That is the discussion. Microsoft is pretending by making it the upgrade path for two products which actually are local, and hoping users won’t notice.

Honestly I’m glad they highlighted the telemetry. I went through the local report about what’s included and while it’s not an upsetting level of detail, it’s more comprehensive than I would have opted in to if asked.

Still, as sibling points out it’s in a completely different league from slurping up your IMAP creds, something which has always been local-only data. This is the second time I know of recently where MS has trampled on this kind of local-only expectation - the other was Edge defaulting to sending the contents of textboxes you’re filling out on webpages to the MS cloud for spelling and grammar checks. Thunderbird is still a sound recommendation, and unlike Microsoft, I trust that if I uncheck the telemetry box they’re not going to try to get me some other way.

It certainly is so :) https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-september-2023-progress-report/

Nothing in tech stands still. If you want a glimpse of a possible alternative future check out Pijul. And I don’t know an example off-hand but the idea of doing version control on ASTs of program code rather than flat text is an interesting concept that hasn’t taken off yet.

I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term

Sounds kind of relaxing tbh

https://youtu.be/BHTUlF7NA2o

Agreed. Why overcomplicate things? I can understand the desire not to pick favourites in a rapidly-evolving space which was clearly the approach of /r/rust mods early on, but enough time has now passed that the project could save everyone some headaches by just picking one Lemmy community that they’re confident will be held to the Rust community standards. Nobody’s expecting a permanent decision with young software. We can change the way we operate again in a year or two if we have to.

Previous years:

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019

I continue to be a little disappointed how brief these have become since 2019, given how exhaustive the questions are.

One approach I’m personally fond of is actor-style async programming with tokio. It’s easy to mingle timers with receiving messages from channels, which is quite powerful. This post by Alice Rhyl is a good description of the idea: https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/

Yes. The interaction with the Rust Foundation is described in the linked RFC.

The Council is responsible for establishing the process for selecting Project directors. The Project directors are the mechanism by which the Rust Project’s interests are reflected on the Rust Foundation board.

The Council delegates a purview to the Project directors to represent the Project’s interests on the Foundation Board and to make certain decisions on Foundation-related matters. The exact boundaries of that purview are out of scope for this RFC.

I suspect parent was talking about the number of subscribers to the Rust community on each server (currently 174 on P.D, 591 on lemmyrs). Which server people choose as the “home base” for their account so to speak is an interesting reflection of that server’s maturity/impact but not the major driver of community activity.