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.

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.

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

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips(mas.to)

845 points by marvinborner 7 months ago | 435 comments

Mastodon thread by Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto describing data from Firefox crash reports showing many crashes stem from bit-flips caused by bad memory or flaky hardware.

Inspired by aircraft IFF interrogator antennas, I decided to build my own array(techhub.social)

65 points by luu 2 years ago | 12 comments