Open Source articles
Architecture, maintainer signals, and migration risks for tools worth adopting.
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Open SourceThe open observatory runs on four different clocks
An ecosystem map of unattended astrophotography: INDI exposes hardware properties, Ekos sequences a night, Astrometry.net solves where the camera actually points, and PHD2 corrects tracking drift while the physical observatory remains the final authority.
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Open SourceThe 2011 kernel.org break-in exposed three meanings of ‘trusted source’
A postmortem-style readout of the 2011 kernel.org compromise: Git's distributed object history helped verify source code, while stolen credentials, a compromised signing key, and an overgrown host forced a ground-up authority rebuild.
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Open SourceGitLab's 2017 database loss turned a staging snapshot into the recovery plan
A postmortem-style readout of GitLab.com's 2017 database outage: replication lag led to deletion of the primary, while failed backup assumptions left a six-hour-old staging snapshot and an 18-hour restore as the recovery path.
