Nah, the police are not your friend.

All this could have been avoided if one guy had slightly better aim.

Do you guys need any geologists? I’d love to get out of this country.

The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.

Just those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.

We’ve already seen a few crotchety old timers who don’t want to add rust to the Linux kernel.

At some point, a complete rewrite of the kernel in a memory safe language would be prudent. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs will have to go extinct before that can happen.

I’m the last person to ask. Reddit banned my email and devices after I posted that “If you have the opportunity to punch a Nazi, you should ALWAYS punch the Nazi.”