A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux(fosstodon.org)

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS(mastodon.social)

370 points by chromakode 3 years ago | 224 comments

A Mastodon thread by Max Goodhart describing how ZFS snapshots replicated with zrepl let him restore his laptop after an SSD died, losing only about 10 minutes of data.

FediBlock Meta's new Threads domain(mastodon.moule.world)

26 points by 8organicbits 3 years ago | 22 comments

Twitter Is DDOSing Itself(sfba.social)

1275 points by ZacnyLos 3 years ago | 208 comments

A Mastodon post with videos showing Twitter's web client firing about 10 requests per second at its own servers after Twitter started requiring login to read tweets.

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone(mastodon.social)

42 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 35 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture(greenlightning.eu)

336 points by greenlightning 1 month ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post on Green Lightning describing a DIY project modifying IKEA furniture to build something not available for purchase.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS(blog.6nok.org)

367 points by frontsideair 1 year ago | 241 comments

A personal blog post by a self-described LLM skeptic explaining how to download and run large language models locally on a Mac.

I moved my digital stack to Europe(monokai.com)

908 points by monokai_nl 5 months ago | 540 comments

A personal blog post by Monokai's creator describing how he moved his digital services and cloud stack to European providers for digital sovereignty.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot(mbuffett.com)

29 points by marcusbuffett 7 days ago | 10 comments

A blog post by Marcus Buffett describing ten months spent building a chess bot designed to play like a human.