It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges(social.anoxinon.de)

102 points by moelf 1 year ago | 105 comments

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

179 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 72 comments

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

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

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.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by IngoBlechschmid 3 months ago | 217 comments

Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3(chaos.social)

524 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 332 comments

Mastodon post showing that Bluesky handles verified by serving a file from a domain let someone claim an S3 domain handle.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

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.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).

Let me pay for Firefox(discourse.mozilla.org)

673 points by csmantle 1 year ago | 513 comments

A Mozilla Discourse community forum post by a longtime supporter arguing that Mozilla should let users pay for Firefox to fund its development.