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Suggested reading:
- Rust in Linux Kernel drama
- Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC) at 38C3 Chaos Communication Congress
- Nixos 24.11 Vicuña
- Flakes aren’t real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way
- Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative
- BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses
- Passive SSH Key Compromise via Lattices
- Lobbying for open documentation, firmware & repair (and tax breaks for open source)
- Unity Gaming Crisis: the problem with vendor lock-in in game development
- Trouble brewing for #RISCV as issue of technology transfer is questioned
- Linux kernel driver development in Rust: examples and best practices
- Asahi Linux & nixOS on Apple MacBook: UEFI Boot Standalone NixOS (2023-12-24)