der.hans
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🫧 socialcoding..
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It's a new lcrq release with MOAR SPEED !
Version 0.3.0 is now available from @Codeberg
We have optimized lcrq for some of the AMD64 SIMD instruction sets which has achieved some large performance gains on some CPUs, especially those with
AVX512.
This was funded by #NGICore thanks to @NGIZero for funding these optimizations of our RaptorQ FEC Library!
It's a new lcrq release with MOAR SPEED !
Version 0.3.0 is now available from @Codeberg
We have optimized lcrq for some of the AMD64 SIMD instruction sets which has achieved some large performance gains on some CPUs, especially those with
AVX512.
This was funded by #NGICore thanks to @NGIZero for funding these optimizations of our RaptorQ FEC Library!
Every once in a while, I introduce folk to Interpeer, and the reaction often enough is "you're thinking ahead by 5-10 years".
Something like this happened a short while ago, but it was the first time someone added "that must be lonely".
So... about that.
🧵
Yes, it is lonely. Without the likes of @dentangle and @onepict from #librecast, it would have been too lonely at times... which is why I keep appreciating feedback, even if it's just questions.
Questions: there are no dumb ones.
There may be ones I haven't explained well. Helping me work out how to explain them better is a way you can actively support this project, and you do so by asking questions.
This way, things also become less lonely.
der.hans
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Can I just take a moment of your time to point out how awesome the folks are at @liberachat
We take #LiberaChat completely for granted. Like the floor we walk on, or the air that we breathe it's just there. It works. We use it every day with #Librecast and it works so well we mostly forget there are real people that make it all work.
Thanks, while I remember. By tomorrow I'll have forgotten you exist again because you do your job just too damn well.
Can I just take a moment of your time to point out how awesome the folks are at @liberachat
We take #LiberaChat completely for granted. Like the floor we walk on, or the air that we breathe it's just there. It works. We use it every day with #Librecast and it works so well we mostly forget there are real people that make it all work.
Thanks, while I remember. By tomorrow I'll have forgotten you exist again because you do your job just too damn well.
Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
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Making progress on lowering my digital footprint.
❌ Google
✅ Amazon
✅ Facebook
✅ Apple
❌ Microsoft
I gave notice on my LinkedIn (but still need to close it) and still have a GitHub account, which I no longer use. I've kept it because there are redirects to our #Librecast repositories on there, but I should close it soon. If I want to contribute to a FOSS project I'll have to find another way.
I still have a Google account I use with YouTube, but should probably delete that too.
Making progress on lowering my digital footprint.
❌ Google
✅ Amazon
✅ Facebook
✅ Apple
❌ Microsoft
I gave notice on my LinkedIn (but still need to close it) and still have a GitHub account, which I no longer use. I've kept it because there are redirects to our #Librecast repositories on there, but I should close it soon. If I want to contribute to a FOSS project I'll have to find another way.
I still have a Google account I use with YouTube, but should probably delete that too.
New Linux Stable and LTS kernels are out:
✅ 6.15.7
✅ 6.12.39
✅ 6.6.99
✅ 6.1.146
✅ 5.15.189
✅ 5.10.240
This is the first set of stable kernels since @librecast started testing release candidates. Our tests give the network (mainly IPv6 and multicast, obviously) code paths a bit of exercise to check for regressions like the one we found last month.
At the moment we're running our libmld and #librecast test suites on amd64 only, but as we build out our CI system we'll include more tests.
5.10.240-rc1 was just tagged with the patch applied, so when that gets released all affected kernels will be fixed.
✅ 6.12.38
✅ 6.6.98
✅ 6.1.145
✅ 5.15.188
✅ 5.10.240 (RC1)
This network bug was found by the #Librecast test suite. It occurs to me that we should be running our tests over the stable release candidates to catch this sort of thing earlier before they end up in your distros.
The team of people testing #Linux stable kernels is small, but it just increased by one 😉
Less than 20 minutes after I said I'll run the #Librecast test suite over the stable kernel RCs and I found another bug 🐞
This one isn't an easy pass/fail to detect, unfortunately, but it is kinda obvious that something is very different in the 6.6 series of kernels.
der.hans
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5.10.240-rc1 was just tagged with the patch applied, so when that gets released all affected kernels will be fixed.
✅ 6.12.38
✅ 6.6.98
✅ 6.1.145
✅ 5.15.188
✅ 5.10.240 (RC1)
This network bug was found by the #Librecast test suite. It occurs to me that we should be running our tests over the stable release candidates to catch this sort of thing earlier before they end up in your distros.
The team of people testing #Linux stable kernels is small, but it just increased by one 😉
Good news. #Debian#Trixie is running one of the fixed kernels (6.12.35) rather the broken 6.12.31 it had previously.
Thought I'd better check, as Debconf is about to start, so Trixie won't be long now 😃
Linux debian-testing-amd64-62672f123452 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.35-1 (2025-07-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
5.10.240-rc1 was just tagged with the patch applied, so when that gets released all affected kernels will be fixed.
✅ 6.12.38
✅ 6.6.98
✅ 6.1.145
✅ 5.15.188
✅ 5.10.240 (RC1)
This network bug was found by the #Librecast test suite. It occurs to me that we should be running our tests over the stable release candidates to catch this sort of thing earlier before they end up in your distros.
The team of people testing #Linux stable kernels is small, but it just increased by one 😉
Anyone looking at this output who has ever been a Cub Scout leader will hear children chanting in unison:
AKELA: PACK PACK PACK
CUBS: PAAAAAAAAACK
And yes, I have written a #multicast git transport for #librecast
Of course I have.
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Good news from @onepict@chaos.social https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/fyecXM9ULjsKDpUN3bMiid about the #LibreCast project.
There is even a nice polar bear picture on the website!
https://librecast.net/
Good news from @onepict@chaos.social https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/fyecXM9ULjsKDpUN3bMiid about the #LibreCast project.
There is even a nice polar bear picture on the website!
https://librecast.net/
Alex Akselrod
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We've got some good news thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero 🎉
Librecast has been funded to do more awesome things with #multicast
Watch this space.
We've got some good news thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero 🎉
Librecast has been funded to do more awesome things with #multicast
Watch this space.
@cwebber I'd love to know what you think about #librecast (if you heard of it) in terms of what we "miss, now that there is #ActivityPub ".