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

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

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18(bsd.network)

169 points by doener 7 days ago | 39 comments

Mastodon post by Bryan Steele previewing OpenBSD 8.0 changes, including Clang/LLVM 22, sparc64 Clang switch, and DRM graphics drivers updated to Linux 6.18.

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 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.

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)(fosterelli.co)

357 points by toilet 4 months ago | 251 comments

A 2019 blog post by Chris Foster arguing that many web developers misunderstand CORS, using the Zoom localhost web server vulnerability as an example.

How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC(blog.scrt.ch)

41 points by tau255 1 month ago | 23 comments

Orange Cyberdefense SCRT blog post describing how a vulnerable Twitch chat overlay in an unsandboxed OBS Browser Source plus a V8 bug enabled code execution on a streamer's PC.

Watt The Fox?(h.43z.one)

320 points by h43z 1 year ago | 69 comments

Blog post investigating how websites keep audio sinks active, wasting CPU and battery, and how Firefox allows it, discovered via PulseAudio on Linux.

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox(lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)

269 points by speckx 14 days ago | 127 comments

A short blog post explaining that setting network.http.response.timeout to 0 in Firefox's about:config makes large downloads more stable and resumable.

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips(mas.to)

845 points by marvinborner 7 months ago | 435 comments

Mastodon thread by Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto describing data from Firefox crash reports showing many crashes stem from bit-flips caused by bad memory or flaky hardware.