Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2023
=> Devices: Raspberry Pi and More | today's leftovers
=> ↺ New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 13.0a2 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
Tor Browser 13.0a2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox to 115.1.0esr, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. We also backported the Android-specific security updates from Firefox 116.
=> ↺ Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
Either way, everyone had to agree: we’d outgrown our old, naïve implementation. Onward and upward! We can do hard things!
In situations like this, presented with a dazzling array of next-generation architecture options that can be built to last us through the decade, it’s easy to forget what our goal was: to get database performance under control.
=> ↺ Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative where I’ve been spending most of my time recently, mostly because the Fediverse is where a lot of the Linux nerds seem to be right now.
I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because it’s a distributed system, so here are a few technical things I’ve learned about it over the last 10 months. I’ll mostly talk about what using a single-person server has been like for me, as well as a couple of notes about the API, DMs and ActivityPub.
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