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.

Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground(mastodon.social)

309 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 43 comments

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

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 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.

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

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability(mastodon.social)

140 points by TotempaaltJ 3 years ago | 84 comments