What’s wrong with it

• It's a random crate no one uses.
• You're not even really "using" it. You are just importing a re-export of reqwest, which is what I expected you to immediately notice after I brought it into attention. You can obviously just remove it and use reqwest directly.
• Still, trusting a re-export is not a trivial matter. The random author of the no-name crate could replace the original reqwest with something malicious, or bad in some other way, in a v0.1.1 release. That (theoretical) release will be picked up after a cargo update call, or when Cargo.lock is not checked, which is the case by default with libraries.

How did you find that crate?
Why do you think you need it?

Can you explain the rust-fetch dependency?

Why Peter Thiel though?

It was a (failed) joke about your user-name.

How much "vibe coding" is involved?

And are you Peter Thiel by any chance 😉

Thank you for this "no u" comment. I always assume my comments are incoherent to a large extent. It turns out, this one at least reads just fine.

I don't live in the US despite being a citizen.

Proof is in the pudding indeed.

Disagreeable but doesn't fit any "right-wing" mold. Can't use the "Nazi" card, so I will go with the "commie" one instead.

"Yet you participate in society! Curious!" is next I guess.

As always, "Nazi Bar" analogies and their likes are only used expediently. Otherwise, it's all "Must perfection precede praxis?..." when it's about the senate, congress, M$ (this thread), or even the nation state itself as an entity.

Our posturing will have no limits.. as long as it doesn't disrupt our comfy life too much, and doesn't lead us too far astray from the bounds set by the establishment uniparty directly responsible for most genocides post-WW2.

If they have "souls", then they don't have brains. Otherwise, they wouldn't have ever worked in that place.

Facilitating genocide is not even needed to keep you away from that company, despite the New M$ PR push from a few years ago.

Further more, they wouldn't have thought "protest" was going to force a change, when world-sized interests are at stake.

So, while commendable at first glance, one can't help, with a more elaborate look, but see this as yet another posturing attempt, if still, in this case, worthy of very little praise for the potential personal sacrifice that could be incurred.

You want to do something actually useful, even if passive? Let's see at least 10s of millions of Americans refusing to pay federal taxes all at the same time. Then the world might start to believe that anyone is really that bothered about genocide, and consider it an actual moral deal breaker.

No "we" shouldn't.

I mean "we" shouldn't pay a subscription to any service whatsoever, and support our favo(u)rite artists directly (if this happened, and only 1/50 did the support, the artists would still be making more than they currently do).

But even if "we" are not of that opinion, "we" SPECIFICALLY shouldn't be using Tidal. Literally any other genuine service with a lossless tier (or lossless only) is better, unless it's "audiophile"-first, then also avoid.

reflector uses https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/ to get mirror status info, and caches it under ~/.cache/Reflector/. So as long as that end-point works, reflector should work.

I just grabbed a copy and pasted it at http://0x0.st/Ki3Y.json.

Anyone can grab that JSON data and use file:// URLs so they are never out. e.g.

curl -L https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/ > /tmp/mirror_status.json
# or if down, use pasted json
curl -L http://0x0.st/Ki3Y.json > /tmp/mirror_status.json
# and then
reflector --url file:///tmp/mirror_status.json ...

But, as you noted, this has been mostly a nothing-burger from a user perspective anyway. Other than the homepage being unavailable on occasion, everything else has been mostly available just fine as you can see from https://status.archlinux.org/.

I didn't notice https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ going down either.

BTW, and as a general rule of thumb, NEVER take specific technical advice from these editors. They don't actually know much, and this is me trying to be nice.

Take for example:

For AUR disruptions, it's a bit of a pain if you're not a regular git user, but you cloned packages directly from the GitHub Arch Linux mirror. To do this, use the command:

See that link ;) At least he got the command below it correctly, somehow.

The first thing forcing an option does, is depriving that option the ability to know what it could achieve on pure merit.