Notices by Ivan Enderlin 🦀 (hywan@fosstodon.org)

@raphael Didn’t heard of hostile welcoming on Mastodon, hmm 🤔. Was it generally spread?

I find it utterly unfair that Bluesky is now booming, the press is talking about it a lot, while Mastodon _is_ decentralized, older, provides more features, and is based on standards. Why people keep rejecting these techs? Why the choice is rarely made in favor of simple, standard-based, open, community-driven solutions?

This isn’t my project but I think it is an interesting question. What makes these solutions appealing or not?

#mastodon #bluesky

Night Train Map in Europe (2024), https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/. This is an interactive map: each line is clickable and brings information about all the stops, schedules, frequency and the company operating this line. That’s pure beauty.

Combined with InterRail, it’s so much travel freedom and opportunities in Europe!

#train #NightTrain

The AVIF image format is quite nice.

* comte.png 83KiB → comte.avif 31KiB
* factotum.png 84KiB → factotum.avif 38KiB
* procureur.png 74KiB → procureur.avif 31KiB

A real page like https://mnt.io/series/reactive-programming-in-rust/observability/ decreases from 336KiB to 285KiB (-51KiB).

Not negligible at all.

Thanks @GIMP for native support :-].

#web #performance #image #avif

`cargo build --timings` is so useful, https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/timings.html.

> The --timings option gives some information about how long each compilation takes, and tracks concurrency information over time.

#cargo #RustLang

@polpo @thomasfuchs A laser toner contains toxic agents. It must be recycled. Never be cleaned outside :-(.

GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund (Germany government), https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund.

Germany is investing into GNOME, that’s great!

#gnome #germany #OpenSource

The case for Nushell, https://www.jntrnr.com/case-for-nushell/.

Relevant article about shells, and how Nushell pushes the boundaries further. I highly recommend reading it.

#shell #nushell

Applying 5 million pixel updates per second with Rust & wgpu, https://maxisom.me/posts/applying-5-million-pixel-updates-per-second.

Interesting and fun article explaining how to improve performance of a rendering by moving computations from CPU to GPU.

#RustLang #wgpu #gpu #performance

What are the differences between fosstodon.org and hachyderm.io?

#mastodon

@fnord they seem very similar: tech-oriented, open source etc. I wonder if one is more appropriate than another.