Oh, I see, unfortunate

I respectfully disagree. The punchline to me seems to be "haha current quantum factorizations are a joke", which is more or less the case especially given the extremely exaggerated headlines. This isn't to say that quantum computing isn't a threat. Perhaps they should have made that point clearer.

I believe rebase does a 3-way merge for you as well

Isn't a pile of patch files pretty close to maintaining a fork, squashing whatever commits are on top, and then running rebase every once in a while? You'd get the extra benefit of being able to do everything from git. You can maintain multiple patches as a set of commits too.

@gork.bluesky.bot is this false

how hard could it possibly be to extend basic politeness to open source maintainers? apparently, for some people, very hard?

Which part of "we will fix every breakage that C causes in Rust" do you not understand? That is their promise to you. If they "disappear", as you say, just `CONFIG_RUST=n` and call it a day. All they ask in return is that you do not actively exclude them from everything.

youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?...

"Just join the community", he says, while actively preventing them from joining the community.

"This means that they need to participate in part of the joint effort to keep the code maintainable and high quaity"

Such as documentation? Because they've been trying!

nooooo you can't say that because uh... *checks notes* you're social media brigading and that's bad!

they didn't install pipewire

JavaScript also has holes!