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In other news, Arcane is in its home stretch, and it’s running on maglev: 500 kph of smooth ride. You can definitely see all the shortcuts they took to avoid spending another year (or six) on the series—the montages abound—but the quiet moments and character work are still the real highlight.

#arcane

#arcane

yup

Scientists have discovered that Kenyan mealworm larvae can digest polystyrene, showing promise as a tool in addressing plastic waste management 🪱♻️

#PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability

moneyweb.co.za/news/africa/pla…

#sustainability #plasticpollution #environmentalscience
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When I was a teenager, from 1994 to sometime in 1996, I wanted to run a BBS (bulletin board system). But even after I got a computer of my own, the blocker would be getting a dedicated phone line, or several such lines if I wanted to run a cool multi-node BBS with real-time chat, multiplayer games, etc. I wish I still had the specs for the main computer that one of my city's biggest BBSes, a 65-line BBS, ran on. Some kind of high-end 486, I think. I certainly didn't have that. 1/?
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Matt Campbell
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In the intervening decades, I've been a sysadmin on several servers, both virtual and dedicated, both work and personal. The first time I personally rented a virtual private server with root access was in 2004, on an early VPS provider that used Virtuozzo. I've been able to afford my own rented dedicated server for a while now, and I've had one for a couple of years. 4/?
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Matt Campbell
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And now I've got AT&T fiber Internet in my apartment with 1 gigabit in both directions. I recently added a static IPv4 block, and I just set up a Quartz64 single-board computer to use as a server. That SBC is sitting silently in an out-of-the-way location in my apartment. It's undeniably underpowered by today's standards, but it's tens to hundreds of times as powerful as those machines that ran LambdaMOO or that local 65-line BBS in the 90s. It's kind of amazing when put in those terms. 5/?
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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That SBC has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, and a 64 GB eMMC module (I'm thinking about adding an NVMe SSD via the M.2 slot). With that little SBC and my gigabit fiber connection, I could host *several* 90s MOOs and BBSes (well, not with dialup, but accessible via telnet), and probably even something equivalent to the original LambdaMOO at its peak. So far I've only set up a couple of little static sites (though one of them has a few big files.) 6/?
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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And yet that little computer would probably be considered not powerful enough for today's multi-user applications, like, say, a Mastodon instance. 7/?
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Anyway, thinking back to those multi-user systems in the 90s got me thinking that I'm really wasting what I've got now if I'm just going to set up some self-hosted applications for myself, my sister, and maybe a handful of friends. Seems like I could be doing so much more. Of course, then the limiting factor becomes time; I already have plenty to do with actual work projects. 8/?
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Adam MacLeod
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I apologize for blowing up your timeline. I've just found your thread fascinating, and relatable. I've been doing some sort of self-hosting for 22 years. But I tend to take a hybrid approach with it. Very critical projects, and especially money-making projects always get their own VPS or dedicated resources at well-established data centers. But personal stuff, I definitely tend to self-host that stuff. My reasoning is that I am in absolutely full control of it, well, aside from the ISP breaking my connection. But everything else, I own, run and control myself. And if things really do break, I'm not at any significant loss. I can spin it up somewhere else when I have the time, and life goes on. But of course, all your points are completely valid, and you'll have to evaluate them for yourself. Do you have the time to do all this? Is it really worth it? Are there systems out there that can do what you need/want in less time that won't break the bank? And on the flip side, would you rather be in absolute full control of your and your family's personal data? Would you like to save associated money costs with storage by buying hardware once, rather than renting it monthly? I'm sure you've got all this in your head, and are making your own considerations on it already. This is my last post, as not to bother you. I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my previous posts. I'll wish you well on your hosting endeavours, however they may turn out.
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@adam No need to apologize for replying so much. Yeah, those are all valid points. And I'm certainly not going to move any commercial services into my apartment.
@Adam MacLeod
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Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
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Technology really has come an insanely long way in such a short time. Just think, we have finger-nail-sized memory chips that can hold terabytes of data, and just 20 years ago, a consumer could not even own a single device that held that much data. And in terms of RAM, we've gone from kilobytes as standard to tens of gigabytes as standard, and that's not even talking about high performance computing, where they measure RAM in terabytes now. And in terms of Internet and networking, we've gone from tens of kilobit dialup connections that were not always on, to always-on gigabit and beyond. I'm always blown away, every single time, when I run a speed test, and see the results of my 8-gigabit symmetrical home fiber connection.
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@adam Wow, you've got 8-gigabit. I know I can upgrade to at least 2 gigabit here. Maybe I will. My new SBC server can only handle 1 gigabit though.
@Adam MacLeod
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Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
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Yeah, I've put $ tens of thousands into my network. Aside from the UPS, my VoIP phone, and the five Raspberry Pi 4 boards, and the WiFi devices, everything else is ten gigabit. If you are serious about getting into the self-hosted realm, I would recommend the upgrade. Even though a single device may not go beyond a gigabit, it is probably a good idea to have some spare bandwidth left over for your own use.

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."

— Matsuo Basho

#JapanesePhilosopy #philosophy #JapaneseReligion #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #mindfulliving #bettermentjourney

#philosophy #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #bettermentjourney #mindfulliving #japanesephilosopy #japanesereligion

If you, like me, are bored to death by the current levels of cinematography in seasonal anime slop, do yourself a favour, and watch Dandadan. Go into it blind, but give it a chance for the first arc of four episodes. Then, once you reach episode 7, you’ll see what Science SARU has cooked.

#anime #DanDaDan

#anime #DanDaDan
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Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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As usual, kViN on the Sakugabooru blog wrote a great piece on the technical and creative background of the production: blog.sakugabooru.com/2024/10/2…

Dandadan Production Notes #01-04

Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director's extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the way that has enabled creative choices, and also the limitations that its team has to na…
kViN (Sakuga Blog)

#SilentSunday
A snowy mountain scene. I'm on a snowshoe path empty besides my dog, there are small icy ponds to my side and forested mountainsides around me. The sky is so grey and the ground is so white there's not a super obvious separation except where the trees make boundaries between sky and earth.
#SilentSunday

Ninja Warrior in a Japanese Outpost Town

#ComfyUI #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #synthography #TrainedAlgorithmicMedia

A female ninja warrior in dark blue and black armor walks confidently through a traditional Japanese outpost town. The streets are lined with wooden buildings, glowing lanterns, and a backdrop of distant mountains. Her poised stance and determined expression capture the essence of stealth and strength.
#generativeart #comfyui #algorithmicart #synthography #trainedalgorithmicmedia

Happy Sunday everyone. Your #dad #joke for the morning:

How much does the aurora borealis weigh?
Not much, it’s pretty light.

#joke #dad

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

#opensource #fediverse #Mastodon #socialNetworks #JoinTheFediverse #socialmedia #community #trust #bsdcafe #digitalfreedom
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Thank you as well, for making the timelines more positive with this message. 💖

#SilentSunday

#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #fog #squared #minimalism

This square black-and-white photograph with a white border captures a foggy scene characterized by minimalism and contrast. A tall power line tower is positioned on the left side of the frame, its structure partially obscured by the dense fog, while its delicate wires stretch diagonally across the upper left corner, gradually fading into the mist. In the lower right corner, the silhouette of a solitary person walking adds a sense of scale and evokes a feeling of solitude. The flat, dark ground contrasts sharply with the light, misty atmosphere above. The white border emphasizes the clean, minimalist composition, enhancing the quiet and contemplative mood of the image.
#photography #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #fog #SilentSunday #minimalism #squared

My wild friends keep me sane. I’m grateful.

#EllisSquirrel

One of my friendly eastern gray squirrels perched on the railing of the kitchen door steps, asking for good nuts. He’s like a bushy tailed prairie dog, absolutely adorable. He has one tarantula like hand forward on the railing. The background is the leafless elm sapling branches, the wooden fence, and the blue sky with a few marshmallow clouds.
#ellissquirrel
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Really happy with how my latest embroidery project turned out. I used a pattern from a magazine (credit to www.lucyfreeman.co.uk) Learned some new techniques, my favourite being sewing with multiple different colour threads on the same needle to blend colours together!

#embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryHoop #toadstools #fibreArt #fiberArt #MastoArt

An oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
Close up photo of an oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
#mastoart #embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryhoop #toadstools #fibreart #fiberart

Unlimited! I worked for a company that had unlimited PTO, I used it without fear. My mental and physical health is important.

#work #pto

Corporate America be like: "yea we will give you unlimited PTO. But we will make you afraid to use it."
#work #pto

The #spotify app for windows surprises me over and over. I remembered it as a big, weird you need to tab around a ton of times ap. But now I must say, it's really comfortable to use!
#spotify
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Oh really? Don't you need to turn virtual cursor on and off anymore?
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Jonathan
Jonathan
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Well what I do is open the app, arrow down to my library, go out of browse mode, and click through it with the arrows, select the playlist, tab in to the table, and just play the songs. If I need I tab to the mini player, but I remembered it to be way more difficult. Also some useful shortcuts include CTRL+left/right arrow, skip to previous/next song. CTRL+UP/DOWN, volume. CTRL+SPACE, well that one is obvious. Surely there are more I don't know of.
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I have enjoyed Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast for years. This fall though he is shipping a fictional piece about a revolution on Mars in the 2200s. Having listened to his historical accounts, I do quite like him using the same tone with a fictional revolution.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes as they say.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/…


11.0- Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Podcast Episode · Revolutions · S12 E2 · 6m
Apple Podcasts
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Anders Lagerfjärd
Anders Lagerfjärd
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It was incredibly strange to hear the start of the Mars story, in the exact same format and voice as the ten revolutions covered in the main show, but I quickly got into it. He's a great storyteller.

Unpopular opinion: if you still use substack then you are just helping fascism. Which mean....
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Jérôme Carretero
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Started a list of ethical centralized cloud services, here it is:

1. @Framasoft stuff
2. TODO FIXME

@Framasoft

Zajtra mám kontrolu u doktorky a pravdepodobne zruším PNku i keď ja neviem, budem sa musieť zamyslieť nad tým čo dávam do pľúc lebo to bude asi riešenie.

Moon 🌕

If there is *any* area that #curl is not best-in-class, we should put in more work and improve curl in that area. While at the same time keep up and polish it in all other aspects.
#curl
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Force of Habit
Force of Habit
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Thank you, if you say this, I shouldn't even try. I would be wasting my time. Cheers!

I'm about to buy the Kindle book UK Christmas Number Ones - 1952-2023: The history of the nation's favourite festive hits and the stories behind them by Felix Mensah.
Two years ago I bought 70 Years of Christmas Number Ones by Andrew Burford. That was very good. So I'll see what new things I can learn from this one.

My sister wants to de-Google as much as practical. She's not a programmer or sysadmin, but I can set up stuff for her. For file storage, including both documents and photos, should I set her up with SyncThing, self-hosted Nextcloud, both, or something else?
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Dave🌱
Dave🌱
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if you and/or your sister want to make use of several of the features Nextcloud offers, more like a Google Apps replacement, it's probably the best self hostable choice.
For me I went with a hosted email solution six or seven years ago that takes care of all my email/calendar/contacts needs (Fastmail), so went with SyncThing as a Dropbox replacement, with most of its global discovery stuff disabled.
I think I've only tried the former, but Jitsu Meet and BBB both seem like nice solutions.
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mosttoast
mosttoast
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I'd also add Proton and Pcloud both have pretty good android syncing. Pcloud has really nice backup integration across devices.

Signed up at #BlueSky, just in case. And guess what? I had to ask my wife to help me dealing with gods damned #HateCaptcha. I wish the person who designed such pseudo-accessibility at #HCaptcha was obliged to work without a monitor and without a mouse for a whole month, just for justice.
#bluesky #hcaptcha #hatecaptcha

victor tsaran reshared this.

Ten years ago I explained why #curl defaults to stdout:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17…


Why curl defaults to stdout

(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it'll send the output to stdout by default.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl
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Christen Lofland
Christen Lofland
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I always feel embarrassed, alone at home in my office with nobody watching me of course, when I run curl, see it dump my file to stdout and then use wget instead because I cannot immediately remember how to properly make a file with curl, even though I could spend 30 seconds looking it up. 😅

Join the amazing team of Tuta Legends ❤️ Click on this link 👉 tuta.com/black-friday to SAVE 62% on our Legend plan.

#Blackfriday #Tuta #Encryption #Germany

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deal. Go Legend paying the Revolutionary plan price.

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Tuta
#encryption #Germany #blackfriday #tuta
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r0shga
r0shga
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I switched from protonmail to tutanota, it's perfect! Thank you #Tuta!
#tuta

amen on this one. O wow you are kidding me. This is the 99999th reason why the mobile version of Facebook shouldn't hav gone away. So on the PC that site defaults to the full FB and it doesn't list the names of the "people you may know". it only mentions how many mutual friends we have got with the person; wow! #accessibility or lack of.
#Accessibility

Accessibility, by @mgifford (@httparchive@x.com):

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…


Accessibility | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.
Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
@Mike Gifford

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) cancelledscifi.com/2024/11/16/…

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) - Cancelled Sci Fi

Does Fringe count as one of the greatest sci fi/fantasy shows of all time or was it too derivative and convoluted?
johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon? cnet.com/science/space/nasa-is…

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon?

Coordinated Lunar Time will help with precise space-travel calculations. But first, NASA has to figure out how to make it work.
Joe Hindy (CNET)

MobileX's eSIM service is simple to set up and connects to one of the largest 5G networks in the US for fast, reliable cellular speeds at affordable rates. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/mobilex-esim

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks

There's what we want technology to do, and then what it actually can do. Don't put off your household chores while you wait.
Lisa Lacy (CNET)
in reply to David Goldfield

Desiree Renae
Desiree Renae
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Technically kids should be good for that but that doesn't always work out either. Lol

Every now and again, I post this to wind up bigoted americans.
An image showing language selection options that you will often find in software settings. The top part of the image shows a Union Jack flag, and a ticked check box for English with the word traditional in brackets. Below that is the USA flag with an unchecked tickbox with English next to it, in brackets is the word simplified.

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated cnet.com/personal-finance/are-…

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated

In our busy lives, we often forget about or neglect personal security. Having a service to nudge you about best practices can be worth the money — in certain cases.
Neal O'Farrell (CNET)

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest cnet.com/home/security/3-new-a…

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest

Gemini AI is coming to Google Home and Nest -- here's what it can do for your home security.
Tyler Lacoma (CNET)

Tired of big tech companies mishandling your data? Switch to my favorite email provider, @Tutanota , for top-notch #security and #privacy protection. Your data is safe with them! 🔐💻
#privacy #security @Tuta
in reply to uon

Tuta
Tuta
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Thanks for the mention ❤️ Happy encrypting!

The true horror of the Nazi regime was not the hateful rhetoric, the atrocities committed or the death toll of the war, it's the fact that ordinary citizens just went along with it even if they weren't themselves evil. Something we should all think about in 2024.

I’m happy to see that the GOV.UK Service Manual’s “Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement” page was updated this week and made it to the top of Hacker News today. The technology industry would collectively save unimaginable quantities of time, money, energy and stress if this single page were required reading for everyone involved in building a web site. gov.uk/service-manual/technolo…

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.
www.gov.uk

Ok, apple, when I've swiped down to delete after choosing edit in any given folder and highlighted an app to get rid of, I don't need you trying to convince me that I'd be better off simply moving it off my home screen instead. When I choose to delete an app, I've done that for a reason, said reason being that I want to, you know, delete the app. Ok, rant mode disengaged.
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aaron
aaron
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I use pattern unlock on Android, because the pattern I draw is not read out.

I ran UnixBench (github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbe…) on my new Quartz64 SBC (RK3566 SoC, quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC). I ended up running it four times, with different settings of the Linux CPU frequency governor. Here are the results, in the order that I obtained them:

1. schedutil (default): mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
2. performance: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
3. powersave: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
4. schedutil again: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…

1/?


GitHub - kdlucas/byte-unixbench: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench - kdlucas/byte-unixbench
GitHub
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Matt Campbell
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I ran it with the schedutil governor twice to make sure the first result wasn't a fluke, because what really stood out to me about the first result was how far the Pipe-based Context Switch test lagged behind the others on the single-core run. Bear in mind that the baseline is a SPARCstation 20-61, a 90s machine with a CPU clock frequency of no more than 200 MHz (if Wikipedia is correct). 2/?
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Matt Campbell
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Regardless of CPU frequency scaling, it's clear that context switching performance hasn't improved as fast as raw computing performance. That's no surprise. But when comparing the results, it seems that the Pipe-based Context Switch test, when running in single-core mode, doesn't cause the schedutil governor to scale up the clock frequency beyond the minimum. So I guess that governor, at least on that processor, wouldn't be good for workloads that are heavy on context switching. 3/?
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Matt Campbell
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I forgot to mention, this is on Debian 12 (bookworm), using the Debian generic ARM64 kernel (currently 6.1.0-27-arm64). It's nice that this SBC has decent support in the mainline kernel, at least for the functionality I currently need. 4/?
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Matt Campbell
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I'm going to boot my M1 Mac mini into Linux (Fedora Asahi Remix), run UnixBench there with the different CPU frequency governors, and see what the results look like. I'm sure the M1 is in a different performance category than the RK3566, though they're both ARM64.

BTW, this is an improvised thread, not an artificially split-up long post. 5/?

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Matt Campbell
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I just remembered, though, that the Apple Silicon SoCs have two kinds of cores, performance and efficiency cores. That makes a generic benchmark like UnixBench less meaningful, unless I can pin it to one type of core or the other. 6/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Going back to the Quartz64 SBC, if I correctly understand the intended use case of the ARM Cortex-A55 microarchitecture from Wikipedia, then the RK3566 SoC in the Quartz64 effectively only has efficiency cores, not performance cores. 7/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

David Machaj
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Switches to the kernel context took a big perf hit when spectre/meltdown mitigations were put in place. Those impacted older/slower CPUs more. More caches and predictors and such need to be flushed before the switch is safe to continue. (Unclear if your particular device has these mitigations but this is a larger point about perf scaling over time)

AzuraCast 0.20.3 is now on the Stable release channel. This version includes improvements to the AutoDJ scheduler, playlist priorities, the ability for system admins to set maximum bitrates for stations, and many bug fixes and tweaks.

This is the last stable release that will be on Liquidsoap 2.2.x. Now that this release is out, our Rolling Release will be a test platform for 2.3.x, which has reached a stable Release Candidate stage. Help us test this new version if you can!

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