Thank you! This is huge and more people need to know about. Geocoding has been way too difficult for way too long.

Also, is there a guide or tools available for generating the .bin files ourselves?

Some folks on the mailing list told us that they never use binary packages

Absolutely wild. They must live in a completely different reality than I do.

Pretty sure the problem will sort itself out soon enough... they won't have any customers left if they ban them all.

just try to build a module with clang for a kernel build with GCC

I did just now, and it worked fine.

I thought it was legal for them to sell driving data to brokers (not that I agree with it)? What is the actual alleged crime here though?

You can’t load modules built with a different compiler.

Sure you can. There's even multiple guides for how to write C++ kernel modules, which inherently is going to use a different compiler than what was used for the kernel itself. BOSS Linux even writes C++ kernel modules.

if you want to use a module wrote in rust you also need to have built in the rust support in the kernel

Only if the module uses rust-specific interfaces in the kernel, otherwise it can be assembled into a .ko to have plain C-style symbols loaded by the kernel like normal.

you need to build the kernel with clang to build the kernel with the rust support

I believe this statement is incompatible with how C works. The kernel can load modules written in any language as long as it outputs a .ko, so there can be no technical requirement for building the rest of the kernel itself with clang.

it is not the default

they're just opposed to AI use in general, it doesn't matter how good the code is, they'll still call it slop

If someone makes a Rust-free fork, please name it Stainless.

Similar Signal rust projects:

https://github.com/wnoronha/signal-cli

https://github.com/foxl-ai/signal-cli

The team states no proprietary Windows code is copied or transcribed.

But what if they have looked at it before?