Oliver Gould
@olix0r.net
Creator, Linkerd 🦞
Co-founder, Buoyant 🎈
Rust 🦀, Async 🔀, Networking 🕸️
Co-founder, Buoyant 🎈
Rust 🦀, Async 🔀, Networking 🕸️
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“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Reposted by Oliver Gould
One of the most interesting recent privacy developments is the deployment of big two-hop IP blinding VPNs by companies like Apple and Google. These systems are designed to ensure that even those companies can’t link web requests to IP addresses.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One of the most interesting recent privacy developments is the deployment of big two-hop IP blinding VPNs by companies like Apple and Google. These systems are designed to ensure that even those companies can’t link web requests to IP addresses.
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.
No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.
h4x0r.org/funreliable/
No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.
h4x0r.org/funreliable/
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.
No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.
h4x0r.org/funreliable/
No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.
h4x0r.org/funreliable/
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Just canceled my windsurf sub. Codex CLI has eaten everything right now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just canceled my windsurf sub. Codex CLI has eaten everything right now.
I wonder if yinst is still a thing
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I wonder if yinst is still a thing
Reposted by Oliver Gould
While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites
quad9.net/news/blog/wh...
quad9.net/news/blog/wh...
Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
quad9.net
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites
quad9.net/news/blog/wh...
quad9.net/news/blog/wh...
I’m the only network protocol banned from Airbnb.
Why?
ICMP
Why?
ICMP
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I’m the only network protocol banned from Airbnb.
Why?
ICMP
Why?
ICMP
Reposted by Oliver Gould
In concept I’m a huge fan of porting infrastructural code to Rust/memory safe languages, but shipping broken code — especially code that causes silent data loss — doesn’t help that cause.
`dd` incorrectly counts partial reads toward `count` limit, causing data loss in pipelines · Issue #9119 · uutils/coreutils
Summary uutils dd has a critical bug where partial reads from pipes are counted toward the count=N limit, causing premature termination and significant data loss. GNU dd correctly only counts full ...
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In concept I’m a huge fan of porting infrastructural code to Rust/memory safe languages, but shipping broken code — especially code that causes silent data loss — doesn’t help that cause.
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Matt Levine (@matt-levine.bsky.social) keeps writing about AI in precisely the same tone he wrote about crypto and NFTs.
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Matt Levine (@matt-levine.bsky.social) keeps writing about AI in precisely the same tone he wrote about crypto and NFTs.
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
"This is, you know. This is fine."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Last week I wrote a section on (non-IO) blocking and async Rust for the async book: rust-lang.github.io/async-book/p.... I talk about 'not blocking the thread', combining CPU-intensive work with async, etc.
#RustLang
#RustLang
IO and issues with blocking - Asynchronous Programming in Rust
rust-lang.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Last week I wrote a section on (non-IO) blocking and async Rust for the async book: rust-lang.github.io/async-book/p.... I talk about 'not blocking the thread', combining CPU-intensive work with async, etc.
#RustLang
#RustLang
it's the anniversary of the day that Jack Dorsey made everyone at Twitter listen to Blackbird by The Beatles
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
it's the anniversary of the day that Jack Dorsey made everyone at Twitter listen to Blackbird by The Beatles
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Reposted by Oliver Gould
It really is uncanny how similar AI videos are to a fever dream
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It really is uncanny how similar AI videos are to a fever dream
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Sequoia’s Choice
Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced…
Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced…
Sequoia’s Choice
Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced operating executive”—resigned in August after complaining about partner Shaun Maguire’s Islamophobic posts. Senior partners declined to discipline him, citing free speech.
www.techdirt.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Sequoia’s Choice
Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced…
Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced…
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates | Discussion
Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date comman [...]
lwn.net
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates | Discussion
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Reposted by Oliver Gould
Yikes, is that a lot of water?
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Yikes, is that a lot of water?
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First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code | Discussion
GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog
www.koi.ai
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code | Discussion
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Huh, that's a new one. Fake Cloudflare captcha asking you to please run the osascript from http://185.93 . 89.62/d/xxx33312 to collect and uplaod all your passwords and cookies.
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Huh, that's a new one. Fake Cloudflare captcha asking you to please run the osascript from http://185.93 . 89.62/d/xxx33312 to collect and uplaod all your passwords and cookies.
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This surfing sea otter shot is pretty epic..
Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press.
Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This surfing sea otter shot is pretty epic..
Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press.
Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press.