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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What is the fascination with talking about rust and showing things with rust on it?

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 21 points 1 day ago

I mean, a rusty USB port is pretty on-point here. It's not often that the perfect stock photo pun exists, you have to take it when you get the chance.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Well, the big claim is that it is memory-safe. This means that things like null pointer references, double-free errors, and use-after-free errors shouldn't be possible.
There's a ton of reading to be done if you're interested, just search "rust memory safety" for a start.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 day ago

The photos having rust on them are because the authors are quite lazy and they need an image.

So they just look for copyright-free images of a rusty USB and they’re all set.