564: Re-Re-Rewrite it in Rust

Microsoft wins the foot-in-mouth award this week, and Google gets the Rust religion - but Mike is skeptical.

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• Piece of 5,800lb battery pallet tossed from NASA's ISS crashes through Florida home - and nearly kills homeowner's so — A piece of metal came crashing through a home in Florida that is believed to be from a 5,800-pound battery pallet discarded by the International Space Station (ISS).
• Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores — “Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts”
• FFmpeg on X — The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
• Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ devs — Speaking at the Rust Nation UK Conference in London this week, Lars Bergstrom, director of engineering at Google, who works on Android Platform Tools & Libraries, described the web titan's experience migrating projects written in Go or C++ to the Rust programming language.
• Spatial Personas Make Apple Vision Pro a Less Isolating Experience — Up to five people can watch movies and TV shows, play AR games, and collaborate on work together even when they’re across the planet.
• Two Persona Video Demo on X — Here's a video of two Persona (plus the one looking at them) provided by Apple. This wasn't recorded from my demo yesterday. It's just a demo to show what spatial Persona on Apple Vision Pro looks like
• Tailscale happy hour in Raleigh — You are invited to join Tailscale for a happy hour event following DevOpsDays Raleigh. Enjoy drinks and light apps on us.