One thing I appreciate about Mastodon is that if I slip into a bad habit of scrolling through the feed too much in one day, I start seeing old posts that I've already seen, and then I realize that I'm doing a bad habit, and that helps me stop checking the site too often.

On other platforms they would do anything to prevent that moment of self-reflection from occurring.

I started playing with DragonflyDB to replace Redis as the app data storage for a Mastodon instance. Redis used 22 GB of memory, DragonflyDB uses 8.5 GB.

That's very impressive, probably in part because Mastodon uses a lot of sorted sets (for timelines) and Dragonfly stores those in a much more efficient data structure, resulting in a lot less overhead (see https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/dragonfly-new-sorted-set).
Additional bonus: they provide a K8s operator, with built-in HA

It seems like our joint stand with @forgejo at #FOSDEM2025 has been accepted, thank you @fosdem!

For those of you that don't know, #FOSDEM is an annual conference for free and open source software taking place in Brussels. We'll be there throughout the event to exchange words and/or stickers with some of you.

See you in February!

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

i3 v4.24 was just released: https://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.24.txt

#i3wm

Void for arm64 UEFI devices, coming soon to a usb stick near you!

The next @VoidLinux installation media release will include support for live ISOs on UEFI-supporting aarch64, initially supporting generic devices (like qemu) and the Lenovo Thinkpad X13s laptop.

#linux #voidlinux

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

Free #Rust Course in Mainz, Germany 

I am happy to announce that I will offer my Rust course for the third time 😍

📍 Where: In person at the university of Mainz #JGUMainz
📆 When: 26.08. - 30.08.2024 from 10 until 17 o'clock
📚️ Content: My modified version of #ComprehensiveRust and #Rustlings: https://comprehensive-rust.mo8it.com
🏃 More info and free registration: https://fachschaft.physik.uni-mainz.de/rust (scroll down for the English version)
🗣️ Language: English

#RustLang

CentOS end of life is coming up fast (June 30th)! ⚡

ELevate makes it easy to move from CentOS 7.x to 8.x version of the RHEL derivative of your choice, or upgrade from 8.x to 9.x within the same derivative.

Check it out here: https://almalinux.org/elevate/ #Linux #OpenSource