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18 November 2025

  • curprev 09:4909:49, 18 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,761 bytes +8,761 Created page with "500px When you write Rust, you feel safe. The compiler guards your memory like a loyal knight — no use-after-free, no data races, no null dereferences. But then… you meet DMA — Direct Memory Access — a hardware-level beast that says: “I’ll just write into memory directly, thanks. No need to bother your borrow checker.” And suddenly, Rust’s guarantees start trembling. This is the story of what happens when Rust’s ownership model ..."