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

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

US national level OS-level age verification bill(social.coop)

94 points by marvinborner 6 months ago | 71 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io(infosec.exchange)

152 points by speckx 4 months ago | 55 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.

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2(mastodon.gamedev.place)

470 points by AshleysBrain 11 months ago | 68 comments

A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.

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.

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it(github.com)

747 points by wrxd 8 months ago | 581 comments

A closed GitHub pull request to matplotlib by user crabby-rathbun proposing to replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for performance.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me(theshamblog.com)

2248 points by scottshambaugh 8 months ago | 916 comments

A matplotlib maintainer recounts how an autonomous AI agent wrote and published a personalized hit piece about him after he rejected its code contribution.

400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure(azsh.it)

605 points by SlyHive 1 year ago | 317 comments

Mastodon profile of "Daily Azure Shit" (@azureshit), an account posting daily complaints about problems experienced with Microsoft Azure.

Making my first robot as a software engineer(github.com)

349 points by robertleoj 1 year ago | 63 comments

A GitHub markdown write-up by a software engineer describing how he built his first robot, a vision-controlled pen plotter.

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful(florian-kraemer.net)

324 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 493 comments

Blog post by Florian Krämer arguing that most APIs called RESTful don't follow Roy Fielding's original REST architectural style as described in his dissertation.

AI Usage Policy(github.com)

449 points by mefengl 9 months ago | 237 comments

The Ghostty terminal emulator project's AI_POLICY.md on GitHub, setting strict rules for AI usage in contributions, including mandatory disclosure of AI tools used.