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• Post #3172785

  Dear (potential) #zlink users: if there are any breaking changes you think are needed, now would be a very good time to report them. We recently bumped the semver for a few essential fixes and I'd really like to avoid doing this too often. Please RT.

• Post #3172783

  a friend of mine who lives in Berlin, is in a very bad state. They're having many moments of self-harm (pulling their hair mainly) and crying endlessly. They refuse to go to an ER because they think it's not urgent enough as they are not harming anyone or considering suicide (for now). Their GP will only give appointment next week. Where could they turn?

• Post #3172782

  When you're asked to pay to read an article about your own software. 😭 Controlling System Parameters with D-Bus and Rust (zbus crate) | by Rajesh Pachaikani | Medium https://medium.com/@rajeshpachaikani/controlling-system-parameters-with-d-bus-and-rust-zbus-crate-ed154d69fcc4

• Post #3172781

  RE: https://toot.cat/@zeenix/116657098535219579 As I said before: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/934

• Post #3172779

  "I didn't attack multiple people for not agreeing with me" and then attacks me for disagreeing with them, all in the same toot. 🤦‍♂️ https://weathered-steel.social/@elle/116698831051883522

• Post #2756555

  Explain in detail why you want to work at XYZ. MONEY U GIVE ME DO WORK

• Post #2756553

  Tell yourself whatever you need to but the story of Bun's oxidation, and Zig not only losing its biggest user but potential contributions, is very much a "Adapt to the agentic era or be left behind!" story. I understand why people are against LLMs and there's always a chance resistance can win over compliance but I predict this is not a winnable fight because of how extremely useful these tools can be and we live in a capitalist world. Instead I see more and m...

• Post #2756551

  I added glib (well gvariant) to dbus byte encoding benchmarks recently and (not so surprisingly) it's quite bad in comparison to almost all other Rust D-Bus encoding APIs. In one case, we're talking 231.98 µs for zvariant vs 2.8925 ms for glib. https://github.com/KillingSpark/rust-dbus-comparisons#current-results

• Post #2756550

  @vad context? 😉

• Post #2743147

  Anyone know a criminal lawyer in the Berlin area? My stepsons were recently robbed by some nazis and we want a lawyer present when police take their official statements. Please RT.

• Post #2546038

  Thanks to everyone who helped with testing, my language detection app is finally available on the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeenix.xabi&pcampaignid=web_share Highlights: * No account or setup needed. * **Local only**: no data leaves your device[1]. All processing happens on your device. * No in-app advertisements or purchases. * Only €0.99 (3x less than a cup of coffee) one-time purchase and you get the app and all future updates forever for...

• Post #2301642

  When you replay GTA V after a decade https://youtube.com/watch?v=FmlTuFACtM0

• Post #2301641

  Berlin U-Bahn late at night, is sooo Berlin. You see so many colorful characters.

• Post #2301640

  Me: Can you count your fingers? Yasha counts all the fingers on his right hand. Me: Now can you count all the fingers on both hands? He counts each finger on both hands simultaneously as one. 😆 I tried to tell him but he didn't want to listen. He insists on applying parallelism to a problem that clearly doesn't need it.

• Post #1473289

  I made a language detection app for Android. It runs completely locally and offline and I think it does a fairly good job. Google won't let me publish it on their store w/o it getting a lot of testing by many people so I really need some volunteers for this. DM me with your email address if you want to help me out here. 🙏 Please re-toot for reach.

• Post #1126136

  unsolicited advice for anyone designing new D-Bus APIs: if you think you need optional properties, you're likely wrong. People forget that interfaces in D-Bus are designed to be dynamic and an object path can have as many interfaces as needed. The advice: split your interfaces well and add/remove them on paths, instead. That's also much cleaner and thanks to ObjectManager interface, there is a well-established way for clients to track any changes in interfaces.

• Post #1126134

  The recording of my @fosdem talk "How I optimized zbus by 95%" is finally published: https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ub2252a/fosdem-2025-4104-how-i-optimized-zbus-by-95-.av1.webm Unfortunately, certain portions of the recording were lost so you'll notice a few skips. I also discuss #varlink in the last 11 minutes (starting at time index 00:23:45).

• Post #1126133

  I just merged a change that I've dreamed about for years and various users have also asked for: deprecated `zvariant::{SerializeDict, DeserializeDict}` in favor of direct use of `serde::{Serialize, Deserialize}`: https://github.com/dbus2/zbus/pull/1354 This makes me so happy.

• Post #1126132

  zbus recently passed 20 million unique downloads on crates.io. 🎉 With downloads peaking consistently on weekdays (reaching to 70K on some days) and dropping drastically on the weekends, it's very obvious that most of this use is commercial. So if you or your company relies on zbus, please consider sponsoring my work. 🙏 Resharing of this message would also help. https://github.com/sponsors/zeenix

• Post #1126128

  On my way back home now. @eurorust was a awesome, as usual. 👍 So many great talks, got to learn about so many cool projects and people, and had so many great discussions with awesome folks. Cherry on top, got #codspeed setup for @zbus on the impl day (thanks to @darthb) so not only we've some cool graphs for each PR, we now auto-detect (possible) performance regressions **before** the PR is merged rather than after: https://codspeed.io/dbus2/zbus/runs/68ea6497c7753ee0b2702b4f #euror...

• Post #1126123

  Peak **daily** downloads of @zbus on crates.io jumped to almost 150,000 in Jan. 😯😎

• Post #1097600

  "Finland gains direct rail link to Europe this summer" https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038 🎉

• Post #1048799

  Anyone using Workbench (or any Blueprint) tools on Mac? Does it work? Can it work?

• Post #1048798

  "no one in the open source world saw coming" I most certainly did! I've been saying it for a while now: these tools are improving at an exponential rate and all indications are that "slop" will soon be a thing of the past (if this rate of progress continues). https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/

• Post #1048796

  Someone was a natural.

• Post #1048795

  Remember, not to believe anything you hear or read today, unless it's from me. I'll never fool you. 😜

• Post #1048794

  There's no atmosphere on the moon so nothing rots away. That means there's fresh 💩 of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. 😂 That also means that if in a distant future some alien civilization wanted to recreate humans, they could do it more easily than recreating dinosaurs (or most species that ever existed on earth).

• Post #1048793

  People often prefer to use interior mutability in Rust over exterior one. While this makes things in general easier to deal with, part of the reason they're easier is because they typically involve locks (mutex) and atomics. However, this also makes them less reliable because locks can deadlock. There is also a performance hit from them, which can in many cases be significant enough to care about. A great way to think of exterior mutability and lifetimes in Rust, is as compile-time lock...

• Post #1048791

  Had some good days in London with the family. It was their first time and they really loved it. The big ones even got to fly in a helicopter and take the controls for a bit.

• Post #1031133

  I contributed a new video sink plugin to gst-plugins-rs this weekend, that allows you to play videos in your terminal. It makes use of the `viuer` crate to achieve this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/2973 #gstreamer #rust #tui