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Joe Birr-Pixton

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computers, computer security, cryptography. rather dull really. locale: cambridge, uk github: https://github.com/ctz/ & https://github.com/rustls/

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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to the shortlisted nominees in the 6th annual OpenUK Awards 2026, 🏆🍾🥂 Andy Piper, @bboreham.bsky.social, Daniel Gale, @davidtw.co, Dermoscopea, @flox.dev, Godfrey Inyama, Jan Faracik, @jbp.io, LVFS (fwupd.org), lowRISC CIC, Dr Margaret Hartnett, @manyfold.3dp.chat.ap.brid.gy,...

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Dirkjan Ochtman @djc.ochtman.nl · 15d

New Rust RFC: adding a crates.io Security tab

github.com/rust-lang/rf...

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io

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Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · 16d

"I appreciate that you're frustrated, but I should clarify: I'm an AI assistant, so I don't have a mother or family relationships."

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Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · 17d

It's time to send GCC to live on a farm.

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Dirkjan Ochtman @djc.ochtman.nl · Oct 1

I wrote another blog post for the Prossimo blog about how we improve the unhappy path for rustls users:

www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-...

Improving Error Handling in Rustls

Dirkjan Ochtman is a maintainer of the Rustls TLS library that we've invested in since 2021. While he and the other maintainers have made many improvements and landed important features, we've asked D...

www.memorysafety.org

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Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 29

Microsoft has a product called Copilot Pro, and Github has a product called Copilot Pro. They are different prices, different and unrelated products, shipped by teams that have no awareness of each other. Incredible product management and business acumen.

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Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 24

NSA standard dead-drop location for cryptography constants 🥸

Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 15

on one hand the Northstowe Phase 1 S106 (between two Tory councils and a billionaire Tory donor) was impossibly lax and demanded nothing of anyone, but on the other Tony Gallagher was knighted, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 13

ideally suited to just in timberlake compilation

Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 13

Definitely nothing to do with the conduct of the Tory MPs or government at that time. Certainly not!

Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 3

hi! please email contact@rustfoundation.org and cc jbp@jbp.io -- thanks :)

Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Sep 3

We have a little blog post about this rustls.dev/blog/2025-09...

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Joe Birr-Pixton @jbp.io · Aug 29

i'm in this post and i don't like it

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cpu @cpu.xkeyscore.club · Aug 28

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0 has a nice note in the changelog:

> The embedded webserver used to display the status page and process REST API calls has been rewritten in Rust and now supports multiple listen addresses and TLS.

The new code is powered by Hyper+Rustls+Ring 🦀 🔒

(h/t Stefan Schmidt)

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Conrad Ludgate @conrad.cafe · Aug 27

When working with async, you often need to call a function that would block the runtime. Turns out not all blocking functions are the same

Tokio defines two kinds of blocking functions: IO bound and CPU bound.

A close read of the tokio docs tells you to avoid CPU bound tasks in spawn_blocking

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