[HN Gopher] Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
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Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase
Author : padolsey
Score : 470 points
Date : 2023-12-18 12:43 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jraph wrote:
| The explanation:
|
| > I regret to inform the community that since my house was
| destroyed by russians who invaded my country, Wasm3 will enter a
| minimal maintenance phase. At this time, I am unable to continue
| the development of new features. However, I am committed to
| keeping the project alive and will actively review and merge
| incoming Pull Requests. I deeply appreciate your understanding
| and support during this difficult period. Your contributions to
| Wasm3 are now more valuable than ever.
|
| The linked tweet (edit: from September 2022) shows a video of the
| destroyed house and invites people who want to help to donate.
| ranting-moth wrote:
| This is awful. Slava Ukraini.
| jakupovic wrote:
| Heroyam Slava.
|
| Agree awful!
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Ouch. That house needs a new roof ASAP to halt the rain and
| snow.
| thinkmassive wrote:
| Well the tweet is from Sept 2022, so hopefully the roof has
| been patched for a while now.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| It wasnt
| cheschire wrote:
| For folks who don't make the connection, this is the repo
| owner speaking authoritatively about the state of the
| house.
| mcv wrote:
| I hope you have a different roof in a safer location now.
|
| It's a good reminder for everybody outside Ukraine that
| the war isn't just the news or the maps from the mil-
| vloggers; it's also lots of people who are homeless
| because their house has been bombed or demolished, their
| town occupied, and their lives disrupted in a myriad of
| ways.
|
| I really hope we can start rebuilding soon.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Thanks!
| szundi wrote:
| Probably needs walls and windows too.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Undoubtedly. The building itself needs to be deconstructed
| (as we found out later)
| tkubacki wrote:
| I really hoped someone will help get rid of Putin from inside
| RU by this moment (I believe there are plenty of who may not
| necessary love him). EU should really put more cash on table to
| help UA.
| cmrdporcupine wrote:
| Nationalism is one hell of a drug.
|
| And perhaps naive of us to assume that the war in Ukraine is
| a product only of this one man and his ideas and/or party.
| Unfortunately Russia seems unusually united in this
| "operation."
|
| EDIT: don't usually complain about downvotes, but WTH people,
| what did I say that's controversial? Seems some people think
| this is somehow pro-Russian? It's not.
| otabdeveloper4 wrote:
| > Nationalism is one hell of a drug.
|
| I completely agree. Slava Ukraini!
| aleph_minus_one wrote:
| > > Nationalism is one hell of a drug.
|
| > I completely agree. Slava Ukraini!
|
| Do you see the contradiction? ;-)
| questinthrow wrote:
| He's implying that ukrainians got into this predicament
| by being nationalistic and not because they were invaded
| cmrdporcupine wrote:
| I hope you're not referring to my comment, that was not
| my intent at all.
| oytis wrote:
| > don't usually complain about downvotes, but WTH people,
| what did I say that's controversial?
|
| Sorry, I incorrectly read your statement as blaming "both
| sides" - I assume I might have been not the only one.
| cmrdporcupine wrote:
| Huh, ok, odd, I didn't think I was ambiguous at all.
| webknjaz wrote:
| It's that opening statement that invokes memories of how
| the ruscist regime justifies the mass murder. It's the
| first thing the reader sees and it sets the
| tone/perception. I was confused as well, had to reread
| the thing.
| int_19h wrote:
| The Russian sociopolitical culture is very imperialist,
| which is no surprise given that the country is one of the
| few remaining colonial empires in the most traditional
| sense (i.e. the metropole milking vast occupied
| territories), and it cannot really exist as a single entity
| without this kind of politics.
|
| That said, leadership does matter. These kinds of ideas
| find support in Russian society when they are put front and
| center, but without someone to actively do that, people
| just grumble about "them not respecting us as they used to"
| etc.
|
| At the same time, Putin does not represent the most radical
| manifestation of this ideology, either. Someone like e.g.
| Strelkov could truly go all in on "gathering the lands", as
| Russian historiography usually describes re-occupation.
| cmrdporcupine wrote:
| *> Putin does not represent the most radical
| manifestation of this ideology, either
|
| This is my concern. I'm no expert on Russia, but I can
| see this from a distance, and it's scary. A way of
| talking about the world that sounds so 19th century, but
| seems to be making a comeback.
|
| (FWIW I think American imperialism as we saw in Iraq is
| terrible as well, and I condemn both.)
| throwaway290 wrote:
| > really hoped someone will help get rid of Putin from inside
| RU by this moment
|
| For normal citizens it means to risk own death. The people
| who think this way would rather leave the country.
|
| For oligarchs and elites, yes only putting complete economic
| lockdown could work. No way to travel and buy yourself or
| your kids comfy western way of life.
|
| Unfortunately sanctions are lax. Eg. Putin's wife lives in EU
| just fine I think. The people hurt mainly are regular
| citizens, I have a buddy who cannot open a bank acc in EU
| because of some evil namesake on top. Whereas oligarchs are
| fine, if you have money the banks are open to you worldwide.
| And even if sanctions were stricter crypto laundering now
| undermines all of them. Quite depressing this all
| oytis wrote:
| > For oligarchs and elites, yes only putting complete
| economic lockdown could work. No way to travel and buy
| yourself or your kids comfy western way of life.
|
| I don't think that can work. Russian elites absolutely
| value power over Western way of life. Sanctions are only
| needed to starve Russian economy to a point where it cannot
| finance war - and it has been a mixed success so far, but
| in principle can work.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| > Russian elites absolutely value power over Western way
| of life
|
| some elites maybe, but their kids will only be after a
| couple of generations. It's one thing if you yourself
| cannot spend time in London but if your kids and
| relatives also cannot leave and buy a new iphone suddenly
| you have people to answer to.
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| Russians had zero problem with storming an airport to try
| to kill jews. The reason they arent doing anything isnt
| because russians are scared. The reason is most russians
| dont want russia to loose the war and surrender to Ukraine
| and give up Crimea. Even Navalny said he would continue the
| occupation of crimea if he replaced Putin.
| delfinom wrote:
| Those weren't "ethnic Russians", but rather their
| Dagestan colony which is quite Islamic and well, they
| obviously follow the same outrage news cycles hating on
| jews.
|
| Russia is a giant patchwork of colonies being held
| together by strongmen and the "ethnic Russians" more or
| less drain and extract the resources of every minority
| and send the money all to themselves in Moscow and St
| Petersburg.
| throwaway_tt wrote:
| You're completely right here, but I need to add: "ethnic
| Russians" are too a colony of Moscow, as the federal
| power puts all Russian regions in the position economic
| depression with how the mechanism of taxes and internal
| debt are implemented. Almost all regions are
| "dotational", which means that the federal government
| gives them money to cover their budget deficits, but this
| was not always the case.
|
| This isn't about ethnicity, this is about strongmen in
| Moscow draining the country to fuel the ambitions and
| comfort of muscovites.
| throwaway290 wrote:
| Don't forget the regions that supply natural resources
| for this gas station of a country. They feed Moscow with
| oil, diamonds, etc. Some of them I think used to require
| a visa for russians to enter until Putin.
| ponector wrote:
| They are the same Russians as others, thousands of them
| are killing Ukrainians right now, for money mostly.
|
| Promise to get paid 2000$ per month is enough motivation
| to go to the other country thousands of kilometers away
| from their home and kill everyone there and probably die.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| True
| protomolecule wrote:
| "a giant patchwork of colonies"
|
| Sounds like the United States of America. Or Canada. Or
| Australia.
|
| "drain and extract the resources of every minority"
|
| Native Americans and Australian Aborigines can't agree
| more.
| drtgh wrote:
| There is an epidemic of people dying inside RU after
| criticizing Putin, the closer the circle of "business" the
| more notorious the fall through a window. The rest goes to
| prison under false accusations when they are public figures;
| this is the problem of not to have separated the political
| power from judicial power, among other things.
|
| Those business also makes me to think that the next one is
| not going to be better. Anyway, the hope should never lost,
| life is full of twists and turns.
|
| PS: I don't have Russian friends so my opinion is just based
| on what I see externally.
| wortelefant wrote:
| twitter post from Wasm3 with more context
| https://x.com/wasm3_engine/status/1736712528883769670?s=20
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| OP here, ready to answer questions
| post-it wrote:
| Are you safe?
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Well, who knows! It's war anyway. At the moment we're in a
| safe place, for quite some time already.
| coryfklein wrote:
| Do you ever have time to relax or do something fun, or are you
| simply stressed all the time?
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Yeah, for sure - I still do a lot of fun/tech things.
| skinkestek wrote:
| Not a question, only my best wishes as an early NAFO member.
|
| You are in my thoughts, and not only: I have also been
| donating, flagging trolls, countering misinformation,
| encouraged politicians and done what I can but I still owe your
| people.
|
| I feel I can admit this here without feeling I am bragging
| since this account is anonymous and will stay so. My goal by
| saying it is to say you are bit alone and also hopefully to
| encourage others to take small steps to help, like asking a
| politician, supporting civilians (or frontline heroes) by
| donating, flagging misinformation etc.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| I admire what you're doing! Ukraine still stands because of
| you and people like you.
|
| Be sure, that despite having a destroyed house and
| maintaining Wasm3 I'm still resourceful enough to:
|
| - donate money
|
| - donate skills
|
| - coordinate multiple mil-tech research groups
|
| - run own business
|
| - raise 2 kids
|
| - ...
|
| Cheers!
| verandaguy wrote:
| I don't have any involvement with wasm projects, but I hope you
| and your friends and family can stay safe. Slava Ukrayini, i do
| bisa z okupantami.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Thank you!
| syrusakbary wrote:
| I'm sad to hear this to be honest. Wasm3 is (was?) an awesome
| Wasm interpreter that was ahead of the rest in terms of
| performance (about 3-5x slower than native, and about 3x faster
| than the typical Wasm interpreters).
|
| I hope Volodymyr the best as he tries he keep things afloat with
| the Russia invasion in Ukraine. Hope the war will be soon behind
| us.
| ltearno wrote:
| Agree, it is one of the best WASM interpreter! Even better than
| some of the runtimes we can get here and then Performance is
| very good and architecture and beauty of the code is definitely
| impressive.
| vshymanskyy wrote:
| Thanks!
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