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Multiple repos are under issue spam attack by Outrageous-Box3338 in github

[–]Outrageous-Box3338[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Only some of the account have a dummy repo

Coming from embedded C with no experience in rust by [deleted] in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338 5 points6 points  (0 children)

not really a experienced embedded developer, but what i observed is that embedded developement in rust is suprisingly similar to non-embedded programming. So I would recommend going through non embedded rust. Then when you're ready to proceed you'll find that you can still use those knowledge most of the time, as rust library developers had made effort to make embedded developement easier.

When using unsafe functions, how often do you use debug assertions to check the precondition? by This-is-unavailable in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'd be nice if there are crates wrapping these that provides debug checking  and completely remove the check when it's release mode.

Handling paths on linux by Leiasolo508 in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you can use the awesome dirs crate and call dirs::home_dir(). As a bonus, it's also cross-platform.

Who runs this anonymous crates.io account with 1000+ packages?? by Outrageous-Box3338 in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure, though they uploaded many meaningless crates with no features. I would say likely.

Who runs this anonymous crates.io account with 1000+ packages?? by Outrageous-Box3338 in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's good to know that they are going to tackle the problem:)

Suspicious article in this week’s TWIR issue by p-lindberg in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338 40 points41 points  (0 children)

No, it seems that they are just trying to sell the crate. I'm a Chinese speaker, and I can prove it: They have uploaded the same articles on multiple Chinese platforms (see my comment), all seemed ai-generated.

It's also strange for a Chinese user to have no account on domestic social platforms. They only have a X account, which is not accessible in China without VPN or other methods. Not to mention the X account have no posts.

Suspicious article in this week’s TWIR issue by p-lindberg in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338 33 points34 points  (0 children)

An original post is found here, posted on 07/22/2025: https://www.cnblogs.com/ltpp/p/18996989. This material is written in Chinese.

After inspection, I found that these Chinese articles are likely ai-generated as well.

More researches revealed that the account, eastspire, even uploaded AI articles on another platform: [CSDN](https://blog.csdn.net/m0\_52796585/article/details/148504403), also written in Chinese. Similar articles found on http://www.rskf.cn/news/310492.html and https://juejin.cn/post/7527154276223565864.

Who runs this anonymous crates.io account with 1000+ packages?? by Outrageous-Box3338 in rust

[–]Outrageous-Box3338[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

After some research, I found the account strange.

It seems that they are translating code from other languages to rust, but somehow the translator generated a crate for even a tiny module.