Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026(retro.social)

41 points by rihegher 4 months ago | 11 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.

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.

Please, please stop using Xorg with Asahi Linux(social.treehouse.systems)

23 points by 1una 3 years ago | 24 comments

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

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman(journa.host)

236 points by ta988 1 year ago | 94 comments

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 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).

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 am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon(blog.joinmastodon.org)

540 points by Tomte 11 months ago | 379 comments

Op-ed on the Mastodon blog by founder Eugen Rochko announcing he is stepping down as CEO and taking a strategy and product advisor role.

End of Japanese community(support.mozilla.org)

876 points by phantomathkg 11 months ago | 688 comments

Mozilla Support contributor forum thread in which the longtime locale leader of the SUMO Japanese community announces its end.

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.