#California giant sequoias under threat from #ClimateChange: "...more frequent... extreme droughts & fires. ... > 10% of the remaining population of ~80k wild trees... killed in a single fire in 2020...
Q: I grow batches of #sequoia. About one quarter of seedlings form little water drops on the tips of the first leaves / cotyledons. These stay in place for about two weeks. The rest of the seedlings do not show any of this.
I assume this is some type of guttation. Any I'm loosely theorizing it has to do with how the cotyledons were split, maybe damaged. But frankly, I don't know :-)
Sequoias are the largest trees in the world & have bark that’s 2’ thick or more. Wow! Here’s my art of a Sequoia trunk & a White-headed Woodpecker, Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, CA, USA.
I haven't been very good with posting/writing about what I'm working on, so here's a 1,200+ word post about how we replaced[1] the GPG code backed by a library aptly called "pretty-bad-protocol" with a Rust library named after trees, Sequoia-OpenPGP.
This is the first written-here Rust code that will be shipped by SecureDrop \o/
I've missed my train (the first time in years!) while debugging the latest #GPG issue. This is honestly the single worst piece of software ever written.
They reinvent every single thing and they do it badly. When you try to make it work for everyone (i.e. make it use system resolver and honor proxies), it just falls apart.
I would consider making #gemato use #Sequoia, except that #RustLang discriminates against even more users than GPG bugs do.
I pushed another update for #Sequoia#OpenPGP (version 1.16.0), which fixes a handful of parser bugs that could result in crashes caused by out-of-bounds array accesses. All affected applications were rebuilt with the new version. 🕶️
This also included the latest version of sequoia-octopus-librnp, which provides better compatibility with recent versions of #Thunderbird.
Updating sequoia-sq to the latest version is still blocked, because some of the new dependencies have blocking issues 😐