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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • As one of the other quotes suggested: fork the kernel project and rewrite it entirely in Rust

    That’s not practically possible given the scale of the kernel. And doing a total rewrite is almost always a recipe for getting stuck and, if you ever create anything, creating something worse.

    Replacing C with Rust in the upstream kernel is akin to replacing the engine in a car while it’s running or being used every day.

    Almost all real-world software development is like this. That’s what we do.












  • Well we’ve done nothing to prepare for the next pandemic, we’ve had proof that in crisis people will fight each other before they’ll pull together to help, our social systems continue to be dismantled for profit, everyone except the all-powerful ultra-rich is struggling to afford to live, owning a home is an unattainable dream, education is more expensive and than ever and doesn’t guarantee any employment result, the world is creeping closer to war, fascists are on the march everywhere, minorities are being blamed and threatened for the sins of the rich, and the planet is being destroyed at a rate that makes this generation’s prospects look like mostly starvation and war. Maybe young people aren’t too stupid to notice some of this?





  • Estimates are around 1000 Israelis killed in the October attacks. Most of them were killed by Hamas; some were killed by the IDF in their response to Hamas. Those attacks were brutal and terrible. Friends of my family only just survived. Hamas is repellent.

    There are are now about 40,000 Palestinians confirmed killed by the IDF since October, and perhaps another 10,000 thought to be dead but not yet counted. It is simply a fact of numbers that the IDF have killed far more people than Hamas over this timeframe, and there’s no end in sight. Entire cities have been flattened, and huge numbers of people have been made homeless and are being starved and deprived of water and medical treatment even as they are bombed and shot daily.

    Tragedy and suffering are personal and cannot simply be calculated by numbers. But surely it cannot be difficult to see why people think the IDF has inflicted greater suffering than Hamas since October 2023?

    From June: Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential