invoked "after it's been dropped" which is a new exciting kind of failure I haven't seen in my browser before

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

lmao, code generated by dioxus's #[component] macro is doing a denial of service on zed's autocomplete: it prefers acronyms than verbatim matches:

symbol search in zed, the input is `handle_` and it's showing a generated symbol called `HostPasswordInputPropsBuilder_Error_Repeated_field_server_conn`

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 6d

it's all fun and full-stack rust until someone includes stdio.h under wasm32-unknown-unknown

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