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.

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.

A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993(mastodon.sdf.org)

221 points by edent 3 years ago | 68 comments

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

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops(social.hackerspace.pl)

905 points by miki123211 2 years ago | 283 comments

Mastodon thread by q3k revealing reverse engineering of NEWAG Impuls train PLC code that locks up trains serviced at third-party workshops.

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.