Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today(mastodon.social)

44 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 7 comments

Earth-1217: where every CSV file has two header rows: column names and units(hachyderm.io)

46 points by edward 2 years ago | 38 comments

Power over fiber(chaos.social)

360 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Mastodon post noting that power-over-fiber components can deliver 3V 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light sent over standard multimode optical fiber.

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.

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.

One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that(mastodon.social)

26 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments